Daily Quiz anyone? New month of April thread

[zico]

OK. So here's the month of April quiz thread. You know the rules. Don't post your answers before the quizzer does. Don't forget to post your scores

[mallard]

A poor 7 for me - tough quiz today !

[zico]

"Home & Garden Quiz 1. What colour paint was once the most widely used colour in UK households because of its neutral tone? Magnolia 2. What name was given to the World War II campaign set up by the British Ministry of Agriculture to encourage British people to grow their own food, was it Grow for Victory, Dig for Victory or Plant for Victory? Dig for Victory 3. With a single small white drooping bell-shaped flower, what is the more common name for Galanthus? Snowdrops 4. What sort of 'appeal' means the visual attractiveness of a house as seen from the street? Curb Appeal 5. Brothers Harry and David Rich have won gold prize at what show twice? Chelsea Flower Show 6. What term describes plants that like acid soil and will not tolerate alkaline soil? Ericaceous 7. True or false? A notch in a tree will move upwards from the ground as the tree grows? False. It will stay the same distance from the ground as the tree grows. 8. In 2003, who replaced Alan Titchmarsh as the lead presenter of Gardeners' World? Monty Don 9. Which low-growing annual plant with brightly coloured flowers is also the name of a novel of historical fiction first published in 1905? The Scarlet Pimpernel 10. What name is given to a bathroom that has two doors and is usually accessible from two bedrooms? A Jack and Jill bathroom 11. The scientific name for which flower is Dianthus caryophyllus, meaning flower of the Gods? Carnations 12. The name of which mountain flower when translated from German quite literally means 'white and noble'? Edelweiss 13. What name is given to a balcony that is very shallow with a safety railing on an upper storey of a building? Juliet balcony 14. In the UK, what word was used to refer to any couch in the 1900s and now describes a deep buttoned sofa, usually leather, with arms and back of the same height? Chesterfield 15. One of the easiest crops to grow, which vegetable comes in varieties such as 'Scarlet Emperor', 'Painted Lady' and 'Red Rum'? Runner beans 16. From which small tree do sloe berries come? Blackthorn 17. By what name do we better know Calluna vulgaris, the dominant plant in most British moorland? Heather 18. What is a wooden bench seat called with a roof, usually enclosed by lattice panels forming a framework for climbing plants? Arbour 19. What name is given to the loosening of soil by digging or by other mechanical means to allow air to move freely? Aeration 20. Rumex obtusifolius is an aggressive invasive species commonly known by what name in the UK? Broad-leaved dock – will accept dock leaves"

[zico]

"Mahjong is a wonderful game, from what I remember. Mum and Dad used to have those 1970's dinner parties with a fondue and they always invited me, usually in my pyjamas to play either Trivial Pursuit or Mahjong with their friends. I might have nabbed a sip of chocolate liqueur as well! Don't remember much about it now bar the shuffling of tiles sounding like the twittering of sparrows, but the sets are beautifully designed and it's one of the few things I kept from mum's house when we had to sell it.."

[mallard]

"10 for yesterday, had to Google Mahjong!"

[zico]

"As the sun is out time for a Home & Garden Quiz 1. What colour paint was once the most widely used colour in UK households because of its neutral tone? 2. What name was given to the World War II campaign set up by the British Ministry of Agriculture to encourage British people to grow their own food, was it Grow for Victory, Dig for Victory or Plant for Victory? 3. With a single small white drooping bell-shaped flower, what is the more common name for Galanthus? 4. What sort of 'appeal' means the visual attractiveness of a house as seen from the street? 5. Brothers Harry and David Rich have won gold prize at what show twice? 6. What term describes plants that like acid soil and will not tolerate alkaline soil? 7. True or false? A notch in a tree will move upwards from the ground as the tree grows? 8. In 2003, who replaced Alan Titchmarsh as the lead presenter of Gardeners' World? 9. Which low-growing annual plant with brightly coloured flowers is also the name of a novel of historical fiction first published in 1905? 10. What name is given to a bathroom that has two doors and is usually accessible from two bedrooms? 11. The scientific name for which flower is Dianthus caryophyllus, meaning flower of the Gods? 12. The name of which mountain flower when translated from German quite literally means 'white and noble'? 13. What name is given to a balcony that is very shallow with a safety railing on an upper storey of a building? 14. In the UK, what word was used to refer to any couch in the 1900s and now describes a deep buttoned sofa, usually leather, with arms and back of the same height? 15. One of the easiest crops to grow, which vegetable comes in varieties such as 'Scarlet Emperor', 'Painted Lady' and 'Red Rum'? 16. From which small tree do sloe berries come? 17. By what name do we better know Calluna vulgaris, the dominant plant in most British moorland? 18. What is a wooden bench seat called with a roof, usually enclosed by lattice panels forming a framework for climbing plants? 19. What name is given to the loosening of soil by digging or by other mechanical means to allow air to move freely? 20. Rumex obtusifolius is an aggressive invasive species commonly known by what name in the UK?"

[zebthecat]

12 today thanks zico.

[easthammer]

11 thanks Zico but no thanks to Mah Jong :)

[Westside]

15. Mainly thanks to Mahjong.

[Mad Dog]

8 gracias

[zico]

"Fun Games Quiz 1. Which British manufacturer of card and board games first published a British edition of Monopoly based on London streets? Waddingtons 2. First published in 1985, which charade-inspired word-guessing game was invented by Robert Angel? Pictionary 3. The name of which strategy board game means ""I play"" in Latin? Ludo 4. Released in 1931 ""Bally Hoo"" was a counter-top mechanical game with optional legs and the first coin-operated what? Pinball game 5. A table football game usually contains how many rotating stainless-steel rods? Eight rods 6. What is the lowest number, one dart cannot score in a game of darts? 23 7. FIDE is the governing body of what game? Chess - The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, [commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (F?©d?©ration Internationale des ?âchecs) 8. What card shedding-type card game was originally developed in 1971 by American Merle Robbins? Uno 9. Which character is the main protagonist of the video game franchise Tomb Raider? Lara Croft 10. In the book Vanity Fair, Becky Sharp charms the Prince Regent with a game of what? Charades 11. The traditional European domino set consists of how many tiles? 28 12. Which one player card game named after a region in Canada is the best-known version of patience or solitaire? Klondike 13. Yahtzee is played by rolling how many dice? Five dice 14. What strategy board game is a well-known variant of the game 'reversi'? Othello 15. Which strategy board game is played on a board depicting a political map of the world divided into 42 territories? Risk 16. What name links a traditional English throwing game usually played in fairgrounds or pub gardens with Worzel Gummidge? Aunt Sally 17. How many rooms are there in the Cluedo mansion where the murder can take place? Nine 18. In a game of Scrabble, which tile scores the same points as the letter 'G'? Letter 'D' 19. Which card game comes from the Spanish word for ""basket""? Canasta 20. Mahjong is played with a set of how many tiles? (5 points) 144 tiles"

[zico]

"For anyone confused todays quiz is below this long post! One thing I love about doing these quizzes is the interesting facts that you pick up along the way. I came across an article, 100 Interesting Facts and was going to do a quiz around it but it was impossible so rather than that in case anyone is interested here are some of my favourites. The pop group ABBA wore outrageous sequined jumpsuits, hotpants and platform heels at the peak of their fame for tax purposes. Swedish law meant costumes could be deducted against tax so long as they were so outrageous they could not possibly be worn on the street. In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in a car with the number plate A 111 118. World War One started as a result of this act. Four years later, World War One ended with an Armistice on the 11-11-18! British soldiers John Parr and George Ellison are buried facing each other just 5 yards away in Belgium’s Saint Symphorien cemetery. Their final resting places are an extraordinary coincidence as they are the first and last British soldiers to die in combat during the First World War. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second and third Presidents of the United States, and the Founding Fathers of the Decleration of Independence, died on the same day - July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of American independence! Circa 1864, Edwin Booth saved the life of a stranger who fell between a train and its platform in Jersey City. The stranger was Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert. A year later, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington. Edwin was John Wilkes Booth's elder brother! In 1956 typist Bette Nesmith Graham invented the first correction fluid (liquid paper). She is the mother of musician Michael Nesmith of The Monkees. Ninety percent of the wildlife in Madagascar is found nowhere else on Earth. The land mass split from India around 88 million years ago, allowing native plants and animals to evolve in relative isolation. There's no mention of the word 'tomato' in the works of Shakespeare, Jane Austen or the Bible. Charles Dickens uses the word six times in The Pickwick Papers, always followed by the word 'sauce'. According to a 2007 report, there are at least 70 non-contacted tribes living in Brazil. In 1895 there were only two cars in the entire state of Ohio; however, they managed to crash into each other. Liverpool FC's iconic football stadium Anfield was originally the home of Everton F.C. from 1884 to 1891, before they moved to Goodison Park after a dispute over rent. Musician Paul McCartney is an accomplished painter and has had over 70 paintings exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery. He's also had a remarkable 62 top 100 UK singles even though he twice failed auditions to be a choir boy. Blackpool Tower's cast steel and iron frame is built in such a way that if it did ever collapse it would fall into the sea. It's built with 5 million bricks, 2,500 tonnes of iron and is 518 feet tall. The phrase 'winning hands down' originally referred to a jockey who won a race without having to whip his horse. It’s a mystery why Agatha Christie famously disappeared for 10 days in 1926 - eventually located in a Yorkshire health spa, she always refused to give an explanation. The time difference between when Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex walked the earth is greater than the time difference between Tyrannosaurus Rex and today! 80% of Russian males born in 1923 were not alive at the end of World War Two - just 22 years later. Anthony Hopkins duplicated the voice of Laurence Olivier for additional scenes in Spartacus in its 1991 restoration. When the film was restored (two years after Olivier's death), the original dialogue recording of the famous bath scene was missing; it had to be re-dubbed. Tony Curtis, by then 66, was able to re-record his part, but Crassus' voice was an impersonation of Olivier by Hopkins. Actor Paul Newman drove in the 1979 '24 Hours of Le Mans', considered to be one of the most prestigious automobile races in the world, and finished in second place. Author Ian Fleming chose the name 'James Bond' because he wanted to find a name as mundane as possible. Bond’s namesake is actually the ornithologist Dr. James Bond, lifted from a bird watching book that Fleming had on a nearby shelf. World War One pilots often had to turn off their planes' engines to stop stalling when turning quickly in air. Restarting the engine midair sounded like a dog barking, hence the term 'dogfight'. George Orwell, author of Animal Farm, invented the term ‘cold war’ as a general term in his essay You and the Atomic Bomb, published in 1945 in the Tribune newspaper. The Titanic was never called ‘unsinkable’; it was actually called ‘practically unsinkable’. However, the press dropped the adverb to make the claim sound more exciting. The myth also grew after the disaster. The phrase ‘turn a blind eye’ originated when British forces signalled for Admiral Horatio Nelson to stop attacking Danish ships - he held up a telescope to his blind eye and said, ‘I do not see the signal.’ He then attacked and won a major victory. In 1896, the Heavyweight Championship boxing match between famous British boxer Bob Fitzsimmons and American Tom Sharkey was refereed by famous wild west lawman Wyatt Earp. Sharkey was awarded the fight after Earp ruled that Fitzsimmons had hit Sharkey when he was down, but nobody witnessed this claim. Fight fans booed Earp's decision and suspected a betting fraud. The first morning of the Battle Of The Somme was the worst toll for a single day in British military history. On July 1, 1916, the British suffered 60,000 casualties with 20,000 dead – all for a six miles advancement. Hiroo Onoda, a World War Two Japanese soldier, spent almost 30 years holding out in the Philippines. He would not surrender until his former commander travelled from Japan to personally issue orders relieving him from duty in 1974. Two thirds of the world's population have never seen snow. Hitler’s name would have been ‘Adolf Schicklgruber’ – however, his father changed his name in 1877. By an astonishing coincidence, the sun and moon appear to be of the same size -the moon is 400 times smaller, but 400 times closer. This is what makes eclipses possible. It is generally believed that William Shakespeare was eight years younger than his wife, Anne Hathaway. This is because her gravestone states she was 67 when she died in 1623. However, the figures 1 and 7 are easily confused, so she might have been 61, only two years older and not eight! In 1995, the number of television programmes in Britain watched by over 15 million people was 225; this had fallen to six, by 2004. The Vietnam War is known as 'the American War' in Vietnam. The Titanic had four funnels but only three were operational. Four funnels represented power, safety and prestige, so the Olympic-class ships had a 'dummy' fourth funnel in order to ‘look good’ against its competitors. In World War Two more Russians lost their lives in the Siege of Leningrad than all the WWII British and American soldiers combined. Directors of the FBI are now limited to 10 years in office due to J. Edgar Hoover’s excessive abuse of power. The population of Ireland is still smaller than it was before the Great Famine of 1845. During the Vietnam War, an American POW managed to convey the truth by blinking the word ‘TORTURE’ in Morse code when forced to do a press conference saying he was being well treated. In 1752, Britons went to bed on September 2 and woke up on September 14 - 11 days were lost when the Julian Calendar changed to the Gregorian Calendar. Few years old this one - The US government is still paying for the Civil War. The American Civil War might have ended in 1865 but the government is still paying out veterans' pension. As of 2015, Irene Triplett still received a monthly pension from the government as the last living child of a Civil War veteran – her father was in his eighties when she was born. The financial promises President Abraham Lincoln made to Union soldiers are still being delivered today! Trinity College, Cambridge has a total of 32 Nobel Prize winners. This is more than Canada, Russia, Italy or Japan. The saying ‘go the whole nine yards’ originated during World War II when fighter pilots were equipped with nine yards of ammunition. When they ran out, it meant that they had tried their best at fighting off the enemy with the very last of their ammunition. More Americans died in their Civil War than in World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined. Approximately 625,000 men died. Fahrenheit is only used as the official temperature scale of the United States, the Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Islands, and Palau. The rest of the world uses Celsius. On the Fahrenheit scale, the freezing point of water is 32 degrees and the boiling point is 212 degrees - the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales represent the same temperature at -40 degrees"

[zico]

"From Game shows to Fun Games Quiz 1. Which British manufacturer of card and board games first published a British edition of Monopoly based on London streets? 2. First published in 1985, which charade-inspired word-guessing game was invented by Robert Angel? 3. The name of which strategy board game means ""I play"" in Latin? 4. Released in 1931 ""Bally Hoo"" was a counter-top mechanical game with optional legs and the first coin-operated what? 5. A table football game usually contains how many rotating stainless-steel rods? 6. What is the lowest number, one dart cannot score in a game of darts? 7. FIDE is the governing body of what game? 8. What card shedding-type card game was originally developed in 1971 by American Merle Robbins? 9. Which character is the main protagonist of the video game franchise Tomb Raider? 10. In the book Vanity Fair, Becky Sharp charms the Prince Regent with a game of what? 11. The traditional European domino set consists of how many tiles? 12. Which one player card game named after a region in Canada is the best-known version of patience or solitaire? 13. Yahtzee is played by rolling how many dice? 14. What strategy board game is a well-known variant of the game 'reversi'? 15. Which strategy board game is played on a board depicting a political map of the world divided into 42 territories? 16. What name links a traditional English throwing game usually played in fairgrounds or pub gardens with Worzel Gummidge? 17. How many rooms are there in the Cluedo mansion where the murder can take place? 18. In a game of Scrabble, which tile scores the same points as the letter 'G'? 19. Which card game comes from the Spanish word for ""basket""? 20. Mahjong is played with a set of how many tiles? (5 points)"

[zebthecat]

21 today thanks zico. I loved the Richard O'Brien era Crystal Maze.

[zico]

East you need a George Dawes drum roll and symbol for that!! Re 321. WTF was that all about? Even Ted Rodgers rest his soul looked like he had no idea what was going on.

[easthammer]

"13 for me thanks Zico Question 1, Who had an IQ of 164 and green pubic hair Answer Bamber Grassgroin"

[Westside]

17. Thanks Zico. Same reason as MD.

[mallard]

14 - Cheers Zico

[Mad Dog]

17. Mainly thanks to game for a laugh and crystal maze 4 pointers

[Mad Dog]

17. Mainly thanks to game for a laugh and crystal maze 4 pointers

[zico]

"TV Quiz and Game Shows Quiz 1. Who was the original presenter of University Challenge? Bamber Gascoigne 2. Which former London taxi driver became a household name after winning Mastermind in 1980? Fred Housego 3. Who was host of Mastermind from 2003 to 2021, for a total of 735 episodes? John Humphrys 4. Which footballer and snooker player replaced Botham and Beaumont on “A Question of Sport”? Point for each Ally McCoist, John Parrott 5. The title Only Connect is taken from a passage from which 1910 novel? Howards End (E. M. Forster: ""Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted"") 6. Name the first winner of the million-pound top prize in the UK version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Judith Keppel 7. Which BBC quiz show was hosted by Nick Knowles from 2011 to 2015? Perfection 8. Pointless featured on which the BBC sitcom, with Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman, both playing themselves? Not Going Out 9. Which British game show, first broadcast on BBC1 from 1967 to 1984, was hosted by Robert Robinson? Ask the Family 10. Which politician hosted the game show Cleverdicks? Ann Widdecombe. 11. Who was the first assistant on The Generation Game who besides being Bruce Forsyth’s assistant became his first wife in 1973? Anthea Redfern 12. On which ITV quiz show have both a young Konnie Huq and Stephen Merchant been contestants? Blockbusters 13. Who hosted the cerebral & action quiz The Krypton Factor? Gordon Burns 14. How many contestants answer general knowledge questions at the start of the Weakest Link? Nine 15. Bradley Walsh finally met (and apologised to) which former alpine skier on Michael McIntyre’s Big Show 13 years after viral The Chase moment when Walsh lost control and ended up in a fit of giggles over the pronunciation of the German’s name? Fanny Chmelar 16. Played by Matt Lucas what was the name of the regular scorekeeper on the comedy gameshow ""Shooting Stars""? George Dawes 17. With his green lid and red nose what colour boots did 3-2-1’s Dusty Bin wear? Yellow 18. What were the names of the four “original” zones in ""The Crystal Maze""? Point for each. Aztec, Futuristic, Medieval and Industrial 19. In a funny Two Ronnies spoof, Ronnie Corbett played a Mastermind contestant whose specialist subject was ""answering the question before last” Can you name Ronnies contestant character? Charlie Smithers 20. What were the names of the FOUR original hosts of Game for A Laugh? Point for each. Jeremy Beadle, Matthew Kelly, Henry Kelly, Sarah Kennedy."

[zico]

"Westside

[zico]

"Ah that's right, Dicksy squared it to Clive Allen who slotted home and got mobbed."

[Mad Dog]

It was wolves Cambridge was the last game in 92/93

[mallard]

17 - I watched that Brady goal from the North Bank and could see the swerve from way back

[zico]

What a player Brady was and what a manager John Lyall was keeping him quiet in the 19080 Cup Final! Didn't Liam sign off his career with a belter against Wolves or Cambridge can't remember which.