Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)

Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)

Monday, August 10, 2009

'Tis Better To Have Quizzed And Lost Than To Have Never Quizzed At All

1. Tissue or hanky
2. Your height
3. Your current favourite room in the house
4. I have no time for...
5. You have to eat one nationality of food for the rest of your life. Which?
6. I'm glad I finally... but wish I had done it sooner
7. Last CD you listened to
8. Last DVD you watched
9. The country you'd most like to visit
10. Your dream shop opens next door to your house. Describe it

26 comments:

Ben McLaughlin said...

1. Tissue or hanky
2. Your height
3. Your current favourite room in the house
4. I have no time for...
5. You have to eat one nationality of food for the rest of your life. Which?
6. I'm glad I finally... but wish I had done it sooner
7. Last CD you listened to
8. Last DVD you watched
9. The country you'd most like to visit
10. Your dream shop opens next door to your house. Describe it

RodeoClown said...

1. Hanky - I have a drawer at home dedicated to hankies.
2. About 6 foot.
3. My office.
4. Long answers.
5. Probably Italian.
6. ???
7. Aroma - Party (These guys are now Qurious)
8. Life of Jesus Disc 2 (finally got around to watching the 2nd disc).
9. No idea - I'm happy here.
10. ??? I try not to buy too much stuff anyway. So, not sure.

Hicksy said...

1. Tissue
2. 5'11" ( and a bit )
3. Living room
4. Miranda Divine!!
5. Indian
6. Started learning the guitar
7. CD? What's that?
8. Well, not strictly on DVD but Night at the Museum 2
9. Egypt
10. Music/Book store that sold KFC - enough said...

Ben McLaughlin said...

1.Hanky and proud
2.I think I'm 5'7"
3.Loungeroom
4.Boiled lollies
5.Thai or Indian
6.started speech therapy
7.Beatles "Sgt Peppers.."
8.East of Eden
9.Malta
10.A second hand comics/book shop with a cafe built in.

Anonymous said...

1. Tissue or hanky
tissue - who puts booger back in their pocket?
2. Your height
6 foot 3 inches
3. Your current favourite room in the house
the room with the kitchen, living room and study
4. I have no time for...
Quizzes like this
5. You have to eat one nationality of food for the rest of your life. Which?
Whichever country invented the lamb roast, and other lamb dishes
6. I'm glad I finally... but wish I had done it sooner
cared about reading books and learning other languages
7. Last CD you listened to
Arcade Fire - Funeral
8. Last DVD you watched
Marley and Me, cos you recommended it.
9. The country you'd most like to visit
Taiwan
10. Your dream shop opens next door to your house. Describe it
Everything is cheap but good quality, and not fashionable.

Nathan said...

1. Hanky.
2. 6'3
3. Living room/dining room/kitchen (open plan).
4. Crap drivers.
5. Indian.
6. Tidied our open plan living area
7. The new Placebo.
8. West Wing, season 2, disk 6. It's just as good 3rd time round.
9. England. More specifically, Manchester. More specifically, Old Trafford.
10. A coffee/book shop with comfortable chairs and syrupy coffee - not those flavoured syrups, just thick, full bodied coffee. And a fireplace. And good music. Probably Radiohead.

Simone R. said...

1. tissue
2. 175cm
3. none. coffee shop.
4. ...silliness. Get ready for school!
5. thai
6. started thinking about choosing new sunday school material for next weekend
7. pink - I'm not dead
8. Sarah Jane adventures (dr. who spin off)
9. India
10. really good bookshop with cafe

Nathan said...

Best quiz ever.

onlinesoph said...

1. tissue
2. 156cm
3. lounge/dining room
4. badly written press releases
5. chinese (obviously!)
6. stopped caring so much about what people thought about me
7. RHCP - Californication
8. No Country for Old Men
9. South America. The entire continent
10. Clothes, clothes and more clothes. Reflecting the fashion range from Witchery, Wish, Sportsgirl...oh I could go on.

Ben McLaughlin said...

Geoff, you want 'Lowes' to open next door? What did you think of Marley and Me? Did I oversell it?

Ben McLaughlin said...

Soph, did you know E's sister started Wish?

Ben McLaughlin said...

wow, all the male readers are giants, and all the female readers measure in cm's which I don't know how to convert.

Pedro said...

1. Tissue
2. 173 cm
3. My shed
4. Addicts of any kind ie, smokers etc.
5. italian
6. got into boxing..
7. Dixie Chicks new album
8. 'The present', Thomas campbell
9. France
10.Cofee/Pastry shop that happens to be owned by an old pro surfer/shaper who is still passionate about his work and has his shaping bay out the back...
I'd never leave.

Nathan said...

It seems there's a real market for coffee shops/bookshops.

Guthers said...

ok - my first quiz... nervous.
1. Tissue
2. 184cm
3. Bedroom - just painted it
4. lunch some days
5. Italian
6. started answering ben's quizzes
7. Sigur Ros - Takk...
8. Roman Holiday
9. Brazil
10. 2nd hand books/awesome espresso/tasty cheap food/ their own beer on tap/cool clothes - but without an annoying sales assistant who wants to be your friend

not as scary as I thought...

Amy said...

Fine, I'll delurk...

1. Tissue. Hygiene people!
2. 5' 6" or so. Which I think is 167cm.
3. Bedroom (= sleep)
4. Trashy journalism (The Courier-Mail, Trash current affairs shows)
5. Italian
6. Realised that other people aren't necessarily right.
7. Far by Regina Spektor
8. Dead Like Me 1st episode
9. NZ
10. Bookshop / crafty-fabric shop with comfy lounges.

Ben McLaughlin said...

Guthers-good on you for taking the first step. You are now one of the pack. Hold your hand still and I'll pour some scarring chemicals on it. It'll only hurt for a couple of weeks, tops.

Thanks for delurking, Amy.

Chris L said...

another de-lurker over from simone and nathan's blogs. love your work ben especially the incidental observations about 'randoms'.

1. Hanky
2. 183cm
3. big lounge in rumpus at night without the kids
4. masking tape
5. Indian
6. learning to play violin
7. a sermon of a friend on tape!
8. The stupid benjamin button one. we fast forwarded through the middle half.
9. Argentina to see friends
10. bookshop with donuts

maso said...

1. Hanky
2. 6'2" ish
3. Living room (unless the front deck counts as a room?)
4. negativity
5. who invented throwing a steak or piece of fish on the barbie and eating it with salad? was that us? Aussies? I want that.
6. stopped stressing about work (as much)
7. Third Day - Offerings
8. West Wing, series 4, disk 2. (This is forth time round for me Nathan ... and yes, still good.)
9. nah, I'd rather just go to the Sunshine Coast for a few days and put the board in at Noosa.
10. the town planner in me objects! this is a residential area ... I don't want to live next to a shop! sorry. (I did used to live across the road from Dominos Pizza once tho ... that was pretty handy.)

Laetitia :-) said...

1. Tissue
2. Driver's licence says 170 cm but that's due to parallax error, I'm only 5' 6".
3. Whichever is the most comfy temperature.
4. I have no time for all the fb games I waste time on.
5. Australian [bwahahaha - how to have every dish I love :-)]
6. I'm glad I finally took up going to the gym
7. Mackay Big Band - Under the Flight Path (includes a bunch of pieces I have to learn. Ulp!)
8. One of Louie Giglio's - we're doing a bunch of them at life group.
9. New Zealand
10. A quilting shop that offers work space/equipment crossed with The Loving Hut (http://mtgravatt.lovinghut.com.au/) and The Chocolate Kingdom (the one at Shop 2 Bernards Shopping Centre, Siganto Street, Mount Tamborine or the one in Nerang).

Georgina said...

1. Tissue
2. 185cm (6'1'')
3. Ferrets bedroom
4. Drink driving
5. Modern Australian
6. I'm glad I finally climbed the Harbour Bridge
7. Pink - her new one
8. Slumdog Millionaire
9. South Africa
10. Nooooooo... I'd never cook again.

soph said...

1. Tissue. ugh hankie!
2. 162cm
3. Loungeroom
4. dust
5. Thai
6. did the washing up
7. Fleet Foxes
8. Wuthering Heights
9. the whole UK
10. Cafe with bookshop/record store, mismatched furniture, blankets in winter, a log fire and a big poetry section

beth said...

1. Tissue
2. 5'5
3. Bedroom
4. Inconsideration
5. Italian
6. ????
7. Daughtry
8. P.S. I Love You
9. Italy
10. BOOKSTORE!!!!

lu said...

Hey Ben - I haven't been around for a while. Our family was at a YL camp this summer where my hubby was working.

BTW - I'm pretty sure I win the prize for the shortest reader of your blog!

1. Tissue
2. 5'0"
3. bedroom
4. twitter
5. chinese
6. ???
7. Amy Grant - Hymns
8. 50 First Dates
9. France
10. Home organization store - boy do I need that!

onlinesoph said...

look who's Mr Popular - 24 posts!

And about Wish - that is cool Ben. Almost cooler than meeting Julie from Masterchef.

Ben McLaughlin said...

Thanks or the delurk, Chris. Velcome.

Georgina I admire your ability to get in a ferret answer with every quiz. Nice work.

Which version of Wuthering Heights, Soph?

Welcome back Lu