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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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"4. Didn't know John Candy was Canadian, changed guess for Q10 from Milan to Bologna at the last minute, D'oh!"

5. I got the Charles dickens one from doctor who (the unquiet dead episode)

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"Famous lasts 1. Wagons East was the final screen performance of which much loved Canadian actor and comedian? John Candy (much missed) 2. Who was the last surviving member of the Rat Pack, who died October 2007? Joey Bishop 3. December 1991 saw the last commercial flight of which international airline? Pan Am 4. Name the last football team to win the old First Division before the creation of the Premier League for the 1992-93 season? Leeds United 5. The last person to be executed by guillotine in France was in which decade of the 20th century? 1970s (1977) 6. Who was the last Viceroy of British India? Lord Louis Mountbatten 7. Which of Charles Dickens' books ended unfinished when he died in 1870? The Mystery of Edwin Drood 8. Can you name John Wayne's last film, was it “Rooster Cogburn”, “The Shootist” or “Brannigan”? The Shootist 9. Harry was dubbed in his later years as ""the Last Fighting Tommy"" and was the last surviving combat soldier of the First World War, what was his last name? Patch (he died in 2009 aged 111 years, 38 days) 10. The Last Supper is a mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the late 15th-century, it is housed in the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in which city? Milan"

6 for yesterday Cheers…

"5 yesterday, I reckon I've done better today."

"Many thanks for yesterday's Cough. Might have got 5 with a lucky guess or two if I had been back earliuer. Started the week with famous firsts so now - Famous lasts 1. Wagons East was the final screen performance of which much loved Canadian actor and comedian? 2. Who was the last surviving member of the Rat Pack, who died October 2007? 3. December 1991 saw the last commercial flight of which international airline? 4. Name the last football team to win the old First Division before the creation of the Premier League for the 1992-93 season? 5. The last person to be executed by guillotine in France was in which decade of the 20th century? 6. Who was the last Viceroy of British India? 7. Which of Charles Dickens' books ended unfinished when he died in 1870? 8. Can you name John Wayne's last film, was it “Rooster Cogburn”, “The Shootist” or “Brannigan”? 9. Harry was dubbed in his later years as ""the Last Fighting Tommy"" and was the last surviving combat soldier of the First World War, what was his last name? 10. The Last Supper is a mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the late 15th-century, it is housed in the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in which city?"

8. Couple of inspired (lucky) guesses.

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"Answers: 1. Scoobert Doo 2. Pink 3. Skunk 4. None 5. San Francisco 6. Turkmenistan 7. A musical instrument) 8. Frog 9. Beard tax 10. Graffiti 11. Zeedonk 12. An Ostrich egg 13. Interrobang 14. Ginger 15. O – it’s existed for more than 3,000 years 16. Trains"

"1. What is Scooby Doo’s full name? 2. What is the most common colour of toilet paper in France? 3. In Minnesota it is illegal to tease what type of animal? 4. How many teeth does an aardvark have? 5. Where was the fortune cookie invented? 6. The leader of which country has his face on all the yoghurt pots, has named the month January after himself and banned ballet. 7. What is a hurdy-gurdy? 8. Native to the Caribbean, what sort of animal is the mountain chicken? 9. Henry 8 introduced which tax in England in 1535? 10. It's illegal in Texas to put what on your neighbour’s cow? 11. What is the cross between a donkey and a zebra known as? 12. With what type of egg can you make over 11 average sized omelettes? 13. What is the correct term for a question mark immediately followed by an exclamation mark? 14. What was Marilyn Monroe's natural hair colour? 15. What letter of the alphabet is the oldest? 16. What are you afraid of if you have siderodromophobia?"

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"Burt Lancaster and his mute sidekick, Nick Cravat did quite a few films together which used to do acrobatics"

"As far as I know he didn't work in a circus but did play a trapeze artist on film. Lancaster was a trapeze artist IRL and starred in a film called Trapeze. Might have confused people with the ""tough guy"" clue as they starred in that film together so if you find Kirk was a circus acrobat IRL give yourself a point."

7 Bud didn't Kirk Douglas also start out as an acrobat or trapeze thingy?

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"7, thanks Zico"

"Only 3, cheers zico"

"Golden Age of Hollywood Quiz 1. Which classic piece of Hollywood cinema in 1942 was based on a play called “Everybody Comes to Rick's”? Casablanca 2. It's A Wonderful Life starring James Stewart has been a Christmas must-watch since it was first released in 1946. But who directed it, was it Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, Cecil B. DeMille or George Cukor? Frank Capra 3. What was the first colour film to win Best Picture at the Oscars? Gone With the Wind 4. Who was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor and for a bonus point for which film? Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field (1963) 5. Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a famous film, but who wrote the book? Truman Capote 6. Which of Alfred Hitchcock's movies did HE make twice? The Man Who Knew Too Much (in 1934 and 1956) 7. In the Wizard of Oz, what was the name of the Good Witch of the North? Glinda 8. What famous Hollywood tough guy star started out as a circus acrobat? Burt Lancaster 9. The famous HOLLYWOOD sign when first erected in 1923 originally read what? HOLLYWOODLAND 10. For three points which were the first three Walt Disney feature length films released? Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940)"

"Going back a bit further here is a Golden Age of Hollywood Quiz 1. Which classic piece of Hollywood cinema in 1942 was based on a play called “Everybody Comes to Rick's”? 2. It's A Wonderful Life starring James Stewart has been a Christmas must-watch since it was first released in 1946. But who directed it, was it Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, Cecil B. DeMille or George Cukor? 3. What was the first colour film to win Best Picture at the Oscars? 4. Who was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor and for a bonus point for which film? 5. Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a famous film, but who wrote the book? 6. Which of Alfred Hitchcock's movies did HE make twice? 7. In the Wizard of Oz, what was the name of the Good Witch of the North? 8. What famous Hollywood tough guy star started out as a circus acrobat? 9. The famous HOLLYWOOD sign when first erected in 1923 originally read what? 10. For three points which were the first three Walt Disney feature length films released?"