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Thanks to the guys for getting this great new site up and running and here is a brand new quiz thread. You know the rules. Please don't post your answers before the quizzer does. Don't forget to post your scores.  
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Tricky General Knowledge Quiz


1.  Which planet is closest to the sun?
Mercury

2.  Which female Germanic name, meaning "bright one", was given to the howitzer first used by the German army to bombard French and Belgian forts during World War I?
Bertha (Big Bertha)

3.  Which island is remembered for an iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi?
Iwo Jima

4.  Warrington IKEA was the first IKEA store to open in the UK. In which decade did it open, was it 70’s, 80’s or 90’s?
1980s (1987)

5. Which monarch was on the throne when William Shakespeare died? 
James I

6.  Which boarding school in Moray, Scotland, did King Charles attend?
Gordonstoun

7.  Marsala is a fortified wine produced in the region surrounding the city of Marsala on which island?
Sicily

8.  How many times has the summer Olympic games been cancelled due to war?
Three (1916, 1940, 1944)

9.  As long as horses meet the criteria, there is essentially no limit to the number of initial entries for The Grand National. On the day, however, a maximum of 34 Grand National horses can run, a reduction on the previous maximum of how many?
40 – Change brought in for 2023-24 season and onwards.

10.  What is the common name for your encephalon?
Brain

11. Which English television scriptwriter created the character Alf Garnett? 
Johnny Speight

12.  All Olympic rowing races are raced over a course of how many metres, is it 1000, 2000 or 3000?
2000 meters

13.  Which cathedral lies on the south bank of the River Thames close to London Bridge?
Southwark Cathedral

14.  Which Irish sports’ stadium is the third-largest stadium in Europe?
Croke Park

15.  Which mountaineering or climbing term is derived from the German meaning to descend by rope?
Abseil

16.  Which Spanish word meaning council or board is often used for a military government?
Junta

17.  The inaugural commercial flights of Concorde in 1976 left London and Paris. Which two countries were their destinations? (Hint – Both begin with the letter B)
Bahrain and Brazil

18.  What university did Stephen Hawking go to?
Cambridge

19.  What is the name given to the four virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance?
Cardinal virtues

20.  Known as 'Golf's Greatest Test', which of The Open Championship's venues is the most northern?
Carnoustie

 
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Tricky General Knowledge Quiz


1.  Which planet is closest to the sun?

2.  Which female Germanic name, meaning "bright one", was given to the howitzer first used by the German army to bombard French and Belgian forts during World War I?

3.  Which island is remembered for an iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi?

4.  Warrington IKEA was the first IKEA store to open in the UK. In which decade did it open, was it 70’s, 80’s or 90’s?

5. Which monarch was on the throne when William Shakespeare died? 

6.  Which boarding school in Moray, Scotland, did King Charles attend?

7.  Marsala is a fortified wine produced in the region surrounding the city of Marsala on which island?

8.  How many times has the summer Olympic games been cancelled due to war?

9.  As long as horses meet the criteria, there is essentially no limit to the number of initial entries for The Grand National. On the day, however, a maximum of 34 Grand National horses can run, a reduction on the previous maximum of how many?

10.  What is the common name for your encephalon?

11. Which English television scriptwriter created the character Alf Garnett? 

12.  All Olympic rowing races are raced over a course of how many metres, is it 1000, 2000 or 3000?

13.  Which cathedral lies on the south bank of the River Thames close to London Bridge?

14.  Which Irish sports’ stadium is the third-largest stadium in Europe?

15.  Which mountaineering or climbing term is derived from the German meaning to descend by rope?

16.  Which Spanish word meaning council or board is often used for a military government?

17.  The inaugural commercial flights of Concorde in 1976 left London and Paris. Which two countries were their destinations? (Hint – Both begin with the letter B)

18.  What university did Stephen Hawking go to?

19.  What is the name given to the four virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance?

20.  Known as 'Golf's Greatest Test', which of The Open Championship's venues is the most northern?




 
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14 thanks Zico 
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17. Thanks Zico.
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Oddly enough East when we got someone around after mum went into care and we had to sell the house he auctioned off some old stuff like tables, bureau, trinkets etc and the biggest money spinner was £80 for my old Commodore 64 and tape games! Wish I had kept them now. 🤣

American Trivia

1.  Which legendary baseball player was nicknamed 'The Sultan of Swat'?
Babe Ruth

2.  Whose hit song "Ring of Fire" was almost used for a haemorrhoid commercial until his family blocked it?
Johnny Cash

3.  Which spaceflight mission landed the first men on the Moon?
Apollo 11

4.  In which American city did Ronald Regan survive an assassination attempt in 1981?
Washington DC

5.  By what four letter name is the singer Alecia Moore better known by?
Pink

6. The Blue Ridge Mountains are part of which mountain range? 
The Appalachian Mountains

7.  In the summer of which year was the film Jaws released, was it 1975, 1976 or 1977?
1975

8.  Vince Lombardi is best known as the early sixties coach of which American football team?
Green Bay Packers

9.  To which American city would you be flying to if your destination had the airport code LGA?
New York (LaGuardia)

10.  Which actress is the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer?
Liv Tyler (daughter of Steven Tyler)

11.  In which city was the TV show Happy Days set?
Milwaukee

12.  What name links the CIA to the first ever aircraft carrier commissioned into the US Navy in 1922?
Langley (USS Langley and Langley, Virginia is where the CIA headquarters are based)

13.  Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in which year?
1941

14.  Which American state shares its name with a former Soviet Republic?
Georgia

15.  What country did the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team defeat in the semi-finals of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, a game commonly known as the “Miracle on Ice”?
The Soviet Union – Will accept Russia

16. Which U.S. state has the most potentially active volcanoes? 
Alaska

17.  Which city is the capital of California?
Sacramento

18. By land area, what is the smallest US state?  
Rhode Island

19.  The village of Supai, which gets its mail delivered by mule, is at the bottom of where?
The Grand Canyon

20.  For four points which four presidents are on Mount Rushmore?
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt


 
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17 for obsolete tech, still have a ZX spectrum (in loft appreciating!) thanks Zico
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Seems an appropriate time.

American Trivia

1.  Which legendary baseball player was nicknamed 'The Sultan of Swat'?

2.  Whose hit song "Ring of Fire" was almost used for a haemorrhoid commercial until his family blocked it?

3.  Which spaceflight mission landed the first men on the Moon?

4.  In which American city did Ronald Regan survive an assassination attempt in 1981?

5.  By what four letter name is the singer Alecia Moore better known by?

6. The Blue Ridge Mountains are part of which mountain range? 

7.  In the summer of which year was the film Jaws released, was it 1975, 1976 or 1977?

8.  Vince Lombardi is best known as the early sixties coach of which American football team?

9.  To which American city would you be flying to if your destination had the airport code LGA?

10.  Which actress is the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer?

11.  In which city was the TV show Happy Days set?

12.  What name links the CIA to the first ever aircraft carrier commissioned into the US Navy in 1922?

13.  Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in which year?

14.  Which American state shares its name with a former Soviet Republic?

15.  What country did the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team defeat in the semi-finals of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, a game commonly known as the “Miracle on Ice”?

16. Which U.S. state has the most potentially active volcanoes? 

17.  Which city is the capital of California?

18. By land area, what is the smallest US state?  

19.  The village of Supai, which gets its mail delivered by mule, is at the bottom of where?

20.  For four points which four presidents are on Mount Rushmore?


 
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17 for me, thanks Zico.
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Eleven ….good for me ! 
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God score Zeb, quiz must have been too easy!!  😉  I remember all that stuff at school, slide rules, protractors etc and I think the only one I have used since is a ruler!
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19 today thanks zico.
The only one I didn't get was slide rule which is bloody annoying as I used one at school along with log table books.
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Obsolete Technology Quiz

1. What was the name of the first widely used portable music player to play cassette tapes? 
Sony Walkman

2.  Which brand of phone, decommissioned in January 2022, was popular with business professionals for its physical QWERTY keyboard?
BlackBerry

3.  Used for navigation, which doubly reflecting instrument measures the angular distance between two visible objects?
Sextant

4.  What device, used by internal combustion engines to control and mix air and fuel, has been largely replaced by fuel injection?
Carburetor - (also spelled carburettor or carburetter)

5.  What writing tool was often made from a moulted flight feather of a goose?
Quill

6.  A gnomon was a vital part of which time-telling device?
Sundial

7.  A vital part of the first commercially made electronic televisions, what does the acronym CRT stand for?
Cathode ray tube

8.  What name was given to an early form of gramophone that used cylinders and was able to record as well as reproduce sound?
Phonograph

9.  Which television signal technology was replaced by digital encoding transmissions?
Analogue

10.  Which obsolete storage format was introduced by Sony in the 1980s as a higher-quality alternative to VHS?
Betamax

11.  Sometimes called telecopying, what was 'Fax' short for?
Facsimile

12.  Which publication was advertised with the 1970s slogan: "Let your fingers do the walking"?
Yellow Pages

13.  William Oughtred is credited with inventing which hand-operated mechanical calculator?
Slide rule

14.  A velocipede was an early type of what?
Bicycle

15.  What word came into common usage with the early 1960s introduction of a patented film and instant photos?
Polaroid

16.  In 1997, about half of all US homes with internet access used which online service provider?
AOL

17.  What was the world's first teletext information service, started by the BBC in 1974 and ended in October 2012?
Ceefax

18.  The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced in February 2019 that there were 130,000 of what still in use, which will be phased out?
Pagers

19.  The ZX81 home computer was produced by which research company?
Sinclair (Research)

20.  Name Apple's media player and store that was discontinued at the end of 2021?
iTunes
 
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57 "in" Heinz allegedly East but it's a made up number I think from what I read!

Obsolete Technology Quiz

1. What was the name of the first widely used portable music player to play cassette tapes? 

2.  Which brand of phone, decommissioned in January 2022, was popular with business professionals for its physical QWERTY keyboard?

3.  Used for navigation, which doubly reflecting instrument measures the angular distance between two visible objects?

4.  What device, used by internal combustion engines to control and mix air and fuel, has been largely replaced by fuel injection?

5.  What writing tool was often made from a moulted flight feather of a goose?

6.  A gnomon was a vital part of which time-telling device?

7.  A vital part of the first commercially made electronic televisions, what does the acronym CRT stand for?

8.  What name was given to an early form of gramophone that used cylinders and was able to record as well as reproduce sound?

9.  Which television signal technology was replaced by digital encoding transmissions?

10.  Which obsolete storage format was introduced by Sony in the 1980s as a higher-quality alternative to VHS?

11.  Sometimes called telecopying, what was 'Fax' short for?

12.  Which publication was advertised with the 1970s slogan: "Let your fingers do the walking"?

13.  William Oughtred is credited with inventing which hand-operated mechanical calculator?

14.  A velocipede was an early type of what?

15.  What word came into common usage with the early 1960s introduction of a patented film and instant photos?

16.  In 1997, about half of all US homes with internet access used which online service provider?

17.  What was the world's first teletext information service, started by the BBC in 1974 and ended in October 2012?

18.  The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced in February 2019 that there were 130,000 of what still in use, which will be phased out?

19.  The ZX81 home computer was produced by which research company?

20.  Name Apple's media player and store that was discontinued at the end of 2021?

 
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15 thanks Zico. So not 57 tomatoes on Heinz then😐
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11. Thanks Zico.
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Observation Quiz

1.  What colour is the door of 10 Downing Street?
Black

2.  On the American flag, which stripe is at the top, red or white?
Red stripe

3.  What colour is the letter 'l' in Google's logo?
Green letter 'l'

4.  On a standard UK stamp is the King facing to the left, the right, or straight on?
Facing left - as all monarchs have done since the Penny Black, the world’s first postage stamp, was issued in 1840 with Queen Victoria’s image.

5.  In which hand is the Statue of Liberty's torch?
Right hand

6.  What black shape is on the centre square of a game of scrabble?
Star

7.  Which Beatle was barefoot walking on the zebra crossing of the Abbey Road album cover?
Paul McCartney

8.  What colour is the outside woodwork of Coronation Street's Rovers Return?
Green

9.  How many tomatoes are there on a Heinz ketchup label?
One tomato

10.  Which historical figure is on the reverse of the latest UK ten-pound note first issued on 5 June 2024?
Author Jane Austen

11.  What colour are Mickey Mouse's shoes?
Yellow

12.  Which station do you come across first after 'Go' on a standard London Monopoly board?
King's Cross Station

13.  There's an animal incorporated into the mountain logo design of Toblerone chocolate - what sort of animal?
A Bear

14.  What colour is the letter 'e' in the ebay logo?
Red

15.  In the five-ring Olympics logo, which colour ring is centre top?
Black ring

16.  On the famous Land's End signpost, which two places are there directions to at the top of the post? Point for each
New York and John O'Groats

17.  On the French flag, which colour is closest to the flagpole?
Blue

18.  Did Hitler have his hair parting on his right or left?
Right

19.  Christopher Reeve’s Superman's badge features a 'S' letter on what colour background?
Yellow background

20.  On the Royal Standard Flag used in England what appears in the blue square bottom left?
Golden harp


 
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Observation Quiz

1.  What colour is the door of 10 Downing Street?

2.  On the American flag, which stripe is at the top, red or white?

3.  What colour is the letter 'l' in Google's logo?

4.  On a standard UK stamp is the King facing to the left, the right, or straight on?

5.  In which hand is the Statue of Liberty's torch?

6.  What black shape is on the centre square of a game of scrabble?

7.  Which Beatle was barefoot walking on the zebra crossing of the Abbey Road album cover?

8.  What colour is the outside woodwork of Coronation Street's Rovers Return?

9.  How many tomatoes are there on a Heinz ketchup label?

10.  Which historical figure is on the reverse of the latest UK ten-pound note first issued on 5 June 2024?

11.  What colour are Mickey Mouse's shoes?

12.  Which station do you come across first after 'Go' on a standard London Monopoly board?

13.  There's an animal incorporated into the mountain logo design of Toblerone chocolate - what sort of animal?

14.  What colour is the letter 'e' in the ebay logo?

15.  In the five-ring Olympics logo, which colour ring is centre top?

16.  On the famous Land's End signpost, which two places are there directions to at the top of the post? Point for each

17.  On the French flag, which colour is closest to the flagpole?

18.  Did Hitler have his hair parting on his right or left?

19.  Christopher Reeve’s Superman's badge features a 'S' letter on what colour background?

20.  On the Royal Standard Flag used in England what appears in the blue square bottom left?



 
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Tv Dingbats Quiz

1.  Eastenders

2.  One Foot in the Grave

3.  Breaking Bad

4.  Six Feet Under

5.  Blackadder

6.  The X-Files

7.  Top Boy

8.  Black Mirror

9.  Downton Abbey

10.  Little Britain

11.  The Royle Family

12.  60 Minute Makeover

13.  8 out of 10 Cats

14.  2 Broke Girls

15.  Coronation Street

16.  Bridgerton

17.  Pointless

18.  Gladiators

19.  Countdown

20.  Two and a Half Men




 
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Trying something different today so a bit experimental.  Work out the TV programme names from the puzzles, i.e. TV & Film Dingbats.  Obviously credit goes to another site who produced this hence the reason I have never heard of Q7 or 14, hence the experimentation!  You should be able to increase size of image by clicking it, again experimentation!!

TV & Film Dingbats Quiz

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19 today thanks zico.
I loved Herb Alpert as a young kid and, to be a pedant, he is a trumpeter.
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