QUICK FIRE ROUND

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THE FUGITIVE

1. Roe, fallow and sika are all kinds of what animal?

2. Arboreal animals are those living in which type of habitat?

3. Where in Gloucestershire is the headquarters of the Wildfowl Trust?

4. Which creature produces gossamer?

5. Which creatures may collectively be described as a unkindness.

6. What type of creature is a lumpsucker.

7. Which animal produces mohair?

8. In terms of canine achiement why is Lyka chiefly remembered?

9. Britain's undomesticated cats are breed called the "wild cat" and which other?

10. Of the smaller species of dinosaur, approximately how tall did they grow?

11. Which is the longest living land mammal after man?

12. Which animal has the Latin name of Lupus?

13. What is the fastest land mammal?

14. What is the name given to a baby kangaroo?

15. Which mammal do the Germans call a flying mouse?

16. Who wrote books about animals and also owned a Zoo on the Island of Jersey?

17. What family groups do dolphins travel in?

18. How many tentacles does an octopus have?

19. From which Continent do Macaws come from?

20. What was the name of the British TV personality who presented Animal Magic?

ANSWERS

1. Deer

2. In or amongst trees

3. Slimbridge

4. Spider

5. Ravens

6. A fish

7. Angora goat

8. It was the first dog in space

9. Lynx

10. 12 inches:300mm (Allow 9-15)

11. Elephant

12. Wolf

13. Cheetah

14. Joey

15. Bat

16. Gerald Durrell

17. Pods

18. Eight

19. South America

20. Johnny Morris


THE FUGITIVE

1.   Which word can mean to accept an insult, to repress an emotion or to take?

2.   Which champion held the WBA and WBC welterweight titles in 1987 and 1989?

3.   Which bird, famous as a "collector", has the Latin name Pica Pica?

4.   What steam locomotive broke the speed record at 126 mph in 1938?

5.   Members of which native Indian tribe now reside at specific reservations in Montana?

6.   Which southern U.S. state is nicknamed "The Pelican State"?

7.   Which town near Luton, lies on the River Ouzel and has the town of Linsdale on the opposite bank?

8.   An ouzel is an old name for which bird?

9.   Which former British ambassador married the daughter of James Callaghan?

10.   Which bird has varieties called rock, tawny, water and tree?

11.   What is the alternative name of the Shakespearean character, Robin Goodfellow?

12.   What type of bird appeared in the title of a book by Jack Higgins later made into a film starring Donald Sutherland and Michael Caine?

13.   In Golf, how many strokes under par is a birdie?

14.   What type of bird did William Wordsworth address with the words ?Shall I call thee bird, or but a wandering voice??

15.   Which instrument was played by the jazz musician Charlie ?Bird? Parker?

16.   Who wrote the story on which the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film ?The Birds? was based?

17.   Which bird was the title of a 1968 UK number 1 hit for Fleetwood Mac?

18.   In the famous Monty Python parrot sketch, what breed of parrot had John Cleese supposedly been sold?

19.   Which English football league club are nicknamed ?The Eagles?? 

ANSWERS

1. Swallow

2. Marlon Starling

3. Magpie

4. Mallard

5. Crow

6. Louisiana

7. Leighton Buzzard

8. Blackbird

9. Peter Jay

10. Pipit

11. Puck

12. Eagle (The Eagle Has Landed)

13. One

14. Cuckoo

15. Saxophone

16. Daphne Du Maurier

17. Albatross

18. Norweigian Blue

19. Crystal Palace

THE FUGITIVE

1. Which is the most common gas in the atmosphere?

2. What is the Earth?s core made of?

3. Which Indian state is at the eastern end of the Himalayas?

4. Which fuel is formed by the fossilisation of plants?

5. What is the world?s deepest ocean?

6. What type of rock is granite?

7. What is the approximate circumference of the earth, to the nearest 10,000km?

8. What is the name given to the study of earthquakes?

9. Which mineral forms quartz?

10. What is the scientific scale used for measuring the hardness of rocks?

11. What is the name of the liquid rock which pours from a volcano?

12. To the nearest 10% Oxygen forms approximately what proportion of the atmosphere?

13. What is the term applied to the process of gathering together weather forecasts from various recording stations?

14. What kind of tide occurs at full Moon?

15. What kind of natural phenomenon 'meanders'? 

ANSWERS

1. Nitrogen

2. Molten Iron and Nickel

3. Assam

4. Coal

5. Pacific

6. Igneous

7. 40,000km

8. Seismology

9. Silica

10. Moh?s scale

11. Lava

12. 20%

13. Synoptic Forecasting

14. Spring Tide

15. A River