WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES GK theme - Avoid Oldham - Questions & Answers |
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Date of compilation | Title | Description | Links |
25/01/2010 | Avoid Oldham |
The first and last letters of each of the 10 answers provide 20 different letters of the alphabet. The letters O-L-D-H-A-M are not used. |
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1. |
On what would you find a headstock, a nut, a body, a bridge and a heel? |
Guitar |
2. |
Which island nation, with a capital of Port Vila, used to be called the New Hebrides? |
Vanuatu |
3. |
In the 1996 Kenneth Branagh film of Hamlet what part was played by Ken Dodd? |
Yorick (in a flashback scene) |
4. |
What part of an aircraft is required by international law to be coloured bright yellow or orange with reflective surfaces? |
Black Box (flight recorder) |
5. |
What was the surname of the popular Liberal MP for Truro who was reckoned by many to be a frontrunner for the position of party leader who died in a car accident in 1986? |
(David) Penhaligon |
6. |
What is the surname of the current Portuguese national Football coach (as at January 2010)? |
(Carlos) Queiroz |
7. |
What was the surname of the author of the TV series At Home with the Braithwaites and The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, a drama starring Jane Horrocks about a woman with no previous political experience who becomes Prime Minister? |
(Sally) Wainwright |
8. |
Which town is closest to being the most central town geographically in Britain (by distance from the 4 corners of mainland Britain)? |
Clitheroe |
9. |
What was the surname of the man who, with Steve Wozniak, co-founded the Apple Corporation? |
(Steve) Jobs |
10. |
What is the name of the pasta shaped like large bow ties whose name literally means ‘large butterflies’? |
Farfalloni |
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