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Five-minute quiz

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1. ‘‘You’re gonna need a bigger boat’’ is spoken by police chief Martin Brody in which 1975 movie?

2. The Adirondack chair was named after what United States geographic­al feature?

3. Jean M Auel authored which book, later made into a movie starring Daryl Hannah as Ayla?

4. Fill in the blanks from Sonnet 18 by Shakespear­e: ‘‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?/Thou art more lovely and more temperate/ Rough winds do shake the darling ____ __ ___.’’

5. In scrabble, the word ‘‘window’’ on a triple word score totals how many points?

6. The orbit bone is another name for which part of the skull?

7. In the equation E = mc2, what does the m stand for?

8. In rugby union, a penalty try scores how many points?

9. Enid Blyton’s folklore character Mr Pink-Whistle is half human and half what?

10. What is an Abbott’s booby? a) a tunic; b) a bird; c) a loaf of bread?

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