Unutterably Silly Quiz

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by drjd

I guess I am too late for the party, and almost all the questions have been answered, so I'll wait for the declaration of the winner.

No, no - in this case latecomers can score as well or better as those who come first. I haven't given any answers yet.

Please - give your answers!

[drjd]

In that case I am giving the answers for what I am sure (?), no guesswork for remaining ones.

1. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary
5. 1952
7. 1947
9. 13
10. Queen Elizabeth II

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by drjd

In that case I am giving the answers for what I am sure (?), no guesswork for remaining ones.

No! Edit your post and guess away - everyone else has!

[doubleshuffle]

1) a
2) b
3) b
4) a

5) a
6) b
7) a
8) c
9) a
10) b

Will bad pop music help me get the win?

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by doubleshuffle

Will bad pop music help me get the win?

Only if you tie for first place and do better in the tie-breaker.

[doubleshuffle]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Only if you tie for first place and do better in the tie-breaker.

Perhaps you should have another look at my answers.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by doubleshuffle

Perhaps you should have another look at my answers.

Oh! I see! But you should still have a go at the tie-breaker.

[doubleshuffle]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Oh! I see! But you should still have a go at the tie-breaker.

Right-o. I haven't the foggiest, so I'll go with two, even though Orlok sounded very knowing.

[Glorfindel]

My tie-breaker guess: zero

[pdurrant]

The Answers!

1. The Queen’s given names are
c) Elizabeth Alexandra Mary (for her grandmother and mother, I think)
2. Who was Prime Minister in the year she was born?
a) Stanley Baldwin
3. By how much has beer has risen in price in the UK over the last 90 years?
c) 15,633%
4. About how much did a loaf of bread cost in the UK in 1926?
a) A sixpence
5. When did Elizabeth become Queen?
c) 1952
6. How many people watched Elizabeth’s coronation on TV in the UK?
b) About 20 million
7. In which year did Elizabeth marry Prince Philip?
a) 1947
8. In May 1977, the controversial punk protest song God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols was released. How high did it reach in the BBC Top 40 singles chart that year?
b) No. 2
9. How many Prime Ministers has the Queen known in her reign? (Including Theresa May!)
b) 13
10. Who is the longest reigning British monarch?
a) Queen Elizabeth II
Tie-breaker: How many UK No.1 singles did the band “Queen” have?[/QUOTE]
6

Originally Posted by Bookpossum

1. (c)
2. (b)
3. (c)
4. (a)
5. (c)
6. (b)
7. (a)
9. (b)
10. (a)

8/10

Originally Posted by Glorfindel

1: a
2: c
3: b
4: b
5: b
6: a
7: b
8: a
9: c
10: a

0/10 (Impressive!)

Originally Posted by Glorfindel

My tie-breaker guess: zero

A clean sweep - none right at all!

Originally Posted by orlok

1. c) Elizabeth Alexandra Mary
2. b) Ramsey MacDonald
3. a) 30,000%
4. a) A sixpence
5. c) 1952
6. c) Less than 10 million
7. a) 1947
8. b) No. 2
9. a) 12
10. a) Queen Elizabeth II
Tie break: One. I believe it was Under Pressure, with David Bowie

6/10

Originally Posted by drjd

In that case I am giving the answers for what I am sure (?), no guesswork for remaining ones.

1. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary
5. 1952
7. 1947
9. 13
10. Queen Elizabeth II

5/10

Originally Posted by doubleshuffle

1) a
2) b
3) b
4) a
5) a
6) b
7) a
8) c
9) a
10) b

Will bad pop music help me get the win?

3/10 Your bad pop music should have been at the end!

Bookpossum wins handsomely. Well done!

[doubleshuffle]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

3/10 Your bad pop music should have been at the end!

It was bad pop music all the way down. Going from bad to worse one might argue:




Congrats to the Winner!

[Bookpossum]

Golly, I didn't mean to do that! I'll be back shortly with a quiz.

[Bookpossum]

Okay, here's a reasonably easy literary quiz for you:

1 In 1960 the UK publishing ban was lifted on which book published in 1928?
2 Who wrote the significant scientific book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687?
3 James Carker is a villain in which Charles Dickens novel?
4 Which famous 1818 novel had the sub-title 'The Modern Prometheus' and who wrote it?
5 By what name is the writer François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) better known?
6 Around 100AD what type of book construction began to replace scrolls?
7 "Reader, I married him," appears in the conclusion of what novel?
8 Who is the second oldest of the Pevensie children in C S Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
9 What is the pen-name of novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-80)?
10 In what decade was the Oxford English Dictionary first published?

[Shayne Parkinson]

Hurrah, a quiz just before I have to go out!

1. Lady Chatterley's Lover
2. Isaac Newton
3. Hard Times
4. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
5. Voltaire
6. Bound books
7. Jane Eyre
8. Susan
9. George Eliot
10. 1890s

[Bookpossum]

Originally Posted by Shayne Parkinson

Hurrah, a quiz just before I have to go out!

1. Lady Chatterley's Lover
2. Isaac Newton
3. Hard Times - No.
4. Frankenstein
5. Voltaire
6. Bound books
7. Jane Eyre
8. Susan
9. George Eliot
10. 1890

What a star! All correct except for 3. so an unbeatable nine points to Shayne.

If others still want to have a go, I'll give a few bonus items:

6. Shane's answer is roughly correct, but there is a special term for a series of folios sewn together. What is it?

8. Name the other three Pevensie children in their order in the family.

8.a The date the first edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was published.

10. It was indeed 1895 that the title The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) was used on the covers of the series of fascicles which were published over many years. Can you give the decade or even the date the full dictionary was first published in ten bound volumes?

Shayne, can we leave it overnight our time for others to have a go, and meantime you prepare the next quiz?