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Red Nose Day Friday 13 March DFW Daily Chat

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  • sammy115
    sammy115 Posts: 15,267 Forumite
    Queen.Bess wrote: »
    Was it general knowledge? Can you remember any of them? If so, let's have a Friday afternoon quiz!!

    Off to lunch now, so back in a bit! QBx

    Good idea QB!
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  • redsquirrel80
    redsquirrel80 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
    Ooh OK let me think.. can't remember them all and some had photos etc with them so can't do those but here goes...

    1. What nationality is the caretaker at Springfield Elementary School?

    2. What is the theme for this year's Comic Relief?

    3. In which country is 'The King and I' set?
    a) India b) Malaysia c) Thailand

    4. What do the Czechs call their capital city?

    5. Who was the last UK Prime Minister not to have a wife?

    6. According to the Guinness Book of Records what is the biggest (in size) gift ever given?

    7. Who invented the 'little black dress'?

    8. Which country was the Titanic nearest to when it sank?

    9. In which 1970s musical did Angela Landsbury play a witch?

    10. Who designed this year's Comic Relief T shirts?
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  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    1. Scottish
    2. Do something funny for money?
    3. Doesn't she work for the king of Siam? Is Siam a country? (embarrassed not to know that! :o)
    4. Praha
    5. No idea
    6. No idea....possibly a country? :rotfl:
    7. Chanel?
    8. Don't know - America?
    9. Bedknobs and broomsticks
    10. Stella McCartney?
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
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  • binty
    binty Posts: 141 Forumite
    5. Margaret Thatcher!
    "Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete stangers to kill again."
    -- TV listing for the movie, The Wizard of Oz,
  • redsquirrel80
    redsquirrel80 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
    Oops forgot 'The King and I' one was multiple choice - edited!
    Debt@16.12.09 £10,362.38, now debt free as of 29.02.2012.
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  • becky_rtw
    becky_rtw Posts: 8,393 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Well snags got most of them, here are my guesses:
    3.Siam formally now Thailand
    5. Margaret Thatcher (since she had a husband) - snap!
    6. Is it the Statue of Liberty
    8. Greenland
  • (Land_of)_Maz
    (Land_of)_Maz Posts: 11,738 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    awwwww i missed the quiz!!!!
    I'm just a seething mass of contradictions....
    (it's part of my charm!)
  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    Okay.....stores in brain....Thailand.....formerly Siam.....got it. :D:o
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
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    9780007258925
  • redsquirrel80
    redsquirrel80 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
    Snaggles wrote: »
    1. Scottish - YES
    2. Do something funny for money? - YES
    3. Doesn't she work for the king of Siam? Is Siam a country? (embarrassed not to know that! :o)
    4. Praha - YES
    5. No idea
    6. No idea....possibly a country? :rotfl:
    7. Chanel? - YES
    8. Don't know - America? - NO
    9. Bedknobs and broomsticks - YES
    10. Stella McCartney? - YES
    binty wrote:
    5. Margaret Thatcher! - YES!
    becky_rtw wrote:
    3.Siam formally now Thailand - YES
    5. Margaret Thatcher (since she had a husband) - snap! - YES
    6. Is it the Statue of Liberty - YES
    8. Greenland - NO

    Just number 8 to get - anyone? (we didn't get that one!)
    Debt@16.12.09 £10,362.38, now debt free as of 29.02.2012.
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  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    Oh lol, the postman has just been and delivered my Nike+ sensor holder.

    I haven't got my iPod Touch yet.

    I haven't got my armband to hold it in yet.

    I haven't even got the sensor yet.

    But I've got the sensor case... :rotfl: ...how useful! :D
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
    :smileyhea
    9780007258925
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