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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. :)

Jan-22-2005 08:15

So Dragonfly is the winner once more!!!!

Jan-22-2005 08:48

Another home made one.

Books and authors:
1. An internationally known childrens book character which was originally called "Nijntje" as the creator is Dutch, translated in English what became the name?
2. He graduated from law school in 1981, and for 9 years ran his own law firm. He gave up his practice to write full time. What is the name of this multiple best seller author? Several of his books, have been turned in to movies as well.
3. Leonardo di Caprio movie, the first scenes play at Kao San Road in Bangkok, majority played on one of the islands in Thailand. One of the books most read by bagpackers going to Thailand. What is the name of the novel and the author?
4. Originally Australian travel guidbook, now a series spanning the globe, now one of the most popular to travel by English speakers. Originally was created by hand and copies, for friends, family and fellow travellers on a budget.
5. Which book, actually contains a quote of myself. Based on an email and QA exchange between me and the writer (Abigail Garner), many years before there were even plans for a book. 6. Which Thomas Harris book does not have a character named Clarice Starling in it?
7. Letterman, Leno & the network battle for the night. Name the book?
8. Who wrote "The Bridges of Madison County?"
9. Which bestseller book starts with a murder near the Mona Lisa?
10. The known line of the Forest Gump movie was "Life is like a box a chocolates, you never know what you gonna get." What was the line in the book?

Jan-23-2005 05:56

I will keep this one running for 24 hours more.

Jan-23-2005 06:50

Since this has gone almost a full day with no attempts - I'll take a shot at this.

A couple of these I'm not sure about, but at least I didn't miss something by a couple months this time. :)

1. Miffy

2. John Grisham

3. "The Beach" by Alex Garland

4. "Lonely Planet"

5. "A Family Like Mine"

6. "Black Sunday"

7. "The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno, and the Network Battle for the Night"

8. Robert James Waller

9. "The Da Vinci Code"

10. "Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you are going to get, until you open the box."

Jan-24-2005 05:18

I will declare Andy the winner!!! As he was the only one that played. :) He had 9.5/10. Answer number 5: Families like mine (children of gay parents tell it like it is), Answer 10: "Bein an idiot is no box of chocolates.

Jan-24-2005 05:42

True or false:

1. The capitol city of Djibouti, is Djibouti?
2. Is there a movie where a character played by Schwarzenegger falls in love with one played by Jodie Foster?
3. Faeryshan is a moderator on this site?
4. Gatorade, the original sports drink, was created by the University of Florida for their football team the 'Gators' in 1977?
5. According to U.S. Food & Drug Administration regulations, Tomato Puree may contain 9 fly eggs and 1 maggot per 100 grams?
6. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Great Britain in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 1 hour and 38 minutes?
7. In 1994 Los Angeles police arrested a man for dressing as the Grim Reaper - complete with scythe - and standing outside the windows of old people's homes, staring in.
8. Eskimo's use their fridge to keep their food FROM freezing.
9. A ducks quack doesn't echo.
10. There is no coffee flavoured PEZ.
11. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
12. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
13. 25 percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
14. The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
15. 5 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
16. Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
17. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
18. Internationally, Charlies Angels is the most popular TV show in history.
19. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
20. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

Jan-24-2005 07:47

Hey, look Ma! I'm a question! That's cool!

Jan-24-2005 12:58

Hey—

I fared well last time and this is a lot of fun, so here’s my crack at the latest quiz…

1. true
2. nope—false
3. true- Faeryshan is indeed a moderator (Hey Faeryshan, you're in an answer now too) :)
4. false- it was developed in the 1960’s
5. true – Yuck!- I could’ve gone without that tidbit of information :)
6. false- it lasted only 38 minutes
7. true- and this person was a weirdo
8. true
9. false- it’s a myth
10. false- it was made in 1955
11. false- another myth
12. true- I’m going to leave this one alone.
13. false- it’s 35%! I’m shocked! That’s scarier than the Grim Reaper guy
14. true- parts of the Bible have been translated in Klingon
15. false- it’s 10%
16. true
17. true
18. false- it’s Baywatch
19. true
20. true- that’s just awful!

Jan-24-2005 14:52

And we have a winner. Actually number 2 in the trivia questions I had the answer was yes. In a movie called "Junior"....I tried to verify this (as you surely did some research in getting all the other questions right)....but couldn't. Jodie foster is not even in the actors list on IMBD.com

YAY!
5 and 13 shocked me! A maggot is allowed for every 100 grams of tomato puree, gross. I would have surely have answered false to this one, and it is actually true.

Had to laugh about the Grim Reaper story.

Jan-24-2005 16:32

about tomatoes---my dad told me that years ago-he had a summer job in a cannery when he was a senior in High school and he had to check the gunk concentration. what's worse is if they have a batch that's too dirty, they mix it with "cleaner" batches until gets diluted and it passes the test.