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Just 11 is wrong Sallysally - you're 1 out
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11) James III
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Quiz night 3/9 12,746
The other way neil
![]() 12-Sumer Is Icumen In/Cuckoo Song 1.What is the name of the electronic device which treasure hunters use to pinpoint the location of underground metal? 2.What is the name for the tool which has a long handle with a four pronged head and is used for digging? 3.Who are more powerful in a matriarchy: men or women? 4.In Arabian mythology, which word was adopted to describe the spirit who emerged from a lamp to come to Aladdin's aid? 5.Current affairs: 100 pupils were sent home from a secondary school for not wearing what? 6.What animal links a 2013 film by Gus Van Sant and a 2003 album by The White Stripes? 7.Which continent holds 90% of the Earth's ice? 8.Quotations: before Trafalgar, Nelson signalled a message to the fleet that "England expects every man will do his..." what? 9.In the plays of Shakespeare, what name is shared by the woman in love with Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the heroine of All's Well That Ends Well? 10.Mary Ann Nichols, who was murdered in the early hours of 7 August 1888, is generally regarded as having been the first victim of whom? 11.Which Italian sculptor's statue of Napoleon clothed only in a fig leaf can be seen at Apsley House in London? 12.Which Christian sect, originating in Asia Minor and Syria, takes its name from a Bishop of Constantinople whose views of the nature and person of Christ led to the calling of the Council of Ephesus in AD 431? |
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1 Metal detector
2 Fork 3 Women 4 Genie 5 School tie 6 Elephant......great album ![]() 7 Antarctic 8 Duty |
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1. Metal detector
3. I was going to say men (it always is), but think it could be a trick question so I'll go with women 4. Genie 5. a tie? 7. Antarctica |
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Just 5 is wrong bcdee/Dare Devil
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5. black shoes?
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5. actually, might sound stupid, but trousers?
A lot of girls seem to think leggins are trousers. Quite clearly they are not. |
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Not trousers either - you just wouldn't believe the answer
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9. Can I be cheeky and say either Helena or Hermia?
10. Jack the Ripper? 11. Canova |
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Helena, Sallysally
other two are right as well12-Nestorians Back tonight
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Quiz night 4/9 12,758
1.Which human body organs focus light rays?
2.What substance that is found on the beach goes before castle, box and paper? 3.The Indian board game called Heaven and Hell was patented in Britain as Snakes and... what? 4.The expression a dog's life refers to what sort of existence: happy or sad? 5.What term for a Celtic minstrel poet is the word drab backwards? 6.Picture: who is this children's character on TV? http://www.postimage.org/image/wdcmggy3d/ 7.Durmast, English and Turkey are all types of which tree found in Britain? 8.What type of small, dried grape derives its name from the Greek city of Corinth, the centre for its export? 9.Mount Pinatubo, the volcano that erupted in June 1991, is in which Asian country? 10.Which device alters the amount of resistance in an electrical circuit, thus regulating the flow of current? 11.In mathematics, what name is given to a hypothetical point where two parallel lines join at infinity? 12.What is the title of the hymn which is usually sung to the tune Old Hundredth, and is a metrical version of Psalm One Hundred? |
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1 the lens and cornea in the eyes
2. sand 3. ladders 4. sad 5. bard 7. oak 8. currant? 9.Philippines 10. rheostat 12 All people that on earth do dwell (or something like that!) |
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All correct Sallysally - you just missed out end in the middle for Q12 and nearly a full house for you
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1. Eyes
2. Sand 3. Ladders 5. Bard 6. Tracy Beaker, used to be one of my favourites ![]() 7. Willow? 8. Currants? 9. Philippines Sorry I'm late and that I've missed the last couple.
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Au revoir everybody for 3 weeks. Happy quizzing!
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Just 7 is wrong P_P
Have a nice time in Africa Sallysally
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6 is Tracy Beaker.
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Quiz night 8/9 Gold
Welcome to this week and a new quiz with gold
![]() 1.A gold medal is awarded for coming which place in sport competitions? 2.Name of the British company that manufacturers snack foods, most notably crisps? 3.A metal worker who specializes in working with gold is called a gold: smith or jones? 4.British TV show which featured the catchphrase Bernie, the Bolt!? 5.Black Cherry is a 2003 album by which electronic music duo? 6.What name is given to the monetary system which Britain abandoned in 1931? 7.What kind of creature is a goldfinch? 8.The element gold has what symbol? 9.Which African country was formerly called the Gold Coast Colony? 10."All that glisters is not gold" is a line from which Shakespeare play? 11.Which town in Australia was the site of the earliest gold strikes, and subsequently had a beer named after it? 12.What name was given to the Mongolians under the leadership of Batu Khan, the grandson off Genghis, who in the thirteenth-century swept westward across western Asia and eastern Europe? |
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1) 1st
3) Smith 5) Goldfrapp 8) au |
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1. First
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Just Dare Devil's 2,6,7 are wrong
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7) bird
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