On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 2:58:29 PM UTC+10, Calvin wrote:
> 1 What impressionist famously painted several different views of Rouen cathedral?
Claude Monet
> 2 Clogs are chiefly made from what raw material?
Wood
> 3 Which European country banned religion in 1967 and so became the first atheist state?
Albania
> 4 In various games/sports (and particularly golf), which term allows a player a second chance to perform an action, usually after the first went badly wrong?
Mulligan
> 5 Which British cyclist (b. 1976) has won 6 Olympic and 11 World Championship gold medals?
Chris Hoy
> 6 Which film did Alfred Hitchcock make twice, in 1934 and 1956, with Leslie Banks and James Stewart in the respective title roles?
The Man Who Knew Too Much
> 7 A vexillologist is an expert in what?
Flags
> 8 Which sporting event was held for the first time in Chamonix, France in 1924?
Winter Olympics
The term "event" can have several meanings in a sporting context so apologies if anyone was misled, but it certainly can't mean a particular sport.
> 9 The Islamist militia group Boko Haram is based in which country?
Nigeria
> 10 Which so-called "Royal Sport" was banned in England in 1849?
In retrospect this was a poor question, but we did at least get an entertaining array of suggestions.
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL TB Quiz 455
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 7 36 Gareth Owen
0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 7 39 Peter Smyth
1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 7 40 Mark Brader
1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 7 41 Marc Dashevsky
1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 6 36 Pete Gayde
1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 5 31 Dan Tilque
0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 5 31 Bjorn Lundin
0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 4 26 Erland S
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5 8 5 6 2 4 5 6 7 0 48 60%
Well done Gareth.
cheers,
calvin