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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?"

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1 Bit of a niche quiz that. Nice work Zico son!

"The Oscars 1. From 1973 to 2020, all Academy Awards ceremonies have ended with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 2021, this tradition was broken as the ceremony ended with which award? Academy Award for Best Actor 2. Perhaps the most widely seen streaker in history was 34-year-old Robert Opel, who streaked across the stage of The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles flashing a peace sign on national US television at the 46th Academy Awards in 1974. Can you name the suave British host who was on stage at the time and quipped ""Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?"" David Niven 3. For two points what are the only two sequels to ever win Best Picture? Clue – The years of the films were 1974 and 2003. The Godfather Part II in 1974 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003. 4. Who is the only Oscar winner, as best actress in 1972, whose parents were also both Oscar winners? If you can also name “her” parents, you can have three points. Clue – She took the surname of her father. Liza Minnelli - (Best Actress in 1972 for Cabaret) is the only Oscar winner to have had both parents win Oscars. Judy Garland was awarded the short-lived Academy Juvenile Award for her performances in The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms. And Liza Minnelli’s father, Vincent Minnelli, won the Best Director Academy Award for Gigi. 5. How many times did Alfred Hitchcock win the Best Director Oscar? Zero (baffling!) 6. Which famous figure won or received a total of twenty-six Academy Awards and holds the record for most Academy Awards in history? Walt Disney 7. Who was the youngest person to win an Oscar in a competitive category, at the age of 10 in her screen debut starring opposite her famous dad in 1974? Tatum O’Neal (“Paper Moon”) 8. The Academy Award for Best Makeup was not given out until 1981, after a famous black and white film with incredible makeup achievements went unmentioned the year before. Which famous black and white film helped create this Oscar for Best Makeup? Hamlet (1948) - Laurence Olivier 9. The Academy Award for Best Makeup was not given out until 1981, after a film with incredible makeup achievements went unmentioned the year before. Which famous black and white film helped create this Oscar for Best Makeup? The Elephant Man 10. For two points which two actors were presenting the Best Picture winner in 2017 when 'La La Land' instead of 'Moonlight' was announced incorrectly as the winner? Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty"

"The Oscars are up soon. Sorry if this is tough but given clues when possible. Answers will be late today. 1. From 1973 to 2020, all Academy Awards ceremonies have ended with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 2021, this tradition was broken as the ceremony ended with which award? 2. Perhaps the most widely seen streaker in history was 34-year-old Robert Opel, who streaked across the stage of The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles flashing a peace sign on national US television at the 46th Academy Awards in 1974. Can you name the suave British host who was on stage at the time and quipped ""Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?"" 3. For two points what are the only two sequels to ever win Best Picture? Clue – The years of the films were 1974 and 2003. 4. Who is the only Oscar winner, as best actress in 1972, whose parents were also both Oscar winners? If you can also name “her” parents, you can have three points. Clue – She took the surname of her father. 5. How many times did Alfred Hitchcock win the Best Director Oscar? 6. Which famous figure won or received a total of twenty-six Academy Awards and holds the record for most Academy Awards in history? 7. Who was the youngest person to win an Oscar in a competitive category, at the age of 10 in her screen debut starring opposite her famous dad in 1974? 8. Which was the first film adaptation of a William Shakespeare play to get an Oscar for Best Picture and for a bonus point which famous late British actor won the best actor Oscar for the same film? It was also the first British picture to win the award. 9. The Academy Award for Best Makeup was not given out until 1981, after a famous black and white film with incredible makeup achievements went unmentioned the year before. Which famous black and white film helped create this Oscar for Best Makeup? 10. For two points which two actors were presenting the Best Picture winner in 2017 when 'La La Land' instead of 'Moonlight' was announced incorrectly as the winner?"

8. Didn't get Burke and o'hare even though I swear I've seen a film on it. Didn't get the ship or rod sterling either.

5 Includes 2 guesses

No worries Cough..

7 thanks

"zico, sorry no, I think I have scraped the barrel dry"

Cough are you doing one tomorrow>? No worries if not I've still got a fair few.

3 cheers

"Q1, Which fat pussy should Zouma have kicked? A - James Corden in CATS!"

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Could we do a Zouma quiz?

6 thanks Zico

"Horror Quiz 1. ‘Lycan’ is the species name of which mythical creature? Werewolf 2. What were the names of the real-life ‘body snatchers’, in 1820’s Edinburgh? Burke & Hare (William Burke and William Hare) 3. Which famous legendary creature from Himalayan folklore is also known as Meh-Teh? Yeti 4. Which American actor, screenwriter, playwright and television producer, was the original narrator/on-screen host of ‘The Twilight Zone’? Rod Serling 5. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula in which harbour town in the UK did Dracula first land and for a bonus point can you name the Russian sailing vessel he arrived on? Whitby - The Demeter 6. Which bird features in the title of, one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous works? The Raven 7. Which famous movie based on a Stephen King book features ‘The Overlook Hotel’? The Shining 8. “When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain?” are the first 12 words of Act One/Scene one of which famous play? Macbeth 9. In which century did the Salem Witch Trials take place in colonial Massachusetts? Was it the 17th, 18th, or 19th? 17th century (1692-1693) 10. Which supernatural creature gave the Cranberries a 1994 hit and a ‘Best Song’ award at the 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards? Zombie"

"You learn something new every day East. I seem to remember that he played a lot of coppers... Today a Horror Quiz 1. ‘Lycan’ is the species name of which mythical creature? 2. What were the names of the real-life ‘body snatchers’, in 1820’s Edinburgh? 3. Which famous legendary creature from Himalayan folklore is also known as Meh-Teh? 4. Which American actor, screenwriter, playwright and television producer, was the original narrator/on-screen host of ‘The Twilight Zone’? 5. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula in which harbour town in the UK did Dracula first land and for a bonus point can you name the Russian sailing vessel he arrived on? 6. Which bird features in the title of, one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous works? 7. Which famous movie based on a Stephen King book features ‘The Overlook Hotel’? 8. “When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain?” are the first 12 words of Act One/Scene one of which famous play? 9. In which century did the Salem Witch Trials take place in colonial Massachusetts? Was it the 17th, 18th, or 19th? 10. Which supernatural creature gave the Cranberries a 1994 hit and a ‘Best Song’ award at the 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards?"

"Just the 5 , thanks Zico."

"7 for me thanks Zico. Boring info for you John Watt was played by Frank Windsor, who went on to be very successful in a number of TV series. But when he was in Z cars he did a lot of tv voice overs on adverts, including Kitekat cat food. Which may interest all the cat lovers amongst us ?üòâ How do I know this.? Back then I worked for his accountant and had the tedious job of producing a schedule of royalties of 2s/6d for every time it was broadcast. This was not the sole reason that for me a career in accounting did not ensue."

6. One of our dinosaurs is missing was not a poirot film apparently.

A poor 3…

A poor 3…

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"A very poor 3, cheers zico"