Quiz week 27

Themed week. LVCish. Not an Olympics one. 1) The PGM 17 Thor was the first operational ballistic missile of the U.S. Air Force (USAF).  Subsequent satellite and space probe flights soon followed, using a Thor first stage with several different upper stages with each getting a greek letter as a name. What was the name given to the fourth stage of the Thor? (Let the...

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Quiz week 26 (London 2012 countdown)

Answers Will Be Given Next Week... Meanwhile Drop Down Your Answers... PS: DON'T POST YOUR ANSWERS AS ANON Week 2 in the London 2012 countdown This week: preparation and all the pre-olympic stuff : bid, venues, logos, campaign et al 1) On 6 July 2005, the final selection was announced at the 117th...

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Quiz week 25 (London 2012 countdown)

Answers Will Be Given Next Week... Meanwhile Drop Down Your Answers... PS: DON'T POST YOUR ANSWERS AS ANON this week: 12 Questions about London  #london2012countdown 1) XY is sometimes mistaken for ZY, the next Y upstream. A popular urban legend is that in 1968, Robert McCulloch, the purchaser of the old ZY that was later shipped to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, believed...

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Quiz week 24.

Answers Will Be Given Next Week... Meanwhile Drop Down Your Answers... PS: DON'T POST YOUR ANSWERS AS ANON dont know how long this blog will survive. 1) Connect 2) Connect 3) What's special about this wedding between US president Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom 4) The first week of June in 1984 was a tragic period in our country's history. It is regarded...

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Quiz week 23 (themed week 3)

Quiz Week 23Please do leave your answers as comments. This is a themed week with all the answers vaguely leading to a theme. Get the theme to get a special mention when we give the answers. There was a request to make it very simple. Here is an attempt at that.  I have also tried to make the questions short. 1) This two word term originated in racing; as an entity...

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Quiz Week 22 #Conn set 2

Answers Will Be Given Next Week... Meanwhile Drop Down Your Answers... PS: DON'T POST YOUR ANSWERS AS ANON As the post title suggests this is a connect week,BUT NOT all the answers lead to a common theme Half the questions do,figure out which ones do and connect them all (Its easier than it sounds,trust...

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Quiz Week 21

Leave your answers as comments if you want us posting questions very frequently. 1) The seven Rishis (Sapta Rishis) became quite proud because they believed that they were extremely pious people and they were always detached because of their penance. Their wives had the idea that there were no women more virtuous than they, and there could be no wives so loyal...

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