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Post by Big Lin on Dec 24, 2010 21:43:49 GMT
Here's my creatively Christmas quiz.
25 karma points for the winner!
Creatively Christmas Quiz
a) Firsts:
1 What was the first 'talkie?' 2 What was the first long single? 3 Which was the first country to give women the vote? 4 Which was the first US state to give women the vote? 5 Who was the first known woman doctor in Britain? 6 Who was the first man to run a mile in under 4 minutes? 7 Who was the first woman to win an Oscar as best director? 8 Who was the first man to take 300 wickets in Test cricket? 9 Who was the first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world?
b) What's in a name?
1 Which song was originally called 'Ham and Eggs?' 2 Which song was originally called 'Randy Scouse Git?' 3 Which book was originally called 'Twenty-five Years of Struggle Against Lies, Cowardice
and Stupidity?'
c) Pseudonymns and Real Names:
(Sometimes the pseudonymn is better known than the real name, sometimes the other way
around. I've chosen the less well known form in each case.)
1 Phis 2 Boz 3 Ellis Bell 4 Samuel Langhorne Clemens 5 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 6 Diana Fluck 7 Mary O'Brien 8 Reginald Smith 9 Terence Nelhams 10 Maurice Micklewhite 11 Declan McManus
d) Saints:
1 Who is the patron saint of lost causes? 2 Who is the patron saint of television?
e) Sporting trivia
1 How many African-American tennis players have won Wimbledon? 2 How many world heavyweight boxing champions have retired undefeated? (Watch out - this
catches out a lot of people.) 3 Who is the current world No 1 in golf?
f) Connections:
1 What do Kentucky and Epsom have in common? 2 What links an American poet, an American actress and a male American former pop star? 3 What links the former Mrs Guy Ritchie, a band from Liverpool and a song by John Hiatt? 4 What links a sporting club, a hotel, a band and a US President?
g) Who said that?
1 I don't know what effect these troops will have on the enemy but by God they terrify me] 2 A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on 3 Bugger Bognor 4 I did not have sex with that woman 5 Girls - all right, ladies, then. Well, what DO you want to be called? 6 All men are rapists and that's all they are 7 Imperialism and all reactionaries are paper tigers 8 We as a people will get to the Promised Land 9 I'd like that translated, please
h) Where would you find?
1 The Prado 2 The Spanish Steps 3 The Nevski Prospect 4 Teotihuacan 5 Tiahuanaco 6 The Iron Christ 7 The longest rope in the world
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 9, 2011 22:15:59 GMT
Come on, guys, I've posted this on two other boards and had quite a few replies.
I'm planning to close it on or around 18th January so get your brains working!
There are 25 karma points up for grabs and no one is expected to get them all (or maybe even most of them) right.
Let's see some entries, please!
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