Friday 24 July 2009

Pub Quiz - Round 8 – Many hands make light work. In which……

… we have a round of questions related to light

1

How long does it take in minutes (rounded to nearest whole number) for light to travel to Earth from the Sun?

2

Who is attributed with the invention of the first practical light bulb (integrated system)?

3

The Electric Light Orchestra was created by which two rock stars?

4

The lightest metal is what?

5

Cigarette lighters contain which liquid hydro-carbon?

6

Which poem starts Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward,

7

Where would you expect to pay £150 for an electric company, illustrated by a light bulb?

8

Which team wears Light Blue in the Varsity Boat Race?

9

In 1895 which famous studios produced individually designed and constructed stained glass lamps?

10

What was the police based film that Jack Warner stared in before Dixon of Dock Green?

1 comment:

  1. 1 8
    2 Thomas Edison
    3 Geoff Lynn Roy Wood
    4 Lithium
    5 Butane
    6 The Charge of the light brigade – Alfred Lord Tennyson
    7 Standard UK monopoly board
    8 Cambridge
    9 Tiffany – actual designer was Clara Driscoll
    10 The blue lamp

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