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"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?"

"As I was stuck in the middle of nowhere on my shift yesterday waiting 5 hours for a pick up truck. My poor co-driver got the rear wheels stuck, I have had a long lie in this morning trying to keep my body warm, so here is a Human Body Quiz 1. What does the parotid gland produce? 2. To the nearest degree centigrade, what is the average temperature of a healthy human? 3. What has most bones: the skull, hand, or foot (as in, a single foot and hand)? 4. What name is given to the main artery of the human body? 5. There are four primary muscles involved in mastication, what is mastication? 6. Where in the human body is the smallest bone? 7. The vertebral column is made up of how many bones? a) 23 b) 33 c) 43 8. What is the longest and strongest bone in the human body? 9. How many chambers are there in a human heart? 10. The shape of DNA is known as?"

Here he is on Bullseye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF1FZhmaBvw

Bit of luck he is stuck on a finish of 2 / double 1. Because it's almost impossible to get out of!

"Arrogance, I assume"

"FMOB, glad they got him but why would he advertise himself on Bullseye?"

"The Killer was a John Cooper, dramatised in The Pembrokeshire Murders on ITV ( 3 episode drama)."

Zico Didn't hear about that. Post a link up to the program if you can find it mate.

Rios didn't they catch some killer because he appeared on Bullseye? Pretty sure they had a TV drama on it last year. The photo fit was identical to one of the contestants and they caught him.

14 for me on the darts questions which is about what I would get with three darts so fair enough.

Zico I sometimes watch old Bullseye episodes as well as Blanketu Blank with Wogan or Dawson. Was watching an interview with Bowen the other night talking about the two thick irish blokes he had on Bullseye - fucking hilarious.

I catch the odd old episode of Bullseye. The really old ones are an eye opener as it looks really really basic. Very little of Tony Green and correct me if I'm wrong but in those early days for the winners it was both prizes and cash you stumped up to go for the gamble whereas later on it was only the prizes I think. One episode no one took it on. Last couple with only 20 quid between them said it's been a lovely day Jim but we will take the cash!

"11 for me there was only one presenter of Bullseye, probably my favourite gameshow ever. Bowen was a very funny comic too"

A lonely 4

"16, if Jim Bowen is accepted as the presenter of ""Bullseye."" ( re vamps of the show presented by Alan Carr and Dave Spikey). Thanks."

That would be an auto correct. Yes it's circus tavern. I'll fix it.

"Think you mis-spelt last one MD, it's Circus Tavern. Poor 10 for me. Idiot forgot bull as highest finish and included Taylor's two BDO's to give 16. Thanks MD."

"1. Minimum darts for a leg 9 2. Highest possible finish? 170 3. What is opposite 12 2 4. What is either side of 6 (point each) 13 and 10 5. Is 8 traditionally white and green or black and red Black and red 6. What is Phil tailor's nickname The power 7. How many pdc championships has he won? 14 8. Who was ""the crafty cockney"" Eric bristow 9. In darts What is tops? 40/ D20 finish to win a leg 10. In darts what is ""CHIPS"" aka ""bed and breakfast""? A score of single 5, single 20 and single 1 from 3 darts 11. What is a madhouse? A finish of 2 / double 1. Because it's almost impossible to get out 12. A dart is made of 4 parts. Name them (point each) Tip/ point, grip/ barrel, shaft/stem, flight 13. According to pdc. Who is currently ranked no#1 Gerwyn price 14. Who presented bullseye? Jim bowen 15. Before moving to it's current home at Alexander Palace, where was the pdc championship previously held? Circus tavern (purfleet)"

"1. Minimum darts for a leg 9 2. Highest possible finish? 170 3. What is opposite 12 2 4. What is either side of 6 (point each) 13 and 10 5. Is 8 traditionally white and green or black and red Black and red 6. What is Phil tailor's nickname The power 7. How many pdc championships has he won? 14 8. Who was ""the crafty cockney"" Eric bristow 9. In darts What is tops? 40/ D20 finish to win a leg 10. In darts what is ""CHIPS"" aka ""bed and breakfast""? A score of single 5, single 20 and single 1 from 3 darts 11. What is a madhouse? A finish of 2 / double 1. Because it's almost impossible to get out 12. A dart is made of 4 parts. Name them (point each) Tip/ point, grip/ barrel, shaft/stem, flight 13. According to pdc. Who is currently ranked no#1 Gerwyn price 14. Who presented bullseye? Jim bowen 15. Before moving to it's current home at Alexander Palace, where was the pdc championship previously held? Circus tavern (purfleet)"

"9 for yesterday, thanks"

"10 for me yesterday, thanks."

"Been playing a lot of darts recently, so.... 1. Minimum required darts to finish a leg of 501 2. Highest possible finish? 3. What is opposite 12? 4. What is either side of 6 (point each)? 5. Is 8 traditionally white and green or black and red? 6. What is Phil tailor's nickname? 7. How many pdc championships has he won? 8. Who was ""the crafty cockney"" 9. In darts What is tops? 10. In darts what is ""CHIPS"" aka ""bed and breakfast""? 11. What is a madhouse? 12. A dart is made of 4 parts. Name them (point each) 13. According to pdc. Who is currently ranked no#1? 14. Who presented bullseye? 15. Before moving to it's current home at Alexander Palace, where was the pdc championship previously held?"

"20 as well, would never have got above 16 but you gave the names of the authors which helped."

Well Zico you believed me yesterday but this might stretch your credulity to the limit it's the full 20 for me. As you said it is not films although I guess most if not all of these have been made into film (But of course I wouldn't know that!)

10 muchos gracias

"Well how weird, just arrived back to a house that is a mere 16c and yet after a day on the road it feels like the Bahamas!! I’ve given you the opening line of a famous book and the ten authors in variable order at the bottom. For a maximum two points on each question name the book and match the author to the line. 1. Frank Baum - Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Harry, who was a farmer, and aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 2. Charles Dickens - It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. A Tale of Two Cities 3. Margaret Mitchell - Scarlet O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. Gone with the Wind 4. William Golding - The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon. Lord of the Flies 5. Douglas Adams - Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 6. Robert Louis Stevenson - I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father’s house. Kidnapped 7. Mario Puzo - Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter. The Godfather 8. George Eliot - Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Middlemarch 9. Jane Austen - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Pride and Prejudice 10. John Wyndham - When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. The Day of the Triffids"