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"Is that the key to your heart?" "Don't button that up."

Haha, that was great.

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“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
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I don't know if someone posted this already in past threads, but I just saw it yesterday. I lol'd.

 

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“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
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Now this appeared in the newspaper a little bit ago, taken from the last decade of assorted quiz shows on tv and radio - a collection of various questions and their answers... Or at least, the answers contestants gave.

It makes you wonder about education in general....

 

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Quiz Show Presenter : In which European country is Mount Etna?

Contestant: Japan

Quiz Show Presenter : I did say which Euopean country, so in case you didn't hear that, I can let you try again.

Contestant: Er.. Mexico?

 

Quiz Show Presenter : What religion was Guy Fawkes?

Contestant: Jewish

Quiz Show Presenter : Well, thats close enough.

 

Quiz Show Presenter : Who wrote Lord of the Rings?

Contestant: Enid Blyton

 

Quiz Show Presenter : In which European city was the first opera house opened in 1637?

Contestant : Sydney

 

Quiz Show Presenter : How many kings of England have been called Henry?

Contestant : Er, well, I know there was a Henry the Eighth... so um.. er...er.. three?

 

Quiz Show Presenter : Where did the D-Day landings take place?

Contestant : Pearl Harbor?

 

Quiz Show Presenter : What is another name for "Cherrypickers" and "Cheesemongers"?

Contestant : Homosexuals

Quiz Show Presenter : No. They're regiments in the British Army who will be very upset with you.

 

Quiz Show Presenter : Name the funny men who once entertained kings and queens at court.

Contestant : Lepers

 

Quiz Show Presenter : Where do you think Cambridge University is?

Contestant : Geography really isn't my strong point.

Quiz Show Presenter : There's a clue in the title...

Contestant : Oh.. Liecester

 

Quiz Show Presenter : Name the long-running tv comedy show about pensioners : "Last of the ...."?

Contestant : Mohicans!

 

Quiz Show Presenter : Which French Mediterranean town hosts a famous film festival each year?

Contestant : I don't know. I need a clue.

Quiz Show Presenter : Ok, What do beans come in?

Contestant : Cartons?

 

Quiz Show Presenter : What was Gandhi's first name?

Contestant : Goosey, goosey?

 

DJ Quiz Show Presenter : For £10 what is the nationality of the Pope?

Caller: I think I know that one.. is it .. um.. Jewish?

 

Quiz Show Presenter : Who was Mary Arden's famous son?

Contestant : Can I have a clue?

Quiz Show Presenter : Yes.. He was famous around the Globe.

Contestant : Bill Gates.

 

Quiz Show Presenter : Name a book written by Jane Austen

Contestant : Charlotte Bronte

 

Radio Presenter : In which country would you spend Shekels?

Contestant : Holland

Radio Presenter : Try the next letter in the alphabet

Contestant: Iceland? Ireland?

Radio Presenter (helpfully) : It's a bad line, did you say Israel?

Contestant: No.

 

Quiz Show Presenter : What happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963?

Contestant : I don't know, I wasn't watching it then.

 

Quiz Show Presenter : In traffic, what "J" is where two roads meet?

Contestant : Jool carriageway?

 

Quiz Show Presenter : In what year was President Kennedy assassinated?

Contestant : Erm....

Quiz Show Presenter : Well, let's put it this way - he didn't see 1964

Contestant : 1965?

 

Quiz Show Presenter : Johnny Weismuller died on this day. Which jungle-swinging character clad only in a loin cloth did he play/

Contestant : Jesus

 

Quiz Show Presenter : In which country is Mount Everest?

Contestant : (long pause) Er, it's not in Scotland, is it?

 

Quiz Show Presenter : There are three states of matter : solid, liquid and what?

Contestant : Jelly.

 

Quiz Show Presenter : How long did the Six-Day war between Egypt and Israel last?

Contestant : (long pause) Fourteen Days.

 

Quiz Show Presenter : Skegness is a seaside resort on the coast of which sea: a> Irish Sea b> English Channel, c>North Sea

Contestant: Oh, I know that, you can start writing out the cheque now. It's on the east coast, so it must be the Irish Sea.

 

Quiz Show Presenter : What is the name of the French-speaking Canadian State?

Contestant : um.. America? Portugal? Canada? Mexico? Italy? Spain??

 

Quiz Show Presenter : I'm looking for an island in the Atlantic whose name included the letter "e".

Contestant : Ghana

Quiz Show Presenter : No, listen. It's an island in the Atlantic Ocean.

Contestant: Oh. New Zealand.

 

Quiz Show Presenter : What is the world's largest continent?

Contestant : The Pacific

 

Quiz Show Presenter : Name a film starring Bob Hoskins that is also the name of a famous painting be Leonardo Da Vinci.

Contestant : Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

 

Quiz Show Presenter : Which "S" is a kind of whale that can grow up to 80 tonnes?

Contestant : Ummm...

Quiz Show Presenter : It begins with "S" and ryhmes with "perm"

Contestant : Shark!

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"Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."

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Not sure if this is funny or awesome:

 

University of Chicago gets an interesting mystery package - http://uchicagoadmissions.tumblr.com/post/37809971913/indiana-jones-mystery-package-we-dont-really

I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man

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Ackbarition (noun): The unshakeable feeling that somehow, some way, what you are just about to walk into is a trap.

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"Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."

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I doubt Australia is more dangerous than Africa.

 

I wouldn't be so sure, Australia is full of maniacs who eat vegemite... who knows what else they are capable of!

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