Pub Quiz No. 49

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Pub Quiz No. 49

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  • 1. Which two letters can be used with a signature to indicate the signer is signing on behalf of someone else ?
  • 2. What is the name of the flap of cartilage that prevents food from entering the windpipe ?
  • 3. In the original Star Trek series, how many years was the starship Enterprise's mission due to last ?
  • 4. Which physicist, who died in 2024, gave his name to a phenomenon also called light-cone scaling, which provides a means of interpreting observations of the structure of hadrons ?
  • 5. Which European country has the largest seaport ?
  • 6. The East London Christian Mission was the original name of which religious movement ?
  • 7. In which year did Apollo 17 become the last crewed mission to land on the Moon ?
  • 8. Which colour is called amarillo in Spanish ?
  • 9. Lottery is generally considered to be the first horse to win which race, in 1839 ?
  • 10. New Chitose Airport in Japan cancelled 36 flights and delayed 201 in a single weekend in August 2024 due to what product going missing from a shop near the boarding gates ?
  • 11. Anthony Hopkins won his first Best Actor Oscar for which of his films ?
  • 12. Who painted the Portrait Of Madame X, which caused a scandal when it was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1884 ?
  • 13. Which record producer has often been referred to as the fifth Beetle ?
  • 14. Which English football team plays its home games at Carrow Road ?
  • 15. How many counties border Devon ?
  • 16. Rosh Hashanah is also known by what other Hebrew name, which translates as Feast of Trumpets or Day of Shouting ?
  • 17. What nationality was Georges Leclanche, who developed an early forerunner of the modern dry cell battery ?
  • 18. The novelist, poet and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson is buried on which island ?

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1 pp
2 epiglottis
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8. Yellow
14. Norwich City
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5 Netherlands
6 The Salvation Army
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13. George Martin
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8 Yellow
14 Norwich
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3 5 years
11 The Silence Of The Lambs
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15 Three
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ANSWERS

1. Pp
2. Epiglottis
3. Five
4. James Bjorken
5. Netherlands
6. Salvation Army
7. 1972
8. Yellow
9. Grand National Steeplechase
10. Scissors
11. The Silence Of The Lambs
12. John Singer Sargeant
13. George Martin
14. Norwich City
15. Three
16. Yom Teruah
17. French
18. Samoa

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