Daily Quiz anyone?
easthammer 4:07 Thu Mar 19

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If you are stuck at home and bored like me.
How about exercising the old grey cells?

I have for a number of years run quiz nights and couple of times a year. I was due to do one tomorrow which is now cancelled So I have a bank of questions sitting in my computer's hard drive. They are quite eclectic in their nature.

I am thinking I could put up a set of questions for which you write down your answers. After 30mins or so I will put up the answers. DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS. before I post the right answers.

You mark your own answers and post your score.

I will then record the scores and at the end of the "lockdown" we will see who is WHO's brainbox supreme. Obiviously no looking up the answers (you only cheat yourselves)

Word of warning these won't be easy questions as they have been devised for teams of six. Forming teams on here might be too problematic. So I'll try to pick out the easier questions.

Any interest?

Kandu 10:07 Sat Feb 27
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2

Far Cough 12:31 Sat Feb 27
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2

I went for Crapper as well

Turpinator 9:18 Sat Feb 27
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Six

Mad Dog 12:03 Sat Feb 27
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4. Went for Thomas crapper for the toilet.

zico 10:32 Fri Feb 26
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Bit of useless information on inventions. Mike Nesmith (from The Monkees) mother invented Tipex.

Texas Iron 10:17 Fri Feb 26
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4

Cheers

geoffpikey 9:38 Fri Feb 26
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5. I had "Mercedes Benz"...so no point there but but I'll take "paper clip". Not strictly true, apparently. First patent, but didn't "invent" it. Fascinating.

wanstead_hammer 9:04 Fri Feb 26
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3. (incl a guess on the paper clip).

zico 8:56 Fri Feb 26
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Just the one and only got that because I saw a documentary on the history of the toilet recently! Quite ironic considering my answers have been crap this week!

Syd Puddefoot 8:15 Fri Feb 26
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Poor run continues with a 2 and one of those (Helicopter) a guess at that. Put Trevor Benjamin for Trevor Bayliss, D'oh. Bayliss was probably a better footballer though.

Good questions EH.

charlie paynter 7:46 Fri Feb 26
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3

Darlo Debs 6:53 Fri Feb 26
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3

riosleftsock 6:49 Fri Feb 26
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4

I got 6 and 10 wrong.

easthammer 6:46 Fri Feb 26
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Mad Dog

More me than you, I am having a bad day (ish) which is testing my sense of humour :(

Answers


1. What did a monk called Dionysius Exiguus invent in 533 AD but wasn’t widely adopted until about 1000AD (although not in Spain)?
The use of BC and AD for determining what year it was.
2. What piece of office stationery was invented by a German called Johan Vaaler in 1899?
Paper Clip
3. Who developed the first practical pneumatic tyre in 1887?
John Boyd Dunlop
4. Who patented the first three wheeled Motor Car called a “Motorwagen” in 1886?
Karl Benz
5. What was Frenchman Paul Cornu credited with inventing in 1907 although his initial design was unsuccessful?
A piloted Helicopter
6. Who invented the flushing toilet in 1596?
Sir John Hartington
7. What did British Engineer Hubert Booth and American David T Kenney both invent independently in1901? Although it was another four years before an Englishmen Walter Griffiths who produced a portable version more like that used today.
The vacuum cleaner
8. Who was the inventor of the Wind-up Radio?
Trevor Baylis
9. Who devised the protocols for the World Wide Web?
Tim Berners-Lee
10. What all pervasive piece of technology did Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce independently invent in 1959
The Micro Chip

How did you do?

Have a good weekend, more questions Monday

Mad Dog 6:25 Fri Feb 26
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Whereas mine was a joke. A really bad one apparently

geoffpikey 4:57 Fri Feb 26
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About 6 also, maybe 7. Based on dates rather than actual knowledge.

riosleftsock 4:45 Fri Feb 26
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6 possibly

easthammer 4:40 Fri Feb 26
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Mad Dog

Real ones, please. That was just a pun. Albeit not a good one.

Mad Dog 4:36 Fri Feb 26
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I'm confused. You said you want inventive answers.

Do you want the real ones or do you want us to make ones up?

Turpinator 1:43 Fri Feb 26
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Four Yesterday

easthammer 12:28 Fri Feb 26
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Questions

1. What did a monk called Dionysius Exiguus invent in 533 AD but wasn’t widely adopted until about 1000AD (although not in Spain)?
2. What piece of office stationery was invented by a German called Johan Vaaler in 1899?
3. Who developed the first practical pneumatic tyre in 1887?
4. Who patented the first three wheeled Motor Car called a “Motorwagen” in 1886?
5. What was Frenchman Paul Cornu credited with inventing in 1907 although his initial design was unsuccessful?
6. Who invented the flushing toilet in 1596?
7. What did British Engineer Hubert Booth and American David T Kenney both invent independently in1901? Although it was another four years before an Englishmen Walter Griffiths who produced a portable version more like that used today.
8. Who was the inventor of the Wind-up Radio?
9. Who devised the protocols for the World Wide Web?
10. What all-pervasive piece of technology did Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce independently invent in 1959

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