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Lexicological Grandiloquence
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I love Big Words. REALLY Big Words! And sentences so tortuous the Mission Impossible team would get stuck in them. Never mind the answers - good luck just understanding the questions!
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Very Long Words
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Tough
10 Q
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anselm
Jan 01 05
1725 plays
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It's All Wrong!
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Oops, I seem to have made a mistake - I've got the questions and the answers in the wrong places. Can you help me out here? See if you can match up each answer to its correct question.
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Mixed 10 Q. Difficult [A]
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Difficult
10 Q
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Anselm
Oct 26 04
10212 plays
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F-F-F-"Fawlty Towers": Individual Episodes
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I've tried to make these entertaining, so even if you don't have a clue who F-F-F-Fawlty is - enjoy! (If you're an afficionado and you want a challenge, forget every time you've seen the series except the first one.)
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Fawlty Towers
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Average
25 Q
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anselm
Nov 03 04
5301 plays
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Dead Music
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I don't do music by living, breathing humans on the whole, so here's one about music and composers who've by-and-large well and truly snuffed it.
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Classical Music
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Tough
25 Q
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anselm
Aug 30 03
1608 plays
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Blitzkrieg
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This one covers the development of Blitzkrieg theory and practice from World War I to the German attack on France and the Low Countries in May 1940, with special emphasis on the latter. Ya gotta know yur stuff, though!
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European War
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Very Difficult
25 Q
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anselm
Feb 20 03
4617 plays
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Arty Allsorts (A Bit Easy)
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"I so dunno nuttin' about art, so I had a lot of fun compiling this quiz. Hope you have as much fun doing it! Check out the interesting information as well."
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Art
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Average
10 Q
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anselm
Sep 23 04
2655 plays
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Jane Austen: Minor Works
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If you don't know this stuff - CHEAT FIRST at places like http://home.earthlink.net/~lfdean/austen/juvenilia. You won't be sorry - it's a scream, quite unlike her mature works.
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Austen, Jane
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Very Difficult
25 Q
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anselm
Oct 17 03
429 plays
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Arty Allsorts (A Bit Hard)
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A grab-bag from the year dot to now, including architecture. Check out the interesting info - some of it's actually interesting!
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Art
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Tough
10 Q
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Anselm
Sep 10 04
711 plays
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"Mansfield Park" - the Basics
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Test yourself on some basic questions about what is widely - and totally wrongly - regarded as Jane Austen's weakest novel, containing her most insipid hero and heroine.
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Mansfield Park
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Difficult
25 Q
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Anselm
Feb 28 09
246 plays
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F-F-F-"Fawlty Towers" - and Beyond!
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This quiz uses tangential general knowledge references in all twelve 'FT' episodes. So you actually need to know everything that existed or happened - ever! (Enjoy the occasional "Blackadder" reference.)
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Thematic 25 Questions
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Tough
25 Q
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anselm
May 29 05
1089 plays
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Geographical Allsorts
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This is one on geography the way I was taught it in school - widely, including human and historical geography and earth sciences as well as "where is this country"-type stuff.
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Geography - Miscellany
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Difficult
10 Q
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anselm
Sep 28 04
5646 plays
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Ya Wanna Date? #1
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Well, here are some for you. But what does each lot have in common? See if you can guess ...
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Famous Dates
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Difficult
10 Q
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anselm
Nov 15 03
1764 plays
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"Devil's Dictionary" definitions
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Ambrose Bierce (1842-?) (motto: "nothing matters"), great - and rare - American satirist. Here are some definitions from his most famous work; you have to guess which word he's defining. The interesting info contains some more of his biting wit.
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Bierce, Ambrose
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Difficult
25 Q
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anselm
Jan 29 05
348 plays
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Classical Connections
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See if you can pick the connection between each piece of classical music and...well, just about anything else.
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Classical Music
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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anselm
Sep 12 03
714 plays
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You've GOT to be Joking!
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Unaccustomed as I am to public quizmaking, I thought I'd make my first effort so obvious that the answers are mostly included in the questions. You have 3 seconds on each question, starting now....
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Mixed 10 Q. Difficult [B]
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Difficult
10 Q
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anselm
Feb 10 03
1089 plays
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The REAL Lord of the Rings...
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...is Wagner! If you love his "Ring" cycle and "Tristan" as much as I do - or even if, like Bernstein, you hate them "on your knees" - this one's for you.
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Wagner, Richard
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Difficult
10 Q
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anselm
Sep 15 03
306 plays
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The REAL Lord of the Rings! (for musicos)
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You've met the pupil, Tolkein - now meet the master, Wagner! This one's on my favourites, the "Ring" cycle and "Tristan", and is definitely for those who know their musical Ps and Qs.
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Wagner, Richard
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Difficult
20 Q
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anselm
Sep 17 03
246 plays
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Ya Wanna Date? #2
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By special request, here are some more bunches of dates (that's history, not fruit!) What's the connection between the dates in each bunch? (All dates AD unless otherwise specified).
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Famous Dates
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Difficult
10 Q
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anselm
Feb 25 05
588 plays
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