Random Trivia Quiz No. 189

[Carl]

• 1. What ball is worth three points in snooker ?

• 2. Name Francis Drake's ship, in which he circumnavigated the globe, 1577-80 ?

• 3. What skin and eye colouring is associated with jaundice ?

• 4. What is Mick Hucknell's band ?

• 5. Ireland is known as The 'what' Isle ?

• 6. What term refers to a plan or template ?

• 7. Name the renowned shirt maker in Jermyn Street, London ?

• 8. What was mined extensively in Cyprus in Roman times, which took its name from the country ?

• 9. Name Jepser Christiensen's character in the James Bond films Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace ?

• 10. Hyacinthoides is the scientific name for what protected (in the UK) spring flowering plant ?

• 11. If this were a cryptic crossword clue it could be 'Poetic Irish county' ?

• 12. What is the common name of the Bubonic Plague in the Middle Ages ?

• 13. What is a tone of photography which results from or gives the effect of age ?

• 14. What sea has the port city Arkhangelsk (Archangel in English) and Onega Bay ?

• 15. What is the longest river in South Africa ?

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

[stowie39]

3. Yellow
4. Simply Red

[elcarretero]

1 Green
2 Golden Hind

[stowie39]

11. Limerick
13. Sepia

[crummy]

5 Emerald
12. Black death

[elcarretero]

15 Amazon

Whoops, I read South America

[stowie39]

6. Blueprint
9. Goldfinger

[crummy]

8. Copper

[crummy]

15. Limpopo

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. What ball is worth three points in snooker ? Green

• 2. Name Francis Drake's ship, in which he circumnavigated the globe, 1577-80 ? Golden Hind

• 3. What skin and eye colouring is associated with jaundice ? Yellow

• 4. What is Mick Hucknell's band ? Simply Red

• 5. Ireland is known as The 'what' Isle ? Emerald

• 6. What term refers to a plan or template ? Blueprint

• 7. Name the renowned shirt maker in Jermyn Street, London ? Thomas Pink

• 8. What was mined extensively in Cyprus in Roman times, which took its name from the country ? Copper

• 9. Name Jepser Christiensen's character in the James Bond films Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace ? Mr White

• 10. Hyacinthoides is the scientific name for what protected (in the UK) spring flowering plant ? Bluebell

• 11. If this were a cryptic crossword clue it could be 'Poetic Irish county' ? Limerick

• 12. What is the common name of the Bubonic Plague in the Middle Ages ? The Black Death

• 13. What is a tone of photography which results from or gives the effect of age ? Sepia

• 14. What sea has the port city Arkhangelsk (Archangel in English) and Onega Bay ? White Sea

• 15. What is the longest river in South Africa ? Orange River