.....against the odds.............

Finally got my meds this morning..............the pharmacist told me not to go to work........but I did....began to feel better around 1.00 p.m.

Quarter finals of the Knockout Quiz Cup tonight..............we had to give the opponents an 8 point start........Anne, Bob, Phil and myself made up the team.

The score went like this............
Opening score 8-0
Round 1 5-5 draw
Running score 13-8
Round 2 5-5 draw
Running score 18-10
Round 3 won 2-6
Running score 20 -16
Round 4....wiped out...lost 4-0
Half time score24-16
Round 5 lost 4-2
Running score 28-18
Round 6 won 2-13
Running score 30-31
Round 7 lost 6-5
Running score 36-36
Round 8 won 4-7
Final score 40-43.

We won by three points!

As you would expect some of the questions were mega difficult.

1. In which 1988 cartoon film did Bob Hoskins play a fictional detective?
2. Which European capital city is divided into 12 Rioni?
3. In which 1978 BBC Musical drama did Bob Hoskins play a fictional detective?
4. Which lexicographer was known as the Father of American scholarship and education?
5.What is the French term for Ready to wear?
6. In 1649 which famous Englishman became the Counsel for Foreign Tongs?
7. Which word from the Greek for Light and Birth was used to name a colourless gas used in WWI?
8. In 1713 the control of Gibraltar was ceded to Britain by which Treaty?
9. In Haiti a common phrase suggests that Haitians are 70% Catholic, 30% Protestant and 100% what?
10. In 1699 who became Master of the Royal Mint?
11.In 1842 control of Hong Kong was ceded to Britain by which treaty?
12. In 1954 which modern pagan religion was established in the U.K. by Gerald Gardner?
13. This year Kate Moss released her 15th Fashion collection for which brand?
14. Who wrote "The Entertainer" in 1957?
15. Which river is known in the native language of its country as the Tevere?
16. Which Australian animal has sub species called Agile, Red necked and Swamp?
17 In the acronym TASER what does the ER stand for?
18. In the acronym MASER what does the MA stand for?
19. Robert Lee Rossignol1884-1976 developed a process of pressurisation to synthesise which compound?
20. In 1894 an American chemist devised a process to extract which element from below quicksand?

Das vidanya moy padruga.




1. Who framed Roger Rabbit
2. Rome
3. Pennies from Heaven
4. Noah Webster
5. Pret a porter
6.John Milton
7. Phosgene
8. Uttrecht
9. Voodoo
10. Sir Isaac Newton
11. Nanking
12. Wicka
13. Top Shop
14.John Osborne
15. Tiber
16. Wallaby
17.(Thomas A. Swift) Electronic  Rifle
18. Microwave amplification (by Stimulated Emission of Radiation)
19.Ammonia
20. Sulphur