The Lunch Quiz

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http://www.thelunchquiz.com.au/ is a site that has a set of 10 questions, updated every weekday. There is a good mix of questions, and they are at a good level, usually easy to get 5-8, hard to get 10.

Would people rather i post the questions and people answer them on here or just go to the website and say how many they got?

here are todays's questions anyway, to give people an idea of what they are like

I only got 4.8 right today. got 4/5 cities, and got 3,4,6,9

1. What are the five most populated cities in India?

Mr Beefy wrote:1
Chennai
Mumbai
Kolkata
Delhi
Bangalore


2. In what month of 2009 did Michael Jackson die?

3. What is the green pigment found in most plants that is responsible for absorbing light energy?
Chlorophyll

4. Also a title of a popular children's picture book, what Latin word is used to describe the animal kingdom?
Animalia

5. Who played Grace in the US sitcom Will and Grace?

6. Poo-bah, Yum-Yum, Ko Ko & Nanki-Poo are all main characters in which comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan?
The Mikado

7. In what city was the first Bunnings hardware shop opened?

8. Which famous Saint is regarded as the first Pope?
Saint Peter

9. What are the two closest stars to Earth?
The Sun and Proxima Centauri

10. Actor Match: Which actor has appeared in all of the following films? American Gangster, As Good as it Gets, A Few Good Men, The Butler

Mr Beefy wrote:Cuba Gooding Jnr
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10..Tom Cruise
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2..February
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9..Mercury, Venus
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3. Chlorophyll

4. Animalia (if not, then "What's Happening To Me?" ;) )

6. The Mikado (?)

8. Saint Peter

9. The sun, Proxima Centaurii :-B
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Magellan wrote:3. Chlorophyll

4. Animalia (if not, then "What's Happening To Me?" ;) )

6. The Mikado (?)

8. Saint Peter

9. The sun, Proxima Centaurii :-B


all correct

Sorry GWW, 0/3
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1
Chennai
Mumbai
Kolkata
Delhi
Bangalore
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Cuba Gooding Jnr
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bennymacca wrote:
Magellan wrote:3. Chlorophyll

4. Animalia (if not, then "What's Happening To Me?" ;) )

6. The Mikado (?)

8. Saint Peter

9. The sun, Proxima Centaurii :-B


all correct

Sorry GWW, 0/3


Oops, that will teach me for not reading questions closely enough
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Mr Beefy wrote:1
Chennai
Mumbai
Kolkata
Delhi
Bangalore


Mr Beefy wrote:Cuba Gooding Jnr


Correct
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2,5,7 to go
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Bunnings has to be somewhere on the eastern seaboard. I'll say Brisbane, but I don't know why.
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I'll say perth
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Mr Beefy wrote:I'll say perth


correct


2 and 5 to go
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I'll go january for q1, the earlier the better..
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Was it helen hunt ?
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Mr Beefy wrote:I'll go january for q1, the earlier the better..


nup

Mr Beefy wrote:Was it helen hunt ?


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bennymacca wrote:
Mr Beefy wrote:I'll say perth


correct

Bugger. Alan Bond probably used it as his garden shed.

bennymacca wrote:2 and 5 to go

Q2 - March. Reckon it was early in the year.

Q5 - Would have to use the internet to answer that one. I can picture her in my head, but don't know her name. Reckon she also appeared in a Seinfeld episode.
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May as well answer them now

June, and Debra Messing are the answers. I also thought it was early in the year

Ill give you half a point because she did indeed appear in a seinfeld episode
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Was just about to give Debra Messing. I remember her work more from Ned and Stacey.
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