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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-29-2006 00:14

*grin* a gemstone is a gem stone. gem for short. gem meaning it has value as decorative wear usually once it has been transformed from it's natural state by cutting and/or polishing. Usually the term 'gem' is used for the higher value stones or 'precious'. Precious and semi-precious refers to value. So, turquoise is a semi-precious stone, and topaz is a precious stone or gem. And all of them down to 'Indian Love Stones' are just a bunch of rocks. Some prettier than others. :)

May-29-2006 00:26

thanks :D

May-29-2006 00:37

1. Mark Twain
2. Oscar Wilde
3. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
4. Machiavelli
5. J.K. Rowling
6. I don't know
7. I don't know
8. Shakespeare
9. Grimm brothers
10. I don't know

May-29-2006 00:41

And now my answers, (such as they are) to your quiz.

1. Mark Twain
2. Don't know
3. Antoine de St. Exupery (one of my favorites as a child and as a grandmother)
4. Don't know
5. J.K. Rowling (another favorite author)
6. C.S. Lewis (childhood favorite and grandma favorite)
7. Not sure without running upstairs. Alan Dean Foster?
8. erg. Not sure on that one either. Homer?
9. The Brothers Grimm (originally titled The Frog King)
10. Don't remember that line in Snow White, so Snow White Rose Red?

May-29-2006 03:38

What a great idea borrowing your great-aunt's face, Della, she looks really sweet, and it's nice with that extra bit of story to go with a picture :)

In regards to the gem/stone/rock quiz, I think it just takes a little longer to get people going during the weekend, and even if it was a little hard, then we just got to learn something new and that's always nice :)


Oki, on to Squirrel's regal questions - *mumbles under her breath that "fairly easy" is a relative term considering translators don't always go with an exact title match :p*

1. Mark Twain
2. Oscar Wilde - you must really like this one ;p
3. Saint-Exupéry - rereading it for I don't know which time
4. Machiavelli - thanks Rosamund, couldn't quite get my mind around it at first, because the title has a little "twist" in regards to the word for "prince" in Danish.
5. J.K. Rowling
6. C. S. Lewis - yeah, also a childhood favourite here :)
7. Marion Zimmer Bradley?
8. I'm tempted to say Margaret Atwood, but having seen Rosamund's knowledge on this subject I'm guessing she's right ;)
9. The Brothers Grimm
10. William Goldman?

May-29-2006 03:51

Oops, "Android's questions" - hmm, maybe one of you guys ought to dye your moustache

May-29-2006 05:56

same diff... :) Like detective Thomson twins from Tin Tin... in my next sleuth life I'm either coming back as Secret_Android or Paranoid_Squirrel [mmm the latter has a definite ring to it.]

I'll leave this up til my morning in case a fantasy nut comes up with the answers to 7 & 10. And yes I'm a big Oscar Wilde fan and do rem. using it before, much like the Frog Prince :)

May-29-2006 06:03

May I just add that Dupond and Dupont don't have the exact same moustache hence making it easier to spot the difference ;p

May-29-2006 06:12

Oh, and recycling is a good thing + it's a good way of testing if people have actually learned anything from the previous quizzes, and if not then they can always profit from it when they don't know the answer off the top of their head if for instance the only fairy tale they know by Oscar Wilde is the one about the garden and the children and the giant :D

May-29-2006 09:54

ugh. Looked at my book collection this morning and now know that I have #7 wrong, as I have that series in my collection. Shows how brain dead I was. Noticed also that I gave a title instead of an author for #10. :p *shakes head*