QuizList

Next update on or before Saturday 24 July – I’m  away.

But next time I update there will be something I found on my travels with a big money prize…

Within pub quizzes, there are few things less appealing than tiebreakers.    Now we’re not talking Nadal and Federer type Herculean efforts, we are talking seemingly random questions designed to break a supposed deadlock between two teams on the same score.

These tend to veer from the staggeringly boring and irrelevant (‘How many words are in some Swedish soliloquy?’) to the simply tedious (‘What the is record for the number of people’s legs a dog can run under?’) to the incorrect (‘What year did Madame Tussaud’s open in Baker Street, London?’ – answer given as 1923) to the baffling (‘How many times are dogs mentioned in the Bible?’  – Answer given as 14, which amazingly one team got dead on (how?), but I have seen other answers ranging from 18 to 44 given and anyway, what version of the Bible are we talking about?).

I couldn’t begin to count the times we’ve lost on the wretched things and sometimes I do wonder, like the dogs in the Bible one and the Madame Tussaud’s one.  I’ll leave you to puzzle over the following:  ‘One is happenstance, twice is happenstance, three times is enemy sabotage’.  Have you ever been the victim of a puzzling tiebreak result?  Do let me know….