The Lunchtime Bonus Question

Welcome to the Lunchtime Bonus Question.

The rules are simple. Every day at 1030 BST 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, and thus the prize keyring, is Alan Cotter for his cringe-makingly wrong question on Monday. Accepting his award, he said: "Great! That's my wife's anniversary present sorted."

Full LBQ roll of shame

FRIDAY

Friday's answer is "20% PROJECT"

Entries are now closed. Wrong questions included:

Opera singing for economists?
John C, Oldham

My personal endeavor to reduce my alcohol intake to the recommended level.
Mark, Wellingborough

80:20 rule - 80% of your project budget will buy you what?
Barbara M, Dublin

Since I live in America, I have had to wake up early every morning to try to win this little keychain. Because of this, 50% of my day is spent being tired, 30% of my day is spent coming up with a funny question and how much is spent on my current project at school?
Joellyn, West Allis, WI US

Buying Glastonbury tickets: 20% project, %80 pain in the...
Andrew Statham, Leeds

What is the Government's initiative to improve the proportion of correspondence that is read by ministers before signing?
Katie , Bristol

Before the incompetent typist was fired, what was the 205 Peugeot originally called?
Trigger, London

Network Rail's name for the likely improvements to UK rail?
Nick, Yorkshire

After a really bad week, Holmes liked to abondon his 7% solution and take up what instead?
James T, 221b Baker Street

Don't you hate it when 80% of actors mumble, while the other ......
Garry Rucklidge, Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire

Why four blackbirds were added to the 20 already in the pie?
Candace, New Jersey, US

What is it called when someone intends to decimate their neighbour's hedge with a chainsaw, but only manages to cut it into fifths?
Catherine O, Maidenhead

The plan to get drunk on just one night of the working week?
Andrea M Snow, UK

Code name for the team who decides which LBQ entries get published?
Adrian Carter, York, UK

What is the angle and type of vomit required for a truly authentic Exorcist impression?
Phil Cheesman, Southampton

If, in a wet T-shirt competition, ice water gives us a 98% projection, what is the result when ice cold water is thrown on a man's swimming trunks?
Ian Main, Kirkmuirhill, Scotland

What is the building slang for the amount of building the original quote will facilitate on a stadium project?
Steve, Brighton

What is a cool name for my aim to split my working day into 5 equal amounts of
1) Monitoring Hydration levels (Tea making)
2) Networking (gossiping)
3) Blue sky thinking (gazing out the window)
4) Internet research (reading BBC Magzine) 5) Mental Exercising (struggling for witty LBQ questions)
Sarah, Swindon

When supermodels eat cake...
Geoff Spick, Bournemouth

How are belly buttons configured?
Walter, Helsinki

I haven't won an LBQ keyring yet, and I've only had one question published this week, so I need to split my time today between my project at work and the LBQ. To maximise my potential, what split do you suggest?
Janet B, Nottingham

DIY?
Richard Sockett, Sheffield, England

Leaked memo from Liberal Democrats revealing campaign slogan for next General Election!
Stuart Collins, Aberdeen

Scaling back the drive for 100% digital TV take-up, the government's new scheme is known as what?
Martin, Harlow

50 Cent's accountant?
Andrew Culley, Grantham

What am I calling my home wine-making attempts?
Martin, Harlow

There are 10 OHP's in my department at work. Four have no bulb, three have no plug on the cable and one has a smashed lens, but the rest are fine. Summarise this situation.
Becky, London

My flies are undone?
Peter Jones, Hull, UK

Cinema Ticket Price Breakdown :
20% Premises
30% Film Licencing
30% Staff Cost - and
Andrew Culley, Grantham

40% throw-up over themselves.
Matt Kennedy, Edinburgh

If 80% of people are antiject what are the remainder?
Mike F, Plymouth UK

All wrong. The correct question was what does Google call the practice of giving its employees one day in five to work on pet ideas, which enabled one employee to devise its plan for providing a webmail service.

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THURSDAY

Thursday's answer is "CREATE CURVES OUT OF NOTHING"

Entries have now closed. Wrong answers included:

"And here's my lovely assistant Debbie McGee!!!"
Iain, Rochester

If Adam hadn't acceded to God's request for a rib, what would God have done?
Dave Eadie, Motherwell

Faeries do what in the Namibian desert, apparently?
Ken, Pretoria

"Scotty, what do you mean you canny give us any more. What happens to Space if we exceed Warp 10?"
Iain, Rochester

Smoke rings. Discuss.
Candace, New Jersey, US

Apart from making bathroom sealant and chips, what other benefits has silicon brought to mankind?
Iain Veitch, Manchester

How did Euclid get geometry started?
Neil, Birmingham

Does my bum look big in this?
Liz Spencer, Ottawa, Canada

What didn't the Romans do for us?
Jane Birkett, Mansfield

Mother Nature abhors a vacuum. So why does she carry balloons?
Stephen Buxton, Coventry, UK

Wonder bras, why do we love you?
Saffron Garey, Leeds

Why am I getting fat from eating only the centres of doughnuts?
Ibbi, Portsmouth

What happens if you slice a zero down the middle?
Nigel, Winchester

Why do I never use a Microsoft spellchecker?
James McGraw, Nottingham

() ?
Kieran Boyle, Oxford

British Rail and too much sun?
Libby, London

What do you see looking through glass boxes?
Peter, Dowlais

There's something about Miriam...
Jill Jolliffe, Birmingham

Here's one I made earlier - see what happens when you add chocolate and a supermodel?
Kirsten, Bristol

Another use for my chainsaw?
Jen, Staffordshire

Alternative to the Big Bang Theory?
Chris Ford, Bristol, UK

Jesus does geometry?
Andrew Culley, Grantham

What would happen if Calista Flockhart ate all the pies?
Tim G, London, UK

Why have I decided to take my new ruler back to the shop?
Austin Curzon, London

Why is the airbrush the most important tool in the fashion industry?
James Bradford, Bracknell

All wrong. The correct question was why does Elizabeth Jagger - daughter of Mick - say she likes designer Vivienne Westwood's clothes.

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WEDNESDAY

Wednesday's answer is "DECIMATED WITH A CHAINSAW"

Entries have now closed. Wrong questions included:

Has anyone seen my polyphonic mobile?
Neil, Birmingham

"You see your honour, it was the only way I could persuade them to give me a bloody keyring..."
Matt Clancy, Staines

Finale to Tarantino's revisionist biopic of Charles I?
C Falconer, London

What do I do to my daughter's de-crusted peanut-butter (smooth, not crunchy) and jelly (seedless raspberry) sandwich after she complains, yet AGAIN, that the pieces are not small enough?
Ainy, Baltimore, US

Final stage of flat-pack assembly?
Cass, London

After we split up and Jim searched the cellar, what happened?
Stephen Buxton, Coventry, UK

Rough Guide to the US. Florida: The Sunshine State; Idaho: Home of the Potato; Texas:
Melissa, Londinuim

Extreme Cluedo: Professor Plum, in the library ...
Oliver Molyneux, Manchester

How do they make those little flecks of dried coconut? ... no wait.
Charles Frean, Bedford, Massachusetts

Extreme maths?
Lynwen, Derby

Gardening with PMT?
Jill Jolliffe, Birmingham

Where did all the daisies go?
Helena, Northampton

Best way to break a chain letter?
Steve M, St Albans

Whatever did happen to all those Des O'Connor records?
Sullivan Gill, Wakefield

Black and Decker's redundancy policy?
Howard Vaughan, Edinburgh

My husband prefers securers, but my method of pruning involves? (ps: sorry about the roses Mark.)
Kirsty Warner, Wilstead, UK

If no-one hears a tree fall over in an empty forest, what would need to happen to it to make them hear?
Jon Keen, Sandhurst

2050 AD: "Grandad, what were rainforests?"
Jim, Marlow

How does Eminem prefer his coconut?
Brian Saxby, Gateshead

DAMN YOU, DVD CELLOPHANE WRAPPING!!!! HOW DO I OPEN YOU? HOW??????!!
Andy Cottier, London

Hopes and dreams of a lumberjack?
Steve, Brighton

Extreme topiary ?
Chris, Newbury

How was Ant eventually separated from his long-time TV partner?
Helene Parry, South Wales ex-pat to Twickenham

An irreversible vasectomy?
Martin, Harlow

Weapon of metric destruction?
Candace, New Jersey, US

What would you do to me if I sang "How much wood would a wood chuck chuck, if a wood chuck could chuck wood?"
Andrew Culley, Grantham

When Damien Hurst tools turn bad?
Kevin Turner, Manchester

Now Euro weights and measures laws are in place, what do we say instead of "hacked into ten pieces with a chainsaw"?
Geoff Spick, Bournemouth

How was the "monopoly on glass boxes" broken?
Dave Matthews, Oswestry, Shropshire

All wrong. The correct question was what allegedly happened to a laurel hedge in Groombridge, East Sussex, sparking a neighbourly disagreement that ended after a four-year £350,000 legal battle.

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TUESDAY

Tuesday's answer is "A MONOPOLY ON GLASS BOXES"

Entries are now closed. Wrong questions included:

Pilkingtons merger with Pickfords ?
Stephen H, Nottingham, UK

No, wait... Julie Andrews. Discuss.
Paul Illingworth, Plymouth

"Find your own gimmick", said the mime artist to a rival street performer
Joe Taylor, London, UK

The BBC's cunning plan is to let the licence fee go and argue instead for what?
Mark, Oxford

A single parrot on transparent cuboids?
Chris Howe, Shefford, Beds. England

What, in theory, is better that an oligopoly in Perspex tubs?
Alex, Manchester

If Damian Hirst wants a to put a cow on Mayfair and one on Old Kent Road, what does he need?
Jane Willis, Fleet

What was Mies van der Rohe's unachieved ambition?
Alec Cawley, Newbury, UK

I love Muji, but they do seem to have...
Rhiannon, Egham

Why on Earth is the EU fining us?
Tim G, Head Office, International Glass Boxes Corporation

What did Pilkington's company cricket team have?
Mike, Oxted, Surrey

This year's winner of the Turner prize is?
Richard Goring, Oxford

Have we seen the last of David Blaine on the LBQ? No, because someday there'll be an answer like...
Ian Watson, Sandy, UK

MS Windows.
Ray Gray, London

Extreme board-gaming....
Holdy, Bury, Lancs

Transparent capitalism - Discuss.
Peter Jones, Hull

The only way Hannibal Lector can enjoy board games?
Andrew Culley, Grantham

What is the Glass Box Competition Commission currently looking into?
Neil, Birmingham

David Blaine, Inc?
Edward Green, London

If people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, what should people who throw stones not play?
Ed, Plymouth, UK

If Dr Faustus had been an 'installation artist' what might he have asked for in exchange for his soul?
Martin, Harlow

People in glass houses should play:
A Monopoly on glass boxes?
B Conkers? or
C Strip Poker?
Stuart C, Cardiff

What business advantage did the undertakers who catered for Snow White have?
Holdy, Bury, Lancs

At last I've cornered the market in them, everyone who has a lawn mower will have to come to me! No, wait....
Kip, Norwich, UK

Q. What is the most dangerous location to play a board game?
Ian Davies, London

All wrong. The correct question was what do the organisers of an art installation in Trafalgar Square in which volunteers will read out one million years while sitting in a glass box hope to prove that David Blaine does not have.

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MONDAY

Monday's answer is "A TORCH FOR A MILLION YEARS"

Entries are now closed. Wrong questions included:

Powering a SCRAM jet for ten seconds is roughly equivalent to what?
David Dee, Maputo Mozambique

John 8:12 - the latest translation?
Steve Earle, Farnborough, UK

So, will Madam be requiring the extended warranty with that?
Candace, New Jersey, US

What advertising line led me to build a covered entrance to my front door ? - no wait
Stephen H, Nottingham, UK

What do you buy the pyromaniac who has everything?
Jerry Baldwin, Bream, Glos

If a dog is for life, what is a torch?
Janet B, Nottingham

What do you mean "The batteries are not included?"
Bob Hart, Oxford

For searching in your 'Bag For Life'?
Si Griffin, London, UK

Rather than a keyring, what other useful accessory would most encourage competitiveness among LBQ entries?
Leanne Richards, Kent

The Darkness's power ballads don't half go on. Waving my cigarette lighter, I feel as if I've been holding...
Helene Parry, Twickenham

Yay, someone loves me!
Amy Lonniers, Oxford

What will the flame-bearers have to carry until the Athens Olympic Stadium is completed?
Mark, Hawkwell

If you're a genie, what's slightly better than being in a lamp for eternity?
Alan C., Bracknell, UK

Dad answers for the LBQ no 45: What would've been handy in the Dark Ages?
Vicki Edwards, Edinburgh

What would you need to read the Bodleian Library under the blankets?
Kieran Boyle, Oxford

As well as stout shoes and a packed lunch, what should you also pack in case of all out nuclear war?
Kevin Miller, Warrington, Cheshire

Oh for goodness sake stop exaggerating!
Neil, Birmingham

Trevor Baylis's latest wind-up invention withdrawn over Repetitive Strain Injury fears?
Sam, Stockport

Perpetual Olympics?
Parminder, Leeds

And on today's Swap Shop, things are getting more surreal - we have someone who just phoned in and wants to exchange his kingdom for a horse and someone who wants to swap...
Gerald, London

What can you buy five of on most high streets, for a pound?
Geoff Spick, Bournemouth

With more and more gadgets on your mobile phone, the battery needs to be so powerful that it could light a torch for how long?
Martin, Harlow

Give me a fulcrum and I'll move the world. Give me a 2 billion amp-hour battery, and I'll make what?
Martin, Harlow

The Statue of Liberty has carried what, by the end of Planet of the Apes?
Ken, Pretoria

Sellafield rebranded?
J Hod, Haywards Heath

Boffins using cold-fusion technology hope one day to create batteries that power what?
Ken, Pretoria

What was so magic about Jamie's magic torch?
Graham Campbell, Edinburgh

"Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are?" "Well, basically, I'm ....."
Phil Evans, Newcastle, Staffs

All wrong. The correct question was what could be powered, and for how long, by using all the power stored in the batteries Britain is throwing into landfill sites each year.