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1. water bucket
2. fith of november 3. cinamon 4.catherine wheel 5. false |
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3, 5 and 9 are wrong Penny Crayon (welcome) and 3,5 binbits
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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 |
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3, 5 and 9 are wrong Penny Crayon (welcome) and 3,5 binbits
3,9,10 I do love a quiz. How often do you do one? |
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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? |
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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
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I meant Guy. Typo.
That said, I have no idea how, since S and Y are nowhere near each other
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Also, it wasn't Alan Whicker being burned alive in that film
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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 ![]() thanks for keeping this going QM ![]() 1. Bucket of Cold Water 2. November 3. Cinnamon? 5. False? 6. Guy Fawkes? 9. Victoria? |
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Also, it wasn't Alan Whicker being burned alive in that film
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Quiz night 9/11 Connections
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? |
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4. Tomcat
6 .Margot Fontane? 7. Robert Peel |
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Both right bcdee
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Just 6 is wrong Barracute
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1) H.E Bates
2) Sarah Hughes 3) Sybil 4) Tom 5) Carson 6) Pavlova 7) Robert Peel Connection: Haven't the slightest idea
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7/7 eugenespeed
(6 is Anna Pavlova )Connection |
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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. |
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If it's Downton Abbey, that's why I didn't get the connection. Don't watch it, clashes with the Gateshead FC Podcast.
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If it's Downton Abbey, that's why I didn't get the connection. Don't watch it, clashes with the Gateshead FC Podcast.
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Well, anything would have been better than Downton from the second series onwards. I thought it absolute tosh!
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4. Tom
Hard quiz tonight, QM looking at the full list of answers, would never have got the connection either ![]()
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Quiz night 10/11 15,338
All correct including connection Sallysally (I love Downton
) and Tom is right Dare Devil1.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? |
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1. Shuffle
2. Weekend 3. Skin 4. 118? |
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1.shuffling
2.weekend 3.skin 4.100 |
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Quiz night runs every Monday-Thursday at around 9.50pm Penny Crayon, and 4/4 will
Here's a seven quiz to celebrate, and here's to another year of quizzing