blandy Posted March 31, 2016 Moderator Share Posted March 31, 2016 1 hour ago, tonyh29 said: Bering was Danish not Norwegian ..otherwise I'd have got the question right Damn strait you would! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 3 hours ago, tonyh29 said: I'm not one to be picky but Bering was Danish not Norwegian ..otherwise I'd have got the question right On 29/03/2016 at 00:38, snowychap said: usual rules apply - it's not my quiz, I've transcribed from a few notes and memory, and I've had a pint or two Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, snowychap said: usual rules apply - it's not my quiz, I've transcribed from a few notes and memory, and I've had a pint or two You'll be confusing Aston Villa with West Ham next Edited March 31, 2016 by tonyh29 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 I got 4 right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 1 hour ago, tonyh29 said: You'll be confusing Aston Villa with West Ham next We'd have to win a bloody game first! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 21, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted May 21, 2016 Wahay! Every week I attempt the Saturday Guardian magazine's quiz. I can usually answer two, maybe three. This week I finally got 100%. A couple of educated guesses, but hey... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Where is Ephemerol from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 21, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted May 21, 2016 4 minutes ago, coda said: Where is Ephemerol from? Had to look that one up later, but I worked out the connecting theme from a couple of the other examples (melange and soma). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 23, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 23, 2016 On 5/21/2016 at 14:34, mjmooney said: Wahay! Every week I attempt the Saturday Guardian magazine's quiz. I can usually answer two, maybe three. This week I finally got 100%. A couple of educated guesses, but hey... I got one correct. Number 5. Go me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted May 23, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 23, 2016 Sum total of one correct answer, that one being question 4. Because I found the question intriguing, I just looked up the answer for question 1. Thinking about it, perhaps I should have had an educated guess on that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 6, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted June 6, 2016 Feckin robbed in the pub quiz tonight. Lost by one point, but marked wrong on the following questions: Q. What was the code name for the D-Day invasion of Normandy? Our answer: Overlord. Given as wrong - he wanted 'Neptune'. But that was specifically the for the seaborne landings, not including the airborne drops. At best, arguable. Q. Who have HBO taken legal action against this week? Our answer: Pornhub, for uploading all the sex scenes (breach of copyright). He insisted it was against makers of a planned spinoff series. This was one of the 'wrong' answers in this weeks BBC website Quiz of the Week. Bastard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 On 6 June 2016 at 23:36, mjmooney said: Feckin robbed in the pub quiz tonight. Lost by one point, but marked wrong on the following questions: Q. What was the code name for the D-Day invasion of Normandy? Our answer: Overlord. Given as wrong - he wanted 'Neptune'. But that was specifically the for the seaborne landings, not including the airborne drops. At best, arguable. Q. Who have HBO taken legal action against this week? Our answer: Pornhub, for uploading all the sex scenes (breach of copyright). He insisted it was against makers of a planned spinoff series. This was one of the 'wrong' answers in this weeks BBC website Quiz of the Week. Bastard. Talking of wrong answers ... When you went on Brian of Britian , if memory serves one of the questions was what is the worlds busiest airport ... And again from memory he gave the answer as Dubai read today that it's Atlanta and had been since 1998 or did I dream that they gave the answer as Dubai in your quiz ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanBalaban Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 (edited) On 5/21/2016 at 17:34, mjmooney said: Wahay! Every week I attempt the Saturday Guardian magazine's quiz. I can usually answer two, maybe three. This week I finally got 100%. A couple of educated guesses, but hey... The answers below, for which I take no credit. Spoiler 1 A summer. 2 Open University. 3 Empress Maria Theresa. 4 North By Northwest (Mount Rushmore). 5 The New Day. 6 Talc/talcum powder. 7 Coca-Cola. 8 Sergei Kirov. 9 Bands with three siblings. 10 Fictional drugs: Dune; Brave New World; Clockwork Orange; Infinite Jest; Scanners. 11 Welsh names of Welsh cities: Cardiff; Swansea; Newport; St Davids; St Asaph. 12 Leaders of UK’s biggest unions: USDAW; GMB; UNISON; Unite. 13 Words for grandma: German; Italian; Spanish; Russian; Greek; French. 14 English Premiership rugby grounds: Gloucester; Harlequins; Bath; Leicester; Worcester. 15 Created fictional cats: Mog; Practical Cats; Garfield; Orlando I got a highly respectable 4/15 (Q's 4,5,7,9) Edited June 11, 2016 by StanBalaban 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 This is more or less a direct challenge to Mooney. Name as many geographic locations mentioned in Rolling Stones songs as you can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 20, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted November 20, 2016 4 hours ago, maqroll said: This is more or less a direct challenge to Mooney. Name as many geographic locations mentioned in Rolling Stones songs as you can. Just saw this. I'll have a go without resorting to the internet, but I'll need a bit of thinking time. Do cover versions count, or do they have to be Jagger/Richards compositions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 20, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted November 20, 2016 These are going to pop up randomly, as I think of them. Faraway Eyes - Bakersfield Play With Fire - St. John's Wood, Stepney, Knightsbridge 2120 South Michigan Avenue (title of an instrumental) The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man - downtown L.A. Memory Motel - Boston, Baton Rouge, Texas, San Antone Back with more as they occur to me... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 20, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted November 20, 2016 Blinded by Love - the Nile, Wales Brown Sugar - New Orleans Midnight Rambler - Boston Street Fighting Man - London Honky Tonk Women - Memphis, New York City Country Honk - Jackson, New York City Sympathy for the Devil - St. Petersburg, Bombay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 20, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted November 20, 2016 There must be one that mentions France, probably on Exile on Main Street, but memory fails me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 6 hours ago, mjmooney said: There must be one that mentions France, probably on Exile on Main Street, but memory fails me. Right album, wrong place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted November 20, 2016 Moderator Share Posted November 20, 2016 The Harlem Shuffle - that was the Stones, wasn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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