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]

"What’s the connection with the answers? 1. What’s the name of the character played by Jodie Foster in the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs? 2. Golden Hind was of course a galleon captained by Francis Drake in his circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580. What was she originally known as before Drake renamed her? 3. Who was the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1 in 1970 and is its longest-serving presenter? 4. Which British magazine stopped publishing in 1984, after 104 years? 5. In the Man from U.N.C.L.E. television series U.N.C.L.E.'s primary adversary in the pilot episode was WASP, but what did it become known as in the main series? 6. Which former goalkeeper died in the Munich air crash whilst working as a newspaper reporter? 7. Which 1975 American comedy-drama film, (based on the novel by Ken Kesey), was the second film, after 1934’s It Happened One Night, to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Lead Role, Actress in Lead Role, Director, and Screenplay)? 8. Who was Tony Blair's first Foreign Secretary when Labour returned to power in 1997? 9. What links novelist Jack Higgins and the Apollo 11 moon landing? 10. What was the name of William Wordsworth's house in Grasmere in the Lake District between1799 to 1808? 11. In which craft did Sir Donald Campbell die whilst endeavouring to set a water speed record on Coniston Water in 1967? 12. What’s the connection?"

[easthammer]

6 thanks Zico

[Syd Puddefoot]

Cheers Zico!

[zico]

I'll give you a half Syd.

[zico]

I'll give you a half Syd.

[Syd Puddefoot]

"4, unless I get anything for ""a Church"" for Q1."

[Mad Dog]

5

[Texas Iron]

7 Cheers…

[Far Cough]

5 thanks zico

[zico]

"Weather Quiz 1. The Bayeux Tapestry of the 1070s depicts a man installing a rooster weathervane on which building? Westminster Abbey 2. Name the famous Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara region which can reach hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe? Sirocco 3. What name is given to an area of high pressure which brings long periods of settled weather? Anticyclone 4. Which common phrase is given to an unseasonably warm period near the middle of autumn? An Indian summer 5. The Beaufort scale is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort wind force scale. It starts at “0” but what is the highest number which denotes Hurricane force? 12 5. Give the popular nautical term that refers to the belt near the equator where sailing ships sometimes get stuck on windless waters? Doldrums 6. At what wind speed does a tropical storm become a hurricane? Is it 64mph, 74mph, 84mph or 94mph? 74mph 7. True or false? The North Pole is much warmer than the South Pole? True 8. What is measured by a Campbell-Stokes recorder? intensity of sunshine 9. What type of cloud is a dense towering vertical cloud associated with thunderstorms - Cumulus humilis, Altostratus or Cumulonimbus? Cumulonimbus 10. Which desert is the driest nonpolar desert in the world? Atacama"

[zico]

"Seems quite apt today! Weather Quiz 1. The Bayeux Tapestry of the 1070s depicts a man installing a rooster weathervane on which building? 2. Name the famous Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara region which can reach hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe? 3. What name is given to an area of high pressure which brings long periods of settled weather? 4. Which common phrase is given to an unseasonably warm period near the middle of autumn? 5. The Beaufort scale is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort wind force scale. It starts at “0” but what is the highest number which denotes Hurricane force? 5. Give the popular nautical term that refers to the belt near the equator where sailing ships sometimes get stuck on windless waters? 6. At what wind speed does a tropical storm become a hurricane? Is it 64mph, 74mph, 84mph or 94mph? 7. True or false? The North Pole is much warmer than the South Pole? 8. What is measured by a Campbell-Stokes recorder? 9. What type of cloud is a dense towering vertical cloud associated with thunderstorms - Cumulus humilis, Altostratus or Cumulonimbus? 10. Which desert is the driest nonpolar desert in the world?"

[easthammer]

"4 for me thank you, Zico"

[riosleftsock]

6 as well

[Mad Dog]

1. I had absolutely no idea gremlins was linked to a Roald Dahl story. Sort of trivia I love

[Far Cough]

1

[Syd Puddefoot]

Six. Helped by a total guess of Sense and Sensibility. All the Brontes and Austen books just merge into one for me.

[Texas Iron]

5 today

[zico]

"Books & Authors 1. Who wrote the novel ""Where Eagles Dare""? Alistair Maclean 2. What was the first Bond film NOT to utilize any story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming? Goldeneye 3. With which book would you associate the ship ""The Hispaniola""? Treasure Island 4. Who wrote the novel ""Gone With the Wind"" on which the famous film was based? Margaret Mitchell 5. How many Arabian Nights were written about? One Thousand and One 6. Which was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be published? Sense and Sensibility 7. ""It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"", these are the opening lines of which novel? A Tale of Two Cities 8. What does the “J.R.R.” stand for in J.R.R. Tolkien’s name? John Ronald Reuel 9. What was the title of Roald Dahl's first children's book, written in 1943? Clue - A 1984 American Black/Horror comedy film is said to be loosely inspired by the characters in Roald Dahl's story. ""The Gremlins"" 10. In which Tibetan retreat was James Hilton's ""The Lost Horizon""? Shangri-La"

[zico]

"to be or not to be - taH pagh taHbe I can't argue with East so if anyone put one of the others down add it to your score today. Staying along the same lines of Literature it's Books & Authors 1. Who wrote the novel ""Where Eagles Dare""? 2. What was the first Bond film NOT to utilize any story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming? 3. With which book would you associate the ship ""The Hispaniola""? 4. Who wrote the novel ""Gone With the Wind"" on which the famous film was based? 5. How many Arabian Nights were written about? 6. Which was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be published? 7. ""It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"", these are the opening lines of which novel? 8. What does the “J.R.R.” stand for in J.R.R. Tolkien’s name? 9. What was the title of Roald Dahl's first children's book, written in 1943? Clue - A 1984 American Black/Horror comedy film is said to be loosely inspired by the characters in Roald Dahl's story. 10. In which Tibetan retreat was James Hilton's ""The Lost Horizon""?"

[easthammer]

"10 missed King James I Also, a point of info below as I have c/p that there are three venues for the RSC at Stratford 0n Avon. I have been to two of them (not the pop-up one). The Swan is the smaller of the other two. It gets its name from the 16th-century theatre in Southwark in London, which was one of the early venues for The Bard's work. Stratford is, of course, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, which alone has three permanent theatres in the town – The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, The Swan Theatre, and The Other Place, plus the seasonal pop-up outdoor Dell Theatre."

[Mad Dog]

7. I got the klingon one because its mentioned in star trek 6 and Christopher plumber's character keeps on quoting it

[Texas Iron]

9?ü§†?ü§†

[riosleftsock]

"8 had no idea about the klingon stuff. Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou arrghuntukic?"

[zico]

"Syd, I'll give you a half for that, anyone who gets Vulcan, Romulan or another Star Trek language bar Klingon gets a half. Close enough."

[Far Cough]

7 cheers zico