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?"

[zico]

"Todays answers.... WHAT‚ÄôS THE CONNECTION? 1. Name the only man to have won the men‚Äôs 1500m Olympic gold twice? SEBASTIAN Coe 2. The Naked Civil Servant is a 1975 television film based on whose 1968 autobiography? QUENTIN Crisp 3. Which surrealist painter's best-known work is The Persistence of Memory? SALVADOR Dali 4. Who was the European Team Captain for the Miracle at Medinah, when his team achieved one of the greatest comebacks in Ryder Cup history by winning eight and tying one of the 12 singles matches on the last day to win the cup? JOSE Mar??a Olaz?°bal 5. Which actor gained recognition as streetwise informant Huggy Bear in the 1970‚Äôs television series Starsky & Hutch? ANTONIO Fargas 6. Which late actor received international acclaim for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the Oscar-nominated film Downfall (2004)? BRUNO Ganz 7. Who scored the winning penalty in the semi-final of Euro 96 against England, which he celebrated by mimicking the bravado of the pose struck earlier in the shoot out when Paul Gascoigne had converted his penalty? ANDREAS M??ller 8. Terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, gained global notoriety with a series of attacks carried out on behalf of Palestinian extremists between 1973 and 1975. Captured in 1994 and imprisoned till this day, how was he better known? CARLOS the Jackal 9. The actor Marttin Sheen was born under what name? RAMON (Antonio Gerardo) Estevez (If you get the middle names as well I‚Äôll give you 3 points!) 10. What's the connection? The word 'San' will go before the words to form a place name.- San Sebastian, San Quentin, San Salvador, San Jose, San Antonio, San Bruno, San Andreas, San Carlos, San RAMON"

[Turpinator]

8 yesterberry

[zico]

"Off out early today so quiz below. Hard to place a clue of the connection here without making it too easy but look at the first word of your answers! WHAT’S THE CONNECTION? 1. Name the only man to have won the men’s 1500m Olympic gold twice? 2. The Naked Civil Servant is a 1975 television film based on whose 1968 autobiography? 3. Which surrealist painter's best-known work is The Persistence of Memory? 4. Who was the European Team Captain for the Miracle at Medinah, when his team achieved one of the greatest comebacks in Ryder Cup history by winning eight and tying one of the 12 singles matches on the last day to win the cup? 5. Which actor gained recognition as streetwise informant Huggy Bear in the 1970’s television series Starsky & Hutch? 6. Which late actor received international acclaim for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the Oscar-nominated film Downfall (2004)? 7. Who scored the winning penalty in the semi-final of Euro 96 against England, which he celebrated by mimicking the bravado of the pose struck earlier in the shoot out when Paul Gascoigne had converted his penalty? 8. Terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, gained global notoriety with a series of attacks carried out on behalf of Palestinian extremists between 1973 and 1975. Captured in 1994 and imprisoned till this day, how was he better known? 9. The actor Martin Sheen was born under what name? 10. What's the connection?"

[Texas Iron]

zico 10 yesterday Thanks ?ü§†

[easthammer]

"7 but no link yet again I think my general knowledge ( which is no more than average ) outdoes my powers of deduction by some considerable margin, so I definitely need clues to the links!"

[charlie paynter]

"3. Good link, just didn’t get it"

[zico]

anything yesterday Texas?

[Texas Iron]

6 No link ?üò£

[riosleftsock]

"7 today, I got rasp and thought - it must be either berries or cripples, but didn't work it out."

[zico]

I tell you it is fascinating seeing peoples scorers when you actually do the quizzes. When you do them the links can seem so obvious but only because you are doing the quiz and can see the whole picture. Whereas yesterdays quiz I thought was quite hard but the scores were very good and people got what I thought might be impossible questions. Maybe I should put clues in for the links but then again would it be toom easy?!

[Syd Puddefoot]

5. Very clever link but no I did not get it and put file instead of rasp.

[Far Cough]

6

[Mad Dog]

"5. The link beat me today. Got ""bane"" first and it completely threw me off. Never heard of a baneberry"

[zico]

"Today's answers. WHAT’S THE LINK? 1. For which battle in the Falklands War was Colonel H Jones awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross? GOOSE Green 2. On February 10, 1996, a computer beat Garry Kasparov in the first game of a six-game match—the first time a computer had ever beat a human in a formal chess game. What was the computer named? Deep BLUE 3. Which is the main international airport serving Boston, Massachussetts? LOGAN 4. Which Scottish river was the site of a disastrous railway bridge collapse in 1879? TAY 5. Who was a member of the British cabinet and its informal leader from 1756 to 1761 (with a brief interlude in 1757), during the Seven Years' War? William Pitt the ELDER 6. Which wood-working tool can be round, half-round or flat and wood, cabinet or bastard? RASP 7. Which agricultural by product is the dry stalks of cereal plants after the grain and chaff have been removed? STRAW 8. What character did Tom Hardy play in 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises”? BANE 9. What was the name of the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system? Penny BLACK 10. What's the link between the previous 9 questions? Berries – Gooseberry, Blueberry, Loganberry, Tayberry, Elderberry, Raspberry, Strawberry, Baneberry, Blackberry"

[zico]

"Ok Syd! Morning all, I'll do the scores later as still waiting for one or two. WHAT’S THE LINK? 1. For which battle in the Falklands War was Colonel H Jones awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross? 2. On February 10, 1996, a computer beat Garry Kasparov in the first game of a six-game match—the first time a computer had ever beat a human in a formal chess game. What was the computer named? 3. Which is the main international airport serving Boston, Massachussetts? 4. Which Scottish river was the site of a disastrous railway bridge collapse in 1879? 5. Who was a member of the British cabinet and its informal leader from 1756 to 1761 (with a brief interlude in 1757), during the Seven Years' War? 6. Which wood-working tool can be round, half-round or flat and wood, cabinet or bastard? 7. Which agricultural by product is the dry stalks of cereal plants after the grain and chaff have been removed? 8. What character did Tom Hardy play in 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises”? 9. What was the name of the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system? 10. What's the link between the previous 9 questions?"

[Turpinator]

12

[Syd Puddefoot]

9 for me please. I thought having the Med for the answer to Q1 was a little too obvious but I would argue is technically correct.

[zico]

"Thanks East,,, although always happy to be corrected as I must confess I wouldn't have done too well today. A lot of checking and double checking answers!"

[charlie paynter]

6

[charlie paynter]

6

[charlie paynter]

6

[riosleftsock]

10 today thanks zico

[easthammer]

"11 today but just a shameful 4 for Yesterday thanks Zico. Although I got the Sargasso sea, I think a case could be made that the Aral Sea barley has a coastline/shoreline these days! And I guess you could technically argue that any inland sea only has a shoreline rather than a coastline. But the distinction between a coastline and shoreline is less than clear to me so I won't make the argument"

[Mad Dog]

9

[Far Cough]

"10, cheers zico"