[Calderyon]

Maybe middle of the bottom half in this one.

[Jessica.]

sent in sorry

[Alf]

Come on Shaun, rise and shine!

[Shaun]

It's technically still Friday AM results on the way, unfortunately Kate and Ashley have both missed the deadline this time (although Kate did let me know she was away) so the number of participants is 17

[Shaun]

1) Name a city or region of the UK with its own duke

Edinburgh - 10
Cambridge - 4
York - 2
Sussex - 1

2) Name a country invaded by Nazi Germany in the build-up, or throes, of WWII.

Poland - 13
France - 3
The Netherlands - 1

3) Name an American president who was assassinated

John F. Kennedy - 15
Abraham Lincoln - 1
James A. Garfield - 1

4) Name someone associated with the invention of a cure for disease, or medicine

Alexander Fleming - 8
Marie Curie - 3
Louis Pasteur - 2
Edward Jenner - 1
Florence Nightingale - 1
Hippocrates - 1
Jacinto Convit - 1

5) Name one of the "classical" languages

Latin - 14
Greek - 2
Arabic - 1

6) Name someone who died in a famous plane crash

Aaliyah - 5
Kobe Bryant - 4 - apparently helicopters are planes, now
Amelia Earhart - 3
Buddy Holly - 3
John Denver - 1
JFK Jr. - 1

7) Name an African country that was a member of France's colonial empire at some point

Cameroon - 4
Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) - 3
Algeria - 2
Morocco - 2
Senegal - 2
DR of the Congo - 1
Gabon - 1
The Gambia - 1
Mali - 1

8) Name a prime minister of the UK who was in office before Margaret Thatcher

Winston Churchill - 15
Harold Wilson - 1
James Callaghan - 1

9) Name a physical format that music was sold on, before the invention of downloads and streaming

CD / Compact Disc - 14
Vinyl - 3

10) Name one of the main political parties in the UK

Conservative - 11
Labour - 6

11) Name an ancient Greek philosopher

Socrates - 5
Aristotle - 4
Plato - 4
Pythagoras - 4

12) Name an infamous serial killer

Jack the Ripper - 8
Ted Bundy - 7
Harold Shipman - 2

13) Name a country that was a part of the Ottoman Empire

Turkey - 16
Bulgaria - 1

14) Name an Egyptian god/goddess

Isis - 6
Osiris - 5
Anubis - 2
Cleopatra - 1
Horus - 1
Ra - 1

15) Name a country of the world that currently has a female president or prime minister

New Zealand - 10
Germany - 5 (could've sworn this would win )
Denmark - 1
Estonia - 1

SCORES

Jessica - 148
Mitchell - 145
Alf - 141
Black Dagger - 141
MTVN - 140
James - 139
Niamh - 138
Shaun - 138
hijaxers - 135
Nick - 130
Calderyon - 129
Daniel-X - 128
Cherie - 123
Strictly Jake - 123
Denver - 118
Kazanne - 90
LukeB - 48

[Shaun]

1) Name a vegetable beginning with the letter C
2) Name something you might put on top of your ice cream
3) Name an occasion where the whole family comes around for dinner
4) Name a brand of frozen pizzas
5) Name a way you might cook an egg
6) Name one of the colours of a packet of M&Ms
7) Name a type of tea that isn't "regular" or "English breakfast"
8) Name a popular order type of coffee that might be sold at Starbucks/Costa etc.
9) Name a celebrity chef
10) Name a popular alcoholic cocktail that contains vodka
11) Name a popular flavour of gin sold in the UK (other than "original/basic gin" lol)
12) Name one of the big tubs of chocolate sweets that is often passed around at Christmas
13) Name something you'd keep in your refrigerator
14) Name a popular type of soup
15) Name a brand of bread (this'll be UK-centric, just a heads-up)

REMEMBER: If you wish to take part in this game, you must PM your answers to me. Discussion of the answers in any form in this thread (or indeed elsewhere) is not permitted, and I'll have to penalise you for cheating or attempting to influence others' answers.

This round will be open until Monday, 19 April (at roughly the same time as this post, probably)

[Niamh.]

That was better than I was expecting I was torn between New Zealand and Germany but I thought being in Europe Angela would have taken it too Shaun

[Cherie]

Tibb going for the Cons instead of Labour

sell out

[Shaun]

I honestly voted Labour because I thought it would be easier to type I can see why the Tories won since they're in power but I was banking on us being a little lazy

I also wrote these questions before Prince Philip died so I assumed the answer to #1 would be York (that was my gut reaction at the time of writing, but I did change to Edinburgh when I opened the round bc... breaking news... etc), so I guess the news definitely affected things subliminally.

[Alf]

Florence Nightingale and Buddy Holly were robbed.

Fleming, my arse! And Aaliyah? Who? I'll have to Google her.

[Shaun]

tbf Florence didn't invent any cures that I'm aware of (then again neither did Marie Curie) she just revolutionised the standard of nursing.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Tibb going for the Cons instead of Labour

sell out

I literally went through the list of people playing counting who I thought would pick Conservative or Labour............Conservative won

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Shaun

tbf Florence didn't invent any cures that I'm aware of (then again neither did Marie Curie) she just revolutionised the standard of nursing.

Yeah i was going to choose Marie Curie but she didn't find a cure for anything, she did invent or discover Radium that was later used for treating cancer but she didn't discover that use for it. I went with Edward Jenner because he invented Vaccines which i thought (wrongly) would be topical right now


Round 3 had some really tough choices to make

[Jessica.]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS OMG this has made my day, I have never been on top before

[Denver]

And here is me thinking the man who is the reason of modern medicine would be top

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Jessica.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS OMG this has made my day, I have never been on top before

.....hawwwwwww......

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I literally went through the list of people playing counting who I thought would pick Conservative or Labour............Conservative won

[Kate!]

sent my answers

[Ammi]

...the bump you’ve all been waiting for.....

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I'd say 3, 8 & 12

At time of writing, the three unanimous answers were 3, 8 and 13 - JFK, Churchill and Turkey. But that ended up... not happening

[Jessica.]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I literally went through the list of people playing counting who I thought would pick Conservative or Labour............Conservative won

I picked conservative because they're the most discussed party on the forum

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Shaun

At time of writing, the three unanimous answers were 3, 8 and 13 - JFK, Churchill and Turkey. But that ended up... not happening

Ah close

[Shaun]

Have so far received answers from Black Dagger, Kate!, Nick, Niamh, Cherie, James, Strictly Jake and hijaxers that leaves 10 others to come (11 if Ashley rejoins the game )

[Jessica.]

Sent, I feel confident though so I don't think it's gonna go my way

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by Jessica.

Sent, I feel confident though so I don't think it's gonna go my way

Good luck Jess