Quiz 28

1
Which actress links Gloria Stuart's past with that of the evil queen of numbers?
2
What's the link between these three places?
3
I have eight forms and ten letters, although no more than five letters in any of my forms. I am very common and highly irregular. What am I?
4
Which city suffers from this monstrosity?
5
A perfect circular hole with a depth (rim to rim) of eight millimetres is drilled clean through a pearl which is a perfect sphere, passing directly through the centre of the pearl. What is the volume of the material left in the pearl?
Simon
6
Why do the following combine to make something colourless:
Heavy light element
Element that has a wet oxide
Semi-conductor
First person halogen
Phil
 
7
First Lee, and then Alvin, both in New York; then eight others in various countries; and most recently, a Japanese economist in Toronto. What did they do?
Alan
 
8
What links Jack Klugman, Marilyn Monroe, Edward Norton, Charlie Chaplin, Carey Loftin, Kiefer Sutherland and Lee Marvin?
Also explain why Clint Eastwood isn't on the list.
Peter Morris
9
In my trusty dictionary between a boy and a washerwoman I find a saltwater lake, a beastly place to lie, a dirge, a crude satire, a type of cavalryman, lacking vigour, the act of throwing money away, praiseworthy and the muse of some fine poets.
How many tools can you find, and who would use them?
10
I guess it's possible you may have seen me in the dark, but probably not my myriad lesser companions. Dawn arriving, however, will make your seeing me much more likely. Who or what am I?
Mick T

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