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Here's another one folks! See how long this one lasts!

1. When did China adopt the Gregorian calendar?
Tinkerbelle - 1949

2. What date is Sravana?
Ernie 23rd July

3. How many pencils would the carbon make in your body make on average?
Tinkerbelle - 900 approx

4. What was the world’s smallest aircraft – by the way it crash landed in 1988?
Tinkerbelle Bumble Bee Two

5. How many zero’s does a novemdecillion have?
Tinkerbelle 114

6. How many prime numbers are there under 1000
Rishton Blue 168

7. What is the heaviest element known?
Tinkerbelle Osmium

8. And how much would a football weigh if it was made out of that element?
Tinkerbelle - 126kg

9. Which common garden vegetable plant contains the poison solanine?
Gayle Potato

10. What does an anemometer measure?
KSH Wind Speed

11. Where is The Gherkin?
London Garinda


12. Why was Samuel James Seymour – who died on 13 April 1956 – famous?
KSH The last surviving witness to Abraham Lincoln's assasination

13. What year was the last public hanging in the UK?
Tinkerbelle 1868
14. Who was it that was hung?
Tinkerbelle Micheal Barrett

15. Who made their first comic strip appearance on 8 November 1920?
Rishton Blue - Rupert Bear

16. What colour of skin did the Incredible Hulk have in April 1962?
John Timmins - Grey

17. What is the oldest British weekly paper called?
Tinkerbelle - The Lancet

18. What are a birds feathers made out of ?
Neil Keratin

19. Which anniversary is your Platinum?
Steeljack 70th

20. What does the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution say that a President can do?
Neil Only serve 2 terms

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11/London.
17/ The Observer.

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You are right with Number 11 - it is in London

You are wrong with Number 17

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13. 1868
14. Micheal Barrat

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19...10th.......

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15..popeye The Sailor Man

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Wrong Granny Claret for both of them Sorry!!

Tinks you are right for both of them - them A level Law books come in handy! lol

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Hmm thought it would be a long time since I got those out again :rolleyes: do you want to know any other ones that were hanged while I'm here ..... like Francis Kidder being the last female and Dereck Bentleys miscarriage of justice !! lol

No 4. Bumble Bee II

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Yes you are right tinks

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19/ 70 yrs

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9 - Deadly Nightshade

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20 - I have 2 possible answers for this one.

Is it a) the President can pleasure inturns with cigars ;)

or b) the President can only hold office for 2 terms

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18 - the same stuff hair and nails are made of, Keratin

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9. Potato


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Opps I missed the little word vegetable when I read the question :o

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9..rhubarb

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19...20th...

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Sorry I was so long getting back! Anyway congrats to Gayle, Steeljack and Neil who got 2 right the rest are all wrong.

Good Luck

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Going to Tesco back in a few hours! See how many answers there is when I come back!

By the way i know they are a bit hard - but last time I did a quiz it was done in half an hour - wanted to see how long this one will last!

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Sravana is the fifth month of the Hindu calender, running from the 23rd of July to the 23rd of August on the Gregorian Calender.

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Thought that might be the last to go! Well done Ernie

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I think ive made em too hard!

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10 - wind............

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12 - witnessed assassination of A Lincoln?

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10. An Anemometer measures wind speed.

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Both of the answers are right. KSH got there before you tho Ernie

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So erm, are we allowed to use the net or are we supposed to only answer if we know them ourselves?

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7 Administratium

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You sure - my Mrs thinks its my wallet :)

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lol KSH

According to what i've been told thats wrong hatter

Sorry but I wasnt well yesterday and even though i was on line i wasnt with it! Yes i know what you are going to say but yesterday i was ill so please forgive me

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Probably totally wrong but here goes it

15, Desperate Dan

16, Green when he was unhappy, normal normally!

17, News of the World

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1/ 1948 (when Mao took control )

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is that the green stuff sometimes just below the potato skin , once blamed for the low intelligence of the Irish who cooked potatos without peeling them ?

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need to qualify previous message ............I am not saying the Irish have low intelligence, just that at one time the enzyme in the green stuff was thought to cause defects in the brain of an unborn baby (foetus to the femminists and PC)

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17....the herald

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6.....168............

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15...............grey

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15........rupert the bear

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5............fourteen

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7 = managerium

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5 = 60 ( I think)

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16. What colour of skin did the Incredible Hulk have in April 1962?

Grey but colour was changed to green later because of the problem that its diificult to keep getting exactly the same colour grey...or something like that anyway

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Sorry i'd forgotten about this just remembered today! Anyway here goes:
Junetta - Sorry all wrong
Steeljack - 1948 - sorry wrong
Rishton Blue - 15 & 17 - wrong, 6 & 15 right
John - grey is right
Todbear - all wrong

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I'll give you till Wednesday at 10pm to finish it off and if there is still some left that havent been answered i'll put the answers in.

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No.7 googled and come up with Governmentium
No. 5 - 60? Googled again

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Sorry KSH both wrong - this is according to a book I have

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Google ...... No 1. 1st October 1949?

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Yes you are right tinks

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Google again No 5. ..... 114??

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Yes you are right again tinks!

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No. 17 - The Observer

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:D Oh I'm just to damned clever ............................. erm on Google :o

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Sorry Gayle you are wrong

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Googled again ......... N0 7. Uranium??

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Only 4 more to go

How many pencils would the carbon make in your body on average?
What is the heaviest element known?
And how much would a football weigh if it was made of that element?
What is the oldest British weekly paper called?

When do you want the clues?

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Sorry Tinks you are wrong

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Oldest Newspaper The Times - The thunderer?

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London Gazette?

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No Tinks you are wrong

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No sorry KSH you are wrong

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Try again - Worcester Journal?

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Started off as the Worcester post-man

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I'm going to go for Sunday Chronicle?

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It could be the Belfast news letter if your counting Ireland in

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sod it - lets list them all we're sure to get it right then, anyone got a full list from the 1700's onwards :)

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Yep :D http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit18th.html

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Ok you want a clue so then next time I go to a meet i wont get clobbered!

The clue is it was first published in 1800 and something and its a speciality weekly paper that is quoted quite often in newspapers and magazines. There is not a week without it being quoted in a paper somewhere in the world.

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PMSL That list doesn't include 'THE SUNDAY SPORT':D :D

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Whats the Sunday Sport?

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Cant be the oldest then as the Worcester one was produced from 1709

edit - Plus for some unknown reason I was working on the oldest SURVIVING paper, don't know where I got that from

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Its a sunday paper no news in it at all apart from sport,a few funny made up stories and ladies with not many clothes on:)

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I would have thought Tinks wouldnt let you buy that kind of paper - unless it had male pics in! lol

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another clue - Thomas Wakeley was the founder of it - big big clue he was a coroner in west london!

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Sunday Times or Guardian??????

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No mt - biggest clue ive given you his job

By the way what about the others that havent been answered yet?

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Bloomin heck Jen these are hard!! :o Weekly Dispatch??

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Medical journal ?????

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yes it is a medical journal mt

Tinks told you they were hard didnt i?

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Right long shot and its a guess not a google so don't laugh!! :o No 7. Water - H2o ??

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Wrong tinks

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I'll have a guess same question no.7 Mercury??????:)

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Grrr ....... Gold then ???

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Nope both of you are wrong! Clue begins with O ends with m

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osmium????????????

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Osmium ?????

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YYYYYYYYYeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssssssssssss!

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You quicker typer than me LOL:)

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No 3. Approx 900 pencils??

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Fastest fingers in the North West ;) :D

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Rephrase that tinks!!!

Yes you are right - you can get 900 pencils out of mt!

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LOL Fastest Googler:D

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Nah quickest to the dictionary ;)

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Is it just the one question left Jen? How much would a football weigh if it was made out of osmium?

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LOL yeah true

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There are two left
How much would a football weigh made out of osmium
and
The oldest weekly paper - u've got all the details of it just want the name!

This is the longest quiz i've done on here normally theyve all been answered in a couple of days at the most!

By the way do you want me to sort another one out?

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The Lancet ???

Why not but let's get these gits answered first lol! Give us a clue on the football weight one

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Yes eventually you got it right!!!

A clue more than 100kg

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127 kg ???? .............

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Wrong tinks





Close but wrong

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122.......................