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Famous People Born in 1958 #1
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Half A Century Wise: Happy Birthday to all the celebrities and sporting stars born in 1958, who will celebrate or have celebrated the big "five-oh" in 2008. How many of them can you work out? "Half A Century Wise" is a line from a Phil Ochs song.
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Celebrity Birthdays
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Average
15 Q
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darksplash
Jan 12 08
1926 plays
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Books That Changed Our Lives
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"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life,'" so said Helen Exley, the noted collector and publisher. See how many of these life-changers you can identify.
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Literary Titles
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Average
10 Q
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darksplash
May 08 08
2058 plays
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The Bible On The Silver Screen
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This quiz looks at Biblical characters and stories as they were portrayed in movies, and the actors who starred in them.
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Spirituality in Movies
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Easy
10 Q
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darksplash
May 20 12
378 plays
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Schools On The Silver Screen
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Most people just want to put them behind them, but schooldays have been a favorite subject for movie makers down through the years. See how many of the movies, and the schools, you can identify.
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Something in Common
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Easy
10 Q
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darksplash
Jul 14 08
1965 plays
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Australia's Got Talent
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No, not a quiz about a TV talent show, but about some famous and celebrated Australians.
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Australians
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Very Easy
10 Q
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darksplash
Jun 29 10
717 plays
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Fiction's Foulest Fiends: Literary Villains: Vol 1
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The good guys are always supposed to win in fiction, but quite often the baddies are just as memorable - and in some cases even more so. See how many you can identify.
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Literary Characters
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Difficult
10 Q
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darksplash
Sep 22 08
1389 plays
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Weird Ways To Meet Your Maker: Part 1
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"When I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, not shouting and screaming like the passengers on his bus", or so joked the English comedian Des O'Connor. Here's a selection of those who died in bizarre ways.
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What a Way to Go
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Difficult
10 Q
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darksplash
Mar 19 09
1404 plays
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FunTrivia Blockbusters: I'll Have an 'A'
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This quiz is based on the old 'Blockbusters' TV game show. Here are questions on the 20 FunTrivia categories. Each correct answer begins with an 'A'.
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Blockbuster
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Average
20 Q
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darksplash
Jun 05 11
2061 plays
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Pilots 'R' Us: Fiction's Finest Aviators
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Since time began, humankind has had a fascination with flight. Soaring like the birds has been a dream, no wonder it caught the attention of fiction authors.
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Thematic 10Q Tough
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Tough
10 Q
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darksplash
Apr 01 08
420 plays
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Top Dogs At The Movies
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To stave off boredom at Splash's Rest Home For Pampered Pooches, we sent Kyle The Kennel Boy to the local DVD store. See what you know about the 10 canine-related flicks he returned with.
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Animals in Movies
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Easy
10 Q
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darksplash
May 03 11
1731 plays
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'Me And Bobby McGee' : Story Of A Song
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"Busted flat in Baton Rouge headin' for the trains,
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans". These are the opening words of one of Kris Kristofferson's best-known songs. See how much you know about it.
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Kristofferson, Kris
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Difficult
10 Q
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darksplash
Aug 15 08
1044 plays
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Oggy, Oggy, Oggy: The Max Boyce Story
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From the working men's clubs of Wales to the heights of national TV stardom, the singer and comedian Max Boyce earned a place in the affection of the British nation.
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B
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Tough
15 Q
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darksplash
May 23 09
129 plays
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Spies 'R' Us: Fiction's Finest Secret Agents
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Spying has been described as "the second oldest profession". It's long been a favourite subject for writers and movie makers. How many of these fictional spies can you spot?
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Thematic 15 Questions
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Tough
15 Q
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darksplash
Mar 01 08
747 plays
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Great Political Insults: Part 2
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As an offering to those who enjoyed my first quiz on political insults, here are some more pithy remarks about the great and the good.
If you laugh at any, remember that the trouble with political jokes is that they sometimes get elected.
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Political Science & History
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Difficult
10 Q
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darksplash
May 21 08
594 plays
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Universities To The Stars
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Sometimes it seems that our entertainment and sporting heroes are shallow, and some may be, but other are actually quite well educated. Let's look at some of them, and some of the universities to the stars.
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Celebrity Grab Bag
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Average
10 Q
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darksplash
May 07 12
432 plays
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Ulster's Acclaim Academy
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The northernmost province in Ireland is a place of beauty, myth and passion. Its people have made major contributions to all walks of life and in many lands.
Here we look at some who have been prominent the entertainment business.
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UK Celebs
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Average
10 Q
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darksplash
Nov 24 07
678 plays
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Ghostwriters In the Sky
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When the Australian rock group The Ghostwriters planned a world tour, they placed the travel arrangement in the capable(?) hands of Kyle's Kompleat Konnections. Let's see how they got on.
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Aviation
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Average
15 Q
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darksplash
Nov 13 09
201 plays
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After Billy The Kid Came Lash LaRue
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Cowboys and outlaws provided a romantic image of the American Wild West, though the reality was probably different. Here are 15 real and fictional cowboys and outlaws and the actors who played them for you to identify.
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Old West
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Average
15 Q
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darksplash
Jun 19 10
450 plays
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The Devious Minds of Organised Crime
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"Three or more people acting in concert to commit one or more serious crimes for material benefit": that is the UN definition of organised crime. These questions look at a worldwide phenomenon.
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Mafia and The Mob
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Difficult
15 Q
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darksplash
Jan 01 09
966 plays
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X Marks The Spot
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X is the 24th letter of the western alphabet. Let's look at some of the uses to which it has been put.
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Thematic 10Q Average
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Average
10 Q
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darksplash
Apr 14 12
483 plays
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Lawyers 'R' Us: Fiction's Finest Legal Eagles
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What's black, made of leather and looks good on a lawyer? A Doberman, of course. We've all heard the jokes, but how many of these fictional legal eagles can you identify?
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Thematic 10Q Tough
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Tough
10 Q
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darksplash
Mar 28 08
435 plays
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Ian Rankin's John Rebus: The Trivia Trail
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If you have read the Rebus novels of Ian Rankin (and were paying attention) or if you have played the Rebus quizzes on this site (and were paying attention) you should be able to answer this series of Rebus trivia questions.
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Rankin, Ian
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Average
15 Q
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darksplash
Mar 12 10
174 plays
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More Than This
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When a new record is established, someone just has to try to better it. In these questions are examples of records in a wide field of endeavours. Your task is to find who, or what, beat them.
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World Records
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Tough
10 Q
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darksplash
May 16 12
438 plays
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Singing stars of the "Forever 27" Club
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If you don't believe in coincidences, than what else explains how all these entertainers came to die at the age of 27?
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Deceased Musicians
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Average
10 Q
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darksplash
Jul 26 11
537 plays
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Bizarre Last Wills and Testaments
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I, darksplash, being of unsound mind, do proffer onto you 10 questions about the last wills of some famous people of whom you may have heard.
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Last Words & Epitaphs
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Tough
10 Q
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darksplash
Jul 21 09
402 plays
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One Book Wonders & Second Time Hits
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As a companion to 'One Book Wonders & Second Time Flops', this quiz is about three more greats who never wrote a second novel, and seven others whose second efforts were better than their first.
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Authors and their Works
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Average
10 Q
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darksplash
Apr 03 09
780 plays
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Singing By Numbers
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It's one for the money, two for the show, and three to get ready, so go, funtriviers, go - answer these questions about songs with numbers in their title, and the artists associated with them.
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Number Songs
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Average
10 Q
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darksplash
Aug 16 10
699 plays
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Oh, for Pete's Sake!
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This quiz is the result of an Author Central challenge by guitargoddess. The theme is based (sometimes loosely) on the words in the title.
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Thematic By Name
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Average
10 Q
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darksplash
Jul 28 09
675 plays
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Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
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"Oh it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word", or so sang Elton John. Try to spot the people behind these apologies.
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Did They Say That?!
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Tough
15 Q
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darksplash
Nov 08 08
1056 plays
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Free Electric Bandsman: The Albert Hammond Story
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Three hundred and sixty million record buyers can't be wrong - that's how many sales compositions by the singer/songwriter Albert Hammond have chalked since the 1960s. See how much you know about the man behind 30 chart-topping hits.
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H
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Tough
15 Q
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darksplash
May 12 09
159 plays
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