If you've tried the latest pub quiz and want to exercise your brain cells a bit more, try one from the archive.
23 Nov 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Stanley's Dad | 17 | 13 | Jen and Alex came down for a high scoring first round, but not good enough to win. We were pretty average in the second... |
| Heather, Lesley & Michael | 14 | 12 | We think that the last question, R2Q20, has the wrong answer! That's our excuse for such a feeble score and we're sticking to it...
Heather's knowledge helped no end. |
| GAS | 17 | 16 | I take it the question master is not a Buddy Holly fan. HL&M, give yourselves an extra point for Raining In My Heart! |
16 Nov 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| The broccoli has spoken | 17 | 14 | Winners of R1! Didn't do so well at R2 but we were full of chocolate and didn't care. |
| Lesley & Michael | 12 | 13 | Phew! We scraped into double figures both rounds, just. How did you manage such an amazing score? How many were on your team? So many questions - at least 41 ;) - and so few answers. Great fun - keep it up chaps! |
| Go Ahead Squirrels | 15 | 13 | We passed within 4 miles of Lostwithiel last week but not on a Sunday evening, unfortunately. |
09 Nov 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Universally Challenged | 16 | 17 | Good scores - we were joint first in R1 but lost on the tie-breaker, while R2 was won by an impressive 19. Got the chocs for R1Q7. |
| Lesley & Michael | 10 | 14 | I'm not going to write 'oh dear' as usual! I'll just say that, given two answers to choose between, we unerringly opt for the wrong one. Hah!
What fun - thank you. |
02 Nov 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Universally Challenged | 15 | 13 | We were second in each round, 2 points behind the winners both times, but we got free drinks for R2Q20. |
| Lesley & Michael | 14 | 14 | Well, we learnt something again today! Actually, we learnt six things per round...
What fun - it's great that you still go to the quiz at The Globe, even though it's further now. Or is it? |
26 Oct 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Universally Challenged | 17 | 12 | To our great surprise we won R1 and then won the chocs for R2Q5! Rested on our laurels for R2 so a less impressive score. |
| Lesley & Michael | 14 | 11 | Well done, quizmasters!
But oh dear: we were so confident, and so horribly wrong. Harumph!
I (Lesley) did much better in the audition for a TV quiz on Saturday, getting 41 out of 50 - five of the nine errors were left blank (like my mind...) |
19 Oct 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Chatback! | 13 | 14 | No prizes for us this week. We should have got at least one more - our writer mistook a joke for the real answer and put "Yes" for R2Q9! |
| Lesley & Michael | 13 | 13 | Not so great - thanks for the heads-up about R2Q9! |
12 Oct 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Kat | 11 | 11 | While we type up the most recent quiz here's the previous one kindly typed up by Bryan (Mat and I were away). |
| Mat | 14 | 12 | Tricky one, but I'm happy to see that I can hold my own without my team mates! |
| Lesley & Michael | 14 | 15 | It's quite fascinating to see how fine is the line between the meaningful (?) stuff one can dredge up and the fundamental mistakes one can make. Like thinking 'west' after hearing the word 'east'. Doh. Bring on the Duff: these duffers need it!
Great stuff! |
05 Oct 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Demolition Derby | 15 | 15 | We came second in both rounds which we were happy with, and then Mat pulled the answer to the rollerball out of the depths of his brain and we won £40! |
| Go Ahead Squirrels | 13 | 16 | x |
| Thevianellos | 18 | 17 | Blimey!!...why couldn't I have had questions like that when we came to stay...also, presumably Round 1 Question 2 relates to water? |
| Lesley & Michael | 15 | 14 | Well, another excellent set of GK questions, but no James Bond this week. We're really impressed by the Rollerball news - well done! Hugh Firmly-Whippingstool to the rescue?
By the way, whose hand is that? |
28 Sep 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Voodoo Rednecks | 16 | 15 | Average scores, but we got a round of free drinks for R1Q17 and tied to win R2. We were 2yrs out but the winners were 1yr out - so close! |
| Lesley & Michael | 17 | 13 | Whoo-hoo - great R1 score, then down hill all the way!
And how many times did we say 'Well!' as we read out the answers? Far too many... What fun! |
| Go Ahead Squirrels | 17 | 12 | Either Part 2 was much harder or we were worn out by half time. |
15 Sep 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Bearded ladies | 15 | 13 | There were 6 of us so we split into two teams. We got the same score in R1 then they beat us in R2, but they got free drinks and we got the chocs, so everyone was happy. |
| The beaded laddies | 17 | 13 | Having taken part in 15 to 1, I speak from experience when I say that the answer given is incorrect!
An amazing R1 (well done, chap), let down by an astonishing answer to R2Q19 and a mis-spelling.
Hey ho. |
07 Sep 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| She thinks that sphinx's sphincter stinks | 16 | 14 | We tied for first place in R1 but got the rollerball wildly wrong, then came second in R2. We're pretty happy with that! |
| Mat's mat smacks of macs and snacks | 16 | 15 | Yee-hah! That's the way to do it! We too got the tie-breaker wrong (by a factor of 2-ish) but we got the R'ball right. One or two lucky guesses helped! No cheating, though: ho no missus, we wouldn't stoop so low. Fancy knowing who sang about Mr Woo: that shows our collective age (25)! |
31 Aug 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| GAS | 13 | 18 | Never to be repeated, I fear. |
| Dyathinkesaurus | 13 | 15 | The questions seem harder these days and it's ages since we've won chocolate or free drinks! The R2 winners got a perfect score, so it looks like it's just us finding it difficult :( |
| Lesley & Michael | 13 | 15 | We got the Rollerball wrong... and I wonder if the 13 and 15 we got right were the same ones our hosts got?
A perfect score? Whooee. Call that competition? Just how close to the quizmaster were they sitting? ;) |
25 Aug 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Where's Willy? | 14 | 14 | Average scores for a quiz we thought started off easy! Our mantra is now "don't over-think the question". Before we get any smart answers about the anti-spam captcha, number of fingers *includes* the thumb. |
| G.A.S | 15 | 14 | |
| Lesley & Michael | 15 | 14 | Wikipedia: [correct answer withheld] is the more common term in English, where it is often mistakenly rendered "[the answer given here]". Nuff said!
Good quiz, although I thought we'd done better than that! |
17 Aug 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| That bloke's bike's back brake block's broke | 13 | 16 | Check the archive for last week's quiz if you missed it. Our team did middling and annoyingly missed out on chocolate for R1Q5 which we later got the answer to - C needs time to wrack his brains! |
| Lesley & Michael | 16 | 14 | Wow! Didn't we do rather better than usual... in R1 at least.
Thank you for giving us The Joy of Quiz two days in a row. |
| G.A.S. | 13 | 13 | Not great, I know, but we should have got a 14 because the Catholic King of England was James II. So there. |
10 Aug 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Hooray Henleys | 12 | 12 | We were away last weekend so B wrote the questions down. A sleepy Sunday morning score for us - a couple we should have got but nowhere near a winning score! |
| Michael & Lesley | 13 | 14 | Pretty good, considering that one question was about an actress in a programme we have never seen being replaced by an actress we have never heard of... Naturally, we got that question wrong! |
03 Aug 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Universally Challenged | 17 | 15 | We're trying to keep the spam robots out of the high scores - bear with us!
We were 1 point away from the wining score in both rounds, but the biggest excitement was an 8 team draw in R2 which resulted in 4 tie breakers. None got the 1st, they all got the 2nd, half got the 3rd and finally one team got the 4th! |
| Go Ahead Squirrels | 15 | 11 | Yes indeed. That score reads 11. And we did the quiz straight after watching University Challenge too! |
| Lesley & Michael | 12 | 15 | Wow - what are you lots(s) like? Astonishingly, we got the golf and football questions right but failed *all* the tie-breakers: I blame our great age. (Between us we are at least 50, you know...) |
27 Jul 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| A noisy noise annoys an oyster | 15 | 15 | Middling scores, but we could have done a lot better in R2 if we hadn't made some schoolboy errors! No prizes this week apart from the big plate of cheesy chips. |
| Go Ahead Squirrels | 12 | 16 | Either our computer has gone mad or someone is playing silly buggers on your site, chums. |
| Lesley & Michael | 15 | 15 | And we got the tie-breaker! Yee hah! But we couldn't count US staes beginning with M.
Whodathort Noddy was one of those: we guessed... and got it right. |
20 Jul 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Doggersea Bats Home | 15 | 18 | Woohoo! Winning scores in both rounds. We tied in R1 and won the tie-breaker, then won by a clear 2 points in R2. One team got the right answer for the Rollerball (not us). |
| Lesley & Michael | 13 | 14 | We're really impressed with the home team's score - well done chaps. |
| Matty and Howard | 11 | 10 | Dunces again :-( However, I would challenge the wording of Q9 in R2; there are only three pirmary colours and green ain't one of 'em! |
13 Jul 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Universally Challenged | 12 | 14 | Lots of teams for the start of Carnival week! We didn't win but got KitKats for R2Q5. Several disputed questions but umpire's decision is final so you've got the same disadvantages as us. |
| Lesley & Michael | 12 | 14 | Oh dear... That's what happens when you try to listen to Humph at the same time.
Actually, Humph won over the quiz! |
| Matty & Howard | 9 | 9 | A very symetrical score but which would have been equitably increased by at least one on each side if disputes had been upheld |
06 Jul 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Universally Challenged | 16 | 14 | One point away from the winning score in R1, but we won the chocolates for R2Q16. Like us, nearly everyone put down the wrong answer for the rollerball. |
| Matty & Howard | 15 | 11 | Not bad by our standards:-) And we got the Rollerball!! |
| Lesley & Michael | 14 | 16 | All those things one thinks one knows, not to mention all the things one has quite forgotten.
Well done, Henley, for knowing the correct Thunderball - is that the result of living in Germany?
Another excellent and informative quiz. We keep saving bits of general knowledge in our heads for the quiz ... then forgetting those gems before the questions are asked! |
| Go Ahead Squirrels | 14 | 14 | ....and we started so well, too. |
08 Jun 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Universally Challenged | 18 | 16 | So near but yet so far... we were one point away from the winning score in both rounds and didn't get any free drinks or chocolate. The Rollerball was guessed by several people (not us) so it's up to £60 next week. |
| Matty (on her own) | 10 | 7 | OK - I was doing this alone this week so really you should double the score to get a true picture of what the Matty/Howard impact might have been (NOT!!) |
| Lesley & Michael | 17 | 12 | A thrilling round 1 and a mediocre round 2, but it was all good fun! We didn't get the Rollerball either... |
| G.A.S. | 16 | 15 | 22 hours a day, eh? I think our kids must have some koala in them. |
22 Jun 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Universally Challenged | 15 | 18 | Reasonable performance in R1 and joint 1st in R2 which we lost on the tie-breaker (our dog had doggy superpowers). Satisfactory scores for us mere mortals but not good enough for Christian! Won the KitKats for R2Q7 which several teams got wrong. |
| Matty & Howard | 10 | 9 | Well we might of done better if one of us had stopped reading the paper to concentrate a bit more.... |
| Lesley & Michael | 13 | 15 | Isn't it funny what you think you know, but don't. At times like this I wish we had a handy Christian (or a magic one). Great fun, as always! |
| Go Ahead Squirrels | 13 | 16 | Must try harder. |
15 Jun 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Universally Challenged | 14 | 12 | Without Christian we floundered. Our scores were middling (17 was the winning score in each round) but they were better than we were expecting! Hard questions, we thought. |
| Christian | 17 | 17 | !!!Thought the prisoner was The Prisoner of Zender, didn't know the land mass one, and the swastika caught me out. Got 30c temp wrong thought Olympus was on Crete and Asian pop. wrong. Rollerball didn't know. Pulled the Navratalova one out from the back of the brain, and have lived in London where rock salmon is eaten in fish and chip shops. Knew The Scaffold one because I'm old.
To be honest team, I'm a little shocked at the performance as I thought these were a lot easier than last week's. Obviously Manchester and Southampton universities have a lot to answer for. See you soon (love the website) C. |
| Go Ahead Squirrels | 16 | 16 | Check that date again, guys? Where did the last 7 years go? It's bad enough being 51!! |
| Lesley & Michael | 16 | 12 | It's the simple ones that trip us up! And Christian's well-placed mis-clueing led us well astray too. Still, we knew both of the cartoon questions...
We look forward to taking part in person again soon. |
| Matty & Howard | 12 | 8 | No comment! |
01 Jun 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Universally Challenged | 15 | 17 | Normal service has been resumed following our hols in Amsterdam. With super-brain Christian and a cheeky fifth (Max), we came 2nd in R1 and 1st in R2 - hooray! We also won the KitKats with R1/Q14. Several people got the Rollerball, including us, so it's up to £40 next week. |
| Matty & Howard | 10 | 14 | We were just a whisker away from several others. We would dispute the comapss one - we suggest it has just two points; the two places where the needle is pointing... |
| Lesley & Michael | 14 | 18 | Wow! Our best-ever score... We didn't know Ned Kelly (we thought he was shot) and we too failed the compass question (by 50%). Otherwise excellent questions: thank you! |
| G.A.S. | 14 | 15 | Silas Mariner? Didn't he once play for Ipswich? |
18 May 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| The Tompions | 12 | 12 | Mat, Rob, Caitlin and Steve won the free drinks in R1 for Q9. |
| Universally Challenged | 16 | 18 | Christian joined Kat and Bryan with spectacular results - got the tie-break right to win R1, got the tie-break right for R2 but couldn't win a second time, then won the 80 quid Rollerball! |
| G.A.S. | 13 | 16 | It's old age, you know. After our 40s we lose a zillion brain cells a day. |
| Lesley & Michael | 11 | 16 | I accidently deleted this entry before submitting it so you'll have to live without my witty comment this week. R1? Who knows! R2 - better, and if I'd listened to M it would have been even better... |
11 May 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Universally Challenged | 14 | 15 | Back to our usual team of 3 and we won the KitKats for R1 Q7 and the R2 quiz! Even better, the dubious quality house wine normally given as a prize had run out, so we got a box of chocolates and round of free drinks for next week :) |
| Lesley & Michael | 12 | 9 | Ah dear hearts, I hear you wondering how we did so badly. Dunno. But it was fun anyway! |
| Go Ahead Squirrels | 14 | 13 | No KitKats for us this week, then. Got some non-dubious Irish whiskey in though! |
04 May 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Stop touching my legs Mike | 13 | 12 | Bank Holiday today meant that everyone piled down the pub last night - standing room only! Mat and Bry were in the 'Stop touching' team. |
| Horatio F | 9 | 13 | Kat's team managed to win the chocolates twice by saying we were a different team number the first time round - it was a mistake, honest gov! Nobody got the rollover this week. |
| Go Ahead Squirrels | 12 | 12 | Teeth? In there? |
| Matty & Howard | 8 | 10 | Well, at least we learn something each time we do this - pity there are no chocolates, though :-( |
| Lesley & Michael | 13 | 10 | What else can Mat's dad say, except (with profound apologies for the trauma induced) 'Lobster lobster.'
What fun we had, not knowing our history, geography, sport, light entertainment, politics ... |
27 Apr 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Universally Challenged | 13 | 16 | No Bry this week but instead we had Tony and his visiting mate Andrew, plus Max and Millie the dog. No free drinks or chocs, and pipped at the post for R2 again! We drew with 2 other teams and guessed answers which were just one year apart - ours was one year too late. We got the Rollerball right too, but so did lots of other people so no cash prize. |
| Matty | 6 | 7 | On my own this time.... and it shows |
| The Kevin Turvey Club | 12 | 11 | Guess we need to eat more fish %)
Who knew Tiger Woods played tennis as well ;o) |
| Kat | Null | Point | I wrote up the quiz after we got back from the pub - big mistake! Corrected answers now uploaded, although I hear that Mr Woods has a mean backhand ;) |
| Lesley & Michael | 11 | 11 | Oh dear. Even with the Tiger clue we did badly, in case you hadn't worked that out yourself... It was fun though - if only we could remember the Qs&As for future reference! |
| Go Ahead Squirrels | 14 | 14 | To the tune of "Pigs" by Robert Wyatt:
Crabs? Up trees? |
20 Apr 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Universally Challenged | 13 | 12 | Our scores were OK but we hit the jackpot by winning the free drinks in each round. Woohoo (hic)! Nearly all the teams put the same answer as us for the Rollerball, but only one clever bunch got it right. |
| G.A.S. | 17 | 16 | Now for a lie down. |
| Kevin Turvey Club | 13 | 13 | Hey more Doris Day... bring it on.. |
| Lesley & Michael | 13 | 12 | Not our finest hour, although we did get the Rollerball right! In R2 we got questions 1 to 8 correct and thought we were onto a winner, then got three wrong in a row! Hey ho. |
13 Apr 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Universally Challenged | 16 | 14 | We dashed back from London just in time for the quiz. Joint first in R1 (we lost out on the tie breaker), respectable score in R2 and we got the Rollerball right, along with several others. No prizes but we felt pretty smart all the same. |
| Kevin Turvey Club | 14 | 13 | That Harry Potter question was laughable %) |
| Michael & Lesley | 14 | 12 | With the benefit of several inspired guesses, we did okayish...
But tennis? Puhleez. Still we got the Seven Dwarves question correct so our cultural learnings is proper good. |
| G.A.S. | 16 | 16 | Not as cultured as Lesley & Michael, obviously. We got both the tennis ones but failed on the dwarves. |
06 Apr 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 13 | 13 | We've got a new team name: Universally Challenged (we're among the youngest in the pub so we've been nicknamed the University Challenge team). Only a couple of points away from the winners in each round! *Technically* we were the only ones who got the right answer for the Rollerball but Will didn't differentiate singular and plural so several teams got the right answer and nobody won.
And yes, I did get the date wrong in the Eurovision question last week - well spotted squirrels. |
| Matty & Howard | 11 | 11 | |
| Lesley & Michael | 13 | 14 | R1: Not bad, including my second favourite musical and somehow knowing the correct answer to the question about a TV programme I have never seen (9)!
R2: Off to a cracking start with the first 8 questions correct! We fell at the Eurovision Song Contest and never regained our previous form, sadly, except for my first favourite musical! And we'd competely forgotten that NI had ever had a PM.
Excellent fun - thank you!
PS Shame about the Rollerball - how much is in the pot now? |
| Go Ahead Squirrels | 12 | 14 | Oooohhh! So close!! |
30 Mar 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| Matnkat | 13 | 9 | We borrowed Brian from the Newts and Eggheads but still got our joint lowest score in R2. Won the chocolates for R2Q10 and were given the Vernon's free drinks so not all bad :) |
| Smelly | 9 | 6 | Predictably I knew the Doris Day answer :o) |
| Go Ahead Squirrels | 12 | 15 | You have to be a certain age to get those Thunderbirds questions right, folks. Incidentally, what was that Eurovision year again? |
| Michael & Lesley | 10 | 10 | A hard one this week - how did you manage 13 in R1? Ah, I see: Wacky Races, Noddy, Blue Peter, LOTR, Kenny Rogers, Tom & Jerry, Basketball and Treasure Island. Whoops - that gave the game away! As for Mel knowing about Ms Day - I stand back in wonderment... |
23 Mar 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 14 | 17 | With 6 on our team we got a respectable score in the 1st round and second place in the 2nd round. Best of all, we won 4 Cadburys Caramel Easter eggs for R2Q9 :) |
| Howard & Matty | 13 | 14 | Better than most for us! |
| Michael & Lesley | 15 | 16 | Thanks for this facilty!
We thought it was easier this week, and that we'd done better than that...
How many times have we bought Fenchurch Street, only to forget it? And we remember Eddie the Eagle, but we didn't remember when we remembered him...
Fewer Corrie questions, more Sopranos please! |
| Go Ahead Squirrels | 17 | 15 | For once, at least there is one team on form in Chesterfield this week. |
16 Mar 08
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| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 11 | 13 | A tricky one last night, we were about average in the pub. |
09 Mar 08
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| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 12 | 13 | We bragged that we'd sweep the floor with Joel V on our team this week but it didn't work out that way. In the end it came down to who won out of our team and Bryan/Rob/Caitlin/Caitlin's dad. They won 13 to 12 in the second round and we won 13 to 6 in the second round - a conclusive victory in our opinion but even-stevens to them. Round 1 Q15 is probably not the right spelling but that's how it sounded and I can't find it in Wikipedia. |
02 Mar 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 14 | 15 | We came second in both rounds last night thanks to Lee's help. A great score but frustratingly only one point behind the winners in both rounds! |
18 Feb 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 12 | 10 | The scores don't look great but our team came middling and we were happy with the results - 12 for the first round (drawn with Terry & Max) and 10 for the second (they got 15). Bar snacks were cheesy chips. Rob and Caitlin got quite a few but Ethel the dog contributed nothing - she just ate the chips. |
10 Feb 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 15 | 12 | We didn't fare so bad this week with the addition of Rob and Caitlin. We got the rollerball but unfortunately so did a couple of others, so no readies for us. |
03 Feb 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 10 | 11 | Very poor show from MatnKat last night - joint last in both rounds! Bryan is clearly the brains of the operation. At least we didn't get single figures, and they were *really* difficult questions ;) |
13 Jan 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 17 | 15 | We had 2 new members this week (technically that made us illegal with 5 members). With their extra brain cells we weren't quite winners but we got free drinks! |
06 Jan 08
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 13 | 13 | Much quieter this week now the roller ball is back to 20 quid! We did average in both rounds, no drinks or chocs. The winners in each round got 17. |
17 Dec 07
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 14 | 14 | We were consistent in both rounds, winning the chocolate with R2/Q10. One team of smarty-pants got 20/20 for the first round. Lots of people got the rollerball, us included, which means it's up to 260 quid next week. Might have to cancel the trip back for Xmas! |
09 Dec 07
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 13 | 12 | Very tricky this week - top score was 15 in the first round and a very suspicious 17 in the second, with the second to to score being 13. We did get free drinks for R2/Q20 though :) |
02 Dec 07
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 14 | 11 | A tricky one last Sunday. Comedy answer of the evening has to be to the tie-breaker question on round 1:
Q. "In miles, how far is the most inland point in England"
A. (from a guy on the next table) - Ooh, I don't know. It must be somewhere round here though, Weston-super-mare? |
25 Nov 07
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| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 13 | 11 | Not a good week for us - we got a "tut tut" from our markers in the second round! We did win the chocolates though, so little else mattered. Several people got the correct answer to the Rollerball (not us) so it's up to £200 next week... |
18 Nov 07
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnOthers | 13 | 16 | The Bryan-Alex-Jen-Mat team got joint first in the second round. Tie breaker was: What year was Joan of Arc burned at the stake? There were 5 teams in the tie-breaker and they were second closest - so close! Roller ball was: what's the name for a discarded snake skin? Unfortunately several teams knew the answer to that one... |
07 Oct 07
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| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | ? | ? | |
30 Sep 07
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| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | ? | ? | We were in two teams this week: the Wassons + Mat and the Szilagyis + me. Neither of us did particularly well, although Mat's team won the chocolate in round one and - more importantly - beat my team overall.
The bonus question was: what number, whether added to 6 or multiplied by 6, comes to the same amount? |
23 Sep 07
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 12 | 16 | Some tough ones in round 1 but we did well in round 2. We came 9th= in the first round, 2nd= in the second round - if we'd listened to Kat we would have come joint 1st! |
16 Sep 07
Quiz Answers
| Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | Comments |
| MatnKat | 16 | 17 | After three weeks off you'd think we'd be a bit rusty, but Kat and I were on fire last night! Joint second place in both rounds! |