Pub Quiz No. 70

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Pub Quiz No. 70

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  • 1. Psychologist Philip Zimbardo who died in October 2024, was best known for organising which controversial 1971 experiment involving students assigned opposing roles in a simulated jail ?
  • 2. Tristan da Cunha is an island under British sovereignty in which ocean ?
  • 3. Which novelist wrote The Painted Veil and The Moon And Sixpence ?
  • 4. Archie is colouring with his felt-tipped pens. When he puts them in groups of seven, he has no pens left over. When he puts them in piles of five, he has four left over. When he puts them in groups of two, he has one left over. If he has fewer than 60 all together, how many felt-tipped pens does Archie have ?
  • 5. What connects boat, sweetheart and scoop ?
  • 6. Which London borough might make a LION STING (anagram) ?
  • 7. Which is the odd one out: The Voyage, Candide, Einstein On The Beach, Akhnaten ?
  • 8. Starting with the letter O, add a letter and shuffle to make a new word each time until you reach POINTLESS
  • 9. What colour is the gemstone ruby ?
  • 10. Which song partnered Penny Lane on a 1967 double-A side single by the Beatles ?
  • 11. The hamstring muscle is found in what part of the body ?
  • 12. The Lancaster Classic is an indoor tournament in which sport ?
  • 13. Which European country switched to driving on the right in 1967 ?
  • 14. The number of bytes in a yottabyte of data storage is a one followed by how many zeroes ?
  • 15. A box of paperclips is shared between Richard, Kelly and Robin, so that Richard takes three-sevenths, Kelly takes a quarter and Robin takes 18 fewer than Richard. How many paperclips were in the box ?

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

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4. 49
6. Islington
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5. Neck
9. Red
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ANSWERS

1. Stanford Prison Experiment
2. Atlantic Ocean
3. W. Somerset Maugham
4. 49
5. They are all necklines
6. Islington
7. Candide, by Leonard Bernstein; the other operas are by Philip Glass
8. One way is:
O
So
Sop
Pose
Posse
Slopes
Topless
Pistoles
Pointless
9. Red
10. Strawberry Fields Forever
11. Leg
12. Archery
13. Sweden
14. 24
15. 168

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