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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. The One I thought I had for sure was wrong (thought it was magnetic north that was shifting - anyone else go for that?) so good job guessing was decent. Although 8 countries in it and Reykjavik closest capital to it were more calculated then guessed I tell myself.

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"Answers 1.

"Syd Last night's TV ""Terror"" BBC 2 was the inspiration."

Think I got my one. Eight guesses and one cant even do that. Ironically hovered over the story on the BBC website before coming on here that had I read would have given me the answer. That where you got your inspiration EH?

I'm finding cold comfort in these cool runnings. 3? 4? Guessing.

"I think I know 2. 4 are guesses, 4 I haven't a clue but had a wild stab in the dark."

"Questions 1.

"Scores fro yesterday, nice improvement with a 5.1 average Well done Mad Dog a 9 on those was very good. Texas Iron

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"But if he come round here pushing his weight about, quoting things and playing about with time zones, I shall say “OI MAO, NO. NO MAO NO......”"

"As Diane Abbott wisely said of Chairman Mao (who was responsible for the deaths of millions of his own citizens) ""on balance, Chairman Mao did more good than bad."""

"It was Mao. I genuinely didn't know this fact, but all of China is on Beijing time. He thought it would be ""unifying"". Which can lead to the rather giddy experience, I imagine, of sitting down and watching an autumnal sunset... at ""midnight"". Worse still, some locals abide by ""Beijing time"" in the far west... but others don't. So it's possible to not even agree with your neighbour what time it is! https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/world/asia/china-single-time-zone.html Well done Chairman! It's better than murdering millions, I suppose."

"6. (Didn’t get 2/5/6/10). And yeh, i couldn’t fathom out the tiddly one, either."

"Geoff, I guessed 5 based on its size. Maybe it was one of Chairman Mao's Cnut-like edicts."

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"""don't understand how China only has one time zone"". Me neither. I guessed 4! Still, wouldn't fancy an argument with their government over it."

"""don't understand how China only has one time zone"". Me neither. I guessed 4! Still, wouldn't fancy an argument with their government over it."

"4, 5 and 5 thanks east"

"3 for me, very guess drive again."

"I got 4, but I don't understand how China only has one time zone. That's geographically impossible."

geoffpikey 9:32 Wed Mar 3 So did Parky! Didn't look too impressed I seem to remember!

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