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Quiz night thread (Part 5)
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binbits01
05-11-2015
1. water bucket
2. fith of november
3. cinamon
4.catherine wheel
5. false
The quizmaster
05-11-2015
3, 5 and 9 are wrong Penny Crayon (welcome) and 3,5 binbits

3,9,10
eugenespeed
05-11-2015
1. Waer
2.November
3.Ginger
4. Catherine Wheel
5. So daft, it has to be true!
6. Gus Fawkes
7. The Whicker Man
8. Handel
9. Elizabeth I
10.Ottery St Mark
Penny Crayon
05-11-2015
Originally Posted by The quizmaster:
“3, 5 and 9 are wrong Penny Crayon (welcome) and 3,5 binbits

3,9,10”

Thanks for the welcome - I've never noticed this thread before.
I do love a quiz.

How often do you do one?
willrelf92
06-11-2015
1.What should you do with a used sparkler: put it in a bucket of cold water or put it in your pocket? Bucket of cold water.
2.According to the rhyme, remember, remember the fifth of... which month? November.
3.What spice is used in a parkin cake?
4.What firework is named after Catherine of Alexandria?
5.True or false - it was illegal not to celebrate bonfire night in Britain until 1959? True.
6.In 2002, which commonly associated person with the gunpowder plot, came 30th position in the BBC's 100 Greatest Briton's poll?
7.Picture: name the film? http://www.postimage.org/image/490rcbdx7/ The Wickerman.
8.Which composer composed Music for the Royal Fireworks?
9.Which British monarch was so fascinated by fireworks as a child, that she created the position of Fire Master?
10.In which town in Devon is the annual tar barrel event, where people carry flaming barrels high above their heads?
The quizmaster
06-11-2015
6 is Guy or Guido, eugenespeed. Rest are right Quiz night runs every Monday-Thursday at around 9.50pm Penny Crayon, and 4/4 will

eugenespeed
06-11-2015
I meant Guy. Typo.

That said, I have no idea how, since S and Y are nowhere near each other
atg
06-11-2015
Also, it wasn't Alan Whicker being burned alive in that film
P_P
06-11-2015
Originally Posted by The quizmaster:
“3/3 will, and just 5 is wrong Dare Devil. 5 is Christopher Cross. Tonight we celebrate seven years of quizzing on the quiz night thread. I have posted over 15,000 questions Here's a seven quiz to celebrate, and here's to another year of quizzing ”

Happy birthday QN thanks for keeping this going QM



1. Bucket of Cold Water
2. November
3. Cinnamon?
5. False?
6. Guy Fawkes?
9. Victoria?
eugenespeed
07-11-2015
Originally Posted by atg:
“Also, it wasn't Alan Whicker being burned alive in that film ”

I really wasn't having a good night that night
The quizmaster
09-11-2015
Thanks and 3,5,9 are wrong P_P. Just the one connection tonight to start

1.Who wrote The Darling Buds of May?
2.Which US femal figure skater won gold in the 2002 Winter Olympics?
3.Who had top ten hits in the early 1990s with Walk On By and When I'm Good And Ready?
4.What T is the name of a male domestic cat?
5.Which American frontiersman led a regiment of Hispanic volunteers from New Mexico at the Battle of Valverde in 1862?
6.Which famous Russian ballerina's breakthrough performance was in The Dying Swan in 1905?
7.Who founded the modern British police force?

What is the connection?
bcdee
09-11-2015
1
2
3
4 Tom
5
6
7 Robert Peel
Barracute
09-11-2015
4. Tomcat
6 .Margot Fontane?
7. Robert Peel
The quizmaster
09-11-2015
Both right bcdee
The quizmaster
09-11-2015
Just 6 is wrong Barracute
eugenespeed
09-11-2015
1) H.E Bates
2) Sarah Hughes
3) Sybil
4) Tom
5) Carson
6) Pavlova
7) Robert Peel

Connection: Haven't the slightest idea
The quizmaster
09-11-2015
7/7 eugenespeed (6 is Anna Pavlova )

Connection
Sallysally
09-11-2015
1. H. E. Bates


4. Tom
5. Kit Carson
6. Anna Pavlova?
7. Robert Peel

I only watched the first series, but I am pretty sure that Downton Abbey had some of the above characters.
eugenespeed
09-11-2015
If it's Downton Abbey, that's why I didn't get the connection. Don't watch it, clashes with the Gateshead FC Podcast.
Sallysally
09-11-2015
Originally Posted by eugenespeed:
“If it's Downton Abbey, that's why I didn't get the connection. Don't watch it, clashes with the Gateshead FC Podcast.”

Well, anything would have been better than Downton from the second series onwards. I thought it absolute tosh!
eugenespeed
09-11-2015
Originally Posted by Sallysally:
“Well, anything would have been better than Downton from the second series onwards. I thought it absolute tosh!”

I'll take your word for it
Dare Devil
09-11-2015
4. Tom

Hard quiz tonight, QM looking at the full list of answers, would never have got the connection either
The quizmaster
10-11-2015
All correct including connection Sallysally (I love Downton ) and Tom is right Dare Devil

1.In card games, what S is the term for the process in which a player thoroughly mixes up the cards at random before dealing?
2.In the UK, what is the usual term for the two day period comprising Saturday and Sunday?
3.Which part of a citrus fruit includes the zest - the flesh or the skin?
4.What three digit number should you dial for UK directory enquiries?
5.Which Serbian football club is the only one from that country to have won a UEFA competition?
6.Which river of North America connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean?
7.Which early twentieth-century art movement was named after a painting by one of the movement's founders, Wassily Kandinsky?
8.Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later Richard the Third, acting as regent during the minority of which king, his nephew, in 1483?
Dare Devil
10-11-2015
1. Shuffle
2. Weekend
3. Skin
4. 118?
binbits01
10-11-2015
1.shuffling
2.weekend
3.skin
4.100
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