Sunday Quickfire Quiz XIII
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Sunday Quickfire Quiz XIII
This weeks quiz will begin on Sunday 13th November at 7pm
This quiz will be so EVIL that you will have all week to solve it!
This quiz will be so EVIL that you will have all week to solve it!
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It had better be worth it if it lasts that long!
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Re: Sunday Quickfire Quiz XIII
Not so much 'quickfire' then is it? :p
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Yes to follow Richie is the idea still to answer in the fastest possible time
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Please PM me your answers the deadline will be next Sunday, though answering ASAP will get more points.
1. What goes Gold, Gold/Silver, Green, Orange, Purple, Red
2. What was created from items including a gumball machine, a money box, a bowling pin and a ice hockey mask?
3. In “The Tube” episode starring Geoff Marshall what is the continuity error that occurs on the Metropolitan line?
4. Using standard Random 15 round rules using zone 1 and 2 stations (No engineering works), which starting stations would all participants be forced to leave (the starting station), in the SAME direction?
5. What do John Lennon, Leonardo da Vinci, George Best and Robin Hood have in common?
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?
7. In the USA what film was nicknamed “The Iceberg”?
8. What connects Metz, France with the warming of relationships between the USSR and USA during the Cold War?
9. What is next in this sequence; London City Airport, Hendon Central, 15, 4, …
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?
1. What goes Gold, Gold/Silver, Green, Orange, Purple, Red
2. What was created from items including a gumball machine, a money box, a bowling pin and a ice hockey mask?
3. In “The Tube” episode starring Geoff Marshall what is the continuity error that occurs on the Metropolitan line?
4. Using standard Random 15 round rules using zone 1 and 2 stations (No engineering works), which starting stations would all participants be forced to leave (the starting station), in the SAME direction?
5. What do John Lennon, Leonardo da Vinci, George Best and Robin Hood have in common?
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?
7. In the USA what film was nicknamed “The Iceberg”?
8. What connects Metz, France with the warming of relationships between the USSR and USA during the Cold War?
9. What is next in this sequence; London City Airport, Hendon Central, 15, 4, …
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?
Last edited by The Raven on 14 Nov 2011, 14:19, edited 2 times in total.
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Is there a word (or two) missing from that question?The Raven wrote:4. Using standard Random 15 round rules using zone 1 and 2 stations (No engineering works), which starting stations would all participants be forced to leave the starting station in the direction?
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editRoot wrote:Is there a word (or two) missing from that question?The Raven wrote:4. Using standard Random 15 round rules using zone 1 and 2 stations (No engineering works), which starting stations would all participants be forced to leave the starting station in the direction?
4. Using standard Random 15 round rules using zone 1 and 2 stations (No engineering works), which starting stations would all participants be forced to leave the starting station in the SAME direction?
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It still makes no sense.The Raven wrote:editRoot wrote:Is there a word (or two) missing from that question?The Raven wrote:4. Using standard Random 15 round rules using zone 1 and 2 stations (No engineering works), which starting stations would all participants be forced to leave the starting station in the direction?
4. Using standard Random 15 round rules using zone 1 and 2 stations (No engineering works), which starting stations would all participants be forced to leave the starting station in the SAME direction?
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Put the word "with" at the end of the sentence and you'll be okay.
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Question 4 is wordy for a reason! The main point is you wouldn't have a choice there is only one departing option available!
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Made perfect sense to me when 1st read on Sunday......The Raven wrote:Question 4 is wordy for a reason! The main point is you wouldn't have a choice there is only one departing option available!
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Take it the answers will be posted soon!
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Ooops forget to enter with a hectic weekend....
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You've had all weekGoing Underground wrote:Ooops forget to enter with a hectic weekend....
Not that I've entered. I just don't like unfinished quizzes!
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Yep, I'll post the answers in my lunch-break! Scores I'll post this evening. I need time to work out a scoring system!Sam wrote:Take it the answers will be posted soon!
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