Quite Interesting
1 What is the bodily link between Frodo Baggins, Peter Pettigrew and Sauron the Great?
2 What connects the fallopian tubes, the G spot and the largest tendon in the human body?
3 Which author’s first name was given to him by his parents after a lake in Staffordshire?
4 Which supermarket chain began life in 1864 as a small dairy on London’s Drury Lane?
5 Which pop group named themselves after Agents X33 and X33A?
6 Why is Virginia Bottomley both a blonde and a brunette?
7 In Switzerland they are called Little Bees and in Italy they are known as Ladybirds. What is the UK counterpart?
8 What was unusual about the Daily Telegraph crosswords during the first six months of 1944?
9 Which singer’s five letter surname is also the name of a disease that affects newborn lambs?
10 In Morse Code which girl’s name is spelt out by dot, dot dot dot dash, dot?
11 Appropriately Kate Bush shares her birthday with which writer?
12 In 1564, who was appointed Chief Physician to King Charles IX of France?
13 According to historians which city did Adolf Hitler plan to make the capital of England had there been a successful invasion?
14 Which star of the A Team took his acting surname from an egg dish on a restaurant menu at which he was dining?
15 On which river was the first Olympic rowing event contested?
16 What did Isambard Kingdom Brunel choke to death on?
17 What connects Patti Hearst, Attila the Hun and Desmond Tutu?
18 Which word associated with motor racing tracks derives from the French meaning, to quibble?
19 In 1914 what was named after a man called Harry Fox?
20 Which liqueur derives its name from the Latin for love?
21 What was banned from 19 European countries in 1998?
22 Which rank in the Christian ministry derives its name from the Greek for servant?
23 If an object is described as hippocrepian, what is it shaped like?
24 Which singer dubbed the singing voice of Miss Piggy in The Muppet Movie?
25 What are there 365 of on the human body?
26 Which car manufacturer derives its name from the Japanese for three diamonds?
27 Why is a cricket score of 111 known as a Nelson?
28 According to the Bible who was the first recorded burial?
29 Which brand of coffee was named after the hotel where it was first served?
30 What is the nickname of Villarreal FC, a
name that when translated into English is the title of a Beatles number one hit?
Answers
1 All lost a finger
2 All named after people. Fallopian tubes after Gabriele Fallopian, the G spot after Ernst Grafenberg and the largest tendon after Achilles
3 Rudyard Kipling
4 Sainsbury’s
5 The Thompson Twins, these were the code names of the agents in the Tin Tin cartoons
6 She has blonde hair and her middle name is Brunette
7 Girl Guides
8 They contained the code names of the Normandy landings
9 Bowie
10 Eve
11 Emily Bronte, who penned Wuthering Heights
12 Nostradamus
13 Oxford
14 Dirk Benedict
15 Seine
16 Half sovereign
17 All slang terms for university degrees. Patti Hearst (a first), Attila the Hun (2:1), Desmond Tutu (2:2)
18 Chicane
19 Foxtrot
20 Amaretto
21 Human cloning
22 Deacon
23 Horseshoe
24 Johnny Mathis
25 Acupuncture points
26 Mitsubishi
27 A score of 111 in cricket is considered a bad omen as the number 111 resemble wickets minus their bails. It is known as a Nelson as towards the end of his life Horatio Nelson had one eye, one arm and allegedly one testicle.
28 Sarah, wife of Abraham
29 Maxwell House
30 Villarreal’s nickname is El Submarino Amarillo i.e. The Yellow Submarine