Pub Quiz Night (Oops - lost #5)
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04/12/26 12:08 PM
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-1. In which 19th century novel would you find a girl named Weena who belongs to a hunted race of vegetarians known as Eloi? -2. Which insect stage is also the Latin word for ghost or mask? 3. What are the six types of quarks collectively known as? -4. Which Neil Diamond album was based on a novella that reached number one on the New York Times Best Seller list? -5. What record was broken for the first time May 6, 1954 in Oxford England? -6. Which hairstyle, popular in the 1950s, is named after a mistress of the French King Louis XV? -7. Which dashing title was given to the legendary Captain Hendrick Van Der Decken? -8. During the Apollo 11 mission, what name was given to the command module? -9. Which Italian city is known as 'The Bride of the Sea'? -10. Which television family lives at 1313 Mockingbird Lane? -11. What type of pastry are profiteroles made from? -12. What is this?
To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self. I wonder what's on television...?
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Re: Pub Quiz Night
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04/12/26 03:30 PM
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Indeed, Mad! (Strange - I expected you to answer one of the others  )
To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self. I wonder what's on television...?
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Re: Pub Quiz Night
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04/12/26 04:07 PM
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Indeed, Mad! (Strange - I expected you to answer one of the others  ) Well I think I know the answer to No. 12 😉
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Re: Pub Quiz Night
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No. 5 was Roger Bannister running the first 4 minute mile ??
And I think No. 12 might be a haggis ??
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Re: Pub Quiz Night (Oops - lost #5)
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Sorry folks - been away for a while Mad, manxman, Remi - nice ones!  Lady K - not sure. Looked up "hadrons" and it seems to be a term for subatomic compound particles made up of two or more quark, antiquark, gluons and possibly other junk. I'm looking for a term that is used to cover any of the different qrarks like a "type" of quark. (e.g. "The up quark is one of six different _____ of qurk" 
To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self. I wonder what's on television...?
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