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?"

[Mad Dog]

Just noticed the middle of the pinocchio quote has a random 10 in the middle. I assume the clever bollocks auto numbering put it in there. Apologies if that confused anyone. It also meant there were only 19 questions. Sorry

[Mad Dog]

"1.

[Mad Dog]

"Ha ha, no worries. I often don't know what the topic will be till Wednesday, I'd watched 1%club few days ago and gave me rhe idea of the logic based questions. Anyway here's today's randomly thrown together quiz 1.

[zico]

"MD sorry again mate,, bizarre we both thought of same thing. In future if you want to who mail me subject matter you are doing ill avoid doing same."

[zebthecat]

18 Really annoyed I didn't get queue.

[Mad Dog]

Didn't get do ray mi or larch Hence 21 And yes I had quite a few of those planned for tomorrow. A few I'd not heard before though

[zico]

"Ha ha East, yep knew that was coming, hence the answers comments at the start! ;-)"

[Westside]

15 thanks. Good round of questions

[easthammer]

"I scored 13 ( in terms of your answers) However (you just knew this was coming didn't you,Zico :) Question 1. The answer could be any Roman numeral such as XI whereby if you take away I you have X which is an even number. Question 6. The answer is only Everest if ignore the known under-sea mountains at least three are higher than Everest ( Although I had Everest ) I am not wanting to claim any more points and I did enjoy the questions. It also got me thinking about a book I read back in 1980s (it was written in 1966) ""Contrary Imaginations"" by Liam Hudson where he considers the difference between convergent and divergent thinkers and their respective intelligence."

[zico]

Biggest riddle of all of course is why is David Moyes still our manager?!

[Far Cough]

7 cheers

[Far Cough]

7 cheers

[riosleftsock]

15 ta zico - enjoyed these

[zico]

"Once again apologies to Mad Dog as he was looking at similar tomorrow. I did scrap a World Cup Quiz though for a similar reason!! ;-) Riddles Quiz 1. I am an odd number but take away a letter and I become even. What number am I? Seven 2. What can run all around a back garden, yet never moves? A fence 3. Every morning a bus driver goes the wrong way down a one-way street, but the police never stop him. Why? He's walking 4. What belongs to you, but everyone else uses it? Your name 5. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I? A bank 6. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth? Mount Everest 7. What has 13 hearts, but no other organs? A deck of cards 8. David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____? David 9. A pregnant lady named her children: Dominique, Regis, Michelle, Fawn, Sophie, and Lara. What will she name her next child? Jessica, Katie, Abby, or Tilly? Tilly. She seems to follow the scale Do, Re, Me, Fa, So, La, and then Ti. 10. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters? Queue 11. What is next in this sequence? JFMAMJJASON? The letter D. The sequence contains the first letter of each month. 12. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? Short 13. You're running a marathon. As you reach the finish line you pass the competitor in second place. What place did you come? You came in second place 14. A boy and a doctor went on a fishing trip. The boy was the doctor's son but the doctor wasn't the boy's father. Who is the doctor? The boy's mother 15. If a plane crashes on the border of Mexico and America, where do they bury the survivors? They don't bury survivors 16. Forwards I am heavy, backwards I am not what am I? Ton 17. There is one word that's spelt incorrectly in every single British dictionary. Which word is it? Incorrectly 18. It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. It is the start of every end, the end of every place. The letter “E” 19. When you need me, you throw me away. But when you are done with me, you bring me back. What am I? An anchor 20. The names of three trees are hidden in the sentences below. The letters are in consecutive order. Can you find them? On this farm, we get ham from a hog any time. The farmer will help in every possible way. He faced two very similar choices, both bad. Mahogany, pine and larch (point for each) Bonus Question An 8-letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word? starting – starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, i"

[zebthecat]

Thanks zico Think I've got most of these - a lot of groan material but a couple have beaten me completely as well as the bonus question.

[zico]

"Aw sorry mad dog, on the upside I guess you will get full marks!! Lol"

[Far Cough]

Jimmy?

[Mad Dog]

Git. I was planning something similar for tomorrow and even had quite a few of the same questions. Love a riddle

[zico]

"Trying something different today and it might not work as there may be more than one answer with Riddles. So fairest scoring process will be one point if your answer matches the ones printed, and half a point if yours could technically be right but isn't he one printed! Riddles Quiz 1. I am an odd number but take away a letter and I become even. What number am I? 2. What can run all around a back garden, yet never moves? 3. Every morning a bus driver goes the wrong way down a one-way street, but the police never stop him. Why? 4. What belongs to you, but everyone else uses it? 5. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I? 6. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth? 7. What has 13 hearts, but no other organs? 8. David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____? 9. A pregnant lady named her children: Dominique, Regis, Michelle, Fawn, Sophie, and Lara. What will she name her next child? Jessica, Katie, Abby, or Tilly? 10. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters? 11. What is next in this sequence? JFMAMJJASON? 12. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? 13. You're running a marathon. As you reach the finish line you pass the competitor in second place. What place did you come? 14. A boy and a doctor went on a fishing trip. The boy was the doctor's son but the doctor wasn't the boy's father. Who is the doctor? 15. If a plane crashes on the border of Mexico and America, where do they bury the survivors? 16. Forwards I am heavy, backwards I am not what am I? 17. There is one word that's spelt incorrectly in every single British dictionary. Which word is it? 18. It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. It is the start of every end, the end of every place. 19. When you need me, you throw me away. But when you are done with me, you bring me back. What am I? 20. The names of three trees are hidden in the sentences below. The letters are in consecutive order. Can you find them? On this farm, we get ham from a hog any time. The farmer will help in every possible way. He faced two very similar choices, both bad. Bonus Question An 8-letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?"

[zico]

"You got it East, I'm going to have to rethink my checking process!"

[easthammer]

Definitely 8 And a claim for 9 if stylishly is acceptable Thanks

[Mad Dog]

A mere 3 today. I had blue whale for gestation assuming size was a factor. I was wrong

[Far Cough]

4 cheers

[Westside]

5 for me. Ta.

[zico]

Zeb - Can't deny you a point for that and yet it doesn't appear anywhere if you put the question into google!!