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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. :)

Aug-13-2006 19:06

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

Aug-13-2006 19:24

Since there is a 5-way tie for first; with a score of 7: David Adams, Ms Helen Corning, Rosamund Clifford, Secret_Squirrel, and Della Devine are now in a sudden death match. Whomever can come closest to the correct date (e.g. November 16th, 1982) of the only time in recorded history that it SNOWED in the SAHARA DESERT, will be today's winner.

Aug-13-2006 19:29

As for the correct answers, they are:

1. True
2. True
3. False (The correct number of possibilities is 318,979,564,000)
4. True
5. False (It was "Born in the USA")
6. False (Some are, but not all. Most are violet, some are white.)
7. True
8. False (It does take more energy to consume them, but they do still have a positive number of caloric content.)
9. False (Holmes has never uttered those words in any work of Doyle's.)
10. True

Aug-13-2006 19:32

LOL November 16th, 1982 :D

Aug-13-2006 23:26

October 15th 1981

Aug-14-2006 04:00

The correct answer was February 18th, 1979. So Rosamund is today's winner.

Aug-14-2006 05:19

Yesterday I watched a mini-series about the Salem witches trials on Croatian TV, and it resulted in today's quiz.

1. In what century the Withcraft Trials in Salem took place?
2. Who wrote the famous play about these trials?
3. Who played John Proctor in 1996. version of the film?
4. In which fictional New England town Jack Nicholson seduces three charming witches: Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon and Cher?
5. When Dorothy's house landed in Oz, it killed a witch. Which?
6. What colour is the witch in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?"
7. Which fairy-tale princess was given a poisoned apple by a witch?
8. What was the most common method of punishment for witchcraft in the Middle Ages?
9. In which film a group of students dissapear in the woods shooting a documentary?
10. Which is the most famous school for witchcraft in literature?

Bonus: A well-known detective in Sleuth bears the same name as the witch hunter in the Salem Witches Trials. Who is he?

Aug-14-2006 06:15

1. 17th century
2. The Crucible by... all i've got is Nathaniel Hawethorne maybe?
3. ?
4. Eastwick
5. Wicked Witch of the East
6. White
7. Snow White
8. Burning
9. Blair Witch
10. Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry
Bonus ?

Aug-14-2006 06:26

1. 18th C.?
2. Arthur Miller
3. Daniel Day Lewis
4. Eastwick
5. The Wicked Witch of the East
6. White
7. Snow White
8. Burning at the stake - (or was it actually hanging?)
9. The Blair Witch Project
10. Hogwarts?
Bonus: hehe - I looked so I blew my chances of just guessing - but I wouldn't have gotten it right anyway :D

Aug-14-2006 07:07

nearly forgot to have a crack at the quiz before I toddled off to bed...

1. late 1600's, so that's the 17th century
2. Arthur Miller Crucible
3. ? Haven't seen it... will have to now.
4. Eastwick
5. East
6. White
7. Snow White
8. Is this a trick question? Middle ages is about what 5th to 16th century? They really didn't start persecution of witches til late 1500's... OK I think I'm just confusing myself. I'm gonna shut up and say burning.
9. Blair Witch Project
10. Hogwarts
Bonus is a definite "no idea", and I too have gone and had a look and say lol, would never have gotten that!