Quiz Archive 19th January

Round 1 General Knowledge

1. How many legs does a spider have? #twubquiz

2. What colours are on the French flag?#twubquiz

3. Who performed the title song in the movie Singing in the Rain?#twubquiz

4. Who is Asterix the Gaul's rotund friend?#twubquiz

5. What kind of animal is a canine?#twubquiz

6. Which search engine was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998?#twubquiz

7. Who is the current host of Mastermind?#twubquiz

8. What mode of transport does the man in seat 61 give advice on?#twubquiz

9. Who is the chancellor of the Exchequer?#twubquiz

10. Who said "Either this guy's dead or my watch has stopped"?#twubquiz

Round 2 Sex

1. What is the male gamete?#twubquiz

2. Binary fission, budding and spore formation are varieties of what kind of reproduction?#twubquiz

3. What story of human parthenogenesis is featured in the bible?#twubquiz

4. What do Tiresias, Jabba the Hutt and Cartman's Mom have in common?#twubquiz

5. What is the equivalent of sperm for flowering plants?#twubquiz

6. How many chromosomes are there in the average unfertilized human ovum?#twubquiz

7. How is the male prepuce better known?#twubquiz

8. What are Rocky Mountain oysters?#twubquiz

9. Oestrogen and progesterone are secreted by which organs?#twubquiz

10. Which racing mammal has a gestation period of 336 days?#twubquiz

Round 3 Pictures

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Round 4 Drugs

1. What common pain killer is acetylsalicylic acid? #twubquiz

2. What stimulant is found in coffee, cola and chocolate?#twubquiz

3. Here's a hard one: What's the common trade name of Sildenafil citrate?#twubquiz

4. What ailment might senna extract be used to relieve?#twubquiz

5. A green liquid contains paracetamol, dextromethorphan and promethazine. What's it sold as?#twubquiz

6. A patient is prescribed an inert sugar pill that does nothing. What's its medical name?#twubquiz

7. What drug is a leading lady who has dropped an E?#twubquiz

8. What fast slang name is given to amphetamine?#twubquiz

9. What kind of drug is Prozac?#twubquiz

10. What drug is in woodpecker, Stella and Archers?#twubquiz

Round 5 Rock n Roll

Identify the song these lyrics came from

1. Realize I dont want to be a miser, confide wisely youll be the wiser, young blood is the lovin upriser#twubquiz

2. By now you should've somehow realised what you gotta do #twubquiz

3. But how many heartaches must I stand before I find a love to let me live again #twubquiz

4. Unaware but underlined, I figured out this story. It wasn't good. But in the corner of my mind I celebrated glory.#twubquiz

5. I feel safest of all, I can lock all my doors, it's the only way to live #twubquiz

6. I'm so happy and you're so kind, You want more money - of course I don't mind, to buy nuclear textbooks for atomic crimes #twubquiz

7. Half past twelve, and I'm watching the late show in my flat all alone. How I hate to spend the evening on my own#twubquiz

8. Im gonna hit the highway like a battering ram on a silver black phantom bike. When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry, and were all about to see the light #twubquiz

9. So needless to say I'm odds and ends. But that's me, stumbling away, slowly learning that life is O.K.#twubquiz

10. When I look in your eyes, I see words I can't describe, And these words I'm tellin' you #twubquiz

Round 1 Answers

1. 8

2. Blue White Red

3. Gene Kelly

4. Obelix

5. Dog

6. Google

7. John Humphrys

8. Railways

9. Alistair Darling

10. Groucho Marx

Round 2 Answers

1. Sperm

2. Asexual

3. Virgin birth

4. They are hermaphrodites

5. Pollen

6. 23

7. Foreskin

8. Buffalo testicles

9. Ovaries

10. Horse

Round 3 Answers

1. Botticelli

2. Warhol

3. Van Gogh

4. Picasso

5. Cezanne

6. Klimt

7. Matisse

8. Da Vinci

9. Rembrandt

10. Dali

Round 4 Answers

1. Aspirin

2. Caffeine

3. Viagra

4. Constipation

5. Night nurse

6. Placebo

7. Heroin

8. Speed

9. Antidepressant (SSRI)

10. Alcohol.

Answers Round 5

1. Give it away (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

2. Wonderwall (Oasis)

3. You can't hurry love (Diana Ross)

4. Back For Good (Take That)

5. Cars (Gary Numan)

6. Going underground (The Jam)

7. Gimmie Gimme Gimmie [a man after midnight] (Abba)

8. Bat out of hell (Meatloaf)

9. Take on me (A-Ha)

10. Baby I Love You (Ramones)