After the unforseen break, the trvia starts again tomrrow - Monday 12th

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Mondays - Gatsby and Wdwfla
Tuesdays - Me and Trident
Wednesdays - Kuu and Polaris
Thursdays - Ren and MaggieG
Fridays - Howie and LittleWoman
Saturdays - Mugaboo and CinnamOm

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Every day...hopefully..there will be a set of questions set by the host of the day. You PRIVATE MESSAGE the host of the day with your answers - the more unusual the better - and each round usually stays up at least 48 hours
Have fun!

Ooops , sorry Jane, I posted in the wrong place. May I go back to Thursdays again (my course is finished ) if this is OK with you and MaggieG? Howie seems ok to do Fridays with Little Woman, so you only have to do Tuesdays. Let me know what you think , all. Thanks.

Round 12 or is it Round 1?

I'm going with a theme set of questions this round. The questions all have something to do with the number 5. Why? Just because I like 5.

1. Jupiter is the 5th planet. It has 63 known natural satellites. You only have to name one.
2. Name a song from The 5th Dimension's Age of Aquarius Album.
3. James Monroe was the fifth US president. Name a member of his Cabinet.
4. Help! was the Beatles fifth album. Give me a song from the album.
5. Name a cast member from the movie The Fifth Element.

Round will close on Friday. Links provided if needed.

Tuesday 13th June
1)A boy’s name beginning with F
2)A girls name beginning with F
3)A profession beginning with F
4)A FICTIONAL character with the SURNAME beginning with F
5.Any animal beginning with F

Good luck all!

Thursday June 15th
Hi all, I am glad to be back , and thanks so much to the lovely Howie who stepped in and did Thursdays for so long. I am glad to see he is now part of the fixtures and fittings in his own right. So here goes:
We have had so much rain here lately that it is getting me down, so hopefully a quiz about it will send the wet stuff packing.
RAIN
1. Name a movie starring Claude Rains.
2. A book or play title with RAIN in it.
3. A line from the song "Singing in the Rain"
4. A word from the letters in RAINBOWS
5. A place with over 170 inches of rainfall a year
Good luck all!

Round 14 questions


1. An actor or actress who played a character with the last name of Prescott in You Can Count on Me (2000).

2. The last name of a UB40 bandmember (past or present).

3. Someone famous with the last name of Douglas.

4. The last name of a cast member from the 2006 tour of Smucker's Stars On Ice.

5. A character on the TV series Knots Landing who had the last name of Fairgate (at any time).

Round 16

1. On June 16, 1903, Ford Motor Company was incorporated. Name a car, truck, van, or SUV currently manufactured by Ford.

2. On June 16, 1938, Joyce Carol Oates was born. Name a novel that she wrote using her own name and not a pen name.

3. On June 16, Abraham Lincoln gave his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois. Name one of Lincoln’s four sons.

4. Name a movie that is set in Ireland for a significant portion of the film.

5. Give me a word of four letters or more from the word PRANKSTER.

Enjoy! Just send a PM if you have questions. This round will close in the middle of next week.

Round 13 is closed...results in a moment

1)A boy’s name beginning with F
For Ten Points:
Frode, Furman, Fergal, Fritzson, Flint, Farley, Felix, Florent, Farrell,
For Five Points:
Ten points to all
Not mentioned:
Frank, Frederick, and more


2)A girls name beginning with F
For Ten Points:
Fredrikke, Filomena, Fionnuala, Frida, Francesca, Fantasia, Fiona, Fabiana, Fantine,
For Five Points:
Ten points to all
Not Mentioned:
Freda, Florence and more


(3) A profession beginning with F
For Ten Points:
Flight engineer, Foster Parent, Financial Analysist, Farrier, Freelance
Photographer, Factory Inspector, Furrier,
For Five Points:
Forest Ranger (2)
Not mentioned:
Fireman, Funeral Director and more


(4) A FICTIONAL character with the SURNAME beginning with F
For Ten Points:
Ellen Fraser - from the outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, Sam Fowler - "Another World" daytime soap opera, Soames FORSYTE in the Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy, Mister Fantastic (a marvel comic superhero/the leader of Fantastic four), Phineas Fogg (Eighty Days around the World), Millicent Collins Forbes - fr. that spooky old soap opera Dark Shadows, Pudding Fong - a fictional character in the anime and manga series, Tokyo Mew Mew. Steve Fox (From Tekken arcade games), Paige Fox (from the comic strip, Foxtrot,
For Five Points:
Ten Points to all
Not mentioned:
Rex Fortescue (A Pocketful of Rye, Agatha Christie), Fred Flintstone and more


(5) Any animal beginning with F
For Ten points:
Fox, Flatback Turtle, Fieldmouse, Finch, Fox Terrier, Fer-de-lance (poisonous snake), Firefly, Fallow deer, Flamingo,
For Five Points:
Ten Points to all
Not mentioned:
Fox Hound, Flea and more.


Nine Players
SCORES:
Cinnam0n – 50
Frøya - 50
Gatsby – 50
Glamel – 50
Howie – 50
Mugaboo – 50
Ren – 50
LeoDaVinci – 45
Wipa – 45
Well done to : Cinnam0n, Frøya, Gatsby, Glamel, Howie, Mugaboo and Ren!

Round 12 will close in an hour. Results will be posted later tonight.

1. Jupiter is the 5th planet. It has 63 known natural satellites. You only have to name one.
10 PointsAnanke, Metis, Kallichore, Thoyne, Pasiphae, S/2003 J9
5 PointsCallirrhoe, Taygete, Lysithea

2. Name a song from The 5th Dimension's Age of Aquarius Album.
10 PointsWedding Bell Blues, Workin' on a Groovy Thing, Sunshine of your love, Blowing Away, Skinny Man, Let The Sunshine In
5 PointsThose Were The Days, The Winds Of Heaven, The Hideaway

3. James Monroe was the fifth US president. Name a member of his Cabinet.
10 PointsSmith Thompson, Return Megis, John McLean
5 PointsJohn Quincy Adams, William Wirt, John C. Calhoun, William H. Crawford

4. Help! was the Beatles fifth album. Give me a song from the album.
10 PointsYou Like Me Too Much, Act Naturally, I've Just Seen A Face, Tell Me What You See
5 PointsYou're Gonna Lose That Girl, The Night Before, You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

5. Name a cast member from the movie The Fifth Element.
10 PointsLuke Perry, Mathieu Kassovitz, Al Matthews, Ian Holm, Christopher Fairbanks, Roy Garcia
5 PointsJohn Bluthal, Lee Evans

12 Players
Ren33 - 40
Gatsby - 40
LittleWoman2 - 40
Wipa - 40
Maggie G - 40
LeoDaVinci - 40
Cinnam0n - 35
Bracklaman - 30
Mugaboo - 30
Glamel - 30
Howie72 - 30
Froya - 25

Excellent Round Everyone!
Congratulations to
Ren33, Gatsby, LittleWoman2, Wipa, MaggieG and LeoDaVinci

June 17 / Round 17
Just an average round this time (Will close Thursday).

1. Name a city/town that the "Average White Band" will visit on tour between now and the end of the year.
2. Statistics: Give me a type of mean.
3. Choose a quiz with an Average rating about European Medieval History on this site.
4. The York-Antwerp Rules are a set of rules governing general average for marine insurance. Give me a title of one of these rules.
5. Give me a word of three letters or more from the word AVERAGE.

17 - #2...can you elaborate? I don't understand what you are looking for. Thanks!

Round 14 will be open another couple of days.

Round 19 Monday

Yes, yes...I'm a day early but I was sitting here and an extra day up might get me a few more players, too :

Today's theme is guilty pleasures ~ and not all my own, I'll hasten to add!

1. Once again the MTV Movie awards recently aired. While the most unimportant awards issued for cinema they're fun and they nominated 6 people for "Best Breakout Performance" this year. Name one of them, please.
2. Even though I never watch it (wrong gender, I think) "The View" is a laid-back American talk show that airs weekday mornings. I'm looking for a regular hostess on that show past or present (not future ).
3. Here's one of my guilty pleasures! 60's music! I'm wondering who was an original member of either "The Four Tops" or "The Shirelles".
4. Here's another pleasure and no guilt about it. I venerate artist Georgia O'Keeffe. If only I were in Santa Fe, New Mexico I could eat at the late painter's namesake restaurant "The O'Keeffe Cafe". The menu lists 6 available desserts. Pick one of them.
5. We all know what the 7 Deadly Sins are by now (if not, a quick search will remind you). This time I'm looking for a novel (past or present) whose title contains one of those sins and I'll need the author too, please. Note: liberties with names is fine, as in 'wrath' is quite the same thing as 'anger' and so forth.

This Round will close up sometime Thursday and, as always, help is readily available if needed [except on #5, that is; no one particular site that I know of will assemble those novels in that way]. Enjoy!

Edited for horse-like spelling

Thursday June 15th
will close this one Thursday OK??

Round 20

A day late, sorry!

1. A human tooth (the different types of incisors, premolars, and molars are separate answers).

2. A type of fabric pattern. (I realize this is pretty unspecific. I will accept most anything.)

3. One of the top two finalists in any season of American Idol.

4. A character on the SNES (Super Nintendo) game "Street Fighter 2".

5. A nation involved in the Central American Free Trade Agreement. (Excluding the Dominican Republic as it was added later and became the DR-CAFTA)

If you need help, I am here. The video game question shouldn't be too obscure, but I can help if you need it.

Hi all, there were 9 superb entries for this. Thanks for the nice welcomes too! I may say , it is still raining here!
RAIN
1. Name a movie starring Claude Rains
For ten points
This Earth is Mine,The Sea Hawk, Angel on My Shoulder, The White Tower, They Made me a Criminal, Sons of Liberty, Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Last Outpost and Now Voyager.(Phew!)
2. A book or play title with RAIN in it.
For Ten Points
Keys to the Rain, Soldier in the Rain, Right as Rain, The Lonely Silver rain, Rainfall, Rain Dogs, Mushroom in the Rain
and for 5 points
Rainstorm (Eisler) (2)
3. A line from the song "Singing in the Rain"
For 10 points
Everyone from the Place,I walk down the lane,I've a smile on my face,
For 5 points
Why is each new task a trifle to do?(2), Let the stormy clouds chase (2) Come on with the rain (2)
4. A word from the letters in RAINBOWS
For 10 points
SWAB,BARONS,SONAR,ROWS,BARB,SNOW,ROSIN,BROWS,ISOBAR
5. A place with over 170 inches of rainfall a year

For 10 points
Milford Sound NZ;Baguio,PI;Bahia Felix,Chile;S.Belize;Mawslynram,Meghalaya State,India;Southern NZ;Orosi,Costa Rica; Moulmein,Burma;Jaffna, Sri Lanka
SO....
THE WINNERS
With 50 points,
Glamel and Leo Da Vinci
With 45
Howie,Gatsby,Mugaboo,Froya,Wipa,CinnamOn,
With 40
Vogon
Brilliant play all, well done the champs!

Answers Round 17 - 8 played

1. Name a city/town that the "Average White Band" will visit on tour between now and the end of the year.
For 10 points: Traverse City, MI; New Brunswick, NJ; Englewood, NJ;Wilmington, DE; Philadelphia, PA; Seattle, WA
For 5 points: San Juan Capistrano, CA [2]
Not mentioned: 15 other venues in USA and 3 in Japan.

2. Statistics: Give me a type of mean.
For 10 points: Truncated mean; Interquartile mean; Stolarsky mean
For 5 points: Harmonic mean [2] Geometric mean [3]
Not mentioned include: Arithmetic mean; Cesàro mean; Logarithmic mean; Weighted mean

3. Choose a quiz with an Average rating about European Medieval History on this site.
For 10 points: Medieval Europe by weezette; War of the Roses by nicklocher; Mighty Monarchs XII (Sicily) by hund; Key Terms of Medieval Times by katiebeargirl; Medieval Basics by Manor_Maiden; Medieval Words and Terms by carol1944; Days of Chivalry by Warzycha; The Code of Chivalry by dudealicious;
For 5 points: (None)
Please Note: Some of the quizes above are listed with different ratings depending on which page you're looking at.

4. The York-Antwerp Rules are a set of rules governing general average for marine insurance. Give me a title of one of these rules.
For 10 points: Rule F; Rule I - Jettison of Cargo; Rule VII - Damage to Machinery and Boilers; Rule IX - Cargo, Ship's Materials and Stores used for Fuel; Rule XIX - Undeclared or Wrongfully Declared Cargo
For 5 points: Rule XVI - Amount to be made good for Cargo Lost or Damaged by Sacrifice [3]
Not mentioned: Read about them here

5. Give me a word of three letters or more from the word AVERAGE.
For 10 points: Aver, Gare, Grave, Rag, Ravage, Rave, Veer, Verge
For 5 points: (None)


Scores:
50 points: Glamel
45 points: Cinnam0n, Frøya, Gatsby722, Ren33, Vogon
40 point: MaggieG
35 points: Howie72

Great work by Glamel to score a perfect 50

Whoops! It's Thursday already ~ I guess that means that Round 19 will be closing up in a few hours. Room for more players if anyone wants to jump in. There are a couple names I've not heard from yet...

Round 19

1. Once again the MTV Movie awards recently aired. While the most unimportant awards issued for cinema they're fun and they nominated 6 people for "Best Breakout Performance" this year. Name one of them, please.

For 10 points:
Romany Malco The 40-Year Old Virgin, Nelly The Longest Yard.
For 5 points:
Isla Fisher Wedding Crashers (4), Jennifer Carpenter The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2).

The other two were Andre "3000" Benjamin & Taraji P. Henson.

2. Even though I never watch it (wrong gender, I think) "The View" is a laid-back American talk show that airs weekday mornings. I'm looking for a regular hostess on that show past or present (not future).

For 10 points:
Star Jones
For 5 points:
Elisabeth Hasselbeck (3), Joy Behar (2), Lisa Ling (2).

Rounding out the list were Barbara Walters, Meredith Vieira and Debbie Matenopoulos.

3. Here's one of my guilty pleasures! 60's music! I'm wondering who was an original member of either "The Four Tops" or "The Shirelles".

For 10 points:
Addie "Micki" Harris, Beverly Lee (both from The Shirelles), Renaldo "Obie" Benson (The Four Tops).
For 5 points:
Levi Stubbs (The Four Tops) (3), Doris Coley (The Shirelles) (2).

The other 'Tops' were Abdul "Duke" Fakir & Lawrence Payton; the remaining 'Shirelles' member was Shirley Owens.

4. Here's another pleasure and no guilt about it. I venerate artist Georgia O'Keeffe. If only I were in Santa Fe, New Mexico I could eat at the late painter's namesake restaurant "The O'Keeffe Cafe". The menu lists 6 available desserts. Pick one of them.

For 10 points:
Classic Crème Brulee
For 5 points:
Chocolate Decadence w/ F.X. Espresso Toffee Ice Cream (3), Strawberry Cheesecake w/ White Chocolate Sauce & Strawberry Coulis (2), Boylan's Root Beer Float w/ Espresso Toffee Ice Cream (2).

Good grief, that stuff sounds good ! The one not chosen was a Seasonal Fruit Tart concoction.

5. We all know what the 7 Deadly Sins are by now (if not, a quick search will remind you). This time I'm looking for a novel (past or present) whose title contains one of those sins and I'll need the author too, please. Note: liberties with names is fine, as in 'wrath' is quite the same thing as 'anger' and so forth.

For 10 points:
"Sloth" by Mark Goldblatt/ Contemporary Fiction - and I have to add that that book looks like a real fun one; the excerpt had me rolling!, "The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove" by Christopher Moore/ Mystery - on that one I about choked on my coffee on the title alone; major giggles, ren !, "Lust in Uniform" by Alli Nicole/ Romance, "Lust Quest" by Ray Gordon/ Contemporary Fiction, "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck/ Classic, "Pride of Carthage" by Anthony Durham/ Historical Fiction.
For 5 points:
"Envy" by Sandra Brown/ Contemporary Fiction (2).

The Results!
And a very very close match indeed:

cinnamon....40 points!
glamel, Mugaboo & ren33....35 points!
Frøya, Howie72, vogon & Wipa....30 points!

Well done to all and a big tip of the hat to our cinnamOn who gets a point for the monthly board.
Thanks for playing and great answers, everyone!

This topic seems rather apt given the circumstances I find myself in lately.

1) Name a film or book in which loss of memory is an important element of the plot.

2) A song title which mentions either Memory or Memories.

3) Memento Mori was written by Muriel Spark. Name one of her other novels.

4)Ophelia in Hamlet speaks of 'Rosemary for remembrance'. Name another herb.

5)'You must remember this' is a line from the song 'As Time Goes By' in Casablanca. Name another line from the song.


This round will close sometime on Monday - if I remember...

I will put up Round 21 soon. Sorry about the lateness but the family and I has been to the Mainland for the school holidays. Back home now but I have to think up a couple of questions still.

Round 23/June 23

I do believe it is my turn to come up with some spectacular questions........but these will have to do instead.

1) The Turks and Caicos Islands are located southeast of Miami. Only 8 of the 40 islands are inhabited so please give me the name of one of these 8 islands.
2) The 2010 World Rowing Championships are to be held at Lake Karapiro in New Zealand. Please give me the name of a venue that held the World Rowing Championships in the 1990s.
3) New Zealand's soccer/football team have played 8 times so far this year. Please give me the name of a country they have played in 2006.
4) Please give me the name of a country that borders Chad.
5) Alex Cross is a character created by the author James Patterson. Please give me the name of a published novel that Alex Cross has appeared in.

If any assistance is required, you know where to find me.