Quiz September 24th '08

[dandysmom]

Hi, ready to roll? Angie can't join us tonight, hope we can get the minimum three players to start......

[calismum]

Hi DM - I'm ready, on 5th load of washing so may have to pop in and out.
Diet coke and a bag of toffee pop corn - start diet tomorrow - again!!!

CM

[pinklizzy]

I'm here............................

[dandysmom]

Hi, CM, PL! One more and we can start .....Where are Steph, Moli, Kazz ...????

[calismum]

need to go and put the next load in and shove towels in tumble dryer.

Be back soon - hope we get a third!

CM

[dandysmom]

Looks as if no one wants to play tonight; if we haven't gotten a third by 8:30, I think we might as well postpone till next week. Agree?

[pinklizzy]

Ok, it seems a shame though. It's really quiet tonight.
I'm a bit distracted with making my display actually! :oops:

[Moli]

Hello all, sorry bloomin' phone again!!!

[dandysmom]

It is a shame, think I've got one or two good sneaky questions, and a few (I hope!) easier ones. This would be a first if we have to postpone.

What will your display be this year? You are so talented ......

[dandysmom]

Hi, Moli! Afraid we were going to have to postpone, so we can start now as soon as CM is back from the laundry!

[calismum]

ok - i'm back. Are we ready to roll?

[Moli]

Hopfully I will get peace to play tonight, everyione phones me at this time!

[dandysmom]

Q 1 What is cinnabar?

[pinklizzy]

Hi Moli!
DM- the display is for Bonfire night, helping pets deal with the fireworks etc. I've made a rocket to hang from the ceiling but I'm thinking of making a little living room-showing all the things you can do to make it easier for the animals?
Not sure yet!

[calismum]

Is it the stuff that makes the red chinese laquer?

[Moli]

Mercury??...............

[pinklizzy]

A spice?.................

[dandysmom]

Any second guesses?

[calismum]

Hi Moli!
DM- the display is for Bonfire night, helping pets deal with the fireworks etc. I've made a rocket to hang from the ceiling but I'm thinking of making a little living room-showing all the things you can do to make it easier for the animals?
Not sure yet!

I always have tv and radio on in every room, curtains and blinds closed. But it now starts so early - you can't do that for weeks.

My first dog needed to be sedated.

[Phoenix]

A gemstone I think ...

[calismum]

Hi RCR . . . . .

[dandysmom]

Cinnabar is the ore that mercury is from. Points for M oli.

Q2 Chantenay, French Round and Nantes are varieties of which vegetable?

[Phoenix]

Hi RCR . . . . .

Hello! Can't stay on long, but for the first two or three questions I can!

If anyone wants to steal my answers feel free! I won't get to finish

My computer's started complaining about the antivirus again! Frustrating!

[calismum]

carrot? . . . . . .

[Moli]

Guess...............onions??

[pinklizzy]

Carrots......................

[Phoenix]

Cinnabar is the ore that mercury is from. Points for M oli.

Q2 Chantenay, French Round and Nantes are varieties of which vegetable?

It's also a gemstone! I'm sure of it (unless I'm thinking of another cinna-something)

I'm going to guess for this one, cherries! (probably wrong so don't copy this answer)

[dandysmom]

Crrots is was!

Q3 The Savannah cat originated in a cross between the domestic cat and what?

[Phoenix]

Either a serval or a leopard I think (I think that's how it's spelt! I saw it in a magazine a while ago)

[Moli]

Some kind of wild cat??

[pinklizzy]

A Serval?..............

[dandysmom]

What wild cat, Moli?

[calismum]

an african wild cat?

PS - Chantenay sliced and cooked in butter with lemon juice and sage is delightful. Try it if you get the chance.

[Moli]

African......just pinched that from Calismum....:oops:

[calismum]

no probs - don't know if that's right tho'!!!!!!!

[dandysmom]

The Serval is right!

Q 4 What is this bird?

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[Moli]

looks like a turkey............

[Phoenix]

I was going to say a parrot but I don't think that's it ...

A peacock? (I don't know if that's right, I can't see the picture very well tonight)

[dandysmom]

Keep guessing...none of the above.....

[pinklizzy]

A Cassowary?

[calismum]

no idea of its name - sure I seen a programme about it. Is it the one that kicks out and can severely kill or injure humans?

CM

[Moli]

A vulture?

[dandysmom]

Anyone want 2 and l points?

[dandysmom]

It i8s indeed !! Mont dangerous bird on earth!

[Phoenix]

I'm going to copy Moli and say a vulture.

[calismum]

A Cassowary?

I'll copy this as the other names I recognise and don't think are the name I heard

[dandysmom]

Sorry, it's a cassowary! Weird looking bird, isn't it?

Q 5 What common household item did Shakespeare leave his wife in his will?

[calismum]

It i8s indeed !! Mont dangerous bird on earth!

really? looks quite cute too, just goes to show you never know.

Beware big birds with blue heads!

CM

[calismum]

spoon? . . . . . .

[Phoenix]

Sorry, it's a cassowary! Weird looking bird, isn't it?

Q 5 What common household item did Shakespeare leave his wife in his will?

A chair or settee or something like that! I think!

[pinklizzy]

A chair?..............

[dandysmom]

Close, RCR! Thought sure this would be an easy one...I always found it very funny....

[calismum]

has to be a bed then???

[Phoenix]

A bed? (Don't know where that came from! :lol: )

A table?

[Moli]

Bed..............

[pinklizzy]

Oooh! A bed!

[dandysmom]

A point is up for grabs .....

[Phoenix]

I've got to go now, if anyone wants any points I won they can have them!!! :lol:

I'll be catching up with this thread tomorrow.

[dandysmom]

Sorry, it was grabbed as I was posting. His second best bed!!!!!!

Score halfway:

CM - 8
PL - 7
Moli - 4
RCR - 5



Q 6 Uriah Heep is a character in which Dickens novel?

[calismum]

christmas carol?

[pinklizzy]

David Copperfield

[Phoenix]

Who wants my points? (If I'm allowed to give them away!)

[Moli]

David Copperfield....

[calismum]

Sorry, it was grabbed as I was posting. His second best bed!!!!!!

Score halfway:

CM - 8
PL - 7
Moli - 4
RCR - 5



Q 6 Uriah Heep is a character in which Dickens novel?

2nd best bed?? really - what a cheek or was it a compliment. Never heard this before but it's now tucked away in that part of the brain where you store all that useless information.:lol:

[calismum]

ok - I'll change to David Copperfield

[pinklizzy]

RCR, I think you should keep your points, you won them!

[dandysmom]

I PM'd RCR, she keeps her points. David Copperfield it was!

Q 7 What river flows under the Ponte Veccio?

[pinklizzy]

An Italian one!

[calismum]

Tiber? . . . . .

[Moli]

Arno??...............

[dandysmom]

An Italian one!

:smt005 It has a name ..

[calismum]

Hey PL - thats what I thought and I only know the tiber and the po!!!

[pinklizzy]

I'm going to copy Moli!(Sorry Moli!) The Arno.

[Moli]

I'm going to copy Moli!Sorry Moli! The Arno.
Thats ok PL, not sure if its right though...:?

[pinklizzy]

I don't have any idea! :oops:

[calismum]

never heard of the Arno :-/

So it must be right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dandysmom]

It was the Arno...that pops up all the time in crosswords here!

Q 8 What is finnochio?

[calismum]

a type of pasta?

[Moli]

Sounds like an exotic fruit..............

[calismum]

Sounds like an exotic fruit..............

sounds like pinnochios sister:p

[pinklizzy]

I think it's fennel?

[dandysmom]

Neither ...... hint: a vegetable

[dandysmom]

sounds like pinnochios sister:p


:smt005 again!

[calismum]

fennel then?

Just going to check the laundry - be back in 5

[Moli]

I will go with Fennel....thanks PL....!

[dandysmom]

I'll take a loo break and get a glass of wine while we're waiting for CM ......

Yes, another name for fennel.

[calismum]

I'm back . . . . .
can't believe the backlog created by having no w machine for 3 weeks. Even tho' I took some stuff to laundry. I'm on load 5 now. Tumble dryer on OT as, of course, it rained today.

CM

[dandysmom]

Penultimate question: What's the capital of Pakistan?

[pinklizzy]

Islamabad...........

[calismum]

Lahore?????

[pinklizzy]

Where'd everybody go?

[calismum]

dunno . . . . . . .

[dandysmom]

Sorry, guys my modem picked this of all times to unexpectedly hang up, so I had to reboot...

[calismum]

Hi - welcome back - thought I was so bad you'd given up on us? lol

[pinklizzy]

As soon as I posted that, my internet froze too.

[dandysmom]

It only seems to happen to me during the quiz!

[Moli]

Islamabad...........

[pinklizzy]

Me too, I think because I'm always refreshing the page :oops:

[calismum]

oh ok Islamabad then. - I was always rubbish at capital cities

[dandysmom]

Me too, I think because I'm always refreshing the page :oops:

I suspect that's what it is...

Anyhow, Islamabad's the answer.

And now (drum roll) the final question!!

What bird has the longest migration route? (I didn't know this!)