Quiz episode 5 (17/09/2018)
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Closing date Sunday 7th October 2018 at 23:59 (that's one minute to midnight ).
1. Which creature do French sports fans traditionally let loose before the start of a big match?
2. Which king unveiled the Victoria memorial (in London)?
3. What is made by a testatator?
4. Who telephoned Neil Armstrong during his first moon walk?
5. Which novelist had three novels adapted to films by Alfred Hitchcock?
6. Which wine growing region is divided in to Baja, Alta and Alavesa?
7. What does fibrin cause to happen in blood?
8. What year did Buddy Holly die?
9. Which top selling singer song writer was born May 5, 1981, in Southampton?
10. Which director appeared in the movie "The Blues Brothers"?
11. In which century was the Taj Mahal constructed?
12. A Bordelaise sauce is flavoured by which vegetable?
13. Ben Nevis is in which mountain range?
14. Where would you probably be looking at a Snellen chart?
15. In bingo what are numbers ending in zero called?
16. What do Sunderland and Benfica football clubs share?
17. Who is the patron saint of Venice?
18. What are Mycerinus and Cheprun the second two greatest of?
19. What would you be eating if you ate a Spanish chorizo?
20. Which scientist first discovered the composition of air?
21. Which Celebrity Big Brother winner wrote "Living the Dream, My Story"?
22. Which letter and number represent the vitamin riboflavin?
23. Derby, Pelham and Russell have all been what?
24. Who was John the Baptist's father?
25. Alan Stubbs broke his two spells at Everton by playing for which football club?
26. Euston became Britain's first railway station to have what in 1848?
27. In 1921 which political party burnt down Dublin's Custom House?
28. Which part of the body is protected by puttees?
29. Which river flows through six different European countries?
30. What is the main ingredient in an Indian raita?