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Pub Quiz Night

Posted By: Urban Worrier

Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 06:54 PM

One answer per person in the first 24 hrs please smile

-1. Which French painter born in 1834 is famous as a painter of ballet scenes?
-2. In which game might you employ a zwischenzug?
-3. In medical terms, what is the name given to a fracture where the broken bone pierces the skin?
-4. Which 19th century composer wrote the opera La Gioconda?
-5. Japanese film director Akira Kurosowa's film The Throne of Blood was based on which Shakespeare play?
-6. What does it mean to cook something "en papillote"?
-7. What sea lies between Egypt and Saudi Arabia?
-8. Which French jazz violinist was one of the members of the Hot Club de France?
-9. In heraldry, what name is given to a cross in the shape of an X?
-10. In which game do players wear a shaped wicker basket on their wrist or forearm to propel the ball?
-11. Discovered at the Premier Diamond mine in Transval in 1905, what is the name of the largest diamond ever found?
-12. This is the closing shot from which 1971 action thriller?

Posted By: jboliver

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 06:57 PM

3. compound fracture wave
Posted By: oldbroad

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 07:10 PM

6. I think it is enclosing food inside of dough of some kind. wave
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 07:17 PM

Good start, jb thumbsup

It's enclosed oldbroad, but not in dough. Want to try again? think
Posted By: michele rose

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 07:20 PM

1. Edgar Degas wave
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 07:25 PM

It was indeed, michele! wave
Posted By: oldbroad

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 07:37 PM

6. in lettuce leaves? or cabbage?
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 07:42 PM

Afraid not - nothing "organic" smile
Posted By: Marian

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 07:50 PM

5. Macbeth wave
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 08:03 PM

Good call, Marian! wave
Posted By: oldbroad

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 08:31 PM

The only other thing I can think of at the moment:

6. parchment paper think
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 08:45 PM

Looks good to me! smile
Posted By: oldbroad

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 09:02 PM

Argh! I knew I should have started with that as I was thinking that the term meant something like "wrapped in paper" (like an envelope). I just never trust my instincts! duh
Posted By: Mad

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 09:33 PM

11. Cullinan ??
Posted By: LadyKestrel

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 09:44 PM

4. Ponchielli (I think I spelled it right.)
Posted By: manxman

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/14/24 09:58 PM

10. Jai Alai wave
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/15/24 11:04 AM

Three good ones! smile

Would also have accepted pelota, manxman
Posted By: fildil

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/15/24 02:54 PM

9. St. Andrew's Cross?
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/15/24 07:34 PM

Also known as, Fil?
Posted By: michele rose

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/16/24 10:57 AM

7. Red Sea smile
Posted By: manxman

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/16/24 12:52 PM

12. Duel wave
Posted By: fildil

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/16/24 02:45 PM

9. Sorry, that's all I got
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/16/24 08:00 PM

michele, anxman - spot-on! wave

No problem Fil - apparently "officially" known as a saltire
Posted By: LadyKestrel

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/17/24 01:51 PM

2. It's a sneaky move in chess.
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/17/24 08:03 PM

So sneaky I'd never heard of it! smile
Posted By: Koala

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/18/24 02:02 AM

8. Stephane Grappelli

wave
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Pub Quiz Night - 04/18/24 01:53 PM

Thanks, Koala! wave
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