1. Who performed the theme song in the James Bond film Thunderball?
Answer = Tom Jones
The album was first released by United Artists Records in 1965 in both monaural and stereo editions, with a CD release in 1988.
2. What is the capital of the Dominican Republic?
Answer = Santo Domingo
Capital of the Dominican Republic. It is situated on the southeast coast of the island of Hispaniola, at the mouth of the Ozama River, and is the oldest permanent city established by Europeans in the Western Hemisphere.
3. What is an odalisque?
Answer = a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially one in the seraglio of the Sultan of Turkey.
4. Which of Henry VIII’s wives is buried alongside him at Windsor
Answer = Jane Semour
It was the end of an era. His will commanded he be buried with his beloved wife Jane Seymour, the only wife to give birth to a surviving legitimate male heir. Henry had given her a magnificent funeral after which she was buried in a vault under the quire of St. George's Chapel in Windsor.
5. In which country does the Amazon river meet the sea?
Answer = Brazil
The Amazon River is located in the northern portion of South America, flowing from west to east. The river system originates in the Andes Mountains of Peru and travels through Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Brazil before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.
6. Which sport was played by Peanut Louie?
Answer = tennis
Peanut Louie Harper (born August 15, 1960) is a retired American tennis player, born in San Francisco, California to Ron and Alice Louie. She was a top-ranked junior tennis player and professional tennis player on the WTA tour.
7. Which bird has the scientific name Troglodytes Troglodytes?
Answer = wren
The Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) is a very small bird, and the only member of the wren family Troglodytidae found in Eurasia and Africa (Maghreb). In Anglophone Europe, it is commonly known simply as the wren.
8. Which David presented Juke Box Jury?
Answer = David Jacobs
Juke Box Jury 1 June 1959 - was chaired by David Jacobs. Each week he played a selection of 7" singles on a large juke box to a panel of four celebrities. As the music played the camera moved over the faces of the panelists and the audience so the viewer could gauge their reaction. The panelists then gave their opinion of the discs and voted them a hit or a miss. If there was a tie a jury of teenagers drawn from the audience would have the deciding vote. Each week a mystery performer was revealed after the panel had voted on his or her disc, to the joy or embarrassment of the panel.
9. Which Sunday newspaper first hit the streets of London in 1843? Google says 1842
Answer = The Illustrated London News
appeared first on Saturday 14 May 1842, as the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine. Founded by Herbert Ingram, it appeared weekly until 1971, then less frequently thereafter, and ceased publication in 2003.
10. From which animal did Jenner develop his smallpox vaccine?
Answer = cow = cowpox
While Jenner's interest in the protective effects of cowpox began during his apprenticeship with George Harwicke, it was 1796 before he made the first step in the long process whereby smallpox, the scourge of mankind, would be totally eradicated. For many years, he had heard the tales that dairymaids were protected from smallpox naturally after having suffered from cowpox. Pondering this, Jenner concluded that cowpox not only protected against smallpox but also could be transmitted from one person to another as a deliberate mechanism of protection. In May 1796, Edward Jenner found a young dairymaid, Sarah Nelms, who had fresh cowpox lesions on her hands and arms (Figure (Figure33). On May 14, 1796, using matter from Nelms' lesions, he inoculated an 8-year-old boy, James Phipps. Subsequently, the boy developed mild fever and discomfort in the axillae. Nine days after the procedure he felt cold and had lost his appetite, but on the next day he was much better. In July 1796, Jenner inoculated the boy again, this time with matter from a fresh smallpox lesion. No disease developed, and Jenner concluded that protection was complete .
11. What name is given to words such as deed, minim, madam and rotavator?
Answer = palindromic
A Palindrome :- Dammit, I'm Mad!
12. What makes stainless steel stainless?
Answer = chromium
The best-known grade is Type 304, also known as 18/8 and 18/10 for its composition of 18% chromium and 8%/10% nickel, respectively.
What do you call a dog with no hind legs and stainless steel testicles?
Sparky.
What do you call a bank robbery with no blood spilt?
A stainless steal.
I’ll bet you didn’t know ….
An iceberg bigger than Belgium was seen in the southern Pacific Ocean in 1956.
Answer = I didn’t – it hasn’t been on QI
The largest iceberg on record was an Antarctic tabular iceberg of over 31,000 square kilometres (12,000 sq mi) [335 by 97 kilometres (208 by 60 mi)] sighted 150 miles (240 km) west of Scott Island, in the South Pacific Ocean, by the USS Glacier on November 12, 1956. This iceberg was larger than Belgium.
Not sure - difficult to match the perspective in each photo. Even from this Google 2008 shot it's hard to work out where that bit of different coloured wall/bricks was. I think the only photo I can remember that had the public toilets in it was one that @John Fox (foxy) posted on Facebook of some men (or it might just have been a man) working - panting the white lines on the road ?
No 4 not John Hunter - confirmed by John's sister on the Barnton Facebook goup.
Names from Evan Martin's book - Bedlingtonshire Remembered.
No 1 Mr Hostlr updated to Mr Hostler
No's 12 & 36 named in a 1930 school football team photo in Evan Martin's book Bedlingtonshire Remembered - The People's History series. .
Joe Grant has given a list of christian names for No's 1, 2, 3 & 5 to 24.
No 10 & 20 named by Joan Cummings.
No 36 named by Rosemary Lawson & No 38 named by Sarah Ince.
