Michael D. "Stew" Stewart

Questions

1. What is the third sign of the Zodiac?
2. With Which Band Did Wyclef Jean & Lauryn Hill First Make Their Name?
3. The World Trade Organization was founded in 1995 in which European city?
4. What Part Of The Body Does Thoracic Medicine Deal With?
5. What does blind Swiss cheese not have?

Answers

1. Gemini
2. The Fugees
3. Geneva (replacing GATT – the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade established in 1947)
4. The Chest
5. Holes (Not Glasses)

Which U.S. interstate highway is the longest?

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 ANSWER: (I-90, which stretches 3,099 miles from Boston, Massachusetts, to Seattle, Washington.)

QUESTIONS

1. Which mountain system is sometimes referred to as “The backbone of England”?
2. In which city’s harbour would you find the statue of The Little Mermaid?
3. How many of the whole numbers from 1 to 100 are either divisible by 7 or include a 7 in their digits?
4. What was Klaus Barbie’s nickname
5. In cycle racing, what is a ‘sag wagon’?

ANSWERS

1. Pennines
2. Copenhagen
3. 30 OF THEM: 7/14/21/28/35/42/49/56/63/70/77/84/91/98// 71/72/73/74/75/76/78/79// 17/27/37/47/57/67/87/97
   
4. The butcher of Lyon
5. Vehicles to pick up cyclists who have dropped out

QUESTIONS

1. Why is titanium used in the production of aircraft parts?
2. In which year did the following events take place, Richard Nixon died at the age of 81, Tony Blair was elected leader of the British Labour Party and Nick Price won the British Open Golf Title.
3. What is heartsease?
4. Which musical is based on ‘The Taming of the Shrew’?
5. Which adhesive musical groups name stems from the Greek word meaning ‘to hate’?

ANSWERS

1. It is very highly corrosion-resistant
2. 1994
3. A flower. Viola Tricolour or love-in idleness, kiss-me-quick or pansy.
4. Kiss me Kate
5. Styx. In mythology Styx is the ‘river of hate’.

QUESTIONS

1. “Be he alive or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread” Who’s bones?
2. Who released the following cult albums from the 1950’s:
   a. Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
   b. Birth of the Cool
   c. Songs for Swingin Lovers
   d. Brilliant Corners
3. Name the three types of rocks?
4. Who were the only 3 men to beat Joe Louis?
5. Which American jockey was nicknamed ‘the shoe’?

ANSWERS

1.     Jack’s.  From Jack and the beanstalk. “Fe Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he alive, or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread”

1. Four Answers
   a. Marty Robbins
   b. Miles Davis
   c. Frank Sinatra
   d. Thelonious Monk
2.  metamorphic, sedimentary or igneous
3. Max Scmeling, Ezzard Charles and Rocky Marciano
4. Willie shoemaker

Questions

1. Which metal is also known as quicksilver?
2. What term is used to denote extremely quiet?
3. In which ocean are the Maldives?
4. Which tennis player was nicknamed “The Ice Maiden”?
5. Which animal was the symbol for the raids carried out by the revolutionary Pancho Villa and his followers?

ANSWERS

1. Mercury
2. Sotto Voce
3. Indian Ocean
4. Chris Evert
5. La Cucaracha,  La Cucaracha (cockroach)

1. What does a chrome-dome have a shortage of?

2. In mediaeval times, what was an Iron Maiden used for?

3. What used to be called the apple of love or love apple?

4. Which river flows into the Dead Sea?

5. Which famous Jazz club is the subject of a 1984 Francis Ford Coppola film?

ANSWERS

1. Hair
2. Torturing
3. the tomato
4. River Jordan
5. The Cotton Club

What three-letter word has the greatest number of definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary?

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ANSWER: ( Set, with 464 definitions.)

QUESTIONS

1. Although it was nowhere near the water, the name of which extremely popular US TV series from the 1960s meant “calm sea”?
2. Who went down to Hades to rescue his wife Eurydice?
3. Name the captain of the following ships.
   a. Caine
   b. African Queen
   c. Pequod
   d. H.M.S. Hotspur
4. What was the name of the Cuban President over thrown by Fidel Castro in 1959?
5. In the 70s, astronomers had evaluated the number of existing stars at 10 and how many following zeros? (to 2 either way)

ANSWERS

1. Bonanza: Americanisation of the Spanish Bonacia, from Medieval Latin bonacia, calm sea, blend of Latin bonus, good, and Medieval Latin malacia, calm sea (from Greek malakiā, soft)
2. Orpheus
3. Four Answers:
   a. Queeg
   b. Allnut
   c. Ahab
   d. Hornblower
4. General Fulgencia Batista
5. 19 zeros (10 to the power of 20 to be precise)

QUESTIONS

1. Name the character and actor in Goldfinger who was an Olympic silver medal winner in weightlifting?
2. What did God create on the fourth day?
3. What kind of vessel was the cutty sark?
4. What was frontierswoman Martha Burke better known as?
5. How many yards are there in a mile?

ANSWERS

1.   Oddjob (Harald Sakata, 1948)

2. Sun & the Moon

3. A tea clipper

4. Calamity Jane

5. 1760