1. QUESTION ONE
Name the famous sportsman/woman from one of the photos below (and include the corresponding letter with your answer):
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
(if there is more than one person in a photo, it's the main person in the photo I'm after)
2. QUESTION TWO
Name one of the top 12 largest countries in the world (by population) - I'll be using 2012 figures for this.
3. QUESTION THREE
Pick a 5-card poker hand (standard deck, no wild cards, high-only).
A bonus -3 points to the person who gives the highest ranking unique answer.
Your answer must use the card icons from the editor.
Different suits will be whaled as the same answer so:
=
and
=
, but is different to
.
(You may NOT use the examples I've used in your answer.)
4. QUESTION FOUR
Name an English city that begins with a B, L, O, N, D or E
5. QUESTION FIVE
The images below give you a clue to a word, a phrase or saying. Choose one and give the right answer.
Example:
Answer: Pie in the sky.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
6. QUESTION SIX
Chess. White to move first, and there are 20 different moves they can make - provide one of these.
Looking at the board below there are two example moves.
The first is the pawn move and that could be written as:
a2-a4
or
a4
the Knight move is the second example and could be written as:
Nc3
or
b1-c3
(you can't use either of these examples as your answer)
It's up to you to choose the notation, but if I don't understand what you give as the move, then it will be a fail.
7. QUESTION SEVEN
Give me a three-letter word that would only be worth 3 points in Scrabble (no blanks).
8. QUESTION EIGHT
Kate Middleton is preggers - yippee.
Name another famous Kate, non-fictional and can be alive or dead. Famous will be someone that both me and my better half have both heard of. If you pick someone we haven't heard of, then on your head be it and you can call me any names you want, I still won't have heard of them. Katie, Catherine, Katherine, Kathy, Kat, etc., are all acceptable variations.
9. QUESTION NINE
Pick one of the statements below about me (kinboshi) and tell me if it's true or false:
a. I've never been to India.
b. I've lived in 12 different towns/cities since I was born.
c. I once ate a sparrow.
d. I've done a parachute jump for charity.
e. I've never broken a bone in my body.
f. I once scored a goal from my own half in a football match.
g. I've been to every continent except for Australasia.
h. I'm scared of heights.
i. I was born in the Chinese year of the Rabbit.
j. I once kicked John Major's son.
k. I was born in Leeds.
l. I can dunk a basketball (on a standard court and basket)
10. QUESTION TEN
Name a solo artist who's had a Xmas number 1 in the UK in the last 40 years.
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