Lovely gorgeous mumsnetters who helped me earlier, plus the evening shift who have just clocked on (and are equally lovely) please try out my geography questions for the pub quiz later this week and let me know what you think...

[handlemecarefully]

Usual rules apply:

Take 5 mins only (simulating 'quiz conditions')
You may confer with others if you are not alone (again, simulating quiz conditions)
But you can't google!

here they are:
1)Which English county lies between the counties of Worcestershire and Northamptonshire

2)Which country (according to the International Monetary Fund) has the highest gross domestic product (GDP is the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year divided by the average population for the same year)?

3)Where in the world would you find Mount Kilimanjaro?

4)Which is the world?s smallest ocean?

5)Which is the southernmost State of the USA?

6)What is the modern-day name for Mesopotamia?

7)What is Portland Bill?

8)What is the name of the stretch of water between the English mainland and the Isle of Wight?

9)What do Australians call a dry stream bed that fills with water when it rains?

10. In 1506,who was the discoverer of the island of Tristan da Cunha?

Oh gawd, I hope I've got it right this time (i.e. not too hard and not too easy)

have just been on the "having babies makes you stupid" thread.

take a look and lol.

sorry i have Geography a-level and feel i must know some of these answers but can't stop laughing for long enuf to think

1)Which English county lies between the counties of Worcestershire and Northamptonshire Warwickshire

2)Which country (according to the International Monetary Fund) has the highest gross domestic product (GDP is the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year divided by the average population for the same year)? Japan

3)Where in the world would you find Mount Kilimanjaro? Kenya

4)Which is the world?s smallest ocean? Arctic

5)Which is the southernmost State of the USA? Hawaii

6)What is the modern-day name for Mesopotamia? Iraq

7)What is Portland Bill? Spit of land extending into the Channel

8)What is the name of the stretch of water between the English mainland and the Isle of Wight? Solent

9)What do Australians call a dry stream bed that fills with water when it rains? ?

10. In 1506,who was the discoverer of the island of Tristan da Cunha? Vasco da Gama

Well giggle the morning shift did very well with my other questions [haughty tone emoticon]

Some of those are guesses HMC
FYI, I am a quiz nut

I'm not telling you how you've done yet Marina for fear of skewing results...but I appreciate your dedication to the cause

1 Warwickshire
2 Sweden
3 Kenya
4 South Atlantic
5 Florida
6 Iraq
7 A peninsula thingy - south of England?
8 Solent
9 No idea
10 That guy whose name I've forgotten - all the inhabitants still have his name

All guesswork!

Oh I haven't got a hope here - I am rubbish at geography.

1. Gloucestershire
2. Japan
3. Tanzania (have to confess, DH reading over my shoulder told me that one)
4. No idea. Pacific
5. Florida
6. Ethiopia
7. It's a place in Dorset
8. The Solent (I'd better get that one right, I can see it)
9. A billabong

10. Christopher Columbus

I reckon I have maybe got 3 right there.

1)Which English county lies between the counties of Worcestershire and Northamptonshire
Warwickshire
2)Which country (according to the International Monetary Fund) has the highest gross domestic product (GDP is the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year divided by the average population for the same year)?
Sweden
3)Where in the world would you find Mount Kilimanjaro?
Tanzania
4)Which is the world?s smallest ocean?
Artic
5)Which is the southernmost State of the USA?
Florida
6)What is the modern-day name for Mesopotamia?
Iraq
7)What is Portland Bill?
A bit of rock that sticks out from Dorset near Weymouth
8)What is the name of the stretch of water between the English mainland and the Isle of Wight?
solent
9)What do Australians call a dry stream bed that fills with water when it rains?
billabong (had to sing Waltzing Matilda to work it out)
10) In 1506,who was the discoverer of the island of Tristan da Cunha?
Columbus?

I promise I didn't google (joint effort, me and dh). Were we right??

Now I've read the other ideas and I think I know which ones we got wrong.

Thanks for the entertainment anyway!

still living up to ma name & giggling
1)warwickshire
2)am guessing but not writing it
3)Tanzania
4) oh shit i really do know this
5)hawaii
6)Istanbul
7)umm a spit or bar, can't remember the difference
8)the solent (ahh i remember howards way)
9)creek bed - or creek something
10 not a clue. who???????!!!!

1)Which English county lies between the counties of Worcestershire and Northamptonshire - warwickshire

2)Which country (according to the International Monetary Fund) has the highest gross domestic product (GDP is the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year divided by the average population for the same year)? China?

3)Where in the world would you find Mount Kilimanjaro? Kenya

4)Which is the world?s smallest ocean? Arctic

5)Which is the southernmost State of the USA? Puerto Rico perhaps (hasn't it recently been absorbed into the US? Or was that a film?) Alternatively Florida. I suppose Guatanamo Bay doesn't count?

6)What is the modern-day name for Mesopotamia? Iraq

7)What is Portland Bill? - a beachhead? no idea. What Marina said

8)What is the name of the stretch of water between the English mainland and the Isle of Wight? What Marina said

9)What do Australians call a dry stream bed that fills with water when it rains? billabong?

10. In 1506,who was the discoverer of the island of Tristan da Cunha? Vasco da Gama

make my answer number 7 a lighthouse?

HMC - when are you giving us the grand totals and the right answers? and do we get extra points (please) for evening overtime

Ok, the answers are:

1)Warwickshire
2) Luxembourg
3) Tanzania
4)The Artic Ocean
5)Hawaii
6)Iraq
7) Surprisingly not a strip of land that's Portland, Portland Bill however is a lighthouse on Portland www.weymouthpanorama.co.uk/portland.htm
8)The Solent
9) A billabong
10) you'll love this - Tristan da Cunha!!!!!

So how did you feel in answering these questions:

a) easy!
b) gah! - I should know this
c)chuffin' hell - blooding obscure questions. Grr I am irritated

Anyone doing evening over time gets a gold star gigglewitch

b.

or make that a B-star?!!

you should make a habit of sending us hunting for our long lost brain-cells. I enjoyed - thank you!!

C!

OK, probably B. I got a 3 and DH told me one of those!

Grrreat! - (b) is what I am aiming for.
And thank you, I really need all your help in road testing these questions

Ooops sorree Lapin!

What about everyone else?

b)
About what I'd expect from a decent quiz with regards to tricks, faux amis etc

I did say I was rubbish at geography I always avoid those questions in Trivial Pursuit!

Praise indeed from the esteemed (10 out of 10 on music and lit round) Marina

1)Which English county lies between the counties of Worcestershire and Northamptonshire - Oxfordshire?

2)Which country (according to the International Monetary Fund) has the highest gross domestic product (GDP is the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year divided by the average population for the same year)? USA?

3)Where in the world would you find Mount Kilimanjaro? - Tanzania

4)Which is the world?s smallest ocean? Indian??

5)Which is the southernmost State of the USA? Hawaii???

6)What is the modern-day name for Mesopotamia? arghhh - haven't got a clue on this one LOL - Turkey??

7)What is Portland Bill? Lighthouse???

8)What is the name of the stretch of water between the English mainland and the Isle of Wight? Solent???

9)What do Australians call a dry stream bed that fills with water when it rains? Waddi???

10. In 1506,who was the discoverer of the island of Tristan da Cunha? Columbus???

OK - how many didn't I get right

ok - now scrolled down and seen the answers - b) I SHOULD have known most of those

1)Which English county lies between the counties of Worcestershire and Northamptonshire

Warwickshire

2)Which country (according to the International Monetary Fund) has the highest gross domestic product (GDP is the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year divided by the average population for the same year)?

Japan

3)Where in the world would you find Mount Kilimanjaro?

Kenya?

4)Which is the world?s smallest ocean?

Indian. I don't know.

5)Which is the southernmost State of the USA?

California? or florida, or hawaii

6)What is the modern-day name for Mesopotamia?

Syria? iran? that general area

7)What is Portland Bill?

Island off weymouth, attached to mainland by bar called Chesil Beach

8)What is the name of the stretch of water between the English mainland and the Isle of Wight?

The Solent

9)What do Australians call a dry stream bed that fills with water when it rains?

it's not waddi is it

10. In 1506,who was the discoverer of the island of Tristan da Cunha?

no idea

I think these are quite tricky. I usually like the geog qus in TP....