BITS AND PIECES

1 What is the more common alternative title of Vivaldi’s First Quartet of Opus 8 Concertos?

2 The US aircraft carrier USS Kittyhawk was named in honour of which duo?

3 Blanket and honeycomb are both varieties of which food stuff?

4 Which hand maidens carried the spirits of dead warriors to Valhalla?

5 Tux the penguin is the mascot of which computer operating system?

6 Which chemical element discovered in 1896 was named by the discoverer after his home continent?

7 What did the 13th Amendment abolish in the USA?

8 In 1992 who was accused of stealing fuel worth an estimated 4 million rubles from a company called Ukhta Enterprises?

9 Which car manufacturer was originally called Darracq Italiana?

10 What is the nationality of the designer Hugo Boss?

11 Which company’s name was derived from a combination of the words knitted angora wool?

12 What five letter word is the Islamic for Holy War?

13 In World War I what was renamed liberty cabbage by the UK and the USA?

14 Which vessel began its epic voyage on September 8th, 1620?

15 By what name was Kung Fu Tsu better known?

16 Which pub is frequented by Dave and Jim in the Royle Family?

17 In 2006 which former Time Lord became the new voice of BT Text?

18 Which film contains the line, “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries”?

19 In the Arabic language who has the title of Al Baba?

20 Which company’s logo comprises of a black letter M in a white circle?

21 What is the name of the paranoid android created by Douglas Adams?

22 Which metallic element has a name that means heavy stone in Swedish?

23 The name of which extinct bird derives from the Portuguese for stupid?

24 Which ship was found abandoned in 1872 four weeks after setting sail from Boston en route to Genoa?

25 Which company makes England’s Glory matches?

Answers

1 The Four Seasons

2 The Wright Brothers

3 Tripe

4 Valkyries

5 Linux

6 Europium

7 Slavery

8 Roman Abramovich

9 Alfa Romeo

10 German

11 Kangol

12 Jihad

13 Sauerkraut

14 Mayflower

15 Confucius

16 The Feathers

17 Tom Baker

18 Monty Python and the Holy Grail

19 The Pope

20 Motorola

21 Marvin

22 Tungsten

23 Dodo

24 Marie Celeste

25 Bryant & May