Here are the answers folks:
1. In 1783 the Treaty of Paris was signed to end war between which two countries?
Great Britain and the USA2. After travelling in space for almost a year Viking II, in 1976, landed on which planet?
Mars3. Which football team has its ground closest to the river Mersey?
Stockport County4. Who invented the hot air balloon?
The Montgolfier brothers5. What is the only monosyllabic American state name?
Maine6. An orchidectomy is the surgical removal of what?
Testicles (OUCH!)
7. What is the national flower of Austria?
Edelweiss8. Which famous British author wrote `Chitty Chitty Bang Bang`?
Ian Fleming9. Which temperature has the same value in both centigrade and farenheit?
-40 (Minus 40)10. What is the only fruit that grows its seeds on the outside?
The strawberry And the tiebreakers - I had expected the boys to know that tungsten is used to make darts – so the game show was
‘Bullseye’, however, I must apologise for misleading you all with the wording of the second clue because of course, he of the gold/rimless specs who earned the first gold record and then disappeared in a plane over the Channel didn’t sing! Apologies
Glenn Miller - Chattanooga ChoochooThanks again to Dave for providing the main entertainment yaaayyyy!!! Back to normal next week!