Answers for the 1997 pub quiz I posted last week. Read the rest of this very true thing…
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What makes a good pub quiz question?
Posted on in Games.From tha questions in the old quiz I posted the other day, many are straightforward and a few are devious, I’m afraid that some are a little obscure or badly worded. But some I’m quite proud of, and these tend to have something in common.
Which 1985 film was directed by Steven Spielberg and featured Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey?
Easy for anyone with IMDB or Wikipedia access. But when I set this question it was aimed at undergraduates, most of whom would have been about ten when the film came out. It had been shown on telly (I remembering watching it) but all the same it wasn’t likely to spring to mind for most of the participants.
Who were the last nation to win football’s world cup in their own country?
Remember that this quiz is from 1997 so France were still a year away from winning. I’m sure lots of people would get this straight away as there’s a fair overlap between pub quizzers and football stat geeks. But for the rest of you, how many tournaments would you go back through before jumping to the ‘obvious’ wrong answer of England?
These questions are on topics – film, football – that people lots of people are interested in. They’re not even about obscure niches within those topics – Steve Spielberg and the World Cup can’t be called niche. But they are on the edge of, or just outside of, most people’s “comfort zone”. And that’s what I think makes a good pub quiz question.
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Quiz like it’s 1997
Posted on in Books, Films, Games, Music, My Life, Science, Sport, The World, TV.So I found this file, last modified 10 June 1997, on a set of back ups and it’s a pub quiz that I ran in Balliol bar. In fact considering the date I suspect that this is the night that ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
pink_weasel first clapped eyes on me and thought “nice guy, shame about the jumper”.
People on facebook and twitter said that they wanted to see the quiz, so here goes.
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Stomping
Posted on in Browsers, My Life, The World, WWW.Busy day yesterday. Google releases Street View for the UK so offices all over the country ground to a halt, Microsoft release IE8 and I do a pub quiz for the first time in ages. Came fourth out of thirteen teams (and the winners had twice as many people as we did).
In a moment of madness I decided to walk from the office to the pub. According to Google Maps it was 5.2 miles (the route) and they estimated it would take 1 hour 47 minutes – I ended up doing it in 1 hour 30 minutes and lost a couple of minutes when I turned the wrong way in Peckham. I always get lost in Peckham, I don’t know why, it’s just one of those things.
The stretch along Old Kent Road is a bit grim and there was a steep bit towards the end (the clue’s in the name of Forest Hill Road). That’s the problem of walking from central London outwards – it starts flat and then inevitably gets steeper.
But it certainly gave me a good thirst by the time I reached the pub.
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