Thursday 25 September 2014

The maximum possible score in ten-pin bowling without a strike is 190

We won this week :D But could you have done even better?
The attendees
1) The statistician
2) The doctor

The ones that got away
1) How long is a ten pin bowling alley (from the foul line to the front pin)? If you get within five feet you get the point.
2) Identify the song and artist from these lyrics (you need both for the point): "I'm waking up to ash and dust \ I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust \ I'm breathing in the chemicals".
3) From which country did Bangladesh declare independence in 1971?
4) Which Texas chapel, built in 1744, takes its now famous name from the Spanish for 'cottonwood'?
5) The first Space Shuttle, unveiled in 1976, was going to be called Constitution before Gerald Ford received over 100,000 letters asking him to change it to what name instead?
6) What 1980s US TV show is name dropped in the Prince song Kiss?

The answers


Our excuses


How did you do? Would you have beaten us (1 or more correct)? Let the world know with the poll below, then read on for my alternative questions (loosely) inspired by this week's Ones That Got Away!


My alternative questions
1) What comes fourth in this sequence? A standard UK 13 amp plug; A 7-10 split in bowling; A Blue Peter badge.
2) Despite the Welsh flag being super rad, only two other countries feature dragons on their national flags. One is a landlocked country in South Asia (with quite a big dragon), the other is a Mediterranean island nation (with a very small one). Name either.
Question 3
3) Pictured is an estimated distribution of what specific subspecies of mammal, the national animal of both India and Bangladesh?
4) Which American folk hero, who died at the Battle of the Alamo, is mentioned in the same line of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire as Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, and Disneyland?
5) Along with the Challenger and Chernobyl disasters, 1986 also saw the Lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon, when a limnic eruption caused the deaths of some 1,700 people - how did they die?
6) There are currently eleven official Disney Princesses. The names of four of them (Snow White, Cinderella, Pocahontas and Mulan) feature in the titles of their respective films. Can you match up the other seven with their original Disney films below? You need a perfect set to get the point!


The answers


How did you do on my alternative questions? Have another poll!

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