Week 2 - Link Round - Runners

1. Who tries and (and always fails) to catch the Road Runner?

2. In the 2004 United States presidential election which ‘Dick’ did George W. Bush choose as his running mate and future vice-president?

3. In Poker, what is a run of playing cards of sequential rank called?

4. The marathon is named after the run of a Greek soldier delivering a message from the Battle of Marathon – what was his destination?

5. Founded in 1749 by the author Henry Fielding, they were regarded as London's first professional police force. By what name were they known?

6. What is the common name for the ‘injury’ suffered by runners that is caused by friction from repeated rubbing of a t-shirt or other upper body clothing?

7. Why did Logan run?

8. Which band had hits with ‘Geno’ and ‘Come on Eileen’?

9. Scarlet Runner, Case Knife and Painted Lady are varieties of what food that contains traces of poison and therfore must be thoroughly cooked before consumption?

10. Khaled Hosseini’s novel ‘The Kite Runner’ has recently been made into a film. In which war torn country is it set?