Reply to: Oh goody a quiz

[mudskipper]

Edit - Oh I copied NATs list - extra answers at the bottom

1. Have you ever used the word 'more-ish?'
I spelt it wrong in my Countdown quarter-final.

4. Do you use the phrase '110%' in everyday life?
No

5. Is a punnet of strawberries currently in your fridge?
No

6. Do you follow Karl Lagerfeld's cat Choupette on Instagram?
No, but I may do now.

11. Have you ever ordered anything containing Aperol?
Occasionally

13. Have you ever written an invitation with metallic pen?
Nope. Can't remember the last time I wrote an invitation at all - probably kids birthday parties.

14. Do you own a collarless shirt?
Really not sure. I definitely did at one point.

15. Do you regularly eat Italian food?
Yep, staple diet

16. Do you boast about your adult children's achievements?
Rarely

17. Have you ever participated in a Zoom meeting?
Of course

18. Do you believe in aliens?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66786611 I for one welcome our new alien plankton overlords

19. Are you a fan of The Repair Shop?
Love it

20. Do you pride yourself in being a music fan?
No

21. Have you ever incorporated a 'pop of colour' into your wardrobe or home?
Not intentionally

24. Do you currently have a bucket list?
No

27. Do you have a jumpsuit hanging in your wardrobe?
Not very practical when you need a wee. No.

28. Have you ever visited an arboretum and/or posted about it online?
Unsure/no

30. Have you ever sung the hymn Lord of the Dance in church?
Not that I remember

31. Do you carry your house keys everywhere you go?
No

34. Have you ever attended a music festival?
Yes

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2. Have you ever travelled to the Northern Lights?

Yes, very underwhelming

3. Do you listen to or record your own podcast?

No

7. Have you posted about your grief online?

Not as such, unless a post to tell people when someone has died counts

8. Have you ever visited Puglia in Italy?

No

9. Do you bake brownies?

Not scouts either

10. Do you listen to Petroc Trelawny on BBC Radio 3?

No


12. Are you a fan of Grayson Perry or his wife?

Quite like them, but wouldn't say a fan


22. Do you actively look forward to fly-pasts?

I quite enjoy a fly-past

23. Do you regularly order lobster in restaurants?

No

25. Do you follow Joe Wicks online or completed his workouts in lockdown?

No

26. Do you have type 2 diabetes?

No

29. Have you ever sold your business?

No - avoided the dodgy InTouch thing like the plague

32. Is your coffee order a 'skinny laartay'?
33. Do you own crystal coffee sugar?

No/No - rarely drink coffee

35. Have you or do you currently own a remote-controlled lawnmower?

Does asking Mr ms to cut the grass and telling him he missed a bit count?

36. Have you ever been to the Wimbledon tennis tournament?

No

[vetran]

Oh dear. Only scored 2. Does that make me a lunatic?

PS: That Kate Upton has a nice pair of thingies.

Ear rings?

[vetran]

I scored 8

Posher than the average Vetran!

[Dactylion]

Oh dear. Only scored 2. Does that make me a lunatic?

You may be but there is no cause/effect.

[xoggoth]

Oh dear. Only scored 2. Does that make me a lunatic?

PS: That Kate Upton has a nice pair of thingies.

[ladymuck]

I scored 8

[NotAllThere]

1. Have you ever used the word 'more-ish?'
I first came across the expression when I was 16 in 1985, and my college tutor used it and I asked him what it mean. I probably have used it since.

4. Do you use the phrase '110%' in everyday life?
Never. I have a maths degree.

5. Is a punnet of strawberries currently in your fridge?
I'm not 110% certain, but I think... no.

6. Do you follow Karl Lagerfeld's cat Choupette on Instagram?
Who?

11. Have you ever ordered anything containing Aperol?
Not knowingly.

13. Have you ever written an invitation with metallic pen?
A what?

14. Do you own a collarless shirt?
A t-shirt?

15. Do you regularly eat Italian food?
Only what I cook or take-away pizza.

16. Do you boast about your adult children's achievements?
At every opportunity, because there's so many.

17. Have you ever participated in a Zoom meeting?
After lockdown, who hasn't.

18. Do you believe in aliens?
I live in Switzerland. It's self-evident.

19. Are you a fan of The Repair Shop?
Yes.

20. Do you pride yourself in being a music fan?
No. I pride myself on my taste in and knowledge, of music.

21. Have you ever incorporated a 'pop of colour' into your wardrobe or home?
Wouldn't know how.

24. Do you currently have a bucket list?
Sort of, but four letters away...

27. Do you have a jumpsuit hanging in your wardrobe?
I don't know what that is.

28. Have you ever visited an arboretum and/or posted about it online?
Yes, but never posted it. Probably back in the early 80s, when we couldn't. It was pretty.

30. Have you ever sung the hymn Lord of the Dance in church?
No. Only with a bunch of marxist hippies. (This is true).

31. Do you carry your house keys everywhere you go?
Only when out of the house.

34. Have you ever attended a music festival?
Yes.


All others. No.

So 7/34.

[northernladuk]

2. Have you ever travelled to the Northern Lights?

Um, no. Only those who have gone high up in the atmosphere might have travelled "TO" the Northern Lights.

I did wonder about 'Do you listen to or record your own podcast?' surely you've got to have recorded it to listen to it so lowest common denominator was record it.

But with a bit of interpretation, I can probably answer yes to 15 of them.

I think this is where I might have been a tad more literal than everyone else. The church one. I'm likely to have sung it as an 8 year old in Sunday school and after church activity club but I don't think that long ago would factor in a quiz about my lifestyle as an adult so said no.

[Gibbon]

Puglia (but only cos her Late (Great) Madge sent me for Xmas 93
Aperol since 1993 and will long after the chavs have stopped drinking it.
Italian Food since I go 3 times a year, very rarely in this country and never by choice (unless I can get into Bocca da Lupa) as garlic and cream DO not form the basis of any Italian Cucina.

Collarless linen shirt.

[WTFH]

8. Have you ever visited Puglia in Italy?
...
11. Have you ever ordered anything containing Aperol?
...
15. Do you regularly eat Italian food?

Been drinking Aperol-based drinks for over a decade, when in Italy. It's become "fashionable" in the UK in the last couple of years.

Posted about my grief online? Yes, because people on here (and other places) were aware of my dog, and I shared with them when we lost her.


If the Fail want to label me as something and make it out to be an insult, then I expect I will match their requirements, because I hope never to measure up to the "right kind of person to read the Mail"

[SueEllen]

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I once was in a country and the Northern Lights were around. So I was taken on a short walk to see them then walked to see them more than once. However I didn't specifically travel to see them.

I randomly go on walks with people and get taken to arboreta.

Surely everyone who was dragged into a Church in the last century has sung Lord of the Dance? I remember having to sing it at the Royal Festival Hall as a kid.

[Protagoras]

I had to use Google to find out who Karl Lagerfeld was. I’d never heard of Grayson Perry either. Turns out that my fountain pen is not a 'metallic pen' despite being made of gun metal.

Oh dear, I only managed 'yes' to 4 questions. Still, I did learn some things, not that I'll even need the knowledge.

[vetran]

That 'quiz' was done to death on Johnny Vaughan's radio show on Radio X yesterday.

So higher or lower than 15?

Do you make NLUK look sophisticated?

[ladymuck]

That 'quiz' was done to death on Johnny Vaughan's radio show on Radio X yesterday.

[vetran]

2. Have you ever travelled to the Northern Lights?

Um, no. Only those who have gone high up in the atmosphere might have travelled "TO" the Northern Lights.

But with a bit of interpretation, I can probably answer yes to 15 of them.

So WTFH is more common than NLUK? who would have thought it?

Now me!

Moreish,
Brownies,
Collarless shirt,
Italian food,
Children's achievements (sorry proud fathers will understand),
Zoom,
Type 2 diabetes (what a prat this bloke is),
Once got very lucky in an arboretum (suck on that prat)
Lord of the Dance (I was in the choir!)
Robot lawnmower - the gardener kept trying to shag the maid!

OK so between the restrained and refined NLUK and the rough as feck WTFH - makes perfect sense.