Quiz Questions

by **Pal Joey** Tue 04 Sep 2012, 1:22 am

First topic message reminder :

Created by hughie1986 on Fri 16 Sep 2011.

Following the trend on here, I'll give the first question, answer it and ask another pub quiz question

Simples.

Last Question: by JuliusHMarx 3rd September, 2012 at 11:45

"Who was the last man to walk on the moon?"

Last Answer: by Rava Today at 17:00

"Eugene Cernan, December 1972"

by **Pal Joey** Fri 15 Feb 2013, 11:48 am

Bird or Bovine or something else?

by Luckless Pedestrian Fri 15 Feb 2013, 11:50 am

The White Hart?

by **Pal Joey** Fri 15 Feb 2013, 11:53 am

The Struck Duck? Wink

by **Pal Joey** Fri 15 Feb 2013, 11:53 am

The Cat & Fiddle?

by **Pal Joey** Fri 15 Feb 2013, 11:55 am

The Lost Ox?

by asdral225 Fri 15 Feb 2013, 11:55 am

Red Lion something to do with Richard the Lionheart

by **Pal Joey** Fri 15 Feb 2013, 11:59 am

The White Horse?

by **JuliusHMarx** Fri 15 Feb 2013, 12:01 pm

asdral225 wrote:Red Lion something to do with Richard the Lionheart

Red Lion

by asdral225 Sat 16 Feb 2013, 6:57 pm

Whos official residence is Lambeth Palace?

by **Pal Joey** Sun 17 Feb 2013, 10:20 pm

Archbishop of Canterbury

by asdral225 Mon 18 Feb 2013, 9:21 am

Was that too easy?

Yes correct

by **Pal Joey** Mon 18 Feb 2013, 9:41 am

It was referred to during the royal wedding last year so fresh in my mind still.
No, it was a good question.

Tomorrow, the 19th January, marks the 71st anniversary of what low point in Australian history?

by **JuliusHMarx** Mon 18 Feb 2013, 10:14 am

The Bodyline series? Smile

by **Pal Joey** Mon 18 Feb 2013, 10:22 am

ha ha... nope.

by asdral225 Mon 18 Feb 2013, 6:08 pm

Japanese attack on Australian cities

by **Pal Joey** Mon 18 Feb 2013, 9:44 pm

Yes.

The bombing of Darwin. There were 97 separate raids on Oz... some as far south as Exmouth (WA), Katherine (NT)... the most inland target, Townsville and of course the shelling of Rose Bay and mini sub attacks in Sydney.

by asdral225 Tue 19 Feb 2013, 12:15 pm

Did the maths and took a guess.

In which town was the Guillotine invented?

by Luckless Pedestrian Tue 19 Feb 2013, 12:26 pm

Would it be fair to assume it's a French town?

Now I think of it, I might have heard that the guillotine was invented in England but never built / used.

by asdral225 Tue 19 Feb 2013, 12:41 pm

It is a English town, the first recorded use was in 1286

by Luckless Pedestrian Tue 19 Feb 2013, 12:45 pm

And it's a town rather than a city?

by asdral225 Tue 19 Feb 2013, 12:48 pm

by Luckless Pedestrian Tue 19 Feb 2013, 12:50 pm

Okay. Shrewsbury? Chester?

by asdral225 Tue 19 Feb 2013, 12:52 pm

No this towns other claim to fame is that the maker of Quality Street sweets lived there

by **JuliusHMarx** Tue 19 Feb 2013, 2:13 pm

York?

by asdral225 Tue 19 Feb 2013, 7:50 pm

Not York

by **Pal Joey** Tue 19 Feb 2013, 9:10 pm

Hull?

by asdral225 Tue 19 Feb 2013, 9:17 pm

Not to far away!

by **Pal Joey** Tue 19 Feb 2013, 9:18 pm

north or south from Hull?

by asdral225 Tue 19 Feb 2013, 9:18 pm

by **Pal Joey** Tue 19 Feb 2013, 9:20 pm

Sheffield?

by asdral225 Tue 19 Feb 2013, 9:30 pm

by **Pal Joey** Tue 19 Feb 2013, 9:31 pm

Am I getting warmer?

by asdral225 Tue 19 Feb 2013, 9:35 pm

To far south with Sheffield, Hull is due East of this town

by **Pal Joey** Tue 19 Feb 2013, 9:40 pm

Can I use an atlas?

by asdral225 Tue 19 Feb 2013, 9:46 pm

No problem

by **Pal Joey** Tue 19 Feb 2013, 9:50 pm

Wakefield?

by asdral225 Tue 19 Feb 2013, 9:53 pm

A little further west

by **Pal Joey** Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:00 pm

Dewsbury?

by asdral225 Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:12 pm

I think Convoys in the WW 2 ran out of this towns namesake in Nova Scotia

by **Pal Joey** Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:14 pm

Halifax?

by asdral225 Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:20 pm

Yes, there is a replica of the original guillotine or gibbet in Gibbet Street

by **Pal Joey** Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:25 pm

Really? Interesting fact. Gruesome contraption!

What was the largest suburb in the world (excluding mainland Chinese cities since they are regarded as non-standard?) until the formation of New Taipei?

by **JuliusHMarx** Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:34 pm

A suburb of Tokyo?

by **Pal Joey** Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:59 pm

Very hot... in fact it's a huge city in itself. Think you've got it. So let's have it!

by **JuliusHMarx** Wed 20 Feb 2013, 12:44 am

Shimibara?

by **Pal Joey** Wed 20 Feb 2013, 12:54 am

No. That's near Nagasaki isn't it?

Coming in on the Shinkansen from Osaka... you barely have time to get your bags from the racks before you're gliding into Tokyo central. 25 kms in about 5 mins it feels like.

by **JuliusHMarx** Wed 20 Feb 2013, 8:40 am

I haven't been in Tokyo for 15 years - and I didn't memorise the suburbs back then Smile

Shinjuku? Yokohama?

by **Pal Joey** Wed 20 Feb 2013, 10:10 am

Yes, one of those. C'mon... stop teasing me! Wink

by **JuliusHMarx** Wed 20 Feb 2013, 10:13 am

Yokohama

by **Pal Joey** Wed 20 Feb 2013, 10:18 am

Hai!

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