Rare entires quiz - Lockdown edition - games 'n' pastimes

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Going Underground wrote: 08 Jun 2020, 08:25
EastActionWoman wrote: 07 Jun 2020, 21:50 Had chance to collate the results yet, GU?

Hi there EAW, yep all done last night will try and get a post together later today 8)
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Answers

1) A murder weapon used in Original Standard edition of Cluedo?

al - Candlestick
David C - Lead Pipe
DrainBrain - Candlestick
greatkingrat - Candlestick
jamesthegill - Rope
EastActionWoman - Rope
RJSRdg - Rope
Steeevooo - Revolver
The Raven - Lead Pipe

Incorrect tractakid - Saxophone (Simpsons edition)


2) One of the railway stations on a standard UK Monopoly board?

al - Fenchurch Street
David C - Fenchurch Street
DrainBrain - Fenchurch Street
greatkingrat - Liverpool Street
jamesthegill - King's Cross
EastActionWoman - Marylebone
RJSRdg - Fenchurch Street
Steeevooo - Fenchurch Street
The Raven - Marylebone
tractakid - King's Cross

3) A colour used in the original standard game of pop-O-matic Frustration?

al - Red
David C - Yellow
DrainBrain - Green
greatkingrat - Yellow
jamesthegill - Blue
EastActionWoman - Yellow
RJSRdg - Green
Steeevooo - Red
The Raven - Yellow
tractakid - Yellow

4) A number on a standard six sided dice?

al - 1
David C - 5
DrainBrain - 6
greatkingrat - 5
jamesthegill - 4
EastActionWoman - 2
RJSRdg - 4
Steeevooo - 1
The Raven - 6
tractakid - 2

5) A Chess piece on a traditional standard board?

al - Knight
David C - Bishop
DrainBrain - Knight
greatkingrat - Rook
jamesthegill - Rook/Castle
EastActionWoman - Bishop
RJSRdg - Bishop
Steeevooo - Bishop
The Raven - Pawn

Incorrect tractakid - Nightrider (A fairy chess piece)

6) A playing card suit from a standard traditional pack ?

al - Club
David C - Diamonds
DrainBrain - Spades
greatkingrat - Spades
jamesthegill - Diamonds
EastActionWoman - Clubs
RJSRdg - Clubs
Steeevooo - Hearts
The Raven - Diamonds

Incorrect tractakid - Acorns (German playing card suit)

7) One of the coloured balls in snooker? (excluding the white cue ball or a red)

al - Brown :lol:
David C - Green
DrainBrain - Green
greatkingrat - Green
jamesthegill - Yellow
EastActionWoman - Brown
RJSRdg - Green
Steeevooo - Black
The Raven - Yellow
tractakid - Blue

8 ) One of the five scoring areas on standard darts board?

al - Treble
David C - Outer Bull
DrainBrain - Outer Bull
greatkingrat - Double Bull
jamesthegill - Bullseye
EastActionWoman - Outer Ring/Single Bull
RJSRdg - Outer Bull
Steeevooo - Inner Bull
The Raven - Single
tractakid - Double

9) One of the original Trivial Pursuit question categories UK edition ?

al - Entertainment
David C - Geography
DrainBrain - Entertainment
greatkingrat - Science & Nature
jamesthegill - Sports & Leisure
EastActionWoman - Arts & Literature
RJSRdg - Geography
Steeevooo - History
The Raven - Arts & Literature
tractakid - Arts & Literature


10) A Scrabble tile worth 3 points in the standard UK version?

al - M
David C - P
DrainBrain - C
greatkingrat - C
jamesthegill - C
EastActionWoman - B
RJSRdg - C
Steeevooo - M
The Raven - P

Incorrect tractakid - SZ (Hungarian edition)


Results

10th tractakid - 138240
9th RJSRdg - 69120
8th David C - 57600
7th EastActionWoman - 25920
6th DrainBrain - 23040
4th (equal) greatkingrat - 4320
4th (equal) al - 4320
3rd jamesthegill - 1728
2nd The Raven - 1440
1st Steeevooo - 160

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2nd. I'll take that!

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That was fun - thanks for organising!
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Well done Kev!

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Going Underground wrote: 08 Jun 2020, 15:37
7) One of the coloured balls in snooker? (excluding the white cue ball or a red)

al - Brown :lol:
Couldn't resist!

It looks like I contributed a decent chunk of the few points that Steveooo actually got...

Thanks for organising Kev.
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al wrote: 08 Jun 2020, 20:34
It looks like I contributed a decent chunk of the few points that Steveooo actually got...
Indeed Al - thanks for that!!

Thanks Kev for organising - much appreciated and has been quite a while since one of these was run!
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Thanks for so many entries and appreciate the amended answers after I had to tweak the question definitions slightly... :D

Forgotten how long it actually takes to mark one of these :lol:
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Thanks or running this, Kev! :-)
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