QuizList

A film quiz in Crouch End on 17 August  is in the ‘one-off quizzes’ section.  I might be there, you never know.  I have however said that I think film quizzes seem to be ‘afficionados only’ and while I probably know as much or as little about music as I do about films, I’ve won quizzes on the former but never on the latter.

Continuing our theme of resources for quiz players, we have a new site to consult.  This one hails from the Republic of Ireland (I surmise)  and aims to be  ‘a website for people to share pub quiz questions and to rate and discuss which ones are best or worst.’  There’s a prize of an Apple i-pod for the person  who writes the pub quiz question that receives the most votes from other people on the site by September.  Go to: http://www.quizbag.com/questions

Moving swiftly from questions we like to questions we hate, during the week NC gave me his nomination for ‘worst quiz question of the year’.  It was something like ‘Barry Simmonds joined a squad of five in 2008 to make them a squad of six.  Later they became a squad of seven. Who are they?’  Apparently a pointless question, especially given the context in which it was asked.  I’m not sure it equals ‘What river does Dublin stand on?’ in a quiz not far from the banks of the Liffey;  the uncritical QM having got all her questions from some book.  Or what about ‘What is Tarzan’s favourite carol?’  (answer:  ‘Jungle Bells’) and ‘What kind of lights did Noah use in the ark?’ (answer: ‘ Floodlights’), both emanating from the same quiz in supposedly intellectual N6.  Send me your worst examples…