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From Helen - Cheese or Ikea?

23/7/2020

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Can you identify whether the following are cheeses or Ikea products?
If Ikea can you identify the product?
Have you spent too much time at those cheese fairs?
Or wandering the endless pathways in your (not so) local Ikea?
So many questions ... !
So here they are: cheese or Ikea?
  1. Gullunge
  2. Bergkäse
  3. Smaka
  4. Bygel
  5. Mongstad
  6. Sardo
  7. Klappor Haj
  8. Bitto
  9. Lighvan
  10. Caravane
  11. Västerbotten
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From Sharon - More Cryptic Music

22/7/2020

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From Sharon - Word Ladder

10/7/2020

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Can you find the missing 4 letter words in this word ladder?  *** clues are board games.
CLUE
  1. *** The Game of _____ ***
  2.  Plural of louse
  3.  Starch found in Chinese dishes
  4.  To get up
  5.  *** World domination game: ____ ***
  6.  Floor for ice skating
  7.  Color made from red and white
  8.  Evergreen tree
  9.  Portion of a window
  10.  Top of the head
  11.  *** Mystery _____ ***
  12.  Challenge
  13.  Small, hand-held missile
  14.  Section; portion
  15.  Lively; sprightly
  16.  Marshy, organic material used for fuel
  17.  Animal udder
  18.  Opposite of this
  19.  ***___ Shall I Be? ***
  20.  British pop duo
  21.  Fraud; hoax
  22.  Shut a door loudly
  23.  Slender; slight
  24.  Woman's undergarment
  25.  Cut; trim
  26.  Strike the hands together
  27.  Nonsense (slang)
  28.  *** Mouse _____ ***
  29.  Flat serving dish
  30.  Battle; skirmish
  31.  Strip off the skin
  32.  Defect; imperfection
  33.  Moved through the air
  34.  Run away from
  35.  Chimney passage
  36.  *** [American] Crime-solving game: ____ ***
  37.  Heavy stick
  38.  Sniffle, sob
  39.  Smear or smudge
  40.  Pronounce indistinctly
  41.  Acidic taste
  42.  *** Connect _____ ***
 
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From Sharon - Lost in translation

10/7/2020

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Can you name the animals in these book titles?
 1.     Yacqui Delgado wants to kick your equs africanus.
 2.     bubalis bubalis Trail.
 3.     The felis domestacus in the Hat.
 4.     The Enormous crocodylus palustris.
 5.     The Curious Incident of the canus lupus familiarus in the Night-Time.
 6.     Fantastic Mr vulpes vulpes.
 7.     War equs caballerus.
 8.     The panthera leo, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
 9.     To Kill a mimus.
10.    If you give a mus musculus a Cookie.
11.    The bubo service.
12.    The Velveteen oryctolagus cuniculus.
13.    The Secret of corvus covax Point.
14.    The White panther tigris.
15.    canis lupus Hall.
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From Sharon - Famous sidekicks.

10/7/2020

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Can you name the famous sidekick of each of the following?
1. Batman
2. Secret Squirrel
3. Dangermouse
4. Sherlock Holmes
5. Inspector Morse
6. Arthur Daley
7. Captain Hook
8. Xena, Warrior Princess
9. Fox Mulder
10. Beavis
11. Seeley Booth
12. Frodo Baggins
13. Postman Pat
14. Rocky J Squirrel
15. Don Quixote
16. C Montgomery Burns
17. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
18. Ford Prefect
19. Dr Frankenstein
20. Asterix
21. The Green Hornet
22. Radioactive Man (from The Simpsons)
23. The Lone Ranger
24. Tintin
25. Buffy the vampire slayer
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From Sharon - Topical quiz

10/7/2020

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Can you identify the title of the book by the face mask?
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From Sharon - Quizzing

3/7/2020

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For these pairs of words find a third word that is connected or associated with both of these two words.
For example, the first pair is PIANO and LOCK. The answer is KEY.
  1. SHIP — CARD
  2. TREE — CAR
  3. SCHOOL — EYE
  4. PILLOW — COURT
  5. RIVER — MONEY
  6. BED — PAPER
  7. ARMY — WATER
  8. TENNIS — NOISE
  9. EGYPTIAN — MOTHER
  10. SMOKER — PLUMBER
Puzzling questions
  1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
  2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
  3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
  4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
  5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn’t been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
  6. Only three words in Standard English begin with the letters “dw” and they are all common words. Name two of them.
  7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
  8. Name the one vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
  9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter “S.”
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From Sharon - Language quiz

27/6/2020

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  1. A maritime term and the direct opposite of 'Tantrums'. One word.
  2. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. What does 'pied' mean?
  3. What would 'Selenites' call home?
  4. Which misused word means '10% destroyed'?
  5. Which word meaning 'adroit' stems from the Latin word for 'right hand'?
  6. Oromo, Igbo, Min Nan and Teluga are all examples of what?
  7. Which Greek word for "grey" is also the name of a crippling childhood disease?
  8. The meteorological term 'Southern Oscillation' is better known as what?
  9. In classical architecture, what are the two Greek architectural orders that end with the letter 'c'? One point for each correct answer.
  10. A modern problem, Nomophobia is the fear of what?
  11. Which often used colloquialism for a certain political party stems from a 15th century Irish word for villainous robber?
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From Sharon - Alternate As

27/6/2020

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Alan writes: "each answer has at least two 'A's separated by a letter - as in my name Alan."
  1. The name of which Italian entertainment venue translates into English as "the staircase"?
  2. Located on the West coast of S.America and stretching for over 600 miles, what is the driest place on earth?
  3. Which well known and often used mystical word is said to come from the Aramaic phrase "I create as I speak"?
  4. On June 8th 1982, Which British ship was damaged beyond repair by Argentinian aircraft at Bluff Cove in the Falklands War?
  5. Which word is derived from the Sanskrit for "great" or "high king"?
  6. Which US President was born on Hawaii?
  7. Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th and current holder of which religious title?
  8. Which modern word is derived from the Persian for a group of merchants or pilgrims travelling together?
  9. Which popular snack/appetiser takes its name from the local word for "lids"?
  10. According to legend, which amphibian is able to withstand any heat and put out fires?
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From Sharon - Adverts from the past.

22/6/2020

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This set of questions relate to adverts which have appeared on our screens in times gone by. We?ve all seen them, but how many can you remember? 
1. Which ad featured Buzby, a feathered friend?
2. Who said, rather hopefully, "we're getting there"?
3. What was the first TV advert advertising?
4. Which ad, featuring cigarettes, said they were " cool as a mountain stream"?
5. What items of confectionery, now called "Starburst", were "made to make your mouth water"?
6. "Every little helps" according to this shopping chain
7. This product makes "budgies bounce with health"
8. Tony says these are "Grrreat!"
9. Leonard Rossiter appeared in a series of adverts alongside Joan Collins. What product were they advertising?
10. Which ad promoted a product "full of Eastern promise"?
11. This ad featured an enquiry for a book entitled "Fly Fishing" by J R Hartley. What was it actually advertising?
12. The ad showed robots laughing at humans who "peeled them with their metal knives". The product was?
13. "Mr Shifter, do you know the piano's on my foot?" "You hum it, son, and I'll play it." These are lines from which advert, featuring our national beverage
14. According to the adverts, this product is "the real thing"
15. Rowan Atkinson played an inept secret agent in this series of ads but, what was he advertising?
16. Who played Beattie, the proud Jewish grandmother, whose grandson gained an 'ology in this commercial?
17. Harry Enfield said: "This bloke's a nutter". What was he advertising?
18. Which company was telling everyone to 'put a tiger in your tank' back in the 60s?
19. Businessman Victor Kyam 'liked this product so much' he 'bought the company'. What was the product?
20. This is 'probably the best lager in the world'.  
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