Pub quizzes - Prince of Wales questions, 5 December 2006

Questions

Over 60% of the world's lakes are in which country?
Which celebrity, after getting divorced in 2001, said "at least I can wear high heels now"?
What word meaning a violent or turbulent situation is originally the name given to the notoriously treacherous currents off the Lofoten Islands in Norway?
What connects famous film quotes "Beam me up, Scotty.", "Play it again, Sam.", and "Me Tarzan, you Jane."?
Of whom did Ray Bradbury say in 2004, "He is a screwed asshole... a horrible human being"
In 1967, a British government minister said that a suffixed "e" stood for "excellence, England, Europe, and entente" when it was agreed to add it to the name of what?
In which archipelago would you find islands whose names mean strong winds, the palm, the iron and the rubbermaker?
Which film director's career began in 1967 with 'Death of a gunfighter', and has since covered over 60 films including 'The zombie of Cap-Rouge', 'Shrimp on the barbie' and 'Bloodsucking pharaohs in Pittsburgh'? Once described as having a 'facility for scanning faces and extracting sharp background detail', his name is now generally perceived to imply desperately poor quality.
The effect of which drink has been described as 'like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick'. Unfortunately you'd be very hard pushed to find a bar in London that would serve you one.
Five countries have monosyllabic names in English. Which ones?

Named after the Afghan camel drivers who used to provide the only transport along its route, between which two cities does the Ghan railway run?
Which Chinese phrase, an abbreviation of a longer phrase which means "industrial worker's cooperative", is used in English to mean excessively enthusiastic or overzealous?
Who is FLOTUS?
In Thelma and Louise, who played Thelma?
What did Salvador Dali wear to the opening of the International Surrealist Exhibition at London's New Burlington Gallery in 1936?
Which legendary outlaws began their careers in Colorado, moved on to torment the rest of the west, later ranged across the Americas and robbed banks as far south as Rio Gallegos in southern Patagonia, and died in a shootout with police in San Vicente, Bolivia?
In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. Who were they?
What comes, alphabetically, between Germanium and Hafnium?
99% of all matter in the universe consists of which two elements?
What name is shared by a 1985 George Romero film and a festival celebrated in Mexico on 1 and 2 November?

Canada
Nicole Kidman (5'10") - cruise is 5'7"
Maelstrom
They were never actually said.
Michael Moore, for 'stealing' Fahrenheit xx1
Concorde. One team suggested 'shite', which we really liked but didn't give any marks for.
Canary Islands - Fuertaventura, La Palma, El Hierro, La Gomera
Allan Smithee - the pseudonym adopted by directors who want to dismiss their own work. The name has probably had its last use, because of a film called 'Burn Hollywood Burn: An Allan Smithee Film' about a director called Allan Smithee who is unable to disown his film. The director disowned the film and it is now credited to Allan Smithee.
Pan-galactic gargle blaster, described as such in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Chad, Greece, France, Spain, Laos. A lot of teams put Guam, which is not a country, and several people put Wales as well, but that's not a country either.

Adelaide and Darwin
Gung-ho - abbreviation of Gongye hezuoshe - became motto of US marines in south-east asia during WWII
First lady of the US - Laura Bush
Geena Davis
A diving suit
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire...the A-Team
Gold
Hydrogen & Helium
Day of the Dead