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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-21-2006 16:57

1. China. Afghanistan. South & North Korea :)
2. Bob Dylan
3. Violent Femmes? (woohoo cult classic)
4. Split Enz & Crowded House
5. ?
6. 6
7. Burma
8. Indonesia?
9. Hydrogen
10. ?
11. Ornithology
12. How do you answer a rhetorical question?
13. I think 'suffrage' was in the 60's. (I'm not counting the first go in the 20's.) 'Sufferage' started with this quiz when I realised I had to make up my own numbers. :s
13.5 New Zealand - who woulda thought sheep would want to vote ;)
14. Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn
15. 1939
16. ? art ignoramus sorry
17. Mona Lisa
18. dada - it's kinda anti-art art? oh I can't explain it.
19. Monet is probably the only one I can come up with. Or is that Manet? No let's stick with Monet since Greyling has that too.

Aug-21-2006 17:35

1. Korea, Afghanistan
2.?
3. Violent Femmes
4.?
5. Swazi? lol
6. 4
7.
8. China
9. Hydrogen
10. Bacteria?
11. Orinathology
12. This boring
13. 1920?
14. New Zealand
15. Lizzie's mom and dad?
16. 1937
17.?
18. Mona Lisa
19. Anit-war movement in European art
20. Monet

Aug-21-2006 20:13

1. China, Congo, England/Britain, Iran (use this in teaching a LOT!!)
2. not a clue
3. someone who gets a lot of blisters??
4. no idea
5. Mbabane (bring back, bring back, oh bring back Mbabane to me, to me!!)
6. 6
7. Burma
8. People's Republic of China
9. Hydrogen
10. last I heard, Bacteria
11. Ornithology
12. If you're referring to Niels Bohr, hardly. He's considered one of the fathers of modern nuclear physics, and a Nobel prize winner. His work was crucial to the success of the Manhattan Project, and is regarded by many still as a pioneer of his time.
If you're not, I haven't a clue.
13. The first Universal suffrage laws in the U.S. were passed in Wyoming in 1919.
14. New Zealand
15. Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn
16. 1939
17. not a clue
18. the Mona Lisa
19. it's an art term, but can't tell you what precisely
20. Monet

Aug-22-2006 00:25

Music:
1. ?
2. Bob Dylan
3. ?
4. ?

Geography:

5. ?
6. 6?
7. Burma
8. Vatican?

Science:

9. Hydrogen
10. Bacteria
11. Ornithology
12. ?

History

13. ?
14. ?
15. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
16. 1939.

Art:

17. Gustav Klimt
18. La Gioconda (Mona Lisa)
19. 20th century artistic movement, the word has no meaning
20. Edouard Manet, although the movement was named after Monet's painting "Impression: Sunrise"

Aug-22-2006 01:47

1. Vietnam, Iran, Nicaragua, UK
2. Bob Dylan
3. Violent Femmes perform it, don't know who wrote it.
4. ?
5. ?
6. 3
7. Burma
8. ?
9. Hydrogen
10. Insects, plants, bacteria. Gonna go with bacteria.
11. Ornithology
12. Not at all. I love it!
13. 1964, enforcement is a rather sticky question... Some would say still hasn't
14. Holland?
15. ?
16. 1939 Hitler invaded Poland.
17. Van Gough
18. Mona Lisa
19. It's meant as an insult to other "artists". Meant as a joke and a criticism. Also the name of an art movement.
20. Monet?

Great quiz LED!

Aug-22-2006 08:26

1. Afghanistan, China, England, DR of Congo
2. Bob Dylan
3. Violent Femmes
4. Crowded House, Split Enz
5. Mbabane
6. 6
7. Burma
8. Monaco (yes it is a country!)
9. Hydrogen
10. Techincally it is bacteriophages, or you could say bacteria
11. Ornithology
12. Not one bit!
13. 1920
14. New Zealand
15. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
16. 1939
17. Gustav Klimt
18. Mona Lisa
19. "Anti-art"
20. Claude Monet

Aug-22-2006 08:43

Well, since Bill "Google" Oakes has pretty much won... ;)

The answers to 13 however goes to SS & Greyling & jr.

Heh, I learnt heaps from this. I had no idea that the sun was mostly hydrogen so I was impressed.

Aug-22-2006 18:17

ok here's somethign to tide us over in case Bill up there doesn't know the winner 'usually' posts the new quiz)

Complete these sayings and/or proverbs.

1. An apple a day keeps the ……….. away.
2. A stitch in time saves……..
3. ……. before you leap.
4. The best things in life are ……….
5. The grass is always greener ……. (multiple words)
6. …… ……. travels fast.
7. A rolling stone gathers … ....... (multiple words)
8. …….. makes the heart grow fonder.
9. A watched kettle never …….
10. (Russian) Once burned by milk you will ………… (multiple words)
11. (Croatian) God created the ……… first for himself. (just coz it made me laugh)
12. What English proverb (roughly) means the a same as this Dutch proverb?
"Even if a monkey wears a gold ring, it is and remains an ugly thing"
13. What English proverb (roughly) means the same as this Thai proverb:
“Those who can’t dance blame it on the drum and the flute.”
Bonus: (Author Terry Pratchett) The pen is mightier than the sword IF … ? (multiple words)

Aug-22-2006 18:26

1. doctor
2. nine.
3. leap.
4. free but you can give them to the birds and the bees. I want money. That's what I want. I want money.
5. on the other side.
6. News
7. no moss.
8. Absence (or is that Absinthe?)
9. boils.
10. only drink vodka.
11. pill
12. Uh.. beauty is only skin deep?
13. A good craftsman never blames his tools?

Bonus: Something about a sharp pen and a short sword?

Aug-22-2006 18:32

3. look, I mean.