Quiz 17

1
Who was raised as a Quaker yet once stated he would have been good as the Head of the Catholic Church?
Demar
2
What is the cleft on your upper lip called?
Shekhar
3
Which is the odd one out, and why?
Cherbourg
Sydney
Oporto
Seoul
Yalta
Kuala Lumpur
Tampa
4
Who is this?
5
John's watch gains 15 seconds every 9 hours. Fred's watch loses half a minute every day. They synchronize their watches at noon on Monday. When John's watch shows it is Wednesday, 6am, what time will Fred's watch show?
6
On my US telephone, letters are assigned to the number keys as follows: 2 = ABC, 3 = DEF, 4 = GHI, 5 = JKL, 6 = MNO, 7 = PQRS, 8 = TUV, 9 = WXYZ
Tapping out a friend's number, 992-8266, I noticed I was spelling...what?
Alan
7
Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffmann, Robert Redford, Ryan O'Neil, _________. Complete. (And it is a full-stop)
Venky
8
Give a common English word whose plural is formed by inserting a single additional letter into (not onto the end of) the singular form of the word, without changing any other letters.
Vicky
9
An old school dictionary falls open, spread before me I find, between a swapping of sounds or letters and an upmarket stoat: an archaic word common in stage whispers, a musical instrument of a particularly rhythmic kind, an unwholesome mist, mediocre, an Emperor, a thousand thousand thousand, and an affected walk.
I can also find three ways of describing something small, what are they?
10
What is this?

Answers

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