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quiz for Tuesday = oddies

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:25 pm
by Penny
1. What is Pyrrhic victory

2' What goaded Parliament into passing the Clean River Act of 1870

3. Prior to Nairobi, what was the capital of Kenya

4. '''There's a divinity that shapes our ends,''' From where does this line come from

5. Who said, ' When the FA get into their stride, they make the Mafia look like kindergarten material

6.Whose catchphrase is ''' shut that door''''

7. Which puzzle was first introduced in 1832

8. Which people first wrote down music


9. What is an abalone?

cheers Penny

Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:29 pm
by dita
9. A shell

Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:31 pm
by dita
6. Larry Grayson

Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:39 pm
by Penny
Well up to scratch today Dita. Correct. Cheers Penny

Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:44 pm
by widget
7, think it was the Crossword Puzzle

Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:55 pm
by Penny
Very similar widget, with pieces. Cheers Penny

Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 6:32 pm
by widget
7, not a jigsaw puzzle??, love them do them all the time,

Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 6:33 pm
by Andere Richtingen
4. Hamlet, act 5 by William Shakespeare

Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 6:37 pm
by Andere Richtingen
1. A victory whose cost is more than it is actually worth. E.g.: if Trump carried out his threat to wipe out N. Korea and succeeded but, in the process, most of the world including the US was rendered uninhabitable by nuclear fallout, that would be a Pyrrhic victory

Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:16 pm
by Penny
You sorted that out widget. Well done. 1 and 5 correct Andere. Good ones. Cheers Penny

Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:24 pm
by Monika
3. Mombassa

Re: quiz for Tuesday = oddies

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:32 pm
by Penny
Well spotted Monica. Correct. Cheers Penny : :ithanku:
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