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?"

[easthammer]

"Good Morning All Scores from yesterday which seemed a reasonable set of marks. Anymore let me know GeoffPikey

[zebthecat]

An 8 for me. Stumped by Alicia Keys and Alistair McLean. Didn't go into the details of compound primary keys in a star schema.

[DiCaniosLefty]

Hello all. 4 for me thanks east and also 4 the day before. Thanks again east for doing this

[Tomsdad]

5

[Tomsdad]

5

[geoffpikey]

"6 for me. I should be thrown IN the Tower - I put down Parliament / Palace Of Westminster. Cricket, novelist and computing - didn't have a clue. Odd, isn't it, that quite a few British pubs remain The Cross Keys ( there are TWO near me) when it is a symbol associated with Papism?"

[wanstead_hammer]

Managed a barnstorming 5 today!

[The_Phantom]

A disappointing FOUR Thought I was going to get 7/8 Love Q1

[easthammer]

"Today's answers How skilful were you? Key skills Round 1.How many keys on a full-size piano keyboard? 88 2. The 1976 Album Songs in the Key of Life was recorded by which artist? Stevie Wonder 3. Which American author had a home (which is now a museum) in Key West Florida? Ernest Hemmingway 4. ""Halt - Who goes there?"" the Chief Warder replies: The Keys To this the sentry demands ""whose Keys?"" The Chief Warder: - ""QUEEN ELIZABETH'S KEYS"". The sentry finally says advance QUEEN ELIZABETH'S KEYS, ALL'S WELL Where does this ceremony take place? Tower of London 5. The Crossed Keys is a commonly found name of pub, where do Cross Keys appear most prominently in religious heraldry? The Papal Coat of Arms 6. In what section of the music store would you find Alicia Keys? RB/Soul 7. According to Jamie Oliver what does this recipe make: Mix in 6 tablespoons of lime juice, then pour the filling into the pie crust and level over with the back of a spoon. Return to the oven for 15 minutes, then place on a wire rack to cool. Once cooled, refrigerate for 6 hours or overnight. Key Lime Pie 8. Former Test Cricketer Robert Key captained which county? Kent 9. Who wrote the novel “Fear is the Key”? Alistair McLean 10. In computer terms what is a “key field”? A unique identifier for a record in a relational database"

[geoffpikey]

"I'm not getting Q10 anyway.... Unless a VERY lucky guess comes off. But I may get 7 correct. (Work finished for now. So I'll find out after a 10k walk for which you can pay me £33m, please thank you.)"

[zebthecat]

I could get quite a lot of these. The full answer to 10 is quite long and complicated (it was my specialism for a couple of years) so will assume the simple one will do.

[easthammer]

"Key skills Round 1.How many keys on a full-size piano keyboard? 2. The 1976 Album Songs in the Key of Life was recorded by which artist? 3. Which American author had a home (which is now a museum) in Key West Florida? 4. ""Halt - Who goes there?"" the Chief Warder replies: The Keys To this the sentry demands ""whose Keys?"" The Chief Warder: - ""QUEEN ELIZABETH'S KEYS"". The sentry finally says advance QUEEN ELIZABETH'S KEYS, ALL'S WELL Where does this ceremony take place? 5. The Crossed Keys is a commonly found name of pubs, where do Cross Keys appear most prominently in religious heraldry? 6. In what section of the music store would you find Alicia Keys? a)

[easthammer]

"The scores from yesterday ( I think!) GeoffPikey

[easthammer]

"Tomsdad You are correct, Sheffield FC predates both United and Wednesday and is separate from both. Although arguably gave life or inspiration to both. I wish I had written the original question better then the answer would have definitely been Stoke :("

[Tomsdad]

"I don't want to keep this going, but it is Sheffield FC and not Sheffield Utd or Sheffield Wednesday! Both those teams were formed after Sheffield FC."

[zebthecat]

"4 it is,"

[geoffpikey]

"Generous, east. Forgot they were relegated. That'll teach em for not sticking with the chicken dancin' Kevin."

[The_Phantom]

Thanks for clarifying re our formation date. I claim an extra point as I too had Notts County as the oldest club so Seven now. Cheers

[easthammer]

GeoffP Notts County are the oldest professional club but they are no longer in the EFL. I completely messed up the question so you can have a point! Stoke City Sheffield Utd Notts County can all claim a point.

[geoffpikey]

"5. I had Notts County, but are they oldest PROFESSIONAL club? Anyway, 5 it is."

[easthammer]

In fact the question should have read Which football team claims to be the oldest professional side in the EFL being founded in 1863? Stoke City (originally called Stoke Ramblers)

[Tomsdad]

Cheers mate. That'll be 5 then!

[easthammer]

"Tomsdad you are correct in writing the question late last I missed an important word ""professional"". Annoyingly I knew the answer to the Oldest club is Sheffield Utd as I have a son-in-law who is a ""Blade"" and he has regaled me with the fact on many occasion! You and anyone else saying Sheffield Utd score a point."

[easthammer]

"Phantom Thames Ironworks FC was founded in 1895 but West Ham Utd was founded in 1900. Which is our ""official"" foundation year. Unlike the Stoke question where Stoke Ramblers became Stoke City through a name change, West ham Utd had a strong connection Thames Ironworks but was officially a new entity. From the Club's Official Site ( not Wikipedia which technically is incorrect in saying we were founded in1895) ""West Ham United rightly have a proud tradition in English football for playing entertaining, attacking football. It is an approach that has thrilled millions since the east London club was formed in 1900, five years after the inception of our forerunners, Thames Ironworks."""

[Tomsdad]

In fact just looked it up and they were formed in 1857.