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PUB QUIZ

Tuesday 8 September 2015 Las Iguanas, Queen St, Exeter

Organised by the YSS and generously supported by


Picture round

26 points are available in this round.

WHAT’S IN A NAME? [26 points]

The first names of the 26 people shown below all start with a different letter of the alphabet – that is, one of them has a first name starting with A, another has a first name starting with B, and so on, through to Z. How many can you identify?

Write down each person’s full name on the answer sheet provided. (For the actors and actresses, be sure to give their real-life name, not their character’s name.)

One point will be awarded for each correct name.

01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.


07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21.


22. 23. 24.

25. 26.


Picture round

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WHAT’S IN A NAME? [26 points]

Answer sheet

Write down the full name of each person in the table below.

01 14 02 15 03 16 04 17 05 18 06 19 07 20 08 21 09 22 10 23 11 24 12 25 13 26


Round number 1

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GUYS, SERIOUSLY? [20 points]

This first round has a special twist: the three letters Y S S appear

consecutively within each answer. How many can you solve? Each question is worth two points.

1. Which Bond film is the only one to feature George Lazenby as James Bond?

2. In early 2012, which Canadian singer reached number two in the UK singles chart with "Alone Again", drawing heavily on the lyrics and music of the 1987 Heart song "Alone"?

3. What did Roger Federer win on 5 July 1998?

4. Which science fiction film features the line: "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

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5. Which historical nation was invaded by Italy in early October 1935?

6. Which American TV sitcom revolves around the exploits of "The Gang", played by Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson, and Danny DeVito?

7. Which character did Sarah Sutton play in the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who" between 1981 and 1983 (alongside Tom Baker, and then Peter Davison)?

8. What joins Seething Lane to Cooper's Row, and is named after a famous diarist?

9. In 1869, who resigned his role as Commanding General of the United States Army to become the 18th President of the United States?

10. The provincial flower of Prince Edward Island (Canada’s smallest province) is an orchid from the Cypripedioideae subfamily. Its colloquial name reflects the pouch-like shapes created by the flower’s petals. What is this name?


Round number 2

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SHORTS [12 points]

Since 1980, exactly 11 of the films that have won the Academy Award for Best Picture have had a title consisting of a single word or name. Can you fill in the six missing titles in the list below?

The values shown in the final column indicate the number of letters in each answer.

Year Film title Number of letters 1982 6 1984 AMADEUS 7 1986 7 1992 UNFORGIVEN 10 1995 10 1997 7

2000 GLADIATOR 9 2002 CHICAGO 7 2005 5 2012 4 2014 BIRDMAN 7

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OPENING LYRICS [18 points]

For each of the eight sets of opening lyrics below, identify the title of the song and name the original artist/group.

SONG 1 I've never been closer / I've tried to understand / That certain feeling / Carved by another's hand __________________________________ SONG 3 I got my first real six-string / Bought it at the five-and-dime __________________________________ SONG 5 See the stone set in your eyes / See the thorn twist in your side / I wait for you __________________________________ SONG 7 Into the night / Desperate and broken / The sound of a fight / Father has spoken __________________________________

SONG 2 I took her out / It was a Friday night / I wore cologne to get the feeling right __________________________________ SONG 4 I'm not proud, I was wrong / And the truth is hard to take __________________________________ SONG 6 When the world leaves you feeling blue / You can count on me / I will be there for you __________________________________ SONG 8 The faster we're falling / We're stopping and stalling / We're running in circles again __________________________________

For two bonus points: You may have spotted that there is a connection between all eight answers – though one is not like the others. Which one, and how does it differ?


Round number 3

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NIGHT ON THE TILES [8 points]

The four questions below relate to the standard English Scrabble set (consisting of 100 tiles, including two blanks). Each question is worth two points.

1. The letter E appears exactly 10 times in the set - true or false?

2. Five letters appear just once in the set. Q, X, and Z are three of them - what are the other two?

3. What is the only tile that appears exactly 3 times?

4. Each tile in the set has a designated number of points (e.g. B = 3 points). How many points are on the 100 tiles in total? (Answers within 12 of the correct answer will be accepted.)

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PROGRESS [14 points]

Another “connections” round! Two points for each answer, plus four points for identifying the connection between them.

1. What first name links the following: a cartoon character created in 1934; the youngest (and oldest) person to have served as US Secretary of Defense; and the greatest cricketer of the twentieth century, as chosen unanimously by all 100 cricket experts appointed by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack?

2. What is the surname of the English mathematician and physicist who, in 1825, proposed an incorrect physical law suggesting that a wire's electrical conductivity was inversely proportional to the square root of its length - a proposal that was corrected by Ohm two years later?

3. The films "Wedding Crashers" (2005) and "Marley & Me" (2008) both feature a main character called John, played in each case by the same American actor. What is the actor's first name?

4. Which Formula 1 team are Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas both representing this season?

5. The official flags of Zambia, Bhutan, and the Marshall Islands all feature which colour?

What is the connection between your five answers?


Round number 4

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COUNTRY DANCING [26 points]

Examine the sheet COUNTRIES #1 and identify the South American countries labelled 1 to 13. Then examine COUNTRIES #2 and identify the European countries labelled 1 to 13 (which may have been reflected and/or rotated). Fill in your answers below.

S American countries (COUNTRIES #1)

European countries (COUNTRIES #2)

1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 11 12 12 13 13

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HALF BOARD [10 points]

In the diagram of a dartboard below, every other number has been deleted. Can you fill in the missing values?

Write your answers in the table below, proceeding clockwise from the '20' at the top of the board.

Between 20 and 18 Between 18 and 13 Between 13 and 10 Between 10 and 2 Between 2 and 3 Between 3 and 7 Between 7 and 8 Between 8 and 14 Between 14 and 12 Between 12 and 20


COUNTRIES #1


COUNTRIES #2


Round number 5

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IN THE NEWS [20 points]

There are ten questions in this round, all relating to recent events. Each question is worth two points.

1. In mid-August, which Australian golfer won the 97th PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, achieving the lowest ever score in a Major relative to par?

2. Last month, over 30 million users of which infidelity-promoting website had their personal details revealed, following a hacking incident in July?

3. What is the nickname of the 37-storey London skyscraper which recently won the 2015 Carbuncle Cup – awarded annually to the UK's worst building?

4. The 2015 series of X Factor has just begun. Name the two new judges who have joined Simon Cowell and Cheryl Fernandez-Versini on the panel.

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5. In late August, Mount McKinley in Alaska was renamed by the US Government. What is its official name now?

6. Last week, which veteran presenter announced he would be leaving BBC Breakfast in 2016, after almost 15 years with the programme, to “spend more time with his wife and bees”?

7. The 186th Prime Minister of Greece, who took office in January 2015, announced his resignation in late August. He appears in TIME magazine's 2015 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. What is his name?

8. According to a new study reported in the news last week, how many trees are there on Earth? (a) 7 billion (b) 100 billion (c) 3 trillion (d) 40 trillion

9. Which city was named last week as host of the 2022 Commonwealth Games?

10. Last night, Andy Murray was defeated in the 4th round of the US Open – his earliest Grand Slam exit for five years. Who beat him?

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