WEEK TWENTY SIX

Sunday 21st July 2006

Round One – General Knowledge

"Back To School" was this week's theme for the first round...

1. English: In English, what name is given to a word, which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning (for example “morning” and “mourning”)?

2. Maths: If two angles of a triangle are 42 degrees and 39 degrees, what's the third?

3. Maths: What comes next in this sequence 5, 12, 26, 54?

4. Geography: Which African desert covers most of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa?

5. Geography: Name any three countries that border the Black Sea?

6. History: Which European gate was symbolically opened to celebrate Christmas 1989?

7. Biology: What is the human body’s largest artery?

8. Biology: What kind of animals can be horseshoe, leaf-nosed or ghost-faced?

9. Chemistry: Which gas, found in the upper atmosphere, acts as a filter to the Sun’s ultra-violet rays??

10. Chemistry: Name three of the noble gases?

11. Physics: What astronomer was the first to locate the Sun, rather than the Earth as the centre of the solar system?

12. Technology: What does a uniform resource locator help you find?

13. Art: What artistic technique involves painting directly onto wet plaster?

14. Art & Literature: Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel “Maus” was an analogy for which historical event?

15. English Literature: Which novelist published the story of his 10 000 mile journey across America with his pet poodle in 1961?

16. French: What is the French for dog, goat and horse?

17. German: Which German word used in the English language means “taking pleasure in other peoples’ misfortune”?

18. Latin: The slogan "Ars Gratia Artis" is familiar to those who have seen the MGM lion roaring at the start of films. But what does it mean?


Round Two - Celebrity Eye Spy

Round Two-And-A-Half – Where Am I?

5 points – In 2006 this city’s population was estimated at just over 1.7 million it is the eighth biggest city in the European Union and Europe’s newest metro systems (albeit only one North to South line!!) opened to the public in this city in 1995

4 points – The creator of the international artificial language Esperanto was born in this city and this city is located 280 miles from the Baltic on the Masovian Plain

3 points – It is divided into 18 boroughs, 3 of which are called Wola, Ursus and Bielany and this city gave its name to the Treaty of Friendship established in 1955

2 points – It is served by an airport named after the composer Chopin and this city lies on the River Vistula

1 point – This city is the capital of its country, the country in question invaded by Germany on September 1st, 1939 and It is the capital of Poland



Round Three - A Variety

Current Affairs:
7. A portrait of which cartoon character was painted on the side of a Dorset hill this week?

8. Nominated for a Mercury Music Prize award this week for her album “Fur & Gold”, how is singer Natasha Khan better known?

9. What animal caused the German cyclist Marcus Burghardt to crash spectacularly during this year’s Tour De France?

10. Which three Labour MP’s admitted to smoking dope in their youth this week?

11. Rhianna will possibly break a 10-year-old record this weekend if her single “Umbrella” stays at number one for another week; which song was the last to stay at number one for 10 weeks or more?

12. At the Edinburgh festival this year, what will be “Discotivity”?


Where In The World…

Pictures From Google Earth

Round Four: A Pop Quiz