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Quiz night thread (Part 5)
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The quizmaster
19-04-2016
6/6 bcdee
Barracute
19-04-2016
1) 104
2) Memo
3) Gravy
4) Black
5) Hattrick
The quizmaster
19-04-2016
5/5 Barracute

7,8
willrelf92
19-04-2016
1.What is 13 x 8? 104.
2.What is the common shortened form of the word memorandum? Memory.
3.What G is the general name for a thin sauce made with the juices of meat that has been roasted? Gravy.
4.In politics, what colour is the front door of 10 Downing Street? Black.
5.Which term for scoring three comes from the tradition of giving a hat to a bowler who took three consecutive wickets in cricket? Hat-trick?
6.Mount Logan, which rises to almost 6,000 metres in the St Elias Mountains, is the highest mountain in which country?
7.Also based on the Faust legend, the Mephisto Waltzes were written between 1859 and 1885 by which composer?
8.The son of Marcus Aurelius, which Roman emperor was reputedly strangled in his bath by his wrestling partner Narcissus, after his mistress's attempt to poison him failed?
atg
19-04-2016
7. Strauss
8. Vespasian (will be correct one day)
Dare Devil
19-04-2016
1. 104
2. Memo
3. Gravy
4. Black
5. Hat trick
Fizzbin
19-04-2016
8 Commodus, though I thought Russell Crowe killed him.
The quizmaster
20-04-2016
Both incorrect atg, 5/5 Dare Devil, and Commodus is right FIzzbin
8-Liszt

1.People age as they get what: older or younger?
2.What B is a wired mesh that is used to carry shopping to the checkout?
3.What animal is the word reed backwards?
4.In the condiment salt and pepper, which one is obtained from a plant?
5.In song titles, which activity occurs in the dark for Bruce Springstein in 1984, and in the moonlight in a 2000 hit single by Toploader?
6.For which highly contagious disease did Edward Jenner discover a vaccine in 1796?
7.In 2011, Osama Bin Laden was located and killed in which town named after a nineteenth-century British Army officer?
8.Which seventeenth-century Frenchman produced an unsolved theorem and was regarded as the inventor of differential calculus?
Sallysally
20-04-2016
1. older
2. basket
3. deer
4. pepper
5. dancing
6. smallpox
7. Abbotabad
8. Fermat?
Dare Devil
20-04-2016
1. Older. I wish it was younger
2. Basket
3. Deer
4. Pepper?
5. Dancing
6. Measels?
The quizmaster
20-04-2016
8/8 Sallsally Just 6 is wrong Dare Devil

bcdee
20-04-2016
1 Older
2 Basket
3 Deer
4 Pepper
5 Dancing
6
7 Abbottabad
The quizmaster
20-04-2016
All correct bcdee

willrelf92
21-04-2016
1.People age as they get what: older or younger? Older.
2.What B is a wired mesh that is used to carry shopping to the checkout? Basket.
3.What animal is the word reed backwards? Deer.
4.In the condiment salt and pepper, which one is obtained from a plant? Pepper.
5.In song titles, which activity occurs in the dark for Bruce Springstein in 1984, and in the moonlight in a 2000 hit single by Toploader? Dancing.
6.For which highly contagious disease did Edward Jenner discover a vaccine in 1796?
7.In 2011, Osama Bin Laden was located and killed in which town named after a nineteenth-century British Army officer?
8.Which seventeenth-century Frenchman produced an unsolved theorem and was regarded as the inventor of differential calculus?
The quizmaster
21-04-2016
All correct from last night will

1.What four-letter word is the opposite of rich?
2.Relatives of marriage are called what: in-laws or out-laws?
3.What T is a thin piece of soft absorbant paper usually packaged in a box for use as a disposable handkerchief?
4.Somebody who has completely misunderstood something has said to have got hold of the wrong end of the..... what?
5.In computing, what is the name of the Google line of consumer electronic devices that run the Android operating system?
6.Quotations: which weather forecaster infamously said in October 1987 "Earlier on today, apparently a woman rang the BBC and said that she heard there was a hurricane on the way... well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isnt!"?
7.In chemistry, which weak dibasic acid is prduced when carbon dioxide dissolves in water?
8.Which three-metre-wide bed dominates room 57 of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and was probably built for an inn in Hertfordshire in about 1590?
bcdee
21-04-2016
1 Dare .......Poor
2 In laws
3 Tissue
4 Stick
5
6 Michael Fish
The quizmaster
21-04-2016
All correct bcdee
Dare Devil
21-04-2016
1. Poor
2. In laws
3. Tissue
4. Stick
5. Chrome?
6. Michael Fish - thanks to group

They've let me down on the last two though
The quizmaster
21-04-2016
Just 5 is wrong Dare Devil

5,7,8
Barracute
21-04-2016
1) Poor
2) In-laws
3) Tissue
4) Stick
6) Michael Fish
The quizmaster
21-04-2016
All correct Barracute

5,7,8
Dare Devil
21-04-2016
5. Is it a phone manufacturer that is pure android?
The quizmaster
22-04-2016
5-Nexus
7-carbonic acid
8-The Great Bed of Ware

willrelf92
22-04-2016
1.What four-letter word is the opposite of rich? Poor.
2.Relatives of marriage are called what: in-laws or out-laws? In-laws.
3.What T is a thin piece of soft absorbant paper usually packaged in a box for use as a disposable handkerchief? Tissue.
4.Somebody who has completely misunderstood something has said to have got hold of the wrong end of the..... what? Stick.
5.In computing, what is the name of the Google line of consumer electronic devices that run the Android operating system?
6.Quotations: which weather forecaster infamously said in October 1987 "Earlier on today, apparently a woman rang the BBC and said that she heard there was a hurricane on the way... well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isnt!"?
7.In chemistry, which weak dibasic acid is prduced when carbon dioxide dissolves in water?
8.Which three-metre-wide bed dominates room 57 of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and was probably built for an inn in Hertfordshire in about 1590?
The quizmaster
25-04-2016
4/4 from last quiz will

1.PTB-push the blame onto somebody else?
2.BITTW-idiom that implies family are more important than friends?
3.CP-football team who play their home games at Selhurst Park?
4.KOTR-Roger Miller song covered by the Proclaimers in 1990?
5.KS-highest peak in the Peak District?
6.SOTU-name of the speech given by the US President every Janaury?
7.CG-Machine deveoped by the American Eli Whitney in 1793?
8.PTE-Roman scholar who died in AD 79?
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