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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. :)

Sep-7-2006 23:39

oooh ok ty. good quiz John. Let me dig up a quiz and post it real quick.

Sep-8-2006 02:26

JR's Impossible Quiz #2

Italian Renaissance Art
1. Name the painting technique in which water-based pigments are applied to damp lime plaster and bond with the wall as the plaster dries.

2. Name the artist that created The Santa Maria Novella Crucifix.

3. Name the architect who designed the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence.

Magic
4. The English magician William Robinson was world famous and more commonly known as this title/name?
5. The world famous Magic Castle is located in what American City?
6. The world famous Magic Circle is located in what British City?

General Knowledge
7. In chess, a pawn captures an opposing pawn that has advanced two squares to land on the square immediately to its left or right. What is this move called?

8. Who was the first President of the United States? No, I know that was General Washington. I’m actually looking for the fist President of the Continental Congress.

9. Who developed a system of writing for Native American languages that is still in use today?
10. This English biochemist discovered that certain trace substances are essential for the body’s health. We now know them as vitamins. Name him.

Sep-8-2006 03:10

1. fresco
2. Giotto?
3. doh enough with the Florence qu's, I've been to Rome, Rome! ok!
4. Chung Ling (lin?) Soo - guy who caught bullets in teeth?
5. ?
6. ? huh? lol lets say London. Thinks maybe it has nothing to do with Wicca after all...
7. ?
8. *sighs*
9. *bigger sigh* LOL
10. ok AV hunt was actually more soothing... (reminds me of Rhiemma's what's a gem, what's a stone and what's a gemstone quiz... ) I think his name was Hopkins?

Thanks Justin :D

Sep-8-2006 05:50

1. Steals the frescos
2. Giotto
3. Brunelle-something (keep thinking brunello hehehe)
4. ?
5. Opens the atlas, closes eyes, does a little dance, points - Eloy?
6. Brighton/Blackpool/London?
7. ?
8. John Hanson - gives the still unturned stone an evil look then tries to decide if that one or the expansion takes first place as being the meanest, cruelest, stupidest, unjustest thing on the net, concludes it's the expansion since making the stones turn isn't a matter of luck after all.
9. ?
10. Think he was mentioned in a BBC program a couple of months ago, but can't remember the name.

Sep-8-2006 12:21

1. fresco
2. not a clue
3. Ah hell. And I've been there too. Think Greyling means Brunelli? I'm going with Donatello.
4. Huh boy... umm, how bout Harry Houdini.
5. Los Angeles
6. I'm thinking Brighton too.
7. Capturing the pawn?
8. no clue
9. still no clue
10. whoever he was, please have him send me some now...my poor brain needs them after that quiz.

Sep-8-2006 14:34


1. buon fresco
2. ?
3. arnolfo di cambio
4. ?
5. damn, castles again!
6. damn, europe, again!
7. ?
8. ?
9. ?
10. ?

jeezus, j, why do you make them so hard ;)

Sep-8-2006 14:48

lol. and I got yelled at last night when I was whining that it wasn't up to my normal standards. "It's just a bloody quiz Justin!" lol. Sorry. I didn't think it was so hard. Ok so the magic is a little not your everyday info, but Prince Charles is a member of the Circle... ah well. I'll try and do better next time. :0)

Sep-8-2006 20:24

1. Venetian Plaster (Had to get the wife's help on this one.)
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?
6. ?
7. En Passant (At least I got one that noone else had. Thanks, Chess for Dummies!)
8. ?
9. ?
10. ?

Sep-9-2006 01:34

Ok I'm gonna end this one a bit early. :0)

1. Fresco, buon fresco, and I’ll even take plaster.
2. Giotto
3. Fillipo Brunelleschi
4. Ah but even this was a trick… He was originally American, but claimed
England as his own. The title and role he took on was The Marvelous
Chinese Conjurer- Chung Ling Soo.
5. Hollywood CA. Los Angeles is close enough
6. London
7. En passant.
8. Peyton Randolph
9. Sequoyah, also known as George Guess
10. Fredrick Hopkins

And the winner is..... Secret Squirrel. Good Job.

Sorry I went a little overboard there. hee hee. I'll try and do better next time 'round.

Sep-9-2006 01:47

think I might change my name to George Guess to :) I'll have a quiz up in the next couple of hours, unless anyone wants to jump in.