West Ham Online

"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?"

"Today's Round ""Quote Unquote"" Please join in you haven't so far. Long way to go (unfortunately a marathon not a a sprint) Easier again today 5 question multiple choice Remember DO NOT POST ANSWERS JUST MARK YOUR OWN AND POST YOUR SCORES AFTER I POST ANSWERS GOOD LUCK 1. "" The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep."" a) Woody Allen, b) Mark Twain, c) W C Field 2. "" A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it."" a) Mae West b) Zsa Zsa Gabor c) Elizabeth Taylor 3. To what was Will Rogers referring when he said ""it has made more liars out of American people than golf."" a)Income Tax, b)Fishing c)Sex 4. Who said ""Familiarity breeds contempt and children"" a) Woody Allen, b) Mark Twain, c) W C Field 5. What according to Dr Johnson is the last refuge of a scoundrel? 6. We have all heard ""He who can does. He cannot, teaches but who first said it? 7. What kind of person did John Buchan describe as "" a man who has no invisible support"" 8. What did Milton Berle describe as ""a group that keeps the minutes but loses hours."" 9. Who said ""Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against."" a) Woody Allen, b)Mark Twain, c)W C Field 10. What did Oscar Wilde describe as ""all very well as a game for rough girls but not delicate boys!"""

"Cheers east. As with all quizzes, they're easy... IF you know the answer. All downhill from here, haha! gph - dunno any more about Sewell, tbh. Read up on her years back for when my daughter was tiny and obsessed by horses (still is!) and for some reason I remembered THAT. Wrote Black Beauty, theoretically made a mint, but almost immediately died. Oh dear. Don't fuck with horses, man."

GEOFFpikey Good additional facts Assume many of us won't be doing much today so there will be a set of questions later

"geoff - isn't Sewell cited as an example of TB creativity? - supposedly, if you've got it, it sometimes makes you driven. Fuck off, coronavirus - you aren't the only disease worth of discussion"

4 for me easthammer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd1jKcfBRE

"The leader board after 2 Rounds Three still to post final scores for today. Hermit indicated he thought he had 3 at least not yet confirmed. Don Ravioli & Mercenary may have scores from today not confirmed Crystal Falace

"Prof Ernst Schumacher's ""Small I Beautiful"" ( wot I did partly read at university) was known as the favourite book of Prince Charles. Black Beauty was Sewell's only book. Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim and onetime Housemartin) was christened Quentin Cook. Why the fuck did I know all this? Life wasted...."

Only 2 today. Boooooooo.

"Sorry Geep, rules understood now. Thanks easty, we need shit like this. Should do a quiz around old musicals. I'd like that."

"Might have guessed 10, if I had bothered."

I got the same ones right as rios. Which is one reason I was annoyed at him. 2

A big fat flukey 7

"Get in there, 5/10 today, 1 of those was a guess, onwards and upwards"

"Leaving work shortly, i checked my own answers online, and got 6 (went 2/3 on multiple choice guesses)"

"Today's Answers Please post your scores and I will publish leader board later tonight. It’s All Too Beautiful 1.

No - 8 that I could guess at! Fairly confident of 2...

"Thanks Easthammer re Beautiful People. Bells still not ringing. It must have completely passed me by. Can't even guess. Never mind. I'm sure the cast has never heard of me, either."

Mercernary If there was only 2 you couldn't guess at does that mean you knew the other 8? There will be sport questions in the future.

Couldn't even guess for 2 of these! I hope there's a round on sport!

Hermit Road 4:17 Fri Mar 20 Gopnik Bench thread? I'll bring cabbidges

Hermit Road 4:17 Fri Mar 20 Gopnik Bench thread? I'll bring cabbidges

G Pikey BBC2 circa 2008/9

"Having a daughter helped me on a couple. But I've never even HEARD of sitcom Beautiful People, let alone its cast. Some US thing?"

3 definitely but I reckon I have probably guessed one of the multiple choices. Rios should be isolated in a thread with only Pickle for company for 24 hrs.