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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. :)

Jun-1-2006 11:58

1. The Doctor
2. William Tell
3. Eris
4. Sir Isaac Newton
5. The Beatles
6. Granny Smith
7. Computers?
8. Stevie Wonder
9. Hesperides
10. Gweneth Paltrow and Chris Martin

Jun-1-2006 13:18

1. The doctor
2. William Tell
3. Eris the goddess of Discord, and yes the words are freakishly alike in Latin malus/-a/-um - bad thing/omen, malum - apple...
4. Newton
5. The Beatles
6. It is green...so a Granny Smith???
7. Computers
8. Stevie Wonder
9. The Hesperides -- a group of nymphs
10. Gweneth Paltrow and Chris Martin

I know, I know...Someone already answered the questions, but darn it this was the first time I knew all the answers to this thing, and I was still too late. Anyway...I feel like a smart, well read, intelligent person now (which isn't always the case after seeing the daily quiz), so I'm off to conquer the world hehe

Jun-1-2006 15:37

Super everyone!! As you were all spot on on practically every question I'll only comment on the last two:

9) Points are given for Hesperides as well as Ladon - think some versions only list the dragon while others mention both, and others again focus on the nymphs - if Squirreling Android wants to add something here, he should have steered clear of LED's crazy PM-idea ;p - even though the moose dance was hilarious :D
10) Yep, it was Gweneth Paltrow and Chris Martin

So we have a tie again - whoever knows how to do a winsor knot gets the honour of posting the new quiz ;)

Jun-1-2006 15:38

Oops -*Gwyneth

Jun-1-2006 17:29

Sadly, I cannot do a winsor knot :-(

Jun-2-2006 01:02

Nooo, it wasn't meant to be taken that literally, you can still post a new quiz. Please?? With lots of sugar on top :)

Can't believe there wasn't a shiny new quiz waiting today. Maybe a paranoid squirrel told everyone to boycott the daily pub quiz because someone forgot to credit him for also getting all the answers correct??

Jun-2-2006 01:32

lol err no grey! :p
and yeah where's my quiz!
i'll add a cherry on top of greyling's sugar though for the next quiz poster.
LOL Emerald if it will encourage you to post the next quiz here's a helpful link... http://www.tie-a-tie.net/windsor.html ;)

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Jun-2-2006 02:30

Well, alright if no one volunteers then I'll post the next one so we here on the "morning crew" can get our quiz fix - but it's the last one, you hear ;D

Watch the birdie
1) Which bird features on the Great Seal of the United States?
2) "Nevermore", quoth this bird.
3) The title of one of Chekhov's plays also mentions a bird. Which one?
4) This bird dreams of flying higher and higher in a short story by Richard Bach. What is its full name?
5) Flying higher and higher on wings made of feathers and wax, to his father's great sorrow this boy ended up falling out of the sky.
6) Oh, to be able to fly like the birds do. This girl said she was just like one in her hit(?)-single from 2000.
7) a) On to Arabian mythology, this enormous bird was reputedly so powerful that it was able to lift and eat elephants. It also appears in one of the adventures of Sindbad the Sailor.
b) In Russian folklore, this magical glowing bird from a far away land can mean both blessing and doom to its captor. A single feather can light up an entire room. What's it called?
c) Let's try out Norse mythology as well? Odin, the chief god in Norse mythology, had two birds (of the same kind as the one in Q2), who kept him informed of what was going on around the worlds. What were their names?
8) How many blackbirds were backed in the pie?
9) Baked in a pie!! That's enough to give you nightmares. A British filmmaker made a (horror) movie about some not so friendly birds. Who was he?
10) Rounding off this feathery quiz: Why did the chicken cross the road?

Jun-2-2006 02:32

Oh, and PMing the answers to this one will lead to automatic disqualification, and you won't be allowed to answer any quizzes for a whole week!! :p