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!

[Buenchico]

Well done with those really impressive scores, Jourdain2!

[Lie-in King]

Many guesses involved -

5/7
3/5
9/10
5/9
7/9 (genuinely amazed at this one)
9/11

[Buenchico]

I thought that, even though I'd managed a decent score on the three regular quizzes, you'd still beat me, Lie-in King - and I'm unsurprised to find out that I was right! Well done ;-)

Well done on your impressive scores with the bonus quizzes too. You're onbviously not going to get lost on a motorway ;-)

[piggynose]

745654

[Buenchico]

Well done on matching my aggregate on the regular quizzes, Piggy!

Apart, possibly, from needing a bit more time spent in the library, you've got so good scores in the bonus quizzes too!

[Lie-in King]

Buen - I was amazed as I've never driven & have rarely gone anywhere, hence my dreadful UK geography :-)

[Caran]

2/7. 1/5. 3/10. 5/9. 5/9. 4/11.
I should have done a lot better than that.

[Ken4155]

2/7 - Do not pass GO, do not collect £200
2/5 - and only then because Holi fell on my birthday
6/10 - a decent recovery, i think?

[Ken4155]

Didn't scroll down far enough for the other 3 quizzes, then i saw folk reporting more than 3 scores. So i had a go, and;

3/9, 6/9 and 8/9.

[Buenchico]

Decent enough scores on all three bonus quizzes, Caran!

Well done on coming up late on the inside rail with the first set, Ken (and belated birthday wishes to you!)

You clearly know your way around both motorways and libraries ;-)

[campbellking]

4/7, 2/5, 6/10,4/9,4/9,10/11. Didn’t think I was that well read! Kitty chaos here, hope all is good with you .

[Arksided]

Hmmmn! I've had a busy week ;-)

Main: 4/7
Jnr: 3/5
Speed: 6/10

[Buenchico]

Bang in the middle on the first two, Arky, but a bit over it on the third one, thus proving that you're 'better than average' this week, I think ;-)

[Why not try the bonus quizzes?]


Hi, Campbellking! You're clearly a literary genius!

I hope that you're enjoying "kitty chaos" ;-)

My lot are still determined to prove that they own my bed and all my chairs too, with me only graciously being given their permission to use them when it suits them ;-)

[rowanwitch]

Adult 3
Kids 0
Timed 4
Collective nouns 7
Motorways 2
Novels 8

[Buenchico]

You're clearly into literature but not, alas, very childlike, Rowan.

Perhaps you should try Harry Potter as your next read?

;-)