Lone Wolf
7th September 2008, 10:04 AM
Scot who made his mark in the motor industry…
:?: 1 — David Dunbar Buick, founder of the Buick Manufacturing Company that became General Motors, was born in which Scottish town.
:?: 2 — Which creatures are used as mallets and balls during the game of croquet in Alice In Wonderland.
:?: 3 — Which is America’s “Buckeye” state.
:?: 4 — Vitamin K helps our blood do what.
:?: 5 — Which group of islands west of Benbecula is also the name of a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
:?: 6 — Rearrange the name of the US firm that makes Photoshop software to create another name for a home.
:?: 7 — How did the expression “to cry wolf” originate.
:?: 8 — Which former world heavyweight champion boxer was nicknamed “the baddest man on the planet”.
:?: 9 — After which borough of New York was the US atomic bomb project named.
:?: 10 — A monopoly is when one company or individual has sole rights to a market. What is an oligopoly.
:?: 11 — What type of window might remind you of a famous European art gallery.
:?: 12 — Pyrophobia is a fear of what.
:?: 13 — Give the real names of the following authors — a/- George Orwell, b/-George Eliot, c/- Lewis Carroll, d/- Mark Twain.
:?: 14 — An icosahedron is a three-dimensional form with how many faces — five, 10, 15 or 20?
:?: 15 — In which year was David Beckham named FIFA World Player Of The Year.
:?: 16 — Where might you find a dhole — a/- on a roulette wheel, b/- in a gymnasium, c/- running wild in Asia, d/- growing in a garden.
:?: 17 — Name The Goons.
:?: 18 — What was Buffalo Bill’s real name.
:?: 19 — Rearrange MARSH STAR CENTREPIECE to reveal a chart-topping Welsh rock band.
:?: 20 — Cavies make good pets but what’s their more common name.
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Quiz Answers
:m_55: 1 — Arbroath in 1854.
:m_55: 2 — Flamingoes and hedgehogs.
:m_55: 3 — Ohio, because of the many buckeye trees that grew there.
:m_55: 4 — Clot.
:m_55: 5 — St Kilda.
:m_55: 6 — Adobe to abode.
:m_55: 7 — From Aesop’s fable of the bored shepherd boy who amused himself by falsely crying wolf. When a wolf did attack nobody responded because they thought it another hoax.
:m_55: 8 — Mike Tyson.
:m_55: 9 — Manhattan.
:m_55: 10 — A commercial activity dominated by a few large suppliers.
:m_55: 11 — A louvre window and The Louvre, Paris.
:m_55: 12 — Fire.
:m_55: 13 — a/- Eric Arthur Blair, b/- Mary Ann Evans, c/- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, d/- Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
:m_55: 14 — 20 faces.
:m_55: 15 — He wasn’t. He has been runner up twice — in 1999 and 2001.
:m_55: 16 — Running wild in Asia — it’s a wild dog.
:m_55: 17 — Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine.
:m_55: 18 — William Frederick Cody.
:m_55: 19 — Manic Street Preachers.
:m_55: 20 — Guinea pigs.
:?: 1 — David Dunbar Buick, founder of the Buick Manufacturing Company that became General Motors, was born in which Scottish town.
:?: 2 — Which creatures are used as mallets and balls during the game of croquet in Alice In Wonderland.
:?: 3 — Which is America’s “Buckeye” state.
:?: 4 — Vitamin K helps our blood do what.
:?: 5 — Which group of islands west of Benbecula is also the name of a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
:?: 6 — Rearrange the name of the US firm that makes Photoshop software to create another name for a home.
:?: 7 — How did the expression “to cry wolf” originate.
:?: 8 — Which former world heavyweight champion boxer was nicknamed “the baddest man on the planet”.
:?: 9 — After which borough of New York was the US atomic bomb project named.
:?: 10 — A monopoly is when one company or individual has sole rights to a market. What is an oligopoly.
:?: 11 — What type of window might remind you of a famous European art gallery.
:?: 12 — Pyrophobia is a fear of what.
:?: 13 — Give the real names of the following authors — a/- George Orwell, b/-George Eliot, c/- Lewis Carroll, d/- Mark Twain.
:?: 14 — An icosahedron is a three-dimensional form with how many faces — five, 10, 15 or 20?
:?: 15 — In which year was David Beckham named FIFA World Player Of The Year.
:?: 16 — Where might you find a dhole — a/- on a roulette wheel, b/- in a gymnasium, c/- running wild in Asia, d/- growing in a garden.
:?: 17 — Name The Goons.
:?: 18 — What was Buffalo Bill’s real name.
:?: 19 — Rearrange MARSH STAR CENTREPIECE to reveal a chart-topping Welsh rock band.
:?: 20 — Cavies make good pets but what’s their more common name.
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Quiz Answers
:m_55: 1 — Arbroath in 1854.
:m_55: 2 — Flamingoes and hedgehogs.
:m_55: 3 — Ohio, because of the many buckeye trees that grew there.
:m_55: 4 — Clot.
:m_55: 5 — St Kilda.
:m_55: 6 — Adobe to abode.
:m_55: 7 — From Aesop’s fable of the bored shepherd boy who amused himself by falsely crying wolf. When a wolf did attack nobody responded because they thought it another hoax.
:m_55: 8 — Mike Tyson.
:m_55: 9 — Manhattan.
:m_55: 10 — A commercial activity dominated by a few large suppliers.
:m_55: 11 — A louvre window and The Louvre, Paris.
:m_55: 12 — Fire.
:m_55: 13 — a/- Eric Arthur Blair, b/- Mary Ann Evans, c/- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, d/- Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
:m_55: 14 — 20 faces.
:m_55: 15 — He wasn’t. He has been runner up twice — in 1999 and 2001.
:m_55: 16 — Running wild in Asia — it’s a wild dog.
:m_55: 17 — Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine.
:m_55: 18 — William Frederick Cody.
:m_55: 19 — Manic Street Preachers.
:m_55: 20 — Guinea pigs.