Wednesday, 25 December 2024

What Comes Next

 Below are the solutions to today's quiz, What Comes Next.





Spoilers...



  1. Geographical locations with cardinal directions going around the compass face (North, East, South, West)
  2. Definitions of NATO phonetic alphabet words (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta)
  3. Elements without their element symbol
  4. Sets in Monopoly
  5. Last word of each line in The Sound of Music Do, Re, Mi, Fa etc.
  6. Examples of Star Signs in order (Gemini - The Twins, Cancer -  The Crab, Leo - The Lion, Virgo - The Maiden)
  7. Songs with numbers in their title repeated the number of times implied by the number (Four Minutes, Three Lions, Two Princes, One Love)
  8. First letter of the 12 days of Christmas 5GR = Five Gold Rings
  9. Films of the Rainbow (Red Sparrow, A Clockwork Orange, Yellow Submarine)
  10. Poker Hands Initials (Royal Flush, Straight Flush etc.)

Tuesday, 9 January 2024

Website Back Up

I think I've fixed all the issues now and the website should be back up.

Sorry for the break. If there are any remaining issues please get in touch at qotdenquiries@gmail.com

Monday, 8 January 2024

Website Downtime

 Apologies for the downtime that quizoftheday is currently experiencing. In upgrading a piece of the technology that the website is built on I inadvertently broke just about everything.


I’m working on getting it up and running and hope to do so in the next day or so.

Thursday, 2 December 2021

What Comes Next - Solutions

Solutions




Spoilers below...





  1. First letter of the planets
  2. Olympics not held in capital cities and the capital of the country they were held in
  3. Noble Gasses by ascending atomic mass
  4. Speakers of the House of Commons' initials and the year they were elected going back in time
  5. NATO spelt out in the NATO phonetic alphabet
  6. Repeated letter postcodes with the post code capitalised in alphabetical order (e.g. Blackburn is BB)
  7. Fast and Furious film titles first letters
  8. The Seven Ps without the Ps
  9. The natural numbers (1, 2, 3) ascending represented by their digit repeated once for each letter in their name, e.g. ONE -> 111
  10. Bonds and their first film, first letters

Monday, 27 April 2020

What Might Come Next? - Solutions


  1. Royal Actors - (William) Shatner, (William) Hurt, (Henry) Fonda... 
  2. Songs with numbers in the title - One Love (Bob Marley) , Two Tribes (Frankie Goes To Hollywood), Three Little Birds (Bob Marley)...
  3. Greek equivalents of the planetary gods moving outwards
  4. Time abbreviations and lengths 60 Seconds, 60 Minutes, 24 Hours, 7 Days
  5. Monopoly Stations on a Standard UK board
  6. Words that are the same length and start and end with the same letters as months of the year
  7. Power of Two films with the numbers removed - 2 Weeks Notice, 4 Lions, The Hateful Eight
  8. SI prefixes
  9. NATO Phonetic Alphabet of the compass points
  10. Official languages of the four most populous countries

Wednesday, 8 April 2020

One from the Archive

http://quizoftheday.co.uk/229 has never had it's answers published so here they are

(stop reading now if you wish to try it out)

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  1. Planets getting closer to the sun
  2. Harry Potter Books
  3. Kings of England, first letter of their name
  4. Start Trek Captains going forwards in time
  5. UK PMs going back in time
  6. Noble Gasses increasing in atomic weight
  7. Colours of the Rainbow
  8. Royal Houses first letter (Norman, Plantaginet, Lancaster...)
  9. Pugh Pugh Barney McGrew Cuthbert Dibble Grub
  10. Unknown

If you can work out 10 please let me know, otherwise it will be lost to the sands of time.


Sunday, 5 April 2020

29th March 2020 - What Comes Next?


  1. Rugby world cups going back in time
  2. Moon landing missions & years
  3. Regular polygons, first letters of their names and number of edges
  4. Queen Albums
  5. Ordinal numbers repeated once per letter in their name (one -> 111, two -> 222)
  6. Initials of Bond actors and their first films
  7. First words from lines of Shakespeare's sonnet 18
  8. First two letters of worlds largest countries (by population) and first two letters of their capital cities
  9. Henry Kings and the years of the start of their rules
  10. Nato phonetic alphabet first and last letters