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| | Subject: Dumb Britain Fri Oct 09, 2020 4:40 pm | |
| Right, I've held off for long enough now...
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Q: What is the only title from the British peerage system that begins with a vowel?
Contestant 1: Empire?
Contestant 2: Admiral? Captain?
Q: Which US president was incumbent in the White House on January 1st, 2000?
A: George Washington?
Q: Which Northern UK shipping area shares its name with a type of Nordic invader?
A: Christopher Columbus?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Thu Oct 22, 2020 3:40 pm | |
| Tenable
Q: Name the 10 charities with the most shops in the UK.
Guess 1: Dogs Trust?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Mon Oct 26, 2020 4:36 pm | |
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Q: The Volga, Europe's longest river drains into which inland body of water?
A: The River Nile?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Mon Oct 26, 2020 5:23 pm | |
| How Volga 
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Mon Oct 26, 2020 5:54 pm | |
| I know, it's inseine.
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Sun Nov 08, 2020 5:40 pm | |
| The Chase
Q: The prince in the ballet Swan Lake and the War Poet Sassoon both share what first name?
A: Vidal?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Sun Nov 08, 2020 5:55 pm | |
| That would've been my guess.  _________________  |
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Sun Nov 08, 2020 5:56 pm | |
| They named shampoo bottles after him. Why would they do that if he wasn't a famous war poet?  _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Sun Nov 08, 2020 6:03 pm | |
| I should'f added that the guy wasn't dumb and I accept that it's not unreasonable to not know the answer to either part of the question. It's just that the answer was  .
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Tue Nov 10, 2020 4:13 pm | |
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Q: The words "brook", "brown" and "rainbow" can go before the name of which freshwater fish?
A: Dolphin?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Tue Nov 10, 2020 4:47 pm | |
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Tue Nov 10, 2020 5:23 pm | |
| There are kinds of freshwater dolphins.
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Tue Nov 10, 2020 5:26 pm | |
| Just imagine rainbow dolphins  And brook dolphins. Little tiny dolphins jumping in and out of a brook.
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Wed Nov 11, 2020 4:33 pm | |
| Tipping Point
Q: Knotty pine is what type of naturally occurring building material?
A: Brick?
Q: Which soft bodied marine mollusc has a name meaning 8-footed?
A: Mammal?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Sun Nov 15, 2020 4:43 pm | |
| The Chase
Q: Internationally, what is the most commonly used word for a unit of food nutrition?
A: Potato?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:14 pm | |
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Q: Which actor stars as James Bond in the film Quantum Of Solace?
A: Craig David.
Q: In the popular rhyme, Monday's Child is said to "fair of" what?
A: Egypt?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Fri Jan 08, 2021 4:42 pm | |
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Q: What geometric shape is painted on the centre of a football pitch?
A: Square?
Q: Created in Japan in the 1950s what is the name of the giant monster who's featured in a series of films and is famously associated with attacking Tokyo?
A: Hiroshima?
Q: Derived from an old French word meaning to set aside or withhold, what is the word for an artificial basin used to collect and store a large body of water?
A: The Seine?
Q: Launched in 1986 by the European Space Agency, the Giotto probe was created to analyse the core of which comet?
A: Jupiter?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Tue Jan 12, 2021 4:36 pm | |
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Q: Which British artist painted the 1838 work "The Fighting Temeraire"?
Contestant 1: Picasso?
Contestant 2: Banksy?
Q: In yards, what is the width, from post-to-post, of a goal on a football pitch?
Contestant 1: 3.5 metres?
Contestant 2: 22 yards?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Tue Jan 12, 2021 6:05 pm | |
| By a strange coincidence, I accidentally tuned in to the signed version of Tipping Point at about 5.35am today, when I typed 3 on the remote instead of 235.
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Thu Jan 14, 2021 5:02 pm | |
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Q: Hiccups are caused by involuntary spasms of which muscle?
A: The neck?
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