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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 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

May-12-2006 20:00

ok well wow Jai... Kashyyyk is for people who have a Star Wars book at hand or are just rain men. (remembering LED's stern reprimand for me suggesting people can Google!)

So YOU WIN & I salute you. The force is strong in you young padawan!

Rosamund :) yep it is mentioned in TKaM (one of my all time favourite books) but the reference is to the speech made by FDR with that quote in it. You do get triple brownie points for making me go find my beaten up old copy though.

Copying & Pasting Jai's answers for ease...

1. Cousin Itt (lol congrats on spelling too...)
2. Kashyyyk
3. Yes (it's part of what makes them mammals)
4. Spiders
5. Mary Shelley
6. Franklin (Delano) Roosevelt
7. silver bells, cockle shells & pretty maids (funnily enough the nursery rhyme might have actually been about Mary 1, and relate to the torture instruments that were used during her reign)
8. Bloody Mary
9. Real
10. Tasmania (State), Australia (Country)

here endeth the quiz

May-13-2006 03:51

Wait, is this quiz on your basic knowledge or your skills in googling? Cos I took almost half of the answers from google, if I wasnt supposed to do that, I aint the winner.

On my own, I knew question n0. 1,2,3,4,5 & 7. Anyone who remembers the battle of Kashyyyk from the movies or the games would know chewbacca's origin. :)