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quiz for Tuesday

Postby Penny » Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:57 pm

1. What does ' beth' mean as in Bethlehem

2. Which is the oldest of the Pyramids

3. Which country did Prince Sihanouk rule until he was deposed in 1970

4. Who wrote Candy is dandy/but Liquor is quicker (VM would know this.)

5. What did Billy Jean King give Bobby Riggs before their famous tennis match

6. Who made her debut in the 1942 film 'In Which We Serve' when she was eleven weeks old.

7. To what setting does the 'f' stop relate to in photography

8. With what activity do you associate Nat Gonella

9. Which two mints combine to form peppermint

cheers Penny. :grouphug:
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Postby Victors Mate » Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:06 pm

4. Ogden Nash
7 focal length
8 Dance Band leader (Nat Gonella and the Georgians)
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Postby vannin » Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:22 pm

6. Juliet Mills
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Postby Rowan » Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:24 am

1. House
2. Which ones - the Egyptian or the Mexican or of both?
3. Cambodia
8. Playing trumpet
9. Peppermint is a plant it doesn't need another kind of mind to make it.
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Postby caroljoyce » Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:28 am

Well I am SO thick!! :oops:
I didn't know any of them except 6 (I thought) I would have said Hayley Mills... but I guess Viv is right...
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Postby drogo » Tue Nov 30, 2010 1:10 am

Rowan wrote:9. Peppermint is a plant it doesn't need another kind of mind to make it.


That's what I thought so I looked it up. Peppermint is a hybrid, a cross between watermint (never heard of it) and spearmint.
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Postby vannin » Tue Nov 30, 2010 8:20 am

caroljoyce wrote:Well I am SO thick!! :oops:
I didn't know any of them except 6 (I thought) I would have said Hayley Mills... but I guess Viv is right...


I always knew Juliet Mills was born a bit after me and Hayley a few years later! Both sisters, once they grew up, have always looked older than their age.

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Postby Tiddles » Tue Nov 30, 2010 1:27 pm

5. a piglet

7. Aperture setting - the higher the number, the smaller the aperture.
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Postby Penny » Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:06 pm

Well done folks, looks as you enjoyed this one.
1. House
2. The Pyramid of Zoser, at Saggara
3. Cambodiea
4, Ogden Nash
5, A piglet
6, Juliet Mills
7. The aperture setting
8. Music, he was a jazz trumpeter.
9. Spear mint and water mint

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