The Quinto Coño Christmas Quiz!

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Here ye, here ye!

Day one of my Christmas Quiz

All welcome, sadly no prizes - except a smug smile and a pat on your own back

I'll post one question per day until Christmas Eve.

So, grab yourself a festive drink and snack of your choice and keep away from Google!

Bets of luck

Society columnist and movie trailer maker?
I love the film

I’ve just got a free trial of BritBox and it has Middlemarch on it! I definitely need to rewatch because....I’m a big fan of George Elliot’s mature and thought provoking novels? Yes that’s definitely it.

She made commercials! (Adverts)

I must admit that I've not seen the film, but on looking it up, I noticed that Diaz & Law had been nominated for the Meilleur Baiser award!

It's actually quite a good film! I watched it last January when dh was still working away and I had the television to myself
Ok, it's not deep philosophy, but as froth goes it was lovely.

I really want to watch the holiday now! Might save it for Xmas eve when DH is working. No clue about the answer to todays question - I've only watched it once and have a piss poor memory

Woh time has flown! Helping small person with a science project for Wednesday, damn loo roll windmills are surprisingly tricky!

In The Holiday, Kate Winslet is a wedding and society columnist for The Telegraph, Cameron Diaz is a movie trailer producer. Sounds random - sounds fun!

Today I'll treat you to more than one question, to make up for my tardiness

Question:
13A:
What year was The Snowman first shown?

13B:
Brandy is made from distilling what?

13C:
Which carol contains the line "star with royal beauty bright"?

13D:
Christmas Island is a territory of which country?

13E:
How many times has Do They Know It's Christmas been number 1 in the UK charts?

Happy head-scratching Sunday

13B Brandy is distilled from wine (fermented grape).

13C That line comes from "We three kings of Orient are..."

!3D Christmas Island was named by the British East India Company IIRC, is it an Australian territory now? I know it's been in the news recently.

No idea on the music question, or The Snowman, but I'm sure we had the book in the 1970s so it must be later than that as the book appeared first.

How's your supply of sticky backed plastic and wire coat hangers doing? If only we could always say "Here's one I prepared earlier"!

13A - 1983?
13B - no idea!
13C - We Three Kings
13D - Taking a guess - Sweden?
13E - 5

Good evening!

A: 1982
B: wine/grapes
C: We Three Kings of Orient Are (one in a taxi, one in a car, one on a scooter beeping his hooter, travelling from afar!)
D: Australia
E: 3

I should post more pronto tomorrow, schoolday and all.

We have been so busy today, no time to get quizzing. But looking forward to tomorrow.

Happy Monday!

This is an easy one:
Q14:
Which Christmas slogan was introduced by Clarissa Baldwin of Dog's Trust in 1978?

Woof woof!

A Dog Is For Life, Not Just For Christmas!

I didn't know that!

But here's a Christmassy dog joke...
Q Who delivers Christmas presents to dogs?
A Santa Paws!

Correct LunaNorth with greyhound speed!

Santa Paws

Tinseltastic Tuesday everyone!

Today's question is fiendish

Q15:
If you were to play the word CHRISTMAS on a triple word score in Scrabble, how many points would you win?

Ooof!

Is it cheating to dig out the Junior Scrabble box and count it up??

Most definitely cheating InTheCludgie sorry

203 including 50 bonus for seven letters?

Won't it differ according to the placement, because of the double letter squares? As you'd need two letters to already be on the board, it's not possible to determine which double-letter tiles have been used first?
Plain placement, I'd say 195.

It would be possible to place the word across two triple word squares, which would obviously give you squillions of points, and you'd go down in our family history forever!

Surely it's not possible to give a definitive answer, as it would depend on how it was placed on the board?

But, Ada, doesn't Quinto mean the theoretical maximum? If you start on a corner triple word you can reach the next one so you multiply your basic letter score by three then three again then add the bonus. Which is what Passata said.
Even in an actual game it would work if by some amazing chance two words had been placed so two of their tiles were in the stretch between two triple word squares and you had the seven other Christmas tiles.

Yes, I can see how you got your answer Tricky! It's years since I've played Scrabble, and I've forgotten some of the finer points of the scoring.

I think I get 576 allowing for going across two triple word scores, but not getting a point for two letters worth one that you have crossed. Hope that makes sense (I've forgotten, you don't count the points on tiles already laid, no?)