Week 1 - Answers

These are the answers to the Week 1 quiz. The numbers in brackets show how many people got the right answer and the percentage correct.

1. What license cost 37 pence when it was abolished in 1988? - Dog License (8 / 67%)
2. Which letters in Scrabble have a value of 2? (marks will be taken off for extra letters) - D & G (3.25 / 27%)
3. What are the young of eels called? - Elver (12 / 100%)
4. In which Olympics did Steve Redgrave win his first Olympic gold medal? - LA 1984(6 / 50%)
5. What was Commonwealth day called before 1958? - Empire Day(9 / 75%)
6. What word meaning a low pressure belt of surface winds at the equator, can mean a bout of emotional depression? - Doldrums (6 / 50%)
7. Who lives at 1313 Mockingbird Heights? - The Munsters (3 / 25%)
8. On TV, where would you find Chief Wiggum? - The Simpsons, Springfield (12 / 100%)
9. The Who had an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. What for? - Loudest Band (Happened in London 31st May 1976, 120Decibels and 50 yards) (6 / 50%)
10. Whats the next number in this series and why? 1, 2, 4, 6, 10 - 12 - Prime Numbers minus 1 (1 / 8.3%)
11. What are Mizaru, Mikazaru, and Mazaru? - The 3 wise Monkeys (see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil) (4 / 33%)
12. Which song does the following lyric come from? "Looking for something to help me burn out bright" - Foo Fighters, Learn to Fly (4 / 33%)
13. Which TV series run first run between 1983-1987 had actors George peppard and Dirk Benedict in it? - The A Team (10 / 83.3%)
14. What is the last word in the New Testament (English, Gideons version)? - Amen (6 / 50%)
15. Which element has the highest melting point? - Carbon (6 / 50%)