Pub Quiz No. 44

[Carl]

• 1. In a working week, Ollie received a total of 115 emails, each day receiving four more than the day before. How many emails did he receive on Wednesday ?

• 2. What connects corn, may and passion ?

• 3. Which British stand-up comedian has a DIVIDABLE DAD ?

• 4. Which of these is the odd one out: Duisburg, Salzburg, Wurzburg or Hamburg ?

• 5. Starting with U, add a letter and shuffle to make a new word each time until you reach UNDERSTATE

• 6. Chris, Hannah and Nancy each have the same volume of home brew. If Chris gives half of his to Hannah, who then gives half of hers to Nancy, who then gives half of hers to Chris, who now has 770ml, how much of the drink did Hananh have originally ?

• 7. What connects bird, light and whale ?

• 8. Which Best Actress Oscar winner is PRO SWEET HEROINES ?

• 9. Which is the odd one out: pike, tomahawk, ono, parashu ?

• 10. Crack the code to find three mythical creatures: TVEKRLI, JGYZEO and GYFVEZO

• 11. In the sack race at a school sports day, Ben finished in seven-eighths of the time Tristan took, minus 20 seconds. Daniel finished in two-thirds plus ten seconds of Tristan's time. If Ben and Daniel finished at the same time, how long did Tristan take ?

• 12. What connects day, fan and flash ?

• 13. Which Best Actress Oscar winner might AID ILL CORMORANT ?

• 14. Which is the odd one out; nautilus, sea snail, octopus, squid

• 15. Rearrange the letter groups to find three types of dance: QUA TEP TER CKS BUG LLE QUI DRI JIT

Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

[gail]

2. Flower
7. Blue

[freddo]

4 Salzburg, is in Austria the rest in Germany
15 JITTERBUG QUICKSTEP QUADRILLE

[freddo]

8 Reese Witherspoon
13 Marian Cotillard

[elcarretero]

1 Twenty three
6 616

[Carl]

ANSWERS

1. 23 emails
2. They all form new words with the suffix - flower
3. David Baddiel
4. Salzburg, a city in Austria; the others are cities in Germany
5. One was is:
U
Us
Sun
Runs
Nurse
Ensure
Tureens
Dentures
Sauntered
Understate
S
6. 1560ml
7. They may all follow the word pilot
8. Reese Witherspoon
9. Pike, a spear; the others are types of axe
10. Centaur, Sphinx and Phoenix (The code was A became a J, B became a K, etc.)
11. Two minutes and 24 seconds
12. They all form new words with the suffix - light
13. Marion Cotillard
14. Sea snail, a gastropod; the others are cephalopods
15. Jitterbug, Quadrille and Quickstep