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"If you are stuck at home and bored like me. How about exercising the old grey cells? I have for a number of years run quiz nights and couple of times a year. I was due to do one tomorrow which is now cancelled So I have a bank of questions sitting in my computer's hard drive. They are quite eclectic in their nature. I am thinking I could put up a set of questions for which you write down your answers. After 30mins or so I will put up the answers. DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS. before I post the right answers. You mark your own answers and post your score. I will then record the scores and at the end of the ""lockdown"" we will see who is WHO's brainbox supreme. Obiviously no looking up the answers (you only cheat yourselves) Word of warning these won't be easy questions as they have been devised for teams of six. Forming teams on here might be too problematic. So I'll try to pick out the easier questions. Any interest?"

Woah 9! Some lucky guesswork though - I did think hard on who was the stupidest political George and was right. The Blair rant did sound very Galloway-esque.

"Wow, I need a lie down... I got a 6! Are you sure the first one wasn't Curious George :O) I had Washington for number 9! I got my usual 3 for the literary round btw."

excellent 8 today EH and thanks

"Today's Answers How did you do? 1.

"I know, spoilt for choice."

This might be my best round so far. Pretty certain I have definitely got 5 - with decent shouts for 4 others

I've guessed that one (among others). But it's not hard to think of a few IDIOT Georges in politics.

I'd love to know the source of 3 - what a numpty.

"I'll suck on a cigar, pretend to be a cat, and try 9. Awaiting egg on face."

5 - maybe 6

"Todays Round ""By George"" One question we have had in a previous round so I hope you were paying attention. Good Luck These are all quotes By George(s) but which George said each quote 1.

"Scores on the doors Anymore from yesterday otherwise the standings are: Geoff Pikey

7 Days of Iron was a complete guess and I did get Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell the right way round.

5 today but I honestly thought I had 7-8

The_Phantom 7:59 Sun Apr 5 I concur. 3 Bollocks

"Oh dear, just the one today."

Westside good spot. Amazon's blurb not mine. Just checked they won it with 57 points

"In 1958, West Ham United emerged from a 26 year-old hibernation outside top flight football winning the Second Division championship with 101 points. 101 points? Can't be. How many games did they play? It was two points for a win back then wasn't it?"

"In 1958, West Ham United emerged from a 26 year-old hibernation outside top flight football winning the Second Division championship with 101 points. 101 points? Can't be. How many games did they play? It was two points for a win back then wasn't it?"

"Days of Iron is about West Ham and its Players in the 1950s. It's a decent read. The blurb on Amazon reads ""In 1958, West Ham United emerged from a 26 year-old hibernation outside top flight football winning the Second Division championship with 101 points. This is the story of how this was achieved starting with the foundation in the early 50's. Throughout a decade when the East End of London still struggled to shrug off the cloak of World War II, the Hammer’s manager built a formidable team. From 1956 to 1959 West Ham United fielded six full internationals. In 1958, the young Bobby Moore came into the side and by 1959 Geoff Hurst was emerging. The Championship side was full of talent with the likes of Ernie Gregory, John Bond, Noel Cantwell, John Dick and Vic Keeble. But the foundation had been laid earlier in the Fifties, a bedrock made up of sweat and lesser known players like Doug Wragg and Gerry Gazzard and the leading members of the famed ‘Football Academy’, Malcolm Allison and Frank O’Farrell."" All my boyhood heroes. In the days when your heroes were part of the community in which you lived. And 30% of their wages would have been £6 at the most! (okay that might have been someones weekly wage but you get my drift)"

"Once read The Metamorphosis. Got me thinking how much the Cronenberg movie story was based on it. Not at all, it seems. Based on a different (albeit similar) book. HOWEVER! The now-common phrase: ""Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid"" was apparently first used on marketing posters for The Fly (1986). Now THAT is trivia. And, yes, I am boring."

"Lucked out with 5 correct bits of irrelevant information. I admit it, Days Of Iron was a GUESS... just because I don't think there's been a WHU question so far. I don't know the book. Marx, Kafka, Paxman and Sergeant (why do I know THAT?!) complete my efforts."

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