MCS Quiz 12/4/2020

Quiz 12/4/20 (answers underlined)

1.
a) Name the celebrity cook who judges alongside Paul Hollywood on The Great British Bake-Off. Prue Leith
b) Which (national) saint’s feast day is celebrated on November 30th? St Andrew
c) How is Thomas Bruce, who brought the Parthenon Marbles from Greece to Britain, better known? Lord Elgin

And what links all three answers? Places in Scotland

2.
a) Which legendary king was son of Uther Pendragon? Arthur
b) Name the King of Spain who married Mary I of England in July 1554. Philip II
c) Which king of France was known as the Sun King? Louis XIV

And what (or rather who) links all three answers? Middle names of the Duke of Cambridge

3. Give the abbreviations for the following US states:
COLORADO CO
NORTH DAKOTA ND
OREGON OR

And what score in golf (unofficially) does those answers represent when put together? CONDOR  4 under par

4. Pen names
a) How was Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known? Mark Twain
b) How was Eric Arthur Blair better known? George Orwell
c) How is Daniel Handler better known? Lemony Snicket

And Robert Galbraith is the pen name of which famous living author? JK Rowling

5. Which British places were known by the following Latin names by the Romans?
a) Eboracum York
b) Camulodunum Colchester
c) Vectis Isle of Wight

And which French city was known as Lutetia? Paris