PUB QUIZ

Answers on today’s solutions panel.

1 MOVIES:

How are John, Claire, Andrew, Brian and Allison identified in the title of a 1985 film?

2 MUSIC:

Acker Bilk played which woodwind instrument on his 1961 hit single Stranger On The Shore?

3 TV & RADIO:

Which sitcom’s opening music is a setting of Psalm 23, composed by Howard Goodall?

4 SPORT:

Which tennis player and five-time Grand Slam singles champion announced her retirement from the sport on February 26?

5 SCIENCE:

The SI unit for radioactivity

is named for which French physicist, who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie? 6 NATURE: Which common plant derives its name from the Latin for first, as it is among the earliest spring flowers to appear?

7 HISTORY:

Which botanist and later president of the Royal Society accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific?

8 GEOGRAPHY:

In which country are the cities of Chiang Mai, Korat, and Nonthaburi?

9 WORDS:

What is the meaning of the word pavane? a) A stone, b) A peacock, c) A dance.

10 BRITAIN:

Home to the Big Pit National Coal Museum, the area around which Welsh town was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000?

11 THIS YEAR:

On March 1, which comedian announced that he had legally changed his name to Hugo Boss?

12 POT LUCK:

Smalt, watchet and mazarine are shades of which colour?