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]

H - Hydrogen He - Helium Li - Lithium Be - Beryllium B - Boron C - Carbon N - Nitrogen O - Oxygen F - Fluorine Ne - Neon Na - Sodium Mg - Magnesium Al - Aluminum Si - Silicon P - Phosphorus S - Sulfur Cl - Chlorine Ar - Argon K - Potassium Ca - Calcium

[zico]

"Bit of a story on being natural at something but you don't know how. With my double handed back hand in tennis, the coach back then wanted me as an example on how to do it to for the kids he was coaching. Problem was it was just natural I couldn't break it down into stages. I tried but 80% went into the net and the rest hit the fence at the back of the court! Kids looked at me like I was a right wally. Coaching isn't easy!"

[zico]

"I'm going to give everyone an extra point for hockey etc as my research let me down a bit on that one,."

[zico]

"I'm going to give everyone an extra point for hockey etc as my research let me down a bit on that one,."

[Westside]

"Although you can't buy left handed hockey sticks, you can play left handed with a right handed stick, under the rules. Very awkward for the average player."

[Far Cough]

I had Jai Alai but I think the date ruled it out?

[zebthecat]

A big fat 20 for today (Chemistry A-level). I was another right footed left back. I could tackle with either foot which helped.

[riosleftsock]

"5 I thought southpaw referred more to the stance than being left or right handed, although I did know that most left handed boxers are southpaws."

[Mad Dog]

When it xomes to penmanship I'm actually ambidextrous. I can write alomst as well (especially on my classroom board) with both hands. I sometimes start a question with my left and switch hands when I get to the middle. Aside from the number 3 for some reason. I'm also a decent artist and can draw with both hands too. I found this out a few years back when I snapped my bicep tendon and wasn't allowed to use my right hand for anything. One thing I like to do is draw the same cartoon twice with 2 pens at the same time

[zico]

"You are technically right East and I am surprised I let that one slip through the net, although I have just seen that Jai Alai is another game. However I am lucky that on this occasion I can't see that hockey players were banned from using a left handed stick in 1975, so I get away with it!! My sister is right handed but is pretty ambidextrous, whereas my left hand and foot are purely for show although it did help when i played tennis as I was the only one at the club with a double handed back hand. Must have been years of watching Jimmy Connors that helped with that, minus the grunting of course!"

[Mad Dog]

"East, i played left back for many years before I moved into the centre. I'm completely right footed however. Worked for me though."

[Mad Dog]

"First day back at school tomorrow so I'm posting now in case I forget in the morning What are these chemical symbols for? 1.

[easthammer]

"7 for me thanks I thought the sport that banded left-hand play might have Hockey, as I know there is no left-handed hockey sticks, which isn't too jolly for about 10% of the population. I now realise that my eldest daughter would have been naturally left-handed had we not trained to use her right hand as much as possible. But to this day she holds scissors the wrong way and lays knives and forks out the wrong way. Served her well for exams though left-handed kids are always at a disadvantage writing left to right. My other two daughters were both right handed so we didn't have to beat them as much:) Me I am relatively unusual in that I am in 3.2% of the population that are right-handed but left-footed. The left-footedness was probably my passport to a few half-decent football teams. As any West Ham fan knows left backs are hard to find! Mind you I guess 3.2% of 8 billion isn't a small number. Just looked it up and its 256 million but as approx 49.58% are Women the competition would be reduced or maybe not :)"

[Mad Dog]

"5. Didn't get it , but makes perfect sense that port is passed to the left."

[Far Cough]

4 thanks

[Westside]

"4 for me, thanks."

[zico]

"Left or Right 1. Does the statue of Liberty hold her torch in the right or left hand? Right hand 2. Name the most populated country in the world where everyone drives on the left side? India 3. Admiral Nelson lost his right arm leading a doomed assault on which island? Tenerife 4. In heraldry, if the term 'dexter' refers to the right, what word is used to signify to the left? Sinister 5. In which sport was left-handed play ruled out in 1975 for safety reasons? Polo 6. Facing forward, is starboard the right-hand side or the left-hand side? Right-hand side (and port is the left-hand side) 7. In politics, the terms 'Left' and 'Right' were first used during which historical event? French Revolution of 1789 8. What does the sculpture David, by Michelangelo, hold in his right hand? Will accept Rock/Stone or similar 9. In boxing, what name is given to the normal stance of a left-handed boxer? Southpaw 10. It is British tradition at a formal dinner for which drink to always be passed to the left? Port"

[zico]

"Left or Right 1. Does the statue of Liberty hold her torch in the right or left hand? 2. Name the most populated country in the world where everyone drives on the left side? 3. Admiral Nelson lost his right arm leading a doomed assault on which island? 4. In heraldry, if the term 'dexter' refers to the right, what word is used to signify to the left? 5. In which sport was left-handed play ruled out in 1975 for safety reasons? 6. Facing forward, is starboard the right-hand side or the left-hand side? 7. In politics, the terms 'Left' and 'Right' were first used during which historical event? 8. What does the sculpture David, by Michelangelo, hold in his right hand? 9. In boxing, what name is given to the normal stance of a left-handed boxer? 10. It is British tradition at a formal dinner for which drink to always be passed to the left?"

[Westside]

"6 for me, thanks."

[zico]

Must say I have always wondered if it's worth a stay?

[easthammer]

"7 but ""I am not a number"""

[Far Cough]

"socko, why not, are you afraid of the bubble thingy?"

[riosleftsock]

"8 as well Have a good mate from Portmeiron, who I have been threatening to visit for near on ten years now."

[Mad Dog]

6. Merci beucoup

[Mad Dog]

6. Merci beucoup