I forgot to post this yesterday. Did anyone notice? Probably not!
Answers in comments please.
As always, all will be revealed this coming Saturday,
The live 'What Came First?' Quiz starts in roughly one hour (8pm).
Link / Code: https://play.myquiz.org/p/00896560
Free to play.
Lasts 15 minutes.
50 questions - all answers are 50/50.
The waiting screen is now open.
Not five but ten questions this Sunday. There is a Christmas theme - all answers contain a word beginning with the letters '𝗛𝗢'
As it is nearly Christmas (again!) I have some festive themed questions this week - UK Christmas Number 1 Singles. 6 points on offer. Will probably do another Christmas themed set of 5 (or 6) next Sunday too. 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
Katherine (with some help) got all of these correct 🏆
I did say I would post some Christmas questions. Here are 15 questions from a quiz I compiled in 2022. The theme is CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
1. US scientists calculated that who would have to visit 822 homes a second to deliver all of the world’s presents on Christmas Eve, travelling at 650 miles a second.
2. Shakespeare wrote the play ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ as a Christmas present for which English monarch, because she wanted to see Falstaff fall in love.
3. Which Dr. Seuss character does Cindy Lou Who catch red handed stealing Christmas presents from the town of Whoville.
4. Which Dutch artist cut off his left ear on December 23rd 1888 and on Christmas Eve went to a Paris brothel and asked that it be given to a certain lady named Rachel as a Christmas present.
5. 50/50: Who are projected to spend more on Christmas presents in the UK in 2022 – men or women.
(The same answer still applies in 2024)
6. In which European country does a kindly witch named La Bafana deliver children’s Christmas presents.
7. In which 2012 American comedy film was eight-year-old John Bennett given a giant teddy bear as a Christmas present in 1985.
8. Lyrics: Which Christmas pop song includes the lyric: ‘I don’t care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree’.
9. Which Tchaikovsky ballet is about a young girl’s broken Christmas present.
10. Which coming-of-age novel by Louisa May Alcott begins: ‘Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,’ grumbled Jo, lying on the rug’.
11. When asked in 2019 what was the best Christmas present he had ever received, which Tory MP said that when he was 17, his father gave him a glass phial containing some of the anointing oil from Queen Victoria’s coronation.
12. Which former heavyweight world boxing champion splashed out $2.2 million on a 24 carat gold bathtub as a Christmas present for his then wife, Robin Givens in 1988.
13. Released in November 2019,
Another set of five - fairly easy this week.
Not much interest in recent weeks, so if some of you would be kind enough to share this post it may garner more interest
Thanks to those that had a go
