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'The Quiz Room' Diary
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Hi Nirv, yes all well here thanks . miss the League Quizzes though . real shame theycannot be re started
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they would work fine in Nibbs room
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we're quizzing until late, do join.
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Monday 23rd August
Time: 10pm Questions: 30 Subject: GK Scoring: 5-4-3-2-1 Questionmaster: Nirvana Thursday 26th August Time: 9.30pm Questions: 30 Subject: Music Scoring: 5-4-3-2-1 Questionmaster: Nilsson Schmilsson Sponsored by kjbetting.co.uk |
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Nirv ..do you post on the Blonde poker forum?
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No, not me. Don't play poker.
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Once again, many thanks to Mr Nibbs last night for lots of good fun in his quiz.
I'll look forward to Nirvana's and Nilsson's quizzes next week. |
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cant work out how to get on it , ive registered but dont seem to work
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Good to see these back again !
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Yes, it is.
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I'll be doing 30 Qs tonight on eight topics:
Cinema Food & Drink Geography History Literature Music Science Sport Three or four Qs on each topic. |
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ttt
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See you all after the football.
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I'll be there.
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Here we go...
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A good turnout of quizzers last night.
Anyone got a quiz up their sleeve for tonight? |
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24 days after moving house, I am still not on-line,and cannot play in any quizzes!
Hope to be back next week. |
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Any questions that can be posted on this thread? When I did a quiz I posted all the questions on here in one go afterwards so that people could have a look at what they missed. If it isn't any bother, it would be good if people could do that after they've done a quiz on nibbs' site. I'm guessing the questions cannot be used again anyway.
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I think the results of quizzes should be posted on here too in case anyone wants to restart the player rankings (or just for future reference).
Wouldn't take much effort after each quiz to stick the final scores on here. |
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I miss all the evening quizzes (all the quizzes basically) and would defo like to have a go at the questions to see how I would've done.
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OK Uti, I'll do that soon.
Slarty, Nibbs has put some results on here. Would be good if he could put them all on. |
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Ok, here we go. Will put the answers up in a couple of hours.
Quiz 1 Cinema Q1. Who upstaged her ex-husband at the 2010 Oscars by winning an Academy Award for Best Director? Q2. What is the name of Scaramanga's tiny sidekick in the Bond film 'The Man with the Golden Gun'? Q3. Who played the character of Tuco, "The Ugly", in the classic Western 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'? Food & Drink Q4. Caldo verde, a potato and cabbage soup, is a popular dish in which European country? Q5. Adrak is the Indian name for which spice? Q6. What is the main alcoholic component of a 'Blenheim' cocktail? Geography Q7. To which east African country does Mafia Island belong? Q8. What is the largest country that is wholly in Europe? Q9. The flag of which US state features a bison? Q10. Which long Asian river is known in China as the 'Turbulent River'? History Q11. Which battle of 1356 saw one of the great English victories of the Hundred Years' War? Q12. Whose was the first signature on the American Declaration of Independence? Q13. Thibaw Min, who was sent into exile by the British in 1885, was the last King of which Asian country? Q14. From which country did Burundi gain its independence in 1962? Literature Q15. Who wrote the 'Gormenghast' trilogy? Q16. Daniel Quilp is the main villain in which Dickens novel? Q17. Which word, commonly used to describe a state of chaos and confusion, was the name given by John Milton to the capital of Hell in his epic poem 'Paradise Lost'? Music Q18. Who wrote the operetta "La Belle Helene"? Q19. The song 'Getting to Know You' comes from which musical? Q20. What was the original title of the Buddy Holly song 'Peggy Sue'? Q21. Whose debut solo album, 'Flamingo', is due for release in Sept 2010? Science Q22. Dmitry Mendeleev, a 19th century Russian scientist, is best known for devising which scientifc aid? Q23. Which German city gives its name to an element with the chemical symbol Ds and atomic number 110? Q24. The Great Dark Spot is an intermittent feature of which planet? Q25. What is the name of the unique variety of Fluorite only found in two quarries in Derbyshire? Sport Q26. Who won the Golden Boot award at the 2010 World Cup? Q27. At which Yorkshire racecourse would you drink in the Rapid Lad Bar? Q28. In which US city did Lennox Lewis knock out Mike Tyson in June 2002? Q29. Which team won the 2009 Rugby League Challenge Cup? Q30. In which sport do teams compete for the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup? |
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4 Malta?
5 Cumin? 6 Whisky? 7 Ghana? 8 France 9 Montana? 10 Yangtze? 11 idk 12 Jefferson? 13 Malaysia? 14 Holland? 15 idk 16 bleak house? 17 idk 18 idk 19 idk 20 When Peggy Sue got married? 21 idk 22 periodic table 23 Dusseldorf? 24 Jupiter 25 Blue John 26 Muller 27 Doncaster? 28 Vegas 29 St Helens? 30 Golf very difficult. quite sure on 22 and 26, the rest guesses, some more educated than others. Thanks Nirv |
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^ A very good quiz I thought. I like quizzes in which, even if you don't know the answers, you can still have a decent-ish stab at a fair percentage of the q's.
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Cheers VQ. I prefer it if people can at least have a reasonable guess at most Qs. Gets them involved and makes it more fun.
Anyway, here are the answers: Quiz 1 Cinema Q1. Who upstaged her ex-husband at the 2010 Oscars by winning an Academy Award for Best Director? Answer: Kathryn Bigelow, former wife of James Cameron (for 'The Hurt Locker') Q2. What is the name of Scaramanga's tiny sidekick in the Bond film 'The Man with the Golden Gun'? Answer: Nick Nack Q3. Who played the character of Tuco, "The Ugly", in the classic Western 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'? Answer: Eli Wallach Food & Drink Q4. Caldo verde, a potato and cabbage soup, is a popular dish in which European country? Answer: Portugal Q5.Adrak is the Indian name for which spice? Answer: Ginger Q6. What is the main alcoholic component of a 'Blenheim' cocktail? Answer: Brandy Geography Q7. To which east African country does Mafia Island belong? Answer: Tanzania Q8. What is the largest country that is wholly in Europe? Answer: Ukraine Q9. The flag of which US state features a bison? Answer: Wyoming Q10. Which long Asian river is known in China as the 'Turbulent River'? Answer: Mekong (Lancang Jiang) History Q11. Which battle of 1356 saw one of the great English victories of the Hundred Years'War? Answer: Poitiers Q12. Whose was the first signature on the American Declaration of Independence? Answer: John Hancock Q13. Thibaw Min, who was sent into exile by the British in 1885, was the last King of which Asian country? Answer: Burma Q14. From which country did Burundi gain its independence in 1962? Answer: Belgium Literature Q15. Who wrote the 'Gormenghast' trilogy? Answer: Mervyn Peake Q16. Daniel Quilp is the main villain in which Dickens novel? Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop Q17. Which word, commonly used to describe a state of chaos and confusion, was the name given by John Milton to the capital of Hell in his epic poem 'Paradise Lost'? Answer: Pandemonium Music Q18. Who wrote the operetta "La Belle Helene"? Answer: Jacques Offenbach Q19. The song 'Getting to Know You' comes from which musical? Answer: The King And I Q20. What was the original title of the Buddy Holly song 'Peggy Sue'? Answer: Cindy Lou Q21. Whose debut solo album, 'Flamingo', is due for release in Sept 2010? Answer: Brandon Flowers Science Q22. Dmitry Mendeleev, a 19th century Russian scientist, is best known for devising which scientifc aid? Answer: The Periodic Table (of the Elements) Q23. Which German city gives its name to a chemical element with the symbol Ds and atomic number 110? Answer: Darmstadt (Darmstadtium) Q24. The Great Dark Spot is an intermittent feature of which planet? Answer: Neptune Q25. What is the name of the unique variety of Fluorite only found in two quarries in Derbyshire? Answer: Blue john Sport Q26. Who won the Golden Boot award at the 2010 World Cup? Answer: Thomas Müller (5 goals, 3 assists) Q27. At which Yorkshire racecourse would you drink in the Rapid Lad Bar? Answer: Beverley Q28. In which US city did Lennox Lewis knock out Mike Tyson in June 2002? Answer: Memphis Q29. Which team won the 2009 Rugby League Challenge Cup? Answer: Warrington Wolves Q30. In which sport do teams compete for the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup? Answer: Football (soccer) |
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3/30 Must do better.
Cheers Nirv. |
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It was quite tough, top scorers got 10. You did well to get 'Blue John', which was a skinner.
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Agree with VQ. I'm not the brightest quizzer (no shame on here
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Thursday 26th August
Time: 9.30pm Questions: 30 Subject: Music Scoring: 5-4-3-2-1 Questionmaster: Nilsson Schmilsson Sponsored by kjbetting.co.uk |
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music and one or 2 other things thrown in
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Beatles theme on BBC4 tonight.
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Impromptu quiz.
 . Come on over. Not sure how many q's will be asked. Probably 20... |
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Thanks again, VQ. Good quiz.
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Results of the impromptu quiz, with the questions for the day Chatters:
++ 10 Baggers, 9 Fishwick, 8 Tommy Toes, 6 Muntz, 6 pumpy, 6 Tevez, 6 jimmy69, 2 sixtwosix, 1 Andy_Murray, 1 Check, 1 Royston ++ 1: What are 'angels on horseback'? 2: Who scored the first ever Premiership goal? 3: On which island is the town of Brodick and the mountain, Goat Fell? 4: How many cars are expected to be on the world's roads by the year 2020? (Ballpark figures accepted. Gonna be arbitrary scoring here!) 5: The massacre of St. Brice's Day in 1002 AD was part of an attempt by King Ethelred to exterminate which group of people from England? 6: HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry were both sunk within a few days of each other, during which war? 7: Fourteen years before the Great Fire of London, which Scottish city had its own Great Fire in which a third of its houses were destroyed? 8: In which martial art are opponents allowed to hit with fists and feet, but only above the hip? 9: The world's driest place is in which South American desert? 10: Although a fairly unusual member of the orchestra, in which section would a saxophone be included? 11: Which pressure group started out by disrupting nuclear tests in Alaska in 1971? 12: Which dance is said to have been developed from the Austrain 'landler' folk dance in the 19th century? 13: Which spacecraft was the first to reach the Moon, in 1959? I WANT A NUMBER AS WELL AS A NAME HERE. 14: The General Strike of 1926 was called by the TUC in support of which already-striking workers? 15: Which ballet includes the piece 'Dance of the Hours', which Alan Sherman once used in his comic 'Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda'? 16: Which large Canadian lake drains into Hudson Bay via the Nelson River? 17: Almost all of the surface features of which planet have been named after famous women? 18: Which is the UK's longest-established professional symphony orchestra? 19: After years of debate between politicians and scientists, which 1997 agreement finally became international law in Feb 2005? 20: In January 1994, which US city was hit by an earthquake which killed 60 people and caused $30,000,000,000-worth of damage? Answers will be up some time in the morning if you'd like to test yourself... |
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(As in a normal person's morning, rather than a Chit Chatters' morning - ie 11:00am rather than 2:00am [;)] )
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Cheers Tommy. More of that in the future I expect. Will probably have the questions pre-written to speed things along though, but not to a speed which prevents us from having a laugh between questions.
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It was just the ticket tonight, VQ - more banter time is always top notch in my book!
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1. No idea.
2. Brian Deane 3. Iona? 4. 2.2 billion 5. Tobes 1.01 6. See above ^ 7. Edinburgh 8. Taekwando 9. Atacama 10. No idea 11. Greenpeace? 12. Morris Dancing? 13. Luna 2 14. Miners? 15. Swan Lake 16. Lake Winnipeg (Got a postcard from there once) 17. Neptune 18. Pass 19. Pass 20. San Francisco Probably very few right, I'm only certain on 2, 16 and 20. |
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1: some sort of insect?
2: Sheringham 3: pass 4: 1.8 Billion 5: Danes 6: Falklands 7: don't know 8: Savate? 9: pass 10: pass 11: pass 12: pass 13: pass 14: Miners 15: Swan Lake? 16: pass 17: Venus? 18: pass 19: pass 20: San Diego? |
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UTI Joined: 24 Aug 10 15:21
3/30 Must do better. Done ya (just) 4/30, for me |