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Rare Entries Quiz I (New Series)

Posted: 20 Jan 2013, 15:52
by hopeful traveller
It's been a long time since we had one of these...

The Countdown edition. These are mostly taken off the Countdown wiki.

01: Name a finalist from Series 45 of the UK version of Countdown.
02: Name a lexicographer who has appeared on the UK version of Countdown from 2004 onwards.
03: Name the dictionary corner guest or the lexicographer for the Grand Final of Series 33 of the UK version of Countdown.
04: Name a professional footballer who has appeared on the UK version of Countdown.
05: Name a person who scored an aggregate of 510 or more during their octochamp run between 1982 and 2001 on the UK version of Countdown.
06: Name one of the two conundrums (scramble or answer will be accepted) on the New Year's Even 1999 show on the UK version of Countdown (the final of the Championship of Champions X).
07: Name either the two semi-finalists, the runner up, or the winner from Series 53 of the UK version of Countdown.
08: Name either the two semi-finalists, the runner up, or the winner from the Championship of Champions X of the UK version of Countdown.
09: Name a dictionary corner guest from Series 1 of the UK version of Countdown.
10: Name a host of the UK version of Countdown. N.B. Hostesses, arithmeticians, "vital statisticians", etc. will not be accepted.

And start the clock.... rather than 30 seconds, you have until 23:59 GMT on 27 January 2013.

Answers to be PMed to me please.

Da-da, da-da, da-da-da-da, BOOM!

Useful links: Link A, link B, and link C.

Re: Rare Entries Quiz I (New Series)

Posted: 20 Jan 2013, 15:54
by tubeguru
I've re-named the thread so that it reflects the "new series" of rate entry quizzes. That way, we can start the scores from zero again.

Re: Rare Entries Quiz XXI

Posted: 20 Jan 2013, 15:55
by hopeful traveller
Either my computer's broken, or you haven't. I didn't edit it back.

Re: Rare Entries Quiz I (New Series)

Posted: 20 Jan 2013, 15:56
by tubeguru
Got it now.

Re: Rare Entries Quiz I (New Series)

Posted: 26 Jan 2013, 09:53
by hopeful traveller
Reminder: Get those entries in!

Re: Rare Entries Quiz I (New Series)

Posted: 27 Jan 2013, 17:28
by hopeful traveller
REMINDER:

This closes tonight.

Re: Rare Entries Quiz I (New Series)

Posted: 27 Jan 2013, 19:50
by tractakid
I need to get this done!

Re: Rare Entries Quiz I (New Series)

Posted: 27 Jan 2013, 19:53
by tubeguru
I started, and then found it too hard-going to get the answers. There's too much going back and forth between website pages. PLUS, I note that for a few questions there are only two or three possible answers. So we're going to have some high scores in this one.

Re: Rare Entries Quiz I (New Series)

Posted: 27 Jan 2013, 21:07
by hopeful traveller
If you click Link A in particular, and do a search for any term, such as Series 53, lexicographer, or anything, it should work.

Re: Rare Entries Quiz I (New Series)

Posted: 27 Jan 2013, 21:15
by tubeguru
I didn't say it didn't work. I just found it too much hard work to find the answers.

Can I just say "Jack Welsby" for every question?

Re: Rare Entries Quiz I (New Series)

Posted: 28 Jan 2013, 14:14
by tractakid
how many entries did you receive?

Re: Rare Entries Quiz I (New Series)

Posted: 28 Jan 2013, 18:00
by hopeful traveller
Due to the rarity of entries ( :lol: ) then the deadline has been extended to 23:55 GMT 03 FEBRUARY 2013.

Re: Rare Entries Quiz I (New Series)

Posted: 28 Jan 2013, 23:11
by hopeful traveller
tubeguru wrote:I didn't say it didn't work. I just found it too much hard work to find the answers.

Can I just say "Jack Welsby" for every question?
If you want.

Re: Rare Entries Quiz I (New Series)

Posted: 31 Jan 2013, 15:07
by tractakid
Can someone else please enter? The answers weren't TOO hard to find... even if I don't find Countdown the most exciting subject in the world :P

Re: Rare Entries Quiz I (New Series)

Posted: 31 Jan 2013, 16:07
by tubeguru
OK, I'll put some answers together ...