Saturday, August 13, 2011

Weekend Quiz

Michelle CollinsWhat's Michelle Collins in common with Brian Capron, June Brown and Jill Half penny? Photo: David Fisher/Rex features

1 What Peter Minuit buys in 1626 for around 60 guilder?
2 The film was based on Ted Lewiss novel Jack's return home?
3 the last heir to the Empire died in July aged 98?
4 Which conductor has won a record 31 Grammy awards?
5 nicknamed Muttnik in 1957?
6 "No addition, no learning" was of the comedy series motto?
7 who published his uncertainty principle in 1927?
8 the earliest surviving English private correspondence is at the Norfolk family?
What connects:
9 Duodenum; jejunum; ileum?
10 Michelle Collins (in 2011); Brian Capron; June Brown; Jill coin?
11 Pirates; Penguins; Steelers?
12 Canada; US; Hong Kong; Fiji; Australia; New Zealand; East Caribbean; Liberia?
13 Theravada; Mahayana; Vajrayana?
14 Beatles 1967 opus; Stanley in the Pirates Of Penzance; 1933 film music by Prokofiev?
15 Ely; Thanet; Purbeck; Portland; Dogs?

1 Manhattan island.
2 Get Carter (and its remakes).
3 Austria-Hungarian (Otto von Habsburg).
4 Sir Georg Solti.
5
Laika (Soviet space dog).
6 Seinfeld.
7 Werner Heisenberg.
8 Pastons.
9 Segments of the small intestine.
10 actors who have appeared in both Coronation Street and Eastenders.
11 Pittsburgh sports teams: baseball; Ice Hockey; American football.
12 Dollar currencies.
13 movement or schools of Buddhism.
14 Musical army rank: Sgt Pepper; (the very model of a modern) major-general; Lieutenant Kijé.
15 UK "Islands" which are not really Islands.


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