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A one-off quiz

EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,739
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Many, many years ago I used to set/compete in quizzes. I thought I would set a quick quiz by way of a warm-up to @Quickfeet's excellent Sunday quiz.

Please-no looking things up on the web, or (at least) don't do so and post the answers. Here goes:-

1. Which person appeared in just these 3 films (and no other cinema films):-
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Italian Job?

2. Joe Biden is the 46th US President-how many men have preceded him?

3. What do Boris Johnson and Jim Callaghan (the 1970s PM) have in common?

4. Who was the 1958 Hong Kong Cha Cha Cha champion?

5. Who was the first team to beat England at football at Wembley?

6. What is the closest country to mainland Australia?

7. What do these 1960s/70s England cricket captains all have in common? Colin Cowdrey, Ted Dexter, Tony Lewis, Mike Denness and Tony Greig

8. What do these authors have in common:-Emily Bronte, Anna Sewell and Margaret Mitchell?

9. Which famous character has the first name "Scoobert"?

10. Grover Cleveland is famous for doing which two jobs twice?
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  • GlenelgGlenelg Member Posts: 6,599
    4. Bruce lee
    6. Papua New Guinea

    & thats me done......
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  • dragon1964dragon1964 Member Posts: 3,054
    Ok. I'll be the first to look really stupid.

    1. Noel Coward? I think he was in Italian Job.
    2. 44. Someone had non consecutive terms so was given two different numbers.
    Probably Grover Cleveland, having read question 10.
    3. Neither of them is fit for the job in 2021.
    4. Bruce Lee? Complete guess.
    5.Wales? I can hope.
    6. Vanuatu or Solomon Islands?
    7.They were all born abroad?
    8. They only wrote one novel?
    9. Scooby Do?
    10. US President and ?
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,292

    5 HAS to be the great Puskas & his Hungarian Term who gave us, managed by Walter Winterbottom, a proper 6-3 spanking.
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  • dragon1964dragon1964 Member Posts: 3,054
    Tikay10 said:


    5 HAS to be the great Puskas & his Hungarian Term who gave us, managed by Walter Winterbottom, a proper 6-3 spanking.

    Where were you stood? Was it a good view, @Tikay10
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  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 9,033
    2. few good men
    3. both idiots
    4. King Kong
    5. under 5 year old's
    6. taz mania.
    7. their not Boycott.
    8. their all women.
    9. Scoobie Do Do Do.
    10. No 1 & No 2
    11. My Head Hurds



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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,292
    dragon1964 said:

    Tikay10 said:


    5 HAS to be the great Puskas & his Hungarian Term who gave us, managed by Walter Winterbottom, a proper 6-3 spanking.

    Where were you stood? Was it a good view, @Tikay10
    It was 1953, so I could have been there.
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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,739
    edited January 2021
    Glenelg said:

    4. Bruce lee
    6. Papua New Guinea

    & thats me done......

    Well done.
    2/2.
    Bruce Lee combined martial arts and dancing skills to revolutionise martial arts films
    PNG is less than 100 miles from Australia-New Zealand is about 2,500 miles away.
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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,739
    dragon1964 said:

    Ok. I'll be the first to look really stupid.

    1. Noel Coward? I think he was in Italian Job.
    2. 44. Someone had non consecutive terms so was given two different numbers.
    Probably Grover Cleveland, having read question 10.
    3. Neither of them is fit for the job in 2021.
    4. Bruce Lee? Complete guess.
    5.Wales? I can hope.
    6. Vanuatu or Solomon Islands?
    7.They were all born abroad?
    8. They only wrote one novel?
    9. Scooby Do?
    10. US President and ?

    Nice.
    You have 2, 4, 7, 8 and 9 correct.
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  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,910
    1. Benny Hill.
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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,739
    Tikay10 said:


    5 HAS to be the great Puskas & his Hungarian Term who gave us, managed by Walter Winterbottom, a proper 6-3 spanking.

    Sorry-wrong.
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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,739
    1, 3, 5 and 10 left.
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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,739
    edited January 2021
    Correction-3, 5 and 10 :)
    Benny Hill being my all-time favourite quiz answer
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,292
    Essexphil said:

    1, 3, 5 and 10 left.

    NOoooooooooooooooooooo.

    How embarrassing.
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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,739
    edited January 2021
    Clue for number 3:-Colin Cowdrey amd Grover Cleveland would also be correct...
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  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,910
    5. Was it our Scottish neighbours ?
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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,739
    edited January 2021
    lucy4 said:

    5. Was it our Scottish neighbours ?

    It was.

    So-3 & 10.
    3 is a proper quiz answer-the 2nd job answer to 10 is stunning.
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  • dragon1964dragon1964 Member Posts: 3,054
    I'll take getting 5 correct.
    That's an A* in some subjects. ;)

    p.s.
    Good quiz.
    Thank you.
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  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,910
    3. I know that Jim Callaghan held all 4 main jobs in politics but I don't think Boris would've been trusted as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,739
    lucy4 said:

    3. I know that Jim Callaghan held all 4 main jobs in politics but I don't think Boris would've been trusted as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

    Good quiz knowledge, but still trying to recover from imagining Boris in charge of money...
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  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,910
    edited January 2021
    10. Must be something obscure or controversial,did America have Executioners or Hangmen? As I don't even know when Cleveland was President.
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