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Quiz night thread (Part 5)

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    willrelf92willrelf92 Posts: 15,542
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    1.Where would a man wear a cravat - round his neck or foot? Neck.
    2.What D goes after snow and before wood? Drop?
    3.In nature, a nanny goat is which sex? Female.
    4.In optics, the condition in which a person sees two images of a single object is called double... what? Vision.
    5.Which former TV soap was affectionately known as Brookie? Brookside.
    6.In politics, whom did Nick Clegg narrowly beat in the vote to become leader of the Liberal Democrats?
    7.Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, was from which country?
    8.Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades are operas by which composer?
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,085
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    4/4 Barracute, Tchaikovsky is right tanstaafl, and just 2 is wrong will
    7-Kenya

    1.In a pack of playing cards, the knave is another name for which picture card?
    2.In cockney rhyming slang, what parts of the legs are your biscuits and cheese?
    3.A person that is eager and alert can be described as being bright eyed and bushy... what?
    4.Which dairy product was advertised in 2001 with the slogan "The white stuff, are you made of it"?
    5.JSA is a DWP benefit paid to those that are unemployed and seeking work. What do the letters JSA stand for?
    6.Lake Volta, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, is in which African country?
    7.Tincal is an alternative name for which light, colourless crystalline substance?
    8.The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 between Britain and France dealt with the partition of which Empire after the end of the First World War?
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    bcdeebcdee Posts: 318,080
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    1 Jack
    2 Knees
    3 Tailed
    4 Milk
    5 Job Seekers Allowance
    6 Kenya
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    BarracuteBarracute Posts: 243,314
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    1) Jack
    2) Knees
    3) Tailed
    4) Milk
    5) Jobs Seekers Allowance
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    Dare DevilDare Devil Posts: 118,737
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    1. Jack
    2. Shins??
    4. Got to be milk
    5. Jobseekers allowance
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    FizzbinFizzbin Posts: 36,827
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    8 Ottoman?
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,085
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    Last night from bcdee - all correct except bcdee's 6, Dare Devil's 2

    6-Ghana
    7-Borax

    :)
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    willrelf92willrelf92 Posts: 15,542
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    1.In a pack of playing cards, the knave is another name for which picture card? Jack.
    2.In cockney rhyming slang, what parts of the legs are your biscuits and cheese? Knees.
    3.A person that is eager and alert can be described as being bright eyed and bushy... what? Tailed.
    4.Which dairy product was advertised in 2001 with the slogan "The white stuff, are you made of it"?
    5.JSA is a DWP benefit paid to those that are unemployed and seeking work. What do the letters JSA stand for? Job Seekers' Allowance.
    6.Lake Volta, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, is in which African country?
    7.Tincal is an alternative name for which light, colourless crystalline substance?
    8.The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 between Britain and France dealt with the partition of which Empire after the end of the First World War?
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,085
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    4/4 from last quiz will.

    1.Name the three main UK Camelot National Lottery games/draws?
    2.Who were the three men in the films 3 Men and a Baby and 3 Men and a Little Lady?
    3.Lake Victoria is divided between which three African countries?
    4.Four US state governors have one on to become President. Name them?
    5.What are the five sports to have featured in every modern Olympics?
    6.The Four Roman Catholic Archbishops of England are based on which diocese?
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    neilwatsonneilwatson Posts: 31,534
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    1) thunderball, lottery, euro millions
    5) athletics,swimming,rowing,boxing,cycling
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,085
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    Just rowing and boxing are wrong neil
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    BarracuteBarracute Posts: 243,314
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    1) Thunderball, Euromillions and the main lottery - does it have a special name?
    2) Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson and the other one
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    FizzbinFizzbin Posts: 36,827
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    2 Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Tom Selleck


    and the g-g-ghost :o
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    bcdeebcdee Posts: 318,080
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    1 Lotto, Thunderball, Euromillions
    2 Steve Guttenburg, Ted Danson, Tom Sellick
    3 Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Chad
    4 JFK, George W Bush, Bill Clinton
    5 Marathon, Archery, Shooting
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,085
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    All correct Barracute and Fizzbin

    3-5 (2 left) 6
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    FizzbinFizzbin Posts: 36,827
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    4 Reagan
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,085
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    Chad, JFK, and all three of 5 are wrong bcdee

    4(2 left)
    5(2 left)
    6
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,085
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    Reagan's another

    4(1left)
    5(2 left)
    6
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    bcdeebcdee Posts: 318,080
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    5 Wrestling, Boxing
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,085
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    Sorry, neither of those bcdee
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    FizzbinFizzbin Posts: 36,827
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    5 Gymnastics?
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,085
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    That's another, Fizzbin
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    willrelf92willrelf92 Posts: 15,542
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    1.Name the three main UK Camelot National Lottery games/draws? Lotto, Euromillions...
    2.Who were the three men in the films 3 Men and a Baby and 3 Men and a Little Lady?
    3.Lake Victoria is divided between which three African countries?
    4.Four US state governors have gone on to become President. Name them?
    5.What are the five sports to have featured in every modern Olympics? Javelin, 100m, Hurdles, High Jump and Long Jump?
    6.The Four Roman Catholic Archbishops of England are based on which diocese?
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    BarracuteBarracute Posts: 243,314
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    5) Fencing?
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,085
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    Both right for Q1 and all wrong for Q5 will. Barracute gets the other with fencing for Q5
    4-Carter
    5-Westminster, Birmingham, Liverpool and Southwark

    1.What B is the main organ situated in the head?
    2.At what age by definition does a person become a teenager?
    3.In chess, the player who makes the first move is traditionally the one with which colour pieces?
    4.If foreign goods are brought into a foreign country are imports, what is the equivalent term for goods that are sent abroad?
    5.Which American actor fronts ads on TV for the mobile network EE?
    6.Which Manchester United midfielder was the first Asian player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League in March 2013?
    7.In nature, the cyclamen is the national flower of which European country?
    8.Michaelangelo died in the same year that Shakespeare was born. What was the year?
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