Following on from this introductory piece, here is another “oven-ready quiz round”. 12 anagrams Usually I prefer quiz rounds to consist of 10 questions but couldn’t work out which ones to drop from this list so there are 12 here. 1 Yoga is an anagram of which Spanish painter? 2 Meg Ryan is an anagram… Continue reading Oven-ready quiz rounds: 12 anagrams
Following on from this introductory piece, here is the first of my “oven-ready quiz rounds”. First, last or somewhere else Here are 10 questions about people, places or things that are part of a group or list, or can be identified by their geographical position. For example: which is the northernmost of a group of countries,… Continue reading Oven-ready quiz rounds: First, last or somewhere else
In recent months I have been paid to host quizzes in pubs around West London. The pay isn’t great, but I’d rather host a quiz than spend the evening taking part in one. I have been asked to host a fundraising quiz in the coming weeks and my recent experiences mean that I could even… Continue reading Oven-ready quiz rounds: Introduction
An earlier piece on this Blog (“Double A Sides at #1”) reflected on changes in how the UK charts are compiled. The Double A Sided single played a big part in chart history. In recent years, with the figures based mainly on digital downloads and streaming, Double A Sides have rarely featured in the Top… Continue reading 15 questions about Double A Sided #1s
Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865) was a naval officer, captain of HMS Beagle for Darwin’s voyage to the southern hemisphere, and later an MP. He was also Governor of New Zealand and, later still, the “founding director of the Meteorological Office – the world’s first full-time professional weather forecaster”. That quote comes from the fly-leaf of my… Continue reading Word of the week: FitzRoy
Here are 10 quiz questions based on the lyrics of UK #1 hits, in order of when they reached #1. If you know which afternoon was never ending in “Lady Madonna”, how old Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) was when he died, or what Craig David and his lady did on Sunday, you’ll… Continue reading 10 questions about UK #1s: the answers are in the lyrics
Along with at least 8 million other people I continue to follow Pop Master, the mid-morning quiz on BBC Radio 2. It has been the subject of many pieces on this Blog, most recently this piece from January. Currently I make a note of the following: my score, the bonus questions, any questions I have… Continue reading Pop Master Summary w/e Fri 8 April 2022
In December 2017 I wrote this piece listing 25 answers to quiz questions where it’s usually worth having a guess, offering the following advice: It’s worth having a guess as long as you’re not going to lose money or points or be eliminated from the game for being wrong. If a question begins with the… Continue reading You might as well have a guess, revisited: another 50 answers that are usually right
In December 2020 I posted this piece about the BBC “Sports Personality of the Year” (or SPOTY for short). Here are 20 questions about the award, 10 of which have multiple choice answers. The answers to all of them appear at the end of this Post. The Questions Before Emma Raducanu won it in 2021,… Continue reading 20 questions about “Sports Personality of the Year”
In the last two days I have transcribed, or reworked, quiz questions from BBC Radio 2’s Pop Master. This piece lists questions that cost me a maximum score of 39 at some point in the last year, and this one is about 80s bands that only had one hit. Here, for a change, are 10… Continue reading 10 Biblical Questions
The Compartments 