20 Questions

To mull over the weekend...

1 What was Peggy Bundy's maiden name? Why is that particularly funny for a Kiwi or Australian?

2 Who gave the US the Statue of Liberty and why?

3 What is the open road speed limit in the Northern Territory of Australia?

4 What is the GST rate on a loaf of bread in Australia and New Zealand, respectively?

5 Who were Iceman, Jester and Viper?

6 What tennis star spent the late 80s with long hair, a head band, wore bike shorts under his tennis shorts and resided in Las Vegas?

7 Who is credited with the design of the Sydney Opera House?

8 What is the name of the bell tower at the British Houses of Parliament at Westminster? Clue it's not what you first think

9 Where are right hand drive Jeep Cherokees assembled?

10 What is the structure in the roundabout towards the end of the Champs D'Elysee called?

11 In which city in the US is the Liberty Bell?

12 In which ocean is the Maldives?

13 Which island in the West Indies did Ronald Reagan order an invasion?

14 Who wrote the books 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' and 'Stranger in a Strange Land'?

15 Who was the Norse god of thunder?

16 Who played Dr Richard Kimball's wife in the motion picture remake of 'The Fugitive' starring Harrison Ford?

17 Name the film based on a William Gibson story that Keanu Reeves was the lead actor?

18 What was the first name of the character 'Scotty' in the original Star Trek Series?

19 What have do the films Minority Report, Total Recall and Bladerunner have in common?

20 Who's the Dad appearing in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet that has a daughter with an Oscar for best supporting actress?

I claim 18 out of 20,:finger: won't spoil it yet..:angel:

I can get numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13, 14 (I have most of his books, and stranger in a strange land rocks) 15, 18, 19.

And Im sure I know 6, 7, 10, 12, Ill just be damnd if I can think of them right now!

I know 2, 5, 6, apparently NOT 8 (according to your hint), 11 (I think, and I should know because I've actually been to see the damned thing!), 12 (hey, 25% chance of getting it right), 13, I should know 14, 16 (but can't think of her name), 17 (maybe), and 19.

I can't think right now.:bloated:

Question 1,2,5 and 19 have multiple questions in them. That adds up to more then the twenty in the headline.

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1 Peggy Wanker. Wanker is a slang word in NZ and Australia for a person who enjoys carnal auto-excitement

2 France. To celebrate the US victory over the English in the war of independence

3 There isn't one - not even a Montana 'Safe and Sensible' rule - unfortunately the odd big red can make it hazardous sometimes...

4 The GST Rate in Australia is 10% except that non-luxury or basic food is exempt, in New Zealand the rate is 12.5%

5 Iceman, Jester and Viper were the call signs of other pilots in the 1986 film 'Top Gun.' Iceman was played by Val Kilmer, Viper was played by Tom Skeritt and Jester was Michael Ironside

6 Andre Agassi - yep he had a mullet, yikes!

7 Jorn Utzon

8 Old Tom - Big Ben is actually the name of the bell inside Old Tom. Big Ben tolls the hour but the tower is Old Tom. Why? I dunno

9 Graz, Austria by Steyr-Puch

10 Arc D'Triomphe (apologies if I stuffed up on the spelling there).

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So far, so good! :D

11 Philadelphia, Pensylvania [sic] that's how it's spelt on the bell - incidentally it broke the first the first it was struck.

12 Indian - candidate for one of the most beautiful places on Earth and one of the ones likely to disappear if ocean-levels rise any further.

13 Grenada

14 Robert A Heinlein - incidentally SIASL won the Hugo Award

15 Thor

16 Sela Ward (That was a hard one)

17 Johnny Mnemonic

18 Montgomery which incidentally is the M in James M Doohan.

19 The answer I was looking for was that they are all based on stories by Philip K Dick (Total Recall was based on We Can Remember it For You Wholesale, Bladerunner was based on Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep and no I can't remember the story Minority Report is based on).

20 Paul Sorvino - daughter Mira Sorvino won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Mighty Aphrodite (incidentally BSA Oscar has signalled the stalling of the careers of several recipients - Geena Davis, Anna Pacquin, Sigourney Weaver, Mira Sorvino...)

O.K...I'll settle for 17/20


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2 France. To celebrate the US victory over the English in the war of independence

actually it was to celebrate the centenary.....and it was only offered to the United States after Greece turned down the initial concept of a mythological goddess....The outer skin is very thin copper,so a couple of quick changes,and the Greek goddess becomes Liberty...the rest is history.Incidentally....the cantilever frame that holds the whole statue together was designed by Gustav Eiffel.

I only knew 14 of those 20 :(