Dr Graham's Sunday Quiz

22 January 2017

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1. Who wrote the book in which this beastie featured?
   

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle. The picture is from The Lost World

Correct answers from: @Kirstin16o3, @SmallsLites, @Supervisor1_9_4, @ciderpunx, @Tobys_Tweets, @MadameJo_Jo

2. What do the letters in the following refer to?
   • 10 C in a F
   • 16 O in a P
   • 22 Y in a C

   Answer: Chain, furlong, ounce, poud, yard, chain. All imperial measurement units.

   Correct answers from: @Supervisor1_9_4, @SmallsLites, @TheEliselise, @MadameJo_Jo, @pstni, @ciderpunx, @Tobys_Tweets, @The_Jedi_Master

3. What links Long John Silver and 3 days 4 hours 40 minutes?

Answer: One leg. Long John Silver only had one leg, and world record for standing on one leg.

Correct answers (with clues) from: @pstni, @WaspBox, @Supervisor1_9_4, @paper_faces

4. This is the opening of which book?
   

Answer: The Rig Veda.

Correct answers from: @pstni, @mwnciod

5. What's next in the sequence: Live and Let Die, Jaws, The Spy Who Loved Me, ...?

Answer: Diamonds Are Forever - most watched films in the UK by number of viewers.

Correct answers from: @MadameJo_Jo, @SmallsLites

6. What links the following?
   • Boffin
   • Keys
   • Steamboat
   • Gangster

Answer: Yale. The Boffins were hobbits who live in the Yale. Yale lock makers. SS Yale, a US Navy steamboat. Frankie Yale, an American gangster.

Correct answers (with clues) from: @Supervisor1_9_4