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To ask MN to answer the one question all my family has failed on in this Christmas sweet quiz?

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refusetobeasheep · 26/12/2019 13:28

So in the end we managed to answer all but this: Rubbish or nonsense. Answer is a sweet or chocolate. Any ideas? And if anyone else is struggling with the last question on their quizzes, feel free to post!

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greenlavender · 26/12/2019 15:12

Humbug isn't chocolate though

Trews2019 · 26/12/2019 15:33

Can’t believe this is still going - the clue said chocolate or sweet!

Soufflejet · 26/12/2019 15:35

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Anniegetyourgun · 26/12/2019 20:48

Yeah, humbug's a boiled sweet, nothing like chocolate. I won't say it can't be that, but it shouldn't.

Mind you fudge isn't "a" chocolate as such, although you can get it either chocolate flavour or chocolate coated, of course. It's a closer fit though.

Chihaha · 26/12/2019 20:51

OR not and!!!

hazeyjane · 26/12/2019 20:59

Rubbish or nonsense. Answer is a sweet or chocolate.
Dictionary definition of Humbug
...."Ahumbugis a hard, striped sweet thattastesof peppermint."...."..nonsense or rubbish"

Clawdy · 26/12/2019 21:11

But it's NOT chocolate.......that was misleading.

bridgetreilly · 26/12/2019 21:59

It wasn't misleading. OP never says it had to be chocolate. It had to be a sweet OR chocolate. FFS.

Clawdy · 26/12/2019 23:03

I know, but it can't be chocolate, so why have that as part of answer??! Xmas Sad

bridgetreilly · 26/12/2019 23:25

Because all the answers in the quiz were sweets or chocolates and since the OP didn't know the answer she didn't know which it was. This really isn't that hard.

Trews2019 · 26/12/2019 23:30
OverUnderSidewaysDown · 27/12/2019 01:34

I blame the school curriculum.

UnWilly · 27/12/2019 01:35

Is it Boswell?

WeGoHigher · 27/12/2019 01:36

Gove is to blame.

sashh · 27/12/2019 01:39

Lol @UnWilly

steff13 · 27/12/2019 01:41

Why would you do a quiz where you didn't have access to the answers? I would find that frustrating.

Procrastination4 · 27/12/2019 02:15

Why not? Sometimes answers are published at a later date. Delayed gratification is good for you!

steff13 · 27/12/2019 03:12

Because I would find it frustrating. I thought that was clear, since that's what I said. 🤷

TipsyMalone · 27/12/2019 20:07

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Clawdy · 27/12/2019 20:12

No, 'cos that's the first time anyone has wanted to look in my brain! Fank yew, Tipsy!! Grin

TipsyMalone · 27/12/2019 20:24

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Butteredtoast55 · 27/12/2019 20:27

How is Poppycock a sweet or chocolate? Do people actually read the OPs?

Butteredtoast55 · 27/12/2019 20:31

Some of the responses on this thread have actually made me laugh out loud with incredulity and at some posters’ ability to deal with the humbug of others.

Anniegetyourgun · 27/12/2019 21:03

O right, I read that wrong then, if it could be either a sweet or chocolate, not both. Of course. Humbug it is then!

There is too a sweet called Poppycock, my mother used to buy it as an occasional treat because it was expensive; a toffee, popcorn and pecan mix, came in a tin. Not widely available perhaps, and I'd be very surprised if it were an answer to a quiz.

PuppyMonkey · 27/12/2019 21:12

This thread is gold.Grin

Funniest bit is the OP saying she was focussed on rubbish as in debris - but why would debris go with “nonsense”? Grin

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