Following on from this introductory piece, here is another “oven-ready quiz round”. All the vowels appear just once The answers to the following clues are in alphabetical order and they all include each vowel (A E I O U) once and once only. The number in brackets indicates the number of letters in the answer.… Continue reading Oven-ready quiz rounds: All the vowels appear just once
Following on from this introductory piece, here is another “oven-ready quiz round”. 12 creatures in UK #1 singles At least 12 creatures have featured in the titles of UK #1 singles, apart from humans: birds, insects, mammals. Can you name the creatures that appeared in the names of #1 hits by the following artists in… Continue reading Oven-ready quiz rounds: 12 creatures in UK #1 singles
Following on from this introductory piece, here is another “oven-ready quiz round”. Have a Guess, Part 1 (20 Questions) Each of these questions has a clue for which there is one obvious answer. These clues include street artist, Icelandic singer, space agency, Scottish queen and Emily Bronte novel. If you can think of one example… Continue reading Oven-ready quiz rounds: Have a Guess, Part 1 (20 Questions)
Following on from this introductory piece, here is another “oven-ready quiz round”. Town or City? Five of the places in the list below were granted City Status as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II in 2022. The others do not have City Status. Which are towns and which are cities? Simply… Continue reading Oven-ready quiz rounds: Town or City?
Following on from this introductory piece, here is another “oven-ready quiz round”. The London Underground The answers to all of these questions are stations on the London Underground. There are no stations here that are only on the DLR, British Rail or the Overground. 1 Which tube station name was also the title of a… Continue reading Oven-ready quiz rounds: The London Underground
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
Any keen quizzers will almost certainly have come across the following question: If you write out every number as a word, which is the first (and only) one to have all of its letters in alphabetical order? In case you don’t know the answer, you can work it out for yourself by starting with one,… Continue reading Word of the week: Forty
11 November 2023: The Beatles at #1 in the UK singles chart with their final release “Now and Then”. The last time they were #1 here was in 1969, over 54 years ago, with “The Ballad of John and Yoko”. In the UK, until now, the Beatles had all of their chart-toppers in the 1960s.… Continue reading The Beatles at #1
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