I need pub quiz vindication.

As for the OP,

I’d have said yellow, for exactly the same reasoning. Having read the discussion here, it would seem that we’d both be wrong.

Really, it’s a problematic question. The setter clearly thought they were being clever when they weren’t half as clever as they thought they were.

Did you know that Bob Holness played the saxophone solo on Gerry Rafferty’s hit single Baker Street?

I know that it’s an urban myth, yes.

The setter clearly thought they were being clever when they weren’t half as clever as they thought they were.

All they thought it was a nice easy question to warm up, like what colour is a fire engine.

The fact that ernielynch had an argument at an amnesty international charity pub quiz is the least surprising thing i will ever read on STW.

The fact that ernielynch had an argument at an amnesty international charity pub quiz in a room, on his own, is the least surprising thing i will ever read on STW.

Though I feel we need a blessed cheesemaker to confirm this either way

Someone on here is a cheese maker. Or should that be fromagière?

All they thought it was a nice easy question to warm up, like what colour is a fire engine.

Is that an African or European fire engine?

In a previous quiz it was a picture round of things that begin with A.
I am clever and know that the item pictured is A Bridge Australia.

FTFY

I guess the least surprising bit was that I was right Blackflag 😉 She did offer her apologies when I provided evidence but I said that wasn’t the issue – I wasn’t interested in apologies just facts.

Did you know that Bob Holness played the saxophone solo on Gerry Rafferty’s hit single Baker Street?

I know he didn’t. Raff Ravenscroft did.
I also know that John Lennon never said that Ringo was not only not a very good drummer, he wasn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles. It was a ‘joke’ by Jasper Carrot.

Well, this is exactly the kind of question I like at my quizzes. It adds enough uncertainty that my drunken attempts at marking the quiz can be overlooked when i just give everyone a point anyway.

And it’s probably better than my favourite final question of the quiz.

Q.12 – True or false, you got the answer to Question 1 of today’s quiz correct?

(they don’t get any answers to the quiz until the end)

It’s quite hard to mark that one when there’s 10 teams and you’ve been drinking craft beer for 3 hours.

And hang on a second … who said you can’t eat the cheesecloth? That’s the best bit.

This is my cheese rind. There are many others like it, but this one is mine. My cheese rind is an orangey yellow colour (or maybe red). It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life

mmmmm, cheese.

I had a long and at risk of being a prick, heated argument with the quizmaster that wouldn’t accept he was wrong. The round was iconic sports moments and he insisted that warne bowling Strauss was the ball of the century. He showed the clip and the question was along the lines of “we all know who was bowling but who was the batter?”

I got the point anyway but had to insist Gatting was the ball of the century, 12 years earlier. I’d have left it at that but the **** then insisted that was ‘the ball of the last century’ which to date is still the only time I’ve heard it called that.

So with no points on offer I couldn’t drop it.

Embarrassingly it was my wife’s friend’s husband and this was only a light relief quiz as part of a family and friends summer barbecue for her birthday.

They divorced a couple of years later, not because of me or his lack of sporting knowledge but because he was shagging a work colleague, the slimy two faced liar and cheat.

It was a ‘joke’ by Jasper Carrot.

…who by the way is Ricky Gervais’s dad. 😐

…which made it all the more weird when he suggested he would stay at Dawn’s house if he got off with…got off at the wrong bus stop

Don’t get me started about pub quizzes….too late….

We once entered one where your team name had to be topical, so at the time John Paull 2 was dropping off his perch so, at my suggestion, we went with “The Pope Must Die”, a reference to the Robbie Coltrane film. However the other big news item at the time was Jacko’s child molestation trial so every other team without exception made some kind of paedo joke. Sooo….Guess who got a bollocking and points deducted?

Quiz masters: bastards. The lot of ’em.

I was once a quiz master for the monthly quiz at my local trade union social club after I once carelessly suggested that having a regular quiz night would be a good idea.

Expecting of course that someone else would be organising it I hadn’t thought it through with the obvious consequence – it was decided that it was indeed an excellent idea and apparently why I would be organising them.

The questions I used were actually supplied regularly by the brewer which meant that whilst they might not have been always topical it at least meant that I could refuse to accept responsibility for them.

It is always entertaining to watch people get worked up over trivia when they lose points, and also radiating smugness and pride when they get points awarded.

And despite my initial reluctance the sense of power that came with knowing that people aren’t allowed to argue with you was rewarding.

Quiz masters: bastards. The lot of ’em.

Can’t argue with that.

We had someone correct the quiz master once.

I mean, it was pretty unlikely that the author of the book that the question was about would have actually been sat in there with some friends having a few beers and doing his local quiz.

But what do you know, there he was.

Did give the quiz master some material for jokes for a month or two.

“In Homer’s Odyssey, Homer’s not in tonight is he?… No, Good. Right, in Homers Odyssey, who was… blah blah.”

We once were asked “what year was the QE eleven launched?”