# Not A My Little Pony In Sight-The BritDope Quiz **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 29, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199 "2004-11-29T20:03:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@silkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silkie)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199/21 "2004-11-30T19:42:14Z")
Nitpick Quote: 9.Which 14-mile track was used for the last time for Formula 1 in 1976 as it was deemed too dangerous? The Nurbergring Actually the Nordschleife at Nuerburg - they still use the new track for the European Grand Prix ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199/22 "2004-12-01T02:12:53Z")
6.In which year did Les Miserables open on Broadway? There are no reliable records for the actual first production but there is this entry from Peter Minuit’s diary. October 14th 1626 Saw the all Indian production of Les Miserables tonight. I didn’t see what the big deal was. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199/23 "2004-12-01T04:41:35Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > Sternvogel-Qatar’s correct(I had it as purple and white). Which are the same colours that [Latvia](http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/flags/lg-flag.html) uses. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199/24 "2004-12-01T04:51:04Z")
> [@](#): > > 1.Which is the only animal that can see both ultraviolet and infra red? Goldfish ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199/25 "2004-12-01T15:11:13Z")
Tapioca & Casdave-Yep goldfish is right. And I hadn’t thought of Latvia.Fortunately no-one else had. graememorrison-Hearts is one and roger thornhill got the other-Queen of the South.Mr thornhill also got the mahjongg and Capernaum right cher3 got Dracula right. And that new paperclip shaped thing isn’t anything to do with the Nurburgring apart from sharing its name.Which the F1 purists hate.The original is the only one that can truly be considered to merit the name of the Ring 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199/26 "2004-12-01T16:34:47Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > 6.In which year did Les Miserables open on Broadway? > There are no reliable records for the actual first production but there is this entry from Peter Minuit’s diary. > > October 14th 1626 Broadway? In 1626? Jamestown wasn’t even settled until 1607, and the colonies didn’t expand _that_ fast. And **Ice** , what about my answers (except for the book one)? ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199/27 "2004-12-02T02:14:42Z")
Good quiz, **Iceman**. Mr Thornhill got Old Kent Road right, did he not, my son? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199/28 "2004-12-02T11:19:39Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > 3.Who is being described here? > ‘The youngest of 3 sisters,her father was an air steward.In 1980 she married her high school sweetheart.Her first proper TV appearance was in 1989,when she was > shown attending her children’s school Christmas concert.A conviction for shoplifting bourbon did not affect her career,as she got a star role in an adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire and is also gifted artistically.’ I can’t believe no-one has got this yet. Marge Simpson. ---
**Author:** ![BadBadger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BadBadger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBadger)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199/29 "2004-12-02T14:42:13Z")
Ice, can I second the request for a complete list of answers? email should be in my profile, or maybe stick it in a spoiler for everyone? These are tough but curiously addictive ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199/30 "2004-12-02T16:26:05Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > Broadway? In 1626? > Jamestown wasn’t even settled until 1607, and the colonies didn’t expand _that_ fast. > > And **Ice** , what about my answers (except for the book one)? From the DAR website _On May 4, 1626, Minuit arrived at the mouth of the Hudson River to take up his assignment as the third director of the New Netherland Colony, the Dutch settlement centered at the southern tip of Manhattan that was established in 1624._ Broadway exisited as an Indian trail that ran N/S on the island before the Dutch ever got here. Les Miz and Phantom and Cats were all playing in the area now know as Times Square although Cats was originally about cougars. ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199/31 "2004-12-03T13:08:44Z")
> [@BadBadger](#): > > Ice, can I second the request for a complete list of answers? email should be in my profile, or maybe stick it in a spoiler for everyone? > These are tough but curiously addictive Yep.They’ll be on their way soon.Full answers will go up in a couple of weeks. Since people like it,then I could put one up each month if folks would like and raise a bit of money for charity by charging people a few dollars for each one. Good idea? ---
**Author:** ![Daftbugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Daftbugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daftbugger)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199/32 "2004-12-03T13:21:30Z")
4.Medals are awarded for 1st-3rd in the Olympics.What is given for 4th-8th place? Laurel wreaths? 7.In which game would you find characters,bamboos and circles? I can’t spell it, but it’s mahjong ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199/33 "2004-12-03T18:56:37Z")
Nice quiz. How about a new forum for quizzes and puzzles? Express your opinions [here.](http://207.97.195.229/sdmb/showthread.php?t=287402) ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199/34 "2004-12-23T22:12:25Z")
OK here’s the answers.Another quiz for your Christmas conshumption soon hic 🙂 > [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > So all you who couldn’t attend can share the joys. > To enjoy the full experience, you need to be semi-drunk, stuffed on sugar and frantically trying to get all the questions in in half-an-hour 🙂 > > 7 rounds 🙂 > The One & Only > 1.Which is the only animal that can see both ultraviolet and infra red? **Goldfish** > 2.Which is the only country whose flag doesn’t contain a color of the Olympic rings? > **Qatar(and as I have been told Latvia)** > 3.Which is the only bone in the body not connected to any other? **Hyoid** > 4.Which is the only letter that doesn’t appear in the name of a state of the US? **Q** > 5.Which is the only Monopoly property to lie south of the River Thames? **Old Kent Road** > 6.Who is the only white person to have had a UK #1 on the Tamla Motown label? **Charlene** > 7.Which is the only US city to have a royal palace? **Honolulu** > 8.Who is the only person to find their own name on the winners’envelope at the Oscars? **Irving Berlin** > 9.Where did Man visit for the only time in 1960 for a period of just 20 minutes? 🙂 **The Challenger Deep.The Marianas Trench.They found some 1920s-style death rays** > 10.What was Ali Bennaceur the only person not to see on 22 Jun 1986 in Mexico? > **The Hand of God goal** > All Singing All Dancing > 1.Which song was a UK #1 hit in 1991,1992 and 1993? **Days of our Lives** > 2.Which singer wrote the English lyrics to My Way? **Paul Anka** > 3.From which country did the first Miss World come? **Sweden** > 4.In which 2 cities did Live Aid take place? **London,Philadelphia** > 5.Which band in a 20 year career had 2 #1s and a #2,with virtually a different band line-up for each song? **England World Cup Squad** > 6.In which year did Les Miserables open on Broadway? **1987** > 7.Wings won the very first Best Film Oscar in 1927.What else was unique about it? > **Only silent film to win an Oscar** > 8.Which US landmark was originally known as Cahuenga Valley? **Hollywood** > 9.Not counting special awards,who is the youngest person to have won an Oscar? **Tatum O’Neal** > 10.Which 3 bands that had a UK #1 share their names **exactly** with cities? > **Chicago,Berlin & Dunblane** > The Sporting Life > 1.Which teams go first and last in the Olympic procession? **Greece & host country** > 2.In which sport are your balls yellow in warm conditions and blue if it’s cold? **Squash** > 3.In which sport would you use a rover that is a different color to other pieces of equipment? **Croquet** > 4.Medals are awarded for 1st-3rd in the Olympics.What is given for 4th-8th place? **Certificates** > 5.In which year were the Winter Olympics **not** held-1992,1994,1996 or 1998? **1996** > 6.Which two Scottish football league teams are named after the nicknames of the cities where they play? **Hearts,Queen of the South** > 7.In which game would you find characters,bamboos and circles? **Mahjongg** > 8.Which Brazilian superstar debuted last week for Northern League club Garforth Town? **Socrates** > 9.Which 14-mile track was used for the last time for Formula 1 in 1976 as it was deemed too dangerous? **Nurburgring** > 10.Where will the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics be held? **Turin,Vancouver** > > Brainwhirrers(the very hard round!) > 1.What completes this sequence and why?..3,3,5,4,4,3,7… **oops,that 7 should be 5…the next number is 5…they are the number of letters in the first eight numbers…ONE,TWO,THREE…etc** > 2.What links Charlotte in 1814,Corinne in 1818,Kate in 1852,Elizabeth in 1871 and Hannah in 1880? **Derby winners** > 3.Who is being described here? > 'The youngest of 3 sisters,her father was an air steward.In 1980 she married her high school sweetheart.Her first proper TV appearance was in 1989,when she was > shown attending her children’s school Christmas concert.A conviction for shoplifting bourbon did not affect her career,as she got a star role in an adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire and is also gifted artistically.' **Marge Simpson** > 4.It was first marketed as Dr.Haas’Catamenial Device. What is it now known as? **Tampax** > 5.What did this sequence refer to?1952 1,1958 1,1960 1,1962 1,1969 1,1973 4,1980 2,1981 1,1982 2,1983 1,1984 2,1985 1,1987 1,1989 4,1991 6,1992 1,1993 3,1994 4,1995 11,1996 19,1997 21,1998 27,1999 33,2000 41,2001 29,2002 30,2003 22,2004 27(so far) **Number of UK #1s that have gone straight in at the #1 spot** > 6.Whose boobs were first fondled on 15 Jul 1981 and then again on 9 Aug 1981 as recorded by the perpetrator? **Pandora Braithwaite** > 7.‘It is so likely to happen that this week,bookies announced they were no longer taking bets on it happening’.What is it? **Band Aid being Christmas #1** > 8.Not using slang 🙂 name ten parts of the body with just three letters in. **arm,eye,ear,leg,toe,rib,gum,lip,jaw,hip** > 9.What links these & which is the odd one:syndrome, pea, diet, match, wall, pride > **they can all have a city added to them to make a phrase-Stockholm Syndrome,split pea,Oslo diet,Paris Match,Berlin Wall,London Pride.Split is the only one that’s not a capital** > 10.Name five 8-letter words that only contain one vowel **several available-rhythmic,cyclists,crystals,blackfly,strength,scratchy,stretchy** > > Where in the World? > 1.Where was Captain Corelli’s Mandolin set? **Greece** > 2.Which is England’s smallest county? **Rutland** > 3.Where did Jesus live during the 3 years of his ministry? **Capernaum** > 4.Which country’s name in its native language means ‘The Saviour’? **El Salvador** > 5.Which English county shares a border with just one other? **Cornwall** > 6.Who was the last prison to be held in the Tower of London? **Rudolf Hess** > 7.Which country does port originate from? **Portugal** > 8.To the nearest 5,how many countries are south of the Equator? **35** > 9.Which island group’s flag is a white St.Andrews cross on a light blue background? **Shetlands** > 10.Put these countries in order N-S:Estonia,Iceland,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Malta, Macedonia,Netherlands,Slovenia **Ice,Est,Lit,Net,Liec,Slov,Mac,Malt** > > Sponsors & Videos > Who sponsors these programs(may vary depending on channel) > 1.Friends 2.Malcolm in the Middle 3.Simpsons 4.Coronation St. 5.Grand Prix > **1.Jacob’s Creek 2.Urbz 3.Pizza Hut/Domino’s 4.Cadbury’s 5.Daily Telegraph** > > Which 80s music videos do these scenes come from? > 6.A mid-air plane collision,followed by a fairground scene **los Lobos-la Bamba** > 7.A ‘woman’ doing the Hoovering,whilst her ‘daughter’ is at the kitchen sink **Queen-I Want To Break Free** > 8.A flashback of a family walk on the beach,then a drive past an oil refinery **Bluebells-Young at Heart** > 9.Johnnie Ray arriving by plane,surrounded by fans **Dexy’s Midnight Runners-Come On Eileen** > 10.A young girl is sitting in a cafe reading a comic strip about a car race **a-ha-Take On Me** > > A Life of Leisure > 1.Billy West and Katey Sagal provide the voices for which animated comedy? **Futurama** > 2.From which city did the first US radio station broadcast? **Philadelphia** > 3.In which novel would you find Malta,Quebec,Woolwich and the Jellyby family? **Bleak House** > 4.The first scented advert appeared on telly in 1997.What did it advertise?\*\*Gin 😛 \*\* > 5.Which TV game show host was born with the Christian names Newton Edward? **Paul Daniels** > 6.Which trendy accessory did Edward Craven Walker invent? **Lava Lamp** > 7.Which book begins ‘3 May Bistriz.We left Munich at 8.33 on May 1,arriving at Vienna the next morning. We should have arrived at 6.46, but the train was an hour late’? **Dracula** > 8.Which future TV star was chosen to join Bruce Springsteen on the stage in his Dancing in the Dark video? **Courteney Cox** > 9.Which classic board game celebrates its 25th anniversary of production this month? **Trivial Pursuit** > 10.What after 40 years was revealed last year to have all been a dream? **Crossroads** > > Best of luck. > The quizmaster is susceptible to bribery 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-a-my-little-pony-in-sight-the-britdope-quiz/277199.md?page=1)