Kick-Ass Quiz Questions Please

[mattyn1]

Who remembers this? My favourite quiz of all time - shame the link is dead!!

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[PhilboSE]

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?

I didn’t say you could work it out, I said you could apply some thinking and might get lucky.

Noddy was often portrayed as driving in his car. Then consider what driving related jobs might have existed in Blyton’s time. Most people will be aware of Noddy, some might know the answer some might have to guess, but everyone’s in play. Not like “who scored the equaliser in the 1975 FA Cup final”.

[Antony Moxey]

PhilboSE 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?

I didn’t say you could work it out, I said you could apply some thinking and might get lucky.

Noddy was often portrayed as driving in his car. Then consider what driving related jobs might have existed in Blyton’s time. Most people will be aware of Noddy, some might know the answer some might have to guess, but everyone’s in play. Not like “who scored the equaliser in the 1975 FA Cup final”.

Because it’s a trick question. No-one did, West Ham beat Fulham 2-0.

[Legend83]

louiebaby said:

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.)

Yep Brando and De Niro for playing the old and young Vito Corleone (Brando for Best Actor, De Niro for Best Supporting).

[SCEtoAUX]

A quick note to say the quiz went very well. Many positive comments, no questioning of the quizmaster, and this morning I arrived in the clubhouse to a scene resembling an explosion in a matchmakers factory. They ate and drank the prizes very quickly.

I'll post the PDF links later, so people can download and have a go.

Most people got lots right, which is exactly what I wanted.

Cheers all.

[85Carrera]

mattyn1 said:

Gargamel said:

Cesc Fabregas

Nope - needs to be a bit before this!! Think of one of the most exciting FA Cup Finals ever.......

Brian Talbot

78 Ipswich
79 Arsenal

Showing my age ...

[blearyeyedboy]

SCEtoAUX said:

no questioning of the quizmaster

The mark of a well-judged quiz. It's a bit like a good footy match: no one mentions the ref if things are going well.

Well done. I'd be interested in your questions when you're ready to publish them.

[mattyn1]

85Carrera said:

Brian Talbot

78 Ipswich
79 Arsenal

Showing my age ...

I had forgotten I asked this! But yes!

[SCEtoAUX]

OK, here's a link to the quiz:

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AhmQuWjrKNX6gsEJKhmJCe_2vGMoIw

There are four files. Questions and answers for the picture round (they did one of these during each half of the quiz) and then questions and answers for the main quiz.

Note that on the "Who am I?" round I have listed all five clues for each person. The idea was that one at a time was read out and people got more points for a correct early answer (but none if wrong and they didn't get another go). Clearly a quick look will show all five clues at once, so maybe some slow scrolling or a printed version covered with another bit of paper would work here.

If anyone wants to use this quiz, feel free. It will be far too easy for hardened quizzers but for my audience it went down very well.

If you think there's anything wrong, please keep it to yourself.

[legless]

Thanks for posting this.

I've only scan read them so far, but the year doesn't seem to be correct on the first question of round 4 - it was 2009, not 2016...

[FiF]

That link tries to get me to create a Samsung Microsoft cloud drive account. No thanks.

[SCEtoAUX]

A typo in when I deleted the answers to post here. The actual answer sheet that people got was correct.

Thanks though.

[rambo19]

StevieBee said:

Gargamel said:

StevieBee said:

Which is the only country in the world not to have it's own parliament?

and

Where is the UK Parliament located?

Brunei ?

Whilst I fear a QI style siren behind me, It has to be Westminster...

Go on, tell me I am wrong...

Westminster is correct.

Brunei is wrong. The answer is England.

Now, maybe i'm being thick, but is england a country?
We live in the UK and have a UK passport.

[bimsb6]

rambo19 said:

Now, maybe i'm being thick, but is england a country?
We live in the UK and have a UK passport.

Seriously ?

[The Mad Monk]

England is a country, but not a (nation) state?

Whatever that means.

[silverfoxcc]

I thought is was the TYnwald in the IOM

And going waaaay back who was the general in Q4?

[julianm]

Q. What is the connection between these environmentally harmful substances:

Leaded Petrol & Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC`s)?

A. Invented by the same man .......Thomas Midgley Jr.

[Bacon Is Proof]

There are two a cappella UK No.1 hit singles.
Name them both.

Only ever met one person that could.

Naming the only two double land locked countries crops up quite frequently as well.

[easytiger123]

Bacon Is Proof said:

There are two a cappella UK No.1 hit singles.
Name them both.

Only ever met one person that could.
.

Only You by The Flying Pickets, is one. Possibly the Telly Savalas one too from the early 1970s?

[Antony Moxey]

Bacon Is Proof said:

Naming the only two double land locked countries crops up quite frequently as well.

What do you mean by ‘double land locked’? Is that surrounded by a single country? If so I’d guess at Lesotho and Vatican City? Or San Marino? Hang on, that’s three, unless they’re not all classed as countries, or that wasn’t the question in the first place.