Pub Quiz No. 52

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Pub Quiz No. 52

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  • 1. Christina has downloaded a dating app which has given her a list of 50 prospective partners. When the list is arranged alphabetically, every second man on the list is a non-smoker, every third man enjoys films and every seventh man plays a musical instrument. Christina is looking for a film-watching musician who does not smoke - how many potential matches has she got ?
  • 2. What connects centre, food and visitor ?
  • 3. Which children's author might ROT EXPERT BAIT (anagram) ?
  • 4. Which is the odd one out: Fred, Barney, Velma, Daphne ?
  • 5. Starting with the letter A, add a letter and shuffle to make a new word each time until your reach STRAIGHTEN
  • 6. For a pantomine, there were 15 auditions all together for the parts of Alice, Marian and Wendy. The difference between the number of auditions for the parts of Marian and Wendy is twice as much as the difference between the number of auditions for the parts of Wendy and Alice. If three ladies auditioned for the part of Marian, how many went for Wendy ?
  • 7. What connects beer, canal and crop ?
  • 8. Which celebrity chef specialises in MOLTEN HEALTH BUNS (anagram) ?
  • 9. Which one of these is the odd one out: Limestone, Granite, Sandstone, Chalk ?
  • 10. Rearrange the letter groups to make three sports: LON TON BAD ATH MIN ING STL WRE DEC
  • 11. A container has a length four times its height, which is half of its width. If its volume is 1,000 cubic metres, what is the length of the container ?
  • 12. What connects boat, box and breaker ?
  • 13. What fairy tale once THRILLED MITE TEAM (anagram) ?
  • 14. Which is the odd one out: Tunbridge Wells, Bishop's Stortford, Leamington Spa, Wootton Bassett ?
  • 15. Starting with the letter I, add a letter and shuffle to make a new word each time until you reach PRECISENESS

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12. Ice
14. Bishop's Stortford
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1 One, man 42
2 Health
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4 Daphne
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9 ,, Granite
7,, Root
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3 Beatrix Potter
6 Seven
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ANSWERS

1. One
2. They may all follow health
3. Beatrix Potter
4. Barney; the others are Scooby-Doo characters
5. One way is:
A
At
Art
Star
Stair
Satire
Artiste
Nitrates
Restating
Straighten
6. Seven
7. They may all follow root
8. Heston Blumenthal
9. Granite; the others are sedimentary rocks
10. Badminton, Decathlon, Wrestling
11. 20 metres
12. The all form new words with the prefix ice
13. The Little Mermaid
14. Bishop's Stortford; the others are Royal
15. One way is:
I
In
Pin
Pine
Ripen
Sniper
Pincers
Princess
Crispness
Princesses
Preciseness

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