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January 2006 roster
Mondays - Santana and Elftwinkle
Tuesdays - Me and Leo
Wednesdays - Me and Polaris
Thursdays - Ren and Ozzz
Fridys - Gemini and LittleWoman
Saturdays - Mugaboo and CinnamOm
Sundays - SpanishLiz and Exit10
The aim of the quiz is that every day (hopefully!) there will be a set of five questions posted by the respective quizhost of the day. And you have at least 48 hours to PM (Private Message - click on their name and click on send this person a private message) them your answers. It is good fun

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A bit late, but here it is ...

January Trivia Rounds: Round 2/Monday, January 2nd

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Give me:

Question 1) Name of a movie released BEFORE 2005 starring actor Raymond Burr (Note: movies released in 2005 or later, movies made for TV, and movies that Raymond Burr was either uncredited or just provided the voice for a character will NOT be accepted)


Question 2) A work written by W. P. (William Patrick) Kinsella


Question 3) A track on the Silver Side Up album (released in 2001) by Nickelback


Question 4) A forum which is listed under/with Fun & Games at FunTrivia


Question 5) A place in Canada which has a Salmon as a roadside attraction (There are at least 6):

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Note: As per usual, if you are having trouble with any of these
questions, please PM me and I will point you in the right
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Have fun!

AWESOME 2006!!! Hope everybody's year has started off as well as mine has...

Welcome to another round of: The Tuesday questions!

So without further ado, I give you:
Round III - Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006.

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The Questions:

1. Name a salt lake... (lake = body of water totally enclosed by land)
2. Name a kind of salt that can be found in the kitchen...
3. Quote a saying that includes the word "salt"...
4. The 2002 Winter Olympics were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Name a country that won a medal(s) but

failed to win any gold medals...
5. Name an alcoholic beverage where you would salt the rim of the glass...

Good luck and have a great week!

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Wednesday 4 January 2006
Q1 – Any Herb or Spice
Q2 – Any name/rank in the Forces
Q3 – A star sign
Q4 – A common phobia (not the posh name, just a common phobia!)
Q5 – A name of a bottle size in champagne etc
(doing a double shift in January - alternate Tuesday's and Wednesdays! )
(edited to make q5 slightly clearer!)

OK I am still a bit jetlagged, so bear with me.
On this day in History..
1 The first top hat was worn in Britain. Name a hat.
2 Princess Ida opened at the Savoy Theatre, London. Name a type of cabbage Try here
3 The Yorkshire Ripper was arrested. Name a mass murderer.
4 Yugoslavia was created. Name a major city in Yugoslavia
5 January is taken from the name of the Roman God Janus. Name another male Roman God after whom something was named.

Wednesday 4 January
Q1 – Any Herb or Spice
For Ten points:
Dill, Asafoetida, Tarragon, Parsley, Curry, Bison Grass, Sage, Cilantro
For Five points:
Ten points for all
Not mentioned:
Cinnamon, Mustard, Thyme and more

Q2 – Any name/rank in the Forces
For Ten points:
Commodore, SMsgt (Senior Master Sergeant RAF), Lieutenant General, Rear Admiral, Lieutenant-Colonel, Sergeant,
For Five points:
Captain (2 people),
Not mentioned:
Admiral, Colonel, Corporal and more

Q3 – A star sign
For Ten points:
Aries, Capricorn, Gemini, Pisces, Leo, Virgo,
For Five points:
Aquarius (2)
Not mentioned:
Taurus, Cancer, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius,

Q4 – A common phobia (not the posh name, just a common phobia!)
For Ten points:
Fear of Worms (Scoleciphobia), Fear of Men! (Androphobia!) , Thunderstorms, Hydrophobia- fear of water, Fear of strangers (xenophobia), Fear of open spaces (Agorophobia), Spiders, fear of the dark,
For Five points:
Ten points to all
Not mentioned:
Flying, closed spaces, death and more!

Q5 – A name of a bottle of champagne
For Ten points:
Nebuchadnezzar (20 bottles - 15 litres) Balthazar (16 bottles – 12 litres),
For Five points:
Salmanazar (12 bottles – 9 litres) (2 people) Methuselah (8 bottles – 6 litres) (2 people), Jeroboam (4 bottles - 3 litres) (2 people)
Not mentioned:
Baby (½ a bottle), Nip (1/4 of a bottle), Magnum (2 bottles), Rehoboam (6 bottles - 4.5 litres)


SCORES: - 8 people took part!

Auszev – 45
Elf – 45
Leo - 45
Mugaboo - 45
Ozzz - 45
Ren - 45
Cinnamon - 40
Howie - 40
Well done to Auszev, Elf, Leo, Mugaboo, Ozz and Ren

ROUND 6 - Friday, January 6th

Fantasy Round - Part 2

Picking up where we left off last time...


1. Fresh off your success making cartoons for Disney, you and your co-workers decide to go out for Chinese food. When the meal has ended and you have not received any fortune cookies, your group enquires as to why this is. The restaurant's owner says they have run out of fortunes for the day. You're still feeling creative so you offer to type a few fortunes up for the restaurant free of charge. You follow the owner to a back room office where he shows you a computer. As soon as you're comfortable, you immediately start typing out fortunes. What is one of the fortunes you typed up that evening?


2. You've worked on the fortune cookies for a couple of hours, and since your co-workers have already gone home, you are left to walk home by yourself. As you cross the street, a sign on a bus shelter catches your eye. "Try out for Jeopardy!", the sign says. You're feeling fairly intelligent at the moment, so you make your way over to the studios. You get through the tryouts easily and soon find yourself as a contestant on the real thing. More than half way into the game, you are up $55,000, when the opportunity to double your money comes up. All you have to do is correctly answer a question, and lucky for you, the question comes from a category you are very comfortable with. What is the topic of the category your question came from?


3. You wave goodbye to Alex Trebek as you leave the "Jeopardy" studios. While arefully pocketing your winners cheque, you decide that you will put the money towards a down payment on a new house. You've been considering a change in scenery and your win on "Jeopardy" has only further convinced you to relocate. You've already picked out the house you'd like, and a week later you are watching as the movers store your things in the moving truck. Suddenly, one of the moving men trips over his untied shoelaces while carrying a box marked "fragile", and both the box and the man hit the pavement with a crunch. Upon inspecting the contents of the box, you are upset to discover that the only thing broken is your treasured family heir loom. Exactly what item of yours has the clumsy moving man broken?


4. A week later you crumple up the letter of apology from the moving company and glance around your large foyer. "Those guys are lucky I didn't sue them," you mumble to yourself. As you walk into the living room, you notice that the new place lacks something. A spark of life, perhaps. You hop into your car and head straight for the pet store. In the pet store, you glance into cage after cage of animals until one little creature catches your eye and absolutely steals your heart. You purchase the little guy right away and take him home. What animal have you bought?


5. You've just fed your new pet, but are now in the mood for some human company. As you pass through your dining room, you think what better way to break in your new dining room set than to have a dinner party. The food, the drinks, and all other details of the party are settled surprisingly quick, and soon you discover that making out the guest list is actually the hardest part of setting up the party. You've got 12 seats available to occupy at your dinner table. One is for you and the other 11 for your guests. Name ONE person from FunTrivia that would definitely be on your guest list.


Remember, be creative and have fun. If you've got any questions, you know where to find me. Good luck, although I'm predicting a tight round.

Round 7 questions

1. Name a notable birthday on January 7.
2. Name a notable death on January 7.
3. Name a holiday or observance in January.
(for example, January 12 is "Lift Every Voice and Sing Day")
4. January is "___________" month. (for example, it is National Health month)
5. Name a historical event that happened on January 7th (other than a birth or death).

PM if you need help - This will close on Tuesday or Wednesday!

Round 9 - MONDAY

"Fun With Words"

Please find me:

1) An Oxford English Dictionary-approved word which begins with three vowels, eg, Ouagadougou

2) A Plural word which has no singular form, eg, scissors

3) A word which anagrams to another single word, eg, REPLAYS and PARSLEY

4) An Antigram. An antigram is an anagram which has a meaning opposite to it's unscrambled version, eg, FUNERAL and REAL FUN

5) "Siamese Twins" which use antonyms. In relation to English Language "Siamese Twins" refers to a pair or grouping of words often used together as an idiomatic expression and usually conjoined by the words and or or. Siamese Twins using antonyms would be a pair of words which mean the opposite of each other, joined by and or or forming a well known idiom, eg, Give and Take

Round III - CLOSED... results up soon, hopefully.

Round III - January 3rd, 2006...

The Results!

8 people played this round...

Question I: Name a salt lake...
For 10 points: Lake Eyre, Lake Van, Lake Turkana, Qinghai Lake
For 5 points: Lake Urmia (2), Great Salt Lake (2)
Not Mentioned: Dead Sea, Aral Sea, Caspian Sea, Zuni Salt Lake, etc.

Question II: Name a kind of salt that can be found in the kitchen...
For 10 points: Celery Salt, Cream of Tartar (Potassium Hydrogen Tartrate)
For 5 points: Chicken Salt (2), Sea Salt (4) Doesn't matter what kind or brand of sea salt, its still sea salt!
Not Mentioned: Table Salt, Kosher Salt, Garlic Salt, Sour Salt, Onion Salt, Curing Salt,

Question III: Quote a saying that includes the word "salt"...
For 10 points: Earn his salt, Rubbing salt into the wound, Give neither advice nor salt until you are asked for it, Below the salt, Take it with a grain of salt, Worth his weight in salt
For 5 points: Salt of the Earth (2)

Question IV: The 2002 Winter Olympics were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Name a country that won a medal(s) but failed to win any gold medals...
For 10 points: Japan, Slovenia, Belarus
For 5 points: Sweden (3), Poland (2)
Not mentioned: Bulgaria

Question V: Name an alcoholic beverage where you would salt the rim of the glass...
For 10 points: Absinthe Cleverly, Michelada, Tequila Slammer, Bloody Caesar, Margarita
For 5 points: Salty Dog (3)
Not mentioned: Bloody Mary, Naughty Nymph, Snake Bite, among others

Boy was that salty!

The Results:
Our winner: cinnamOn with 45 points...
The rest:
40 points: Mugaboo, ozzz2002, Howie72
35 points: Auszev, Santana2002, ElfTwinkle
30 points: ren33

Thanks to all for playing.
Congratulations to our sole winner, cinnamOn.
Have a great week!

Round 5 results tomorrow, (Wednesday)

Tuesday 10 January
Q1 – One of the twelve apostles
Q2 – One of the seven deadly sins
Q3 – Any type of vegetable
Q4 – Any musical instrument
Q5 – Any gem stone

I'm not going to get Round 7's results tallied today, so late enries are acceptable for a while yet --



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Hi All Ten entries!
Round 5 results as follows
On this day in History..
1 The first top hat was worn in Britain. Name a hat.
My word don't we know a lot of hats! 10 points to all for:
Cabbage,trilby,fez,bucket,Australian slouch, pillbox,Sherpa,touque,Tam o'shanter, Balmoral.
2 Princess Ida opened at the Savoy Theatre, London. Name a type of cabbage Lots of cabbage too!
ten points Red Rodan,spring,Ruby Bell, Bentley,Wong Bok,Bok choy,Chihli,Derby Day,
five points
rougette(2)
3 The Yorkshire Ripper was arrested. Name a mass murderer.
Lots of these too!
for ten points
David Gray, Marc Lepine,Ivan Milat,Larry Gene Ashbrook, Michael Ryan, David Berkowitz,Bobby Joe Mc Cauley, Osama bin Laden.
for five points
Harold Shipman(2)
4 Yugoslavia was created. Name a major city in Yugoslavia
for ten points
Nis,Podgorica,Kragujevac, Aleksinac,Skopje
for five points
Belgrade(3),Pristina(2)
5 January is taken from the name of the Roman God Janus. Name another male Roman God after whom something was named.
for ten points
Vulcan (volcano), Jupiter (planet)Apollo (spacecraft),Saturn(US cars)
for five points
Pluto (planet and dog) (4),Mars (planet)(2)
So.....
with 45 points
Howie,Ozzz,CinnamOn,Mugaboo,Gemini and Little Woman (well done all!)
with 40 points
Auszev, ElfTwinkle, and Santana
with 35 points
Jane
Thanks to all; well done!!

Round 11 questions

1. One of the four time zones of the continental United States.

2. A cliché which has the word 'time' in it.

3. A movie which involves time travel.

4. A unit, or increment, of time.

5. Something which shows you the time of day.

Round 7 Results
9 players!

1. Famous January 7th birthdays
10 points - Butterfly McQueen(actress), Nora Neale Hurston (poet), Kenny Loggins (singer), William Peter Blatty (author), Eric Gayne (baseball), Nicholas Cage (actor), Louise Imogene Guiney (poet)
5 points - Millard Fillmore (US President)(2)

2. Famous January 7th deaths
10 points - Jean-Etienne Guettard (Fr.naturalist and mineralogist), John Berryman (poet), Henry Arthur Jones (Eng. dramatist), Nikola Tesla (Serbian inventor & scientist), Bronko Nagursky (football and wrestling), Tewfik Paswja (Egyptian viceroy), Catherine of Aragon
5 points - Trevor Howard (actor)(2)

3. January holidays or observances
10 points - National English Toffee Day (8th), Epiphany (6th), Square Dance Day (24th), Australia Day (26th), Winnie the Pooh Day (18th), National Pharmacist Day (12th), New Year's Day (1st)
5 points - Hugging Day (2)

4. January is "________" month.
10 points - Eagle Awareness Month, Birth Defects Prevention Month, Mentoring Month, Coffee Gourmet Month, Soup Month
5 points - Oatmeal Month (2), Hobby Month (2)

5. January 7th events
10 points - British Dart Assn. formed, First American commercial bank opens, Deil Eireann ratifies Anglo-Irish treaty, Mussolini & Laval sign agreements, Tower of Pisa closed to the public, Harlem Globetrotters' first game, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra founded
5 points - Transatlantic telephone service begins (2)

Scores
50 points - Santana2002
45 points - Mugaboo, Ozzz2002, ren33, ElfTwinkle, LeoDaVinci, littlewoman2
40 points - Auszev
30 points - Howie72

Thanks to everyone for playing!

Round 10 closed!

Q1 – One of the twelve apostles
For ten points:
Andrew, Bartholomew, Matthew
For five points:
Philip (5) (No idea why he’s so popular!)
Not mentioned:
Simon (Peter), son of Jona
James, son of Zebedee
John, son of Zebedee
Thomas
James, son of Alphaeus
Jude (Thaddaeus), son of James
Simon, the Zealot
Judas Iscariot, son of Simon Iscariot


Q2 – One of the seven deadly sins
For ten points:
Lust,
For five points:
Gluttony/Greed (3) Anger/Wrath (2), Sloth (2),
Not mentioned:
Pride, , Lechery, Auerice,


Q3 – Any type of vegetable
For ten points:
Asparagus, Leek, Cauliflower, Mustard Greens, Yam, Kumara, sweet potato, Corn (sweetcorn)
For five points:
Ten points to all
Not mentioned:
Potato, Carrot, Turnip and more


Q4 – Any musical instrument
For ten points:
Valve trombone, clarinet, Bagpipes, Dulcimer, Sitar, Mandolin, Piano, Flute
For five points:
Ten points to all!
Not mentioned:
Organ, Xylophone, Cymbals and more


Q5 – Any gem stone
For ten points:
Jade, Lapis Lazuli, Onyx, Citrine,
For five points:
Garnet (2), Peridot (2),
Not mentioned:
Diamond, Emerald, opal and more

Scores - 8 people played

Auszev – 50
Ren - 45
Cinnam0n – 40
Cujimmy – 40
Elf – 40
Mugaboo – 40
Howie - 35
Littlewoman – 35

Well done to Auszev

Q1- George Bernard Shaw referred to UK and USA as "two countries divided by the same language", in reference to the different words both countries used in reference to the same thing. (For example- UK wallet= US billfold). Give me a pair of trans-Atlantic words that mean the same.

Q2- Name a fictitious private detective who was 'created' in a novel, and also the author of the book.

Q3- Name a European currency that was replaced by the Euro.

Q4- What is a method of being dismissed in the game of cricket?

Q5- An irrational number is one that cannot be expressed as a normal fraction. Some even have their own 'name', eg, 'Pi'. Tell me any irrational number (named or unnamed) that is less than 20.

Round 13:

1. Name a film starring Montgomery Clift (no TV movies.)

2. Give me a regular character on The Wonder Years TV series (the character, not the actor).

3. Name a person who is buried in Poets Corner at Westminster Abbey in London.

4. Pick a song from the CD When I Fall in Love by Chris Botti.

5. Give me a word that rhymes with door.

Have fun! This round will close next Tuesday.

Round 14

1. Charles Dodgson (who is was a distant cousin of mine), died on this day in 1898. Give me a book written by Lewis Carroll.

2. The Clarinet was invented on this day in 1690 by Johann Denner. Name any Clarinet Sonata.

3. Give me a country that has an official claim to territory in Antarctica.

4. Name any athlete who broke broke 10 seconds in the 100m sprint in 2005.

6. Robert Parker is a famous wine taster. Give me the name of a vintage (region and year) which he has given a rating of 97 or greater between 1970-2004.


Round will close Wednesday, links available if stuck.

Round 12 closing in a few hours. Any late entries?

Round 12 results

8 players took part.

Q1- Give me a pair of trans-Atlantic words that mean the same.

10 points to everyone- Flyover/overpass, apartment/flat, vacation/holiday, purse/handbag, faucet/tap, cookies/biscuits, bangs/fringe, lorry/truck.

There are probably thousands of others...

Q2- Name a fictitious private detective who was 'created' in a novel, and also the author of the book.

10 points- Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle), Jeri Howard (Janet Dawson), Terri Blake Addison (Linda Hall), Inspector Morse (Colin Dexter), Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L Sayers)

5 points- Kinsey Millhone (Sue Grafton) (3)

Q3- Name a European currency that was replaced by the Euro.

10 points- Portuguese Escudo, Italian Lira, Belgian Franc, German Mark

5 points- Finnish Markka (2), Dutch Gulden (2)

Q4- What is a method of being dismissed in the game of cricket?

10 points- Obstructing the field, Timed out (both very uncommon), caught, run out.

5 points- Hot wicket (2), Leg before wicket (LBW), (2)

Others- Stumped, bowled, handled ball, hit ball twice.

Q5- Tell me any irrational number (named or unnamed) that is less than 20.

10 points- Napiers Constant (2.718...), Pi (3.14159...), Square root of 17, square root of 5, square root of 7.

5 points- Cube root of 5 (3)


Scores

45 points- ElfTwinkle, Mugaboo, Santana, Howie, Wajo

35 points- Cinnam0n, Ren, Littlewoman.

A big 'thumbs up' to all the winners!

Round 11 will be open til midday Tuesday for anyone else who wants to play.