I don’t have anything else to tell you… so let’s get on with it!

Questions we missed:

1. Name the two students who won the 2012 BT Young Scientist & Technology Award last week. A> Eric Doyle and Mark Kelly
2. What is the largest lake in Great Britain? A> Loch Lomond
3. Who played Louise in the movie Thelma & Louise? A> Susan Sarandon
4. Which is Japan’s second-largest city? A> Osaka *
5. Which river forms part of the border between England and Scotland? A> Tweed
6. The space shuttle programme came to an end in July 2011. Which shuttle completed that final flight? A> Atlantis
7. Who was the first Irish person to win the Noble Prize for Literature? A> William Butler Yeats
8. What is the fourth largest country in the world, both in terms of area and population? A> USA **
9. What is the name of the second-highest peak in the Alps? A> Monte Rosa
10. What is the name for a female ferret? A> Jill
11. Who played the Toymaker in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? A> Benny Hill
12. What flag is traditionally flown by a ship that is about to leave port? A> Blue Peter
13. Rickets is caused by a deficiency of which vitamin? A> D

Picture round (click to embiggen):

1. Linda Martin
2. Gary Lineker
3. Hector Ó hEochagáin
4. Bridie Gallagher
5. Davina McCall
6. John O’Donoghue
7. Justin Bieber
8. Courteney Cox
9. Seán Lemass
10. Anthony Worral Thompson
11. Arthur Griffith
12. Kate Middleton ***

Moving swiftly on, I’ll have another post up later details my plans for the site for the coming year.  Stay tuned!

Footnotes:

* A tricky one as Tokyo hasn’t officially been a city since 1943.  It has a special status: metropolis.

** There’s some contention here over the size by area list.  Both USA and China claim third place!

*** The Duchess of Cambridge was also accepted!

Not so on Tuesday night last, when I attended the weekly quiz night in Gilligan’s, Claremorris.  Question 1 it was.  The very first of what would turn out to be 104 questions.  I doubt anyone in the room got it right.  That said, the team whose answers we were marking did manage to get the first names right so perhaps I’m being quick to judge.

After that, things got considerably easier.  The winning team’s final score of 92 points making this pretty clear.  My team trailed in second, on 88.

Have a look at the questions we did miss:

1. Name the two students who won the 2012 BT Young Scientist & Technology Award last week.
2. What is the largest lake in Great Britain?
3. Who played Louise in the movie Thelma & Louise? *
4. Which is Japan’s second-largest city? **
5. Which river forms part of the border between England and Scotland?
6. The space shuttle programme came to an end in July 2011. Which shuttle completed that final flight?
7. Who was the first Irish person to win the Noble Prize for Literature? ***
8. What is the fourth largest country in the world, both in terms of area and population?
9. What is the name of the second-highest peak in the Alps?
10. What is the name for a female ferret?
11. Who played the Toymaker in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
12. What flag is traditionally flown by a ship that is about to leave port?
13. Rickets is caused by a deficiency of which vitamin?

Picture round (click to embiggen):

Alright, off ye go.

Update: answers here.

Footnotes:

* A 50/50 question we managed to get wrong.

** Watch out for this one. It’s finicky.

*** See footnote 1!

I’d like to tell you about one more unpleasant thing that happened at this quiz.

A member of a team who are, apparently, in the hunt for victory each year in this quiz copped on pretty early that we were a serious team.  This chap got in to the habit of coming by our table after each round to see how we’d got on.  We were sitting near the bar so I guess he could claim that he was (always) just on his way up for a drink but we thought his intention was clear enough – he was worried about how well we were doing.

Now, whenever I’m doing a quiz I tend to put my phone out on the table.  I don’t think there’s any need to deny that I own a phone.  Also, I’m not doing anything surreptitious with it, so what have I got to hide?  At the midway interval, your man came over to see how we’d got on with the previous round.  We told him we’d definitely missed the Italian scorer in the Premier League question below.  “Are ye sure?” he asked. “Yeah, we’ve just looked up the answer on the phone,” we told him*. He did a very dramatic ‘Tut, tut’ thing and moved on.

Anyway, so what, you’re asking.

Well, after the picture round, when we weren’t at our most ebulient, he arrives over to see how we’ve done.

“We’re out of it” we tell him. “We only got seven of them.”

“Seven?!” he said, his tone indicating that they’d done much better.  “Well, I guess ye couldn’t look them up on the phone.”

What. A. P&:<k.

Here are the answers to the picture round:

1. Marco Pantani
2. Tony Pulis
3. George Berry
4. Sid Waddell
5. Alain Roland
6. Craig Johnstone
7. Gavin Dykes
8. Roberto Mancini
9. Arsene Wenger
10. Jim McGuinness
11. Richie Burnett
12. Manuela Spinelli **
13. A Claremorris runner ***
14. Pete Warren
15. Michael Robinson
16. Henry Coyle
17. Wes Hoolahan
18. Davy Keogh (on right)

Here are the answers to the few questions I can remember:

1. Which former Olympian is now a senator? A> Eamonn Coghlan
2. The battle of Tel-el-Kebir in 1882 gave its name to which Leinster Senior League football team? A> TEK United
3. Name the only Italian player to score for five different English Premier League clubs. A> Benito Carbone
4. Who is the current Chairman of the Galway GAA county board? A> Noel Treacy
5. Kevin O’Brien set a new world record for the fastest 1-day century in Ireland’s victory over England in the Cricket World Cup last year.  How many balls did it take him to reach 100 runs? A> 50
6. Footballer Kevin Cassidy was asked to leave the Donegal panel after the publication of which book? A> This is our year
7. Name the four runners who set the world record for the 4 x 1 mile relay in Dublin on August 17, 1985. A> Eamonn Coghlan, Marcus O’Sullivan, Ray Flynn and Frank O’Meara

If you like your sport, you’ll have enjoyed that challenge.  If you don’t, well fear not, there won’t be another all-sport quiz for a long time.

Footnotes:

* Which surely proves that we hadn’t looked it up on the phone during the round. We’d have gotten it right if so.

** This is Giovanni Trapattoni’s translator, in case you’re baffled.

*** Apologies to this lady.  As I said the other day, I’ve lost my notes since the quiz.

And so it was, at the annual Claremorris AFC Sports Quiz, which took place in the Dalton Inn on the Wednesday before Christmas.  RTÉ’s Martin Carney was the host, for reasons I couldn’t fathom.  He added a little glamour to the whole occasion I guess!

It was my first time taking part in the event but I’d heard great things about it.  The questions were said to be of a very hard standard with a great variety of sporting knowledge needed to prosper.  So, being in contention throughout the night before hitting the front after round 8 would be something to be thrilled about, surely?

In quizzing, as in sport, how a result arrives dominates the memory of the result itself. Who’s more happy with a 2-2 draw – the team that lead 2-0 or the team that pulled back the two goal deficit? Yet, they both finished with the same result, didn’t they?

Alas, from such a great position, we didn’t even get a draw. Our downfall was round 9, the evening’s sole picture round. It was a bad round to struggle on. For a start, it (strangely) featured 18 pictures whereas the other rounds had all included 10 questions.  We performed terribly, and only scored 7 out of 18.

Your only hope after such a pitiful score is that everyone else found it just as hard.  Alas, that was not the case.  A couple of teams scored 15 and there were several more above 12 points.  So, when the scores were called out after round 9, we weren’t even mentioned!

Here’s that particular picture round:

I’m afraid I’ve lost my notes with the other questions we missed.  However, we missed so few, to be honest, that I think I can remember most of them.

1. Which former Olympian is now a senator?
2. The battle of Tel-el-Kebir in 1882 gave its name to which Leinster Senior League football team?
3. Name the only Italian player to score for five different English Premier League clubs.
4. Who is the current Chairman of the Galway GAA county board?
5. Kevin O’Brien set a new world record for the fastest 1-day century in Ireland’s victory over England in the Cricket World Cup last year.  How many balls did it take him to reach 100 runs?
6. Footballer Kevin Cassidy was asked to leave the Donegal panel after the publication of which book?
7. Name the four runners who set the world record for the 4 x 1 mile relay in Dublin on August 17, 1985.

There are only about three or four other questions.  That’s how well we did, aside from the picture round. Oh well.

Update: answers here.

I’ll be back later today with a post about a very tough quizzing experience I had last night.

In the meantime, click on the Continue Reading… for the answers.

Answers:

1. What is the name of Sinead O’Connor’s new husband? A> Barry Herridge
2. Who was the first woman to be granted the freedom of Galway city? A> Hillary Clinton
3. Who is in charge of the inquiry into the RTÉ programme which libeled Fr Reynolds. A> John Horgan
4. Which former Eurovision winner was paired with Brendan Cole on Strictly Come Dancing? A> Lulu
5. What was the name of the first widely produced camera? A>Box
6. A tradition in Germany at Christmas, what is Stollen? A> Cake
7. Which 1952 Christmas hit, sung by Jimmy Boyd, was banned by the Catholic Church in Boston? A>I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus
8. Which is the last European nation to still own territory on mainland South America? A>France
9. Six of the ‘deadly’ sins are:  lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, envy and pride.  Name the remaining one. A> Wrath
10. Which Mexican plant is known as the ‘Flower of the Holy Night’? A>Poinsettia

Christmas Carols (a la crossword clues):

1. Loyal followers’ advance (1,4,3,2,8) A> O come all ye faithful
2. Bleached Yule (5,8) A> White Christmas
3. Far off in a feeder (4,2,1,6) A> Away in a Manger
4. Monarchial Triad (2,5,5) A> We three kings
5. Nocturnal noiselessness (6,5) A> Silent night
6. Frozen precipitation commence (3,2,4) A> Let it snow
7. Delight for the planet (3,2,3,5) A> Joy to the world
8. Give attention to the melodius celestial beings (4,3,6,6,4) A> Hark the Herald Angels sing
9. Array the corridor (4,3,5) A> Deck the halls
10. Red man en route to Borough (5,5,2,6,2,4) A> Santa Claus is coming to town
11. The dozen festive 24 hour intervals (3,6,4,2,8) A> The twelve days of Christmas

Pictures:

1. Roy Keane
2. Simon Cowell
3. Heather Mills
4. Yasser Arafat
5. John Terry
6. Rio Ferdinand
7. Jessica Wallace
8. Brad Pitt
9. Maria Sharapova
10. Renée Zellwegger
11. Lenin
12. John Cleese

Ho, ho, ho etc.

The final quiz of 2011 took place in Gilligan’s, Claremorris, on Tuesday last and, fittingly, it was Christmas themed.

The picture round featured 12 “santas”, there was a round in which we had to name the carols which matched the cryptic clues and we had a round in which the questions were nothing to do with Christmas but the answers were homonyms of things that were.  It was very well done.

I was on the same team for the second week in a row.  That’s right, even though the tables are pulled from a hat, we three (kings) managed to end up together once again.  Thankfully, while we hadn’t been anywhere near winning last week, this time we managed to take home the final prize of the year.

It turns out we know a lot about Christmas.

Here are the questions we missed:

1. What is the name of Sinead O’Connor’s new husband?
2. Who was the first woman to be granted the freedom of Galway city?
3. Name the judge who is in charge of the inquiry into the RTÉ programme which libeled Fr Reynolds.
4. Which former Eurovision winner was paired with Brendan Cole on Strictly Come Dancing?
5. What was the name of the first widely produced camera?
6. A tradition in Germany at Christmas, what is Stollen?
7. Which 1952 Christmas hit, sung by Jimmy Boyd, was banned by the Catholic Church in Boston?
8. Which is the last European nation to still own territory on mainland South America?
9. Six of the ‘deadly’ sins are:  lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, envy and pride.  Name the remaining one.
10. Which Mexican plant is known as the ‘Flower of the Holy Night’?

Here’s a round on Christmas Carols (a la crossword clues):

1. Loyal followers’ advance (1,4,3,2,8)
2. Bleached Yule (5,8)
3. Far off in a feeder (4,2,1,6)
4. Monarchial Triad (2,5,5)
5. Nocturnal noiselessness (6,5)
6. Frozen precipitation commence (3,2,4)
7. Delight for the planet (3,2,3,5)
8. Give attention to the melodius celestial beings (4,3,6,6,4)
9. Array the corridor (4,3,5)
10. Red man en route to Borough (5,5,2,6,2,4)
11. The dozen festive 24 hour intervals (3,6,4,2,8)

Picture round **:

Answers coming soon.  Before Christmas at least!

Footnotes:

* This was my fourth quiz since I last posted. However, I’m putting it up today as it’s at the top of my brain, if you know what I mean.

** Look very closely and you may see a clue for #6.

Anyway, let’s move on.  Click the continue to see the answers.

Answers:

1. How many yellow roses featured in the title of Bobby Darin’s 1962 hit? A> 18
2. How many trombones feature in the 1957 song by Meredith Wilson? A> 76
3. How many miles of bad road featured in Duane Eddy’s 1959 hit song? A> 40
4. What numbers were involved in Manfred Mann’s 1964 No. 5 hit record? A> 5-4-3-2-1
5. What is the name of the new book by Claremorris historian and author M.J. Reidy? A> The River Robe
6. The Road to ’51, a new book about the history of Mayo Gaelic Football was released recently. Who is it by? A> James Laffey
7. What is the name of the former Senator and Dáil candidate who was recently appointed a District Judge in Westport? A> Patrick Durcan
8. What was the name of the famous band leader who died in October of this year? A> Edmundo Ros
9. What is the proper name for the so-called ‘wild rhubarb’ which is rampant on Achill Island? A> Gunnera Tinctoria
10. Name the Kilkenny hurling captain who scored the winning point in the 1957 All-Ireland senior hurling final. A> Mickey Kelly
11. Which horse was a surprise winner of the Prix de l’Arch de Triomphe earlier this year? A> Danedream
12. What was the final score in the 2011 Solheim Cup? A> 15 – 13 (to Europe)
13. Name the Mayo TD who topped the poll in the Dublin Mid-West constituency? A> Joanna Tuffy
14. Name the Mayo TD who topped the poll in the Dublin North constituency? A> James Reilly
15. Peadar Ó Ceallaigh, a candidate in Dublin South-East, holds what distinction in the 2011 General Election? A> He received 18 votes, the lowest in the country.*
16. Name both (for a point each) of the two outgoing Fine Gael TDs who lost their seats in the 2011 General Election. A> Deirdre Clune and Tom Sheahan (and Michael D’Arcy**)
17. To the nearest thousand, how many votes did Enda Kenny receive in the by-election which brought him in to the Dáil in 1975? A> 15,000
18. Name all five (for a point each, bonus for all) of the remaining communist countries. A> China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Laos
19. Name all three (point each + bonus) of the Pakistani cricketers who were convicted of match-fixing this year. A> Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir
20. Which pretender to the English throne attempted to rise up and defeat Henry VII before being defeated and executed? A> Perkin Warbeck ***
21. From which Shakespeare play do the lines “If music be the food of love, play on…” come? A> Twelfth Night

Pictures 1:

1. Kevin Cardiff
2. William Shatner
3. Wes Hoolahan
4. Seal (Samuel)
5. Rachel Allen
6. Tulisa (Contostavlos)
7. Deirdre Ryan
8. Frances Fitzgerald

Pictures 2:

1. Sideshow Bob
2. Fievel (Mouskewitz)
3. Marvin the Martian
4. Dora (the Explorer)
5. Handy Manny
6. Smurfette
7. Brian (Griffin)
8. Shaggy, Scrappy and Scooby Doo

Apologies for the delay.  I hope the extra time allowed you to get them all correct!

Footnotes:

* That said, I notice he only got nine less than the candidate above him!

** In spite of the way the question was phrased, it turns out that three Fine Gael TDs lost their seats.

*** Harrumph. I had this chap’s name written down before changing it.

This week’s quizmaster was Mick, my recent team-mate on a couple of successful outings.  He produced a quiz to savour with questions coming from all angles and obscure locations. He opened up with a round featuring songs with numbers in the title. Let me tell you, not alone had I not heard of some of the songs involved, but, in two or three of them, I’d never heard of the artist either!

That set the tone. A couple of rounds were played out to a soundtrack of audible groans from the crowd but, after Bruges and this week’s discussion on difficulty, I found it very entertaining.  Why do we quiz if not to be challenged?

My favourite was a round on Shakespeare.  Yes, we all know “Forsooth I know not why I am so sad…” but do you know what play it’s from? And which character said it? It turned out that I did, although it was an educated guess.

My team finished second on 83, behind the winners’ 91.  These weren’t out of 100 though.  Several of the rounds had 11 questions, many of them had multi-part answers (worth a point each and a bonus awarded to any team who got all) and the picture round had 22. Truth be told, I don’t know what the potential full score was!

Anyway, here are some questions we got wrong *:

1. How many yellow roses featured in the title of Bobby Darin’s 1962 hit?
2. How many trombones feature in the 1957 song by Meredith Wilson?
3. How many miles of bad road featured in Duane Eddy’s 1959 hit song?
4. What numbers were involved in Manfred Mann’s 1964 No. 5 hit record?
5. What is the name of the new book by Claremorris historian and author M.J. Reidy?
6. The Road to ’51, a new book about the history of Mayo Gaelic Football was released recently. Who is it by?
7. What is the name of the former Senator and Dáil candidate who was recently appointed a District Judge in Westport?
8. What was the name of the famous band leader who died in October of this year?
9. What is the proper name for the so-called ‘wild rhubarb’ which is rampant on Achill Island?
10. Name the Kilkenny hurling captain who scored the winning point in the 1957 All-Ireland senior hurling final.
11. Which horse was a surprise winner of the Prix de l’Arch de Triomphe earlier this year?
12. What was the final score in the 2011 Solheim Cup?
13. Name the Mayo TD who topped the poll in the Dublin Mid-West constituency?
14. Name the Mayo TD who topped the poll in the Dublin North constituency?
15. Peadar Ó Ceallaigh, a candidate in Dublin South-East, holds what distinction in the 2011 General Election?
16. Name both (for a point each) of the two outgoing Fine Gael TDs who lost their seats in the 2011 General Election.
17. To the nearest thousand, how many votes did Enda Kenny receive in the by-election which brought him in to the Dáil in 1975?
18. Name all five (for a point each, bonus for all) of the remaining communist countries. **
19. Name all three (point each + bonus) of the Pakistani cricketers who were convicted of match-fixing this year.
20. Which pretender to the English throne attempted to rise up and defeat Henry VII before being defeated and executed?
21. From which Shakespeare play do the lines “If music be the food of love, play on…” come?

My scanner’s on the blink so I don’t have the picture round for you.  I do have some pictures I did myself for a quiz last Friday night in The Dalton Inn.

Pictures 1:

Pictures 2:

Okey doke. Give them all a go.  Answers tomorrow.

PS If you’re anywhere near the internet this evening, listen in to www.claremorriscommunityradio.ie for After the Fact, from 7-8pm. This week it’s all about people called John.

Update: answers here (finally!).

Footnotes:

* All that I managed to jot down!

** We got these but I thought you’d like the challenge.

*** I know we missed three in the Shakespeare round but I didn’t get the others noted, unfortunately.

I’m on quiz master duty again on Friday evening.  If you’re anywhere in the vicinity, please come on in to The Dalton Inn, Claremorris, for a quiz in aid of Claremorris Community Radio.  Kick-off is scheduled for 8.30pm, tables of four are €40 and all are welcome!

Right, let’s get on to those answers.

Questions from Ballina:

1. Mount Leinster is located in which mountain range? A> Blackstairs
2. The Bellawaddy river flows through which Sligo town? A> Enniscrone
3. List the colours on the Google logo. A> Red, green, blue and yellow *
4. Who won the Best Female award at the recent MTV Europe Music Awards in Belfast? A> Lady Gaga

Slogans (identify the product):

1. Because I’m worth it A> L’Oréal
2. Every little helps A> Tesco
3. Does exactly what it says on the tin A> Ronseal
4. Perfect every time A> Uncle Ben’s
5. Fuel your day A> Weetabix
6. Cleans deep down dirty A> Daz
7. Connecting people A> Nokia
8. I’m lovin’ it A> McDonald’s
9. Just do it A> Nike
10. Obey your thirst A> Sprite
11. The taste of paradise A> Bounty
12. The best a man can get A> Gillette
13. Made to make your mouth water A> Starburst **
14. Do you lick the lid of life? A> Müller
15. Before you make up your mind – open it A> Irish Independent

Irish towns (anagrams thereof):

1. Gull in ram A> Mullingar
2. All rue Tom A> Tullamore
3. Drip won tack A> Downpatrick
4. Umbro hands A> Drumshambo
5. A wad my nun A> Dunmanway
6. Solo pirate A> Portlaoise
7. Elk entry net A> Letterkenny
8. N cows L heart A> Charlestown
9. Navan drug A> Dungarvan
10. Inches no try A> Enniscorthy

Picture round:

1. Katy Perry
2. Justin Bieber
3. Yoko Ono
4. Nicolas Sarkozy
5. George Clooney
6. Sarah Palin
7. Jude Law
8. Chris Martin
9. Brittney Spears
10. Frankie Dettori
11. Eddie Murphy
12. Marian Finucane
13. Mick Wallace
14. Bill Cullen
15. Cheryl Cole
16. Paul O’Connell
17. Nancy Dell’Olio
18. George Michael
19. Ronan O’Gara
20. Beyoncé Knowles

Questions from Gilligan’s:

1. What do the letters OFM stand for, after the name of a Franciscan brother? A> Ordo Fratrum Minorum (Order of Friars Minor)
2. What unit is used to measure silk and nylon? A> Denier
3. What is the holy book of the Hindu religion? A> The Vedas
4. What is the collective noun for a group of marching horses? A> Cavalcade
5. In which city is the headquarters of OPEC? A> Vienna
6. In the manufacture of what does one use a Pugmill? A> Pottery

That was a bit more work than I intended.  As I’d failed to note down the answers to the town name anagrams, I ended up having to work them all out again!

Hope you enjoyed them.

Footnotes:

* If asked this again, I will endevour to remember it as the crowd at a Roscommon v Mayo football match.

** Opal Fruits, says I.

If only I had read the full title...

I have been very busy this past week and unable to come to the blog.  However, this does mean that today I have a bumper, two-for-one blog for you.

Starting last Thursday, I’ve quizzed twice in the past week and, I’m happy to say, ended up on the winning team both times.  The first of those was in The Loft Bar, in Ballina.  Ger was the svengali behind this excursion, rounding up Pat and Mick, two of the regulars, at Gilligan’s the previous Tuesday night.  Once there, we performed like a wonder team – even more than the sum of our parts – and won out by four points.  It’s not often you get to score over 100 points in an Irish quiz so our 107/115 was something to savour.  That said, the runners-up must have felt hard done by – they scored 103!

This quiz, which was in aid of Croí, featured three handouts, only one of which was a picture round.  The other two were quite clever: Famous slogans and Anagrams of Irish towns.  I’ve included them both below.  One the whole the quiz was very well organised. We did suffer at the hand of some very pedantic marking though when we weren’t awarded the point for identifying Joe Frazier’s nickname correctly. What we wrote down: Smokin’. What they wanted: Smokin’ Joe. Even a trip to the correctors’ table by one of the guys didn’t result in any flexibility. Ah well, luckily it didn’t matter.

I hadn’t been to Gilligan’s on that previous Tuesday. My head needed some time to recover from Bruges.  By all accounts it was a dramatic night with Ger’s team eventually winning on the sixth, sudden-death, playoff question. This Tuesday night my team-mates Mick (the same man as above) and Aidan ensured that the crowd would have no such drama – we scored 92/100 and won by three.

Questions from Ballina:

1. Mount Leinster is located in which mountain range?
2. The Bellawaddy river flows through which Sligo town?
3. List the colours on the Google logo.
4. Who won the Best Female award at the recent MTV Europe music awards in Belfast?

Slogans (identify the product):

1. Because I’m worth it
2. Every little helps
3. Does exactly what it says on the tin
4. Perfect every time
5. Fuel your day
6. Cleans deep down dirty
7. Connecting people
8. I’m lovin’ it
9. Just do it
10. Obey your thirst
11. The taste of paradise
12. The best a man can get
13. Made to make your mouth water
14. Do you lick the lid of life?
15. Before you make up your mind – open it

Irish towns (anagrams thereof):

1. Gull in ram
2. All rue Tom
3. Drip won tack
4. Umbro hands
5. A wad my nun
6. Solo pirate
7. Elk entry net
8. N cows L heart
9. Navan drug
10. Inches no try

Picture round (click to embiggen):

Questions from Gilligan’s:

1. What do the letters OFM stand for, after the name of a Franciscan brother?
2. What unit is used to measure silk and nylon?
3. What is the holy book of the Hindu religion?
4. What is the collective noun for a group of marching horses?
5. In which city is the headquarters of OPEC?
6. In the manufacture of what does one use a Pugmill?

Hopefully these will keep you thinking for a day or so.  Until then…

Update: answers here.