Laboratory News winners announced
18 Jan 2005 by Evoluted New Media
The winners of the Laboratory News Pop quiz and Decemeber\'s Suduko have been announced! Also, to settle all those arguments, check the Pop quiz answers!
The winners of the Laboratory News Pop quiz and Decemeber\'s Suduko have been announced! Also, to settle all those arguments, check the Pop quiz answers!
After a huge response the winner of the 2005 Laboratory News Christmas Pop Quiz has been chosen!
Having picked his way through the maze of cryptic clues to arrive at 50 correct band names or artists, Andrew Grant, a biomedical scientist from the Pathology department of the Ninewells Hospital in Dundee is our lucky winner. Congratulations from all at Laboratory News! A bottle of champagne is on its way to you to help you celebrate.
The winner of December’s sudoku puzzle has also been chosen. Mr Martin Rose (left in pic)of the Environmental Food and Health department at the Central Science Laboratory in York was presented with his cheque by the sponsors of the quiz, Techmate. Congratulations!
If puzzles are your thing, then check out the February issue of Laboratory News and keep those little grey cells busy with our sudoku and crossword puzzles.
And for all those desperate to find out the answers to the Pop quiz then here they are!
1 The head German emperors Kaiser Chiefs
2 Exhibition or Custer’s last? The Stands
3 Defoe sullenly purses his lips Daniel Powter
4 Abracadabra 73, 48, 119 Magic Numbers
5 Theatre award is auction house Tony Christie
6 Did Spooner think of her as a ‘burly chassis’? Shirley Bassey
7 Track or field participant Athlete
8 Meadow saving private Lee Ryan
9 Lucky shrub is not large Heather Small
10 Bond is old spy James Blunt
11 To lash at precious metal Goldfrapp
12 A singular laugh? A-Ha
13 Nursery is a right mess! Babyshambles
14 Scottish valley, Scottish clan Glen Campbell
15 Braun and Butch Eva Cassidy
16 The king and Abbott’s partner Elvis Costello
17 Elton in Colorado John Denver
18 Assembly in a pretty harbour Fairport Convention
19 Liar on vacation Billie Holliday
20 Assault is huge Massive Attack
21 A blissful state Nirvana
22 Toilet marsh grass Lou Reed
23 0.35195 fluid ounces 10cc
24 Cleo’s man with the furniture polishes Antony and the Johnsons
25 Lachrymal secretion goes with a bang The Teardrop Explodes
26 10,000,000 minus 4,663,662 BeeGees
27 LDV Safeway Van Morrison
28 Brick depression is mad Crazy Frog
29 Silverbacks Gorillaz
30 24 hours of jealousy Green Day
31 One who puts the food in your mouth Feeder
32 Jilt the fruit Chuck Berry
33 Illuminated shaver Razorlight
34 In short is she missing in action? MIA
35 A third of the perfect male torso (in beer terms!) Tupac
36 Fingertips are 225 mm (nom.) Nine Inch Nails
37 Pistol made from silky-like fabric Velvet Revolver
38 Contemplate in silence Muse
39 The French impair Lemar
40 Hur collapses quintet Ben Folds Five
41 Masonry ‘do’ Bloc Party
42 Conran goes to Notts river for horse race Terence Trent D’arby
43 Jimmy, George Sr. and Bill The Presidents of the USA
44 The living dead The Zombies
45 The seventh quartet? G4
46 This tearoom is not happy Sad Café
47 Tennis injury? Elbow
48 Aurelian aural hoop Golden Earring
49 The precociously clever child The Prodigy
50 New bond patronises Wales Craig David
