QUIZ - Absolute Blonderdash! - REVEAL MONDAY 8PM

[edgascoigne]

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Best I could do...

[Tal]

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[edgascoigne]

Good evening all, and welcome to this evening's reveal, simulcast with Bangor Vs Durham on University Challenge.

It's time to start putting....



on



* Note to self. Always get the thread-saving image of female bottoms in early. Men like female volleyball players' bottoms.

[iangascoigne]

Wow,reveal must clash with World Cup final or something.So many logged on.

[edgascoigne]

As the crowds arrive literally* in their thousands....a few stats for your perusal:

15 - The number of players in a Rugby Union team and also the number of people who entered this quiz.

64 - The % of answers that you Blondes gave to false definitions.

1094 - The estimated number of 'Blonde-minutes' wasted on this thread.

[edgascoigne]

Wow,reveal must clash with World Cup final or something.So many logged on.

It was always going to be difficult going up against "Weight Watchers: How They Make Their Millions" on the section of the forum where everyone is fascinated with slimming down...

[Waz1892]

Been looking forward to this....

[Tal]

I actually am watching UC while this is going on.

#multiquizzing

[iangascoigne]

Wonderful to think that some of those fresh faces on University Challenge may be logging on to Blonde in .......well a few
months really.

[edgascoigne]

Question Number One.....

You were asked to proffer definitions for the word..."Palooka".



I'm afraid to say.....those who wrote the below were not exactly the first selected for the lunchtime kickaround (they weren't selected at all):

TightEnd - A game of "hoopla" played by Indian Children
 
kinboshi - Old American slang for being inebriated.

Geo the Sarge - Palooka is a cruiser class warship within the Ugandan Navy, named after Ugandas first Admiral of the fleet Obafeme Palooka

millidonk - A palooka is a wooden utensil used to carve wood in southern Asia

Cf - A variant of padooki with only 2 betting rounds.

BobAlike - The marking on a Mexican sombrero.

Vblue - Artistic representation of a historical period, the autheticity of which has been distorted since creating an incorrect notion of the reality.

ruud - A card game which originated in Korea in the 1950's. Best described as a cross between 5 card draw and Uno

Silo Graham - A hat worn to keep the head warm in the mountains in Chile

[iangascoigne]

Tomlinson from Bangor looks as old as me. Just saying for those multi quizzing.

[Waz1892]

ooooh ,still in q1...

(UC - The jumper is a bet yes?!)

[Tal]

Tomlinson from Bangor looks as old as me. Just saying for those multi quizzing.

He is rather. Should have put a baseball cap on him so no one noticed.

[MintTrav]

Do we have to identify these as part of the quiz? That's Rachel on the bottom right bottom.

[edgascoigne]

For the following, with those who erroneously selected your answers named and shamed in bold italics:

Tal - A woodwind musical instrument, similar to an ocarina. TightEnd, Waz1892, cambridgealex

smashedagain - Term used to describe someone of Polish decent. From Polak. david3103

david3103 - A palooka, or pallouqa is the name given to russian 'matryoshka' dolls (often referred to as Baboushka dolls since they prepresent an old woman or grandmother). Palooka dolls are not made in the traditional style and represent a cat, or pallou as the Russians refer to them. Cf, Ruud

cambridgealex - Swahili for "president". Silo Graham

MintTrav - An Argentinian dance, known for it's complicated footwork and unusual in that it is one of the few dances in the world in which the woman leads. smashedagain, bobAlike

Waz1892 - A sport played mainly in asian countries, reportedly played by over 200million people every day.  A growing call for it to be part of the 2018 or 2022 Olympics games due to its popularity in the Far East. MintTrav