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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-24-2006 09:54

1. Babe (What Babe? The babe with the power....) - Labyrinth, one of my absolute favorites.
2. Flied lie? It's fried rice you prick! - Lethal Weapon 4
3. A dingo stole my baby - A Cry in the Dark
4. ?
5. Time - The Terminator

Aug-24-2006 16:53

Ok I knew 3 & 5. Not 2, and only 1 when I saw Emerald's answer. Bah and that's one of my fave movies too, so how thick am I.
4. I wouldn't bring up Paris if were you, it's poor salesmanship! (Casablanca)

I'm off to check out the Bog of Eternal Stench, err I mean biggie's Anything and Nothing thread :D

Aug-24-2006 19:53

Okay, sorry I haven't had a chance to get on here and post the quiz. I know how much you guys need your fix. So here goes. Each answer will be a specific value, you get zero points if you hit it dead-on, and one point for every increment (whole number, day, etc.) you're off by. The person with the lowest score will be the winner.

1. Diameter of the moon. (km)
2. Land area of Canada. (sq. km)
3. How many feet are in a leauge?
4. How many imperial bushels in a register ton?
5. Year that New York's Central Park opened.
6. Year that the lance was discontinued as an official battle weapon of the
British Army.
7. Acres of pizza eaten by Americans on a daily basis.
8. Number of dimples on a regulation golf ball.
9. Number of ways to make change for a US dollar.
10. Number of misspelled entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary.

I really didn't consider how long this is going to take to score, but it's already written, so it's my own punishment.

Aug-24-2006 23:16

1.
2.
3. 16 I believe. And as a SCUBA diver, if i'm wrong you can kick me. lol
4.
5.
6.
7.
8. 266
9.
10. 366

Aug-25-2006 00:36

1. 3500 km
2. 7 million sq. km
3. stealing JR's answer, he should know
4. ?
5. 1880
6. 1902
7. ?
8. 120
9. ?
10.320?

Aug-25-2006 01:38

I'm going to attempt an answer to every Qu. as I want to see John Q tabulate my result...

1. 4000 k's
2. Australia is 7.6 mil sq km and Canada is bigger so 9mil.
3. ok 16 it is
4. I know there's 6 firkins in a hogshead does that help? 50?
5. 1850 rank guess
6. 2000
7. 400
8. sad but I might know this 330. (different for US & UK I think though)
9. 200?
10. think this about 330 ish. I'm sure I've read it somewhere... (well I will when I go google some of these answers in a mo!)

Aug-25-2006 02:36

1. 3212 (km)
2. 10,000,001 (sq. km)
3. Following the masses - 16
4. Could they be the same? 1.2
5. 1899
6. 1919
7. And how much is an acre? About the size of a football field someone whispers. How many people can you fit onto a football field? Rough guess 200,000. How many people live in the States? About 300 mill. Hmm, okay well taking into account that not all of them eat pizza on the same day.... 731
8. 290
9. 49
10. 315 - hahaha thanks JR :p

Have fun with your calculator ;D

Aug-25-2006 02:54

Oh crud! I was thinking of fathoms and I even got that wrong. darn darn darn darn darn <pg-13 for you> lol. bends over for kicking to begin

Aug-25-2006 18:19

And the answers are...

1- 3,476 km
2- 9,970,610 sq. km
3- 18,229 ft/league
4- 78 imperial bushels/register ton
5- 1876
6- 1927
7- 18 acres of pizza daily
8- 336 dimples on a PGA regulation ball
9- 292 ways to break a dollar
10- 315 misspellings

And the winner is.......(drumroll).......Secret Squirrel by a nose. Should Secret Squirrel not be able to perform his duties, tonight's runner up is.......Greyling! Thank you all for playing, we'll see you next time on.......Sleuth Pub Quiz! <cue cheesy 70's game show music>

Aug-25-2006 21:56

Will I or Won’t I...

1. What nationailty was legendary archer William Tell?
2. What letter of Alphabet did Wil Smith’s character in Men in Black and MIB II have as his name.
3. William I was also known as.... ? (there are three options here I’ll accept, and I’ll give extra points for as many of them you can come up with)
4. What current US hip hop group is “will.i.am” a member of?
5. Which peroxided UK rocker was born William Michael Albert Broad?
6. Who’s the older of the tennis playing Williams Sisters? Venus or Serena?
7. Was John William Waterhouse a reknowned :
(a) Opera Singer
(b) Painter
(c) Author
(d) Puppeteer.
8. In which movie did Mel Gibson portray the life of William Wallace?
9. R & B Singer Vanessa Williams was for a brief time Miss America (1984 - before photos to be published in Penthouse put paid to that...) What US State did she represent in the pageant?
10. William Shatner portrayed which famous science fiction TV/Movie character.

Bonus: OK Here’s my William Shakespeare questions (of sorts)... there had to be some...

B1. Which 80’s UK girl group did Siobahn Fahey leave to form new group ‘Shakespeare’s Sister’?

B2. Ok this get’s weirder, but bear with me... The name for the group ‘Shakepeare’s Sister’, is taken from song by the Smiths of the same name. They in turn got the name from a feminist essay called “A Room of One's Own” in which the author argues that had William Shakespeare a sister of equal genius, as a woman she would not have had the opportunity to make use of it.

Who was the author of the essay?

(and I admit I didn't just 'know' that, I found it on Wikipedia.)