Quiz Time

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689]

Is teletext's Bamber Boozler ...

 

Resting

 

Alive and well

 

Poorly

 

Dead

 

 

[Windsor 2,233]

Speaking of quizzes - I have been asked to organise another one for a local cause.

 

The last quiz I did for them was 5th May 2006. You may be wondering why I remember the date?

 

Well - first it was the day we buried my grandma (she was dead, we did check).

Secondly the quiz was an absolute disaster. The electric to the hall was cut off due to nearby roadworks - so we were all in the dark with candles as our only source of light. I also, therefore had no microphone so had to shout. The audience also complained that my questions were too difficult, and also slagged me off for not being able to pronounce some of the names. The quiz was stopped at half time on health and safety grounds.

 

Keeping all that in mind - do you think it would be wise for me to agree to do another quiz for them?

[time 8,624]

Speaking of quizzes - I have been asked to organise another one for a local cause.

 

The last quiz I did for them was 5th May 2006. You may be wondering why I remember the date?

 

Well - first it was the day we buried my grandma (she was dead, we did check).

Secondly the quiz was an absolute disaster. The electric to the hall was cut off due to nearby roadworks - so we were all in the dark with candles as our only source of light. I also, therefore had no microphone so had to shout. The audience also complained that my questions were too difficult, and also slagged me off for not being able to pronounce some of the names. The quiz was stopped at half time on health and safety grounds.

 

Keeping all that in mind - do you think it would be wise for me to agree to do another quiz for them?

 

Lets look at it analytically:

Grandma is already dead and buried, so doesn't figure in the equation (though it might be worth considering other relatives).

 

Hold the quiz at a venue that has its own backup electricity supply, then the local road contractors can do what they want.

 

Make sure your participants are more intelligent than the last lot - not to prevent complaints, but so that they understand that quiz questions have to be a little bit challenging otherwise there's no bloody point in having the quiz.

 

As for not being able to pronounce some of the names, point out that Anne Robinson also has this problem and shes on national television and getting paid loadsamoney to do it, whereas you are doing it out the goodness of your heart.

 

I've been running a weekly quiz for a couple of months now and have found that you can't please everyone anyone.

 

Perhaps my finest moment was my second quiz; after most people did reasonably well on the first, I though I'd make it a little harder. I'd made up my mind at the start that I'd always include one question with a local connection, so in the second quiz I included the following:

 

What Grade II listed construction can be found on the roof of 26 Brunswick Terrace?

Surprisingly, no-one knew. I did get a lot of complaints about that one!

[Guest Abraham Issac]

Perhaps my finest moment was my second quiz; after most people did reasonably well on the first, I though I'd make it a little harder. I'd made up my mind at the start that I'd always include one question with a local connection, so in the second quiz I included the following:

 

What Grade II listed construction can be found on the roof of 26 Brunswick Terrace?

Surprisingly, no-one knew. I did get a lot of complaints about that one!

 

A roof-top synagogue?

[Paul Bearer 6,110]

Is teletext's Bamber Boozler ...

 

Resting

 

Alive and well

 

Poorly

 

Dead

 

 

 

 

Dead, along with all (Well, most of) ITV teletext as of the 13/14th

[time 8,624]

Perhaps my finest moment was my second quiz; after most people did reasonably well on the first, I though I'd make it a little harder. I'd made up my mind at the start that I'd always include one question with a local connection, so in the second quiz I included the following:

 

What Grade II listed construction can be found on the roof of 26 Brunswick Terrace?

Surprisingly, no-one knew. I did get a lot of complaints about that one!

 

A roof-top synagogue?

 

You are correct, from which I surmise that

a. You were a participant in said quiz;

OR

b. You have an obsessive knowledge of listed buildings in the Brighton and Hove area;

OR

c. You googled it.

[Handrejka 1,904]

The perfect quiz for the day I've had today

 

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Sir_Lee/juvenile

[Madcow 6]

May I suggest 'Gav and Arno's Music Quiz'?

 

I've been doing this one for about 5 years and still have't figured out all the answers. It's good fun, though, especially if there's a group of you.

[jumpinjackflash22 0]

I go to a few pub quizzes, just random ones round the area, both in Liverpool and in London.

Our team name is normally Thunderc*nts, but last time the landlord said it was too vulgar.

Too vulgar?

In a pub?

So we had to have some tame boring name, and guess what?

We didn't win ;(

We always win with the vulgar team names!

[Handrejka 1,904]

Are they Canadian? Quiz. I did rather badly with only 11/15 correct.

 

http://www.mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=884&p=1

[time 8,624]

Are they Canadian? Quiz. I did rather badly with only 11/15 correct.

 

http://www.mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=884&p=1

 

Surprisingly, so did I. I was reasonably sure of 9, there were 4 I'd never heard of and 2 I'd heard of but hadn't a clue where they were from.

 

I also tried this one Gandhi or Angelina - 11 quotations but were they Gandhi's or Angelina's? I got 5!

[Toast 16,155]

Are they Canadian? Quiz. I did rather badly with only 11/15 correct.

 

http://www.mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=884&p=1

 

there were 4 I'd never heard of

 

There were only about four I had heard of.

[Tuber Mirum 125]

I go to a few pub quizzes, just random ones round the area, both in Liverpool and in London.

Our team name is normally Thunderc*nts, but last time the landlord said it was too vulgar.

Too vulgar?

In a pub?

So we had to have some tame boring name, and guess what?

We didn't win ;(

We always win with the vulgar team names!

Last time I entered a pub quiz we named the team deathlist.net.

The lady who was running the quiz found the name quite distasteful but didn't actually forbid it.

And in spite of being a bunch of the most informed and erudite people you could imagine, we only managed to get second place.

[themaninblack 2,112]

Are they Canadian? Quiz. I did rather badly with only 11/15 correct.

 

http://www.mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=884&p=1

 

I only got 5...half of them I've never heard of.

 

I'm going to Canada in a couple of months so I can swat up on Canadian superstars there...

[time 8,624]

Now we've seen how many Canadians we don't know, try this Likelihood of Death quiz, from the same site.

[Magere Hein 1,400]

Now we've seen how many Canadians we don't know, try this Likelihood of Death quiz, from the same site.

7 out of 9. I got the US state question wrong, which didn't surprise me a bit, and the drowning/falling one, which did.

 

regards,

Hein (non-USAian and proud)

[time 8,624]

Now we've seen how many Canadians we don't know, try this Likelihood of Death quiz, from the same site.

7 out of 9. I got the US state question wrong, which didn't surprise me a bit, and the drowning/falling one, which did.

 

regards,

Hein (non-USAian and proud)

 

Yes I got the state question wrong too, as well as the Asian vs African-American lifespan (I'm also non-USAian, though have lived there for a few years many years ago).

I actually only got 6 out of 9 because I inexplicably clicked the wrong answer on the last question, knowing full well that I had done so . Had it been an earlier question, I'd have gone back and corrected myself, but you don't get that option on the last one!

[Handrejka 1,904]

Now we've seen how many Canadians we don't know, try this Likelihood of Death quiz, from the same site.

7 out of 9. I got the US state question wrong, which didn't surprise me a bit, and the drowning/falling one, which did.

 

regards,

Hein (non-USAian and proud)

 

Also 7, got the state question wrong too and the other one I got wrong was the "what kills more young people?" one.

[Lady Grendel 139]

Now we've seen how many Canadians we don't know, try this Likelihood of Death quiz, from the same site.

7 out of 9. I got the US state question wrong, which didn't surprise me a bit, and the drowning/falling one, which did.

 

regards,

Hein (non-USAian and proud)

 

Also 7, got the state question wrong too and the other one I got wrong was the "what kills more young people?" one.

 

7 here too, I got the state question right, but I got the 'single/married/formerly married', I was over thinking it, and the 'what kills more young people' ones wrong.

[Handrejka 1,904]

Now we've seen how many Canadians we don't know, try this Likelihood of Death quiz, from the same site.

7 out of 9. I got the US state question wrong, which didn't surprise me a bit, and the drowning/falling one, which did.

 

regards,

Hein (non-USAian and proud)

 

Also 7, got the state question wrong too and the other one I got wrong was the "what kills more young people?" one.

 

7 here too, I got the state question right, but I got the 'single/married/formerly married', I was over thinking it, and the 'what kills more young people' ones wrong.

 

That one confused me too, I always thought single women outlived married women, but married men outlived single ones.

[Lady Grendel 139]

Now we've seen how many Canadians we don't know, try this Likelihood of Death quiz, from the same site.

7 out of 9. I got the US state question wrong, which didn't surprise me a bit, and the drowning/falling one, which did.

 

regards,

Hein (non-USAian and proud)

 

Also 7, got the state question wrong too and the other one I got wrong was the "what kills more young people?" one.

 

7 here too, I got the state question right, but I got the 'single/married/formerly married', I was over thinking it, and the 'what kills more young people' ones wrong.

 

That one confused me too, I always thought single women outlived married women, but married men outlived single ones.

 

I knew that married people lived longer than single people, but I opted for "formerly married (divorced, separated, or widowed)" on the basis that I couldn't think of many people who made it to 90 and still had a spouse alive. I was going on personal experience I suppose, both my great-grandmother and my great-aunt lived into their '90's, but were widowed and divorced respectively. Coincidently they both died from falling down stairs.

[Monoclinic 39]

I got 8 because I re-thought the smoking answer, overruling the "social class" / "education" argument, owing to the UK prices I remember too well.

 

Based on UK prices I doubt people could afford to smoke much on a $20,000 salary compared to those on a $80,000 salary so they may as well just quit. The $20k translates to about £12.8k, not considering stoppages. So that's not going to be the ~45% of Belgium but perhaps 5 - 10% (???), I'll go for 7.5%, taking us to £11,840. According to these people the average price per packet is £6.13, so that's £2237.45 up in flames or just under a fifth of their salary (19%). No wonder 40 a dayer Dot Cotton has had the same wardrobe for 25 years!

 

And so Mathematics is why I changed my mind. History repeateth.

[time 8,624]

I got 8 because I re-thought the smoking answer, overruling the "social class" / "education" argument, owing to the UK prices I remember too well.

 

Based on UK prices I doubt people could afford to smoke much on a $20,000 salary compared to those on a $80,000 salary so they may as well just quit. The $20k translates to about £12.8k, not considering stoppages. So that's not going to be the ~45% of Belgium but perhaps 5 - 10% (???), I'll go for 7.5%, taking us to £11,840. According to these people the average price per packet is £6.13, so that's £2237.45 up in flames or just under a fifth of their salary (19%). No wonder 40 a dayer Dot Cotton has had the same wardrobe for 25 years!

 

And so Mathematics is why I changed my mind. History repeateth.

 

Some reasonable assumptions but completely moot as its a very USA-centric quiz. Mind you most of the 'working class' smokers I know smoke either roll-ups made from cheap tobacco from Spain or Belgium or illegal imports from a bloke who knows a bloke who gets 'em cheap.

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689]

Have a barney with John Humphrys.

[Magere Hein 1,400]

Have a barney with John Humphrys.

[brag]

SPECIALIST SUBJECT SCORE

 

At the end of that round you have scored 14 points.

 

Your specialist subject was Science:

 

Questions answered:

15

Correct:

14

Incorrect:

1

 

* Your overall accuracy was 93%

* The average accuracy for Science is 70%

* This puts you in the top 27%

 

 

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE SCORE

 

At the end of that round you have scored 8 points.

 

In the General Knowledge round you answered:

 

Questions answered:

13

Correct:

8

Incorrect:

5

 

* Your overall accuracy was 62%

* The average accuracy for General Knowledge is 61%

* This puts you in the top 75%

 

OVERALL SCORE

 

After two rounds you have answered 28 questions:

 

22 Correct and 6 Incorrect.

 

* Your overall accuracy was 79%

[/brag]

 

I chose science as specialist subject. The general knowledge questions have a bias towards things British.

 

regards,

Hein