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dubdobdeewelcome once again to the LJ wing of a quiz** sat by by some lucky schoolkids*** somewhere and etc blah blah: 18 themed sets of 10 questions each -- new one each day!!
*= latin for: "real actual knowledge is knowin how to google**** stuff"
**as published every year in the guardian just before xmas
***all the boys of king williams school on the isle of man sit it sight unseen then take the paper home during holidays and look stuff up to increase their score and retake it
****the guy who sets it says he checks nothing is INSTANTLY googleable. Buck all received trends it is gettin HARDER, declare early reports. SEE WHAT YOU THINK!!
wiki-illiam q1: In the year 1910
i: who was the victim of al-Wardani?
ii: who began with Helen's letters to her sister?
iii: what activity, where, was banned as a potential cause of delays?
iv: which vessels were involved in a collision in la Manche costing 27 lives?
v: who ordered a large quantity of a muscarine antagonist from a shop at 2 Bucknall Street?
vi: whose death in the stationmaster's house led to the station taking his name some years later?
vii: who, having ruled which principality for 50 years, declared himself King?
viii: whose memorial was placed behind the National Portrait Gallery?
ix: which two unaccountable freaks went out together?
x: what was set alight on the Parisian stage?
the rules as evolved so far:
a: nice full answers (and anecdotes!) if poss
b: plz to say if googled or no, and always leave reasonable time for non-googlers to get their guesses in
c: obviously you can look ahead at future questions if you want (ie elsewhere on internet)
d: plz to not bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running
AND APOLOGIES FOR LJ'S STUPID AD REGIME IF IT IS SPOILIN YR PARTICIPATORY ENJOYMENT!
*= latin for: "real actual knowledge is knowin how to google**** stuff"
**as published every year in the guardian just before xmas
***all the boys of king williams school on the isle of man sit it sight unseen then take the paper home during holidays and look stuff up to increase their score and retake it
****the guy who sets it says he checks nothing is INSTANTLY googleable. Buck all received trends it is gettin HARDER, declare early reports. SEE WHAT YOU THINK!!
wiki-illiam q1: In the year 1910
i: who was the victim of al-Wardani?
ii: who began with Helen's letters to her sister?
iii: what activity, where, was banned as a potential cause of delays?
iv: which vessels were involved in a collision in la Manche costing 27 lives?
v: who ordered a large quantity of a muscarine antagonist from a shop at 2 Bucknall Street?
vi: whose death in the stationmaster's house led to the station taking his name some years later?
vii: who, having ruled which principality for 50 years, declared himself King?
viii: whose memorial was placed behind the National Portrait Gallery?
ix: which two unaccountable freaks went out together?
x: what was set alight on the Parisian stage?
the rules as evolved so far:
a: nice full answers (and anecdotes!) if poss
b: plz to say if googled or no, and always leave reasonable time for non-googlers to get their guesses in
c: obviously you can look ahead at future questions if you want (ie elsewhere on internet)
d: plz to not bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running
AND APOLOGIES FOR LJ'S STUPID AD REGIME IF IT IS SPOILIN YR PARTICIPATORY ENJOYMENT!
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