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Here we go again, it's QUIZ TIMEâ₠¬Ã‚¦!!

Rules as always

Rule 1: NO :google: before 1:30pm

Rule 2: Maximum three answers per question

Rule 3: The obvious answer may not be the right oneââ‚Âà ‚¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¦ :D

Here's the questions

1) Who invented the Hovercraft?

2) Why was a soldier in the US called a Minuteman?

3) What was the engine number of the Class A3 Steam Locomotive "The Flying Scotsman"?

4) And what was the name and number of the last production steam locomotive built in the UK?

5) Who ordered around two Doberman Pinscher guard dogs called Zeus and Apollo?

6) What was the flag used by the Pirate "Blackbeard"?

7) According to the Beatles' "A Day In The Life", where were 4,000 holes found?

8) In which Beethoven Symphony does the "Ode to Joy" appear?

9) What is the short form of the Japanese phrase that can be translated as "May you live for 10,000 years"?

10) What is generally accepted to be the world's highest waterfall?

11) What is the distinctive feature of the pistons in a "Boxer" engine?

12) Which character was featured in every episode of The Dukes of Hazzard, but was never actually seen?

13) What is the world's oldest commissioned warship?

14) In Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" whom did Caesar consider dangerous because he "has a lean and hungry look"?

15) Which artificially created language has a name meaning "Hope"?

16) According to Proverbs 16:18, what does Pride go before?

17) After crossing which river did Caesar declare "The die is cast"?
18) Which is the only country in the world that is not required to print its name on its stamps?

19) Which battle is commemorated with the words "Go tell the Spartans, Stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie"?

20) In Chess notation what does the symbol 0-0 mean?

21) On which musical instrument would you find Chanters and Drones?

22) In the Byzantine army, what was a Cataphract?

23) What is the US fighter aircraft the F-14 better known as?

24) Who were Drooper, Fleegle, Bingo and Snork

25) What was Michael Garibaldi's Earth Force rank in Babylon 5?

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6-Jolly Roger
9-Domo?

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15. Esperanto
17. The Rubicon

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9) Gonna guess at 'Sayonara' ?

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15-Esperanto?

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1) Cockerell

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7 Blackburn Lancashire

11 horizontally opposed

21 Bagpipes

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24) The Banana Splits

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16-A fall?

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Hmm, maybe that should be :woot: :woot: :woot: now?! :D

Sorry, that was a booby trap!

You're welcome, but, no.

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13 HMS Victory

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16) A fall?

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Both correct.

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10) Angel Falls?
11) They are horizontal?

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Nope.

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23-Tomcat?

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Just too late.
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23) Tomcat?

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9) Banzai :)

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Thought it might be but nothing ventured...... :D

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All correct!

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6) Skull and crossbones?
10) Angel Falls?
16) A fall
23) Tomcat

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23) Tomcat

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24) banana bunch

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Tra la la, la la la la,
Tra la la, la la la laaa! :D

Correct!
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*WHOOOP* *WHOOOP* *WHOOOP*

Oh dear, you're really not doing well today, Rammy! :D
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Correct.
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10: Correct (in Venezuela)

11: Already gone.
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Correct!
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Jsut missed it.
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Correct! :ninja:
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6 and 16 are wrong (but the booby trap's already been set off :) )

10 and 23 right, but already gone :(

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2) A Minuteman is an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

A US solder is called a GI meaning Government Issue

Have never heard of a US soldier being called a Minuteman (checked with hubby who knows much about this subject)

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Gone already.
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Nope and it's already gone anyway :)
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Trust me, it's not a mistake :)
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Still looking for answers to 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 25!

Come on, people..!

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6) Showed a figure holding a blood dripping sword and something else

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16) fall
dag blasted callers during lunch time

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Closer than the Jolly Roger, but not exact enough and I hope there isn't any :google: going on yet!! ;)
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Nope but it's another booby trap that was already triggered :D

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1. Leonardo Da Vinci

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8) 9th Symphony

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5) Hitler

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20)castles, kings side

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22) I always thouight a Cataphract was something wrong with your eyes :D :p:

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Nope, you're thinking of the Helicopter. (And apologies, 1 had already gone!)

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5. Higgins from Magnum Pi

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12.The narrator but unfortunately I don't know his name...

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18) Great Britain

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Correct

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10) Angel Falls

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18) UK/Britain

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:rofl: Erm, nope! :eek:
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Correct!

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17) rubicon

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Nope, that's a cataract! (which is also a type of waterfall or rapids on a river :) )

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16) Destruction (well, according the church-goer opposite me ;) )

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18) England/Britain

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;) :p:

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Well done :)

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14) cassius

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That wasn't what he was called in the series... :)

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1 Christopher Cockerill

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Correct (sneaky that one ;) )

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8) 9th ?

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Already gone
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Sorry, gone already.
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Also already gone :(

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3) 4472
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what's left ?

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19) Marathon

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25) Boss of the Covert Intelligence.

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Hmm, I think there's a stewards' enquiry on that one!

The "No googling" rule includes asking other people!!

But, yes, it's right.

"Pride goeth before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall" is the actual proverb, but it usually gets truncated, innaccurately to "Price goes before a fall".
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Correct!

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22) cavalry
Remembers watching Time Commanders on Beeb 2

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Sorry, already gone.

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I didn't ask!

I just sort of mumbled 'pride goes before .... hmm, I wonder' and got the answer :disturbd:

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Already gone.

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21) Bagpipes
they do drone on and on

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22) A type of soldier

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Correct!

2, 4, 6, 12, 19, 22 and 25

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What's left to answer ?

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So what hasn't gone?

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Nope.

The Spartans didn't fight at Marathon because they were celebrating a religious festival, however when they turned up at Athens and found that the Athenians had beaten the Persians, they marched to Marathon to see for themselves!
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Ahem: His *Earth Force* rank :)

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19) Thermopylae (spelling ??)

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Correct! Actually *very* heavy cavalry!


(Good programme, isn't it :) )

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2. that was the time in which they were required to be able to load & prime a musket?

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Ah well it's nearly googling time anyway..byeee

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:scratch: :nono: :redcard:
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2 - goes back to the civil war - they had to be ready at 1 minutes notice...

22- - heavy cavalry (too much civ3 ;) )
edit ->>>>> darn beaten too it :(

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19) Thermoplyae

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*Why* were they called...?!
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Correct (and the spelling! :) )
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:Yikes: If they took a minute to get ready to fire they'd have been wiped out!

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13) HMS Victory

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Correct!

Yep and yep! ;)
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Just missed it.
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Gone a long time ago!
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Still need answers for 4, 6, 12 and 25...

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What's left to get ?
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6) Skeleton with hoursglass

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25) Security Cheif

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6 (googled)
(highlight if you want it... - don't want too spoil it too much ;) )
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a devil-horned skeleton holding a hourglass in one hand and a spear/arrow in the other poking at a bleeding heart.

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12) Boss Hogg's wife

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Yep (stabbing a bleeding heart as well :) )

:google: is your friend ;)

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heheh beat you zovat

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Nope, that was not his rank.
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Right, but too late :(
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Nope.

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that leaves #4 and #25, methinks it's google time now

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12.Waylon Jennings?

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Err, well, yes :)
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Not the *character's* name :)

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12 the Balladeer

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25) Chief Warrant Officer

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25 (googled)

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Chief Warrant officer

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edit - darn you metawraith ;)

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Correct!
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Correct!

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nice one Coggie

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Unlucky :)
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Only number 4 to go...

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Please don't throw me a bone.I've been terrible again... :(

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4) Hunslet 0-4-2ST No 3902 (Googled, would never guessed otherwise)

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Interesting, I didn't know that one, however I'm not sure that classifies as a "production" engine.

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Wasn't meant that way.
You were the only player to correctly answer that one.
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Yes, I found that googling on the details, but it's not the answer I was looking for.