PM sent to Kuu.

ROUND 17

Sorry, but I'm going to have to post the Round 17 questions now. We were supposed to be going away tomorrow for the weekend, but there's been a change of plan and we're leaving tonight instead. I hope that's okay! You still have until Sunday night to send in your answers.

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1. A British Prime Minister who was elected between 1900 and 2000.
2. A brother or sister of Michael Jackson.
3. An element of the Periodic Table which was named after a place.
4. A book which has won the Booker Prize for Fiction.
5. One of the Dionne Quintuplets.

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I thinks it is funny that people have to visit Barbie Doll sites to answer a question. I hope no man posting from work is seen visiting such a site by his boss or workmates.

It wasn't my idea. I was lamenting that there was only four Teletubbies so it wasn't good to have a question about them when my husband (a 59 year old man) suggested a Barbie question.

Round 14 Results

Question 1...

10 Points:
.EE Estonia
.ER Eritrea

5 Points:
.EH Western Sahara---(3)
.ES Spain---(3)



Quesion 2...

10 Points:
Chad

5 Points:
Whiff---(3)
Andy---(2)
Dudley---(2)



Question 3...

10 Points:
John Stockton
Patrick Ewing
Christian Laettner
Clyde Drexler

5 Points:
Charles Barkley---(2)
Larry Bird---(2)




Question 4...

10 Points:
I gave all of them 10 points because I didn't recieve any answers twice




Question 5...

10 Points:
Tyson Chandler
Eddy Curry
Jonathan Bender
Al Harrington
Jermaine O'neal

5 Points:
Kobe Bryant---(2)


The answer to the bonus question was Catbert. Catbert was the HR(Human Resources director). Ratbert was not the answer, Ratbert was an intern at one point and another thing at another point, but was never the HR Director.






Results...

kevinatilusa---45 Points
gatsby722---45

EraserHead---40 Points
Julia103---40 Points
ElfTwinkle---40 Points
spanishliz---40 Points

ozzz2002---35 Points
ASA---35 Points





I don't know what I expected when I asked a few of those, but I recieved a whole lot of answers for two of them...


Congrats to kevinatilusa and gatsby722, they get one point.

Closing Round 15! Yikes, out of 11 players it looks like we had an 8-way tie for first place! . Results, officially, in a minute or two...

Round 15

Name An Osmond Brother

For 10 points:
Thomas, Donny & Alan

For 5 points:
Jimmy (4), Wayne (4)

No one mentioned Virl, Merrill or Jay.

Name A Belt Of The Planet Uranus

Everybody gets ten points, as told, since I had a brain fart and put Uranus in the question instead of Jupiter (which was what I meant to put in the first place )

One Of The Top 10 On AFI's 100 Best Movie Songs

For 10 points:

The Sound Of Music [#10], Stayin' Alive [#9], White Christmas [#5], As Time Goes By [#2], Moon River [#4], When You Wish Upon A Star [#7], The Way We Were [#8]

For 5 points:
Mrs. Robinson [#6]

I couldn't accept one answer. Unchained Melody (from "Ghost") was listed at #27, so not in the Top 10.

A Period From The Paleozoic Era

For 10 points:

Cambrian & Carboniferous

For 5 points:

Silurian (3), Ordovician (3), Devonian (2)

I couldn't find the Mississippian Era anywhere, so that answer got no points. But, if I'm wrong, correct me and I'll adjust scoring .

A Published Work Of Oscar Wilde
Someone snuck in a short story but the question didn't specify that those weren't acceptable...

For 10 points:

Salome, The Picture of Dorian Gray, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Selfish Giant (a short story)

For 5 points:

A Woman Of No Importance (2), The Ballad Of Reading Gaol (2)

I couldn't accept A Woman Of No Substance.

Very good round folks! Very close. Results momentarily...

Yep. Giving away 8 points this time! You all are GOOD!

kevinatilusa---40 points
ozzz2002---40 points
ElfTwinkle---40 points
ASA---40 points
SpanishLiz---40 points
helen295---40 points
Kuu---40 points
Julia103---40 points

Eraserhead---35 points

Blinkybill---25 points
Santana2002---25 points

Thanks for playing all! Excellent job all around!

PM sent to Helen

I'll start joining in again with tomorrows questions!

Well, it's mid-month. Anyone want to see a running total so far? You'd better because I sat here and figured it out so you're getting them, anyway . This is not a good month for running totals since people are having lots of holidays and stuff, but here is how it's looking so far:

ElfTwinkle---5 points
JaneMarple---5 points
Helen295---4 points
Julia 103---4 points
kevinatilusa---4 points
ozzz2002---4 points
Eraserhead---3 points
Kuu---3 points
Leau78---3 points
Spanishliz---3 points
Blinkybill---2 points
Gatsby722---2 points
ASA---1 point
marchmadness---1 point
romeomikegolf---1 point

Sent my PM to round 17 to Helen, seeming I am doing reasonably well!

I'd say being tied for first for the month is doing better than reasonably well, JM! .

Looking good Jane and Elf!

PMs sent to Kuu and Helen.

It's early Sunday morning here, so here's Round 18.

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ROUND 18

1 A book from 'The Wheel of Time' series by Robert Jordan
2 An actor who played one of 'The Dirty Dozen' in the 1967 movie (not the officers or NCOs who trained them)
3 Something you'd expect on your plate if you ordered a 'full English breakfast'
4 A British Formula 1 champion (season-long championship) since 1950
5 Anyone suspected of having been 'Jack the Ripper'

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PM on the way to spanishliz

Round 16 is now closed

ANSWERS TO ROUND 16

We only had 8 entries

Question 1 - Friend or family of Barbie (1959-1970)

Worth 10 points
Midge, Skooter, Todd

Worth 5 points
Ken (2), Skipper (2)

I also had the answer Kelly but can find nodoll released before 1970 of that name. A Kelley was released in 1973-1974, and a Kelly was released in 1995.

Question 2 - Member of the Pre-Raphaekite Brotherhood

Worth 10 points
James Collinson

Worth 5 points
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (2), William Michael Rossetti (2), John Everett Millais (2)

I had one answer that just said 'Dante' which I had to mark as incorrect.

Question 3 - Member of AC/DC

Worth 10 points
Bon Scott, Brian Johnson

Worth 5 points
Angus Young (2), Malcolm Young (2), Phil Rudd (2)

Question 4 - Tom Holt novel

Worth 10 points
Every one scored 10 points. The answers we had were

Odds and Gods
Paint Your Dragon
Faust Among Equals
The Walled Orchard
A Song for Nero
Overtime
Snow White and the Seven Samurai
Who's Afriad of Beowulf

I cannot understand why Tom Holt is not better known than he is. I personally think his stories are similar to and as good as Terry Pratchett's works.

Question 5 - A Francis the Talking Mule movie

Worth 10 points
Francis Covers the Big Town, Francis in the Haunted House, Francis Goes to West Point, Francis

The first movie in the series is generally called 'Francis the Talking Mule' but I have found it listed simply as 'Francis' on some web sites

Worth 5 points Francis in the Navy (2), Francis joins the WACS (2)

Scores

Elfwinkle 50

Eraserhead 40
Santana2002 40
Kevinatilusa 35
BlinkyBill 30
gatsby722 30
spanishliz 30
ozzz2002 25

Answers sent for round 18!

Update: I have been corrected rightly on Round 15's answers. The Paleozoic Era one. The "Mississippian Era" is correct as it is an Americanized way to say one of the Caboniferous eras. I guess saying Carboniferous was too difficult at some point in history over here so somebody had to come up with alternatives. Had they ever noticed that spelling Mississippian ain't that easy, either , they might have just as well left it alone. But, anyway, Santana2002's score should be 10 points higher. It won't change the results but I wanted to make note of her correct answer.

Round 19 QUESTIONS

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1. One of the five 'Great Lakes'
2. A 5-letter word which is a palindrome
3. A member of the band U2
4. A Grade 1 Pipe Band which has won the World Pipe Band Championship
5. A variety/flavour of Tim Tams biscuits

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This round will be closed Tuesday evening, European time.

PM on its way to Santana!

Hey everyone...I think we should stop telling the "Round-Master" that our PMs are sent...It takes up a lot of space.

Not that you have to listen to me of course.

Cheers,
Theoryman14

At the risk of also taking up space, I agree with Theoryman.

Round 17 is now closed.

The answers will be posted soon.

ROUND 17 RESULTS

There were 10 entries.

Question 1: A British Prime Mininster elected between 1900 and 2000

10 Points: Herbert Asquith, Anthony Eden, Margaret Thatcher, Neville Chamberlain, Tony Blair, Edward Heath

5 Points: Andrew Bonar Law (2), Clement Attlee (2)

Others you could have mentioned include Winston Churchill, Alec Douglas-Home, David Lloyd George and John Major.

Question 2: A brother or sister of Michael Jackson

10 Points: Rebbie (Maureen) Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Jackie (Sigmund) Jackson

5 Points: Janet Jackson (3), LaToya Jackson (2), Tito Jackson (2)

Nobody mentioned Marlon Jackson

Question 3: An element of the Periodic Table which was named after a place

10 Points: Erbium (named after Ytterby in Sweden), Magnesium (Magnesia, a district of Thessaly in Greece), Europium, Germanium, Californium, Berkelium

5 Points: Darmstadtium (3) (named after Darmstadt in Germany)

There was one wrong answer - Indium is named after the indigo line in its atomic spectrum.

Question 4: A book that has won the Booker Prize for Fiction

10 Points: The Sea The Sea, Heat and Dust, G, Oscar and Lucinda, The Bone People, Disgrace, The Ghost Road, Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha, Life of Pi, Vernon God Little

Everybody scored 10 points for this question.

Question 5: One of the Dionne quintuplets

10 Points: Marie, Emilie

5 Points Annette (3), Yvonne (3), Cecile (2)


RESULTS

Santana2002 - 45
JaneMarple - 45

Ozzz2002 - 40
Gatsby722 - 40
Blinkybill - 40
Kuu - 40
ElfTwinkle - 35
Eraserhead - 35
Spanishliz - 35
Romeomikegolf - 25