Hi all,
Following on from a suggestion on my thread on the ` Introduce yourself` threads, here are some questions to get your teeth into. Please feel free to answer and add your own questions, challenges and conundrums. Lets have some fun 
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1) Which game show have Leslie Crowther, Bruce Forsyth, Bob Warman & Joe Pasquale all hosted in the UK?
A) Celebrity Squares
B) Generation Game
C) The Price is Right
2) The characters Peg, Am & Jock appeared in which Disney film?
A) Bambi
B) Robin Hood
C) The Lady and the Tramp
3) In a standard novel, what is the most commonly used punctuation mark?
A) Full stop
B) Question Mark
C) Comma
4) Which country does the Siamese cat originate from?
A) Thailand
B) Burma
C) Singapore
5) In scrabble, what is the value of the letter ` C`
A) 1
B) 7
C) 3
6) On Christmas Eve 2009, which Hollywood couple announced their split?
A) Jennifer Anniston & Brad Pitt
B) Susan Sarandon & Tim Robbins
C) Demi Moore & Bruce Willis
GOOD LUCK !
Manc-Lass
Ha ha, I'll not be terribly good at this:
1) C 2) no idea 3) A? 4) A 5) C 6) C
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I'm not brilliant at quizes either - as my weak efforts while watching Eggheads prove...
1 - C
2 - C
3 - C
4 - A
5 - C
6 - C
I see a pattern emerging which makes me certain they're all wrong!
Wow thanks to you all for having a go - thought i might return to an empty thread. Good efforts!
FYI the correct answers are:-
1 C, 2C, 3C, 4A, 5C & 6B 
Thanks again !!
Now have a look at these brainteasers!
1) There is a barrel with no lid and some wine in it. "This barrel of wine is more than half full," said Curly. "No it's not," says Mo. "It's less than half full."
Without any measuring implements and without removing any wine from the barrel, how can they easily determine who is correct?
2) On a fine sunny day a ship was in the harbor. All of a sudden the ship began to sink. There was no storm and nothing wrong with the ship yet it sank right in front of the spectators eyes.
What caused the ship to sink?
3) You are standing in front of a room with one lightbulb inside of it. You cannot see if it is on or off. Outside the room there are 3 switches in the off positions. You may turn the switches any way you want to. You stop turning the switches, enter the room and know which switch controls the lightbulb. How?
Good luck !!
Answer to question 2 - is it because the tide went out?
1 - widest part of the barrell would be half way
2 - I agree with lrh tide went out
3 - none of the switches outside worked. The one inside the room did... maybe, perhaps.... Or the door was open. 
Oh gosh, now these are harder!
1 - I had no idea, but now I am going to copy sparkling, cos that makes sense!!
2 - I thought about the tide going out, but was then thinking that the sun went down and for some reason that would make it disappear - it went into the shade??
3 - you turn a switch and enter the room, then leave again and turn another switch, repeat until you know the answer!!
Ah... I like the answer to 3...
OOOH my brain hurts..... erm could you see a little line of light round the door frame in number three?
Spill the beans, Mancs-Lass?
Wow, you are all soooo gooood. If i`m honest i wouldn`t have a clue what the answers are, never been that good at quizzes
well......to put you out of your misery the answers are:-
1) Answer
Tilt the barrel until the wine barely touches the lip of the barrel. If the bottom of the barrel is visible then it is less than half full. If the barrel bottom is still completely coverd by the wine, then it is more than half full.
2) Answer
The "Submarine" Captain ordered the crew to dive.
3)Answer
You turn 2 switches "on" and leave 1 switch "off" and wait about a minute. Then enter the room, but just before you enter, turn one switch from "on" to "off". Once in the room, feel the lightbulb - if it is warm, but off, it has to be the last switch you turned off. If it is on, it has to be the switch left on. If it is cold and is off, it has to be the switch you left in the off position.
ok that last one was really hard. I`ll stick to simpler one`s like..............
1) It's Prttey fnuny how we can raed tihs einrte snetnece wtih all tehse ltters all out of palce, and we can cnotniue to keep raednig and sitll mekas snece of waht we are raeding. No mttar how mnay tmies you raed tihs oevr and oevr you can sitll mkae snece of it.
How is taht pssoible?
2) How do you make seven even?
3) What kind of cheese is made backwards?
Have fun and please feel free to add your own quiz questions,
Good luck
how to make seven even is to take the s away
cheese made backwards is edam
Hahaha! Well done lrh.
Hi, u r too clever ladies.
Yes to make seven even you take away the `s` & EDAM is MADE backwards. The answer to Q1 is:-
As long as the first and last letter of the word is in its correct position, you can position the middle letters in any order and still make sence of it. Our eyes just glance at the first and last letters of a word.
Try these next:-
Q1 What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over?
Q2 Take six letters out of the list of letters and you are left with a name of a fruit.Read the Question Carefully
BSIAXNLAETNTEARS
Q3 You are the bus driver and 3 people come into the bus and sit down. After the first stop 1 person leaves the bus while 10 more people come on aboard. Two stops later 5 people leaves the bus. And then on the next stop 50 more people come in and sit down. After 8 stops 3 more come in while 1 leaves. How many people are there on the bus?
Have Fun xx
Q1 Wholesome
Q2 Banana
Q3 Are you sure the question isn't 'how old is the bus driver?'
Yes I was a bit surprised at the question at the end of number three!!
I do love quiz questions thanks Mancs-lass.
Here's a little puzzle: If you were fixing numbers onto a series of house gates and the houses were 1-100, how many times would you use the figure 9.?
Louise, that is not a straight forward question. Does every house have a gate? It's own gate? Can I use upside down sixes instead? Actually, yes, I'll do that, then I don't need any nines at all and my answer is really easy!
Can you tell I am a bit tired? 
AHH wasn't meant to be a trick question, yes every house has a gate so each needs to be numbered.....and no upside down sixes!
Hi Ladies,
Hope u are all enjoying this wonderful sunshine, i am
Great question Louise, i`ll go with 20 times.
Again you are all too clever, yes the answers to 1 & 2 are ` wholesome & banana`. The answer to 3 is :-
The answer is 60 and you probably guessed 59 because you didn't count yourself - THE BUS DRIVER! So all together there 60 people on the bus!
Now try these:-
1 Which one of these revolving weather systems is the smallest: hurricane, typhoon, tropical cyclone, tornado?
2 The heaviest recorded hailstones weighed (approximately) 25gms, 100gms, 500gms or 1kg?
3 Towards which direction (North, East, South or West) is a rainbow normally seen in the afternoon?
Good luck
A xxxx
1 - hmmm, was counting letters...
2 - 1kg
3 - east (unless its noon...)
Hi have been off for a while - I love the barrel answer! I didn't think of tipping it, but oh so logical :)
I have absolutely no idea about the above answers - ahh well I'll give it a go - is there a prize 
1 - tornado
2 - 25gms
3 - east (cos sparkling says so!! although I guess that sun goes down in the west so it would reflect in the east????)
Here goes
1. Tornado
2. 1kg
3. West
Hi Guys,
Apologies for delay, finally found the time to get back on here
Well done with your answers, i wish we were all really on a pub quiz team cause i reckon we would be stiff competition. The answers were.....
1) tornado 2) 1kg & 3) east !
now try these!
1) How many eighths are in one-and-three-quarters?
2) Insuperable means impossible to: Understand; Believe; Explain; or Overcome?
3) What royal house immediately followed the reign of England's King Richard III: Tudor; York; Hanover; or Windsor?
now how are u at `ditloids` or to explain where an initial or number represent a word eg
7 B f 7 B = Seven brides for seven brothers !
1) T 7 W O T W
2) N 10 D S
3) 50 W T L Y L
4) 3 T A L
5) T 10 C
Good luck ladies 
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1: 14
2: Understand??
3: No idea - Windsor?
Ditloids - new word to me and I have no idea - completely guessing due to the numbers in the question!
1 - something to do with 7 days of the Week?
2 - actually I cant' do anymore - absolutely no idea - very interested to find out though!
1. 14
2. Overcome
3. My guess is Tudor
4. The seven wonders of the world
Number 10 Downing Street
50 ways to leave your lover
????
The ten commandments
Cor, well done Hopeful
Wow, again u r too good! i`m gonna have to try a little harder me thinks
Hopeful u r correct on all answers. The one u r missing is ` 3 times a lady`
Anna, i didn`t know what ditloids were either till i did some research
Now who popularised these famous catch phrases ?
1) Show me the money!
2) You're going to like this - not a lot.. (but you'll like it..)
3) To infinity, and beyond..
4) And now for something completely different...
5) Correctomundo!
6) Lovely Jubbly! (or Luvvly Jubbly!)
7) "In fifteen minutes, everybody will be famous."
what do you reckon to this puzzle ?
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Equipment: Four matchsticks (or four cocktail sticks or four pens/pencils) and a coin. Make the shape of a shovel, containing a coin. Now make the same shovel, no longer containing the coin, by moving only two sticks. This is not a trick question, although there is a lateral-thinking aspect to the solution. |
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Ooh I am not very good at those shape things!
The quotes:
2. Paul Daniels
3. Buzz Lightyear
4. Monty Pythion
5. Eddie in that fab series Early Doors
6. Del Boy Trotter
Don't know numbers one and seven 
Ooh we still have not got the answer to the shovel one!
So here are some more ditloids for you all:
1. 3 C I A F
2. 7 D S
3. 1 S B
4. I T 2 T T
5. T M 7
6. 10 D I A D
7. 4 H O T A
8. 4 Q I A W
9. 12 M I T Y
10. H B S 16
Heh heh heh heh (rubs hands and puts the kettle on)
Blimey Louise, are there enough there! No.9 - 12 Months in the Year
I know the shovel question - we had to do it on a PGL camp!!
As for the other questions Manc-lass, I recognised the catchphrases, but couldn't tell you the answers, other than Buzz Lightyear (of course) and Delboy (although when we were in Tunisia years ago, that was all our waiter would say with a big cheezy grin!)
Oooh, No 1 is it Eddie Murphy or someone like that?
Hi Gals
Well time flies so they say,
Great answers, well done!
1) Cuba Gooding Jnr in ` Jerry Maguire`
2) Paul Daniels
3) Buzz Lightyear
4) Monty Python
5) Fonzie in ` Happy Days`
6) Del Boy
7) Andy warhol
Shovel puzzle :-
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Answer: slide the middle stick a half-stick-length right (or left), then move the top now unconnected stick to the opposite downward corner to make the new shovel. The puzzle is difficult because most people naturally imagine moving sticks to entirely different positions, and rarely consider shifting a stick only half of its length. |
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I said i was rubbish at Ditloids so only managed these.........
1 3 coins in a fountain 2 7 deadly sins 8 4 quarters in a whole 9 12 months in the year 10 Happy Birthday sweet 16
try these Questions :-
1 What do these Shakespeare plays have in common?... Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet, Macbeth. 2 Where was Britain's first escalator installed? 3 What 15-letter word contains the letter 'E' five times and no other vowels? 4 What do the words ALMOST and BIOPSY have in common? 5 What is the only word in the English language that ends in 'mt'?
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Oh Mancs lass I do not know ANY of those! Will be racking my brains now.....
Hmm...
1. they are all very bloody and gory? None of them are a comedy? Everybody dies? None of them are in England?
2. ??? No idea
3. defencelessness (this word is almost like our German words, just stick a bit more on the end.... Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitaensversicherungspoliceunternehmensdirektor You can extend this if you like)
4. all the letters are in alphabetical order
5. don't know if its the only one: dreamt? I could be a bit imaginative with my spelling and make up some more? unkemt? vehememt? fermemt? ;-p
Wow Hopeful you are on form and that long German word thing had me in stitches trying to say it. Fab. The answer to 1) is they all have a Ghost in them & 2) is Harrods !
Try these :-
1. Which one of these is on the coast: Cairo, Johannesburg, Tripoli, Sarajevo, Nairobi, Khartoum?
2. Which one of these is not on the coast: Venice, San Diego, Reykjavik, Marrakesh, Helsinki, Lisbon?
3. Paul McGann, Peter Davidson and William Hartnell have each played the same famous sci-fi role. What's the character's name?
4. 'Dieu Et Mon Droit' appears on which English daily `Newspaper` header?
5. Months of the year that begin on a Sunday (other than February in non-leap-years) always have five Sundays. What other notable feature do they (including all Februarys) contain?
Ah, language is my thing, don't know about the rest....
let's see:
1. Sarajevo ?
2. Reykjavik?
3. Dr Who!
4. Daily Mail?
5. Friday 13th?
If I don't get any right, I shall cry! :)
Hi, i`m back. So sorry for making you wait so long i`ve had no internet connection thanks to the good people at ` Sky`. Back now though
Answers ;-
1) Tripoli 2) Marrakesh 3) Dr Who 4) The Times 5) Friday 13th - See you don`t have to cry `Hopeful`, well done:)
Instead of some quiz questions I thought i would do ` things you didn`t know about chocolate` mmmmmmmmmm.
1) The biggest chocolate built or constructed.">structure ever made was a 4,484 under half a kilo.">pound, 10 foot tall Easter egg, made in Melbourne Australia.
2) The average chocolate bar in the U.S. contains at least 8 pieces of insects. Cacao beans are harvested in the tropical countries of South America and piled in the farmer's field where they lie for six days. During this time, insects and rodents make their nests in the piles. of disgust.">Yuck!
3) Chocolate can have a of causing death">fatal effect on dogs. It can cause serious damage to the central nervous system of a dog and, in some serious cases, it can result in death.
4) Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which took 7 days to shoot.
5) Chocolate is the favourite flavour in the United States of America. Americans consume wholly, just about">virtually 50% of the world's chocolate.
Still fancy some chocolate ????
Ooh-er MancsLass, I think I will stick to a banana with my cuppa
You are not allowed to do research on the internet either!!
OK, here goes
1) C 2) C 3) C 4) B 5) C 6) A