Daily Quiz anyone?

[easthammer]

"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?"

[easthammer]

8 today thanks Zico

[Darlo Debs]

8 today Thanks Zico

[Mad Dog]

Monday 6 Yesterday 3.5 Today 8 Many thanks

[zico]

riosleftsock 8:58 Wed Jul 5 Same here. Had James Hazeldine in it didn't it? The bloke from London's Burning.

[riosleftsock]

"6 thanks. I loved One Summer with Billy and Icky, used to watch with my brother every week, was gutted when it finished."

[zebthecat]

10 today 2 and 5 were the guesses. Fuck knows how I remembered 1.

[Far Cough]

5 cheers

[Westside]

7. Thanks.

[zico]

"So as I said an easy one for these long Summer Nights (sorry!) What’s the connection? 1. Name fictional coastal town featured in the Australian soap, Home and Away? Summer Bay 2. Which aria was composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the opera Porgy and Bess? Summertime 3. Which 1983 British TV drama series written by Willy Russell starred David Morrissey and Spencer Leigh as two 16-year-old Liverpool boys? One Summer 4. Which singer was known as the 'Queen of Disco'? Donna Summer 5. Which Shakespeare play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta? A Midsummer Night's Dream 6. What was a debut single and big hit for Mungo Jerry? 'In the Summertime' 7. With the exception of programmes 'rebooted' after long hiatuses, what holds the record of the longest-running TV comedy programme in Britain and the longest-running TV sitcom in the world Last of the Summer Wine 8. What name is given to the vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces in Beijing which are a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design? The Summer Palace 9. Name the guitarist who was a member of the rock band the Police? Andy Summers 10. What’s the connection? Summer"

[zebthecat]

Might have a clean sweep today even though a couple are educated guesses.

[zico]

"Easy one today. What’s the connection? 1. Name fictional coastal town featured in the Australian soap, Home and Away? 2. Which aria was composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the opera Porgy and Bess? 3. Which 1983 British TV drama series written by Willy Russell starred David Morrissey and Spencer Leigh as two 16-year-old Liverpool boys? 4. Which singer was known as the 'Queen of Disco'? 5. Which Shakespeare play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta? 6. What was a debut single and big hit for Mungo Jerry? 7. With the exception of programmes 'rebooted' after long hiatuses, what holds the record of the longest-running TV comedy programme in Britain and the longest-running TV sitcom in the world 8. What name is given to the vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces in Beijing which are a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design? 9. Name the guitarist who was a member of the rock band the Police? 10. What’s the connection?"

[zico]

"Easy one today. What’s the connection? 1. Name fictional coastal town featured in the Australian soap, Home and Away? 2. Which aria was composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the opera Porgy and Bess? 3. Which 1983 British TV drama series written by Willy Russell starred David Morrissey and Spencer Leigh as two 16-year-old Liverpool boys? 4. Which singer was known as the 'Queen of Disco'? 5. Which Shakespeare play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta? 6. What was a debut single and big hit for Mungo Jerry? 7. With the exception of programmes 'rebooted' after long hiatuses, what holds the record of the longest-running TV comedy programme in Britain and the longest-running TV sitcom in the world 8. What name is given to the vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces in Beijing which are a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design? 9. Name the guitarist who was a member of the rock band the Police? 10. What’s the connection?"

[zebthecat]

8 today thanks

[Far Cough]

"A measly 2, thanks zico"

[zico]

"Yep, half a point for author and half a point for book/poem title. Full answer = full point."

[easthammer]

5 for me thanks Zico

[Westside]

5. Ta.

[riosleftsock]

8 (assuming a half point for author or title and one point for both)?

[zico]

"Quotes from Literature Quiz For a full point. name the author and the book/poem title relating to the following quotes. 1. ""All that glitters is not gold."" William Shakespeare, 'The Merchant of Venice' 2. ""The Answer to the ultimate question of Life, The Universe and Everything is…42!"" Douglas Adams, 'The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy' 3. ""It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."" Charles Dickens, 'A Tale of Two Cities' 4. ""We are asleep until we fall in love!"" Leo Tolstoy, 'War and Peace' 5. ""A little learning is a dangerous thing."" Alexander Pope, 'An Essay on Criticism' 6. ""Big brother is watching you."" George Orwell, '1984' 7. ""Curiouser and curiouser!"" Lewis Carroll, 'Alice in Wonderland.' 8. ""Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die."" Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' 9. ""It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."" Jane Austen, 'Pride and Prejudice' 10. ""Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."" Harper Lee, 'To Kill a Mockingbird'"

[zebthecat]

glisters

[zico]

"Quotes from Literature Quiz For a full point. name the author and the book/poem title relating to the following quotes. 1. ""All that glitters is not gold."" 2. ""The Answer to the ultimate question of Life, The Universe and Everything is…42!"" 3. ""It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."" 4. ""We are asleep until we fall in love!"" 5. ""A little learning is a dangerous thing."" 6. ""Big brother is watching you."" 7. ""Curiouser and curiouser!"" 8. ""Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die."" 9. ""It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."" 10. ""Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."""

[easthammer]

6 for me also thanks Zico

[zico]

"riosleftsock 8:37 Mon Jul 3 And for the quizzers to have decent scores despite no photos! Pity there isn't a way actually. Seen so many picture quizzes of all sorts out there from dingbats to film stars as children but just a clue "" Little Italian looking kid with dark hair and dark eyes who has starred in a few movies"" wouldn't work!"

[zebthecat]

9 today. I am into photography and didn't know the situation room photo.

[Far Cough]

"6 here also, cheers zico"