Sunday Night at The George - a Quiz Wire
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Aug 2019
2:48pm, 5 Aug 2019
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Maclennane
I'm not the only Fetch quiz compiler it seems, so I thought I'd start this up. I'll put my weekly quiz rounds on here, and if you hear of/think of a decent quiz question, stick it on here and give me my Sunday afternoons back. 1st up, Sunday Night's On This Day Round: On This Day 1. 1993, Hutus and Tutsis sign a peace treaty ending a war in which country? 2. 1961, an American president. Which one? 3. 2001 who took 6/33 to decide the Ashes? 4. 1821, a French luggage maker was born. Who? 5. 1906 – Marie-Jose von Saksen-Coburg was born in Belgium. Of which country was she the last queen? 6. 1847 – an American novelist gets married in Massachusetts, who? 7. It’s the queen mother’s birthday. How old would she be? 8. 2012, who claimed their 18th Olympic gold medal? 9. 1984, whose Purple Rain Album goes to #1? 10. 1983, romance novel “Thurston House” is published by which author? |
Aug 2019
9:21pm, 5 Aug 2019
13,227 posts
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Rosehip
no questions, but I only know answers to 1,2 4,5,7,8 and 9 = that's not an easy pub quiz!
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Aug 2019
9:55pm, 5 Aug 2019
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Surrey Phil
Have a team of four and you'd get a good majority of them right. One pub quiz I used to do didn't take much initiative from the quizmaster. Ten cards from a box of Trivial Pursuit and you had six rounds. The prize being £20 over the bar. |
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Aug 2019
9:57pm, 5 Aug 2019
3,111 posts
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Surrey Phil
I've run a few non-pub quizzes as fundraisers for schools, etc., or simply set the questions and cleared off before it starts!
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Aug 2019
7:45am, 6 Aug 2019
22,471 posts
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fetcheveryone
I’d struggle with most of those, but would take a guess at several. Do we post guesses?
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Aug 2019
8:28am, 6 Aug 2019
2,901 posts
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Raemond
One of my favourite sneaky questions for a film round: When was the first Batman film released? On a different note, the last round of the quiz we did at the office summer party was a corker - not so much becvause of the questions (though they were pretty good), but the format: the value of correct answers increased with the question (so a correct answer to question 1 is worth 1 point, a correct answer to question 8 is worth 8 points) BUT you had to get every question right or you score nothing. If you got as far as question 5 and were confident in your answers but a bit unsure about 6 you could choose to stop at 5 and, if they were all right, you'd score 15 for the round. If you chose to answer all ten you'd either get 55 or 0. |
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Aug 2019
8:25am, 7 Aug 2019
21,175 posts
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Maclennane
I’m camping at the moment, I’ll post answers and next round tomorrow.
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Aug 2019
8:30am, 7 Aug 2019
21,176 posts
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Maclennane
We do something similar Raemond. The final round is either family fortunes- big points for getting top answer- or gambit, which is multiple choice, and you get to bet five points per question, so it’s worth as much as the other rounds put together
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Aug 2019
12:37pm, 7 Aug 2019
21,177 posts
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Maclennane
1. 1993, Hutus and Tutsis sign a peace treaty ending a war in which country? Rwanda 2. 1961, an American president. Which one? Barack Obama 3. 2001 who took 6/33 to decide the Ashes? Shane Warne 4. 1821, a French luggage maker was born. Who? Louis Vuitton 5. 1906 – Marie-Jose von Saksen-Coburg was born in Belgium. Of which country was she the last queen? Italy 6. 1847 – an American novelist gets married in Massachusetts, who? Herman Melville 7. It’s the queen mother’s birthday. How old would she be? 119 8. 2012, who claimed their 18th Olympic gold medal? Michael Phelps 9. 1984, whose Purple Rain Album goes to #1? Prince 10. 1983, romance novel “Thurston House” is published by which author? Danielle Steele |
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Aug 2019
12:40pm, 7 Aug 2019
21,178 posts
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Maclennane
going to leave the anagrams round off as I nicked it off tinternet General (happy for guesses to be posted ) General 1. What monster is killed in the rhyme which begins ‘twas brillig and the slithy toves… 2. Who was the governor of Hong Kong when it was handed over to the Chinese? 3. What has varieties including spaghetti, acorn and scallop? 4. What do you make if you mix saltpeter with sulphur and charcoal? 5. Who is the presenter of the Radio 2 breakfast show? 6. Who was on the throne before Victoria? 7. What are Compass, Lions Mane, Dustbin lid and moon? 8. Which Star Wars actor wrote he autobiographical book “Wishful Drinking”? 9. Where are Hugh Town, Old Grimsby and Tresco? 10. Name the 3 fire signs of the zodiac. Point for each. |
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