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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.
Except you got it spectacularly wrong.
I didn't even say the answer did I?
Was meant to be an ABC/TBH joke, but if I have to explain it I failed
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Sports round. A silly one.
What are the three English league football clubs with swear words in their names?
Arsenal
S****horpe
... I'm struggling with the last one - West Bumich Albion? Dick Kerr Ladies? Penistowe Utd?
Crystal Palace is a swear word where I come from.
Edit: Hey! I didn't put those asterisks in!
If you're going to censor anything it should be Cr*st*l P*l*ce
Well, one of them has to be the thorpe of Scun. I assume the other two are a similar quirk.
1066 is known as the 'Year of Three Battles'
Name all three. (one point for each)
one point guaranteed
many will know Stamford Bridge
few will know Gate Fulford
Arsenal
S****horpe
... I'm struggling with the last one - West Bumich Albion? Dick Kerr Ladies? Penistowe Utd?Crystal Palace is a swear word where I come from.
Edit: Hey! I didn't put those asterisks in!
If you're going to censor anything it should be Cr*st*l P*l*ce
First two correct. The punchline is "****in man United"
More serious... What about:
Can you name all the second bits of English league football teams. For example United, city, athletic...
There are five countries in the world that when written in capital letters, contain no letters that can be coloured in (ie. A, O, etc…)
YEMEN
SEYCHELLES
LIECHTENSTEIN
CHILE
FIJI
Theres one English football league team…
Though I think that includes lower case letters as well
Bit late to this thread but happened across this today that would make a topically festive question.
Which word in the lyrics to the carol 'Ding dong merrily on high' is 33 syllables long?
The Amazon is the world's longest river, how many countries does it pass through?
How many bridges are there over it?
What is the origin of Fallout Boy's band name?
Everyone got first woman in space wrong.
Really? Who did they guess? The _second_ woman in space would be a more difficult question...
What is the origin of Fallout Boy's band name?
Great question.
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Who designed the Chupa Chups logo?
^ I know that one 🙂
Great examples include the largest manufacturer of tyres (Lego) or how many lakes in the Lake District (one) - the kind of questions that will really annoy people.
They're great examples of badly phrased questions, that's for sure.
Here's a silly one I found out today, similar to @nickjb's up thread.
What is the EU's largest national park? Guiana Amazonian Park in South America
Who popularized the term "Carbon Footprint"
A BP and their Ad. Agency (Ogilvy and Mather)
Which region of Scotland has the highest average height above sea level.
Answer. The Scottish Borders.
Everyone got first woman in space wrong.
Really? Who did they guess? The _second_ woman in space would be a more difficult question...
Tereshkova was the first (also the youngest female in space and the only female solo mission) , savitskaya was the second in thev80's.
But that wasn't too the question, the question was were you born before or after the first woman in space. 1963. 13 years before womans rowing was in the olympics.
Its good because you can make an educated guess where as knowing the names requires knowing random facts.
How many UK postcode areas only use a single letter to signify the geographical area?
Or, variation, list them.
Answer appears to be 6
Liverpool L
Sheffield S
Birmingham B
And three in London - W, E & N (S was abandoned in 1868)
Aside from the Americans, name two actors in the Slaughtered Lamb scene of American Werewolf in London..... everybody knows Brian Glover, but who was the other pre-fame comedy actor...? (Prompted by a Yorkshire pub I popped in to this afternoon).
Ade Edmonson isn't it? Or was it Rick Mayall?
But that wasn't too the question, the question was were you born before or after the first woman in space. 1963.
if the question was 'were you born before or after the first woman in space' then the first woman in space was born in 1937 🙂
A cheeky one could be connected to Lt Den Brotheridge. There's a few variations of a question in there, the significance of his death, the location, etc.
“Can you name a Labour Prime Minister whose first name was James?” is a good one. There were four of them (out of seven) but none of them are obvious.
We did our work Christmas quiz today and the quizmaster did a round where the answers were themed and were all Monopoly squares.
List 10 Slade chart topping singles for the music round. Everyone will score at least 1 point.
Lyrics round, short snippets read out, 3 to 4 words tops. Are they Christmas songs or Black Metal?
A troubled man regains his sanity as his imaginary companion shrinks from chaos into harmless nonsense before fading completely.
His apartment fixes itself, his job stabilises, and he slowly becomes a polite, rule-following member of society.
Name the inverted film
Ade Edmonson isn't it? Or was it Rick Mayall?
Yeah - Rik Mayall – he spits out his beer just after Glover delivers his punchline 'then threw out the Mexican'. I have watched the film too many times haven't I?