Quiztime

Backtrack to Sunday evening. One member of The Great Quiz Trio is on holiday in Skegness - on the Lincolnshire coast but I am up at "The Hammer and Pincers" with a pint of "Stones" waiting for Mike to arrive. I have already paid for his pint of "Moonshine" - brewed in Sheffield at The Abbeydale Brewery.

Mike is a lovely man to know and a good friend. By the way - that's him in the header picture. In recent years, he has been battling the various consequences of a fairly rare condition called myasthenia gravis. He has faced it with admirable fortitude and good humour, fighting to maintain his happy, "normal" life and interests instead of allowing the erosive condition to enslave and define him.

It was nice to spend some one-on-one time with him as we tackled the weekly quiz which, by the way, we narrowly won. Me and him, we know some stuff - and if we don't know things for sure, we often have great hunches. Our other team member - Mick - helps us out with pop music, dates and  film knowledge - specialising in James Bond and "Starwars" which I know almost nothing about. We make a great team with my speciality being geographical knowledge and Mike being particularly good with history questions and anagrams.

Anyway, I brought my winning quiz sheet home on Sunday with the full intention of putting ten of the questions to you and others who both inhabit the blogosphere and quite like quizzing. Here we go...

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1. Which airline's first transatlantic service began in June 1984 connecting London Gatwick with Newark NJ?

2. What is the job title of someone who shoes horses?

3. Which T.O.V. marked the formal end of World War One?

4. The Beach Boys only had two number one hit singles in Great Britain. Name one of them.

5. In home brewing what is the other common name for the large glass container often called a "carboy"?

6. What is the bulbous fruit that Greek cooks slice and layer when they are preparing  dishes of moussaka?

7. Which cartoon character had nephews called Huey, Dewey and Louie?

8. ANAGRAM. This is a well-known newspaper:-

HETERO VERBS

9. Which fast food chain now has more outlets across the world than McDonalds?

10. In 1940, the evacuation of which French seaside town was being referred to when using the codename "Operation Dynamo"?

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