The Foot.ie Challenge

[thischarmingman]

**** it, done by a retard's question!
Which number has an eerie conection with the Twin Towers attack.
I figured it was going to be 9 or 11.
What I didn't know was there was 11 people on one plane, 65 on the other (6+5, wooooooo), and the flags flew at half mast until the 22nd (2 11s, woooooooo!)
(BTW, there was 11 crew on that plane, 81 passengers. Why not 8+1=9 woooooooo! Or why not 92, as the 65 on the other plane was passengers AND crew)
Jesus is there no quality control with the questions in this thing??!!
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I enjoyed that rant. Thoroughly.

[stann]

Sorry.
These "spooky" occurrences drive me cracked anyway.
When sh!t like that is in a quiz and it costs me a perfect 10...
Feel better now though. Unless there's more today!

[stann]

Not a rant, but FFS how could 4 of 10 literature questions be about Stephen King? And I wasn't the only one to get a pile of them by the look of it.
This, and the situation mentioned above, is what happens when you let the public get involved in anything!

Just as well I used to read his stuff. Missed a Dark Tower one (never read those), but got Cujo, Dreamcatcher and Needful Things. Oh, and missed the one Shakespeare one in the ten.

[Magicme]

I got my shakespeare right but havent a clue on Stephen King as have never read any of his books and only have seen The Shawshank Redemption. Am too much of a softie for King!

[stann]

Me too.
My parents made me read a pile of his books years ago.
Didn't work.

[dfx-]

I was getting worried when greeted with the first six red x's...

[pineapple stu]

What important number do Percy Shelly and Sylvia someone or other have in common?

30. They both died age 30. Except for Percy, who was almost 30.

Like, wtf?!

[oldyouth]

Time for a bump

[pineapple stu]

Just thinking - as it's a foot.ie forum quiz, any chance of a football/sport round one of the days?

[stann]

World: UK is up in a bit.

[Hitman]

Congratulations Stann.

[stann]

Ta Hitman, good battle!

[oldyouth]

Well done Stann. A long way back to 3rd

[superfrank]

Probably the strangest question yet:

10. All that frolicking in fountains and running around on mountains has taken its toll. Maria caught a cold, and it swiftly passed to the Captain and then through all the Von Trapp children. So, for the moment, the hills are alive with the sound of...?

Your Answer: Mucus

[sligoman]

Father Dougal McGuire and Mrs Doyle served in which show?

'Father Ted'
'The Vicar of Dibley'
'Bless Me Father'
'Oh Brother'

, on a British channel alright but British, it was not.

[HarpoJoyce]

Father Dougal McGuire and Mrs Doyle served in which show?

'Father Ted'
'The Vicar of Dibley'
'Bless Me Father'
'Oh Brother'

, on a British channel alright but British, it was not.

You're not getting on my table quiz team!

[superfrank]

, on a British channel alright but British, it was not.

Well, technically the show was produced in the UK on a UK channel with UK companies. They were all Irish writers but they'd lived in the UK for a while.

[stann]

Sorry Sligoman, it was made by Hat Trick, who do quite a few shows including Have I Got News For You, Room 101, and the new Armstrong & Miller - I think Rory McGrath is involved with them btw.
Also, pretty much all the inside scenes were filmed in England.

I think it can genuinely be claimed by both countries, as nobody can argue that it's not Irish, but yet when Linehan & Matthews went to the UK to get it made you could hardly argue that it's not British either.
As another btw, I think as well that that's a load of crap about RTE turning it down first.

[passinginterest]

First 10 I've got this month after a run of 5's and 6's and I'm only 3rd out of 5

[pineapple stu]

Also on the Father Ted thing, the quiz was about British culture, not British-made stuff necessarily. So I got a question on Star Trek because Star Trek is popular in Britain, not because it's British.