Pub Quiz No. 87

[Carl]

• 1. Where on the body might you find crow's feet ?

• 2. Which group had a 1986 UK top ten hit with Venus, originally recorded by Shocking Blue ?

• 3. A mahout is someone who handles what type of animal ?

• 4. Who played the title role in 2013 biopic Jobs ?

• 5. Which English football team's nickname is The Red Devils ?

• 6. What is a tarboosh ?

• 7. Robert Mapplethorpe was chiefly associated with which branch of the arts ?

• 8. If you travel due east from John O'Groats, which country will you reach first ?

• 9. The UK's first ever satellite-enabled smartphone video call was made in January 2025 from a mountain in which Welsh county ?

• 10. Which German swimmer was nicknamed the Albatross ?

• 11. Robert Burns's poems were first published in which Scottish town ?

• 12. Amy gave a third of her spare textbooks to Cathy, who then gave a third back. She then gave a fifth of her remaining books to Jess, who returned half. If she now has 63 books, how many did Amy have to start with ?

• 13. What connects row, thing and away ?

• 14. Which newsreader may have AEROBIC FUN (anagram) ?

• 15. Which of these is the odd one out: St Austell, Port Isaac, St Ives, Newquay ?

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

[stowie39]

1. Eyes
3. Elephants

[gail]

5. Manchester United
14. Fiona Bruce

[Carl]

ANSWERS

1. Face
2. Bananarama
3. Elephant
4. Ashton Kutcher
5. Manchester United
6. A hat
7. Photography
8. Norway
9. Ceredigion
10. Michael Gross
11. Kilmarnock
12. 190 textbooks
13. They all form new words with the prefix far- (farrow, farthing, faraway)
14. Fiona Bruce
15. St Austell, on Cornwall's south coast; the others are on its north coast