ok just for fun get ya thinkin caps on lol will post the answers up a week today
1.
What's special about 4th May 2006, and specifically two minutes and three seconds after one o'clock in the morning?
2.
What famous slogan was originally devised by Patrick O'Keefe for the Society of American Florists?
3.
What connects the words sitcom, smog, brunch, muppet and cyborg?
4.
What symbolic item did Lauren Bacall put into the urn containing Humphrey Bogart's ashes?
5.
What upper case (capital) letter of the English alphabet requires that
the pen be lifted from the paper twice (providing no lines are
re-traced)?
6. Paul McGann, Peter Davidson and William Hartnell have each played the same famous sci-fi role. What's the character's name?
7.
What is the largest English town or city never (as of 2005/06) to
have been represented in the top English football division (the old
First Division and now the Premier League)?
8.
Why would the following stand no chance of being approved as
official names for British racehorses? - Salisbury Cathedral, Wonderful
Terminator, Sexy Disciplinarian or Sea Bee.
9.
How much time elapses between any Sunday 29 February and (going
forward in time) the next respective Tuesday 29 February? (This is not
a trick question and is reasonably straight-forward to work out if you
have that sort of brain...)
10.
A conference room contains three separate wall-mounted spotlights -
right, left and front of stage. Each is controlled by its own on-off
switch. These three switches are numbered 1, 2 and 3, but they are in a
back-room which has no sight of the the spotlights or the conference
room (and there are no reflections or shadows or mirrors, and you are
alone). How do you identify each switch correctly - right, left, front
- if you can only enter the back-room once?
11.
Months of the year that begin on a Sunday (other than February in
non-leap-years) always have five Sundays. What other notable feature do
they (including all Februarys) contain?
12.
With what papers do you associate Sam Weller?
13
Where was Britain's first escalator installed?
14
.What do these items have in common?... Arrow, Ladder, Spanner, Hockey-Stick, T-Square, Crutch.
15
What was Pall Mall before it was a famous London street and brand of cigarettes?
What icon of 20th century design was the Chapman Root Glass Company of Indiana responsible for introducing in 1915?
18
These very old iconic symbols were responsible for what modern
system? - the moon, the sun, the planet Saturn, and the Anglo-Saxon
gods: Thor, Tiw, Woden, and his wife Frig.
19
A father took his son to hospital for emergency treatment after an
accident. The doctor greeted them, but on seeing the boy, exclaimed, "I
can't operate on him - he's my son!" How can this be? (The son was not
adopted, nor a step-son.).
20
What do these British people have in common? J S Lowry, David
Bowie, French and Saunders, Nigella Lawson, Vanessa Redgrave, Albert
Finney, Jon Snow, John le Carre, Aldous Huxley, Roald Dahl, Evelyn
Waugh and George Melly.
my answers (don't know many)
Quiz 1
1 the time and date were 1/2/3/ and 4/5/6
2 Say it with flowers
4 Silver Whistle
6 Dr Who?
13 Harrods in Knightsbridge London
19 The doctor was the childs mother
Quiz 2
6 Ron Howard?
27 Sherlock Holmes, but wasn't it Professor Moriarty, not Doctor?
quiz 1:
3 they're combination words
11 they've all got an unlucky Friday ther 13th
16 Blondi - Hitler
Gromit - Wallace
18 the days of the week
quiz 2
3 john cowper powys
5 oboe
22 the misfits (i think)
that's it off the top of my head
William
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