Friday 20 Question Quiz – 07/06/2024 Round 1: Alphabet - S 10 questions where each answer starts with the letter "S" and all answers are in ascending alphabetical order. None What, made from the dried stamens of cultivated crocus flowers, is the most expensive cooking spice? What Spanish surrealist modestly titled his 1965 book "Diary of a Genius"? Perhaps he should have chosen a different career... Admiral Horatio Nelson suffered from what common condition? Which hereditary form of anaemia largely affects people of sub-Saharan African descent? Which company was allegedly the purveyor of Vodka to the Imperial Russian Court from 1886 to 1917? Where do swallows go when they migrate from Britain in the Winter? What name is given to the opening in the exoskeletons of insects which enables them to breath? What landmark bears an inscription that ends, "I lift my lamp beside the golden door"? The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk was the first of which type of aircraft? What replaced English as the official language of Kenya in 1974? Round 2: General Knowledge 10 General Knowledge questions with no theme or connection. None Suspended high above the planet Bespin, which city first appeared in the 1980 film Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back? What fine powdery substance produced by the male part of the flower carries the male gametes? In what country was inventor, scientist and engineer, Alexander Graham Bell born? Which large forested mountain range in south-west Germany is famous for cuckoo clocks? Quinine, a medication used to treat malaria and babesiosis, can be extracted from what part of trees such as Cinchonas? After Leaving Bananarama, which band was conceived as a solo project by Siobhan Fahey - and had a huge hit with "Stay" in 1992? What was the title of Oliver Cromwell when he was head of the English Commonwealth? What is the trademarked name of Cyanoacrylate adhesive, also known as Krazy Glue, an adhesive marketed by the corporation of the same name? Today, Babylon is located within which modern-day country, roughly 50 miles south of its capital? Part of the U.S. manned space program since it began, whose second space flight on Gemini III made him the first man to fly in space twice? Time's up
