Roll up, roll up. Quiz Nite, Wednesday 6th mat, 2100 o'clock (UK time).

Usual rules: best-dressed couple; dog most like its owner; best bodywork; contestant the judge would most like to take home; etc, etc. Prizes in all categories with cups and rosettes to Third Place.

There will be spot prizes for dramatic interpretation and congeniality.

40 questions: 15 general knowlege, 15 Great War, 10 military history (other).

Ska will appear, as will Libya, the number 17, Haig and Barry Fry.

Actually, one of those will appear twice.

Be there, daddyo.

(PS - bring your own drinks, but twiglets, fig rolls and Bath Olivers will be provided)

Fig Rolls?
At a quiz?
I shall need a number of Kwaks to anaesthetise me from the odour.......

Bruce

For a fig roll I will make an appearance.

Can't promise I will be able to answer much, but I will make a bid for the spot prize for dramatic interpretation.

I shall be there.
However I am not sure whether I still have a negative balance.

Excellent! I was hoping there'd be one tomorrow!

6AM Canberra time Yer gotta be joking Broomers
David

Don't they make alarms clocks in Oz, David?

Keith

Many thanks for another excellent quiz.

Regards,
AGWR

Well done, Steve, for a fine quiz, and Andrew for winning so convincingly!

And here (for those who missed them) are the questions:

1. Ole Man River - which musical?
2. How many names on the Tyne Cot Memorial (to the nearest 500)?
3. Name of the first Marathon runner (correct spelling)
4. Which organ removes excess salt from the blood?
5. (Four points available) The numbers of the four London Territorial Divisions
6. In which city was The Titanic built?
7. Which Great War general's son was in Colditz in WW2?
8. KuK refers to the military forces of which combatant country?
9. Together through Life - number 1 album by whom?
10. Name of the German commander at Stalingrad
11. Acrophobia is the fear of ...?
12. Cyrenaica is a province of which country?
13. C in C of Fighter Command in The Battle of Britain?
14. Who helped Ron Atkinson in the Big Ron Manager Sky TV show?
15. Whom did Kitchener succeed as C in C in the Boer War?
16. 1998 Eurovision winner, Dana International, came from which country?
17. Dafadar Gobind Singh won a VC at Cambrai, serving with which regiment?
18. C in C of the BEF in 1939
19. Jagdverband 44 were equipped with which aeroplane in 1945?
20. The war the Infantry Knew is the story of which battalion?

Short break

21. Who commanded the Light Brigade in the Crimea?
22. On a weather map, what is signified by a solid line with triangles on?
23. The Bois de Foureaux is better known as ...?
24. Which battalion of the West Yorkshire regiment were the Leeds Bantam battalion
25. The Coventry Automatics became better known as which Ska band?
26. The Battle of Coronel took place on 1.11.14, off the coast of which country?
27. The 50th State of the Union?
28. Many Indian regiments contained the letters FF in their title. What did it mean?
29. Lead singer of Altered Images
30. The oldest established Scotch whiskey distillery
31. In which battle were the French comprehensively defeated between March and May, 1954?
32. Gravelotte was the largest battle in which war?
33. Who played Q in 17 Bond movies?
34. How many A7V tanks were delivered?
35. The author of Little Women
36. The 1916 Russian offensive was named after its commander. Who?
37. The Black Flight of naval 10 Squadron became famous flying which Sopwith aeroplane?
38. The Fusil-Mitrailleur Mle 1915 CSRG was known as ...?
39. The British 74th Infantry Division was formed from what troops?
40. (Lots of points) name the top-scoring fighter aces from Great Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Canada, Australia, South Africa and the USA.

Answers:

1. Showboat
2. 34,864
3. Pheiddipides
4. Kidneys
5. 47th, 56th, 58th, 60th
6. Belfast
7. Haig
8. Austro-Hungary
9. Bob Dylan
10. von Paulus
11. Heights
12. LIBYA!
13. Hugh Dowding
14. Barry Fry
15. 'Bobs' Roberst
16. Israel
17. 2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse)
18. Viscount Gort, VC
19. Me 262 (jet fighter)
20. 2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers

21. Cardigan
22. A cold front
23. High Wood
24. 17th
25. Specials AKA
26. Chile
27. Hawaii
28. Frontier Force
29. Claire Grogan
30. Haig
31. Dien Bien Phu
32. Franco-Prussian 1870/71
33. Desmond Llewellyn
34. 20
35. Louisa May Alcott
36. Brusilov
37. Triplane (Tripehound)
38. Chauchat
39. Dismounted Yeomanry
40. Mannock, Fonck, Coppens, Richtofen, Bishop, Little, Bauchamp-Proctor, Rickenbacker
37.