Quiz night thread (Part 5)

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  • DDRickyDDDDRickyDD Posts: 5,247
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    1. Every Four Years
    2. Eye
    3. Pavement
    4. Heights
    5. Joan Collins
    6. Laura Hardy

    7. Automatic
    8. Acid and Alkalhai
    9. The Shard
    10. Ronald McDonald
    11. The Fesitval of Judhism
    12. The Sad Song
  • P_PP_P Posts: 18,497
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    1. Every 4 years
    2. Eye?
    3. Pavement
    4. Heights
    5. Joan Collins
    6. Nadine Dorries?
    7. Automatic
    8. Acidity
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,023
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    7/7 will, 2,6,7,9-12 are wrong Ricky, and 2,6,7 are wrong P_P

    11-Shavuot
    12-Songs on the Death of Children

    :)
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,023
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    Good evening. Alliterative answers are back to start the week.

    1.A phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly?
    2.Snack food made from potatoes, cut into the shape of short, hollow cylinders?
    3.The number called as two little ducks in bingo?
    4.Comic book character who ate cow pies with the horns left in?
    5.Martin Shaw plays which police inspector in a BBC series?
    6.Famous annual horserace, situated in West Sussex?
    7.Set during World War II, who wrote the 1981 children's novel Goodnight Mister Tom?
    8.Lake in central Switzerland and the fourth largest in the country?
    9.Chemical compound which has the formula CaCO3?
    10.Who assassinated US Senator Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968?
  • BarracuteBarracute Posts: 243,187
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    1) Tongue Twister
    2) Hoola Hoops
    3) Twenty Two
    4) Desperate Dan
    10) Sirhan Sirhan (spelling may be off)
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,023
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    5/5 Barracute
  • neilwatsonneilwatson Posts: 31,510
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    5) George Gently
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,023
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    George Gently is right neil

    6-9
  • Dare DevilDare Devil Posts: 118,737
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    2. Hula Hoops
    3. 22
    9. Calcium carbonate? the elements are calcium, carbon and oxygen, but the name of that compound, I don't know
  • SallysallySallysally Posts: 5,070
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    1. tongue twister
    2. hula hoops
    3. twenty two
    4. desperate dan
    5. George Gently
    6. Glorious Goodwood
    7. Michelle Margorian
    8. Lake Lucerne
    9 calcium carbonate
    10. Sirhan Sirhan
  • willrelf92willrelf92 Posts: 15,472
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    1.A phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly? Tongue Twister.
    2.Snack food made from potatoes, cut into the shape of short, hollow cylinders? Hula Hoops.
    3.The number called as two little ducks in bingo? Twenty Two.
    4.Comic book character who ate cow pies with the horns left in? Desperate Dan.
    5.Martin Shaw plays which police inspector in a BBC series?
    6.Famous annual horserace, situated in West Sussex?
    7.Set during World War II, who wrote the 1981 children's novel Goodnight Mister Tom?
    8.Lake in central Switzerland and the fourth largest in the country?
    9.Chemical compound which has the formula CaCO3?
    10.Who assassinated US Senator Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968?
  • Jim_McIntoshJim_McIntosh Posts: 5,866
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    Good evening. Alliterative answers are back to start the week.

    1.A phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly?
    2.Snack food made from potatoes, cut into the shape of short, hollow cylinders?
    3.The number called as two little ducks in bingo?
    4.Comic book character who ate cow pies with the horns left in?
    5.Martin Shaw plays which police inspector in a BBC series?
    6.Famous annual horserace, situated in West Sussex?
    7.Set during World War II, who wrote the 1981 children's novel Goodnight Mister Tom?
    8.Lake in central Switzerland and the fourth largest in the country?
    9.Chemical compound which has the formula CaCO3?
    10.Who assassinated US Senator Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968?

    1. Thingymabob
    2. Tattie cylinders.
    3. Quack quack.
    4. Batman
    5. Shawshank Redemption
    6. Chariots Of Fire
    7. Mister Tom's many victims
    8. Veronica Lake
    9. Cackowthree
    10. Liza Minelli

    Real answers

    1. ?????
    2. Crisps (I must really be dumb to not know Q1 yet this be crisps)
    3. 22?
    4. Desperate Dan
    5. ????
    6. The Derby?
    7. ????
    8. Lake Geneva
    9. Calcium Carbonate
    10. Sirhan Sirhan (good thing he was never knighted)

    Probably got more right going for silly answers.
  • DDRickyDDDDRickyDD Posts: 5,247
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    1. Tongue Twister
    2. French Fries
    3. Twenty Two
    4. Dan Dandy
    5. Paul Poldark
    6. Glourious Goodwood
    7. Jane Jefferies
    8.Lake Liehbber
    9. Calcium Copper
    10. Matthew Marshall
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,023
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    Last night from Dare Devil - all correct except Ricky's 2,4,5,7-10, and Jim's 2,6,8. I ignore silly answers :kitty:
  • P_PP_P Posts: 18,497
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    1. Tongue Twisters
    2. Hula Hoops
    3. Twenty Two
    4. Desperate Dan
    5. George Gently
    9. Calcium Carbonate
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,023
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    6/6 from last night P_P

    1.On what date is New Year's Day?
    2.How many hours are there in three days?
    3.What R is a bladed tool used in the removal of unwanted hair?
    4.Which Disney character has a nose that grows longer every time he tells a lie?
    5.Parrots, pelicans and cuckoos are all types of what?
    6.How many cards are there in a complete standard deck?

    7.Which European country does parmesan cheese come from?
    8.Stomatology is the study of diseases that effect which part of the body?
    9.In maths, which statistical average is calculated by finding out the middle value in a set of data arranged in order?
    10.A wheel-like symbol known as the Ashoka Chakra appears on the flag of which Asian country?
    11.In which city did the St Scholastica's Day riot begin on 10 February 1355, with opposing forces of town and gown on the rampage for three days?
    12.The Farnes Hercules sculpture, signed by an otherwise unknown Glykon, is thought to be an enlarged Roman copy from an original by which Classical Greece era sculptor?
  • AxGAxG Posts: 25,663
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    1. 1 January
    2.72
    3.Razor
    4.Pinochio
    5.Birds
    6.52

    7.Italy
    8.Stomach?
    9.
    10.India
    11.Rome
    12.
  • Dare DevilDare Devil Posts: 118,737
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    1. Jan 1st
    2. 72
    3. Razor
    4. Pinocchio (spelling)
    5. Bird
    6. 52
    7. Italy?
    8. Stomache?
    9. Median
  • BarracuteBarracute Posts: 243,187
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    1) 1st Jan
    2) 72
    3) Razor
    4) Pinocchio
    5) Birds
    6) 52
    7) Italy
  • binbits01binbits01 Posts: 55,495
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    1. Jan. 1'st
    2. 72 hours
    3.razor
    4.Pinochio
    5. birds

    7. Italy
    8. abdomen
  • SallysallySallysally Posts: 5,070
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    1 January 1st
    2. 72
    3. razor
    4 Pinocchio
    5. birds
    6. 52
    7. Italy
    8. mouth?
    9. median
    10. India
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,023
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    All correct except AxG's 8,11, Dare Devil's 8, binbits 8

    11,12
  • damianswifedamianswife Posts: 1,205
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    12 lysippos was the Classical Greek sculptor of the Farnese Hercules
  • eugenespeedeugenespeed Posts: 66,695
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    Damn, missed the quiz.

    11 is Oxford.
  • willrelf92willrelf92 Posts: 15,472
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    1.On what date is New Year's Day? 1st January.
    2.How many hours are there in three days? 72.
    3.What R is a bladed tool used in the removal of unwanted hair? Razor.
    4.Which Disney character has a nose that grows longer every time he tells a lie? Pinocchio.
    5.Parrots, pelicans and cuckoos are all types of what? Bird.
    6.How many cards are there in a complete standard deck? 52.
    7.Which European country does parmesan cheese come from? Italy.
    8.Stomatology is the study of diseases that effect which part of the body? Stomach?
    9.In maths, which statistical average is calculated by finding out the middle value in a set of data arranged in order? Median.
    10.A wheel-like symbol known as the Ashoka Chakra appears on the flag of which Asian country?
    11.In which city did the St Scholastica's Day riot begin on 10 February 1355, with opposing forces of town and gown on the rampage for three days?
    12.The Farnes Hercules sculpture, signed by an otherwise unknown Glykon, is thought to be an enlarged Roman copy from an original by which Classical Greece era sculptor?
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