easthammer 4:07 Thu Mar 19
Daily Quiz anyone?
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If you are stuck at home and bored like me.
How about exercising the old grey cells?
I have for a number of years run quiz nights and couple of times a year. I was due to do one tomorrow which is now cancelled So I have a bank of questions sitting in my computer's hard drive. They are quite eclectic in their nature.
I am thinking I could put up a set of questions for which you write down your answers. After 30mins or so I will put up the answers. DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS. before I post the right answers.
You mark your own answers and post your score.
I will then record the scores and at the end of the "lockdown" we will see who is WHO's brainbox supreme. Obiviously no looking up the answers (you only cheat yourselves)
Word of warning these won't be easy questions as they have been devised for teams of six. Forming teams on here might be too problematic. So I'll try to pick out the easier questions.
Any interest?
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Texas Iron
10:13 Thu Apr 22
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6
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charlie paynter
8:11 Thu Apr 22
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1
That's my third 1 of the week.
Consistency.
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Syd Puddefoot
7:29 Thu Apr 22
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3. Not claiming half a point for merely wine for Q 6.
Not familiar with "Tonic Wine" so Googled it out of interest and found this interesting stat.
"Though Buckfast accounts for barely half a percent of Scotland’s total alcohol sales, in 2015 one Scottish Prison Service survey found that over 40 percent of inmates had drunk some quantity of the stuff before their last offense. Of these, many were violent. (Some enterprising inmates had drained the glass bottle dry and then found it a handy solution for a weapon.) “The Buckie made me do it” is apparently the classic defense."
You have been warned.
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Far Cough
6:51 Thu Apr 22
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3 Mad Dog, me too
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zico
6:49 Thu Apr 22
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1, not a clue
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Mad Dog
6:42 Thu Apr 22
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4. I had the song as "I get no kick from champagne"
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riosleftsock
6:40 Thu Apr 22
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I got an 8 today - i knew going to church and liking the odd glass would come in handy.
The one with Elkie Brooks surprised me that it was right, I guessed her as its her I remember singing it, but I thought she was just one of many people who had done a cover of it and have no idea who did it originally
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easthammer
6:33 Thu Apr 22
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1. According to the Bible what was the first miracle performed by Jesus?
Turning water into wine
2. Where did this miracle take place
Cana
3. Which Benedictine Monk is accredited with inventing Champagne?
Dom Perignon
4. Which town in the Champagne Region has the “Avenue de Champagne” which is the home of all the leading Manufacturers of Champagne?
Epernay
5. Which famous Benedictine Monastery was founded in Devon in 1018?
Buckfast Abbey
6. The Monastery is self-sufficient and sells produce to the Public, what is its most successful produce earning circa £8.8m yearly.
Tonic Wine.
7. In 2016 in parts of Scotland what was added to the packaging of this product?
An Anti-Social warning label
8. Who had a 1978 hit with “Lilac Wine”?
Elkie Brooks
9. What song was released by Charlie Walker in 1966 and recorded by both actor Robert Mitchum and entertainer Dean Martin in 1967?
Little Old Wine Drinker Me
10. What is Transubstantiation?
The miraculous change by which according to Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox dogma the eucharistic elements at their consecration become the body and blood of Christ while keeping only the appearances of bread and wine.
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easthammer
12:49 Thu Apr 22
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Questions
1. According to the Bible what was the first miracle performed by Jesus?
2. Where did this miracle take place
3. Which Benedictine Monk is accredited with inventing Champagne?
4. Which town in the in the Champagne Region has the “Avenue de Champagne” which is the home of all the leading Manufacturers of Champagne?
5. Which famous Benedictine Monastery was founded in Devon in 1018?
6. The Monastery is self sufficient and sells produce to the Public, which is its most successful produce earning circa £8.8m yearly.
7. In 2016 in parts of Scotland what was added to the packaging of this product?
8. Who had a 1978 hit with “Lilac Wine”?
9. What song was released by Charlie Walker in 1966 and recorded by both actor Robert Mitchum and entertainer Dean Martin in 1967?
10. What is Transubstantiation?
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easthammer
12:47 Thu Apr 22
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Scores added
Texas Iron 469
Mad Dog 461
Turpinator 430
Syd Puddefoot 381.5
Riosleftsock 379.5
FarCough 355
Wanstead H 352
CharliePaynter 346
GeoffPikey 316
Zico 249
DarloDebs 233.5
Dicanioslfty 211
Phantom 149.5
Exile 56
Kandu 41
ZebtheCat 20
SecondOpinion 17
Madeeasy 16
Staffs-hammer 5
GBHammer63 2
It'll be another miracle if anyone gets a full house today!
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DiCaniosLefty
3:09 Thu Apr 22
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An 8 and a 3 thanks east
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Texas Iron
2:34 Thu Apr 22
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7
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easthammer
1:46 Thu Apr 22
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Okay I concede Horse Racing is correct also Polo gets a point
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Darlo Debs
8:55 Wed Apr 21
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I thought it was Horse Racing too.
So i got 3:-(
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charlie paynter
8:48 Wed Apr 21
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4 with horse racing, 3 without :)
Surprised about Margaret Court too. Went for Navratilova, but looks like she’s only joint 5th
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zico
8:04 Wed Apr 21
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Again TWO if Horse Racing is accepted. Good tennis question I was convinced it was either Steffi or Serena.
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riosleftsock
8:01 Wed Apr 21
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I thought it was Williams Jr or the lesbian czech because I misread the question
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Mad Dog
8:00 Wed Apr 21
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3. And I only got the shooting one because one of my mates is into shooting and always bangs on about it
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Syd Puddefoot
7:21 Wed Apr 21
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The peasants are revolting!
2 if horse racing is allowed.
Actually crossed out Margaret Court and changed it to BJK.
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riosleftsock
6:58 Wed Apr 21
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sport of kings
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Proverbial phrase for hunting and (now, most usually) horse-racing, although the earliest uses of the expression related to war, as in Dryden's King Arthur (1691).
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riosleftsock
6:56 Wed Apr 21
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I'm the same, got 3, but 4 if the horse racing is correct
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