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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. :)

Jul-14-2006 10:56

1) He's a lighthouse keeper.
2) She's inside?
3) He was shot and they crawled/was put into the car?
4) His ashes are in an urn on the mantel
5) It's a drive in movie theatre
6) ?
7) ?
8) 1972 and 1952 B.C.
9) ?
10) ?

Jul-14-2006 11:17

1. Yes, a lighthouse keeper sounds right
2. She's Lara Croft with a backpack full of tins, struck by a lightning. Or she might even be a parachutist, but somebody else already said so.
3. Convertible
4. Ashes in an urn
5. Drive-in
6. ?
7. ?
8. He was born in 1972 BC. But no, then he would be only twenty.
9. ?
10. He's reading a crime story

May I have some aspirin too, please?

Jul-14-2006 14:11

*passes the near-to-empty glass to Rosamund* :D

Jul-14-2006 18:41

1.he's a lighthouse keeper- when he turned out the lights a ships crashed
2.she's a skydiver and her parachute malfunctioned
3.it's a convertible
4.it was a picture of him
5.drive-in movie
6.block of ice
7.they're goldfish- the wind blew the window open knocking over the fishbowl
8.room #s in a hospital
9.man went fishing- puts fish in pack-calls wife from booth-says i caught a fish this big- puts hands thru glass of booth -cuts wrists-dies.
10.man is travel agent-recognizes names- remembers man buying 1 round trip ticket and 1 one way ticket. realizes that traveler knew companion would not return because he planned to kill them.
whew! that was hard! i hope hese are right :)

Jul-14-2006 21:33

1) He lived in a lighthouse. The boats crashed without the light.
2) My friend told me this riddle. She was a paratrooper.
3) The car was a convertible.
4) There was a picture of her dead husband.
5) They went to a drive in movie theater.
6) He used a block of ice and the ice melted.
7) I heard this before. They were goldfish.
8) They are hospital room numbers.
9) The man went fishing. He was trying to tell his wife how big the fish was when he accidentally punched his arms through the booth.
10) The man was a travel agent. He recognized the name of the person who bought two tickets. One round trip and one one way trip. He knew that the person who bought the tickets wanted to kill the person going with him on the trip.

Jul-15-2006 02:12

Time for the answers :)

1) He is indeed a lighthouse keeper, and the boats crashed without the light.
2) She was a a parachutist whose parachute malfunctioned.
3) The car was a convertible.
4) His ashes are in an urn on the mantel.
5) They went to a drive in movie theater.
6) He stood on a block of ice and the ice melted.
7) They were goldfish- the wind blew the window open knocking over the fishbowl.
8) He's born in room number 1972 of a hospital and dies in room number 1952.
9) It may be a stretch, but yes that is exactly what the poor guy did after he had been fishing and then called to tell his wife how big the fish was, accidentally punching his arms through the booth.
10) The man is a travel agent. He had sold someone two tickets for an ocean voyage, one round-trip and one one-way. The last name of the man who bought the tickets is the same as the last name of the woman who "fell" overboard and drowned on the same voyage, which is the subject of the article he's reading. This may have derived from a story done by Alfred Hitchcock, if the following Hitchcock quotation is accurate: "If you take your wife on a sea voyage, buy her a round-trip ticket no matter what your plans may be." According to How Come?, it's loosely based on the real-life case of a killer named Henry Landru.
- although the crime story reading incident could work too :)

Well done everyone, these arch villains won't be on the loose for long with such fine detectives around - bookem and AZN Cinderella tie for first with 9 correct each, congratulations to you both :)


Have a great summer everyone!! :)

Jul-15-2006 14:17

You can take the nest quiz, bookem. I just like answering the quizes.

Jul-15-2006 16:25

no thanx- i just like doing them too:)

Jul-15-2006 16:37

I would love to get into these quizzes, are they still daily?

Jul-15-2006 18:03

Yep, as long as someone posts one. Any takers??