Quiz Questions

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Created by hughie1986 on Fri 16 Sep 2011.

Following the trend on here, I'll give the first question, answer it and ask another pub quiz question

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by PJHolybloke Today at 10:20 am

Which well known children's book includes the chapter "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn"?

Horace?

KingKenny7Heaven wrote:Gilbert ?

Yes, correct Kenny! (too easy for you)

Helps having kids who like to be read too .

Can you name the 3 bears in........ Help it's the Hair Bear Bunch! ?

Harry, Barry and Gary?

Nope .................... i will give you the hard one Afroed bear

Lenny/Lennie?

Adam and Duncan?

rugbydreamer wrote:Adam and Duncan?

If it isn't it should be.

Gareth and Mark?

Mama,Papa and baby.

Laura and Pat?

No nobody has got it yet ......................... shall i give you the answer so we can carry on ?

OK...

They had an invisible motorbike - does that score anything?

There was Officer Peevley and Butch (oooh oooh Mr Peevley, Mr Peevley!) the two Zoo keepers/rangers, a lion, an ostrich, a giraffe loads of zoo stuff everywhere and three bears with bad clothes on, one of which had hair that made him look more like a lion than a bear.

Can't remember their names though.

I could've sworn it was Laura and Pat.

They were called Afroed bear , Bubi bear and Square bear .

Someone else can ask a question

Okay: what is the collective noun for a group of owls?

Clue: it's not group.

A Parliment.

Boo. Yes.

It’s one of those unusual ones I seem to retain, like a murder of crows.

Ok, here’s one for ye:

Name the person who has the highest percentage of the worlds surface named after them.

So for example lets say Ireland was called Mickadoland (awesome idea), then that would represent probably less than half of 1% of the surface of the earth. This person has WAY WAY more than that named after them.

Is it (Queen) Victoria?

Great answer but it's not her.

I believe she would rank second on the list.

Hmm. Good question, this.

Was just looking into the answer there and Victoria really does have a lot of stuff named after her.

Queensland – Aus
Victoria – Aus
Lake Victoria – Africa
Virginia – America

To name a few. She’s still not top of the list though.

Im sure the Americas were named after somebody in some way ?

You're on the right track with that Kenny.

KingKenny7Heaven wrote:Im sure the Americas were named after somebody in some way ?

You beat me to it Kenny, I was going to say the same thing

Hang on...just had a thought. Christopher Columbus? I know Columbia is named after him

They're not sure who America was named after though. Some say it was Amerigo Vespucci.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:They're not sure who America was named after though. Some say it was Amerigo Vespucci.

That's the answer I was looking for. Didn't know there was dispute over who it was named after though.
Good man

I read an article saying someone with the surname Meyrick might be behind the name.

Spheksophobia is the fear of what?

Ah, phobia's are tricky, unless you're Greek. Which i am not. But i do know that guessing is pretty useless.

So i'm just going to look it up and keep shtum.

Just ask a new question if you want, I'm finishing work in a bit!

It's quite a common phobia, though. I suffer from it.

Me too!

Seeing as the two of you are involved is it fear of committment?


















Yes this cat has claws.

I'm going to bump this up so people see my hilarious joke and so someones answers the fecking question.

I don't get the joke Thomond, forgive me.

Spheksophobia is fear of wasps.

In which city will you find the Hagia Sophia?

Istanbul

Istanbul is correct. Your turn.

An Architect's question...

OK, here's one I heard the other day:

Every inhabitant of which country received free Wireless Internet access in 2003?

(hint: not a big country.... only about 1,500 people)

Lichenstein?

No Thomond... did you watch any of the 7s the other day? It was mentioned by one of the commentators.
So it's one of those 20 countries.

I watched some of the 7s so it's one of the Pacific island countries. So Niue?

Bingo!

What is the most powerful handgun in the world?

magnum?

No.

ha, didn't think it was. I know nothing of guns, was thinking back the 007 game on the N64 and it was the only one I could remember!