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 2024 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 2 February 2025. Round 1: General Knowledge Riga is the capital of which country? Which 20th Century US President, who died… Continue reading A Quiz from Sunday 2 February 2025
Since September 2024 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 26 January 2025. Round 1: General Knowledge Port-au-Prince is the capital of which country? Which 20th Century US President has the… Continue reading A Quiz from Sunday 26 January 2025
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
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