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Pub Quiz Night (Oops - lost #5) #1364491
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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?


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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1364493
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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1364494
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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1364495
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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1364497
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Three excellent answers! praise


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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1364498
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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1364501
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Good one, michele! wave


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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1364504
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Good one, manxman! wave

Bernie - nice try, but it's not that one frown


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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1364513
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Indeed, Mad! (Strange - I expected you to answer one of the others think )


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Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1364517
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Excellent, both of them! wave


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I wonder what's on television...?
Re: Pub Quiz Night [Re: Urban Worrier] #1364518
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Originally Posted by Urban Worrier
Indeed, Mad! (Strange - I expected you to answer one of the others think )


Well I think I know the answer to No. 12 😉


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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) [Re: Urban Worrier] #1364609
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12. It looks like haggis to me.???


Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
Re: Pub Quiz Night (Oops - lost #5) [Re: Urban Worrier] #1364634
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Sorry folks - been away for a while

Mad, manxman, Remi - nice ones! thumbsup

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" think


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