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Started by Brazen, February 28, 2014, 04:50:18 AM

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Brazen

February 28, 2014, 04:50:18 AM
I won work's Friday email quiz again and have until 4pm to set this week's. What are your favourite trivia/pub quiz type questions?

Syt

#1
February 28, 2014, 05:00:58 AM
Can't you just watch some old episodes of QI?

Also, check the history trivia thread.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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grumbler

#2
February 28, 2014, 07:14:56 AM
Why don't polar bears eat penguins?
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Brazen

#3
February 28, 2014, 07:20:14 AM
Quote from: grumbler on February 28, 2014, 07:14:56 AM
Why don't polar bears eat penguins?
Because they can't get the wrapper off!

Eddie Teach

#4
February 28, 2014, 07:22:31 AM
How much does a polar bear weigh?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Syt

#5
February 28, 2014, 07:28:01 AM
Who is the mother of Uranus?

(Gaia, also his wife.)
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Brazen

#6
February 28, 2014, 11:11:38 AM
1.   Stolen from an Underground advert: Which Tube station name contains none of the letters in the word "STICKLEBACK"?
2.   Who were Scooby Doo's four human companions?
BONUS POINT for each surname you know too.
3.   Which of these animals became extinct most recently?
•   Javan tiger
•   Passenger pigeon
•   Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger)
4.   These are the taglines from some of my favourite films. Can you name them?
•   In space, no-one can hear you scream.
•   We are not alone.
•   The classic story of a boy and his mother.
•   Be afraid. Be very afraid.
•   They're here.
5.   This is the opening line to which novel? "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
6.   This year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I. In which month did it start?
BONUS POINT What day of the month?
7.   What colour are most aircraft black boxes?
8.   Who has an autobiography entitled 'Ooh! What A Lovely Pair'?
9.   Which English poet kept pet wombats?
10.   What is TARDIS an acronym for?

Brazen

#7
February 28, 2014, 11:12:09 AM Last Edit: February 28, 2014, 11:44:46 AM by Brazen
There's a 30 minute time limit.

Grey Fox

#8
February 28, 2014, 11:14:07 AM
On April 1 1976, Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and a 3rd person. Name that person.

For next time maybe.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

The Brain

#9
February 28, 2014, 02:21:52 PM
What do you call a group of Nazis?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Savonarola

#11
February 28, 2014, 02:52:13 PM
A gaggle of goose-steppers?
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

The Brain

#12
February 28, 2014, 02:55:14 PM
A murder of Jews.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Syt

#13
February 28, 2014, 02:57:35 PM
 :lol:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Viking

#14
February 28, 2014, 05:02:33 PM
Quote from: The Brain on February 28, 2014, 02:55:14 PM
A murder of Jews.

I declare you the winner of languish for the year 2014. That was epic.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.
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