Well, the close season is upon us and it gives the Editors of COYSDC great pleasure in announcing the return of Old Pete's Summer Quiz! Have a go at Pete's first set of questions but please don't use search engines to look up answers for posting. It defeats the purpose of the piece, as well as ruining the effort Pete has made. No merit is gained either way as questions are intended for fun. If you only know part of an answer, put it up for the discussion of others - it might lead us to the whole answer! Expanding on an answer, giving full reasoning is positively encouraged - so away we go...
SUMMER QUIZ ROUND ONE
Quotes - who said the following and if you can - on what occasion.
2. They say about “X“ that he’s his own worst enemy - “Y“ replied, “Not while I’m alive he ain’t.“ Who were X and Y?
3. Who is alleged to have said “I would go into hell and make a pact with the Devil in order to defeat …“ Who is supposed to have said this - about what and when?
What links the following
4. A French duke, a colourful Emperor, two Admirals,a rare London beauty
5. Goldilocks , The Daily Express, AA Milne, Peru
6. Aberdeenshire, Berkshire, Norfolk and London
Colours
7. Which political movement is/was associated with the colours Green , White and Violet.
8. Five members of the EU have the colour green in their national flag - which are they.
9. What colour links and how - a priest/ composer - a popular music group - a pre Columbian explorer - Garibaldi
The odd one out - which is it and can you say why ?
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
Daily Express - Rupert Bear
AA Milne - Pooh Bear
Peru - Paddington Bear
At this point I would like to put it on record that the Editors do NOT know the answers until Pete mails them over in a few days - we like to play too!
Thanks for taking the time to do the quiz. Off the top of my head.
1.Admiral Beatty at the battle of Jutland.
5. Bears
7. Suffragettes
8.Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ireland, Portugal. (I also believe the flag of Cyprus has green olive leaves on it.)
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8. I think it's more than five. Ireland, Italy, Hungary, Portugal, Bulgaria. Isn't Lithuania in the EU? Also Cyprus definitely has green leaves on the flag.
9. Now this is a tricky one since there’s only a little to go on. Can’t think of any priest composers. Popular music groups: well I hope it’s not Blue, could be Greenday or perhaps Coldplay with Yellow, the Beatles’ Yellow submarine or disappointingly Simply Red; early Explorers I would go for the Vikings: Leif Erikson and Erik the Red; Garibaldi – this is the most definite clue we have – think he was associated with Red shirts.
So let’s go for RED: Garibaldi’s shirts, The Beautiful South who sang “Old Red Eyes” (as I can’t stand Mick Hucknall), Erik the Red and you’ll have to help me with the composer?
2. Is X Cockerill and Y Mallinder?*
WesternWanderer 9. Now this is a tricky one since there’s only a little to go on. Can’t think of any priest composers. Popular music groups: well I hope it’s not Blue, could be Greenday or perhaps Coldplay with Yellow, the Beatles’ Yellow submarine or disappointingly Simply Red; early Explorers I would go for the Vikings: Leif Erikson and Erik the Red; Garibaldi – this is the most definite clue we have – think he was associated with Red shirts.
So let’s go for RED: Garibaldi’s shirts, The Beautiful South who sang “Old Red Eyes” (as I can’t stand Mick Hucknall), Erik the Red and you’ll have to help me with the composer?
Vivaldi was a priest (which I knew) and red-headed (which I confess I didn't know)
In the interests of keeping Hucknall out of it, I propose Spice Girls as the band and Ginger as the colour.
just to clear up the flags one - tiny bits of green don't count - oh and my Mrs pointed out the green leaves on the mainly white Cypriot flag after I had posted the questions.
I was thinking only in terms of larger obvious areas of green .
Wee Jim Phil,
Yes the late ww2 heavy tank to succeed the sherman was called a pershing. You're right about the missile too
For 12 I'm thinking Santiago as the rest are fictional cities though I'm not sure about maardam and deseret
No 10 is Paton, the only manufacturer of knitting needles on the list
Deseret is something to do with salt lake city, newspaper or something. Cant recall exactly but Ive been there thats how I know. Others are definitely fictional Kings Landing - Game of Thrones, Gotham - Batman, Mahagonny is operatic - from Brecht but dont know whose opera.
Maardam is the fictional location of a series of books by Hakan nesser but the books never state what country Maardam is in - don't know if that is relevant.
Old Pete, a perfect style of quiz for a collective, and enjoyable even when one doesn't even know the answers. Thank you.
And you've gone and spoiled it. "Internet/Webb thingy" - disingenuous old fogeyism when that is exactly where you are posting it. "The challenge is to refrain from doing so" - yes, we know, people were just saying they had looked things up because they didn't know the answer and were curious. They have not spoiled it for other people by revealing the answers or (worse) pretended that they knew the answer. "I don't use it to frame the questions" - what would be wrong with that exactly? It is no different from looking things up in a book. It must be chilly up there on the moral high ground. It's only meant to be a bit of fun.
Sorry Corkst if you took my comment as coming from the moral high ground - but I will admit to being prejudiced and sometimes I let it out. will try harder in future.
Arfer. A few facts for you. I did not "object" to your name, merely pointed out that I found it interesting that the mods tolerated it when taking such a hard line on swearing. I did not object to "OP and his quiz". Read my post further up to see how much I objected. I just found OP's little old buffer rant unnecessary when it was patently obvious how much people were enjoying his quiz. Old Pete, I apologise for my overreaction. Arfer, I suggest you take a bit more time to actually read what people have written. I am now going to take the dog for a walk before it gets too warm (not usually a problem we have here) and head to the beach before it gets too crowded (not usually...etc).
Jim - its an alleged quote / paraphrase of what someone said - well reported at the time and often alluded to ever since whenever some one is regarded as doing something that in view of their previous attitudes seems or could be problematic or even ironic.
and just to save us a lot of bother it has nothing to do with the EU debate.
No.3: Is this reference to Churchill making a pact with Stalin to defeat Germany in World War 2?
Churchill was a long-time opponent of communism, so to have to make even a temporary alliance with the Soviet Union would have been a significant concession to his beliefs.
Corkst - Old Pete goes to quite a bit of trouble and effort to bring us these quizzes. Please don't spoil it for everyone else with your unnecessary comments. If you don't like it, please just pass over it.
EU flags. assuming the you mean a significant portion of green, I get Lithuania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Belarus and Azerbaijan. So I make it 8
scratch Belarus and Azerbaijan. so 6
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