As explained in this piece from earlier this month, I have been asked to host a Sunday night quiz at a local pub. Here’s a record of the 50 questions for the most recent quiz (Sunday 29 September 2024). Round 1: General Knowledge What is the capital city of Indonesia? Who is the current UK… Continue reading A Quiz from Sunday 29 September 2024
As explained in this piece from earlier this month, I have been asked to host a Sunday night quiz at a local pub. Here’s a record of the 50 questions for last weekend’s quiz (Sunday 22 September 2024). Round 1: General Knowledge What is the capital city of Serbia? Who is the current UK Chancellor… Continue reading A Quiz from Sunday 22 September 2024
As explained in this piece from last week, I have been asked to host a Sunday night quiz at a local pub. Here’s a record of the 50 questions for last weekend’s quiz (Sunday 15 September 2024). Round 1: General Knowledge What is the capital city of Namibia? Who is the current UK Home Secretary?… Continue reading A Quiz from Sunday 15 September 2024
I have been asked to host a Sunday night quiz at a local pub, just a bit of fun, no entry fee for now. We’re still working out the exact format, and what the prizes will be. I plan to use it to play out many of my “Quiz Greatest Hits”, subjects that I have… Continue reading A Quiz from Sunday 8 September 2024
Between January and April I posted over a dozen “Oven-ready quiz rounds”, for reasons explained in this introductory piece. I return to the theme now, with two short rounds (5 questions in each) about The Beatles and Games. The Beatles Here are 5 questions about the Beatles (John Paul George and Ringo). The answers to… Continue reading Oven-ready quiz rounds: 5 about The Beatles, 5 about Games
The following question appeared earlier this month in the weekend edition of The Guardian, in the quiz compiled by Thomas Eaton: “What tool is made from potassium, nickel and iron?” It’s more cryptic than most of the questions in this weekly quiz. The answer is “Knife”, made up of the chemical symbols for potassium, nickel… Continue reading Knife (K-Ni-Fe) and other words that be made using chemical symbols
A week ago I teamed up with some friends and family to take part in a pub quiz for the first time this year. I wanted to catch up with the guy who hosts it, and there was also a decent jackpot on offer: £680, in cash. The prize for the winning team is a… Continue reading Word of the week: Belgrade
Following on from this introductory piece, here is another “oven-ready quiz round”. Pub Names, Top 10 or not? Here is a list of 10 common UK pub names. Pubsgalore.co.uk publishes a list of the Top 250 most commonly-used names of open pubs at any one time. The list below contains 5 names that are currently… Continue reading Oven-ready quiz rounds: Pub Names, Top 10 or not?
Following on from this introductory piece, here is another “oven-ready quiz round”, with the same theme as this earlier round. Another 10 words from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet You know about the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, the words that are used to represent the 26 letters of the English alphabet. It starts with Alpha for A,… Continue reading Oven-ready quiz rounds: Another 10 words from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
Following on from this introductory piece, here is another “oven-ready quiz round”. 10 words from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet You know about the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, the words that are used to represent the 26 letters of the English alphabet. It starts with Alpha for A, Bravo for B, Charlie for C and so on.… Continue reading Oven-ready quiz rounds: 10 words from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
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