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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. :)

Nov-2-2006 16:32

In honour of AVL this is all about "leagues" of one sort or another.

1. Generally, in distance, a league is how many miles?

2. Finish the Title "The . . . - . . . . . . League" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

3. From the Graphic Comic Book & Movie of same name 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen': What King's mines was adventurer Allan Quartermain famous for having found?

4. And from same above: Who wrote Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?

5. (Football/Soccer) Who won last year's Premier League in the UK?

6. True of False: The US national gridiron competition is called, logically, the "National Football League".

7. What 80's movie did electronic pop band Human League's Phil Oakey (with Giorgio Moroder) write a huge hit for. (Can't give you the name of the song as it's basically the same as the name of the movie)

"I only knew you for a while, I never saw your smile
til it was time to go, Time to go away (time to go away)"

8. In the movie 'A League of thier own' what's the name of the team the girls play for?

9. And a nice easy one, which actor played the sometimes drunken manager Jimmy Dugan?

10. The Scarlet Pimpernel is a play/novel set in the French Revolution where a group of English aristocrats "The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel" is engaged in rescuing their French counterparts from ze guilotine....

What is the real name of the Scarlet Pimpernel?

11. Comic Book, Justice League of America series: What mythical warrior tribe from Greek Mythology is 'Wonder Woman' a princess of?

BONUS ROUND ding ding...

You'll have to know the name of the movie in 7. for these two:

Bonus 1: Who played the lead female role?

Bonus 2. Which Sleuth has the answer to Bonus 1. as their avatar.

... About Wonder Woman...

Bonus 3. Wonder Woman is described as being: "beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, swifter than Mercury and stronger than ... who?"

Bonus 4. Who played Wonder Woman in the original TV series?

Nov-2-2006 16:47

1. 2000?
2. ?
3. Midas
4. Robert Louis Stevenson
5. ?
6. False
7. Together in Electric Dreams
8. Rockford Peaches
9. Tom Hanks
10. ?
11. the Amazons
Bonus 1: Virginia Madsen
Bonus 2. ?
Bonus 3. Hercules
Bonus 4. Cathy Lee Crosby

Nov-2-2006 23:34

1. 3?
2. Red headed
3. Solomon?
4. Stevenson
5. Robert Louis Stevenson
5. ?
6. False?
7. ?
8. ?
9. Tom Hanks
10. sir Percy Blakeney
11. Amazons?

Bonus 1-4 ????

Nov-2-2006 23:39

Correction:

4. Robert Louis Stevenson
5. ?

Nov-4-2006 00:27

1. 3 nautical miles

2. The Red Headed League

3. King Solomon's Mines

4. Robert Louis Stevenson

5. Chelsea

6. False

7. Together in Electric Dreams

8. Rockford Peaches

9. Tom Hanks

10. Sir Percy Blakeney

11. the Amazons

Bonus 1. Virginia Madsen
Bonus 2. That would be moi
Bonus 3. Hercules
Bonus 4. Lynda Carter

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Nov-4-2006 01:03

1. More commonly Sindy is right, it's referred to as being equal to 3 nautical miles or 5.56 kilometres. But it used to be the distance a man or horse could walk in an hour (which whilst being roughly 3 miles varied form time to time)
2. The Red Headed League
3. King Solomon's Mines
4. Robert Louis Stevenson
5. Chelsea
6. TRUE... err two US people have said false... But I thought the NFL was the main gridiron league in US? I'll be happy to be corrected :)
7. Movie = Electric Dreams ('Together in Electric Dreams' is the title of the song)
8. Rockford Peaches
9. Tom Hanks
10. Sir Percy Blakeney
11. the Amazons

Bonus 1. Virginia Madsen
Bonus 2. Sleuth Sindy (and for her "moi" will do :) )

Bonus 3. Hercules
Bonus 4. Yes ED, Kathy Lee Crosby was Wonder Woman in a telemovie in the 70's so I'll go with that too :) But I was thinking of Lynda Carter.

So that would make Sindy the winner. And also whether she knows it or not, the co-ordinator of the next quiz. lol

Nov-5-2006 23:27

Better late than never. :)

Here's a Thanksgiving quizz:

1. Traditionally, what year did the first American Thanksgiving take place?

2. Traditionally, where did the first American Thanksgiving take place?

3. What is the name of the parade held in New York City in celebration of Thanksgiving day?

4. What is the name of the last float in this parade and what is its significance?

5. What is the day after Thanksgiving called?

6. What president proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday to be celebrated on the last Thursday of November?

7. Which president changed the date of Thanksgiving from the last Thursday of November to the 2nd to the last Thursday of November?

8. In what year was Thanksgiving finally moved to the 4th Thursday of November?

9. On what day is Thanksgiving celebrated in Canada?

10. Who organized the first Canadian Thanksgiving?

Nov-6-2006 03:22

1. 1621
2. in Plymouth
3. Thanksgiving Day Parade?
4. ?
5. Black Friday
6. George Washington
7. ?
8. ?
9. ? in October
10.?

Nov-6-2006 03:37

1. 1621
2. Plymouth
3. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
4. don't know it's name, but it's Santa and it signifies the beginning of the Christmas season.
5. Black Friday
6. ?
7. ?
8. ?
9. ?
10. canadians? :-)