A REALLY DIABOLICAL QUIZ

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A REALLY, REALLY DIABOLICAL QUIZ

(FOR THOSE OF YOU WITH A LEVEL OF MASOCHISM GREATER THAN, OR EQUAL TO, MY LEVEL OF SADISM.)



QUESTION 1:

WHAT CONNECTS THE LETTER, 'P' WITH THE NUMBER 92220?



QUESTION 2:

HOW MIGHT AN ARGENTINE MARINER, THE NUMBER ELEVEN AT BINGO AND THE SYMBOL OF ONE OF THE BRITISH ISLES HAVE HELPED THE MAN WITH THE SWOLLEN FEET?



QUESTION 3:

WHAT CONNECTS A SNAPPY LITTLE CANINE, A SMALL WADING BIRD (WITH TEA), A WELSH WIZARD OF OZ, A CONDIMENT ASSOCIATED WITH NORWICH, AND A CLERICAL GENTLEMAN?



QUESTION 4:

WHICH IS THE ODD ONE OUT AND WHY? A FISH, A DIRTY LOOKING SEA CAPTAIN, THE SEERESS OF KNARESBOROUGH, THE GOD OF THE MUSES, A BIRD WITH AN UNLOVELY SONG, THE MONA LISA, AND A PUNCTUATION MARK.



QUESTION 5:

WHERE, IN A TWO DIMENSIONAL CONTEXT, MIGHT YOU FIND, AMONG OTHERS, MERLIN, MATILDA OR MAUD, AUGUSTUS, ROMEO AND JULIET, THE CRUSADING MONK OF AMIENS AND THE GRIM REAPER.



QUESTION 6:

IN WHAT WAY DOES VENTA BELGARUM CONNECT TWO FRATERNAL DEMON HUNTERS, A WEAPON THAT WAS THE OCCIDENTAL WINNER, THE NEW VAUDEVILLE BAND AND A PERSUASIVE AUTHOR?



QUESTION 7:

WHAT IS NEXT IN THIS SEQUENCE: NOTHING, PERDIX IN PIRUS COMMUNIS, FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER OF THE SAME, THEN A BRACE OF STREPTOPELIA TURTUR TURUR, TROIS POULES, V ANULI OF 79?



QUESTION 8:

WHERE MIGHT YOU FIND TOGETHER, ELLA AND HER FRIEND PATRICIA, A PUNCTUATION MARK, A QUADRILATERAL, THE GREEK GODDESS OF THE RAINBOW, A STRICT HESITATION, A CUCKOO, HALF A DIAMETER, ONE THAT'S ANONYMOUS AND A GREEK HERO WITH A NUMBER OF COLLEGE TUTORS?



QUESTION 9:

WHAT IS THE MUSICAL CONNECTION HERE: BORON, OHIO, ?=MC2, ONE THOUSAND, IOWA, NITROGEN,

RHODIUM, , , ZERO, DEUTERIUM AND YTTRIUM?



QUESTION 10:

HOW DOES THE SILLITOE TARTAN CONNECT THE FIRST CANTERBURY PILGRIM, THE OWNER OF AN EYE IN LINCOLN CATHEDRAL, A GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND, CORVUS FRUGILEGUS FRUGILEGUS, BLOODY MARY AND SOME NOT-QUITE-CRUSTACEANS?
 

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Question 10 is a chess board.

The Sillicoe tartan is black and white. The first Canterbury Pilgrim was a knight, the owner of the Eye (one of the stained glass windows in Lincoln Cathedral) was a Bishop, Corvus Frugilegus Frugilegus is the Latin name for a rook, Bloody Mary is a Queen, I'm guessing the King is one of the Governors of the Bank of England, and a pawn is not quite a prawn.
 
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Question 9 is Bohemian Rhapsody

The elements and other abbreviations make B Oh E M Ia N and Rh ... D and Y - The only part I can't understand is how ,,, and zero make apso.
 

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I think Question 8 is the human body. We have a patella, a colon, a quad, an iris, a coccyx, a radius, an Achilles... there's a few I haven't worked out, but it's seven connected things out of ten.
 

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So Question 7 is related to the 12 days of Christmas song, but the sequence goes 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, which is the Fibonacci sequence, the next number being 8. So to fit the theme of the sequence it would be something like Octo ancillae mulgentes.
 

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Question 6 is Winchester, with the clues being Sam and Dean Winchester from Supernatural, The Winchester Gun that 'won' the West, Winchester Cathedral by the New Vaudeville Band, and an author called Simon Winchester, who I've not read.
 

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That's enough for today - I did use Google to look up some of the references and Latin, but not AI. When I tested the ones I got in ChatGPT it could get 10 and 9, couldn't work out 8, got 7 wrong, and got 6 right. Nice to know we're still ahead of the computers. :)
 
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That's enough for today - I did use Google to look up some of the references and Latin, but not AI. When I tested the ones I got in ChatGPT it could get 10 and 9, couldn't work out 8, got 7 wrong, and got 6 right. Nice to know we're still ahead of the computers. :)
I gave up
Too much brain power needed
 
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