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2nd December 2015, 08:47 PM
Answers?
1. Why might the letter c be very quick indeed?
2. Why might Thursday be noisy and wet?
3. Where might you be true to your country and stand on the shoulders of giants?
4. What is 21 centimetres long and engraved on gold far, far away?
5. What do the Capriol wizard and the Naked Pilgrimhave in common?
6. Who first said, ‚Elementary, my dear Watson ...‛?
7. When is a policeman’s lot not a happy one?
8. Why would a Lord Spiritual capture an ermine?
9. Where do Athens, Venice, Verona and Windsor appear?
10. Name the two American drifters whose plans gang aft agley.
11. Whose major novel takes its title from a line in The Lord’s Prayer?
12. If Harry Potter used his wand to recast the chipboard fellon, who would he find?
13. What word might you hear on the night’s Plutonian shore?
14. What colour of wine is most usually drunk with ghoti?
15. Aside from their meaning, what do ‚käse‛ and ‚formaggio‛ have in common?
16. How might a senile Hitler fan have a triumph at the Oscars?
17. Why ought John Pemberton pay for someone’s dentures?
18. What colour liquid would you have, if you chopped up a German i
magination?
19. Put these public schools into foundational order.
Winchester, Oundle, Eton, Harrow, Charterhouse, Tonbridge, Uppingham, Shrewsbury, Rugby, Radley, Stowe,
Westminster, St Paul’s, Merchant Taylor’s.
20. With which day of the week might you associate an ancient mixture of nine
English herbs, and singing?
21.How many pilgrims does Chaucer mention in The Canterbury Tales?
22.Revised in 1893, what is the full title of the US Ambassador to the UK?
23.To avoid criticism during WWI, the British royal family changed their hereditary
house name from what to what?
24. Who achieved great heights as a whistleblower?
25.Which continental biscuit shares its name with a 17th (and early 18th) Century mathematician and philosopher?
26. If Robert de Niro’s number is 1, Al Pacino’s numb er is 2 and Martin Kemp’s
number is 3, then whose number is zero?
27. What do the Vitruvian Man, the Virgin of the Rocks and the parachute have in common?
28.Where do the Lady of the Rocks, the Hanged Man and the Phoenician Sailor all appear?
29.Which 4-letter word links August Kekule and Richard Wagner?
30. Remembrance Sunday – what links this date with Coleridge’s Kubla Khan?
31. In which popular TV programme is the reductive amuniation of phenylacetone central to proceedings?
32. What can be seen in Vienna, is 6 metres long and got there from Bratislava in just under 2 hours?
33. Who do Clementine, mulberries and Nicotiana tabacum have in common?
34. When do an alliterative composer and Saint Cecilia have in common?
35. Which small dyer furiously dipped his brush?
36. Which ornithological specimen would you see around Paul, Tom and Sheldon?
37. Which hieratic Oxonian became a new Victorian man by crossing the Tiber?
38. In which Southern town might condiments and councils once have come together in the reign of George III?
39. What type of skill might bind together the language of marriage, frenzy, ginger beer and the tongue?
40. Where might dark blue cattle cross a river?
41. Which of three presents might a thurifer sprinkle on embers?
42. Which naval administrator believed the nature of Englishmen to be absurd?
43. How does an extra ‘ne’ lose 16.047kg?
44. What might Chiron and a disgraced author from Weston-super-Mare share?
45. Why might you confuse a petrol giant with a Chief Scout?
46. From which city did the partner of Orpheus Brittanicus’s Queen of Carthage hail?
47. Of what might I sing and of arms?
48. Which aristocrat hoped July might be a promising month for the Valkyrie?
49. Who advised the gathering of rosebuds?
50. Decipher the following message ‚krypton yttrium platinum oxygen nitrogen‛.
51.What do the following discoveries have in common?
The laws governing the radiation of heat, the law of the photoelectric effect and the invention of efficient blue
light - emitting diodes.
52. What large kleptoparasitic seabird name, spelt backwards, gives the name of a group of unrelated seabirds?
53. As the kiwi to New Zealand and the eagle to the U.S.A. , what is to Nova Scotia?
54. What might you rather be than militant or penitent?
55. What job title might a Scottish Bowes-Lyon and a Greek Mountbatten share?
56. What might you be, if you failed a Turing test?
57. With what tongue might an avatar shampoo its hair in the jungle?
58. On what date in 2014 might many a red Papaveraceae and a white tower have come together?
59.Why do sprouts, cayenne and a special chicken dish go chiefly well with muscat?
60. To where do fools rush?
61. A 14th-Century Japanese swordsmith sprinkled this element into steel to make samurai swords that would never dull or crack.
62. These halcyon spheres are a TV example of what problem for the inmates?
63. The Brer Goat Born South – a major influence on British Film and TV.
64. What is intelligence & how can it be measured?
65. Which British poet felt a sense of dread when he returned to his old boarding school to make a film about it?
66. How do Kurds in the North of Iraq greet one another?
67. On which lady-like structure might you speed through the rain and the steam?
68. Who is the hairy bloke they shout about, at the top of the pit?
69. What might an amorous pundit study before bedtime?
70. Give a non-numerical word that could rhyme properly with ‘month’.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
1. Why might the letter c be very quick indeed?
2. Why might Thursday be noisy and wet?
3. Where might you be true to your country and stand on the shoulders of giants?
4. What is 21 centimetres long and engraved on gold far, far away?
5. What do the Capriol wizard and the Naked Pilgrimhave in common?
6. Who first said, ‚Elementary, my dear Watson ...‛?
7. When is a policeman’s lot not a happy one?
8. Why would a Lord Spiritual capture an ermine?
9. Where do Athens, Venice, Verona and Windsor appear?
10. Name the two American drifters whose plans gang aft agley.
11. Whose major novel takes its title from a line in The Lord’s Prayer?
12. If Harry Potter used his wand to recast the chipboard fellon, who would he find?
13. What word might you hear on the night’s Plutonian shore?
14. What colour of wine is most usually drunk with ghoti?
15. Aside from their meaning, what do ‚käse‛ and ‚formaggio‛ have in common?
16. How might a senile Hitler fan have a triumph at the Oscars?
17. Why ought John Pemberton pay for someone’s dentures?
18. What colour liquid would you have, if you chopped up a German i
magination?
19. Put these public schools into foundational order.
Winchester, Oundle, Eton, Harrow, Charterhouse, Tonbridge, Uppingham, Shrewsbury, Rugby, Radley, Stowe,
Westminster, St Paul’s, Merchant Taylor’s.
20. With which day of the week might you associate an ancient mixture of nine
English herbs, and singing?
21.How many pilgrims does Chaucer mention in The Canterbury Tales?
22.Revised in 1893, what is the full title of the US Ambassador to the UK?
23.To avoid criticism during WWI, the British royal family changed their hereditary
house name from what to what?
24. Who achieved great heights as a whistleblower?
25.Which continental biscuit shares its name with a 17th (and early 18th) Century mathematician and philosopher?
26. If Robert de Niro’s number is 1, Al Pacino’s numb er is 2 and Martin Kemp’s
number is 3, then whose number is zero?
27. What do the Vitruvian Man, the Virgin of the Rocks and the parachute have in common?
28.Where do the Lady of the Rocks, the Hanged Man and the Phoenician Sailor all appear?
29.Which 4-letter word links August Kekule and Richard Wagner?
30. Remembrance Sunday – what links this date with Coleridge’s Kubla Khan?
31. In which popular TV programme is the reductive amuniation of phenylacetone central to proceedings?
32. What can be seen in Vienna, is 6 metres long and got there from Bratislava in just under 2 hours?
33. Who do Clementine, mulberries and Nicotiana tabacum have in common?
34. When do an alliterative composer and Saint Cecilia have in common?
35. Which small dyer furiously dipped his brush?
36. Which ornithological specimen would you see around Paul, Tom and Sheldon?
37. Which hieratic Oxonian became a new Victorian man by crossing the Tiber?
38. In which Southern town might condiments and councils once have come together in the reign of George III?
39. What type of skill might bind together the language of marriage, frenzy, ginger beer and the tongue?
40. Where might dark blue cattle cross a river?
41. Which of three presents might a thurifer sprinkle on embers?
42. Which naval administrator believed the nature of Englishmen to be absurd?
43. How does an extra ‘ne’ lose 16.047kg?
44. What might Chiron and a disgraced author from Weston-super-Mare share?
45. Why might you confuse a petrol giant with a Chief Scout?
46. From which city did the partner of Orpheus Brittanicus’s Queen of Carthage hail?
47. Of what might I sing and of arms?
48. Which aristocrat hoped July might be a promising month for the Valkyrie?
49. Who advised the gathering of rosebuds?
50. Decipher the following message ‚krypton yttrium platinum oxygen nitrogen‛.
51.What do the following discoveries have in common?
The laws governing the radiation of heat, the law of the photoelectric effect and the invention of efficient blue
light - emitting diodes.
52. What large kleptoparasitic seabird name, spelt backwards, gives the name of a group of unrelated seabirds?
53. As the kiwi to New Zealand and the eagle to the U.S.A. , what is to Nova Scotia?
54. What might you rather be than militant or penitent?
55. What job title might a Scottish Bowes-Lyon and a Greek Mountbatten share?
56. What might you be, if you failed a Turing test?
57. With what tongue might an avatar shampoo its hair in the jungle?
58. On what date in 2014 might many a red Papaveraceae and a white tower have come together?
59.Why do sprouts, cayenne and a special chicken dish go chiefly well with muscat?
60. To where do fools rush?
61. A 14th-Century Japanese swordsmith sprinkled this element into steel to make samurai swords that would never dull or crack.
62. These halcyon spheres are a TV example of what problem for the inmates?
63. The Brer Goat Born South – a major influence on British Film and TV.
64. What is intelligence & how can it be measured?
65. Which British poet felt a sense of dread when he returned to his old boarding school to make a film about it?
66. How do Kurds in the North of Iraq greet one another?
67. On which lady-like structure might you speed through the rain and the steam?
68. Who is the hairy bloke they shout about, at the top of the pit?
69. What might an amorous pundit study before bedtime?
70. Give a non-numerical word that could rhyme properly with ‘month’.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.