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Old 21-05-2011, 01:54 PM   #1
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Default Quiz for Sunday 22nd May!

After my lucky guesses last week it's my turn to do the quiz again. Believe it or not this week I was chosen to appear on a tv quiz! I had to sign a confidentiality agreement so I can't say which one or when I will be filming it but I will be wearing a tortoise tie Anyway, here are some of the questions that I was asked during the selection process - see how you get on!

1) Kimberley Walsh is a member of which girl band?
GIRLS ALOUD

2) What is the official language of Egypt?
ARABIC

3) Who co-wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx?
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

4) What is Keanu Reeves' character called in the Matrix films?
NEO or THOMAS ANDERSON

5) A Cariocan is a native of which city?
RIO DE JANEIRO

6) Which Liberal Democrat MP is the Business Secretary?
VINCE CABLE

7) Whose unfinished opera was 'Turandot'?
GIACOMO PUCCINI

8) Who is the longest serving 'soap' actor in the world?
WILLIAM ROCHE

9) What is the longest river in the British Isles?
RIVER SHANNON (bit of a trick question sorry as the Severn is the longest river in Britain)

10) Barrack Obama was born in which state?
HAWAII

Some people have predicted that today (Saturday as I type) at 6pm the world will end - so there would be little point in having a Sunday quiz. But just in case they are wrong let's have some themed questions!

11) Who sang 'It's the end of the world as we know it'?
REM

12) Which civilisation predicted that the world would end in December 2012?
MAYAN

13) Survival expert Edward Grylls is better known by what name?
BEAR GRYLLS

14) Whose last words were 'Either the wallpaper goes or I do?'
OSCAR WILDE

15) Which historic figure was actually killed by his wallpaper?
NAPOLEON

16) Who song 'I'm a survivor'?
DESTINY'S CHILD

17) Whose tombstone bears the words 'I told you I was ill'?
SPIKE MILLIGAN

18) Harold Camping is the preacher who says that 21st May 2012 will mark the 'rapture' which will herald the end of the world. But this isn't his first end of the world prediction - in what year did he originally say that the world would end?
1994

19) Which religious group predicted that the world would end in 1792?
SHAKERS

20) Old Mother Shipton made many prophecies, where can you find 'Mother Shipton's Cave'?
KNARESBOROUGH (half a point for Yorkshire)

Good luck - you have until 9pm on Sunday to submit your answers and if the world is still here I will post the answers after that!

A really good effort from everyone this week with only a handful of points separating first from fifth but here are the results:

1st - CATHERS
2nd - ETHELANDEDNA
3rd - KEZIA911
4th - PUSSYGALORE
5th - CALEDONIA

Well done everyone

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Old 21-05-2011, 03:33 PM   #2
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a tough one for me this time nick but the wooden spoons will come in handy when I open my Ebay wooden spoon store
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Old 22-05-2011, 11:33 AM   #3
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Well you are in the lead at the moment Alan! Come on people, the world didn't end (I suppose that I'll have to pay my bills after all now) so there is no excuse to not have a try at the quiz!
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Old 22-05-2011, 11:38 AM   #4
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is it possible to be in the lead with 0?
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Old 22-05-2011, 01:11 PM   #5
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Oooh will you be able to tell us nearer the time which one you'll be on. Or can you at least give us clues, time of day, anything? Don't want to miss that one

OK. Of to give this quiz a bash now. Not good with an 'End-of-the-World' hangover.
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Old 22-05-2011, 05:09 PM   #6
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mine are in
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Old 22-05-2011, 09:03 PM   #7
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mine are in too.
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Old 24-05-2011, 09:35 AM   #8
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WOW! Didn't think I'd done THAT well!! Cheers Nick for a real toughy.
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oh well
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Old 24-05-2011, 11:03 AM   #10
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woop woop 1st place thats a shock lol
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