Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Other subjects
Original poster

Patient and tolerant mumsnetters, here is the proposed Current Affairs round for the pub quiz if you are still hanging on in there and prepared to have a go

37 replies

handlemecarefully · 03/12/2007 22:18

Rules: 5 mins only
You may confer if you have company
No googling

Here they are:

  1. How old is Pussywillow, a domestic cat from Shropshire who could well be the one of the oldest cats in the UK.

  2. Where is the UN Climate Change Conference 2007 going to be held?

  3. Which rugby union player retired last week and played in the Barbarians victory over South Africa?

  4. What is Steve Fossett's wife currently asking for him to be declared?

  5. Why was Prof Bob Flood in the news last week

  6. Whose dodgy donations have caused red faces in the Labour Party recently?

  7. What year will London Host the Olympics Games

  8. Which city is named the European Capital of Culture 2008

  9. What is the name of the new Prime Minister of Australia?

  10. Who won the Turner prize earlier this week?

With a debt of thanks to some other mumsnetters who helped me with these questions on another thread!

OP posts:
Original poster
handlemecarefully · 04/12/2007 14:00

you're loosing interest aren't you?

OP posts:
WendyWeber · 04/12/2007 15:15

Get them all open in separate windows and bump them one after the other so they appear in active convos together and stand out a bit!

(but mid-afternoon is when everybody starts drifting towards school so I'd leave it until the evening)

WendyWeber · 04/12/2007 15:16

**1)Why is glamour puss and Country singer,Dolly Parton, currently visiting Rotherham? PASS

**2) Who will be naming their next teddy bear 'Cuddles'? GILLIAN GIBBONS

  1. Which rugby union player retired last week and played in the Barbarians victory over South Africa?

  2. What is Steve Fossett's wife currently asking for him to be declared?

**5) Which country's elections were this week discredited by the Council of Europe? RUSSIA

  1. Whose dodgy donations have caused red faces in the Labour Party recently?

  2. What year will London Host the Olympics Games

  3. Which city is named the European Capital of Culture 2008

**9)Which British Supermodel recently joined the ranks of Who's Who? PASS

  1. Who won the Turner prize earlier this week?
WendyWeber · 04/12/2007 15:18

Blimey - I just googled the model one, I am shocked!

Original poster
handlemecarefully · 04/12/2007 15:55

Thanks Wendy - you obviously found 2 of the 4 new questions ok so I am moving in right direction. Will re bump thread in the evening for other responses.

By the time we have finished, with all this MN input, this will be the best quiz in the Northern hemisphere

OP posts:
Original poster
handlemecarefully · 04/12/2007 15:55

Oh and Dolly is promoting a new literacy programme. It was on BBC breakfast news yesterday and in the Times today

OP posts:
mollymawk · 04/12/2007 16:02

Ooh, new ones (didn't do last night's)

**1)Why is glamour puss and Country singer,Dolly Parton, currently visiting Rotherham? don't know

**2) Who will be naming their next teddy bear 'Cuddles'? gillian gibbons? (good qu!)

  1. Which rugby union player retired last week and played in the Barbarians victory over South Africa? don't know but I did see a whole load of SA rugby players in the airport on Sunday

  2. What is Steve Fossett's wife currently asking for him to be declared? dead?

**5) Which country's elections were this week discredited by the Council of Europe? russia?

  1. Whose dodgy donations have caused red faces in the Labour Party recently? david abrahams

  2. What year will London Host the Olympics Games 2012

  3. Which city is named the European Capital of Culture 2008 Glasgow? Or was that years ago?

**9)Which British Supermodel recently joined the ranks of Who's Who? Kate Moss

  1. Who won the Turner prize earlier this week? damn it was on the news last night and I can't remember - was it the man dressed up as a bear?
denbury · 04/12/2007 16:04

i dint do very well. i know glasgow are doing commonwealth games and london have olympics in 2012!!!!! when do we get the answers!!!!!

Original poster
handlemecarefully · 04/12/2007 16:04

lol yes it was the man dressed up as a bear

OP posts:
Original poster
handlemecarefully · 04/12/2007 16:06

Answers as per my post of 13.52 Denbury

and answers to new q's

  1. promoting literacy programme
  2. Gillian Gibbons
  3. Russia
  4. Kate Moss
OP posts:
SquonkaClaus · 04/12/2007 16:06

aaah ha! didn't see these ones (but I think I was involved in some of the questions so I may have an advantage...)

  1. 26 (like ours was)
  2. dunno
  3. dunno
  4. dead (this was my question, so tis deffo right )
  5. something to do with his surname being linked to people who were flooded or something
  6. Abrahams (David?)
  7. 2012
  8. dunno - Liverpool?
  9. oh feck, I should remember this! But I don't
10. don't know that either

so I suspect the only one I got right was the one I told you

keep 'em coming, this is fun

SquonkaClaus · 04/12/2007 16:07

(didn't see the new questions either )

New posts on this thread. Refresh page