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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. :)

May-11-2006 00:26

1. Peter Ustinov
2. Joan Hickson
3. John Thaw
4. Felicity Kendall and Pam Ferris, just cos Secret Squirrel said so
5. David Suchet
6. Geraldine Mc Ewan
7. Jeremy Brett
8. John Nettles

May-11-2006 01:21

1. Peter Ustinov
2. Joan Hickson - *lol* - I adored her when I was little and wanted to have glasses just like hers when I got to be an old lady :D
3. John Thaw
4. This one hasn't made it to Denmark yet so no idea
5. David Suchet
6. Neither has this one
7. Jeremy Brett
8. John Nettles - yep, between him and Morse it's amazing there's anyone left in the midlands :D

May-11-2006 01:53

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaayyy!!!!! I win, I'm on top of planet mars (the world sounds too old) :D

May-12-2006 01:42

Thanks for reminding me 'bout the following Grey. Here's one for after, when Lucian posts his answers :)

It’s hairy, its scary, a little contrary, and yes there’s even 'something about Mary'... just not ‘that’ Mary.)

1. Who was the hairy cousin in the Addams family?
2. What planet was Chewbacca from? [ok I admit this is hard so consider it a bonus point...]
3. Do whales have hair?
4. Arachnophobia is the fear of...?
5. Who wrote Frankenstein?
6. Who said, most famously, “... the only thing we have to fear is fear itself...”
7. In the nursery rhyme, what did ‘Mary Mary quite contrary’s’ garden grow with?
8. Mary I Queen of England was a particularly contrary individual! What nick-name was she given?
9. The ship the Mary Celeste... real or just a myth?
10. Finally... Princess Mary of Denmark was originally from which country?

May-12-2006 07:01

Yay - been waiting for this one in baited anticipation :D

1. It - or did you mean who the actor was in the film?
2. I do not know - (and I'm extremely dissapointed by the man in the other end of the room)
3. Hehe - that's a good question - I'll venture a no on the outside but yes on the inside
4. Spiders
5. Mary Shelley
6. Need to give this one some more thought
7. Carrots??
8. Bloody
9. No idea, so...I say...myth...no real...no myth
10. She was originally a lassie from Tassie - yes, it's a state and not the country but I'm trying to score extra points for specificity - have to make up for the Chewbacca one now that the assistance I was couting on failed to come to my aid ;p

May-12-2006 07:19

lol carrots? Umm and for 1. Yep, I just meant the characters name :) Where's Ijon Tichy, didn't Rosamund say he was the SF buff, for help with 3.

May-12-2006 08:12

I can add only two more answers, but for number two I'll have to wait for Ijon to come home and help.

6. Harper Lee in "To Kill a Mockingbird" (where else?)
7. "With cockle shells and silver bells and pretty maids all in a row".
I knew it would be that Mary! I thank Agatha Christie for my knowledge of (some) English nursery rhymes.

May-12-2006 08:34

6. Franklin D Roosevelt

May-12-2006 08:51

2. I don't know, except that he was someone hairy from "Star Wars"
9. real

May-12-2006 11:36

1. Cousin Itt
2. Kashyyyk
3. Yes
4. Spiders (I've got arachnophobia)
5. Mary Shelley
6. Franklin Roosevelt
7. silver bells, cockle shells & pretty maids
8. Bloody Mary (Hate the drink)
9. Real
10. Tasmania, Australia