Sunday Quickfire Quiz XIII

[tubeguru]

You've had all week, just like we have!

[Going Underground]

Sorry I meant to say a hectic week, we have issues at work and have been getting out late as well as some not very pleasant family matters to deal with right now....
The quiz was the last thing on my mind I didn't go on any websites from 2100hrs Thursday until midday Sunday....

[The Raven]

1. What goes Gold, Gold/Silver, Green, Orange, Purple, Red
Denominations of coins and notes of the Great British Pound

2. What was created from items including a gumball machine, a money box, Tupperware dishes, a bowling pin and a ice hockey mask
Tom Servo and Crow T Robot, puppets from the cult 90's TV series Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

3. In “The Tube” episode starring Geoff Marshall what is the continuity error that occurs on the Metropolitan line?
Gets off the train at North Harrow Platform and then runs out of Northwick Park station!

4. Using standard Random 15 round rules using zone 1 and 2 stations (No engineering works), which starting stations would all participants have to leave the station in the same direction?
This wordy question can be simplified to what stations serve as termini in zone 1 and 2. Therefore, Kensington (Olympia), Brixton and Hammersmith (H+C, Circle)

5. What connects John Lennon, Leonardo da Vinci, Robin Hood and George Best?
They all have airports named after them. Connection that they are all dead is debatable since technically Robin Hood was never alive. More of a legend than a flesh and blood person! I'll give half points to those who said they where all dead.

6. Using the time/date 24 hour clock format of hh:mm dd/mm/yyyy ie. 19:02 13/11/2011 how many time/date combinations can be written forwards and backwards and produce the same sequence of numbers (like a palindrome) occur in 2011?
Six. All occur at 11:02am on 01/10/2011, 10/01/2011, 11/11/2011, 20/02/2011, 21/12/2011, 30/03/2011

7. In the USA what film was nicknamed “The Iceberg”?
Bit of a trick question. Lost in Space - as it was the film that sunk the "Titanic" of the top of the box office! Both film are awful anyway!

8. What connects Metz, France with the warming of relationships between the USSR and USA during the Cold War?
The welcome handshake of the Apollo - Soyuz test occurred over the city. The first space mission where the USA and USSR cooperated together.

9. What is next in this sequence; London City Airport, Hendon Central, 15, 4, …
Shepherd’s Bush - these are all the previous answers to question 9 in the quickfire quiz!

10. Name a journey on an adult single on-the-day ticket (no travel cards) on a British railway journey that costs 80p or less.
I will double check everyone's answer to this question but I know of two. Lake to Sandown - Lake of Shaklin. (both on the Isle of Wight.

[Steeevooo]

I haven't entered this, nor do I have a detailed knowledge of the R15 rules, but with regards to Q4, shouldn't the answer be zero? I don't believe that you have to leave the meeting station by tube, as long as you were to visit it later on in the challenge - isn't this where Tangy came a cropper when he ran from the opening DLR station, but neglected to visit it later?

[Root]

5. What connects John Lennon, Leonardo da Vinci, Robin Hood and George Best?
They all have airports named after them. Connection that they are all dead is debatable since technically Robin Hood was never alive. More of a legend than a flesh and blood person! I'll give half points to those who said they where all dead.

Would you also give half points to anyone who said they were all male, or had beards at some point of their lives, or had vowels in their name?

[The Raven]

Right, the results

4th - Starkey7 15 points
3rd - Root 33 points
2nd - krollo 44 points
1st - uefacup81 54 points

Well done people. The quiz will return to it's normal difficulty next time!

[Starkey7]

I thought that I'd come top! Until I realised that 1st was at the bottom.