Silliness Quiz - Page 1019

drjd · 03-07-2016, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orlok

You can hear a cold? Surely the cough is what you hear? (I'm still smarting over the cough comment

).

Oh.. perhaps you have not taken cognizance of my explanation after accepting one of the two options given by poohbear. I cleared it out, as '5. A remark or comment.'

The coughs and colds do not affect the Potatoes, in every sense, I guess!

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

5. A cold?

5. Or -- a comment, something spoken?

Quote:

Originally Posted by drjd

Great! You got them both correct!!

5. A remark or comment.

2. A mirror.

orlok · 03-07-2016, 03:40 PM

Ah!

orlok · 03-07-2016, 06:05 PM

1. A secret?

poohbear_nc · 03-07-2016, 06:32 PM

6. A ringing telephone?

drjd · 03-08-2016, 02:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orlok

1. A secret?

That's the right answer!!

A secret is too much for one, enough for two, but nothing at all for three.

One more point to orlok.!

Won points so far :

orlok - 7
pdurrant - 3
Phyllis41 - 2
poohbear_nc - 2
Bilbo1967 - 1

I think orlok should be ready by now to host the next quiz, he is clearly winning now!

drjd · 03-08-2016, 02:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

6. A ringing telephone?

You have reached fairly correct answer. You get another point, however, the original thought was for a Doorbell, which is very similar in nature.

Won points so far :

orlok - 7
pdurrant - 3
poohbear_nc - 3
Phyllis41 - 2
Bilbo1967 - 1

Only one more to go!

Phyllis41 · 03-08-2016, 04:12 AM

17. Eternity?

drjd · 03-08-2016, 04:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phyllis41

17. Eternity?

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

Eternity is forever, and yet was never.

You finally solved it.!

Final Results

orlok - 7
pdurrant - 3
poohbear_nc - 3
Phyllis41 - 3
Bilbo1967 - 1

Over to orlok for the next quiz.

orlok · 03-08-2016, 06:31 AM

Thank you drjd for another challenging quiz.

This one is about the early careers of well know authors. Simply name the author for a point:

1. A janitor and teacher. His first independently published work was entitled "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber."

2. An exterminator. He liked the job so much he published a collection of short stories called Exterminator!

3. He sang and played piano while struggling to publish his first major work (it was rejected 22 times, so he sang a lot.)

4. She first worked as a counter girl in a coffee shop in Toronto, serving coffee and operating a cash register, which was a source of serious frustration for her. She details the experience in her essay, “Ka-Ching!”

5. He was an entomologist of underappreciated greatness. His theory of butterfly evolution was proven to be true in early 2011 using DNA analysis.

6. When his comedy writing career stalled in the mid-70s, he worked as a hospital porter, barn builder, chicken shed cleaner, a hotel security guard and a bodyguard for an entire family of oil tycoons from Qatar.

7. He was the entertainment director on a Swedish luxury liner.

8. She had worked as a reservation clerk at Eastern Airlines for years when she received a note from friends: “You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.” By the next year, she’d penned her most famous work.

9. He worked as a tour guide at a fish hatchery, and then later he would work long hours at a grueling warehouse job until his father began supplying him with writing materials and lodging to enable him to focus on his literary career.

10. He was the manager one of the first Saab dealerships in the United States. He also worked in public relations for General Electric, and was a volunteer firefighter for the Alplaus Volunteer Fire Department.

11. He claims that by the age of 18, he’d been a "tuna fisherman off the coast of Galveston, itinerant crop-picker down in New Orleans, hired gun for a wealthy neurotic, nitroglycerine truck driver in North Carolina, short order cook, cab driver, lithographer, book salesman, floorwalker in a department store, door-to-door brush salesman, and as a youngster, an actor in several productions at the Cleveland Play House." It should be noted that he's also a guy who makes stuff up for a living, too.

12. He was a voluntary participant in CIA psych tests. Mostly these involved being unwittingly dosed with LSD.

drjd · 03-08-2016, 07:05 AM

12. Ken Kesey. I've read his One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest based on his hallucination experiences in CIA labs during drug trials.

drjd · 03-08-2016, 07:08 AM

3. Must be James Joyce, if I remember correctly.

orlok · 03-08-2016, 07:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drjd

12. Ken Kesey. I've read his One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest based on his hallucination experiences in CIA labs during drug trials.

Correct. The one element of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest based on his experiences in the lab (a.k.a., hallucinations) was apparently: Dr. Broom.

orlok · 03-08-2016, 07:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drjd

3. Must be James Joyce, if I remember correctly.

Also correct. It was his collection of stories, Dubliners, which was rejected 22 times!

2 points.

poohbear_nc · 03-08-2016, 10:12 AM

8. Harper Lee?

orlok · 03-08-2016, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

8. Harper Lee?

Correct. She went off and wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, of course.

03-08-2016, 06:31 AM	#15279
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	Thank you drjd for another challenging quiz. This one is about the early careers of well know authors. Simply name the author for a point: 1. A janitor and teacher. His first independently published work was entitled "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber." 2. An exterminator. He liked the job so much he published a collection of short stories called Exterminator! 3. He sang and played piano while struggling to publish his first major work (it was rejected 22 times, so he sang a lot.) 4. She first worked as a counter girl in a coffee shop in Toronto, serving coffee and operating a cash register, which was a source of serious frustration for her. She details the experience in her essay, “Ka-Ching!” 5. He was an entomologist of underappreciated greatness. His theory of butterfly evolution was proven to be true in early 2011 using DNA analysis. 6. When his comedy writing career stalled in the mid-70s, he worked as a hospital porter, barn builder, chicken shed cleaner, a hotel security guard and a bodyguard for an entire family of oil tycoons from Qatar. 7. He was the entertainment director on a Swedish luxury liner. 8. She had worked as a reservation clerk at Eastern Airlines for years when she received a note from friends: “You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.” By the next year, she’d penned her most famous work. 9. He worked as a tour guide at a fish hatchery, and then later he would work long hours at a grueling warehouse job until his father began supplying him with writing materials and lodging to enable him to focus on his literary career. 10. He was the manager one of the first Saab dealerships in the United States. He also worked in public relations for General Electric, and was a volunteer firefighter for the Alplaus Volunteer Fire Department. 11. He claims that by the age of 18, he’d been a "tuna fisherman off the coast of Galveston, itinerant crop-picker down in New Orleans, hired gun for a wealthy neurotic, nitroglycerine truck driver in North Carolina, short order cook, cab driver, lithographer, book salesman, floorwalker in a department store, door-to-door brush salesman, and as a youngster, an actor in several productions at the Cleveland Play House." It should be noted that he's also a guy who makes stuff up for a living, too. 12. He was a voluntary participant in CIA psych tests. Mostly these involved being unwittingly dosed with LSD. Last edited by orlok; 03-08-2016 at 11:03 AM.

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orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	Ah!

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poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,600 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	6. A ringing telephone?

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