Another 1,000 mark is knocked sideways like a ninepin after a particularly fearsome 'strike' - and we now stand proudly aloft the THIRTEEN THOUSAND member mark..  Well done each and every one of you from 12k to 13k, and welcome to BeoWorld !!

To celebrate this, we are going to become mildly obsessed with the number 13 if we may...

Firstly, we're going to send Jandyt 13 empty boxes to unwrap, Puncher 13 empty cans of lager, and finally we're going to send burantek (jaff) 13 of the finest empty bottles of 1982 Petrus.  That should get the ball rolling.. LOL

Anyway - for the rest of us...

We're having a quiz !!!!

So - following will be the Quiz questions, kindly concocted and posed by our devilishly difficult question master and BeoWorld Moderator Chris (aka Medogsfat) !!

The Winner - to be decided in (err.. let us think) 13 days time, will win (hmmm... let's say) a bundle of 13 Prizes direct from HQ here in BeoWorldville.

"How many questions are there?" we hear you ask.  Well, there are 10.

Well.. 10 with three extras. Oh my good lord.. that makes... 13 !!!    We're on a roll here...

Questions coming up..

In case you're wondering what the Prize Bundle consists of...

1) BeoWorld Long Sleeved Polo Shirt

2) Sky Blue YSL BeoWorld T-Shirt

3) White YSL BeoWorld T-Shirt

4) BeoWorld Mousemat & Coaster Set

5) B&O Open Mind 3 CD Compilation

6) B&O Miles Davis Compilation CD

7) Wedgewood China Bang & Olufsen Coffee Mug

8) Vision og Legende Book (new, boxed)

9) BeoWorld Baseball Cap

10) Bang & Olufsen branded Callaway Golf/Leisure Towel

11) Bang & Olufsen Ltd Edition Bottle Stopper (these are superb!)

12) Bang & Olufsen branded USB Memory Stick

13) Branded Bang & Olufsen 'Lame' Ballpoint Pen (very high quality despite the brand name!! LOL)

Surely worth the effort of entering, and no matter where you are in the world - we'll also pay for the shipping too.

Here are the 13 questions!!

9 LEE:

Firstly, we're going to send Jandyt 13 empty boxes to unwrap, Puncher 13 empty cans of lager, and finally we're going to send burantek (jaff) 13 of the finest empty bottles of 1982 Petrus.  

Daft as a box of brushes, that 9 LEE!

Congrats everyone, good luck with the competition!

Okay - here we go - the questions !!!

Q 1,  Let’s start with a bit of an easy one to get you all off the mark. What is triskaidekaphobia  the fear of?

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Q 2, This engineer joined B&O in 1965 and was involved in the development of, amongst others, the Beogram 4000 & the MMC6000 cartridge. His forename & surname are a total of 13 characters.

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Q 3, Which 2008 film was nominated for 13 Academy awards (Oscars)?

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Q 4, Add together the digits of this 1980’s Jensen designed Beocenter to get the number 13, eg the beocenter 2200 would be 2 + 2 + 0 + 0 = 4 ?

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Q 5,  Released in the USA on 9 May 1980 the film Friday 13^th featured which actor in the role of Jack?

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Q 6, What is the address of Bang & Olufsen of Preston?

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Q 7, Not widely used, what is (arguably) considered to be the 13^th sign of the astrological Zodiac?

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Q 8, The following formula equals 13,000. (A + B – C =  13,000) What models are these product types? A :- Beogram type 5751 + B :- Beovision type GBR 2622 - C :- Beocenter type 2101.

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Q 9, In Western culture what is the traditional gift for a 13^th wedding anniversary?

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Q 10,  One for all you music lovers. Substitute the letters for the correct numbers in this equation to get the answer 13. 

A – (B X C) – D + E = 13. A :- the year ABBA won the Eurovision song contest with Waterloo. B :- a 1985 UK number one for Paul Hardcastle. C :- the number of red balloons (luftballoons) on Nena’s 1983 hit single. D :- the number of keys on a standard piano keyboard. E :- the number of UK number one singles for the Rolling Stones.

EG, the answer to A could be the year 1982 which would make your answer A = 1982 etc for B,C,D & E.

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Q 11, Which British Prime Minister was born on October 13^th 1925 & married on 13^th December 1951?

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Q 12, Which legendary B&O speakers have 4 X 13 cm woofers in each column? (2 acceptable answers)

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And finally……………

Q 13, These sets of 13 spoons, based on the number of people present at the Last Supper (in Christianity), are popularly known as what?

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So - there are the 13 Questions...

Answers by email please to...  beoworld_admin@mac.com

Competition closes on March 5th, 13 days from now 

Good Luck, and if you don't know all 13 answers - enter anyway.. not everyone may know them all and 9, 10 or 11 could win!

BeoWorld - Everything Bang & Olufsen - and as long as the answer is 13.

9 LEE:

11) Bang & Olufsen Ltd Edition Bottle Stopper (these are superb!)

As road tested & confirmed by my poor long suffering wife Jan

Chris.

Keep those entries coming!  We're already snowed under with a deluge of them.. thanks to all those people who have already sleuthed it out

Lee

9 LEE:

Another 1,000 mark is knocked sideways like a ninepin after a particularly fearsome 'strike' - and we now stand proudly aloft the THIRTEEN THOUSAND member mark..  Well done each and every one of you from 12k to 13k, and welcome to BeoWorld !!

To celebrate this, we are going to become mildly obsessed with the number 13 if we may...

Firstly, we're going to send Jandyt 13 empty boxes to unwrap, Puncher 13 empty cans of lager, and finally we're going to send burantek (jaff) 13 of the finest empty bottles of 1982 Petrus.  That should get the ball rolling.. LOL

Anyway - for the rest of us...

We're having a quiz !!!!

The cheek of the man! - firstly, lager is a girl's drink and secondly, who supped the other 11 cans??

I don't suppose he would have paid to post them if they were full, after his last rant about postage costs! - it's always been a cheapskate site!

9 LEE:

Keep those entries coming!  We're already snowed under with a deluge of them.. thanks to all those people who have already sleuthed it out

Lee 

Someone out there wants these prezzie and who can blame them, some really good stuff in there. Plenty of correct entries so far.

Maybe I made it too easy & should ask Peter for guidance on how to compose devillishy difficult questions

Chris.

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Excellent - keep them all coming.  Someone's going to get the bundle of goodies.. for FREE !!

All it will take is a bit of your time and some brain excercise - it's called 'fun' too.

Lee

9 LEE:

Firstly, we're going to send Jandyt 13 empty boxes to unwrap, Puncher 13 empty cans of lager, and finally we're going to send burantek (jaff) 13 of the finest empty bottles of 1982 Petrus.

I think I came out a little ahead on this...

Anyone wish to trade 13 empty bottles of Petrus for 1 full bottle of Macallan 1926???

You'd be just as delighted with a boxfull of 13 prizes surely?

Okay, I finally found time to sit down and do this. Submitted!

Hello,

anybody a hint for question 4??? Somehow my math seems to be quite lacking.....

Rgds,

TW

Just a heads up that the last entry is at midnight on Thursday!!

Good luck - and keep them coming...  We've had a lorry load of entries so far, you clever lot!!

Lee

twowheel2001:

Hello,

 

anybody a hint for question 4??? Somehow my math seems to be quite lacking.....

 

Rgds,

TW

Sure TW, you add the individual numbers in the Beocenter model together to find a total.

A couple of (wrong) examples are :-

1. Beocenter 3500 adds up as 3+5+0+0 = 8  or

2. Beocenter 7007 adds up as 7+0+0+7 = 14  or

3. Beocenter 9000 adds up as 9+0+0+0 = 9

etc.....

Chris.

Well no. 2 was easy, I know his son!

Great fun and I'm pleased I managed to get the time to submit my entry!

I'll just quote Gordon Ramsay.

Done!

Thank you so much for your entries everyone - i can now declare the competition CLOSED. 

Our Quizmaster Chris (medogsfat) will pore over the entries, then pick a random winner from the correct submissions.  The winner will then receive the BeoWorld Goodie Pack !!!

We'll try and make sure the package is delivered by the courier at 13:13.13 in the afternoon, but if it's Parcel Force it will arrive 13 days late, in 13 pieces...

Anyway - i look forward to the Winner being announced !!!

Lee

9 LEE:

We'll try and make sure the package is delivered by the courier at 13:13.13 in the afternoon, but if it's Parcel Force it will arrive 13 days late, in 13 pieces...

9 LEE:

Thank you so much for your entries everyone - i can now declare the competition CLOSED. 

Our Quizmaster Chris (medogsfat) will pore over the entries, then pick a random winner from the correct submissions.  The winner will then receive the BeoWorld Goodie Pack !!!

We'll try and make sure the package is delivered by the courier at 13:13.13 in the afternoon, but if it's Parcel Force it will arrive 13 days late, in 13 pieces...

Anyway - i look forward to the Winner being announced !!!

Lee

To make it fair I have given each correct entry a random number between 1 & the number of correct entries.

I have used a random number generator to pick a number & fittingly if not just spookily the number chosen was.... 13.... (I would have asked PDB but he's in South Africa helping build the accomodation for the English soccer team).

The luck person with number 13 is our very own doyen of the Wed's thread & all round Newcastle Brown ale drinker PUNCHER. Now he can stop whingeing about never winning anything

So if Mr P would like to contact Lee at beoworld_admin@mac.com he will throw the prize bundle in a bin bag & hand it to the next stage coach passing Durham.

Congratualtions to Puncher & a huge thanks to everyone for entering the quiz.

Chris.

OOPS!

Nearly forgot:- here are the correct answers

A 1 The number 13.

A 2. Subir Pramanik

A 3, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

A 4, Beocenter 8500.

A 5, Kevin Bacon.

A 6, 13 Beech Drive, Fulwood
Preston PR2 3NB

United Kingdom.

A 7, Ophiuchus.

A 8, A = Beogram 6000. B = Beovision AV 9000, C = Beocenter 2000.

A 9, Lace

A 10, A = 1974, B = 19, C = 99 (B X C = 1881), D = 88, E = 8.

A 11, Margaret Thatcher.

A 12, Beovox/Beolab penta’s

A 13, Apostle spoons.

Medogsfat:

The luck person with number 13 is our very own doyen of the Wed's thread & all round Newcastle Brown ale drinker PUNCHER. Now he can stop whingeing about never winning anything

#13... no less... SPOOKY!

Way to go Pounch!

I'm seriously thinking about asking that site to generate some lottery numbers for me, you couldn't make it up.

BTW Jaff, you were number 7 which had I my money on, it being my lucky number. Then again the most I've ever won on the lottery is a tenner so maybe I should reconsider....

Chris.

Well done Puncher!

Next Wednesday.............. things I like about the number 13.