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Daily Pub Quiz
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jstkdn
Well-Connected
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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. :)
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John Q. Publik
Old Shoe
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Sep-3-2006 16:08
I'm guessing that since mr britannica over there verified all our answers for us, that Ranier didn't bother to come back and post who the winner was. Anyone have a quiz they want to post?
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Ranier Peperhaut
Washed Up Punter
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Sep-3-2006 20:45
I'm here, just had to work a lot these past days... I'll get them up now.
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Ranier Peperhaut
Washed Up Punter
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Sep-3-2006 20:56
Sorry for the delay.
1. During the 1800s, the best graphite in the world came from China. American pencil makers wanted a special way to tell people that their pencils contained Chinese graphite. In China, the color yellow is associated with royalty and respect. American pencil manufacturers began painting their pencils bright yellow to communicate this "regal" feeling and association with China. - Credit to slain. Way to go!
2. Ferrule - Credit to JQP and slain.
3. Eight: Black, blue, brown, green, orange, red, violet, yellow. Jr, so close! But Violet was the name of the colour they used... - Credit to JQP and slain.
4. The Phoenicians are actually credited with developing the world’s first alphabet, and it was only consonants. There is much debate over who created the first writing system, with the Sumerians in the lead, followed by the Egyptians, the Chinese and the inhabitants of the Indus Valley.
Great tries, but no credit.
5. Islam - slain has the correct answer here.
6. Fourdrinier and cylinder machines are the two most commonly used - No credit here.
7. True - Credit to all of you!
8. Curricula - JQP and slain
9. Horses - JQP and slain
10. There are several, and Athena and Minerva are two. JQP and slain!
And the winner is slain, with 8 out of 10 questions!
Congrats!
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Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer
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Sep-3-2006 21:29
well done slain... :) lol since I was working on this before Ranier posted the answers I'll still post my quiz :) hope that's ok :)
In honour of my AV hunt... here some other great failures & disasters ;)
A nice 'guess' will do us all the world of good after all those AI cases!
True or False...
1. Students who finish last in their year at West Point Military Academy are referred to as 'sheep'?
2. The RMS Titanic had two sister ships called the RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic, neither of which met an untimely end like the Titanic.
3. The Battle of Little Bighorn (Custers Last Stand) took place in the US State of Montana.
4. American folk-singer John Denver served as Poet Laureate of Colarado.
5. The ill-fated zeppelin the Hindenburgh was present at the Berlin Olympic Games and towed the Olypic flag from its tail across the stadium.
6. JVC introduced the Betamax video recording format to the world.
7. The Leaning Tower of Piza leans at an angle of 13 degrees.
8. Nero played the fiddle whilst Rome burnt in AD 64.
9. Chernobyl (nuclear disaster) is in the Ukraine.
10. Heil Honey I'm Home! - A UK comedy series on featuring Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in a stereotypical 1950s sitcom setting, with Jewish neighbours - remains the only UK television show to be cancelled after its first episode, in 1990.
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jroepel
Con Artist
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Sep-3-2006 23:57
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. False
5. True
6. True
7. True
8. True
9. True
10. False
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John Q. Publik
Old Shoe
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Sep-4-2006 05:54
1. False?
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True
6. False
7. True
8. True
9. True
10. True?
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Greyling
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Sep-4-2006 07:41
Yay, guessing without the risk of anything except appearing ignorant - *lol* - how can I resist :D
1. True?
2. True?
3. True
4. True?
5. True?
6. False
7. True
8. Were fiddles invented then? Hmm, chancing false and that is was another instrument instead.
9. True
10. True?
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Breitkat
Pinball Amateur
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Sep-4-2006 14:40
1. true
2. true
3. true
4. false
5. true
6. false
7. true
8. false
9. true
10. true
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Rosamund Clifford
Tale Spinner
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Sep-4-2006 16:07
1. True
2. True
3. True
4. False?
5. True
6. False?
7. True
8. False
9. True
10. True?
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Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer
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Sep-4-2006 23:40
Oops nearly forgot the answers:
1. False (they're actually called "goats")
2. False (whilst the Olympic came to be known as 'old reliable, the Britannic was sunk during WWI)
3. True
4. True
5. True
6. False (it was Sony)
7. True
8. False (Greyling had the right of i. Fiddles weren't invented.)
9. True
10. True (Sadly - not that it ended, but that it was ever conceptualised)
Winner is... Greyling with 8, RC, Breit & JQ with 7, Jus with 4.
Perhaps a quiz on Street names in Shanghai ? You should be fairly conversant with them by now :D ;P
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