Pub Quiz No. 77

[Carl]

• 1. Who was the first Stuart monarch of England ?

• 2. What instrument appears in the title of a 1994 Louis De Bernieres novel ?

• 3. Liam Payne, who died in October 2024, became famous as a member of which boyband ?

• 4. Which European country is Delft located in ?

• 5. Strigidae is the scientific name for which nocturnal birds ?

• 6. Which soft white clay is also known as china clay ?

• 7. The place where astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born is in which modern day country ?

• 8. What sort of mammal is a prarie dog ?

• 9. Born on 20 February 1940, whose record of 357 goals scored in English top-flight football remains unbroken, more than 50 years after his last First Division match ?

• 10. Who was the first woman to go into space ?

• 11. The pes anserinus is in which part of the body ?

• 12. If you reverse the two digits of Ravi's age, multiply by 17 and subtract 42, you'll have Ravi's age. If it is Ravi's birthday today, how old is he ?

• 13. What connecta king, some and now ?

• 14. Which Dickens character may OWN ODD RIDE (anagram) ?

• 15. Which is the odd one out: Desperate Dan, Roger the Dodger, Minnie the Minx, Billy Whizz ?

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

[gail]

3. One Direction
4. Netherlands

[elcarretero]

12 60
13 Win

[Carl]

ANSWERS

1. James I
2. Mandolin
3. One Direction
4. The Netherlands
5. Owls
6. Kaolin
7. Poland
8. Rodent
9. Jimmy Greaves
10. Valentina Tereshkova
11. Knee
12. 60
13. They all form new words with the prefix win- (winking, winsome, winnow)
14. Edwin Drood
15. Desperate Dan, a Dandy character; the others appear in the Beano