Bbc Quiz : Week 10

[Buenchico]

Quiz time again!

We’ve got the usual three quizzes from Aunty Beeb this week, PLUS some BONUS QUIZZES that I found hiding away on her website.

I started off with a ‘middling’ FOUR out of seven in the main quiz this week:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-64901559

‘Middling’ too, for me, in the junior quiz, with THREE out of five:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51318780

It was a much better week for me though in the Timed Teaser, with NINE out of ten:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64858550

So that’s a better-than-usual aggregate score of 16 for me but I reckon that quite a few of you will still beat me, as there seemed to be a lot of easy questions this week!

The BONUS QUIZZES are taken from BBC Bitesize, which is primarily targeted at teenagers doing GCSE revision. However the quizzes have nothing at all to do with any GCSE syllabus, so I reckon that they’re worth a go:

The first one is about collective nouns. I thought I knew quite a bit about them but I could only manage a score of THREE out of nine here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zm2bhbk

The next one is about British motorways. As I’m the sort of boring old nerd who can bore people rigid at parties (if anyone is ever silly enough to invite me to one, that is) with my knowledge of the country’s roads, I did somewhat better here, achieving a score of SIX out of nine:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfxtd6f

Lastly (for this week), here’s a quiz about opening lines from famous novels. I surprised myself by scoring NINE out of 11 with this one:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhjh8xs

(The observant among you might notice links to further quizzes on those page but I’m saving them for next week!)

So there’s plenty there for you to go at, I think!

[10ClarionSt]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! Why am I posting this, Chris?
0/7, 0/5. BS1 = 4/9. BS2 = 7/9 BS3 = 6/11. I know nothing, except around the motorways!

[Karamia]

Wow keeping us on our toes with the quizzes tonight, Chris! Well done on your impressive 9/10 on the Timed.
3/7, 5/5, 6/10
5/9, 6/9, 9/11
Thank you. Hope you have a great week :-)

[kwillmott]

Only just missed zero this!
1/7

3/5

3/10

5/9

5/9

7/11

[cashier]

Four and four.

[cashier]

Only two on the timed.

[cashier]

Motorways = 5
Novels = 10

[cashier]

Three on nouns.

[Sam1960]

Evening Chris.

4/7

2/5

6/10

Hope this finds you well ; ))

[Buenchico]

Hi, 10CS!

A double zero! That must be some sort of a record, I think! At least you shouldn't get lost on the motorways or in your local library ;-)

Well done with those impressive scores, Karamia! ( A perfect kid this week, I see!). You beat me on the bonus quizzes!

At least you can feel quite good about your performance on the bonus quizzes, Kwillmott ;-)

Cashier is obviously the type of person who reads 'serious' novels. Well done on that 10!

Good evening, Sam. I'm not too bad for an old 'un, thanks. My cancer treatment has been changed this week. That, and a bit of a cold, seems to be leaving me very tired but I still struggle on ;-)
I hope that you're fighting fit!

Well done with that 6/10. The timed quiz is never easy. (I think that I must have just been lucky this week!)

[Sam1960]

Managed to get ....

6/9

5/9

4/11

going down in stages !!

; ))

[Buenchico]

No great disasters among that lot, anyway, Sam ;-)

[If there had been a question about the collective noun for hedgehogs, I'm sure that you would have known that it's a 'prickle'].
;-)

[Cloverjo]

A rather dismal showing for the first few quizzes, but I got a fairly healthy 8 with the books’ opening sentences.

Thanks, Buenchico.
How can it be Friday again already?

[jourdain2]

Well done Buen. Me 3//7 3/5 and 6/10. OH has been in hospital all week, just got him back, hooray!

[Cloverjo]

The only motorways I know even a smigeon about are the M5 and M4

[Buenchico]

Good evening, Clover. It seems that you're not the only one with 'quite dismal scores' in the first few quizzes ;-)

Well done with that display of your literary knowledge!

(I can't work out how it's Friday already either!)

Hi, Jourdain2. I hope that your OH is well on the way from recovery after the spell in hospital. Well done with that decent enough 6/10, anyway ;-)

[roopower]

Good evening chico. 5 on the main quiz,1 on the childrens - shameful -,7 on the timed,4 on the nouns, missed the motorway one as I know nothing about roads and 9 for the first line of books. Phew

[Buenchico]

Hi, Roo!

Well done with that decent 5/7 and 7/10, as well as being something of a literary expert! You're obviously just not very childlike this week ;-)

[haras2]

4/7 v 5/7
3/5 v 1/5
9/10 v 6/10
3/9 v 4/9
6/9 v 6/9
9/11 v 8/11
Phew! that's 34 to you and 30 to me... must try harder and maybe drink less !
Sorry to see your tiredness probs - no energy is such a downer...
I had a change of medication last week ; has really made a big difference to my energy levels - but you still beat me on the quizzes :-))

[Buenchico]

Good evening, Haras2.

Well done on some good scores there. (It was really only the Timed Teaser that separated us and I think that I was just lucky with that one!).

I'm pleased to hear that your energy levels have improved. I expect to see you completing the Wales Coast Path walk soon ;-)

[My PSA levels climbed to a level where I could no longer have the women's hormne patches, that I've been using for the past three years. So I start on 12-weekly injections on Monday instead but, to get my PSA back down again, I'm also on a 28-day course of high-strength hormone tablets, with three weeks left to run. It's those tablets that are giving me the tiredness but at least I know that there's an end in sight].

All the best to you and Shady!

[jourdain2]

I've managed to get an argumentative OH to bed, so thought I'd have a go at the other quizzes:-
Coll. nouns - 7/9 M'ways 5/9 & 1st lines 10/11
I didn't realise I knew so much about motorways!!!