August 2023 – Quiz – Win £10

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Mags – DOB 14/11/1969
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Previous Answers

1. What is the name of the cafe in UK soap Coronation Street? – Roy’s Rolls
2. Which instrument has forty-seven strings and seven pedals? – Harp
3. In the nursery rhyme, who went to school with a lamb? – Mary
4. What is the national flower of Wales? – Daffodil
5. Which city does the River Lagan flow through? – Belfast
6. What is one quarter of 2,500? – 625
7. Which ocean surrounds the Maldives? – Indian Ocean
8. A Skull & Crossbones flag consists of a skull and how many long bones? – 2
9. In what year did the French Revolution end? – 1799
10. Which word can be placed before bottle, bell and bird? – Blue
11. How many minutes are there in 4 hours? – 240
12. In which year did the ITV soap change its name from Emmerdale Farm to Emmerdale? – 1989
13. In which country was Napoleon Bonaparte born? – France
14. Which animal can be seen on the Porsche logo? – Horse
15. Who was the first president of the USA ? – George Washington
16. Which planet is closest to our sun ? – Mercury
17. Which director is known for making Jaws, E.T., and Jurassic Park ? – Steven Spielberg
18. Who painted ‘The Scream’ ? – Edvard Munch
19. How many lives are cats said to have ? – Nine
20. What is the name of the highest mountain in Africa? – (Mount) Kilimanjaro
21. In what year did World War II end? – 1945
22. Is an avocado a fruit or a vegetable? – Fruit
23. What street does the British Prime Minister live on? – Downing Street
24. Who wrote ‘The Hunger Games’? – Suzanne Collins
25. Who is Liverpool Airport (UK) named after? – John Lennon
26. Which sea borders the north of Turkey? – Black Sea
27. In which sport is the Stanley Cup contested? – Ice Hockey
28. Kaiser Chiefs formed in which UK city? – Leeds
29. Who had hits with ‘Firework’ and ‘I Kissed a Girl’? – Katy Perry
30. In tennis what term refers to zero points? – Love
31. What is the capital of Morocco? – Rabat

August 2023 – Quiz – Win £10

This month we are having a quiz. Each day in August a different question will be displayed below. You just need to answer the question. If you manage to answer a question correctly you will receive 2 entries into the draw. If you manage to guess the answer correctly you will receive 2 entries into the draw. If you get it wrong you will receive 1 entry (just for giving it a try). All entries will be pooled at the end of the month and one winner drawn at random.

The competition started on 1st August 2023 and runs until the end of the month. The last question will be shown on 31st August 2023, with the winner being announced here on 1st September 2023. The winner will then have 24 hours to claim their £10 cash prize. If you don’t claim your prize by 11am on 2nd September 2023 you will unfortunately lose out. No late claims accepted.

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Wendy
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Wendy

Congratulations Mags, hope you claim 🤞😁

Susan
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Susan

Congratulations mags, hope you collect your winnings. 🙂

GillP
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GillP

Well done Mags.Enoy your win.😀

Marie
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Marie

👍Right name – wrong spelling 👎
At least I still get a point 😀

Hilde
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Hilde

Same. I wrote Katie. I think. Don’t remember now.

David
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David

People have been rewarded full marks before for a wrong spelling.

I think it only costs you a point if some of the letters were there like K??Y

Wendy
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Wendy

Hope i get todays right, im not very good with countries, counties and cities. My Geography is terrible 🤞😂

Saintsuzi
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Saintsuzi

I was so tempted to put “Sesame Street” for todays answer

Stuart
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Stuart

Or Chester Lane

SOYE
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SOYE

I have been trying to join this platform but I never saw my email confirmation email

katie
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katie

When will today’s question come up it is still showing yesterdays

Norma
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Norma

Yesterday’s question ‘where was Napoleon Bonaparte born? Answer seen as France when in fact He was born in Corsica.

Stuart
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Stuart

I put Corsica, France as the answer

Wendy
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Wendy

I also put Corsica

Taken from Google:

Napoleone Buonaparte was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, on 15 August 1769. He was the second of eight children born to Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer descended from Tuscan nobility, and his young wife Maria-Letizia Ramolino. At the time of Napoleon’s birth, Corsica had been ceded to the French by the Genoese.

Hilde
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Hilde

So doesn’t that make it France?

Jackie
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Jackie

Corsica was part of France at that time, as it is today. I had to double-check this as I thought it was a trick question!

tracy
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tracy

Corsica is an island but is still in France

Victoria
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Victoria

Has anyone noticed how often there are questions without one simple, definitive answer? They’re open to such interpretation based on different definitions or perspectives, or require intense Googling to settle on what could be multiple acceptable answers! 5 – there are two cities; 9 – which revolution? There have been three so far; and today’s could be the distinct geographical island itself or its governing political owner, depends how you look at or say it!

Andrew
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Andrew

There is a simple, definitive answer. The island is not, and was not at the time of his birth, a country, but part of a country. It’s like saying ‘In which country is Osborne House?’ and getting picky because it could be UK or Isle if Wight.

Victoria
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Victoria

So then, tell me … which country are you based in? Scotland, Wales, England, Great Britain, plain old Britain, the UK, Northern Ireland, the Republic that is Éire, or just plain Ireland? Or somewhere really exotic like the Isle of Man?! 😜

Andrew
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Andrew

Whatever my answer is to that still won’t make Corsica a country, so I don’t see how it is relevant.

Victoria
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Victoria

That’s both missing and proving the point at the same time!!

Andrew
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Andrew

Would you say the Isle of Wight is a country? No. I think you missed my point in saying that both islands share the same status – just an island off the mainland. So what point exactly is it that I was missing?

Victoria
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Victoria

Are you for real?!

Andrew
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Andrew

I’m very real, still waiting for you to explain how Corsica is a country. If you are struggling with my IoW comment, I am just pointing out that by your logic, the IoW is a country You seem incapable of explaining your comments, which makes it hard to discuss anything with you. Are you just one of those people that tries to be clever by picking holes in the questions? You failed. I still don’t see how your question of where I am from has anything to do with it. If you are comparing the constituent countries of the UK… Read more »

Victoria
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Victoria

Wow you really need to get out more

jan
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jan

Think many years ago there was s question where is Paris. To be bloody minded I answered USA (Texas). Got told yes but that’s not the answer they wanted. Rather an odd response, a correct answer is a correct answer.

Aileen
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Aileen

Poor Hilde – another maths question!!

Wendy
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Wendy

I thought exactly the same. Just google it Hilde 🤞

Paul
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Paul

Many years of using VHS cassettes helped with today’s answer 😉

GillP
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GillP

Todays question on the French Revolution was a difficult one. I had to Google it and got so many answers, I just had to guess in the end.

Hilde
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Hilde

I just took the one from Wikipedia

Hilde
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Hilde

Please don’t include math in the questions. I can’t do math. I admit I used Google for it. I can’t do math due to a bad primary school teacher. She excluded me from every math lesson because I was ‘stupid’ apparently and I never picked it up after that.

Jackie
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Jackie

Although I know that this kind of thing did happen, I am shocked to hear someone say that this has had a lifelong impact. At least you realise that the teacher was bad, and not you. You just needed a different teaching method. You are clearly NOT ‘stupid’. (She actually said that? Unbelievable!). I’m sure you are aware that there are books, videos, computer games you could use, starting from the earliest age, to make sure you catch up on everything she could not be bothered to teach you, then build on it. OK, they are designed for children, but… Read more »

Hilde
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Hilde

This was in Belgium 1976. I was 5 years old when I started primary school. I was in the back of the class, last seat in the corner. Math was taught using a small box which contained small wooden cubes in red and blue. When she handed them out, she was 1 box short and so I didn’t have one. I just looked at my neighbour the first time though it was hard not having my own box. The next time the same thing happened. You’d think she’d make arrangements or something but no. I never got a box. Every… Read more »

Susan
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Susan

I was never very good at maths, but at 59 I’m slowly getting better, fractions are the worse, I can add and subtract and divide and multiply by 2. My teacher didn’t really help me, not as bad as your teacher but still preferred to help others. I have managed to learn most ofthe times tables but still have trouble with the 6x and the 7x.i also still count using my fingers sometimes. So i understand what your going through. My teacher didn’t call me stupid though so I’m grateful for that, ‘i’m also so sorry you went through that.… Read more »

tracy
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tracy

What a horrible teacher you had, it gets my blood boiling when I hear about teachers treating children this way, it is still happening in schools today. I had a bad teacher that was at my primary school and secondary, for some reason she didn’t like me, my niece had problems even though she was very good at maths and in the top class they dropped her and a few others down because they didn’t have room but after my sister raised a row over it she was put back up but another girl said why not stay where she… Read more »

purplevamp
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purplevamp

Technically, it runs through 2 cities. Hopefully they’ll both count.

Stuart
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Stuart

I thought that but put the obvious

Heather10
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Heather10

I thought that as well, think I’ve put the obvious one but hopefully either will be accepted

Hilde
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Hilde

Prettier flower than the one from Scotland

Stacy
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Stacy

Congrats Greeny123, hope you claim.
Good luck everyone for the new month

Wendy
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Wendy

Well said 😁👍

tracy
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tracy

Green123 didn’t claim their prize

Khadija
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Khadija

Congratulations Greeny123
Good luck to all in this month.

ColinR
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ColinR

Congrats on your win Greeny123 👏

David
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David

Congratulations Greeny213 👏

Good luck to all in August 🤞