The Lunchtime Bonus Question

Welcome to the Lunchtime Bonus Question.

The rules are simple. Every day at 1030 BST on the Magazine index we give you an answer. You then tell us what the question was.

Marks are deducted for predictability, and a selection of your most wrong questions are published each day until about 1500 BST when the actual question is revealed.

The winner of this week's Lunchtime Achievement Award is Ali Mainwood for her miserably wrong question on Tuesday. In accepting her award, she said: "I'm obviously hoping to be somewhere else."

LBQ roll of shame

FRIDAY

Friday's answer is "ONE, TWO AND ROUGHLY ONE"

Entries are now closed. Wrong questions included:

It's not my fault, I swear! My birth control keeps failing on me!
Ainy, Baltimore, US

Wow, so maths A-level exams really ARE getting easier?
Sophie Sanderson, Walthamstow, London

The new Directory enquiries number that no one can remember
Jonathan, Holland

Soldiers breaking step while crossing flimsy bridge?
Ed Sexton, London

Counting with mittens?
Candace, New Jersey, US

How has my recent record been with 7 Days, 7 Questions?
Kip, Norwich

How many builders does it take to give you an estimate?
Pat Murphy, Wallasey

When shoes remain unbuckled?
Helene Parry, South Wales expat to Twickenham

3 Men and a Baby?
Craig Roscoe, Glasgow

Toll crossing charges for cars, lorries and motorbikes?
David, UK

A roadie and his dog?
Colin, Enfield

Menage about trois ?
Jason S, Southampton, UK

The amount of times I've stuck to my diet this week?
Vicki Edwards, Edinburgh

The number 3 enters the witness protection programme?
Chris Ford, Bristol, UK thelbq.co.uk

My intuitive answer to Si Griffin's Monday Puzzle?
David Dee, Maputo Mozambique

The time sponsored by Inaccurist is?
RD, Liverpool

How to present theoretical physics to the under 5's?
Sarah, Oxford

Respectively, Hitler, Goerring and Himmler?
Keith, Kingston

Instructions for knitting chain mail?
Vicky, East London

How many terrestrial channels can I receive from ITV, BBC, and channel 5?
Ray Gray, London

12.095?
Pete, London

'Onest ossifer I've only 'ad a wee drink!!
Dave K, Epsom, Surrey

All wrong. The correct question was what numbers do the Piraha people of the Amazon use, and what is an alternative meaning for their word for "one".

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THURSDAY

Thursday's answer is "GET BACK TO MISCHIEF"

Entries are now closed. Wrong questions included:

No, this isn't the road to Mayhem, you need to ___ ____ __ ________ and turn left.
Kip, Norwich

Fiends Reunited?
Seanie, Bucks

What does the BNP want to do with immigrants from the Democratic Republic of Mischief?
Alex, London

007 misreads the instructions to "Get back to MI5 chief"
Jo, Edinburgh

"What do you think you're meant to be doing here at work, Nick?"
Nick B, Oxford

Urgent message for Runningbear?
Si Griffin, London

Return to Boudicca?
Peter Greenhill, London

Why MPs look forward to the Queen's Speech?
Sara, Limassol

Lucifer, Sir, is the coffee break over?
David, UK

How to say 'go forth & multiply' in polite circles?
Rob Holman, Chislehurst, Kent, England

New batteries in my Billy Bass?
Andrew Culley, Grantham

How should they improve the Flake adverts?
Johnboy, Sevenoaks

"Exterminate them" is so Seventies. What is the Daleks' new catch-phrase?
David Dee, Maputo Mozambique

How was "jet black tumorous teeth" mistranscribed by an NHS call centre operator?
Phil Cheesman, Southampton

Unfinished monkey business?
Andrew Culley, Grantham

Homeward bounder?
Sarah, Oxford

Recidivists of the world unite?
Candace, New Jersey, US

Pesky high achieving kids...
Phil B-C, Maidenhead

What is the name of the sequel to the film Escape from Mischief ?
Daniel Ward, Eastbourne, UK

All wrong. The correct question was what is to be the new slogan for Viagra.

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WEDNESDAY

Wednesday's answer is "THE SIZE OF A TRANSIT VAN"

Entries are now closed. Wrong questions included:

L, XL, XXL, XXXL, XXXXL, XXXXXL, ?
RD, Liverpool

What spell did the character in the updated version of the cartoon series "Arabian Knights" (formerly shown during "The Banaba Splits")utter in order to disguise himself on the M25?
Davdi R Jefferies, Norwich, Norfolk.

I didn't know they were so sensiti... Oh, I see...size...
Paul, St Margarets

From plumber to plumper?
Gerald Moynihan, London

The standard volume at which there's enough room to swing a cat?
Neal Berridge, Nottingham

In the updated version of "King Kong" how did the blushing heroine describe his best feature?
Geoffrey Scott-Baker, Reading

After factoring in crowd attendance at the Athens Olympics, how big will the average seating areas be at the China Olympics 2008?
Elizabeth, Manchester

The Wonder Stuff: 2004 remix
Gianni Brancazio, London

How big is the average airport transit lounge?
David Dee, Maputo Mozambique

"Hey, Vanessa, come and look! Venus is just passing across the face of the sun. Wow! Look at..."
pete, Sussex

So how much cleaning up was there on Monday after Gloria was sick?
Kieran Boyle, Oxford

Great Expectations?
Helena, Northampton

Louder than a moaning Mini?
Lara, France

Axle of diesel?
Candace, New Jersey, US

...I said you've the thighs for a transvestite, man. What did you think I said?
John Thompson, Southport, UK

The SI unit for vehicles?
Adrian Hall, Ilkley

How big a flat can you get in Twickenham with the proceeds from a house in South Wales ?
Jason S, Southampton, UK

Due to cutbacks at the BBC, the interior of Dr Who's Tardis is reduced to...?
Greg Hays, Bristol UK

Is it bigger than a bread bin?
Christian B, Truro

I don't know but didn't it carry Mercury past the Sun the other week?
PJ, W. Yorks, UK

The only piece of useful information that White Van Man knows.
Judith , Northampton

Does my bum look big in this?
Janet B, Nottingham

Chariots for Hire ?
Jason S, Southampton, UK

In order to carry around his current ego, John Prescott has swapped his Jag for something...
Richard York, Wakefield

We will now be bringing our medal haul from the Olympics back in a shoe box, but what was the original (and optimistic) consideration for transporting them back to the UK?
Chris Ford, Bristol, UK thelbq.co.uk

When the estate agent said 'cosy', he meant...?
Seanie, Bucks

You can get eight elephants in a mini if it is what?
Sarah, Oxford

All wrong. The correct question was how big are the rocks being ripped from cliff faces in Britain by giant storm waves.

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TUESDAY

Tuesday's answer is "MORE BALDRICK THAN BOUDICCA"

Entries are now closed. Wrong questions included:

Her quote that she had "a cunning clan" was ...
Paul, Cambridge

Taking on Roman lesions?
Candace, New Jersey, US

Moving to Twickenham from South Wales?
John, Leicester

Liceni?
Luke, London

If Boudicca is FAIRLY Baldrick and I am VERY Baldrick, how Baldrick does that make me?
John, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Chariot's on fire?
Chris Hunter, Bedford

How can one sum up a rousing leader's speech that goes: "Our enemies never stop looking for ways to hurt us, and neither do we?"
Helene Parry, South Wales expat to Twickenham

A chariot shaped like a thingy?
D Sparks, London, UK

The cock-up theory of history?
Ali, London

Inspired by "Battlefield Britain" I attempted to convert my wheelie bin into a chariot but to be honest, I feel....
Peter Collins, Belfast

Attila the Humble?
Stuart Collins, Aberdeen

How does one feel after attempting to tackle Si's Monday riddle on the Magazine Monitor?
Lester Mak, London, UK

When it came right down to manning the helm, apparently Patrick O'Brian was...
Bill, Portland, Oregon, US

How would Jeremy Clarkson describe the Smart car?
Sarah, Oxford

What is the new history A-level curriculum?
Alex P, Carshalton

My cunning plan to attack the Romans in drag was...
Bill, Portland, Oregon, US

John Prescott - Superhero?
David, London

A turnip for the books?
Asif Givashi, London

Waving a white flag?
Stephen Buxton, Coventry, UK

All wrong. The correct question was how were Brian' Lara's tactics at Old Trafford described by the Daily Telegraph's cricket correspondent.

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MONDAY

Monday's answer is "A MELODRAMATIC WHITE FLAG"

Entries are now closed. Wrong questions included:

Howard Dean's scream was really...
Ainy, Baltimore, US

I swear, I tried to do Si's riddle from last week on BBC's "Magazine Monitor," but I couldn't. I tried and tried and tried. Now that I know the answer I still don't get it!!
Ainy, Baltimore, US

'Tis nobler to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all?
Mark, Weston-super-Mare

OK Candace. YOU can be in EVERY day and I'll just have to continue being completely ignored.
Martin Roberts, Liverpool

White Flag!?!?!?
Roland, Edinburgh

Design a flag for Antarctica.
Kip, Norwich

The latest anger management tool?
Jen, Staffordshire

What are you likely to find in the theatre of war?
Phil B-C, Maidenhead

What not to wave?
Lara, France

What is a classic end in the Tom and Jerry cartoon?
Adya, UK

http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/sign041.shtml
Jason S, Southampton A night to surrender?
Richard Saint, Bedford

What is run up the flagpole at a hen or stag night?
Candace, New Jersey, US

Please please please! please!! PLEASE PLEASE! PLEASE!! Let's just forget about it, OK?
David Dee, Maputo Mozambique

I give in?
Anna, Herts

"My name is Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq. Did I stay in the hole longer than David Blaine? Don't Shoot!!
Dave K, Epsom, Surrey

When ensigns go stroppy?
Nick B, Bristol

What could you make out of an over-emotional bed sheet?
Sarah, Oxford

Team GB's secret weapon?
Vicky, East London

Opposite of a neurotic-reality black banner?
David, UK

What does a normal white flag become when accompanied by a Wagnerian string section, a Turneresque sky and thousands of people weeping openly in the streets.
Steve, London

How do you want me to surrender Darlings?
Christian B, Truro

Pacifist actors protest with what?
Stuart Collins, Aberdeen

So, Sirrah, do you surrender? {dunnnn, dunnnn, DUNNNNNNN!!!!!}
Luke A, York

All wrong. The correct question was what ace has Dido left up her sleeve, according to the Guardian's reviewer of her Manchester concert.