Didn’t do that badly haha!
@MsSubExperimenter you did ok! I can’t believe nobody ever recognises Sting singing the tune of his own song in Money For Nothing! When i pointed it out to a friend, he was amazed and said once told he couldn’t unhear it!
Oh bloody hell @WillC this Music Round is very before my time… will give it a go seeing as you did Geography for me
I am uncultured- apologies
- KISS
- Lulu
- Billy Idol
- Switzerland
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That song is the one I was trying to think of but it wouldn’t come to me!
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@VanillaWithSprinkles and @MsSubExperimenter it’s very difficult trying to think up music questions without making them too hard or too easy, and allowing for the age differences of members! Especially if like me you are a music nerd, head full of useless trivia! 
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Much better than I thought!
4/10 I believe (albeit with 1 slightly lucky guess and 2 very lucky guesses. No where near my poorest quiz attempt! 
To be honest I struggle with any music round, modern or not! I do absolutely love musicals though and have seen a fair few of the ones on @MsSubExperimenter’s quiz. Usually pass music and/or sport onto someone else.
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Answers:
Question one- India (Agra)
Question two- France (Paris)
Question three- Italy (Rome)
Question four- Italy (Rome)
Question five- Japan (Kamakura)
Question six- Spain (Barcelona)
Question seven- South Africa (Cape Town)
Question eight- Greece (Athens)
Question nine- Croatia (Zagreb)
Question ten- Trick question- they span the border between the US state of New York and The Canadian province of Ontario
Well done all!
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Musicals answers - well done everyone!
Musicals from a character name and song title
- Cosette, Master Of The House
- Stacee Jaxx, Every Rose Has It’s Thorn
- Glinda, Defying Gravity
- Meg Giry, Masquerade
- Rafiki, Hakuna Matata
- Mr Bumble, Where Is Love
- General Buttfuckingnaked (yes really!), Turn It Off (this is possibly my favourite musical
) - Scaramouche, I Want To Break Free
- Little Inez, Good Morning Baltimore
- Roxie Hart, Cell Block Tango
Under Here
- Les Miserables
- Rock of Ages
- Wicked
- Phantom of the Opera
- The Lion King
- Oliver!
- The Book of Mormon
- We Will Rock You
- Hairspray!
- Chicago
My favourite song from Book of Mormon is Spooky Mormon Hell Dream but it’s full of awesome songs 
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Oops - missed the deadline. Apologies.
Love musicals but have only actually seen 3 of those
- The Lion King
- Oliver!
- Chicago
Avenue Q is top on my want to see list post strange times but clearly I should be adding The Book of Mormon!
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So I made this Literature Quiz 
for one of my zoom group ones at the start of lockdown. I’ve provided some books here (some classics, some for fun), all I need you to do is tell me which is the correct opening line (a, b or c) to each as the other two are red herrings, either made up by myself or taken from similar novels. Breaking my own rules here and have done 13 questions instead of 10, sue me.
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Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, JK Rowling
a. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
b. The sound of footsteps thundering down the stairs above Harry’s head startled him awake.
c. Darkness settled over Little Whinging as the last of the streetlamps extinguished with a satisfying plink sound.
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Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell
a. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking one.
b. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
c. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking twelve.
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Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
a. Without fail, the sound of crickets always reminded George of home. He smiled to himself. His happiest memories were of living on the farm with his aunt Martha and playing in the creek with his friends. He treasured those moments, hanging on to them during difficult times, times like these.
b. The first rains after the dry season came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth, but nourished it back to health. Green was returning to California after months of dust. The land was being reborn, starting afresh.
c. A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.
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Moby Dick, Herman Melville
a. Call me Ishmael.
b. Call me Isaac.
c. Call me maybe. -
The GC: How to be a Diva, Gemma Collins
a. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And that’s the way it stayed until God created Divas.
b. Hello babes and welcome to the best read of your lives! I am the GC and I am going to be your spirit guide on the journey to being the best version of you. Sit back, relax, and let me show you how to become a true Diva, Essex style.
c. Since the dawn of time, in the days of dinosaurs and the Ice Age movie franchise, before brow stencils, Samsung Galaxies and intimate waxes, there have always been women who are just a bit more fabulous than everyone else.
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Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
a. Children, unlike adults, can believe wholeheartedly in all matter of absurdities.
b. All children, except one, grow up.
c. “There’s no such thing as fairies!” Wendy told Michael matter-of-factly. -
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
a. At the end of the second week in September a cart came in through Bywater from the direction of Brandywine Bridge. An old man was driving it all alone. He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf.
b. When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.
c. Hobbits, at their very core, are creatures of habit. A hobbit will live a peaceful life in the Shire, a land that is fertile and fruitful and untouched by wars; and that is just how they like it. -
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
a. If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book.
b. Mr Poe coughed into his handkerchief as he carefully made his way over the pebbles at Briny Beach.
c. The Baudelaire children were not blessed with good fortunes and easy lives. -
The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
a. Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I never left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
b. I leant against the wall at the end of my front yard and took a deep breath. There are 12 steps from my front porch to the road and just taking those had been a struggle. Some days are easier than others, but today was not going to be one of those.
c. Cancer. One word, six letters, endless connotations- none of them good. It’s THE label, and once you get stuck with it, nothing else about you matters. I’ve lived with the cancer label slapped across my forehead for nine miserable years now. -
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen
a. We’re going on a bear hunt. We’re going to catch a big one. What a beautiful day! We’re not scared.
b. We’re going on a bear hunt. We’re carrying massive shot-guns. Getting a bear skin rug! We’re not scared.
c. We’re going on a bear hunt. We’re going to be best friends. Can’t wait to have tea parties! We’re not scared. -
Matilda, Roald Dahl
a. Children have a wondrous imagination. They can be anything they desire to be. A doctor, a teacher, a priest, a spaceman, Prime Minister, no dream is too big or too small.
b. In a small room in a small house in a small town lived a small girl. In fact, the only thing not small about Matilda was her love of reading.
c. It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful. -
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
a. It was the best of times it was the worst of times.
b. Never have I ever seen such sweet sorrow.
c. There were stark differences between London and Paris in 1751. -
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
a. My eyes focused on the grass. You learn from childhood that grass is green and that’s just how it is. Tonight, this particular patch of grass was red.
b. It was seven minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears’ house. Its eyes were closed.
c. Growing up I was one of those kids without friends. You might think that’s sad but honestly, friendship confused me anyway. I liked being alone, alone is easy.
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Okay, I’m going to have a stab at this one. 
My Answers to:
Literature Quiz 📚
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b. The sound of footsteps thundering down the stairs above Harry’s head startled him awake. (?)
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b. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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a. Without fail, the sound of crickets always reminded George of home. He smiled to himself. His happiest memories were of living on the farm with his aunt Martha and playing in the creek with his friends. He treasured those moments, hanging on to them during difficult times, times like these. (?)
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a. Call me Ishmael.
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a. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And that’s the way it stayed until God created Divas.
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b. All children, except one, grow up.
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a. At the end of the second week in September a cart came in through Bywater from the direction of Brandywine Bridge. An old man was driving it all alone. He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf. (I’m thinking this could be the Hobbit now?)
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a. If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book. (?)
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c. Cancer. One word, six letters, endless connotations- none of them good. It’s THE label, and once you get stuck with it, nothing else about you matters. I’ve lived with the cancer label slapped across my forehead for nine miserable years now. (??)
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a. We’re going on a bear hunt. We’re going to catch a big one. What a beautiful day! We’re not scared.
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c. It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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a. It was the best of times it was the worst of times.
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b. It was seven minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears’ house. Its eyes were closed. (?)
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Good job with those, clearly know your classic books- you’ve fallen for a couple of my traps though 
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I put a question mark next to my semi-guesses.
The LOTR stuff all blurs into each other (and I’m sure that’s a Tolkein line, so if you’ve faked it you’ve done a brilliant job 
). And I’m sure one of those openers is Grapes of Wrath, but plumped for George as I was very close to googling it and ruining it for myself. Same for Lemony.
It’s hard not to go and check the book.
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Yes your assumptions about Tolkein and Steinbeck are correct, I did dip into other works with those two to find opening lines as I couldn’t fake their writing style in a convincing way at all. Gemma Collins on the other hand… very easy to slip inside her head.
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My Answers
1, a
2, b,
3, b
4, a
5, b
6, b
7 b
8, a
9, c
10, a
11, b
12, a
13, b
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Out of all those the only one i have read is 1984, but some opening lines are so iconic, i just know them! Also, i had no idea Gemma Collins could write!
Shock horror that you’ve never read We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. You have smashed that considering you’ve not read the majority.
As for Gemma Collins, I’m guessing she had a ghostwriter 
or a room full of monkeys with typewriters.
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It’s probably easier if you only know one line out of the whole book.
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I’m going with the monkeys! I think We’re Going On A Bear Hunt may be well after my time!