Quiz 16th May
 

Here's this week's quiz. As I am late posting :oops::oops::oops: I will keep it open until 9pm Monday.

Good luck everyone :-P:-P

1. How many triangles are on a backgammon board? 24
2. What condiment brand features the Palace of Westminster on its label? HP Sauce
3. A symbol comprising three dots, which if joined form an upright equilateral triangle, represents what word? Therefore
4. What is the main element of pewter, used for tableware and vases, etc? Tin
5. The tennis club which hosts the Wimbledon Championships was founded originally in 1868 for playing which sport? Croquet
6. What word, from Latin meaning 'I shall please' refers to a control substance used in drug trials which has no chemical effect? Placebo
7. In which city is the Galileo Galilei airport: Barcelona; Zurich; Pisa; or Helsinki? Pisa
8. Who is the only woman, up until 2010, ever to have run for leadership of the British Labour Party? Margaret Beckett
9. Richard Beckinsale's character Alan Moore featured in which in UK TV series? Rising Damp
10. Fremantle prison, which was closed in 1991 and is now a heritage site, is in which country? Australia
11. Bibliomania is the compulsive collecting or hoarding of what? Books
12. What is the technical term for the hollow at the back of the knee, sometimes called the knee pit? Popliteal fossa
13. Name the Green Party leader and its first parliamentary MP, who won the Brighton Pavilion seat in the UK May 2010 general election? Caroline Lucas
14. The Hundred Years War, during the 13th and 14th centuries, was fought between which two countries? England and France
15. IPO - the UK government agency responsible for the protection of ideas, patents, copyright, etc., stands for what? Intellectual Property Office
16. In 1834 who invented raised point writing using a six dot system enabling the blind to read? Louis Braille
17. The archaeological site of the ancient city of Troy is in which country? Turkey
18. Whose state funeral was on 15 December 1840, nineteen years after his death and burial in an unmarked grave? Napolean Bonaparte
19. In Japan the word Mikado originally referred to what: the emperor; a theatre; an early form of electoral proportional representation; or sushi rice? Emperor
20. What country's name derives from an Iroquois word for village? Canada
21. What is a car marque, a software company and the national flower of Egypt? Lotus
22. Which Shakespeare character is known as The Moor of Venice? Othello
23. What is the previous and common alternative name of the Indian city Mumbai? Bombay
24. Which city, home to Coca-Cola HQ, hosted the 1996 Summer Olympic games? Atlanta
25. Loosely translated, Aleph Beth Gimel Daleth are the first four letters of what alphabet: Inuit; Hebrew; Portuguese; or Tellytubby? Hebrew

My answers are in

Mine are also in, many thanks

quiz
 

oops blunder

I posted the answers on here by mistake :lol:

Luckily I didn't see them, Alan! :lol:

Great quiz Lynn, but hard :) I'll have a good job researching the answers ;) But my Mum can help :) I'll definitely have the answers in by tonight x

Mine are in, was pretty hard, had to get my mum to help lol :p

It's so hard that I'm on the sixth question after all this morning lol

Thanks for all the answers so far - everyone has done really well. Keep going EB you'll be fine

I find that 'don't know' is a good answer sometimes, well a lot of times

Lol :) Well, have PM'd my answers. Good luck to me lol

So glad you were late posting the quiz, I was doing a charity walk yesterday so didn't get a chance to join in. Will have a go now:)

My answers are in, sorry it came in two parts, my internet went down and when I resigned in it sent what I'd written before I finished.

Anymore ? Nearly results time

And this week's winners with perfect scores are

:-P:-P:-P Vicky12, McsMichelles and Equestrian Babe:-P:-P:-P:-P

2nd Pussygalore
3rd MeShell and 16 Shells
4th Cathers
5th Caledonia
6th Doodlebopper

Well done to all - really close contest

Looking forward to next weeks quiz!!:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:

woo hoo Great

WELL DONE EVERYONE

So if theres 3 winners, who does the next quiz?

Good quiz well done the winner's, 4 guesses right for me, lucky t**t.

well done.

you'd have to decide amongst yourselves who does it next but Vicky has never done one as far as I can remember

I think then Vicky should do it this week then, I did last weeks. And have got a busy week ahead.

Well done to the winners. It was a good quiz.

Paul are you copying off me :lol::lol:

Oh wow :p I agree Vicky12 should do it, me and Michelle have had our turns :p Well done to Michelle and Vicky and to the runners up :D

:lol: If we were at school in the same class it would be a definant yes.:grin:

I'm putting my arm around this weeks quiz and not looking up til I'm finished, ha that will teach you :lol::lol::lol:

Anyone who copied from me at school is most likely wishing they hadn't bothered

Well they may have your sense of humour;):p:smile: Haha only joking Al :D

some of the ones I used to sit beside have gone on to be nobodies, serves them right for copying from me :lol:

haha all my friends who sat by me has left me behind. I supposed to be capricorn the goat, but I have no ambitions :lol:

I would have pulled your hair, then shown you my 6 shot repeater,:-D that i bought for the action man, for that. Ahh real communication, not this texting crap.:lol:

If you let me have a go of your 6 shooter I'll show you my answers. :lol:

Haha the first thing I wrote looked disgusting, it was a good job I read through it first:lol::lol:

Double entendre, work's fine for me :-D, there's another one :lol:.