Monday, July 02, 2018

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Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Jul 01 07:34PM +0100


> 1 The HBO series 'Boardwalk Empire' was set in the 1920s in which US
> city?
 
Atlantic City
 
> 2 The Khaled Hosseini novels 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand
> Splendid Suns' are primarily set in which Asian country?
 
Afghanistan
 
> 3 The last line of which 1933 film is: "Oh no, it wasn't the
> airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast"?
 
King Kong
 
> 4 The stylised rabbit featured in the famous Playboy logo wears which
> specific item of clothing?
 
Bowtie
 
> 5 The TV shows 'Glee' and 'Freaks and Geeks' are both set at high
> schools named after which ill-fated U.S. president?
 
JFK?
 
> 6 The Vedas are sacred texts in what religion?
 
Hinduism
 
> 7 The Winter War [1939 - 1940] was a military conflict between the
> Soviet Union and which other country?
 
Finland
 
> 8 There are two sub-orders of whale, toothed and which other?
 
Beaked??? I know this isn't right, the other lot are named for that
weird filtering substance they use in feeding, but I can't for the life
of me remember what that is called...
 
> 9 What is the common name of the marine creatures which belong to the
> genus hippocampus?
 
Seahorses
 
> 10 What was the pre-1998 name of the Indian city now known as Mumbai?
 
Bombay
tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 01 02:34PM

> world. He too has won the Ballon d'Or 5 times, and he was
> named the best Portuguese player of all time by the Portuguese
> Football Federation in 2015.
 
Ronaldo
 
> * World Cup Records
 
> 5. Which country set the record for most goals scored in one game
> by one team, with 10 goals against El Salvador in 1982?
 
West Germany; Italy
 
 
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