Shillzz Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Hydrogen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 villa4europe is the winner of today's internet. Good guess Shillz. Hydrogen atoms are more abundant, but Oxygen is more abundant by mass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 23, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted May 23, 2014 Mooney was right, actually. I checked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frobisher Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 My first thought was the amount of water in the body, then I thought "hmmmm but bones are heavy, so calcium. Derp." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 29, 2014 Author VT Supporter Share Posted May 29, 2014 On Pointless this evening, topic: "70s solo acts who had UK number one singles". One guy's team was in a strong position, so he went for a banker that he knew was right - Alice Cooper (for "School's Out"). Wrong! Disallowed on the basis that "Alice Cooper" was the name of the band. 100 points and out. Technically correct, but I bet that guy is well pissed off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 30, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted May 30, 2014 SHould have gone with Central African Republic. That always wins 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Tony Barton was a Pointless answer, on Pointless today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 3, 2014 Author VT Supporter Share Posted June 3, 2014 Still on Pointless... tonight's topic the battle of Waterloo. One team's answers included: Modern-day country in which it took place? ENGLAND. Year in which it took place? 1500. I despair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 5, 2014 Author VT Supporter Share Posted June 5, 2014 ...and they're at it again. Question: artist with a DOUBLE VOWEL (e.g. aa, ee, ii, oo) in their name, who had a hit with 'Nine to Five'. Contestant (very confident): 'Dolly Parton'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frobisher Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 ...and they're at it again. Question: artist with a DOUBLE VOWEL (e.g. aa, ee, ii, oo) in their name, who had a hit with 'Nine to Five'. Contestant (very confident): 'Dolly Parton'. Ha, idiots! We all know the real answer is Doolly Paartoon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 5, 2014 Author VT Supporter Share Posted June 5, 2014 Pretty much what Osman said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 ...and they're at it again. Question: artist with a DOUBLE VOWEL (e.g. aa, ee, ii, oo) in their name, who had a hit with 'Nine to Five'. Contestant (very confident): 'Dolly Parton'. Is that one of those questions where the brain sorta runs away with you , you know DP had a hit with that song and it never occurs to you that Sheena E could have had the same record title and that DP could be wrong I'm guilty of it sometimes on quiz machines, I always read the answers first and then the question , it usually results in me answering questions before anyone else has even finished reading it , I doubt I ever read the question in full , but , it also results in the occasional stupid wrong answer where I haven't considered the rest of the question is a trap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 5, 2014 Author VT Supporter Share Posted June 5, 2014 Well, yes. But both Armstrong and Osman had emphasised the double vowel thing, several times, with examples. And this guy wasn't first up, others had already answered with things like the Bee Gees and the Foo Fighters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted June 6, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted June 6, 2014 (edited) Could be American, as Sheena Easton's track was retitled in the US as "Morning Train"; EMI released it in the US months after the UK, at about the same time as the Dolly Parton track. Edited June 6, 2014 by leviramsey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Last quiz team I was in I persuaded them through sheer force of personality and threat of violence to cross out York and put Swindon as the answer for National Rail Museum. We lost by a point. Haven't heard much from them since. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Last quiz team I was in I persuaded them through sheer force of personality and threat of violence to cross out York and put Swindon as the answer for National Rail Museum. We lost by a point. Haven't heard much from them since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 (edited) Questions from tonight's quiz at the local (apologies if I haven't written down the questions verbatim - I have missed out one which, for the life of me, I can't remember - and, also, if they may have made any errors): 1. What crop does the Colorado beetle attack? 2. Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise were part of a baptistry in which city? (The original question was not precisely thus) 3. In Rastafarian vocabulary, to what does 'I and I' refer? 4. In Euro 2004, who missed the penalties for England in the penalty shootout against Portugal? 5. Which prisoner wrote, in his first letter home, "My spirit and morale, they are high due to the greatness of god? 6. Which playing card is the Devil's four poster bed? 7. Which company brought tea bags to the UK in 1952? 8. Which two major airlines are named after US states? 9. Who won the Eurovision song contest in bare feet? 10. What was the former name for the republic of South Yemen (pre 1967)? 11. What is the largest landlocked country in the world? 12. Who is referred to as the father of modern medicine? 13. Navarin is a stew of what meat? 14. What is the main grain used in the production of Bourbon Whiskey? 15. Worcester Beacon (Malvern Hills) is how high: 425 metres; 535 metres; 465 metres? 16. Alabama rot is a terminal disease affecting which breed of dog? 17. In 'Angels on horseback', the bacon is wrapped around what? 18. What animal has the latin name Ersus arctos horribilis? 19. Millenium Star, Red Cross, Centenary and The Incomparable are all what? 20. Where would you find the islets of Langerhans? 21. Which planet has moons named after Shakesperean characters? 22. Belgrano II, Aboa, McMurdo, Orcadas, Palmer and Halley are all what? 23. Where in the body would you find the Lunula? 24. From which language has English borrowed the words cummerbund, typhoon and bungalow? 25. 26. What was the name given to the group of women campaigning for female voting rights in the early 20th C.? 27. Sharks and stingrays both have the anatomical feature known as 'a clasper'. For what purpose is this used? 28. In what film did the happy chimney sweep sing 'Chim chim cheree'? 29. In the Harry Potter books, what subject does Professor Sprout teach? 30. From which country does the beer Red Stripe come? Edited October 1, 2014 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Potato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 3. In Rastafarian vocabulary, to what does 'I and I' refer? What was the answer given to this question, out of interest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 3. In Rastafarian vocabulary, to what does 'I and I' refer? What was the answer given to this question, out of interest? You and me isn't it ... Something about showing each other as equal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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