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Pub quizzes - Prince of Wales questions, 6 February 2007

Questions

By what name is "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" now known?
New York was known as New Amsterdam until 1674 when the British Empire swapped it with the Dutch for what territory?
Who were Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield better known as? They had a number one hit in the UK in October 1990
Between which two countries did the first non-stop trans-atlantic flight take place?
Which fruit's name comes from an Aztec word meaning 'testicle', has fatty, creamy flesh, is a popular ingredient in salads but is highly toxic to most animals other than humans?
How is an aeolic power station better known?
Which legendary journey took place between 2 October and 21 December 1872?
Which 1983 single had a cover design so expensive that the record company lost money on every copy sold? It sold over a million copies, the biggest selling 12" of all time
Which legendary commentator once said "I don't make mistakes - I make predictions which immediately turn out to be wrong", and coined the slogan 'Made to make your mouth water' for opal fruits?
Which four capital cities lie on the Danube?

If you wrote all the Roman numeral symbols in descending order, what number would you get?
Which Smarties colour was withdrawn in 2006 because of a new Nestle policy to only use natural colourings?
Which is the only US state whose border has no straight lines?
If you heard 13 notes which appear during the tune 'Gran Vals' by classical guitarrist Francisco Tarrega, you'd probably feel intensely irritated. Why?
Alfred Hitchcock once said that the length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human what?
King George V's last words insulted which south coast town, which his doctor had just told him he'd soon be healthy enough to visit?
What connects the appearance of bubbles of nitrogen in the blood with a 1995 album?
Altogether Now by the Farm, Go West by the Village People and the national anthem of the soviet union are among the many tunes which rip off which piece originally written in 1680?
Which European capital gives its name to a syndrome seen among Japanese tourists, who suffer psychiatric symptoms when confronted by its rude inhabitants and less than fairytale atmosphere?
Which two football league clubs are not named after a town, city or suburb?

Questions 6-9 were written by Pete.

Catherine Taylor-Dawson stood for the "Vote for yourself rainbow dream ticket" party in Cardiff North in the 2005 general election. How many votes did she get?
A study of why woodpeckers don't get headaches, a device to repel teenagers with high pitched sounds, and an explanation of why the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard is so horrific have been among the scientific achievements recently honoured in which awards?
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) was the first film of which genre?
Who recently said of his new Holocaust film, "of course it's got nude scenes in it - I'm Dutch"
Peter Nicol recently retired from a sport he has dominated for the last decade but which few people follow. He said "Donald Rumsfeld recently said he plays it every day. I'm not sure that helps". What is the sport?
According to a song released in July 1986, what was simultaneously to be found on the streets of London, Birmingham, Carlisle, Dublin, Dundee and Humberside?
Two questions on Scots poetry: in 1797, Which poet in which work promised "I will come again, my luve,/ tho' it were ten-thousand mile."
And which Scottish poets in which 1988 work were less optimistic, promising only one tenth the distance?
What name is shared, amongst others, by an English fast bowler, the bass player from the Verve, and the actor who originally played Arthur Dent in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Shilpa Shetty has just won Celebrity Big Brother. Can you name the four previous winners?

NWA's era-defining track Fuck tha Police, supposedly the soundtrack to the LA riots, naturally featured a "Parental advisory: explicit content" sticker on its cover. If all the non-explicit content is removed, leaving just the swearing, how long, in seconds, does the track last? (clue - the original song lasts 5min45s)
How many US presidents owned slaves during their time in office?
How long was the longest screen kiss, between Regis Toomey and Jane Wyman in 'You're in the army now'?

MDCLXVI - 1666. One team tried to get away with just writing the Roman numeral and not giving the number that corresponds to, but luckily they even got that wrong.
Blue
Hawaii
It's the spectacularly irritating default Nokia ring tone.
The bladder
Bognor Regis
The Bends
Pachelbel's Canon in D
Paris
Arsenal, Port Vale

Just the one. But apparently she couldn't actually vote for herself because she was not on the electoral roll in that constituency.
Ignobel prizes
Blaxploitation
Paul Verhoeven
Squash
Panic, according to the eponymous Smiths song
Robert Burns, My Luve Is Like A Red Red Rose
The Proclaimers, I'm Gonna Be (500 miles)
Simon Jones
Jack Dee, Mark Owen, Bez, Chantelle Houghton

From the top row down and left to right, the webs were spun by spiders on:

42 seconds, which is 12.1% of the original track, is devoted to expletives. The source of this question is www.ni9e.com. A sanitised version of the edited track goes something like "MF-ing MF-ing ass goddamn F-word N-word F-word S-word MF..."
8
Three minutes and five seconds