Weekly Bonus Question
09:26 UK time, Friday, 28 August 2009
Welcome to the Weekly Bonus Question.
Each week the news quiz will offer an answer. You are invited to suggest what the question might have been.
Suggestions should be sent using the COMMENTS BOX IN THIS ENTRY. And since nobody likes a smart alec, kudos will be deducted for predictability in your suggestions.
This week's answer is A SUPERSONIC SKID. But what's the question?
UPDATE 1426: The correct question is, name a vintage fairground ride that's been hit by the Brussels ban on incandescant lightbulbs. ()
Of your deliberately wrong suggestions, we liked:
- wortluck's Result of incorrect application of Enterprise's handbrake?
- and narcobiker's What noise was heard when Usain Bolt lost his footing in the 100m?
Comment number 1.
At 28th Aug 2009, Dave wrote:What comes before a supersonic boom?
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Comment number 2.
At 28th Aug 2009, Dave wrote:What is the result of the union of Mr & Mrs Supersonic?
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Comment number 3.
At 28th Aug 2009, Bangledancer wrote:Jeremy Clarkson's career without Top Gear?
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Comment number 4.
At 28th Aug 2009, JustHere4Coffee wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 5.
At 28th Aug 2009, Mhadaidh wrote:what did they get when they melted down Concorde's fuselage to make bobsleighs
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Comment number 6.
At 28th Aug 2009, The_Hess wrote:What did Gordon Brown leave behind after PMQT following the release of the Lockerbie bomber?
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Comment number 7.
At 28th Aug 2009, Newquizman wrote:According to the museum that owns it, which fairground ride will loose its authenticity if they are not allowed to use old fashioned light bulbs and have to use energy saving ones instead?
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Comment number 8.
At 28th Aug 2009, Thoyboy wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 9.
At 28th Aug 2009, TRT wrote:Eddie Large's showbiz career has taken a what?
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Comment number 10.
At 28th Aug 2009, Mark wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 11.
At 28th Aug 2009, staggy_boy wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 12.
At 28th Aug 2009, ten gear bat bike wrote:Why is the Flash's dry cleaning bill so high?
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Comment number 13.
At 28th Aug 2009, U14118378 wrote:What 'mark' is impossible for even the best soap powder to remove?
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Comment number 14.
At 28th Aug 2009, peterwaine wrote:New method of goat's milk a success....
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Comment number 15.
At 28th Aug 2009, peterwaine wrote:blast, misread the tag please delete both my comments :-)
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Comment number 16.
At 28th Aug 2009, Stephen wrote:What is the name of the British entry in next years Eurovision Song Contest?
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Comment number 17.
At 28th Aug 2009, Playrealfooty wrote:Result of incorrect application of Enterprise's handbrake.
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Comment number 18.
At 28th Aug 2009, SouthwaterSkiTeam wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 19.
At 28th Aug 2009, rosnorfolk wrote:Clark Kent late for work at The Daily Planet on a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14?
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Comment number 20.
At 28th Aug 2009, what the wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 21.
At 28th Aug 2009, Jeremy wrote:Example question from an Air-Accident Invetigators final examination
Heavy tyre marks weaving across a runway together with smoke pouring from what appears to be a gigantic conflagration is typically the sign of what?
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Comment number 22.
At 28th Aug 2009, captainscottbradley wrote:is the best way to describe west ham and millwall fans on tuesday!
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Comment number 23.
At 28th Aug 2009, Jeremy wrote:What is the primary cause of extraordinarily large skid marks?
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Comment number 24.
At 28th Aug 2009, david regan wrote:What kind of marks did the Captain of Concorde have when he thought it would overshoot the runway?
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Comment number 25.
At 28th Aug 2009, Jeremy wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 26.
At 28th Aug 2009, david regan wrote:When Super Sonic the Hedgehog does an emergency stop, what is the result?
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Comment number 27.
At 28th Aug 2009, blue_stripy_jumper wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 28.
At 28th Aug 2009, Jeremy wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 29.
At 28th Aug 2009, Jeremy wrote:What phrase used as the weekly bonus question which had lavatorial overtones gave rise to some the funniest answers ever; which unfortunately because of said lavatorial overtones resulted in them being removed?
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Comment number 30.
At 28th Aug 2009, G0ng00zle wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 31.
At 28th Aug 2009, freddiefreeloader wrote:Richard Jobson was photographed rushing through Heathrow to sign up a lucrative big reunion tour for his influential 'New-Wave' band. What was the newspaper caption?
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Comment number 32.
At 28th Aug 2009, Jeremy wrote:It is generally accepted that XXXXX XXXX and XXX XXXXXX are the primary causes of XXXXXXX and XXXXXX.
However every Saturday night XXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX and XXXXX-XXXX are all to be found in the local XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. In view of this the government has asked that XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX and XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX, together with the XXXXXXXXXXXX university spend the next XXXXXXXX years researching the effects of what?
Note - Report deliberately redacted to ensure that no offence is caused.
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Comment number 33.
At 28th Aug 2009, Eddie-george wrote:What's so disgusting that according to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ moderators, any joke about it breaks house rules?
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Comment number 34.
At 28th Aug 2009, Fred wrote:How did the Fastest Kettle in the World stop after setting a new World Record.
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Comment number 35.
At 28th Aug 2009, tamso1970 wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 36.
At 28th Aug 2009, darkmarker wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 37.
At 28th Aug 2009, Jeremy wrote:*NEWSFLASH**
Kettering_Jeremy accuses G0ng00zle, blue_stripy_jumper, blogbuster, staggy_boy markypolo and justhere4coffee of plagiarism following their use of :-
"This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules"
He considered this his own highly original entry for which weekly bonus question?
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Comment number 38.
At 28th Aug 2009, narcobiker wrote:What noise was heard when Usain Bolt lost his footing in the 100m?
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Comment number 39.
At 28th Aug 2009, Jeremy wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 40.
At 28th Aug 2009, Jeremy wrote:I really do think the moderator should use the bank holiday to chill, and listen to some historic recordings of ISIHAC with Humphrey Lyttelton and the delightful Samantha who would often sit on his right hand.
For there you will find a suppository of innuendo that was (and is) broadcast freely by the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ on the very enlightened radio 4.
I wonder what dear departed Humph would have made of this weeks bonus question which is?
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Comment number 41.
At 28th Aug 2009, perfectcookiejar wrote:Which WBQ caused the most amount of comments to receive the following
"This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules."
ha ha ha ha ha ha :D
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Comment number 42.
At 28th Aug 2009, CraigGammon wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 43.
At 28th Aug 2009, anita_deklerk wrote:Flying hedgehog follows through!
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Comment number 44.
At 28th Aug 2009, Catherine O wrote:"It's over there."
"Eerrrrkkkk"
"There, look ahead of the sound, not at it."
"Eerrrrkkkk"
"It's right there!"
"Eerrrrkkkk"
"What is?"
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Comment number 45.
At 28th Aug 2009, excellentmad_hatter wrote:What has the manager of Supersonics named his son?
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Comment number 46.
At 28th Aug 2009, MadeInLancashire wrote:How did astronaut Mike Massimino describe the process of re-entering Earth's atmosphere in the space shuttle?
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Comment number 47.
At 28th Aug 2009, littleDickie wrote:The Skid is instead of the screech on the touchpad of a laptop whilst attempting maths in the GSCE exam
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Comment number 48.
At 28th Aug 2009, Jeremy wrote:What were the Iraninan pilots Ahedis Varkenjahb & Aywelbe Fayed the first to ever do in their jet fighters?
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Comment number 49.
At 28th Aug 2009, Seb wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 50.
At 28th Aug 2009, Dave wrote:What does the airstation's washing machine clean when it is set to Mach 2?
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Comment number 51.
At 28th Aug 2009, chrisleedsbham wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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