Pub quizzes - Prince of Wales questions, 22 January 2008

From Worldtraveller

Pete set Round One before heading home ill and leaving us with his beer round, I did rounds two and four, and Oli did round three.

Contents 1 Questions 1.1 Round Two 1.2 Beer round 1.3 Round Three 1.4 Round Four 2 Answers 2.1 Round Two 2.2 Round Four

Questions

Round Two

1. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born in Skopje in 1910. Who is she better known as?
2. Where in recent years would you have found Double Bind, Marsyas, Raw Materials, Embankment and Test Site?
3. What's the only country that borders Russia that has never been ruled by a communist government?
4. Which band, who've had 20 top 40 singles since 1996, were signed to Creation Records on the condition that they'd speak English when performing live? They had in fact been doing so but Alan McGee could not understand their strong Welsh accents.
5. What is the smallest country in the world that's not in Europe and isn't an island?
6. Which government committee meets in times of national crisis in Cabinet Office Briefing Room A?
7. Barney McGee from the banks of the Lee, Hogan from County Tyrone, Johnny McGurk who was scared stiff of work, and a man from Westmeath called Malone were among the crew of which ship?

8. In these days of modern technology, mp3 files are everywhere. What does the mp in mp3 stand for? 9. Which TV programme's theme tune is performed by the Balanescu Quartet? 10. There are five non-EU sovereign states which use the Euro as their currency, and one territory administered by the UN. Name them all.

Beer round

Round Three

Round Four

1. When the pieces on a chess board are given their normal numerical value, what is the total value of all the pieces on the board at the start of a game?
2. Where would you find in a column, the sun, the new, the lazy one, the hidden and the stranger? For a bonus point, what would you find below those?
3. Which former countries had the following internet top-level domains? a) .cs b) .su c) .dd d) .zr
4. Which Atlantic archipelago takes one of its names from the French port of St Malo, and another from a former scottish royal palace in Fife?
5. Which biblical phrase epitomises the concept of Lex Talionis?
6. What is now the largest international airline in the world (ie carries largest number of people on international flights)?
7. Which island did the Knights of St John rule over before political upheaval forced them to take over Malta?
8. Which four African countries does the Greenwich Meridian pass through?
9. What do Blur's fifth album, the Charlatan's fourth, Genesis' 12th, The Smiths's first album and the Levellers' third album have in common?
10. Which comedy which ran from 1989 to 1998 was written with the rules that the characters would never hug and never learn?

Answers

Round Two

1. Mother Theresa
2. Tate Modern
3. Finland (but the question was inaccurate; one super-clever team pointed out that Norway also shares a border with Russia)
4. Super Furry Animals
5. Brunei
6. COBRA
7. The Irish Rover
8. Moving Picture (from Moving Picture Experts Group)
9. University Challenge
10. Andorra, San Marino, Monaco, Vatican City, Montenegro, Kosovo.

Round Four

1. 78
2. In the periodic table (noble gases). Radon is below them. So is Ununoctium but no-one was clever enough to know that.
3. a) Czechoslovakia b) Soviet Union c) East Germany d) Zaire
4. Las Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands)
5. Eye for an eye
6. Ryanair
7. Rhodes
8. Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana
9. All were eponymously-titled
10. Seinfeld

More Prince of Wales pub quizzes: 9 May 2006 / 28 July 2006 / 17 October 2006 / 5 December 2006 / 6 February 2007 / 29 May 2007 / 31 July 2007 / 23 October 2007 / 22 January 2008