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jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jan-4-2005 18:37

See if there is interest for this.

1. Each day I will post 10 questions, at random times of the day.
2. Each Quiz runs exactly 24 hours.
3. The first person that has all 10 questions right, wins. Or if no one has all questions right, the best one wins.
4. You can only post answers ONCE for the same quiz.
5. No cash involved. Just glory. :)

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Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Sep-3-2006 21:29

well done slain... :) lol since I was working on this before Ranier posted the answers I'll still post my quiz :) hope that's ok :)

In honour of my AV hunt... here some other great failures & disasters ;)

A nice 'guess' will do us all the world of good after all those AI cases!

True or False...

1. Students who finish last in their year at West Point Military Academy are referred to as 'sheep'?

2. The RMS Titanic had two sister ships called the RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic, neither of which met an untimely end like the Titanic.

3. The Battle of Little Bighorn (Custers Last Stand) took place in the US State of Montana.

4. American folk-singer John Denver served as Poet Laureate of Colarado.

5. The ill-fated zeppelin the Hindenburgh was present at the Berlin Olympic Games and towed the Olypic flag from its tail across the stadium.

6. JVC introduced the Betamax video recording format to the world.

7. The Leaning Tower of Piza leans at an angle of 13 degrees.

8. Nero played the fiddle whilst Rome burnt in AD 64.

9. Chernobyl (nuclear disaster) is in the Ukraine.

10. Heil Honey I'm Home! - A UK comedy series on featuring Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in a stereotypical 1950s sitcom setting, with Jewish neighbours - remains the only UK television show to be cancelled after its first episode, in 1990.

jroepel
jroepel
Con Artist

Sep-3-2006 23:57

1. True
2. False
3. False
4. False
5. True
6. True
7. True
8. True
9. True
10. False

John Q. Publik
John Q. Publik
Old Shoe

Sep-4-2006 05:54

1. False?
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True
6. False
7. True
8. True
9. True
10. True?

Greyling
Greyling

Sep-4-2006 07:41

Yay, guessing without the risk of anything except appearing ignorant - *lol* - how can I resist :D

1. True?
2. True?
3. True
4. True?
5. True?
6. False
7. True
8. Were fiddles invented then? Hmm, chancing false and that is was another instrument instead.
9. True
10. True?


Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Sep-4-2006 14:40

1. true
2. true
3. true
4. false
5. true
6. false
7. true
8. false
9. true
10. true

Rosamund Clifford
Rosamund Clifford
Tale Spinner

Sep-4-2006 16:07

1. True
2. True
3. True
4. False?
5. True
6. False?
7. True
8. False
9. True
10. True?

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Sep-4-2006 23:40

Oops nearly forgot the answers:

1. False (they're actually called "goats")
2. False (whilst the Olympic came to be known as 'old reliable, the Britannic was sunk during WWI)
3. True
4. True
5. True
6. False (it was Sony)
7. True
8. False (Greyling had the right of i. Fiddles weren't invented.)
9. True
10. True (Sadly - not that it ended, but that it was ever conceptualised)

Winner is... Greyling with 8, RC, Breit & JQ with 7, Jus with 4.

Perhaps a quiz on Street names in Shanghai ? You should be fairly conversant with them by now :D ;P

Greyling
Greyling

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Greyling
Greyling

Sep-5-2006 03:17

Ahhhh, I just can't hit the right keys today. Once more:

I won??!! Yay!! This must mean that today is my lucky day - maybe I'll even get out of Shanghai, now wouldn't that be something!? :D

Oki, since street names in Shanghai would also give Squirrel an unfair advantage, I've decided to go in a completely different direction and use this one that I finally managed to finish - Rosa, you'll still have to wait for the other one ;)

Wol
1) What’s the opposite of an "early bird"?
2) This Greek Goddess was so impressed by the great eyes and solemn appearance of the owl that she honoured the night bird by making him her favourite among feathered creatures.
3) Harry Potter also keeps an owl as companion. What's its name?
4) Staying with the British authors and the companions of their main characters, although I can't remember if Lyra's dæmon (and embodiment of her soul) actually ever changed into an owl, he can after all take any animal form he pleases. What's he called?
5) Who went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat and got married by the turkey?
6) Alas the ending was not as happy in "The Nightingale and the Rose", who wrote it?
7) Continuing with this other bird of night, someone also wrote an ode to a it – who?
8) The nightingale was also the key figure in a fairy tale written by a Danish author - who?
9) The same Danish fairy tale writer was also at some point infatuated with an opera singer by the name of Jenny Lind. What was her nickname?
10) Nursing British soldiers during the Crimean War Florence Nightingale also came to be known as?
11) The lady just mentioned also had a beloved pet owl that she kept in her pocket. Once again we're looking for its name?
Bonus: Where does the title-holder of the quiz reside?



Emerald Drew
Emerald Drew
Old Shoe

Sep-5-2006 11:08

1) Late owl
2) Athena?
3) Hedwig
4) a Shapeshifter
5) Thumbelina?
6) ?
7) ?
8) ?
9) The Swedish Nightengale
10) ?
11) ?
Bonus: I thought it was in the US but I'm not sure...

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