BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.

Subject: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 08:29 PM

Okay: I haven't put one here for a while, but it's time to con-fuddle you with a quiz again.
Apologies to transpondians if it's a little Brit-centric. (use google if the questions are too obscure).
The questions (and answers) follow my usual idiotsyncracies (did I spell that right?)
As usual: PLEASE DO NOT POST ANSWERS IN THIS THREAD. I will provide all the answers in a later linked thread (the one with answers to lots of quizzes!)
However, feel free to make ambiguous comments about the questions/answers, or to claim scores (out of twenty). I will check and score any responses sent me by PM, and post the results here. including who is first with 20/20, or who does best if it is too difficult.

CHEERS

Nigel (the connection is in the title!)


1        When is a door not a door?
2        Which TV chef owns several businesses in Padstow?
3        What is the cockney rhyming slang for the posterior, and, by association, cockney slang for 'nerve'?
4        What word means to legally sink a ball in snooker or pool?
5        What word means to be severely, adversely critical of a movie or play?
6        Which drink by Whitbread was advertised as helping you excel, "after one I do anything well"! ?
7        What short word describes a metal, plastic, or wicker refuse receptacle?
8        Who starred as Nellie Boswell in 'Bread'?
9        What name is given to the shaped part of a brassiere that holds the breast?
10        What term has been used to describe part of the male anatomy when disfiguring running shorts (as with Linford Christie)?
11        What word describes a fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel having at least two masts, with a foremast that is usually smaller than the other masts?
12        What word means to impede progress?
13        What word describes a face, or the victim of a con trick?
14        What word describes the amount of game shot, or an unpleasant woman?
15        What word can mean a mirror, or barometer?
16        What slang term for jail is also used to describe large ears?
17        What word describes a boat, usually a coastal or river steamer, that plies a regular route and carries passengers, freight, and mail?
18        What will a Royal House have to show that the Queen is there?
19        How might one introduce Bruce Willis's ex-wife to Mr Travolta?
20        What is black, white, and read all over?

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 08:35 PM

Isn't that "transponders"?

~ Becky in Tucson (across the pond and most of a continent)

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 08:36 PM

The fact that number 8 follows number 7 is purely co-incidental!

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 08:38 PM

No, DD, Transpondians refers to those located across the big pond (Atlantic) from where I am in the UK (Wales to be precise).
Transponders are something electrical! (how's that for a vague comment?)

CHEERS
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: John O'L
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 09:13 PM

Well I think I got 10/20 and I'm not British or Transpondian.

If no. 20 has the obvious answer but is not a food container then I got 11.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 09:24 PM

John O'L gets in quickly with a 10/20.

No 20 was correct, but one other needed correction

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: John O'L
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 09:31 PM

Hmmm. An incorrect answer admittedly, but I think mine could have earned me half a point...

Of course I accept the referee's decision and will return to the field after tea.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: jeffp
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 09:39 PM

Doesn't number 8 usually follow number 7? That's how we do it on this side of the pond.

Jeff (innocently) (yeah, right)

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Leadfingers
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 10:25 PM

Well I can get 9 out of the twenty !! BUT I have been down the pub tonight !

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Leadfingers
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 10:26 PM

Probably would have been a lot worse sober !

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 02:40 AM

Of course, when I say 'Food containers' that automatically includes food & drink!

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 04:00 AM

No's 7&8 seem to be causing problems also 12 & 20.
No7 is a term for all 3 forms given. 'Basket' would only literally be the wicker version. (Think 'Bread')
No 8 relies on the correct pronunciation of the surname (Think 'Gravy' or 'sauce')
12 Another 'wicker' item?
20 No longer valid under UK health & Safety, but an old container for fish 'n' chips.

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 05:34 AM

You are a sick, sick man Nigel....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Snuffy
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 06:55 AM

So No. 7 is all noughts and ones?

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 10:22 AM

Nigel, have you checked your PMs? I sent you a set of answers a couple of days ago and haven't heard anything back from you. I'd be interested to know how many I got right. Number 8 still has me stumped.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Amos
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 11:01 AM

How terribly parochial of you, Nigel!! Why not aim for something a little more cosmic in orientation?

BTW, my favorite food container is the human chest.

A

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 11:29 AM

Hmm Amos methinks you are anatomically challenged there, if you stored your food in your chest, where would you hide your lungs, or your great big San Diego malt whisky adulterating heart?
Giok ☺

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 02:06 PM

Snuffy:
Wish I'd thougt of that ones & O's for No.7. It's even worse than some of my clues (must remember it!)
JennyO:
Sorry, quiz posted Sundau night & then on Monday night (when I would have been on line) I managed to get over to Bristol's Nova Scotia Folk Club. Which at just under 1 hour each way put paid to my whole evening.

PM responses imminent

CHEERS
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 02:41 PM

For those who can no longer wait, the official answers are Here also the answers to other quizzes with (usually) blue clickies to take you back to the quizzes.

Scores (first received first)
Nessie 19
Snuffy 17
Jenny O (sorry, tht's not actually a score!) TRY AGAIN:
JennyO 19
The Walrus 18
Giok 20 (Good man!)
Mo The Caller 16

CHEERS all
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 03:09 PM

And just now, 20/20 from Tig with help from Firecat & Badger

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: vectis
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 07:53 PM

Just found this, PM sent. 18's got me stumped tho

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Mo the caller
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 07:09 AM

18 was terrible, I should have got 12 but I refuse to know anything about 3, or 10

Subject: RE: BS: QUIZ: Food Containers.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 02:40 PM

Vectis 19/20!