On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 7:13:36 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
> 1 Which female Australian swimmer once held every world freestyle record?
Shane Gould
Singleton for Pete
> 2 Defeating Rod Laver in the 1959 final, Alex Olmedo became (and remains) the only male tennis player from which South American nation to win the coveted Wimbledon singles title?
Peru
Singleton for Stephen
> 3 Stewart Copeland and the Sumner brothers were members of which pop group in the late 1970s and early 1980s?
The Police
And as several posters pointed out they weren't actually brothers despite thir (almost) shared surname.
> 4 In computing, what does the acronym VPN stand for?
Virtual private Network
> 5 Which social networking service was the largest in the world from 2005 to 2008? Every new user's first friend was called Tom - namely Tom Anderson, co-founder of the site.
MySpace
> 6 What was the title of the 1987 film version of Cyrano de Bergerac starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah?
Roxanne
cf Q3
> 7 What two-word term can refer to a cocktail (supposedly a hangover cure) consisting of raw egg, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, salt and ground black pepper; or the testes of a bull when cooked and eaten?
Prairie Oyster
> 8 In the human body, what name is given to the wave-like contraction of muscles that help send food down the digestive tract?
Peristalsis
> 9 In which country of the UK would you find the Giant's Causeway?
Northern Island
I accepted Antrim as it is easy to read county for country (and it is correct).
> 10 What nationality was artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)?
Austrian
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 408
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 61 Stephen Perry
0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 60 Chris Johnson
0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 7 53 Gareth Owen
0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 42 Mark Brader
0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 6 48 David Brown
0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 6 49 Marc Dashevsky
1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 34 Pete Gayde
0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 5 43 Peter Smyth
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 4 32 Dan Tilque
0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 28 Bjorn Lundin
0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 28 Erland S
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1 1 9 9 10 6 4 8 7 7 62 56%
Congratulations SWP.
cheers,
calvin