"Give me a night like this!" What a great quiz last night was. We had eight teams taking part and at the end it was so close between the first three teams followed by a small gap and the other five teams were bunched tightly together. It was a welcome return for the Book Ends who won with 90pts, VCJD were second on 89pts and The Alliance came third a point back on 88. I'm going to make this a brief post as i'm running late today. I had 83 emails to answer earlier which took around 3 hours of my day. plus my PC is playing up, I think 've got a virus somewhere on the system, grrrrrrrr people who create viruses should be strung up by their love spuds. I have a few ideas for questions for next week and I'm going to get them down on paper while they are still lucid in my head. Trackword makes a return for next week's guest round.Thanks to Viv for the email. Anyone else who wishes to contact me are welcome at quizard_97@yahoo.co.uk.
Leprechaun's Pot 'O' Gold
£43 was collected by Carole last night and £21.50 went to Andrea F of The Black Adders with the closest answer. In fact, she was only two off the actual answer with 83 letters so well done. Last night's question was: The longest officially recognised place name in the world is how many letters long? The answer is 85 letters and the place in question is (deep breath)Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
which translates roughly as The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one.
Questions and Answers
Last night's pictures were: 1. Steven Seagal 2. Snooker legend Jimmy White 3. Andrew Whyment who plays Kirk Sutherland in Coronation Street 4. Weakest Link presenter Anne Robinson 5. F1 legend Michael Schumacher 6. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling 7. James Woods (one of my favourite actors) 8. TV chef Anthony Worrall Thompson 9. Ice dancer Jayne Torvill 10. Tim Allen 11. Supermodel Linda Evangelista 12. Vin Diesel 13.Bionic Woman star and former Eastender Michelle Ryan 14.Original Bionic Woman star Lindsay Wagner 15. Alanis Morissette 16. Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard 17. Portsmouth's Ghanaian midfielder Sulley Muntari 18. Anna Friel 19. Batgirl Alicia Silverstone 20. Former child starlett and former US ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Ghana Shirley Temple Black.
Three for Fun (Mondays answers)
Benthos is a name given to the plant and animal life found At the bottom of the sea or a lake.
The name given to the type of shelter made of a corrugated steel sheet, named after the British mining engineer who invented it is Nissen Hut.
The title of the National Anthem of the Republic of Ireland is 'The Soldier's Song or Amhrán na bhFiann.
Todays questions (answers on St Patrick's Day if I'm sober enough)
1. What is the name of the American novelist and short story writer who achieved major fictional success with the publication of Lake Wobegon Days in 1985?
2. King Minos was a legendary king of which Mediterranean island?
3. New Zealand, Samoa, the Cook Islands and Hawaii are part of which group of Pacific islands?
Joke Of The Day:Job Descriptions...
1. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
2. An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
3. A statistician is someone who is good with numbers but lacks the personality to be an accountant.
4. An actuary is someone who brings a fake bomb on a plane, because that decreases the chances that there will be another bomb on the plane.
5. A programmer is someone who solves a problem you didn't know you had in a way you don't understand.
6. A mathematician is like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there.
7. A topologist is a someone who doesn't know the difference between a coffee cup and doughnut.
8. A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000 word document and calls it a "brief."
9. A psychologist is someone who watches everyone else when a beautiful girl enters the room.
10. A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
11. A consultant is someone who takes the watch off your wrist and tells you the time.
12. A committee is a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
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