Daily Quiz anyone?

[easthammer]

"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?"

[zebthecat]

3

[Tomsdad]

1. Don't like these guess the year quizzes.

[easthammer]

Today's answers How did you do? 1950 Princess Anne born 1951 Festival of Britain 1952 Death of King George VI 1953 Everest conquered 1954 Roger Bannister sub 4min mile 1955 Independent Television begins 1956 End of 3rd Class travel on BR 1957 First Sputnik in space 1958 CND formed 1959 M1 opened

[zebthecat]

Oh dear... I predict not many to maybe none.

[easthammer]

Today's round the 1950s Assign a year to the following events ( all different years 1950-1959) M1 opened CND formed Princess Anne born Everest conquered Death of King George VI Festival of Britain Roger Bannister sub 4min mile Independent Television begins First Sputnik in space End of 3rd Class travel on BR

[easthammer]

"SoS I think you will find that the USA did their test first in the Nevada Desert. Bikini was the UK. Anyway 6 it is and is shown in the leader board below. Wonder what has happened to our early leader GeoffPikey not posted for four days now. Hope all is well (doubt he is on holiday) Welcome Irons of Canada good start with 8 Zebthecat

[Son of Sam]

6 today would have been a lot more but i reckoned the atomic tests were done before they dropped the bomb anyway onwards and upwards

[Son of Sam]

3 nailed on and 7 guesses

[DiCaniosLefty]

6 today thanks east

[The_Phantom]

3 Bit embarrassed/ashamed at my ignorance re WW2 Thought everything in that list to do with it was either 1944 or 1945

[zebthecat]

10

[ironsofcanada]

8 as I predicted. Sorry Charles.

[ironsofcanada]

8 as I predicted. Sorry Charles.

[Tomsdad]

2

[easthammer]

Answers 1940 Evacuation of Dunkirk 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbour 1942 Battle at El Alamein 1943 Mussolini overthrown 1944 D-Day 1945 Hiroshima 1946 US first atomic tests at Bikini 1947 School leaving age raised to 15 1948 Prince Charles born 1949 People's Republic of China formed

[Tomsdad]

Pure guess work today!

[ironsofcanada]

"2 I have no clue, pretty confident on the rest."

[zebthecat]

Think I might have a 10 here. Knew 8 and the other two make sense.

[easthammer]

"For today's round, I have utilised part of an ongoing round that was to put a century's worth of events in order. ( a big ask ) But today all you have to do is put the following events in the 1940s in order the events took place from 1940 - 1949 Allocate a year to each event Mussolini was overthrown US first atomic tests at Bikini Hiroshima Prince Charles born Battle at El Alamein The People's Republic of China formed D-Day Evacuation of Dunkirk School leaving age raised to 15 The bombing of Pearl Harbour"

[easthammer]

"Scores on the doors from yesterday Any more to come? Son of Sam

[DiCaniosLefty]

"10, you little beauty!"

[The_Phantom]

One

[easthammer]

Sorry Forgot The Year was 2008 So an extra point if you said that.

[zebthecat]

7 today. That's an improvement.

[Tomsdad]

4 today