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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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6. Which incudes 4 for the Orchestra question. Said Timpani instated of Percussion.

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I meant alto sax

8 Branded its B flat What about a tenor sax?

For a bonus point. What key is a tenor trombone in?

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"Evening all... Todays answers. ALL THINGS MUSIC 1. Which guitarist composed 'Stairway to Heaven' with vocalist Robert Plant? Jimmy Page 2. Live Aid in 1985 was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and which stadium and city in the United States? I’ll give you a point each for the stadium name and city name. John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia 3. In which now British city did ABBA win the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and for a bonus point can you name the venue? Brighton (will of course accept Brighton & Hove) – The Dome 4. Who in 1978 was the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song and for another bonus point can you name the song? Kate Bush (Wuthering Heights) 5. Which orchestra, founded in 1930, was the first permanent salaried orchestra in London? BBC Symphony Orchestra 6. An orchestra is broken into how many families of instruments? I’ll also give a bonus point for each you can name. Four (string, woodwind, brass and percussion) 7. Which song gave Madonna her first UK number one? Into the Groove 8. Two songs have reached number one in the UK charts four times by different artists, Do They Know It's Christmas? is one, can you name the other? Bonus point for each of the four artists as well. Unchained Melody (Jimmy Young (1955), The Righteous Brothers (1990), Robson & Jerome (1995) and Gareth Gates (2002)) 9. Back to Live Aid in 1985. For two points which group and which song kicked off the concert at Wembley? Status Quo –Rockin All Over the World 10. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is located on the shore of Lake Erie in which American city? Cleveland"

"Thanks for yesterdays quiz Rio. Got back too late to do it but I wouldn't have done too well I don't, but when do I ever! I'm off out early again today and late back so plenty of points on offer and a bit more time for you all to ponder on the answers! I'll update the scores tonight. ALL THINGS MUSIC (Plenty of points on offer today.) 1. Which guitarist composed 'Stairway to Heaven' with vocalist Robert Plant? 2. Live Aid in 1985 was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and which stadium and city in the United States? I’ll give you a point each for the stadium name and city name. 3. In which now British city did ABBA win the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and for a bonus point can you name the venue? 4. Who in 1978 was the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song and for another bonus point can you name the song? 5. Which orchestra, founded in 1930, was the first permanent salaried orchestra in London? 6. An orchestra is broken into how many families of instruments? I’ll also give a bonus point for each you can name. 7. Which song gave Madonna her first UK number one? 8. Two songs have reached number one in the UK charts four times by different artists, Do They Know It's Christmas? is one, can you name the other? Bonus point for each of the artists as well. 9. Back to Live Aid in 1985. For two points which group and which song kicked off the concert at Wembley? 10. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is located on the shore of Lake Erie in which American city?"

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I like a surly Muscadet.

"4 Started off on a roll with the first three, then only got the Joan Of Arc answer after that."

I got questions 1 and 5 today. The weird thing with know it or you don't questions. Some days you nail it others you don't.

"Thanks Coff, it must be one of the few wines you haven't quaffed with me...."

"I didn't get Orleans, completely forgot about The Maid of Orleans, and Muscadet"

"Be useful if you can tell which ones you got wrong (or right in Mad Dog's case), that way I can get the difficulty level right."

Coff I had a complete brain fart (think I was borrowing Block's brain today) and spelt out cuntwomble instead.

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Back down to earth with a huge bump 2

"8 socko, COCKWOMBLE doesn't fit questions 2 3 and 4?"

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"Answers 1. Zagreb is the Capital of which European Nation? Croatia 2. Which novel by James Joyce, published in 1922, features the daily appointments and occurences of Leopold Bloom in Dublin? Ulysses 3. Which country, formerly part of Yugoslavia, was renamed to its current name (after some controversy) and has borders with Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania? North Macedonia 4. Which Italian River (3rd largest in Italy), rises at Mt Fumaiolo, flowing through Perugia and Rome before meeting the Sea at Ostia? Tiber 5. What were the unified armed forces (army, navy and airforce) of Nazi Germany known as? Wehrmacht 6. Which French city on the banks of the Loire was saved from British siege by Joan of Arc in 1429? Orleans 7. Made from the Italian grape of the same name, which famous french wine from the western end of Loire valley, near Nantes has 3 regional sub-appelations; *-Sevre et Maine *-Coteaux de la Loire and *-Cotes de Grandlieu? Muscadet 8. Which French acrobat crossed the Niagara on a tightrope in 1859 in many different ways, including one crossing where he stopped, sat down and cooked and ate an omelette? Blondin 9. Which Ukrainian city in Eastern Galicia has previously been part of Polan, Soviet Union, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Mongol Empire, and the Duchy of Lithuania and whose name derives from the word Lion? Lviv/Lvov/Lwiw/Lwow 10. Which Baltic country achieved independence in August 1991, whose flag is a horizontal rectangle consisting of upper blue and lower black halves and shares a border with Russia (East), Latvia (South) and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland? Estonia Bonus link - COCKWOMBLE"