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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?"

"Morning all. My last one this week as Mad Dog is kindly doing Thursday & Friday. Hope this one is ok.... Answers will be this evening. WHAT‚ÄôS THE CONNECTION? 1. Home to the RAF's Strategic and Tactical Air Transport and Air-to-Air Refuelling forces name the largest RAF Station in the UK with approximately 5,800 Service Personnel, 1,200 contractors and 300 civilian staff? 2. Name the 2014 American war film written and directed by David Ayer, and starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Pe?±a and Scott Eastwood? 3. Born Jerome Silberman, he was an American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author known better by what name? He died in 2016 (aged 83). 4. Who holds the record as the most portrayed fictional human literary character in film & television? 5. Name U2‚Äôs best-selling album with an estimated 25 million copies sold worldwide? 6. JLS, Little Mix and One Direction are the three most successful group acts from the UK version of the X Factor, but who is the most successful solo act from the series? 7. Alistair Leslie Graham is a satirical fictional character created and performed by a well known English actor, comedian, producer, and writer, but how is the character better known? 8. Natasha Romanoff, AKA The Black Widow, was portrayed by which actress in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film franchise? 9. Which US City has three professional sports teams: the Cardinals of Major League Baseball, the Blues of the National Hockey League, and the BattleHawks of the newly formed XFL? 10. What‚Äôs the connection?"

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8 also only got the first three

"Little bit of trivia on The Mag 7. Steve McQueen apparently wound up Brynner big time as McQueen kept doing things off script to take the audiences eyes of Brynner. When you next watch it, the scene when Brynner and McQueen were going down the street on the horse carriage McQueen shakes the cartridges before placing them into the gun and adjusts his hat in the sun. There are many more but apparently it drove Brynner crazy as he was ""meant"" to be the star."

8 Only got the first three of the Mag 7

"Love Westerns missed out on three of the seven, so not a Magnificent score but still a pretty good 13. although to be honest multiple-choice helped a lot Missed Dexter Buchholz and James Cogburn (whose name I just couldn't recall - it's an age thing) Thanks, Zico"

Zico. Exactly!!!!

"Far Cough, I remember doing that question in a quiz years ago and Brad Dexter was the one I missed as well. Always had the wrong face to Dexter and Buchholz too. Syd,,,,, How can yoy forget Steve McQueen? The coolest man ever on the silver screen!!"

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Only 9. Guessed the tribe wrongly and could only recollect Yul Brynner of the Seven. Which when I looked at the answers pissed me off a bit.

"TV & FILM WESTERNS ANSWERS 1. What was the name of the one-eyed character played by John Wayne in ""True Grit"" for which he won an Oscar? Rooster Cogburn 2. Which filmmaker spawned the Spaghetti Western genre? Sergio Leone 3. What was the name of the ranch owned by the Cartwright’s in ""Bonanza""? Ponderosa 4. What was the longest running western series in TV history? Gunsmoke (1955 to 1975, and lasted for 635 episodes) 5. In ""Little Big Man,"" Dustin Hoffman's character is raised by what tribe of Native Americans? Cheyenne 6. Who wrote the famous music score for ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?"" Ennio Morricone 7. What was the name of the TV western featuring the adventures of Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry? Alias Smith and Jones 8. Who was the female star in ""Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid"" cast in the role of Etta Place? Katharine Ross 9. Which actor got his big break playing Rowdy Yates in ""Rawhide""? Clint Eastwood 10. For a possible seven points name the seven actors in the 1960 film “The Magnificent Seven”? Yul Brynner as Chris Larabee Adams Steve McQueen as Vin Tanner Charles Bronson as Bernardo O'Reilly Horst Buchholz as Chico Robert Vaughn as Lee Brad Dexter as Harry Luck James Coburn as Britt"

"After watching a tribute night to Clint Eastwood I've put together TV and Film Westerns. Only problem was as a straight quiz it might have been too ""niche"" so once again have a multiple choice selection. Might have some high scores today but more fun than finding it impossible! 1. What was the name of the one-eyed character played by John Wayne in ""True Grit"" for which he won an Oscar? John T. Chance, Rooster Cogburn, Big Jake McCandles 2. Which filmmaker spawned the Spaghetti Western genre? Federico Fellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Leone 3. What was the name of the ranch owned by the Cartwright’s in ""Bonanza""? Ponderosa, Shiloh Ranch, High Chaparral 4. What was the longest running western series in TV history? Bonanza, The Virginian, Gunsmoke 5. In ""Little Big Man,"" Dustin Hoffman's character is raised by what tribe of Native Americans? Apache, Sioux, Cheyenne 6. Who wrote the famous music score for ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?"" Ludovico Einaudi, Ennio Morricone, Claudio Mattone 7. What was the name of the TV western featuring the adventures of Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry? Alias Smith and Jones, Wagon Train, Wanted: Dead or Alive 8. Who was the female star in ""Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid"" cast in the role of Etta Place? Natalie Wood, Katharine Ross, Raquel Welch 9. Which actor got his big break playing Rowdy Yates in ""Rawhide""? Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman 10. For a possible seven points name the “seven” actors in the 1960 film “The Magnificent Seven”?"

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8. Lucked out with a guess on Swahili. Cheers zico

Yeah I guessed it was chess

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"No bonus on that occasion East but impressive all the same. Would have been interested to see if anyone would have got the chess one if it had read ""Chess was originally known as what?"" but decided it was too tough that way around."

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It was a good set of questions for me today. Scored 9. Also knew that Bingo as well as coming from Italy that it was called lotto. But assumed no bonus for that. Thanks Zico

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