I sketched out pitch markings and asked teams to identify the sport, which went down well.
Some were much better known than others even keeping it to pitch based sports but you could get quite tricky if you go abstract with something like billiards or even darts (one line).
Sorry, I can’t be bothered to read all the replies, but . . . the contest isn’t between you and the contestants, it’s between the contestants themselves. I stopped doing our local’s quiz because those setting the quiz thought they were being so bloody clever when no-one could answer owt. It gets boring very quickly so mix it up a bit, let people have some fun.
What is the smallest prime number?
Then have a massive argument with a room about why 1 is incorrect.
What is the smallest prime number?
Then have a massive argument with a room about why 1 is incorrect.
been there done that 🤣
quizmaster is always right
What did the romans put on their pizza?
What is the only continuous circular motorway in the UK?
The M60.
Most people will say the M25 but the Dartford Crossing is an A road. #
<Starts massive argument about whether it counts as continuous when the motorway becomes the M62 going clockwise at Simister Island and you technically have to leave it, traverse a roundabout with traffic lights and rejoin a separate M60 carriageway...>
What is the only continuous circular motorway in the UK?
The M60.
Can any North Manchester dwellers confirm this? What is the designation of the Simister Island roundabout? @Harry_the_Spider might know, it's practically in his back yard!
Ha, what a coincidence ☝️
quizmaster is always right
I understand why it's that way, but if the question setter and the host are two different people then "the quizmaster is always right" is a pain in the arse. An evening of "guess what wrong answer I've got on my question sheet" isn't fun.
Can't do the spoiler reveal thing, apologies.
Name all the countries that begin with A but don't end in A.
I think there are only two. Azerbaijan and Afghanistan.
What's Europe's highest capital city? Apparently Madrid.
What's the most northerly capital city? Reykjavik, obvs.
What country's flag contains an AK47? Mozambique.
Our village quiz has a round with four well-known people, and you have to put them in order of youngest to oldest. Or tallest to shortest (the last one had well-known short arse Tom Cruise, who turned out to be the tallest!). Or 'celebs' who have died in that year, and you have to put them in order of demise. Also one with four foodstuffs, and you have to order them from lowest to highest calories (usually includes a Big Mac or similar, which turns out to be the lowest). They're not conventional quiz questions, as everyone can have a guess; quizzes with impossible questions rapidly become boring.
The one where you have to name a brand from just the logo is always fun. Philips, Texaco, Mitsubishi, etc.
Ha, what a coincidence
Us purists must stick together! Even if we're wrong!
We probably are wrong - looking at google maps, the roundabout is still 'classed' as a motorway, with all the no stopping bits etc..
The only question is whether the left lane/slip remains the M60 throughout, or briefly becomes an M62 slip road...
You know they only contrived it this way so this quiz question could exist. 🙂
"How many listed buildings are there in [nearby provincial town]?" (Maybe to the nearest 10 or so, to be fair)
Answer likely to be available here Website
Use the hamburger to get to 'search' and put your town name in thusly
You should get a short list of matching Locations, pick the town required, and that'll throw out a numbered list of all the listed buildings therein. So the answer in this case is 20
'celebs' who have died in that year, and you have to put them in order of demise.
Who died first, Joe Cocker or Joe Cocker?
What's "double land locked"? Surrounded by countries that are also all landlocked?
Yep, that. Chad is one of them I think
What is the only wild animal with floppy ears?
Elephant.
quizmaster is always right
This is an important point. The aim is not to get the right answer, it's to get the same answer as the quizmaster 🙂
You what? How is that gettable? No amount of thinking, remembering, reasoning, counting or working out or anything will ever reveal the answer to that if you don't already know.
Isn't that the case with most Pub Quiz questions? If you don't know the capital of Belarus then you can't reason, work out or count the answer.
FWIW (and it's the reason I still remember the question/answer), is that it was a question on a DLT Pub Quiz games machine in a pub many years ago (I knew the answer, much to the amazement of all my friends I was playing it with).
What's "double land locked"? Surrounded by countries that are also all landlocked?
Its Uzbekistan and Lichtenstein, well known bit of Geography geek trivia
Isn't that the case with most Pub Quiz questions? If you don't know the capital of Belarus then you can't reason, work out or count the answer.
Not really. With stuff like countries ending in letters, you can mentally go through all the ones you can remember and count, you can do it as a team and it's a bit of a fun activity. If you just ask who played in goal for Villa in the 1954 cup final there's nothing you can do. You either know or you don't.
Similarly, like the example above if you have to guess a quantity and nearest wins, there's al element of thinking and guessing and a bit of excitement as the teams' answers are revealed. It would be far less fun if the QM just said 'the answer's 172, you're all wrong'. Or 'name all the X with Y, a point for each one'.
When including all animals, what’s the average number of legs per animal?
0.01
(on account of all the snakes worms)
If you just ask who played in goal for Villa in the 1954 cup final there's nothing you can do. You either know or you don't.
Aston Villa didn't play in any cup finals in 1954.
But seriously, most pub quizzes have questions that you either know or don't know – they aren't all exclusively questions that can worked out.
An evening of "guess what wrong answer I've got on my question sheet" isn't fun.
It can be. We've got old Trivial Pursuit set so you have to remember to add "in 1995" to every question. Usually it doesn't matter but sometimes it does. TBH quizzes are frequently pretty dull some having some interesting or controversial questions to add spice keeps it entertaining. I appreciate quiz nerds not feel this way 🙂
. The aim is not to get the right answer, it's to get the same answer as the quizmaster
‘Who is Luke Skywalkers father?’
’Anakin Skywalker’
’Afraid not, it’s Darth Vader’
Not me, read about on t’internet, but I get angry just thinking about it.
‘Who is Luke Skywalkers father?’
’Anakin Skywalker’
’Afraid not, it’s Darth Vader’
Yeah, and he knows what you are getting for Christmas!
What is the only continuous circular motorway in the UK?
The M60.
Can any North Manchester dwellers confirm this? What is the designation of the Simister Island roundabout? @Harry_the_Spider might know, it's practically in his back yard!
Contentious. It is all the M60, but there are two sets of traffic lights that you have to pass through on "The Island".
An evening of "guess what wrong answer I've got on my question sheet" isn't fun.
It can be. We've got old Trivial Pursuit set so you have to remember to add "in 1995" to every question.
Yeah, but they're not wrong answers. If the question was "what's the capital of Australia?" and you got marked down for not answering "Sydney" (or in the spirit of some of the suggestions here, "A") then being met with Quizmaster Says No isn't fun.
I've had plenty of Skywalker moments over the years and it's frustrating.most pub quizzes have questions that you either know or don't know – they aren't all exclusively questions that can worked out.
Even if you don't know, you can generally guess something. If you've no idea who played Batman in the most recent superhero movie you could probably still make a fist of naming a random actor likely to be cast in a butch action role (Robert Pattinson notwithstanding). It's unlikely to be right but it's more satisfying than leaving a blank field on your answer sheet.
Yeah, and he knows what you are getting for Christmas!
Oh go on then, I'll give you the feed line. It's worth it.
"But Vader, how can you possibly know what I'm getting for Christmas?"
"But Vader, how can you possibly know what I'm getting for Christmas?"
I have felt your presents. (presence, it actually doesn't work as well written down does it?)
I have introduced other rules in quizes.
Last returned ticket gets deducted a point. That stops the team who take ages. They hate it though.
Questions are only asked once and refreshed at the end. That pisses loads of people off but keep things going.
I once did a yes no round. Sealed ten answers either yes no or maybe.
Then the round was literally guess whether it was yes no or maybe... In foreign languages.
1 point if you got it right. Half point if you knew what maybe was in the language regardless of correctness. Spelling was lenient.
I did a quiz with multiple answers for each question, with additional points for getting an answer that nobody else did.
The two questions I still remember are:
Three current Premier League teams with a standard home kit that is predominantly red.
Three popularly recognised musicians that are best known for being vocalists, but were originally drummers. (Worded like that so nobody could say 'my mate Dave').
Of course it means having access to a way of checking if someone comes up with an answer that the quiz-master isn't sure of.
Arsenal, Manchester United and Nottingham Forest (but I'm going back to primary school memories of Panini stickers!)
Dave Grohl and Phil Collins...unsure of 3rd...
On the "lists" idea, give them a question at the start of the quiz to use as a tie breaker at the end. Something like "Name all the pizza toppings available at Domino's" or "Name as many Tom Cruise films as you can" or if they're a smart bunch "Name as many SI units of measurement as you can"
Slightly off topic but I was playing a pub quiz once and the quiz masters officiall answer to ' what is the most dangerous type of shark?' was the great white shark.
They wouldn't have it that they were incorrect.
My friends preventing me from beating the crap out of the quiz master...
The Amazon is the world's longest river, how many countries does it pass through?
3
Tom Hanks is a distant relative (third cousin, four times removed) of which former US President?
Abraham Lincoln
The Amazon is the world's longest river, how many countries does it pass through?
3
Incorrect.
In terms of tax liability the answer is zero.
In terms of how many countries? All of them. 😉
“Arsenal, Manchester United and Nottingham Forest”
Arsenal have white sleeves. Substitute for Liverpool.
There are a few singers who started as drummers (do they have to be alive?) : Don Henley, Karen Carpenter, Drummie Zeb of Aswad, Micky Dolenz, Dave Clarke …
@Cougar re Bird or Bullshit. I don't *think* I got the idea from STW, at least not consciously. I deffo made it up from first principles when creating that list. I had the idea when driving along listening to Sliced Bread when they have to decide if a product is SB or BS. I used to have a game of Bird Bingo that I'd occasionally play with kids at school. To pad the game out I'd make up extra names and let them scour the bingo pads. Surely someone has the Crested Cockroach Crusher? Come on! Eyes down!
I checked back. I've mentioned the round a couple of times, but never posted my questions (until now😁). It does just lend itself to "real or not" questions though, I doubt either of us were original. Ornithologists need help.
Gaslighting kids with it on the other hand, I'm totally stealing from you.
I once did a yes no round. Sealed ten answers either yes no or maybe.
Then the round was literally guess whether it was yes no or maybe... In foreign languages.
Thanks.
I always have a true or false round ... so this Saturday I think i'll be doing "true or false [insert foreign word] means true/false?"
I started doing this STW quiz but apart from manta ray, Angleterre and Andora found most questions too tricky to be fun. No point thinking about it, I just didn't know.
Easy quick fire things people won't have time to check on the phone and someone will get, there are very few above.
Presidents:
Hews iron
London calling
Bird (pause) hand
Star wars
French prostitute
Bunga Bunga
Big daddy.
Am prepping a quiz at the moment for the works xmas do. I'll use some of these questions for a "killer" round
If you answer a question in the round correctly, you score 1 point. Answer a second correctly, you score 2 points for that etc etc
but if you write an answer down, it MUST be correct. If ANY answer is wrong, you score zero for the round.
I have been looking through old quizzes to find rounds I can cannibalise. I found a quiz that someone else had sent me - might eben have been someone on here from when we did the STW lockdown quizzes and swapped between ourselves - featuring a photo round called "Tunnel or Funnel". The photos were screenclips from adult gentertainment films, and the idea was to guess which orifice was being used. Amusing as it may have been, I don't think I'll use that round at work...
As an extra challenge, might I suggest that quizzers are required to enter, and eventually confirm, their answers using STW's new, MegaSack 2025 quiz submission system.
The Amazon is the world's longest river
Eh? Surely it's the Nile?
Another music question: What were the two bands names they were known as before becoming known as "The Cult'.
Another music question: What were the two bands names they were known as before becoming known as "The Cult'.
easy peasy, southern death cult and death cult.
As an extra challenge, might I suggest that quizzers are required to enter, and eventually confirm, their answers using STW's new, MegaSack 2025 quiz submission system.
🤣
Whats Madonna's full name?
It was Madonna Louise Ciccone, I think
s'wat my answer would be too, always used to be (no cheating, googles for noodles)
I found a quiz that someone else had sent me - might eben have been someone on here from when we did the STW lockdown quizzes and swapped between ourselves - featuring a photo round called "Tunnel or Funnel".
Ah yes, that would have been me. 😁
The Amazon is the world's longest river
Eh? Surely it's the Nile?
It depends who you believe. They remeasured one of them (the Amazon I think) about 20 years ago and came up with a different answer. The Amazon is probably most largely recognised as the longest but I'd file this question under "problematic" unless you accepted either as correct.
Dunno if anyone has mentioned having a ‘what is this picture’ part of their quiz, but this photo popped up on various media sites today, and it’s just such a great photo I thought it might appeal.
Anyone got any clues?
Donald Trump’s arteries?
It wouldn't really work in a pub quiz without modification*
But 'older or younger' was a good round for a covid quiz night where each contestant had to decide if they were born before or after events.
Everyone got first woman in space wrong. Equality was a strong topic actually, first femal representation in olympic sports was eye opening.
Various tech releases was pretty decent but you kind of have to target the age group or ita really easy. Game boy and computer games were about the right time frame for the age group to not really know.
*Probably convert it to higher or lower. Or possibly use a nominated team member to represent each team.
Band who released the classic 80's album the Lexicon of Love
I'd say that's a pretty easy quiz question TBH.
Except you got it spectacularly wrong.
The country with the longest name is a good one. Its amazing how manypeople don't think so close to home.
If you want a tricky but (IMO) gettable music question, how about 'Stan Ridgeway, the writer and performer of the No. 2 UK hit song 'Camouflage', was the original lead singer of what band? (Wall of Voodoo).
You what? How is that gettable? No amount of thinking, remembering, reasoning, counting or working out or anything will ever reveal the answer to that if you don't already know. Flippin eck there are some terrible questions on here. You might as well all be Bilbo Baggins.
Its very gettable, you just need a good 2H pencil and a couple of hours to write down and eliminate all the bands that did not have Stan Ridgeway in them. Its all about the process and working the problem in a logical way
Except you got it spectacularly wrong.
I didn't even say the answer did I?
Anyone got any clues?
I saw that today too, amazing photo. The macro-function on camera phones has come a long way...😉
Here’s some possibilities, a list of the origins of 12 common sayings:
They’re all things we know and say, but how many of us know where they come from; I actually knew two out of the twelve, and a couple more were fairly obvious once you think about them.
I saw that today too, amazing photo. The macro-function on camera phones has come a long way...
I was very impressed with the results when I took it… 🤣
What’s incredible is the fact that a spider can naturally spin such a complicated and sophisticated material as a natural process, something that materials scientists would probably spend months and millions of pounds trying to build a machine that could spin an equivalent to a macro scale.
To clarify, it’s the web spun by the Australian Net Weaver spider, it spins a net that it holds in its front four legs, and casts it out over its prey. The thick, smooth tube-like parts in the middle are elastic, the random looking stuff over the outside is to give the spider something to grip on to.
If you start in the US city of Detroit and head south - which is the first country (other than the US you started in) that you will enter?
Answer - Canada
Or make it a tie breaker - From Comerica Park, home of the Detroit tigers baseball team, if you travelled south, how far would you have to travel to reach an international border. Answer is about 2km not the thousands to Cuba or Honduras or wherever you'd get to next.
Which State or territory of the United States of America drives on the left?
United States Virgin Islands
Geography:
Into which ocean, does the most eastern end of the Panama canal drain?
It's the Pacific... Because Panama isn't as 'vertical' as you think.
What are the farthest East and farthest West U.S states?
It's Alaska. Both of them. Because of the date line.