Pot Luck!

[Sweetpea]

1. How many faces has the clock on big Ben’s tower? - Four - Bernie

2. In Britain, how often is the National Census held? - Every 10 years - Shillelagh

3. In bullfighting, what name is given to the men who ride on horses and carry large lances? - Picadors - poppy

4. If your hobby were scrimshaw, what would you be making? - Making things with Seashells, Ivory or Bone - jaysay

5. Plexiglas is a trademark in the USA. What is it’s British equivalent? - Perspex - Churchill

6. Which Staffordshire potter is credited with inventing Willow Pattern Wear? - Thomas Minton - jaysay

7.Release is a helping organisation. What type of problem is it concerned? - Drug Rehab - Bruv

8. The Watusi or Batutsi tribe comes from Burundi in Central Africa. What is this tribe remarkable for? - Tallest people in the world - jaysay

9. Which is the Parisian university is the oldest in Europe? - The Sorbonne - Kels97

10. Name any 3 of the 6 regulation Boy Scout knots? - Sheep bend, Sheep Shank, Clove Hitch, Round turn, 2 and 1/2 hitches and a bowline - Bruv (2/4)

11. Who sang the theme tune to TV’s Minder? - Dennis Waterman - S.J

12. Which range of hills does the M62 cross? - Pennines - terrywit

13. Which town was the scene of the Gunfight at the OK Corral? - Tombstone - jaysay

14. Who came first in the Tour De France for the fourth consecutive year in 1994? - Miguel Indurain - jaysay

15. Who had a horse called Black Bess? - Dick Turpin - jaysay

16. Who met the Little People in Lilliput? - Gulliver - Bruv

17. Who scored for Nottingham Forest in the 1991 FA Cup Final? - Stuart Pearse - jaysay

18. Who was the first American President to resign from office? - Richard Nixon - Churchill

19. Who wrote a Tale of Two Cities? - Charles Dickens - Churchill

20. Which Derbyshire market town is associated with an almond flavoured tart or pudding? - Bakewell - Bruv

[Churchill]

5. perspex

[Bernie]

1. four

[Bruv]

16 Gulliver

[poppy]

3, picadores

[shillelagh]

2. Every 10 years

[S.J]

wow i had to look twice at this thread, i thought it was about something else


11 - Dennis Waterman

[Churchill]

19. Charles Dickens

BTW number 9 can't be right, University of Bologna and Oxford are the two oldest in Europe still in existence. Im sure the French would have us believe otherwise, but there you go.

[jaysay]

15 One Richard Turpin, bette known to his friends as Dick

[Bruv]

19....Charles Dickens