Here’s a question from a pub quiz I hosted last week. “Since the Premier League started in 1992 how many teams have won the competition only once?” Even if you know nothing about football you could guess a number. If you have been following football for the last 33 years you might have worked out… Continue reading The Fibonacci Sequence and Premier League winners
Since September I have been hosting quiz nights on Sundays at a local pub, as explained in this piece. Here’s a record of the 10 rounds of questions for the quiz on Sunday 22 December 2024, most of them Christmas-themed. Round 1: Christmas winners and losers What is this year’s Christmas #1? Which athlete won… Continue reading A Quiz from Sunday 22 December 2024
Since September I have been hosting quiz nights on Sundays at a local pub, as explained in this piece. Here’s a record of the 10 rounds of questions for the quiz on Sunday 15 December 2024. Round 1: Pot Luck with a Christmas theme According to the New Testament, in which city was Jesus born? Viscum… Continue reading A Quiz from Sunday 15 December 2024
Since September I have been hosting quiz nights on Sundays at a local pub, as explained in this piece. Here’s a record of the 10 rounds of questions for the quiz on Sunday 1 December 2024. Round 1: General Knowledge What is the capital city of Barbados? Who is the current leader of the Conservative party?… Continue reading A Quiz from Sunday 1 December 2024
A few people I know are regular users of Duolingo, an App designed to help you to learn new languages. It is described on the Duolingo website as “The world’s best way to learn a language”. The App keeps a record of users’ “streaks”, how many consecutive days they complete at least one lesson. I… Continue reading Word of the week: Streak
There are three phrases that people use on quiz shows frequently. They all prompt me to shout, or at least mutter, at the TV. The first is, “I wouldn’t have got that in a million years”. I always point out that a million years is a really long time. If you uttered every combination of… Continue reading “Never in a million years”
In two previous posts I have written about a favourite pop trivia challenge of mine, namely: What do the songs “Virginia Plain” and “Up the Junction” have in common with each other, and with no other singles that have reached the UK Top 10? The second of these pieces was posted in September 2020. The… Continue reading “Up the Junction”, “Virginia Plain”, and “The Rose”
Pierre is the State Capital of South Dakota. Here in the UK that cannot be considered Universal Knowledge. It’s something I learnt over 25 years ago, when I memorized all 50 States and their Capitals. Apart from dedicated quizzers, how many people would be able to name all 100 places? Very few, I suspect. Back… Continue reading Word of the week: Pierre
The late Steve Wright used to have a feature on his BBC Radio 2 Show called Serious Jockin’, or Jockin. It wasn’t clear whether there was an apostrophe in Jockin’. This page on the BBC website, from the final episode of his afternoon show, spells it both ways. Regardless of the apostrophe, there was definitely… Continue reading Livin’, Laughin’, Singin’, and Movin’: #1s with no Gs
Here are the questions and answers for an episode of the ITV quiz show “Tenable” broadcast today, Friday 30 August 2024. The format used here is the same as that used elsewhere on this Blog (such as here, for the episode broadcast on Monday 11 September 2023): the questions, how the team fared and the… Continue reading “Tenable” questions, Friday 30 August 2024 [Series 7]
The Compartments 