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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?"

Five apples for me

GeoffP 8 out of 10 is what you will score The two freebies are void. So well done

"I got China wrong as well. Stabbed at the USA. And Australia.Had down UK even though I knew it must be more unlikely than that. Anyway, depending how you're doing this: 8 out of 10 (without the two freebies void and replaced by Beatles) or.. 10 out of 12 (Inc the two freebies, as I knew both Beatles Q's). BUT, if the original 10 had stood (but without answers given!) I would have got only 7 out of 10, probably. It's another one for VAR!"

"I got China wrong as well. Stabbed at the USA. And Australia.Had down UK even though I knew it must be more unlikely than that. Anyway, depending how you're doing this: 8 out of 10 (without the two freebies void and replaced by Beatles) or.. 10 out of 12 (Inc the two freebies, as I knew both Beatles Q's). BUT, if the original 10 had stood (but without answers given!) I would have got only 7 out of 10, probably. It's another one for VAR!"

6 5 pretty straight forward. One right guess. My guesses on a couple others were wrong. China eh?

"Today's answers 1.

"Done me a favour there, east. Hopeful of 7 or 8. We'll see!"

Number 4 would have been in my wheelhouse. Strange names for New World products in Early Modern times. Probably a corruption of the Italian name for it - pomo d’oro or because they were an aphrodisiac (potatoes were poison)

"oh yikes could have used that one , one of my favourite breakfasts a cafe calva (espresso + apple brandy) delicious and fortifying *hic*"

Okay I ask two extra questions Who formed Apple Records? and In what year?

Make that two!!!

Sorry I given you one of the answers!

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"Scores on the Doors from yesterday. Seems WHOers are more into Shakespeare than Beer! Zebthecat

"If the Bard is your thing, I see the BBC have put a handful of newer RSC performances up on the Iplayer. Not sure if they are/were on TV or not. Son of Sam It is usually a dramatic line - Ie. Blow until your cheeks (upper) crack! or Storm, do your worst!"

"6, though was sure it was jackson brown(e) - even thought geoff when you made the spelling comment that that made it more right. Also the quote sounded like falstaff but I'll settle for 6"

"Aah, you've trumped me there Canada. Fair play."

"IOC. Don't ask, but have met Marcella Detroit. (The terrifying screechy one in Shakespears Sister.) She's called Levy, really, but IS from Detroit. How clever. They were pretty shite and only fleetingly ""famous"" but she's probably loaded anyway. Why? She co-wrote Eric Clapton's ""Lay Down Sally"" which has been assaulting ears for 40+ years. If an invitation for shagging, ""Lay Down Sally"" is also grammatically incorrect. It should be ""Lie"". Conclusion: just like the real Shakespeare, Marcella Detroit can't fuggin' spell. :-) Do win a redundant £20 note?"

Is this a FOUR I see before me

"To be fair to the pop group, he spelled his name without the first ""e"" in handwritten signatures with at least 5 variations and in published works in his lifetime the variations rose to the double digits. Spelling things one way is a very late modern thing."

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Got 4. (Would ave ad 5 but went for E17 for no.8)! Haha. You sure he didn’t write a play called ‘Walthamstow’?!!

geoffpikey 7:01 Thu Apr 23 I think the only reason I remembered it was I was young enough that the transition in the song - and from one singer to the other in the video - made a real impression on me.

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