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Title: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: Skeggy on August 20, 2007, 02:23:11 PM
NOTABLE WOMEN

1. 1N WHICH FILM DID ELIZABETH TAYLOR ACHIEVE CHILD         STARDOM IN 1944

2. WHICH AMERICAN STATE IS NAMED FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH 1

3.    WHERE WAS THE SINGER JOAN ARMATRADING BORN

4     WHICH YOUNG WOMAN STABBED JEAN PAUL MARAT, ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, IN HIS BATH.

5. WITH  WHAT SLOGAN ARE EMELINE PANKHURST AND HER DAUGHTERS ASSOCIATED

THE WILD WEST

6. WHERE DID GENERAL CUSTER MAKE HIS ILL-FATED LAST STAND

7. THE FOLLOWING ADVERTISEMENT APPEARED IN THE NEWSPAPERS OF 1860. WANTED: YOUNG, SKINNY,WIRY FELLOWS NOT OVER 18, MUST BE EXPERT RIDERS WILLING TO RISK DEATH DAILY. ORTHANS PREFERRED.  WHAT WAS THE JOB ON OFFER

8. WHAT WERE THE SHAWNEE, CHISHOLM AND GOODNIGHT- LOVING

9. IN 1939, JOHN WAYNE STARRED IN JOHN FORD’S CLASSIS WESTERN ‘ STAGECOACH’. WHAT ROLE DID HE PLAY

10. WHAT WAS THE USUAL NICKNAME OF THE GRAVEYARD OUTSIDE OF TOWN WHERE THE VICTIMS OF GUNFIGHTS WERE BURIED

11. WHICH TWO ARMY OFFICERS LED THE EXPEDITION WHICH WAS TO OPEN UP THE AMERICAN WEST IN 1804 AND ESTABLISHED THE OREGAN TRAIL

WHO SAID WHAT

11  .WHICH BLONDE BOMBSHELL SAID “ KEEP A DIARY AND ONE DAY IT  WILL KEEP YOU

12.    WHICH  FAMOUS HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS SAID “ I HAVE NEVER HATED A MAN ENOUGH TO GIVE HIM BACK IS DIAMONDS “.

13.   WHAT WAS THE FAMOUS SIGN ON U.S PRESIDENT HARRY S TRUMAN’S DESK

14.    IN WHICH FILM DID BETTE DAVIS SAY ‘ FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS, ITS GOING TO BE A BUMPY RIDE

15.WHO’S SAYING WAS ‘WHO LOVES YA BABY’

CRIME AND CRIMINALS

16. WHAT WAS THE NICKNAME OF THE BANK ROBBER CHARLES FLOYD, KILLED IN A SHOOT OUT WITH THE FBI 1N 1934

17  WHICH MURDERER WAS THE FIRST TO BE CAUGHT BY THE USE OF SHIP TO SHORE TELEGRAPH

18. NAME THE NOTORIOUS PARE OF BODYSNACHERS WHO ROBBED GRAVES IN SCOTLAND IN THE 1820s

19. HOW OLD WAS JOHN LENNON WHEN HE WAS SHOT DEAD IN NEW YORK

20.WHICH MAN FOUNDED THE FIRST DETECTIVE AGENCY IN THE US IN 1850

LAST FIVE STINKERS

2i. BLANKET AND HONEYCOMBE ARE THE TWO MAIN TYPES OF WHAT

22. WHICH BIRD LAYS THE SMALLEST EGG

23. THE SEA PARROT IS MORE USUALLY KNOWN BY ANOTHER NAME. WHAT IS IT

24. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF GRANDPA WALTON , FROM THE TV SERIES

25. WHAT YEAR WAS THE TELSTAR SATELLITE LAUNCHED


Post your answers on a reply thread so we can see how you do..just a bit of fun

Hope you enjoy






Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: mac on August 20, 2007, 05:35:57 PM
mmmmmmmmm
1) National velvet
2) virginia
3) st kitts
4)
5) votes for woman ?
6) little big horn    (and the cinema lol)
7) messenger ?
8) cattle trails
9) ringo
10)
11)?
11) mae west
12) za za gabor
13)
14) all about Eve
!5) ?
17) ?
18) burke and hare
19) 40
20) dick tracy lol ?????
21) baby knitting stitches
22) smallest bird ? lol
23) puffin
24) will geer
25) guess at 1960
the question without a number
Tele Savalas !!!! phewww !!!!!


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: Skeggy on August 21, 2007, 12:04:24 AM
Great attempt Mac ...you scored 13/20...so i messed up the numbers on 2 questions, i've put it right now


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: mac on August 21, 2007, 02:41:48 PM
Can I try google now !!!!!! ;D ;D ;D


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: Skeggy on August 21, 2007, 07:12:56 PM

lol Mac ..think you will be suprised when you see answer for question 21...wouldnt want to try knitting with that stuff lol


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: Skeggy on September 04, 2007, 11:27:54 PM
ANSWERS FOR QUIZ

 NATIONAL VELVET
 VIRGIN
 WEST INDIES
 CHARLOTTE CORDAY
 VOTES FOR WOMEN
 LITTLE BIGHORN
 RIDERS FOR THE PONY EXPRESS
 CATTLE TRAILS
 THE RINGO KID
 BOOT HILL
 THE OREGAN TRAIL
 LEWIS AND CLARK
 MAE WEST
 ZA ZA GABOR
 THE BUCK STOPS HERE
 ALL ABOUT EVE
 KOJAK
 PRETTY BOY
 DR CRIPPIN
 BURKE AND HARE
 40
 ALAN PINKERTON
 TYPES OF TRIPE
 BEE HUMMINGBIRD
 PUFFIN
 ZEB
 1962








Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: mac on September 05, 2007, 03:49:26 PM
Hi Skeggy
Sooooooooooooo I must have won
cos nobody else did it !!!!
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I will chalk that up! first time ever for me


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: mac on September 06, 2007, 11:03:41 AM
can you make a 9 letter word from these letters
LOOINTFTA


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: william on September 06, 2007, 08:51:50 PM
is the word Flotation, Mac


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: mac on September 07, 2007, 07:58:47 AM
Yeh it is William
life in the old dog yet `eh  ;D


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: william on November 20, 2007, 07:09:17 PM
Try this
This is an unusul paragraph,im curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it,it looks so plainyou would think nothing was wrongwith it!it is just unusual though,study it and think hard about it,but you still might not find anything odd.But if you work at it a bityou may find out what is missing. try to do so without any coaching.


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: mac on November 22, 2007, 04:34:12 PM
no idea william sorry !!!


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: william on November 22, 2007, 06:30:43 PM
the answer is quite mundane really.
There isnt an E in the paragraph.


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: mac on November 23, 2007, 02:10:58 PM
easy when you know init William  ;D


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: william on November 23, 2007, 07:50:21 PM
it sure is Mac, you gotta keep the grey matter ticking over, whats left of it


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: mac on November 24, 2007, 03:18:42 PM
ok heres another one will
of what is gymnophobia the fear ?


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: william on November 24, 2007, 07:31:34 PM
Dont know that one Mac. will take a guess at,Fear of excercises.


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: Phoenix on November 24, 2007, 08:14:53 PM
I go along with 'that' one?? -- A Fear, of needing to go to The GYM ???-- Purely for Excercises ---- Of Course !!


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: mac on November 25, 2007, 12:42:09 PM
would you guys believe its nudity ?


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: mac on November 25, 2007, 12:45:37 PM
In which Dickens novel does Mrs.Pardiggle appear ?


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: william on November 25, 2007, 01:06:41 PM
would you guys believe its nudity ?
I dont suffer with that mac


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: william on November 25, 2007, 01:10:43 PM
Have a feeling if mi memory serves me right, that its Bleak House, but ccud be rong, have bin rong before, cant remember when


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: Phoenix on November 25, 2007, 04:23:54 PM
Gymnophobia = A 'Fear' of Nudity ??
That will spoil things for The modern 'Artist's' ??
 The Study of The 'Unclothed' female form!!
Hope we are not getting -- sidetracked??


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: joe on November 25, 2007, 05:59:07 PM
Will be if ya start Streaking !!!!! :o


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: william on November 25, 2007, 09:48:37 PM
heres one for you
amanwas covicted in court, hes was given a choice of 3 rooms,
1st room contained brigands armed to the teeth.
2nd room contained 3 hungry lions that hadnt eaten for three years
3rd room contained 6 deadly poisonous snakes.
which room did he choose


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: mac on November 26, 2007, 12:18:02 PM
2nd William.........the lions would be dead after 3 years  ;D


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: Phoenix on November 26, 2007, 02:40:18 PM
Joe, No Streaking!! Gotta think of my fingers and Toes, falling off!!

William, I would take The First Room!! and rely on my very good Solicitor to 'elinminate' the Brigands First??
 We all know that The Criminals, have The Best one's --- So am sure to be Safe ??


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: joe on November 26, 2007, 06:37:25 PM
Plead insanity  ~~~~i fink! :P


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: william on November 26, 2007, 07:11:25 PM
Sright Mac, well spotted, 2 brownie points


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: mac on November 27, 2007, 05:20:06 PM
dib dib dib william  ;D


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: joe on November 27, 2007, 10:23:08 PM
You got a stutter mac? ;D


Title: Re: New Quizz (20 Aug 07)
Post by: mac on November 28, 2007, 05:45:14 PM
lol Joe.............