Dwarf's Quiz

[Dwarf]

I thought I'd bring you all a little quiz to exercise those grey cells.

1. What is the connection between these seemingly unrelated words ? hijack, defence, first, unopened, stupid
2. Can you explain how 4 - 1 = 5 ?
3. How many gifts are delivered by My True Love in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas ?
4. Can you prove that you have 11 fingers (for this question, thumbs also count as fingers) ?
5. Can you decipher the following:
   • 2 Y U R 2 Y U B I C U R 2 Y 4 ME
   • 23 P of C in the H B
   • 32 is the T in D F at which W F
   • 29 D in F in a L Y
   • 13 S on the U S F
6. A movie actor/director died on this day (25th December). He was famous for having a cane and a bowler hat. Who was he, and in which year did he die ?
7. Again on this day (25th December), what object was stolen from Westminster Abbey and in which year ?
8. In which year was the popular Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol written and first published ?
9. An easy one this: Who is the main character in the above novel ?
10. Can you pair up the following carols with their correct tunes (title of carol; tune):
    • O come, all ye faithful; Mendelssohn
    • In the bleak mid-winter; Irby
    • Angels, from the realms of glory; Adeste Fideles
    • Hark! the herald angels sing; Cranham
    • Once in royal David's city; Iris

I shall post the answers to this quiz in this thread on or just after New Year's Day 2011.

 

[A Guy]

I thought I'd bring you all a little quiz to exercise those grey cells.

1. What is the connection between these seemingly unrelated words ? hijack, defence, first, unopened, stupid
   
   All contain 3 letters in a row in alphabetical order
   
2. Can you explain how 4 - 1 = 5 ?
3. How many gifts are delivered to My True Love in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas ?
4. Can you prove that you have 11 fingers (for this question, thumbs also count as fingers) ?
5. Can you decipher the following:
   • 2 Y U R 2 Y U B I C U R 2 Y 4 ME
   • 23 P of C in the H B
   • 32 is the T in D F at which W F
     
     32 is the Temperature in Degrees Fahrenheit at which Water Freezes
     
   • 29 D in F in a L Y
     
     29 Days in February in a Leap Year
     
   • 13 S on the U S F
     
     13 Stars on the United States Flag
     
6. A movie actor/director died on this day (25th December). He was famous for having a cane and a bowler hat. Who was he, and in which year did he die ?
   
   Charlie Chaplin died in 1977
   
7. Again on this day (25th December), what object was stolen from Westminster Abbey and in which year ?

I shall post the answers to this quiz in this thread on or just after New Year's Day 2011.

A Guy

 

[fishnbanjo]

I thought I'd bring you all a little quiz to exercise those grey cells.

1. What is the connection between these seemingly unrelated words ? hijack, defence, first, unopened, stupid
   
   All contain 3 letters in a row in alphabetical order
2. Can you explain how 4 - 1 = 5 ?
3. How many gifts are delivered to My True Love in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas ? 0
4. Can you prove that you have 11 fingers (for this question, thumbs also count as fingers) ? As you count you say, 1,2,3, 4, 5 and 6 makes 11.
5. Can you decipher the following:
   • 2 Y U R 2 Y U B I C U R 2 Y 4 ME
   • Too young you are too young you be I see you are too young for me
     
   • 23 P of C in the H B
   • 23 pairs of chromosomes in the human body
     
   • 32 is the T in D F at which W F
     
     32 is the Temperature Fahrenheit at which Water Freezes
   • 29 D in F in a L Y
     
     29 Days in February in a Leap Year
   • 13 S on the U S F
     
     13 Stripes on the United States Flag
6. A movie actor/director died on this day (25th December). He was famous for having a cane and a bowler hat. Who was he, and in which year did he die ?
   
   Charlie Chaplin died in 1977
7. Again on this day (25th December), what object was stolen from Westminster Abbey and in which year ? A stone in 1950 I think

I shall post the answers to this quiz in this thread on or just after New Year's Day 2011.

AGuy's replies are in red

Mine are in red and BOLD

 

[Airbot]

I thought I'd bring you all a little quiz to exercise those grey cells.

1. What is the connection between these seemingly unrelated words ? hijack, defence, first, unopened, stupid - They're all words.
   
2. Can you explain how 4 - 1 = 5 ? - Yeah, you do some arithmetic on them.
3. How many gifts are delivered to My True Love in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas ? - Anywhere between 0 and 100.
4. Can you prove that you have 11 fingers (for this question, thumbs also count as fingers) ? - No, but I can prove I'm me.
5. Can you decipher the following:
   • 2 Y U R 2 Y U B I C U R 2 Y 4 ME
   • 23 P of C in the H B
   • 32 is the T in D F at which W F
   • 29 D in F in a L Y
   • 13 S on the U S F - All of them together equals - A mouse has four paws.
     
6. A movie actor/director died on this day (25th December). He was famous for having a cane and a bowler hat. Who was he, and in which year did he die ? - He was an actor, and he died on the year he died on.
7. Again on this day (25th December), what object was stolen from Westminster Abbey and in which year ? - The object that was stolen, on the year it was stolen on.

I shall post the answers to this quiz in this thread on or just after New Year's Day 2011.

..

 

[Ivan the SoSo]

13 stripes not stars

 

[A Guy]

13 stripes not stars

Just goes to show, one should always pay attention when doing a test

A Guy

 

[Dwarf]

And when setting the questions. See Q #3 where I originally put ...to my True Love... instead of ...by my True Love...

 

[Ivan the SoSo]

Thought that was a trick question....

 

[Airbot]

Plus you added in more questions, which wasn't part of the original contract or rather specified in the quiz answering agreement.

 

[Dwarf]

No, that was most definitely a mis-type on my part.

 

[gladson1976]

Since some have already been answered, I'll give my answers for the others

I thought I'd bring you all a little quiz to exercise those grey cells.

1. What is the connection between these seemingly unrelated words ? hijack, defence, first, unopened, stupid
2. Can you explain how 4 - 1 = 5 ?
   IV - I = V (Roman numerals)
3. How many gifts are delivered by My True Love in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas ?
4. Can you prove that you have 11 fingers (for this question, thumbs also count as fingers) ?
   You hide one finger below the others so that only nine are visible and start counting from 10 in reverse (10, 9, 8, 7, 6. At this point, there are 4 fingers visible. So you say, 6 + 4 = 10 and then you show the hidden finger, the eleventh one)
5. Can you decipher the following:
   • 2 Y U R 2 Y U B I C U R 2 Y 4 ME
     (Too wise you are
     Too wise you be
     I see you are
     Too wise for me)
   • 23 P of C in the H B
     23 Pairs of Chromosomes in the Human Body
   • 32 is the T in D F at which W F
   • 29 D in F in a L Y
   • 13 S on the U S F
6. A movie actor/director died on this day (25th December). He was famous for having a cane and a bowler hat. Who was he, and in which year did he die ?
7. Again on this day (25th December), what object was stolen from Westminster Abbey and in which year ?
8. In which year was the popular Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol written and first published ?
9. An easy one this: Who is the main character in the above novel ?
10. Can you pair up the following carols with their correct tunes (title of carol; tune):
    • O come, all ye faithful; Mendelssohn
    • In the bleak mid-winter; Irby
    • Angels, from the realms of glory; Adeste Fideles
    • Hark! the herald angels sing; Cranham
    • Once in royal David's city; Iris

I shall post the answers to this quiz in this thread on or just after New Year's Day 2011.

 

[Joan Archer]

Question 3, 78 gifts were delivered by My True Love.

 

[pebbly]

Question 3, 78 gifts were delivered by My True Love.

Joan, Q3 is the Stone of Scone stolen in 1950

 

[z3r010]

Q1 - Post

 

[pebbly]

Q1 - Post

:roflmao::devil2:

 

[pebbly]

Q1 hijack,defence,first,unopened,stupid (very good Dwarf,really had me going)

 

[gladson1976]

Question 3, 78 gifts were delivered by My True Love.

Sorry about the numbering Guess my answers messed up the list. Fixed it now.

 

[clunkfish]

How many gifts are delivered by My True Love in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas?

1 on the first day, (1+2) on the second day, (1+2+3) on the third day, and so on until (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12) on the twelfth day.

So I get 1+3+6+10+15+21+28+36+45+55+66+78=364

 

[Prisoner]

I thought I'd bring you all a little quiz to exercise those grey cells. '

1. What is the connection between these seemingly unrelated words ? hijack, defence, first, unopened, stupid They all have vowels. It's true.
2. Can you explain how 4 - 1 = 5 ? Well, if you put a vertical slash on the subtraction symbol, it works out perfectly.
3. How many gifts are delivered by My True Love in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas ? A number.
4. Can you prove that you have 11 fingers (for this question, thumbs also count as fingers) ? Well, if I count them, they're "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10." and if I add all that together, I get 55. So I have 55 fingers. If I have 55 fingers, that qualifies as 11 fingers (plus 44...).
5. Can you decipher the following:
   • 2 Y U R 2 Y U B I C U R 2 Y 4 ME
   • 23 P of C in the H B
   • 32 is the T in D F at which W F
   • 29 D in F in a L Y
   • 13 S on the U S F
   -cheats and uses answers of other users-
6. A movie actor/director died on this day (25th December). He was famous for having a cane and a bowler hat. Who was he, and in which year did he die ?
7. Again on this day (25th December), what object was stolen from Westminster Abbey and in which year ?
8. In which year was the popular Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol written and first published ?
9. An easy one this: Who is the main character in the above novel ?
10. Can you pair up the following carols with their correct tunes (title of carol; tune):
    • O come, all ye faithful; Mendelssohn
    • In the bleak mid-winter; Irby
    • Angels, from the realms of glory; Adeste Fideles
    • Hark! the herald angels sing; Cranham
    • Once in royal David's city; Iris
    All of this is completely unknown to me.

I shall post the answers to this quiz in this thread on or just after New Year's Day 2011.

And here's to beating the minimum-message-length requirement.

 

[jfar]

Question 6, Answer W.C. Fields. 1946.

Question 7, Answer , The Stone of Scone, 1950

Question 8, Answer, 17th of December 1843