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QUIZ 128 – Games

      1 Which game used to be known as “housey housey”?

      2 The highest hand in poker is what kind of flush?

      3 Which chess piece can only move diagonally?

      4 Which Algarve city has the same name as a card game?

      5 What is the American name for the board-game draughts?

      6 How many weapons are there in Cluedo®?

      7 Which game is played on a board with 24 narrow triangles?

      8 A board and pegs are traditionally used to keep score in which card game?

      9 Which board game takes its name from the Latin for “I play”?

      10 What colour are the history questions in Trivial Pursuit™?

      11 What is the cheapest property on a standard Monopoly™ board?

      12 Which card game shares its name with a type of bridge?

      13 Squidgers are used in which indoor game?

      14 Which children’s card game traditionally includes Mr Bun the Baker?

      15 In solo whist, what is a call of nine tricks?

      16 What is the highest-ranking suit of cards in a game of bridge?

      17 Which gambling game has a French name meaning “small wheel”?

      18 The Pokémon™ Pikachu is what colour?

      19 In which decade was Pictionary^® first published?

      20 In which game do players act out the titles of films, books etc?

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QUIZ 129 – Pot Luck

      1 Who was the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo?

      2 Which singer had a hit with On a Night Like This in 2000?

      3 Which mound-building insect is also called the white ant?

      4 What type of food is focaccia?

      5 Which gas makes up about 21% of the earth’s atmosphere?

      6 Which actor starred as James Stevens in the 1993 film The Remains of the Day?

      7 Who wrote Lady Chatterley’s Lover?

      8 On which English river is Evesham situated?

      9 Which French word is applied to the design and making of clothes to customers’ requirements?

      10 What name is given to a vocal piece such as Nessun Dorma?

      11 According to legend, which lady rode naked through the streets of Coventry?

      12 Which international airport has the code MIA?

      13 Which wealthy industrialist was portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2004 film The Aviator?

      14 Which 20th-century word was coined to describe promotional copy for a book or film?

      15 How many “Tribes” took Frankie Goes to Hollywood to the top of the charts in 1984?

      16 Which ocean lies to the east of South Africa?

      17 What was the surname of Ralph Waldo, the American philosopher and poet?

      18 In which county is Weston-super-Mare?

      19 Which 1970s TV series starred John Thaw and Dennis Waterman?

      20 What is the common name for the tympanum?

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QUIZ 130 – Legal Dramas

      1 Stephen Fry played a solicitor in which series set in the fictional town of Market Shipborough?

      2 What was the first name of 1980s TV barrister Rumpole of the Bailey?

      3 Which actress played Patty Hewes in the series Damages?

      4 Which series starred Maxine Peake and Rupert Penry-Jones as barristers?

      5 Who played the title role in the series Judge John Deed?

      6 Who starred in the series New Street Law?

      7 Which long-running US series that started in 1990 shows a crime from both the police and the court perspective…?

      8 …and in the British version, who played DS Ronnie Brooks?

      9 Alicia Florrick is the title character in which series…?

      10 …and what is the title of the sequel series that began in 2017?

      11 What was the name of William Shatner’s character in the series Boston Legal?

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