Thread by @hannahmakes, IIIIIIIT'S QUIZ TIME!I have between 40 and 50 ridiculous questions for youI'll [...]

IIIIIIIT'S QUIZ TIME!

I have between 40 and 50 ridiculous questions for you

I'll be asking them one by one in this thread, feel free to comment your answer or write them the old fashioned way

Answer thread to come later

GOOD LUCK

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ROUND 1: NAME THAT SYNONYM

We've taken a band/film/book/play/other media and replaced all the words with synonyms. Can you guess the original?

Example
Q: "The Benevolent, the Malignant and the Unsightly"
A: "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"

There are 10 questions in this round

(Also, fiancé wrote these ones, so blame *him* if they're too hard or too easy

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QUESTION 1:

"It's an agreeable existence"

QUESTION 2:

"Expire forcefully"

QUESTION 3:

"Significant Anticipation"

QUESTION 4:

"The Intrepid Diminutive Appliance"

QUESTION 5:

"To Dispatch a Derisive Avian"

QUESTION 6:

"The Aggregate Sovereign State Ripostes"

QUESTION 7:

"The Geography in Advance of Temporality"

QUESTION 8:

"The Domestication of the Rodent"

QUESITON 9:

"Witless Hoodlum"

QUESTION 10:

"Homo Chiroptera"

DING DING DING. That's the end of round 1, folks! Don't worry, we've got 3 more rounds to go... hey! No groaning!

Round 2 is called GUESSTIMATIONS

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To begin, we've got 10 questions where you have to ESTIMATE the quantity, followed by 6 questions on PROBABILITY*

*(I will provide sources with the answers. But keep in mind they're... questionable in some instances? It's just a bit of fun

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(ALSO: No Googling!)

ROUND 2, QUESTION 1:

How many steps are there from the bottom of the Eiffel Tower to the top? (Right from the esplanade level to the top)

QUESTION 2:

How many strands of spaghetti can you fit into a standard cardboard toilet roll tube?

QUESTION 3:

How many stone blocks make up the Great Pyramid of Giza?

QUESTION 4:

How many times does the word ‘blood’ appear in Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’?

QUESTION 5:

How many mentions of sneezing are there in the bible?

QUESTION 6:

How many words are there in Herman Melville’s book ‘Moby Dick’?

QUESTION 7:

How long, in miles, is the River Thames?

QUESTION 8:

How many "swipes" are made on Tinder every day, and for a bonus point, how many matches?

QUESTION 9:

How much money is thrown into the Trevi fountain every day? (I want the monetary value, rather than the number of coins or the weight of the coins. My stats are from 2019 and approximate. Answers in € ideally

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QUESTION 10:

In 2014, how much money was thrown into the reflecting pools at the 9/11 memorial? (Answer in dollars, please. And keep in mind, people aren't *meant* to throw money in the reflecting pools)

And now for the second part of round 2, PROBABILITY.
There are 6 of these questions.

(It's not too late to join in! Just scroll to the top of this thread if you're just joining the #quiz!)

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QUESTION 1:

Which is more likely, winning the UK Lotto or being killed in a plane crash?

QUESTION 2:

Which is more likely, winning the EuroMillions or dying of a vending machine related accident?

QUESTION 3:

Which is more likely, a baby being born with teeth or being born on a leap day?

QUESTION 4:

Which is more likely, an egg having a double yolk or a clover having 4 leaves?

QUESTION 5:

Which is more likely, being killed in a shark attack or being struck by lightning in a given year?

QUESTION 6:

Put these things in order from most likely to least likely:

1) Having all your organs on the wrong side of your body
2) Catching the plague in the US
3) Getting struck by lightning in a LIFETIME
4) Being dealt a royal flush
5) Being murdered in the Grand Canyon

Okay, that's the end of round 2.

Heads up – round 3 is the round so fiendish that one of our players rage-quit last time.

(There's still chance to join – you've got two whole rounds left! Just head to the start of the thread.)

ROUND 3: DEGREES OF SEPARATION

I'll give you two actors who have never been in a film together, and you have to find a connection between them, i.e. an actor who has separately been in a film with each of them.

Here's an example:

Q: Al Pacino and Vin Diesel
A: Charlize Theron

Al Pacino was in The Devil's Advocate with Charlize Theron.

Charlize Theron was in The Fate of the Furious with Vin Diesel.

(There are often multiple correct answers)

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QUESTION 1:

Who connects Tom Hanks and Jennifer Lawrence?

QUESTION 2:

Who connects Patrick Stewart and Arnold Schwarzenegger?

QUESTION 3:

Who connects Snoop Dogg and Judi Dench?

QUESTION 4:

Who connects Weird Al and Will Ferrell?

QUESTION 5:

Who connects Kevin Bacon and Macaulay Culkin?

QUESTION 6:

Who connects Idris Elba and Meryl Streep?

QUESTION 7:

Who connects Adam Sandler and Liam Neeson?

QUESTION 8:

Who connects Jessica Alba and Liza Minelli?

QUESTION 9:

Who connects Michael Fassbender and Seth McFarlane?

QUESTION 10:
(last one, phew!)

Who connects Beyoncé and Kate Winslet?

GOOD NEWS. ROUND 3 IS *OVER*

EVEN BETTER NEWS: ROUND 4 IS THE PICTURE ROUND!

(It's not too late to join the #quiz, just jump to the top of this thread)

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In the original version of this round, I photoshopped my family onto celebrities – but it didn't feel fair to put that on Twitter (I was very unkind in some of my picture pairings...) so, as penance, I have photoshopped my own face onto the celebs instead. Just name the celeb!

QUESTION 1: Name that celeb