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Joefish wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 11, 2018 9:05 am

2 is Bowl Dad Ash, Boulderdash.

Correct.

Joefish wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 11, 2018 9:06 am

4 is Daily Thompson Soup A Test

I'm not quite sure which game that translates to....

All done.

Evil Genius wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:01 am

6 Art type (R-Type)
7. Pen 8 rater (Penetrator)

Right again.

Just 2 and 4 left.

bob_fossil wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:00 am

1. Movie (Moo-V)
3. Chaos (K-Oz)

Correct.

Ersh wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 11, 2018 7:53 am

5 - Star Strike?
8 - Tai Pan?

Both right!

That's your two guesses gone (until lunchtime).

It's the Friday quiz! (OK, so it's Saturday, but that's just to confuse Morkin. )

Since it's a short one, no more than two correct guesses per person until 12 noon BST (1pm CET). After that, it's a free-for-all.

I believe it's the correct spelling. We're all so familiar with its terminology as a sexual crime, but it also means "to plunder" and if you read the sentence in that context it makes more sense. Not very PC but I guess that was in a day and age when that didn't matter as much. It was 1984, not 164...

Morkin wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 27, 2018 6:25 pm

Doh - missed this one..! Nice quiz..

Yeah, R-Tape mixed it up a bit this week, by doing it on ... a Friday morning.

Surely it should be "rage".

Actually.... WARNING - pedantic classicist :D Pericles and Damocles are Classical names. The pronunciation of Greek at that time was quite different from modern Greek. For example, the first letter of Damocles (delta) was then pronounced like an English D, not a modern Greek delta. The standard Engl...