Kick-Ass Quiz Questions Please

[Legend83]

I've got an ok one:

Name the only two actors who have won separate Oscars for playing the same film character (bonus PH point for the character name).

[Halmyre]

SCEtoAUX said:

I think it's referring to the squadron as a singular rather than the planes/pilots being plural.

There's a bit in Paul Brickhill's book about the Heraldic Registers or whatever objecting to 'Apres Nous Le Deluge' on the grounds that Louis XIVIXwhatever had used it in an irresponsible context, so it was changed to 'Apres Moi Le Deluge', which they still quibbled about a bit (can't remember exactly why) but eventually relented when it was pointed out that Churchill or somebody had already approved of it.

[Shakermaker]

Legend83 said:

I've got an ok one:

Name the only two actors who have won separate Oscars for playing the same film character (bonus PH point for the character name).

Until I went to confirm this, I thought it was Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson for The Joker. Apparently not though

[mattyn1]

Shakermaker said:

Until I went to confirm this, I thought it was Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson for The Joker. Apparently not though

Something like Henry VIII

Who though - don't know without googling - Olivier?

[FiF]

SCEtoAUX said:

Tyre Smoke said:

To be honest OP, it was hardly 'kick-ass'. It was quite a simple question to work out.

A lot of questions will be a lot harder than others depending on where you are and who your audience is.

For example, I was in a quiz in a pub in Northern Ireland and the question came up "Where was Margaret Thatcher born?" All my team turn as one to me...."Above her father's grocer's shop in Grantham, Lincolnshire." Simple, I thought. Not, apparently to a group of people who grew up in Ulster.

I'm immediately accused of being a 'ringer' in the team

Fair comment, but it's the fact it can be worked out is what I like about it. Many of the questions on here are of the "either know it or you don't" variety and I don't think they make a fun quiz.

I want my winning team to get 90%+ right and even the last placed ones to be around 60% to 70%. People like getting questions right.

Perhaps I shouldn't have said "kick ass" but I did give an example of what I meant.

I think that's the point made earlier. Folks like questions where they know the answers, or have a chance of getting the answers. For example that's why few people like the quiz hosted by Victoria Coren-Mitchell. Now those ARE kick ass questions that can be worked out, but wouldn't be a popular pub quiz.

Quizzes need to have a mixture from easy to hard, with the odd trick question thrown in imo.

[louiebaby]

Shakermaker said:

Legend83 said:

I've got an ok one:

Name the only two actors who have won separate Oscars for playing the same film character (bonus PH point for the character name).

Until I went to confirm this, I thought it was Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson for The Joker. Apparently not though

I was thinking about Marlon Brando in the Godfather Franchise, and Robert DeNiro, but wasn't sure.

Thankfully I was right, it seemed. (Yes I Googled it to confirm.)

[Gargamel]

mattyn1 said:

Gargamel said:

Francis scored against Malmo, but didn't play against Hamburg - so not him

Must be a Liverpool player.

It is - which one? (and it is a bit tenuous like I said!!)

One was him breaking into the penalty area from the left wing, the other a penalty.

He did play for England too, but not very often.

Johnson, played for England, but never scored in the Europeans
Fairclough scored a winner in the European, But never played for England
Rush was Welsh
Keegan ?

[mattyn1]

Gargamel said:

Johnson, played for England, but never scored in the Europeans
Fairclough scored a winner in the European, But never played for England
Rush was Welsh
Keegan ?

Alan Kennedy!

[PhilboSE]

Here's a question the OP might like, because if you don't know the answer you can apply some thought and might get lucky. I tend to agree that these types of question are the most enjoyable in a quiz. I know sweet FA about football (geddit?!) so any football related questions I just switch off because there is no way I will get the answer. Give me something I can engage my brain about, and I'll be much happier. (For the record, I love Only Connect).

In the books by Enid Blyton, what was Noddy's job?

[SpeckledJim]

PhilboSE said:

Here's a question the OP might like, because if you don't know the answer you can apply some thought and might get lucky. I tend to agree that these types of question are the most enjoyable in a quiz. I know sweet FA about football (geddit?!) so any football related questions I just switch off because there is no way I will get the answer. Give me something I can engage my brain about, and I'll be much happier. (For the record, I love Only Connect).

In the books by Enid Blyton, what was Noddy's job?

Taxi driver.

[SCEtoAUX]

PhilboSE said:

Here's a question the OP might like, because if you don't know the answer you can apply some thought and might get lucky. I tend to agree that these types of question are the most enjoyable in a quiz. I know sweet FA about football (geddit?!) so any football related questions I just switch off because there is no way I will get the answer. Give me something I can engage my brain about, and I'll be much happier. (For the record, I love Only Connect).

In the books by Enid Blyton, what was Noddy's job?

Now THAT is a good question.

[0000]

SpeckledJim said:

PhilboSE said:

Here's a question the OP might like, because if you don't know the answer you can apply some thought and might get lucky....
In the books by Enid Blyton, what was Noddy's job?

Taxi driver.

How do you work that out from the question?

[SCEtoAUX]

0000 said:

SpeckledJim said:

PhilboSE said:

Here's a question the OP might like, because if you don't know the answer you can apply some thought and might get lucky....
In the books by Enid Blyton, what was Noddy's job?

Taxi driver.

How do you work that out from the question?

You remember your childhood and think of the song which refers to Noddy's "Little Yellow Car" and the fact that he charges "Sixpence an Adventure".

[Roofless Toothless]

SpeckledJim said:

PhilboSE said:

Here's a question the OP might like, because if you don't know the answer you can apply some thought and might get lucky. I tend to agree that these types of question are the most enjoyable in a quiz. I know sweet FA about football (geddit?!) so any football related questions I just switch off because there is no way I will get the answer. Give me something I can engage my brain about, and I'll be much happier. (For the record, I love Only Connect).

In the books by Enid Blyton, what was Noddy's job?

Taxi driver.

That was Robert de Niro again, wasn't it?

[Halmyre]

0000 said:

SpeckledJim said:

PhilboSE said:

Here's a question the OP might like, because if you don't know the answer you can apply some thought and might get lucky....
In the books by Enid Blyton, what was Noddy's job?

Taxi driver.

How do you work that out from the question?

You talkin' to me?

[stevesingo]

stevesingo said:

Who was the youngest and who was the oldest ever US Secretary of State?

As no one is playing I'll answer myself.

Donald Rumsfeld

1975(aged 43)-1977 aged 43 under Ford and 2001-2006 (aged 74) under Bush Jr.

[Frank7]

SCEtoAUX said:

0000 said:

SpeckledJim said:

PhilboSE said:

Here's a question the OP might like, because if you don't know the answer you can apply some thought and might get lucky....
In the books by Enid Blyton, what was Noddy's job?

Taxi driver.

How do you work that out from the question?

You remember your childhood and think of the song which refers to Noddy's "Little Yellow Car" and the fact that he charges "Sixpence an Adventure".

Sixpence? His meter definitely should have been re-calibrated.

[Doofus]

Frank7 said:

Sixpence? His meter definitely should have been re-calibrated.

They may have been really crappy adventures...

[Doofus]

Or really really good, depending upon which side of Watford Gap you live

[Northbloke]

A good one from last night's quiz...

What did Russia have 11 of on 1st January 2010 but only 9 of on 1st January 2018?

timezones

We had a good discussion around the Olympics, drug cheats and various other stuff but didn't get it.