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Quiz night thread (Part 5)
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Chris Frost
11-09-2015
1. 210
2. Rolling on the floor laughing
3. Mint
4. 4
5. Will Smith and son Jayden
6. Peck
7. Massachusetts
8. ?
willrelf92
11-09-2015
1.How many seconds are there in three and a half minutes? 210.
2.In online slang, what does the acronym ROFL stand for? Rolling On the Floor Laughing.
3.Which garden herb is made into a sauce often eaten with lamb? Mint.
4.How many stomachs has a cow - 4 or 8? 4?
5.Which father and son won the Razzies for Worst Actor and Worse Supporting Actor in 2014 for their performance in After Earth? Will and Jaden Smith.
6.Which unit of capacity, equal to a quarter of a bushel, can also mean to give someone a light kiss on the cheek? Peck?
7.Lexington, the scene of a famous battle, is in which American state?
8.Which Warsaw-born dancer joined the Diaghilev Ballet in 1913, became a British citizen in 1918 and, in 1935, gave her name to a ballet company?
The quizmaster
11-09-2015
Both right lightdragon, all correct Chris and will
8-Marie Rambert

Dare Devil
11-09-2015
1. 210
2. Rolling on the floor laughing
3. Mint
4. 4
6. Peck - didn't get that from the first part of the question!
The quizmaster
11-09-2015
5/5 Dare Devil
atg
11-09-2015
Originally Posted by The quizmaster:
“ 2,5,6 are wrong will”

I think warehouse/homeware works as well as workhouse/homework.
The quizmaster
14-09-2015
Good evening. The one big connection tonight

1.In 1927, who became the first person to fly a plane solo non-stop across the Atlantic, from New York to Paris?
2.Sir Ben Kingsley won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as which Indian religious leader?
3.Which US President is commonly known by his initials as FDR?
4.Which dictator was Chancellor of Germany from 1933-1945?
5.Who recently surpassed Queen Victoria's record as the longest-serving British monarch?
6.Who was the leader of the Polish Solidarity trade union and architect of the Gdansk Agreement?
7.Who was the founder of CNN in 1980?
8.Who was the head of the Roman Catholic Church from 1978-2005?
9.Who founded Facebook?
10.Who was Chairman of the Federal Reserve during the Financial Crisis of 2007-08?
Dare Devil
14-09-2015
4. Hitler
5. Elizabeth II
8. The pope?
9. Mark Zuckerburg
The quizmaster
14-09-2015
4/4 Dare Devil
bcdee
14-09-2015
1
2 Ghandi
3 Franklin D Roosevelt
4 Adolf Hitler
5 Queen Elizabeth II
6 Lech Walesa
7
8
9 Mark Zuckerburg
The quizmaster
14-09-2015
All correct bcdee

1,7,10
willrelf92
14-09-2015
1.In 1927, who became the first person to fly a plane solo non-stop across the Atlantic, from New York to Paris?
2.Sir Ben Kingsley won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as which Indian religious leader?
3.Which US President is commonly known by his initials as FDR? Franklin Roosevelt.
4.Which dictator was Chancellor of Germany from 1933-1945? Hitler.
5.Who recently surpassed Queen Victoria's record as the longest-serving British monarch? Queen Elizabeth II.
6.Who was the leader of the Polish Solidarity trade union and architect of the Gdansk Agreement?
7.Who was the founder of CNN in 1980?
8.Who was the head of the Roman Catholic Church from 1978-2005?
9.Who founded Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg.
10.Who was Chairman of the Federal Reserve during the Financial Crisis of 2007-08?
The quizmaster
14-09-2015
4/4 will

1,7,10 and connection
Dare Devil
14-09-2015
Long shot connection, people who have made history?
AxG
14-09-2015
1.Charles Lindbergh
2.Gandhi
3.Franklin D Roosevelt
4.Adolf Hitler
5.Elizabeth II
6.Lech Walesa
7.Ted Turner
8.John Paul II
9.Mark Zuckerberg
10.Who was Chairman of the Federal Reserve during the Financial Crisis of 2007-08?
The quizmaster
14-09-2015
They have in a way Dare Devil, but not what I'm after and 9/9 bcdee

10 and connection
AxG
14-09-2015
Successive decades?
atg
15-09-2015
I'll go barmy if I spend any longer trying to find any connection between the pope, Adolf Hitler and lech walesa.

How about vegetarianism?
Fizzbin
15-09-2015
Originally Posted by atg:
“I'll go barmy if I spend any longer trying to find any connection between the pope, Adolf Hitler and lech walesa.

How about vegetarianism?”

They've all been awarded Time magazine Man/Person of the Year.
Chris Frost
15-09-2015
1. Charles Lindberg
2. Ghandi
3. Franklyn D. Roosevelt
4. Adolf Hitler
5. Elizabeth II
6. Lech Waleska (sp?)
7. ?
8. Pope John Paul II
9. Mark Zuckerberg
10. Alan Greenspan?
The quizmaster
15-09-2015
Just 10 is wrong Chris and well done Fizzbin
10 is Ben Bernanke

See you tonight
The quizmaster
15-09-2015
1.In what year did Neil Armstrong walk on the moon - 1969 or 2009?
2.True or false - butterflies are insects?
3.What number do you get if you add the number of months in a year to the number of zodiac signs?
4.What two-word French phrase is said when wishing someone a good journey?
5.Which plant, cultivated in many varieties for its large, edible leaves, derives its name from the Latin for of milk, because of the milky liquid it can exude when cut?
6.Which American author wrote the 1989 novel A Prayer For Owen Meany?
7.If you were 60 degrees north and 25 degrees east, you would be a few kilometres from the centre of which capital city?
8.In epidemiology, what name is given to any agent (person, animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism?
bcdee
15-09-2015
1 1969
2 True
3 24
4 Bon Voyage
5
6
7 Stockholm
8 Vector
willrelf92
15-09-2015
1.In what year did Neil Armstrong walk on the moon - 1969 or 2009? 1969.
2.True or false - butterflies are insects? True.
3.What number do you get if you add the number of months in a year to the number of zodiac signs? 24.
4.What two-word French phrase is said when wishing someone a good journey? Bon voyage!
5.Which plant, cultivated in many varieties for its large, edible leaves, derives its name from the Latin for of milk, because of the milky liquid it can exude when cut?
6.Which American author wrote the 1989 novel A Prayer For Owen Meany?
7.If you were 60 degrees north and 25 degrees east, you would be a few kilometres from the centre of which capital city?
8.In epidemiology, what name is given to any agent (person, animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism?
Chris Frost
15-09-2015
1. 1969
2. True
3. 24
4. Bon voyage
5. Lettuce
6. John Irving
7. Helsinki
8. Vector
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