Nextian World Quiz with answers
     

 

    
     
   
  The two highest scoring individuals taking part in this quiz were offered the opportunity to take part in the first ever ‘Name That Fruit’ with a special guest compere - Adrian Lush.  In the event that more than two people achieved the same highest, or second highest, score there was to be a tie break.
     
  Quizmaster’s decision is final.  Bonus points may be handed out for answers that provide information above and beyond that required, or that make us laugh.
     
  Right, off we go then…  
     
  Name the following SpecOps Divisions (either official or common name is acceptable)
     
1. SpecOps1                                  SO Network Management
2. SpecOps5                                  Search & Containment
3. SpecOps12                                Chronoguard
4. SpecOps13                               Genetic Detectives
5. SpecOps17 Werewolf & Vampire Disposal (Suckers & Biters) 
6. SpecOps26                                Pasta Police
7. SpecOps27                             LiteraTecs
8. SpecOps29                              Shakespeare Division
9. SpecOps31                                Good taste re-education 
10. SpecOps32                  Horticultural Enforcement (Seeds & Weeds)
     
  Now name  
     
11. Thursday’s son                      Friday
12 Thursday’s daughter             Tuesday
13 Thursday’s mum                 Wednesday
14 Landen’s mum                     Houson
15. Landen’s dad                       Billden
     
  Ok, they’re not all going to be that easy.  First names please for
     
16. UA Warrington cat/the cat formerly known as Cheshire   Archibald
17. Emperor Zhark                                                            Horace
     
  And more names  
     
18. Joffy’s boyfriend                                          Miles Hawke
19. Wilbur’s wife                                                 Gloria
20. Orville’s wife                                                Charlotte
21. Goliath’s Chief Executive (full name please)          John Henry Goliath V
22. Thursday’s stalker                                                 Millon de Floss
23. HIS stalker                                                         Adam Gnusense
24. Goliath’s corporate precog                                 Sister Bettina
25. Thursday’s commanding officer in the Crimea        Col/Maj Phelps
26. The Welsh ‘President for Life’                       Owain Glyndower VII
27. Spike’s ex partner                                        Chesney
28. Felix7 (before he was)                                Adrian Smarts
29. Felix8 (again, before he was)                        Danny Chance
30. Irma Cohen’s Pekinese                                  Pixie Frou-Frou
31. The werewolf Spike has in his car when he goes to meet Thursday Mr Meakle
32. The vampire Thursday helps Spike to fight   Frampton     
33. The compere of ‘Name That Fruit’                 Frankie Saveloy
34. Who was the student made pregnant by Acheron?  Braeburn
35. was the little old lady impersonated by Acheron, later found stuffed up the chimney?                                     Mrs Grimswold
36. took Thursday and Bowden to Merthyr?        Haelwyn the Book
37. invented the banana?                                Anna Bannon
38. play Richard and Lady Anne when Thursday and Landen go to the Ritz?                                                                         Swanavon Ralph & Thea 
39. stops Landen’s wedding to Daisy?                 Mr Briggs
40. Is Chairman of ‘Bronte for the People’?                   Walter Branwell
41. is kidnapped from Martin Chuzzlewit?         Mr Quaverley
42. Was Thursday’s Book Liaison Officer?            Wyatt
     
  Time for a change… a few questions about Mycroft’s inventions
     
43. What happened to Owens?                          He was meringued
44. Using the Rosettionery the phrase ‘Have you seen my dodo?’ was translated incorrectly into French. Translated back into English, what did it say?                                                 My aardvark has no nose
45. Who was uploaded with the unwanted memories of seventy-two one-night stands, numerous drunken arguments etc.?  Mrs Worthing
46. What does Thursday look up in the Nextian dictionary?    Trout
47. What is the significance of the number 2216091? It’s Sleepy Hollow - Factorzipped
     
  Some history now - dates from the Nextian time line please, I don’t care about the dates of the Crimea in our space-time continuum.
     
48. How long did the Crimean War last?                       131 years
49. When was Swindon liberated?                               1949
50. When was the Charge of the Light Armoured Brigade?     1973
51. Who was Welsh leader when Wales declared its independence? John Frost
52. In what year was the Anglo-Welsh border closed?  1965
     
  Identify the characters described   
     
53. ‘His features were sharp, his lips were thin and he was not what you’d call an attractive human being. He sported heavy gold jewellery and a tie pin that sparkled like a star'      Jack Schitt
54. ‘a feeble looking character who had spent too many years in institutions to be able to look after himself properly.’        Sturmey Archer
55. ‘a small academic man with an overpowering aura of untidiness’ Runcible Spoon
56. ‘a tall thin man whose pinched features seemed to compete for position in The centre of his face.’                                  Schitt-Hawse
57. ‘a tall man in a large-check suit… He was about 40, had a luxuriant red moustache and wore a carnation in his buttonhole.’    Akrid Snell
58. a small and rather pallid looking man… He wore a white short-sleeved shirt and was almost weighed down by the number of pens in his top pocket.’                                                                  Xavier Libris
     
  Just some general questions now  
     
59. Waiting to go Northside what table number is Thursday?  17
60. And what number is President Formby?                            33
61. A service station was renamed Leigh Delaware - what was its previous name?                            Kington St Michael
62. Where was the Earthcrossers’ meeting gatecrashed by Victor Analogy? Liddington Hill
63. And what pseudonym did he use?                          Augustus Ceres
64. How long, according to his press cutting, was Hades at the top of the  ‘most wanted’ list?                                                     74 weeks
65. What excuse did Thursday tell the receptionist at the Finis to give to Landen when she was trying to avoid him?                   That she had died of haemorrhagic fever
66. Joffy is vicar of the GSD church in which village?    Wanborough
67. What does Thursday offer Jones to try to persuade him to take her and Bowden to Merthyr?                                             A handwritten draft of ‘I See the Boys of Summer’
68. What is the pseudonym used by Hades in ‘Jane Eyre’?     Mr Hedge
69. Jack Schitt is imprisoned in ‘The Raven’ but what book did he think he was entering?                                                      The Plasma Rifle in War
70. What is the duty on smelly cheeses?             620%
71. How was Lord Volescamper’s father killed? Trampled to death by antelope (on the A30 near Chard)
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