Sunday Quickfire Quiz XI (30/10/11)

Can you identify a station from just a paving slab? Sadly, some people can
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Sunday Quickfire Quiz XI (30/10/11)

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The geek of the week challenge is back at its normal time!

The quiz will start at Sunday 30th October at 8pm
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Re: Sunday Quickfire Quiz XI (30/10/11)

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Today's quiz will be from King's Cross station.
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Re: Sunday Quickfire Quiz XI (30/10/11)

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Right here we go! Please PM me your answers.
1. What station has the anagram “A Healed Sonnet”

2. According to the video what station did Steve Coats see man standing on the train platform at 2am in the morning?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FcSYeszW9c

3. In what film stars Franka Potente who falls asleep at Charing Cross Underground station only to wake up with the station closed?

4. Where does the last London underground train on a weekday at 0134 arrive? (According to TFL website)

5. Which London underground station was the scene of largest loss of civilian life in World War II?

6. What film starts with the narration:
It was a long time ago
Longer now than it seems
In a place that perhaps have seen in your dreams
For the story that you are about to be told
Took place in the holiday worlds of old
Now, your probably wondered where holidays come from?
If you haven’t, I'd say its time you began!

7. What is the nationality of the professor that leads a group against Dracula in the Bram Stoker novel?

8. The heaviest pumpkin in the world according to the Guinness World Records weighs over a tonne. True or False

9. What was posted on the church door on 31st October 1517?

10. What legendary creature are these quotes describing?
“On Nov. 15, 1966, two young couples from Point Pleasant, Roger and Linda Scarberry, and Steve and Mary Mallette told police they saw a large white creature whose eyes "glowed red" when the car headlights picked it up. They described it as a "flying man with ten foot wings" following their car.”
“There were no more reports after the Dec. 15, 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge and the death of 46 people, giving rise to legends that the sightings and the bridge collapse were connected.”
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uefacup81 - try that again, but this time click "PM" and not "Reply" ...
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Re: Sunday Quickfire Quiz XI (30/10/11)

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Answers
1. Headstone Lane - Nice name!
2. Liverpool Street
3. Creep
4. Upminster
5. Bethnal Green
6. Nightmare before Christmas
7. Dutch - Van Helsing
8. False
9. 95 Theses of Martin Luther leading to Protestant Reformation
10. The Mothman

Results
6th jamesthegill - 6 points
5th greatkingrat - 30 points
4th Nigel - 35 points
3rd going underground - 58 points
2nd uefacup81 - 63 points
1st jbom - 78 points and a 100%!

Well done everyone!
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