Friday 20 Question Quiz – 27/09/2024

Round 1: Literature – Side-kicks

10 Literature questions about side-kicks.

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Watson is Sherlock Holmes' best friend, assistant and, in most of the cases redacted by him, flatmate. What is his first name?

Bill Watterson created Calvin, a precocious, mischievous and adventurous six-year-old boy and his sardonic stuffed tiger called what?

Which character is present in the first scene of Hamlet, and is accompanying Barnardo and Marcellus on watch duty?

Who is the highly competent valet of a wealthy and idle young Londoner named Bertie Wooster in a series of comedic short stories and novels by P. G. Wodehouse?

Which character in the Inspector Morse crime novels by Colin Dexter plays the "sidekick" to Morse?

The first of the main fairy characters to appear, and a significant influence on events in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a mischievous fairy, sprite, or jester?

Who acts as squire to Don Quixote and provides comments throughout the novel, known as sanchismos, that are a combination of broad humour, ironic Spanish proverbs, and earthy wit?

What is the full name of Frodo Baggins' gardener, who travelled with him through Middle Earth to the Cracks of Doom?

One of the main characters of Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. Robinson names a man with whom he cannot at first communicate, because they first meet on what day?

An experienced galactic hitch-hiker and alien journalist, and a field researcher for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, who is Arthur Dent's friend – and rescuer?

Round 2: General Knowledge

10 General Knowledge questions with no theme or connection between the answers.

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A man who has polyorchidism is known as a polyorchid, what does he have three or more of?

Who wrote the epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey?

What term describes a pain in the chest usually caused by lack of oxygen?

What was the computer called which was developed from Turing's bombes at Bletchley Park?

When he was alive, Yorick in Shakespeare's Hamlet had what job?

What type of herbal tea made from a daisy-like plant is said to promote relaxation and sleep?

France celebrates its National Day, Bastille Day, on the 14th of which month?

What is an electronic device that allows the passage of current in only one direction?

What was the last car (model) to be signed off by Enzo Ferrari himself?

In New York city what is known as the lungs of the city?

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