Pub Quiz No. 96

[Carl]

• 1. Who played Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct ?

• 2. Which sport is associated with the Queensbury Rules ?

• 3. Felipe IV became king of which European country in 2014 ?

• 4. Which novelist wrote The Bottle Factory Outing and An Awful Big Adventure ?

• 5. Which Greek philosopher is best known for a theorem concerning right-angled triangles ?

• 6. Which horse racing venue in Great Britain hosts the flat horse race Dante Stakes ?

• 7. Which synthesised metallic element has the chemical symbol Cf ?

• 8. Where might an astronomer see a facula ?

• 9. Which tennis score is known as deuce ?

• 10. Schleswig-Holstein is the northern most state of which country ?

• 11. Which fast food chain opened its first branch on 15 May 1940 California ?

• 12. Quicksilver is another name for which element ?

• 13. Which actress starred in the films Mystic Pizza and Notting Hill ?

• 14. A box of chocolates is shared between David, Olly and Adam, so that David takes a third of the chocolates, Olly takes four-sevenths and Adam takes 15 fewer than David. How many chocolates were in the box ?

• 15. What connects back, play and fly ?

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

[stowie39]

2. Boxing
5. Pythagoras

[gail]

7. Californium
9. 40 40

[Carl]

ANSWERS

1. Sharon Stone
2. Boxing
3. Spain
4. Beryl Bainbridge
5. Pythagoras
6. York
7. Californium
8. On the surface of a planet or star
9. 40 - 40
10. Germany
11. McDonald's
12. Mercury
13. Julia Roberts
14. 63 chocolates
15. They all form new words with the prefix horse- (horseback, horseplay, horsefly)