The Quiz Thread

[mjmooney]

1 hour ago, tonyh29 said:

I share your pain …. I went to a quiz where the quizmaster claimed Bryan Ferry wrote jealous guy …. I’m still contemplating legal action over the point our team was deprived of   

I had one where the QM claimed The Da Vinci Code was written by Dan Smith. 

[mjmooney]

1 hour ago, cyrusr said:

  Reveal hidden contents

1. B (guess)
2. B (guess)
3. C - 1704 I believe
4. No idea
5. Surrey?
6. Not a clue
7. Not a clue
8. Crawley
9. 20
10. Man Utd
11. Gareth Barry
12. Duncan Ferguson?
13. Not a clue
14. Superman?
15. Not a clue
16. Central
17. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone?
18. Not a clue
19. Not a clue
20. Wessex
21. A?
22. C?
23. A?
24. B?
25. Australia
26. Argentina?
27. Norway?
28. Columbia?
29. Brazil
30. Yugoslavia
31. Jeff Bezos
32. Atlantic Ocean 
33. Not a clue
34. Mariner
35. Not a clue
36. Chameleon
37. Hairless?
38. Grimm
39. Aldi
40. CS Lewis

Tie Break questions - not a clue on either of them!

How did I do? I hope I got at least 17... 

Answers tomorrow. 

[cyrusr]

12 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Answers tomorrow. 

[Designer1]

8 hours ago, Mark Albrighton said:

I don’t know how “professional” the quiz guy and the teams are by you, but it’s definitely a bit more slip shod by me.

I must have mentioned it previously but a quiz I was in once in one of my local pubs had the question “Who played the villain in ‘For a few dollars more’?”

Now I was the only one on my team who had seen the film, that one rested squarely on my shoulders, and I was thinking out loud “Well, Eastwood is in it, Lee Van Cleef is in it but he was the bad guy in ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’...what was the name of the other fella?”

I spent the rest of the quiz unfocused, trying to remember that it was Gian Maria Volente who played the murdering rapist bad guy...only for the quiz host to later go through the answers and claim that the Lee Van Cleef character (who was avenging his dear departed daughter) was indeed the true villain of the piece.

It’s been about ten years and I’m still unhappy about it.

I've murdered for less.

[mjmooney]

Quiz answers: 

 

1. B)Anthony Beck 
2. C)Christopher Columbus 
3. C)18th 
4. C)Chichester 
5. Surrey 
6. A view to a Kill
7. Worthing
8. Crawley Town
9. 20
10. Manchester United
11. Gareth Barry
12. Duncan Ferguson
13. Taylor Swift
14. Superman
15. Dutch
16. Central
17. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
18. Richard Attenborough
19. Harry Houdini 
20. Sussex

Tie break 1 –564673

21. C)Francesco Cossiga 
22. D)Edgar Degas
23. A)’A’ 
24. B)Boulder 
25. Australia
26. Argentina
27. Norway
28. Bolivia
29. Brazil 
30. Yugoslavia 
31. Jeff Bezos
32. Atlantic
33. Buffalo
34. Mariner
35. Macbeth
36. Chameleon lizard
34. Frog
38. Brothers Grimm 
39. Aldi
40. C.S. Lewis

Tie break 2 – 66 days 

 

Edited May 15, 2021 by mjmooney

[cyrusr]

14 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Quiz answers: 

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

1. B)Anthony Beck 
2. C)Christopher Columbus 
3. B)18th 
4. C)Chichester 
5. Surrey 
6. A view to a Kill
7. Worthing
8. Crawley Town
9. 20
10. Manchester United
11. Gareth Barry
12. Duncan Ferguson
13. Taylor Swift
14. Superman
15. Dutch
16. Central
17. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
18. Richard Attenborough
19. Harry Houdini 
20. Sussex

Tie break 1 –564673

21. C)Francesco Cossiga 
22. D)Edgar Degas
23. A)’A’ 
24. B)Boulder 
25. Australia
26. Argentina
27. Norway
28. Bolivia
29. Brazil 
30. Yugoslavia 
31. Jeff Bezos
32. Atlantic
33. Buffalo
34. Mariner
35. Macbeth
36. Chameleon lizard
34. Frog
38. Brothers Grimm 
39. Aldi
40. C.S. Lewis

Tie break 2 – 66 days 

 

 

25 - pretty damn happy with that! Although you might need to amend question 3 response (right actual answer, wrong letter )

[GarethRDR]

I love pub quiz drama.  So utterly, utterly cliché but the last one our team got to before lockdown, the special round (selected by the previous week's worst scoring team) was Star Trek and, yes, like the pedantic bell-end I am I felt compelled to correct the quiz-master's erroneous answer at one point.  We did win that one by quite some distance.

And no, I've never thrown a kettle over a pub.

[rjw63]

1 hour ago, mjmooney said:

Quiz answers: 

  Hide contents

1. B)Anthony Beck 
2. C)Christopher Columbus 
3. C)18th 
4. C)Chichester 
5. Surrey 
6. A view to a Kill
7. Worthing
8. Crawley Town
9. 20
10. Manchester United
11. Gareth Barry
12. Duncan Ferguson
13. Taylor Swift
14. Superman
15. Dutch
16. Central
17. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
18. Richard Attenborough
19. Harry Houdini 
20. Sussex

Tie break 1 –564673

21. C)Francesco Cossiga 
22. D)Edgar Degas
23. A)’A’ 
24. B)Boulder 
25. Australia
26. Argentina
27. Norway
28. Bolivia
29. Brazil 
30. Yugoslavia 
31. Jeff Bezos
32. Atlantic
33. Buffalo
34. Mariner
35. Macbeth
36. Chameleon lizard
34. Frog
38. Brothers Grimm 
39. Aldi
40. C.S. Lewis

Tie break 2 – 66 days 

 

Only did the first 20.

Got 13.

[BOF]

On 15/05/2021 at 10:41, rjw63 said:

Only did the first 20.

Got 13.

Yeah I only did the ones I know, and I got 100%

[rjw63]

Just now, BOF said:

Yeah I only did the ones I know, and I got 100%

So five then?

[BOF]

Just now, rjw63 said:

So five then?

It's all about the percentages

 

[mjmooney]

On 14/05/2021 at 14:00, Mark Albrighton said:

Much more difficult than the quizzes I’ve taken part in. I think there would be quite a loud grumbling response if some of those questions were read out in the pubs near me.

Well, it looks like you'll never see another one. Got this email from our quizmaster: 

Quote

Email from Tom: 

Hello all

 Last Tuesday, on behalf of all the Monday night quizzers, I contacted the management of the Princess to ascertain when we would be able to return to hold our weekly Monday quiz. I received the following reply.

 Hi Tom, hope you and your family are okay.

 Regarding the quiz, it isn’t something we are wanting to continue with going forward. We didn’t find it beneficial towards the business and found customers eating on a Monday night felt like they had to leave early to accommodate for the quiz.

 Hope to see you soon.

 Many thanks,

Danny & Aimee

I am disappointed that we will not be able to return to the Princess and feel rather let down because we had endeavoured to keep together, as a group, during these fourteen months of restrictions on gatherings. In my mind the only reason we did so was in anticipation of a return to face to face quizzing and since this now seems impossible  there is little point in carrying on the virtual quiz.

 I would like to place on record my thanks to you all for your company during these 14 months and, indeed, in the thirty years of Princess quizzes. It has been a pleasure to prepare and deliver an esoteric quiz to such an erudite assemblage every week. I know that we have had our differences but they have been mercifully rare and always courteous. I know that people have complained about the difficulty of the quiz, about the length, and indeed meaning, of some questions and about the question-master’s delivery and persona, but generally quiz evenings were bearable and mostly enjoyable.

 I wish you all well in whatever you decide to do with your Monday evenings from now on. I hope to meet with many of you, in a non-quiz situation, sometime in the near future.

 Tom

 

[cyrusr]

1 hour ago, mjmooney said:

Well, it looks like you'll never see another one. Got this email from our quizmaster: 

 

Well that is a bit sh*t. How many money was the quiz bringing the pub with extra people? Seems very short sighted and a shame. Surely they could find another pub to do it in?

[mjmooney]

2 hours ago, cyrusr said:

Well that is a bit sh*t. How many money was the quiz bringing the pub with extra people? Seems very short sighted and a shame. Surely they could find another pub to do it in?

It's very shit. I've just emailed the quizmaster suggesting going elsewhere, but the existing pub was his local, in walking distance, so he may not want to go farther afield. And it might be quite difficult to establish that sort of quiz from scratch in a new place. The old one had developed its own loyal clientele over a number of years, we all knew each other, and we liked the style of quiz. But the new tenants, even before the pandemic, were already changing the style of the place. I think that they concluded that the smart money was in food, and a younger clientele who would probably drink (and spend) more than the old Monday regulars. I can understand it, they've been through the whole lockdown drought, and they need to make some hard-nosed business decisions - and if that means changing their demographic to the exclusion of us lot, so be it. But it's the end of an era, alright. 

[Mark Albrighton]

There’s obviously a demand to go out dining on a Monday night I take it? Obviously I don’t know the pub, but I find that a bit surprising. I would estimate that 90% of the pub quizzes I’ve taken part in have been on a Thursday night, which is a more obvious night to go out socialising.

I’d have thought Monday night would be quiet and a quiz would guarantee at least regular custom.

[mjmooney]

Just now, Mark Albrighton said:

There’s obviously a demand to go out dining on a Monday night I take it? Obviously I don’t know the pub, but I find that a bit surprising. I would estimate that 90% of the pub quizzes I’ve taken part in have been on a Thursday night, which is a more obvious night to go out socialising.

I’d have thought Monday night would be quiet and a quiz would guarantee at least regular custom.

That was definitely the original idea when the quiz started, but they obviously think they know better. The incentive for us to go there every week has certainly gone. 

[Mark Albrighton]

3 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

That was definitely the original idea when the quiz started, but they obviously think they know better. The incentive for us to go there every week has certainly gone. 

I don’t blame you.

Typically (before lockdown) how many would be taking part in the quiz and how many diners/customers might there have been that might have felt hurried out to avoid the quiz?

[bickster]

9 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

The incentive for us to go there ever has certainly gone.

FTFY

[mjmooney]

2 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said:

I don’t blame you.

Typically (before lockdown) how many would be taking part in the quiz and how many diners/customers might there have been that might have felt hurried out to avoid the quiz?

Quiz regulars varied between 20 and 40. Very few diners. Bear in mind that the quiz was supposed to be at 9.30, but hardly ever started before 10.00, by which time the diners had gone anyway. You got the occasional 'passing trade' (often younger people), who would decide to have a go at the quiz - and often found it baffling, so they may have decided to avoid Mondays in future. But, yeah, I'm not convinced that they're going to make any increased profit on Mondays, once the post-covid enthusiasm dies down. 

[mjmooney]

10 minutes ago, bickster said:

FTFY

Indeed. Our current thinking is "**** 'em" - we'll drink elsewhere on principle. I've already posted to that effect on their FB page.