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Indeed it is. Well done.
Final result: Bookpossum, Fbone 3 points each Bilbo, Stitchawl 2 points each Kumabjorn, Orlok 1 point each Thanks for playing, everyone, and congratulations to joint champions Bookpossum and Fbone! Over to one of you. |
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Well thank you too Shayne for a fun quiz. Okay, here are some trivia questions:
1. What is Abyssinia now called? 2. Do mosquitoes have teeth? 3. Where are three-quarters of the world's pineapples grown? 4. Who was known as the Wizard of Menlo Park? 5. Which film featured Woody Allen as the wardrobe man in a strip club? 6. Which Spanish-born bandleader always carried a Chihuahua under his arm? 7. What was the name of Humphrey Bogart's club in Casablanca? 8. Which canal did the artist Gaugin help build as a labourer? 9. How often are brain cells replaced? 10. What track does the Chattanooga Choo Choo leave Pennsylvania Station from? 11. How many nautical miles are there in one degree of longitude at the equator? 12. What can be seen every 76 years? 13. Shangri-La was the mythical utopia in the novel ...? 14. And the author was ...? 15. What large dancing bird is the only Australian representative of the crane family? 16. Which operatic heroine commits suicide on her father's sword? 17. How many stars make up Orion's belt? 18. Who wrote Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats? 19. In Peanuts, who is Shroeder's favourite composer? 20. What is the given name of the heroine of Tosca? |
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1. Ethiopia
2. Yes 3. Hawaii 4. Allan Kay? 6. Fernando Mendez? 7. Ricks Place? 8. Panama canal 9. They are not. 10. Don't know, but it left at a quarter to four 12. Haley's Comet 13. Last Horizon? Lost Horizon? 14. For some reason I want to answer Paris Hilton's father 16. Madame Butterfly 19. Beethoven Last edited by Kumabjorn; 09-22-2012 at 09:03 AM. |
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20. Floria
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09-22-2012, 06:50 PM | #9267 |
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1. What is Abyssinia now called? Ethiopia - Kumabjorn
2. Do mosquitoes have teeth? Yes - Kumabjorn 3. Where are three-quarters of the world's pineapples grown? Hawaii - Kumabjorn 4. Who was known as the Wizard of Menlo Park? Thomas Edision - poohbear 5. Which film featured Woody Allen as the wardrobe man in a strip club? 6. Which Spanish-born bandleader always carried a Chihuahua under his arm? Xavier Cugat - poohbear 7. What was the name of Humphrey Bogart's club in Casablanca? 8. Which canal did the artist Gaugin help build as a labourer? Panama Canal - Kumabjorn 9. How often are brain cells replaced? Never - Kumabjorn 10. What track does the Chattanooga Choo Choo leave Pennsylvania Station from? Track 29 - pdurrant 11. How many nautical miles are there in one degree of longitude at the equator? 60 - pdurrant 12. What can be seen every 76 years? Halley's Comet - Kumabjorn 13. Shangri-La was the mythical utopia in the novel ...? Lost Horizon - Kumabjorn 14. And the author was ...? James Hilton - poohbear 15. What large dancing bird is the only Australian representative of the crane family? 16. Which operatic heroine commits suicide on her father's sword? Madame Butterfly - Kumabjorn 17. How many stars make up Orion's belt? Three - pdurrant 18. Who wrote Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats? T S Eliot - pdurrant 19. In Peanuts, who is Shroeder's favourite composer? Beethoven - Kumabjorn 20. What is the given name of the heroine of Tosca? Floria - poohbear 9 Kumabjorn 4 pdurrant 4 poohbear For No 7, Kumabjorn was partly right in that "Rick's" is correct. |
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7 - Rick's Cafe Americain
15 - The Brolga |
09-23-2012, 03:24 AM | #9269 |
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5. What's new pussycat.
The spelling for 7 should be, provided the name is correct, Rick's Café Américain, the French like their accent agú. Last edited by Kumabjorn; 09-23-2012 at 03:26 AM. |
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Ah, nicely tidied up while I have been out for the day with my Field Naturalists' group!
So that's a massive 10 points to Kumabjorn, our runaway winner. (Yes you are right about the accents, but they are hard to find on our antipodean machines!) 4 to pdurrant 4 to poohbear 2 to Shayne Over to you for our next quiz, Kumabjorn! |
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