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Cumbrian dialect or Cumberland dialect is a local dialect of Northern England in decline, spoken in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands. Some parts of Cumbria have a more North-East English sound to them. Whilst clearly spoken with a Northern English accent, the Cumbrian dialect shares much vocabulary with Scots.
Yan Tan Tethera or yan-tan-tethera is a sheep-counting system traditionally used by shepherds in Northern England and some other parts of Britain. [1] The words are numbers taken from Brythonic Celtic languages such as Cumbric which had died out in most of Northern England by the sixth century, but they were commonly used for sheep counting and counting stitches in knitting until the ...
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Each quiz will consist of 10 questions. Each question is worth 10 points, making the maximum amount of points per quiz 100. To enter the quiz, put your name on that quiz's list, copy and paste quiz's template onto your talk page, filling in the answers. Then go back to the participation list and put a check next to your name.
The 3rd Degree (sometimes written as The Third Degree) is a British quiz show broadcast on BBC Radio 4, hosted by comedian Steve Punt and made by Pozzitive Television.The series is recorded at different universities around the country, the contestants all coming from the university in which the recording takes place.
The person asking the questions is known as the quizmaster or quiz host. Quiz hosts often also mark and score answers submitted by teams, although sometimes teams will mark each other's answer sheets. The questions can be set by the bar staff or landlord, by a third-party who may also supply the host, or by volunteers from amongst the contestants.
Each player usually has an electronic buzzer to signal in ("buzz") at any time during the question to give an answer. [13] In most forms of quiz bowl, there are two types of questions: toss-ups and bonuses. [1] Toss-ups are questions that any individual player can attempt to answer by buzzing in, and players are generally not allowed to confer ...