Bell & Bear Quiz

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Bell & Bear quiz

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Pat McGrath

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Seconds Quiz

1. What word means something that is second to last?
Penultimate
2. Which artist had a piece of work entitled - 'Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate, One Second before Awakening'
Salvador Dali
3. Who was the first European athlete to run 100 metres in less than ten seconds?
Linford Christie
4. On his second journey across the Atlantic which island did Columbus discover?
Jamaica
5. In terms of population, which is the second largest town or city in the Republic of Ireland?
Cork
6. Neil Armstrong was the first but who was the second man on the moon?
Edwin Buzz Aldrin
7. Which country has the second most airfields in the world?
Brazil
8. What was the title of the second film starring Peter Sellars as Inspector Closeau?
"A Shot In The Dark"
9. In second hand car adverts, the abbreviation FSH is often used. What does FSH stand for?
Full Service History
10. After the USA, which country has the second longest road network in the world?
India
11. On which Japanese city was the second atomic bomb dropped?
Nagasaki
12. Who was the second wife of Henry VIII?
Anne Boleyn
13. Which army was defeated in the Second Battle of Bull Run?
Unionists
14. Who won the second series of "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here"?
Phil Tufnell
15. What name did Catherine Zeta and Michael Douglas given their second born child?
Cerys
16. Which 2000 film starred Nicholas Cage and Vinnie Jones as car thieves?
Gone In Sixty Seconds
17. What is the second largest ethnic group in Hawaii?
Spanish
18. Andres Escobar was shot after his country failed to qualify for the second stages of the World Cup in 94, what country did he play for? Colombia
19. Cardiff has the second largest population of what creature in the UK?
Seagulls
20. Home to Japan's longest river, the Ishikarigawa, what is the country's second largest island?
Hokkaido

21. In Mammals, the Asian Elephant has the second longest, but man has the longest - what?
Life Span
22. In a standard Cinefilm how many frames are shown per second?
Twenty-Four
23. When there are two full moons in the same month, what is the second called?
Blue Moon
24. How many seconds are there in a quarter of an hour?
900
25. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union at the end of the Second World War?
Stalin
26. What is the name of a secondary object that orbits a planet or star?
Satellite
27. In 1986 who became the second Swedish act to top the UK charts?
Europe
28. What is the second lightest element?
Helium
29. Which incident in the Second World War is chronicled in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!?
Attack on Pearl Harbour
30. Which moon of Jupiter, its second largest, is the most heavily cratered satellite in our solar system?
Callisto
31. What is the second highest mountain in Africa?
Mount Kenya
32. Which is the second month of the year to have exactly 30 days?
June
33. Which is the second planet from the Sun?
Venus
34. Which is the second largest of the Balearic Islands?
Minorca
35. Which novelists first husband died from a drugs overdose and second husband Oscar Lerman died from prostrate cancer?
Jackie Collins
36. Which Bard left his wife his second best bed in his will?
William Shakespeare
37. Who came second to Tony Blair in the 1994 labour leadership election?
Margaret Becket
38. Who is the shotgun carrying character who always comes out second best whilst hunting Bugs Bunny?
Elmer J Fudd
39. Who was the second President of the USA?
John Adams
40. In “Mission Impossible” the tape always ended up with a self-destruct warning. How long was it before the tape blew up?
Five Seconds

Tiebreaker - In 1980, Vince Pilkington of Ireland set the World Record time for plucking a turkey in how many seconds?
90