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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. :)

Feb-11-2007 08:17

No more takers? :(

Okie dokie:

1. and she's buying a stairway to heaven (butchered through Spanish)

2. I can't get no satisfaction (Korean)

3. My lovely lady lumps (Portugese)

4. Ice ice baby, so cold, so cold (German)

5. every rose has its thorn just like every night has it's dawn (French)

6. and he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger (Chinese)

7. believe it or not, this was "cellophane flowers of yellow and green towering over your head" (Korean again)

8. Get out of my dreams, get into my car (Japanese)

9. come on shake your body baby do the conga (Portugese again)

10. Well it's one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready then go cat go. (Korean yet again...go Korean!)

I score that as 6.5/ 10 for the squirrel, since you guessed the right song but not quite the right lyric for eye of the tiger. Can't BELIEVE you got number 10!

Feb-12-2007 14:58

me? sheeshkas. ok I'll do something about that soon.

Feb-13-2007 04:45

A somewhat easy one about 'firsts'.

1. The first Agatha Christie novel?
2. The first Russian Tsar?
3. The first letter in the greek alphabet?
4. The first female Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry?
5. The first talking picture?
6. The first human in space?
7. The first gold record for a recording artist?
8. The first person to run the minute mile?
9. The first artist (recording) on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine?
10. The first black secretary general of the United Nations?
11. The first Dr Seuss book?

Bonus: Which book is this the first sentence from:

"Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were - Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter."

OK so I was going for A Tale of Two Cities but got distracted :)

Feb-13-2007 04:46

7. Would probably read better as: 'The first recording artist to earn a gold record?' .

Feb-13-2007 06:20

By my answers you can tell that I know history but I suck at pop culture

1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2. The first Russian ruler to be “officially” crowned Tsar of all Russia was Ivan IV, but there were others previously who had used that title unofficially
3. Alpha
4. Marie Curie in 1911 (I think)
5. The Jazz Singer
6. Yuri Gagarin
7. ??
8. ??
9. ??
10. Kofi Atta Annan
11. And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street

Bonus: The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Feb-13-2007 16:38

1. "The Mysterious Affair At Styles"
2. Ivan the Terrible
3. Alpha
4. Marie Curie
5. "The Jazz Singer"
6. Yuri Gagarin
7. Glenn Miller?
8. ?
9. ?
10. Kofi Annan
11. ?

Bonus: "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"

Feb-13-2007 17:15

1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2. Ivan the Terrible
3. Alpha
4. Marie Curie
5. The Jazz Singer
6. Yuri Gregarin (sp?)
7. Rock Around the Clock for Bill Haley and the Comets (??)
8. The Minute Mile - No Clue. For the Four Minute Mile - Sebastian Coe (??)
9. Not a Clue
10. Green Eggs and Ham (??)
Bonus: The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Feb-13-2007 17:18

Oops, I goofed. (There's a reason why I'm not a math teacher....;-)
#10. Kofi Annan
11. Green Eggs and Ham (??)

Feb-13-2007 18:20

wow ok so it was late when I did this quiz. - really late!

8. Yes who was the first person to break the four minute mile, running even. (No not Coe)

Feb-13-2007 18:31

1. The first Agatha Christie novel?
2. The first Russian Tsar?
3. The first letter in the greek alphabet? Alpha
4. The first female Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry?
5. The first talking picture?
6. The first human in space?
7. The first recording artist to earn a gold record?
8. The first person to run the four minute mile?
9. The first artist (recording) on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine?
10. The first black secretary general of the United Nations?
11. The first Dr Seuss book? Cat in the Hat

Bonus: Which book is this the first sentence from:

"Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were - Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter." The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Just add my answers to someone else's