Here is the quiz roster for February...only one change
Mondays - Santana and Eftwinkle
Tuesdays - Me and LeoDaVinci
Wednesdays - Kuu, Chris Schru and Helen 295
Thursdays - Julia and Ozzz
Fridys - Gatsby and Engadine
Saturdays - Kevinatilusa and CinnamOm
and Sundays - SpanishLiz and Exit10
For our new players. Each day the designated quizperson will post 5 questions and you have at least 48 hours to private message them your answers. You get 10 points for being the only person to have a answer, if more than one person chooses a answer to get five points. Good Luck all!

The moment you and I have been waiting for...
Its February, and you know what that means? The FIRST Tuesday questions of the month!

So without further ado, I give you:
Round I - Tuesday February 1st, 2005.

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The Questions:

1. Name a fiction book originally published by Michael Crichton under that name...
2. Name an album released by Sting (not with the Police)...
3. Name a food beginning with a Q... (for anybody who has seen White Men Can't Jump, this should be easy
4. Name one of the Minor Prohets of the Old Testament...
5. Name a female recipient of the Nobel prize for Literature...

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Have a great week!
Good Luck!

Round 2 - 2nd Feb 2005

1) Name one of the Mouseketeers whose first name began with D. Please give surname as well as some of the kids had the same first name.

2) A tree-kangaroo that belongs to the Genus Dendrolagus

3) A city of New Zealand that has a population over 100,000.

4) In the recently held World Cricket Tsunami Appeal - any cricketer's whose T-shirt sold for more than $AUD10,000

5) Any artist who created a work of art (painting, drawing, engraving etc) based on the poem The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This poem is closely related to the Story of Elaine (of so make sure it is a Shalott artwork, not an Elaine artwork. (HINT - if you have trouble goggling for it, I have a quiz on this subject)

(Edited to fix bolding)

My Fridays buddy [Engadine] is not feeling a bit good right now and asked me to post Round 4 in her abscence. Let's, as a group, send her collective positive energy. I'm early again but here is:

Round 4

1. Tony Randall played, naturally, 7 characters in 1964's "The Seven Faces Of Doctor Lao". Name one of them.

2. Give an FT Forums member whose screen name has a number in it.

3. A newspaper specific to Montreal that is published in French.

4. Name a book of poetry released by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Stephen Dunn. (Make sure it's poetry and the right Stephen Dunn ).

5. Name a cheese that is considered completely vegetarian, for all types of that lifestyle, that begins with the letter 'S'.

Results on Sunday! Enjoy, everyone.

Thursday Round

Q1- A coastal town on the New South Wales (Australia) South Coast, between Wollongong and the Victorian border.

Q2- One of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Q3- One of the five largest banks in Australia.

Q4- A Scrabble word, of four letters or more, that contains NO vowels.

Q5- An odd number, less than 200, that is part of the Fibonacci series.

Good luck, all.

Round 2 is closed. Answers and scores up soon.

Round 2 answers. Seven people played.

Question 1 - Mouseketeer whose name began with a D

Worth 10 points
Dickie Dodd, Doreen Tracey,Dennis Day, Dallas Johann, Don Underhill

Worth 5 points
Darlene Gillespie (2)

Question 2 - A species of tree-kangaroo

Worth 10 points
Tenkile (or Scotts), Vogelhop, Goodfellows, the Dingiso, Lowland

Worth 5 points
Matschie's (2)

Quesion 3 - New Zealand city

Worth 10 points
Hamilton, North Shore City, Dunedin, Tauranga, Christchurch

Worth 5 points
Wellington (2)

Question 4 - Cricketer's shirt that was auction for more than $10,000

All answers were worth 10 points
Shane Warne, Chris Gayle, Brian Lara, Daniel Vettori, Sanath Jayasuriya, Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting

5 points - Lady of Shalott artist

Worth 10 points
Sidney Harold Meteyard, John Atkinson Grimshaw

Worth 5 points
John William Waterhouse (3), William Holman Hunt (2)

Among those not mentioned
Elizabeth Siddal (drawing), Howard Pyle (engravings), Arthur Hughes, William Mew Egley.


SCORES

45 points - Cinnam0n, littlewoman2, ElfTwinkle, gatsby722

40 points - beaker411, achemar

35 points - Ozzz2002

Round 1 is over... results soon!

Trivia Round 5

This quiz concerns some of my favorite things!

1.Name one of the favorite things mentioned in the song "My Favorite Things"(Rodgers and Hammerstein).

2.Name one of their five top selling flavors of ice cream, according to Baskin Robbins.

3.Name one of Barnes & Noble's top 10 best-selling books for 2004.

4.Name one of the years the Pittsburgh Steelers won the Superbowl(the year the Superbowl was played, not the year the winning season started).

5.Name one of Celebrity Cruiseline's ships.

Have a great weekend, everyone, and good luck on the quiz! It'll close early Monday morning...

Here are Sunday's questions:

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Round 6

Please name:

1 A town or city in Ontario (Canada) with the telephone area code 519

2 A US state mentioned in the Perry Como song 'What Did Delaware?' and the line in which it is mentioned

3 One of the Top Ten names for girls in England and Wales in the year 2004

4 An actress who has played the character Calamity Jane in a movie

5 A recipient of the Victoria Cross whose first and last initials are the same, and fall between A and G in the alphabet. (That is, A.A., B.B., C.C. etc up to G.G.) Short forms, for example 'Billy', are acceptable if commonly used for the recipient.

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Good luck all!

Round 3 Results

Twelve players participated, including a debut from some esteemed company- please welcome Gtho4 to our little patch of turf...

Q1- A coastal town on the New South Wales (Australia) South Coast, between Wollongong and the Victorian border.

10 points

Sussex Inlet, Merimbula, Gerroa, Berry, Batemans Bay, Eden and Bimbimbie (which I had never heard of!)

5 points

Nowra (2), Kiama (2)

There are many others that were not mentioned- Jervis Bay, Narooma, Ulladulla, Gerringong, etc... the South Coast is a very pretty part of the world.


Q2- One of the Seven Deadly Sins.

10 points

Wrath

5 points

Sloth (4), Gluttony (4), Lust (3). A shrink could have a field day with these answers!

Not mentioned- Pride, Greed and Envy

Q3- One of the five largest banks in Australia.

5 points

St George (2), Commonwealth (2)Westpac (3), ANZ (3)

Not mentioned- National Australia Bank (NAB)

Disallowed- BankWest

Q4- A Scrabble word, of four letters or more, that contains NO vowels.

10 points

Tryst, Stymy, Gypsy, Tsktsk, Dryly, Lymph, Rhythms

5 points

Brrr (3), Pfft (2)

There are many others- Xyst, Cwms, Myrrh, Phpht, Crwths, included.

Q5- An odd number, less than 200, that is part of the Fibonacci series.

10 points

3, 21

5 points

1(2), 5(2), 55(3), 89(3)

Not mentioned- 13. An interesting series of numbers that eggheads like me can study for ages,

SCORES

40 points- Achernar

35 points- SpanishLiz, Wajo, Littlewoman, Kevinalitusa

30 points- ElfTwinkle, Beaker, Cinnam0n, Gtho4, Gatsby

25 points- Mjohn, Santana.

Thanks for playing, everyone, and congrats to Achernar.

Round 4 will be closing up in an hour or two. Results and all will be an hour or so later (maybe longer because there was a happily large group in this one).

OK. Yikes almighty! Round 4 is done. Closed. All answers tallied up. This might take a while. I have to decide how technical to be (would goat cheese be considered vegetarian? A vegan would surely say "not". But I think I'll accept it. As we proceed....)

Round 5 will close at 9AM EST to give a chance for late entries....

Results soon for Round 5!

Round 5 Results
11 people played this round!

Question 1 - Favorite things

10 Points
wild geese that fly with the moon on their wing, bright copper kettles, sleigh bells

5 Points
silver white winters(2), whiskers on kittens(2), schnitzel and noodles (2)
crisp apple streudels (2)

not mentioned - raindrops on roses, warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages, cream colored ponies, doorbells, girls in white dresses, snowflakes

Question 2 - Baskin Robbins top 5

10 Points
chocolate, pralines 'n cream

5 Points
chocolate chip(2), vanilla(3), mint chocolate chip(4)

Question 3 - Barnes and Noble 2004 best sellers

10 Points
The Purpose Driven Life, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America the Book, My Life

5 Points
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2), The Secret Life of Bees (2), Angels and Demons (2)

Not mentioned - The DaVinci Code, The South Beach Diet, The South Beach Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide, Deception Point

Disallowed - 2 people said The Kite Runner. This is one of the top 10 bestsellers at the present time, but was only #25 for 2004.

Question 4 - Steeler Superbowl

10 Points
1976

5 Points
1975(6), 1979(3)

Not mentioned - 1980

Disallowed - 1974

Question 5 - Celebrity ships

10 Points
Galaxy, Xpedition, Horizon, Infinity

5 Points
Zenith(3),Summit(2),Kapitan Khlebnikov(2)

Not mentioned - Century, Constellation, Mercury, Millenium

Final Scores
40 points - Ozzz2002, ElfTwinkle
35 points - Kuu, mjohn620
30 points - littlewoman2
25 points - spanishliz, gatsby722, wajo, Exit10, Julia103, Santana2002

Thanks to everyone for playing and congratulations to Ozzz and ElfTwinkle!

Round I - February 1st, 2005...

The Results!

11 people played this round...

Question I: Name a fiction book originally published by Michael Crichton under that name...
For 10 points: Rising Sun, Jurassic Park, Congo, Timeline, Prey
For 5 points: The Terminal Man (2), Sphere (2), Disclosure (2)
Not mentioned: The Andromeda Strain and The Lost World are the only ones I can recall that were not mentioned.

Question II: Name an album released by Sting (not with the Police)...
For 10 points: Brand New Day, Mercury Falling, Ten Summoners Tales, Soul Cages, Acoustic Live in Newcastle
For 5 points: The Dream of the Blue Turtles (5!)
Not mentioned: Nothing Like the Sun, Sting, Sacred Love, Fields of Gold, Strange Fruit, Nuclear Waste
Not Accepted: Scorpion

Question III: Name a food beginning with a Q... (for anybody who has seen White Men Can't Jump, this should be easy)
For 10 points: Quail, Quark, Quattro
For 5 points: Quince (5), Quiche (3)
Not Mentioned: Believe it or not, there were many... Quadrettini, Quahog, Quandong, Quatre-épices, Quenelle, Quesadilla, Quick bread, Quinine, Quinoa, among others.

Question IV: Name one of the Minor Prohets of the Old Testament...
For 10 points: Joel, Amos, Zechariah, Zephaniah, Habbakkuk
For 5 points: Micah (3), Malachi (2)
Not mentioned: Hosea, Obadiah, Nahum, Haggai, and Jonah (the one with the whale...)

Question V: Name a female recipient of the Nobel prize for Literature...
For 10 points: Gabriala Mistral - 1945 and Sigrid Undset - 1928
For 5 points: Toni Morrison - 1993 (2), Nadine Gordimer - 1991 (3), Nelly Sachs - 1966 (2), Grazia Deledda - 1926 (2)
Not mentioned: Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof - 1909, Pearl Buck - 1938, Elfriede Jelinek - 2004, and Wislawa Szymborska - 1996.


The Results:
Our winner: littlewoman2 with a perfect 50! points...
The rest:
40 points: ElfTwinkle and beaker411
35 points: gatsby722 and cinnamOn
30 points: achernar, ozzz2002 and Julia103
25 points: Kuu
20 points: SRSTrekker

Welcome to all the new players!
Congratulations to littlewoman2 and thanks all for playing.

Have a great week!

Round 7: Mon. Feb. 7th

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Name:


Question 1) A character in the comic strip Family Circle (aka Family Circus):


Question 2) A song from ACT II of the musical You're A Good Man Charlie Brown:


Question 3) A song on Dan Fogelberg's High Country Snows album:


Question 4) Deion Branch won Superbowl XXXIX's MVP award for his performance in the game played on Feb. 6th/last night --- in the 39 year history of the NFL only 4 players have ever been chosen MVP of 2 or more Superbowl games. Name one of the 4 who have won the Superbowl game MVP award more than once:


Question 5) A book written by Pierre Berton:

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Have fun!

This Round will close in about 48 hours/Wednesday evening.


*edited to clarify Question 1

Round 8 - Tuesday 8th February!
This weeks questions are on a few of my favourite things!
Question 1 –A chocolate included in Mars Celebrations selection (the name of a chocolate bar which is in miniature. For example, Cadbury’s also have their own selection of chocolates called Miniature Heroes, which include Crunchie and Dairy Milk)
Question 2 – A song from the musical Cats, either from the DVD or the stage show
Question 3 – A manufacturer of jigsaw. If you need help give me a PM!
Question 4 – One of the seven dwarves from Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves”
Question 5 – And finally, tell me a type of embroidery stitch!
Closes on Thursday sometime

Round 4

One Of The Characters Portrayed By Tony Randall In "The Seven Faces Of Doctor Lao"

For 10 points - The Abominable Snowman, Audience member, Merlin, Apollonius Of Tyana

For 5 points - Medusa(3), Pan(3), Loch Ness Monster(2), Giant Serpent(2), Dr. Lao(2)

That named them all!

A Forums Member With A Number In Their Screen Name

For 10 points - 12791_kr, fosse4, Linda1, gtho4, mjohn620, beaker411, THartmann93, Santana2002, doc322, Gatsby722, Ren33, ladymacb29.

For 5 points - ozzz2002(2)

One notable omission on the answers given: Sue943. But we'll chalk that up to the likelihood that everyone would pick her and wouldn't get that 10 pointer .

Montreal Newspapers Published In French

I ran into this one little problem in researching these. Just a little one - I don't speak a word of French and most of the sites were written in that...

For 5 points - Le Devoir(8), Le Journal de Montreal(2), La Presse(2)

I disallowed two, with many a wobble. TV Hebdo looks like a magazine more than a newspaper. I couldn't find Ici at all. Considering the calibre of those who offered those two answers I am sure I'm wrong. Correct me if I'm mistaken. Correcting me will noticeably change the winner's list.

A Collection Of Poetry By Stephen Dunn

For ten points - Loosestrife

For five points - Landscape At The End Of The Century(4), Local Visitations(3), Between Angels(3), Different Hours(3).

Vegetarian Cheese Starting With 'S'

The phrasing left a rather broad scope of answers. Not being a snippy or picky sort I accepted them all.

For 10 points - Somerset Camambert, Silken Tofu, Stella Swiss, Sargento Swiss, just Swiss (I accepted all of those because no one doubled up on what they said), Scarmorze, Saladena Feta.

For 5 points - Soya(5) [no one put brand names there so all the soy cheeses were grouped together], String Cheese(2).

14 players this time! Close scores, too. Here is the winner's list.

ElfTwinkle - 45 points

littlewoman2, Kuu, beaker411, cinnamOn, Santana2002, gtho4, SRSTrekker - all 35 points

Exit10, Julia103, spanishliz, mjohn620, achenar, ozzz2002 - all 30 points

Edited to correct my usual typos
Scores adjusted due to error

Round 6 is now closed. Answers and results later this evening (and I'll consider late entries if you ask nicely ).

ROUND SIX RESULTS

Eleven people played this one! Thank you all .

1 A town or city in Ontario (Canada) with the telephone area code 519

Worth 10 points:
Brantford, Glencoe, Grand Bend, Ingersoll, Woodstock

Worth 5 points:
Goderich (2), Kitchener (2), Windsor (2)

There were many more to choose from, so I’ll just mention my own hometown, Listowel, from amongst the absentees.



2 A US state mentioned in the Perry Como song 'What Did Delaware?' and the line in which it is mentioned

Worth 10 points:
Arkansas (Too bad that Arkan-saw, boys), Florida (It made poor Flora-die…), Hawaii (She called to say ‘How are ya/Ha-wai-ya’), Minnesota (She sipped a mini soda/Minne-sota), Mississippi (What did Missi-sip), Missouri (She died in misery/Missouri), Wisconsin (How did Wiscon-sin?)

Worth 5 points:
California (Why did Calla phone ya?), New Jersey (She wore a brand new Jersey) (mentioned by 2 people each)

Not mentioned: Nebraska (He stole a new brass key), Tennessee (And so did Tenna-see), Oregon (Where has Ore-gone), Texas (She went to pay her taxes/Texas). Complete lyrics can be found here .

3 One of the Top Ten names for girls in England and Wales in the year 2004

Worth 10 points:
Emily (#1), Chloe (#5), Katie (#9), Megan (#10)

Worth 5 points:
Ellie (2) (#2), Lucy (2) (#6), Charlotte (2)(#8)

Not accepted: Hannah, which fell to #12 in 2004 after several years in the top ten.

Not mentioned: Jessica (#3), Sophie (#4), Olivia (#7)



4 An actress who has played the character Calamity Jane in a movie

Worth 10 points:
Olympia Cavalli (‘Due mafiosi nel Far West’, 1965), Abby Dalton (‘The Plainsman’, 1966), Yvonne De Carlo (‘Calamity Jane and Sam Bass’, 1949), Frances Farmer (‘Badlands of Dakota’, 1941), Ethel Grey Terry (‘Wild Bill Hickok’, 1923)

Worth 5 points:
Doris Day (4)(‘Calamity Jane’, 1953), Eugenia Gilbert (2)(‘Courtin’ Wildcats’, 1929)

For other possibilities see the list here .



5 A recipient of the Victoria Cross whose first and last initials are the same, and fall between A and G in the alphabet. (That is, A.A., B.B., C.C. etc up to G.G.) Short forms, for example 'Billy', are acceptable if commonly used for the recipient.

Worth 10 points:
Alfred Atkinson (Sergeant, Yorkshire Regt, South Africa 1900 – died 3 days later), Claud Castleton (Sergeant, 5th Machine Gun Corps, Australian Imperial Force, France 1916 – posthumous), Charles Cowley (Lieutenant Commander, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, SS Julnar, Mesopotamia, 1916 – posthumous), Dennis Donnini (Fusilier, Royal Scots Fusiliers, Holland, 1945 – posthumous), Eugene Esmonde (Lieutenant Commander, 825 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, RN, Straits of Dover, 1942 – posthumous; led the Swordfish attack on Scharnhorst and Gneisnau during the ‘Channel Dash’ by those ships), Gerald Graham (Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, Crimea, 1855), George Gunn (2nd Lieutenant, Royal Horse Artillery, Western Desert, 1941 – posthumous)

Worth 5 points:
Francis Farquharson (2)(Lieutenant, 42nd Regt, India, 1858), Frederick Fisher (2)(Lance-Corporal, 13th Bn (Quebec Regt), Canadian Expeditionary Force, Belgium, 1915 – posthumous)

Amongst those not mentioned were Billy Bishop, the Canadian WWI ace (no one took me up on the offer to accept short forms) and Wing Commander Guy Gibson, who led the Dams Raid in 1943.

And the winners are:

cinnam0n and Exit10 each with 45 points

40 points: gatsby722, Julia103, Kuu, littlewoman2, ozzz2002
35 points: beaker411, ElfTwinkle
30 points: mjohn620
20 points: Blinkybill

Congratulations to cinnam0n and Exit10! Thanks again everyone for playing!

Round 4 scores have changed. Just in case anyone wants to take a peek up there. Congratulations to ElfTwinkle! And thanks for joining in to everyone who did.

ROUND 9

1. Name one of the properties in the US version of the game of Monopoly (not any regional or special editions) that is on the top of the board, if the “GO” space is on the lower-right hand side.

2. Name one of the Teams from the sixth season of The Amazing Race.

3. In the US version of Scrabble, name a letter that appears on at least four tiles.

4. Name one of the signs of the Zodiac.

5. Since Valentine's day is coming up, name something you would give your sweetheart on Valentine's day.

Round closes in about 48 hours. Good luck!!

Round 7 is now closed --- results will be up sometime later on today. (Late entries will be considered.)