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 Afternoon Scores stand at Geoff Pikey

[DiCaniosLefty]

5 thanks East

[geoffpikey]

"For Q5, I put Russia. Just seen I wasn't too far off (relatively... I wouldn't walk it) and I am not 100% on what constitutes ""Russia"" these days. Apart from Syria and The White House, of course."

[Far Cough]

"Ely is a beautiful cathedral, on a misty day it looks like it's floating another favourite of mine is Lincoln cathedral, was especially a welcome sight for the bomber crews returning from raids in WWII"

[Son of Sam]

is it the division bell

[gph]

"Ely Choir Christmas Album, 1994?"

[geoffpikey]

"Bizarrely, I used to work (though not live) in Ely. It is nice. Ok. I WON'T publish the answer of this... Ely Cathedral is pictured on the cover of which 1994 album?"

[geoffpikey]

"I'm not setting a quiz, geep! Just for future reference. And I'm being nice. East can't include those now ."

[gph]

"Ely is a megalopolis compared to Wells (I've been to both, I think. Wells was so long ago that I'm not sure, but Ely was about a year ago). I like Ely. It reminds me of Pisa. Plenty of things to see and do, but not massively overcrowded by tourists. No leaning tower, but then Pisa hasn't got Oliver Cromwell's house."

[Son of Sam]

Ely?

[gph]

"Bloody hell, geoff! Even easthammer gives us three hours..."

[gph]

"Bloody hell, geoff! Even easthammer gives us three hours..."

[gph]

And Wells is the smallest in England.

[geoffpikey]

You have done well. And Wells.

[easthammer]

Geoff Pikey I haven't looked it up but I think the smallest is St Davids i Wales

[easthammer]

Gph for your info I have been putting the questions up around 1pm actual time (not WHO time!) and post answers about 4pm or bit later

[geoffpikey]

"Yep, 6. How the hell did I not get Cuba? Still, TRURO is a classic of this type. Bring me the smallest cities in England and Wales !"

[The_Phantom]

5 for me

[gph]

Another day of seeing the answers before the questions. It seems that I don't have the ability to remember to look at this thread regularly.

[easthammer]

SoS Stick this ref. in Google Earth. 46¬?17‚Ä?N 86¬?40‚Ä?E

[Son of Sam]

"China really wow and it has a coastline I would have thought one of those places ending in -stan or georgia , anyway no worries thanks EH"

[easthammer]

"Zeb You hit the bar with that, it is in China close to the Kazakhstan border."

[zebthecat]

Growing up for a bit in Florida having a grandmother who lived in Dunbar (just south of the Firth of Forth) helped.

[zebthecat]

For some reason Kyrgyzhstan (sp?) popped into my head.

[easthammer]

"Zeb Good score, what did you have for the furthest from the sea?"