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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Thu Jan 28, 2021 5:08 pm | |
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Q: In the Book of Matthew, which Biblical character performs the Dance of the Seven Veils?
A: Jesus?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Fri Jan 29, 2021 6:31 pm | |
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Q: In the British peerage system what is the male equivalent of a Dame?
A: Duchess?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Thu Feb 11, 2021 4:48 pm | |
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Q: In 1935 Sir Allen Lane founded a publishing company named after which type of flightless bird?
A: Ladybird?
Q: In Japanese cuisine, soba is a kind of what long, thin foodstuff?
A: Sushi?
Q: Which letter precedes the word “Day” in reference to a major and decisive Allied WWII beach landing in 1944?
A: Doomsday
Q: Which physicist presented the 2019 BBC television series The Planets?
A: Stephen Hawkins?
Q: Which Scottish inventor and electrical engineer demonstrated the first television transmission in 1926 on a machine he named the Televisor?
A: I was thinking of, er… “telly”, so, Graham Bell?
Q: Which American artist born in 1912 was known for his ‘drip’ style paintings which he usually numbered rather than named?
A: Robert Kennedy?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Fri Feb 12, 2021 5:00 pm | |
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Q: Which English queen was the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon?
A: Victoria II?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Mon Feb 15, 2021 4:51 pm | |
| Q: Introduced by the Danish chemist Søren Sørensen in 1909 what is the name of the scale that measures the acidity or alkalinity of a substance?
A: Millilitres?
Q: Which species of large flightless bird has the scientific name struthio camelus?
A: A stoke?
Q: Whilst Washington D.C. was being constructed which major port city served as the temporary capital city of the USA?
A: Er… Atlanta? Denver? Oregon? No… I’m going to say Denver.
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Tue Feb 16, 2021 4:50 pm | |
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Q: Which Shakespearian character says the lines “O Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou Romeo”?
A: Romeo?
Q: The Suffolk Punch is a domesticated breed of what type of equine animal?
A: Tiger?
Q: The term Lox is used as an alternative name for the liquid form of which element?
A: Iron?
Q: Which title character of an 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas is said to be the imprisoned twin brother of Louis XIV?
A: Henry V?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:55 pm | |
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Q: Which endangered animal has a sort of opposable thumb allowing it to grip food?
a) Giant panda?
b) Black rhino?
c) Snow leopard?
Contestant: "well, considering it logically, I'd have say black rhino"
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Thu Mar 25, 2021 4:13 pm | |
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Q: Meles meles is the Latin name for which black and white striped nocturnal mammal?
A: A whale?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Wed Mar 31, 2021 6:16 pm | |
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Q: Complete the title of this song by Neneh Cherry: "Buffalo..."
A: Mozzarella?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Wed Mar 31, 2021 6:54 pm | |
| Someone else (Andy Murray's mum) said "wings".
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Fri Apr 16, 2021 4:31 pm | |
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Q: Which small round vegetable gives its name to bright shade of green?
A: Potato?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Wed May 05, 2021 4:32 pm | |
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Q: When describing an outdoor space where vendors sell second-hand merchandise, the name of which insect comes before the word "market"?
A: Grasshopper?
Q: A Spaniard is a native of which European country?
A: Pass.
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Sun May 16, 2021 6:42 pm | |
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After round 1:
Toyah Willcox - £0
Sharron Davies - £0
Reverend Richard Coles - £2600
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Sun May 16, 2021 7:40 pm | |
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Final score:
Toyah Willcox - £400
Sharron Davies - £1800
Reverend Richard Coles - £20,000
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Fri May 21, 2021 5:39 pm | |
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Category: countries of the world with land borders of over 1000 miles...
A: Africa?
A: The UK?
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Thu Jun 24, 2021 5:02 pm | |
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Same contestant both times BTW.
Q: The translation of the name "Beelzebub" is also the title of which novel by William Golding?
Contestant - "Well, I know that "Beelzebub" means "the devil", but the only William Golding novel I know is "Lord of the Flies", so I'll just have to say "The Devil".
Q: Which of these James Cameron films won 11 Academy Awards?
1) True Lies?
2) The Terminator?
3) Titanic?
Contestant - "Well, I've seen Titanic and I know it won a lot of awards, so... OK, yes, I'm going to say "True Lies".
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| | Subject: Re: Dumb Britain Tue Jul 06, 2021 4:26 pm | |
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Q: The sport polocrosse is a combination of polo and which other team sport?
A: Noughts and crosses?
Q: The letters "XO" on a bottle of cognac stand for "extra" what?
A: Olcohol?
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