Please help me answer this quiz

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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A work colleague who is always helpful asked me for assistance with a set of fun quiz questions. I’ve done most of them, but there are a few left.

It’s that familiar idea of ‘here are some initials - what do they stand for?’. So ‘64 S on a CB’ requires you to write ‘64 Squares on a Chess Board’.

This quiz seems to be obscurely written e.g. one answer was ‘969 Years Moses Lived’. Not very good English.

Ok, here they are! (with my half-guesses in bold)

10,000 SI at a G (TD,WW)
1 A N of H
3 B S (C,E,A)
41 the JS by M (Mozart?)
20 M T in C
230 V of M S in U K (United Kingdom?)
3 S (P by C) (Painted?)
3 P C
40 Q in F

Go, Dopers!

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41 The Jupiter Symphony by Mozart

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Mannn, my brain is really atrophing, I use to be good at these word games. U…n…less…it’s strickly UK phrases, then, I ain’t so stooopid.

Sorry, Glee, I am useless.

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Shouldn’t that be Methuselah?

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Gah…

I think this is 230 Volts, but I don’t know what MS is. Main Supply?

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Eutychus,
thanks for the Mozart*.

Protesilaus,
I’ll check that - sounds better!

Syzygy,
a promising lead. I’m not sure if the Mains Supply is 230, or 220, though.

Shirley,
they probably are British based, but some are cultural*.

Is there a Chekov Play called 3 Sisters*?

*I’m not very cultured - if only these were all computer games…

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Yes, “3 sisters” is by Chekhov.

The “Q” is bugging me…I’ve tried “Quavers,” “Quarters,” “Quarks,” and “Quarts,” and couldn’t come up with a thing.

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This is a quote from the famous poem…

Ten thousand saw I at a glance (The Daffodils, William Wordsworth)

I’ll get back to you if I spot any of the others. BTW, my cite has the wrong title in it.

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20 Mean Temperature in Celsius (or Centigrade ~68 Farenheit)?

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The 230 V of MS in UK is definitely 230 Volts of Mains Supply in United Kingdom – although you’ll see appliances rated at anything from 220V to 240V they still work fine. My meter shows the official supply (to my address anyway) as 230V. Note the plural of “mains” too.

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pulykamell,
thanks for confirming. (I thought it might be 3 Seagulls :smiley: ) The Q is irritating me too. 40 suggested Ali Baba, but that’s just another blind alley.

everton,
I only knew the first two lines of the poem, so would never have got it. Ta muchly.
And I now know something more about my country’s power supply!

pcubed,
20 Mean Temperature in Celsius could be helpful - but I can’t think what is significant about 20 C…

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This quiz, how many questions were on it?

Could “40 Q in F” be “40 Questions in Full” or something like that?

My only other thought was “40 (somethings) in Flood”, a biblical reference to Noah.

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3 Bronte Sisters (Charlotte, Emily, Anne).

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1 = Atomic Number of Hydrogen

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40 Q in F could be Quarante in French

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pcubed,
I don’t know how many how many questions there were (my friend answered some herself), but I don’t think they were numbered.

Syzygy,
yes!

everton,
that French would be a ‘stretch’ - but I can’t do any better.

So that leaves:

20 M T in C
3 P C
40 Q in F

Where’s Cecil?

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3 Primary Colours

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40 Q in F could be “40 quarts in [a] firkin”, but this depends on British measurements. An American firkin is 9 American gallons, which is 36 quarts.

I know there’s 20 quires in a ream (although quire isn’t really a standard number), is there a double-ream that starts with ‘F’?

20 M T in C - Moves To-open in Chess?
That’s my 3 Possible Clues, anyway.

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London_Calling,
you know at once when someone’s right!

panamajack,
good effort.
Unfortunately I’m sure the grammar rules out both "40 quarts in [a] firkin, and 20 Moves To [open] in Chess.

So close, and yet so far…

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3 Purple Cows. (sorry.)

Whomever got the Bronte sisters must be a genius.

The 40 Q one stymies me. ( well they all do.) but I think it is something biblical and saying that, I know I am outgunned there.
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