The meanest quiz question?
The meanest quiz question?
Had this today:
"Cornville is a place in which US state?"
Got it wrong - was disappointed as I know all the US state capitals (standard quiz fare) and lots of other town/states (due to US TV/Film exposure I guess).
Looked Cornville up tonight - not suprised I didn't get it as Cornville (Arizona) has a population of less than 4,000 - not the biggest of places and I don't think anything notable has ever happened there!
Have you got a bigger stinker?
"Cornville is a place in which US state?"
Got it wrong - was disappointed as I know all the US state capitals (standard quiz fare) and lots of other town/states (due to US TV/Film exposure I guess).
Looked Cornville up tonight - not suprised I didn't get it as Cornville (Arizona) has a population of less than 4,000 - not the biggest of places and I don't think anything notable has ever happened there!
Have you got a bigger stinker?
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PMSL @ French Open. Wouldn't know 1st/2nd (should though right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Frenc ... 7s_Singles )
Was the middle name one for someone who is known with an initial (e.g. A.A. Milne)?
Was the middle name one for someone who is known with an initial (e.g. A.A. Milne)?
Not an SWP tale, but in a recent pub quiz I was asked a jackpot question which I later discovered had one Google reference to the correct answer. FFS, even random members of the public have more than that nowadays! I complained to the pub the next week but to no avail.
The question was "who in 1985 became the first woman to umpire a men's game of cricket at Lords?" Honestly.
The question was "who in 1985 became the first woman to umpire a men's game of cricket at Lords?" Honestly.
Yeah I had one at the pub the other night- 'To the nearest million, according to the guinness book of records, how many books were loaned from all the libraries in England in 1991-1992.'grecian wrote:Not an SWP tale, but in a recent pub quiz I was asked a jackpot question which I later discovered had one Google reference to the correct answer. FFS, even random members of the public have more than that nowadays! I complained to the pub the next week but to no avail.
The question was "who in 1985 became the first woman to umpire a men's game of cricket at Lords?" Honestly.
Actually got the closest guess, and won a mighty fiver. I was only 230 million out
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Not a machine question, but one which shows that even people who have to compile 60 questions instead of 6000 are just as useless at checking facts. In a pub quiz the other night, was asked:
Who set the World Mile, 1500m and 800m record in 1970?
Without a definitive answer we reasonably calculated that if anyone had done this, then John Walker was about the right time period.
Unfortunately, when the answers were revealed, the question master wanted Seb Coe as the answer.
When I (and several other team captains) pointed out, that he would have performed this feat aged 14, the reply was 'Gotta take what's on the sheet mate, personally I've never heard of him'
And these are the landlords running the nation's pub quizzes.........
Who set the World Mile, 1500m and 800m record in 1970?
Without a definitive answer we reasonably calculated that if anyone had done this, then John Walker was about the right time period.
Unfortunately, when the answers were revealed, the question master wanted Seb Coe as the answer.
When I (and several other team captains) pointed out, that he would have performed this feat aged 14, the reply was 'Gotta take what's on the sheet mate, personally I've never heard of him'
And these are the landlords running the nation's pub quizzes.........
Stupid punters. Telly all the week, screw the wife Saturday
That's pretty mean thenThey were all legitimate French places, i just think one was spelt wrongly which made it the correct name of a real non-french place.
Has anyone seen this question on Pub Quiz?
When was this Metallica (The Black Album) album released...
1990
1991
1992
What's the pro approach to year answers where they are 1 year apart?
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Well, certainly not the pro-approach (as it's coming from me!) but I always go for the middle.
I remember reading somewhere that 'generally' if a person is 'making up' numbers (years in this case) they tend to create the numbers 'around' another number - in this case the correct answer. Not sure if it has any application to SWPs, but hey, it seems to work reasonably well for me...
I remember reading somewhere that 'generally' if a person is 'making up' numbers (years in this case) they tend to create the numbers 'around' another number - in this case the correct answer. Not sure if it has any application to SWPs, but hey, it seems to work reasonably well for me...
"And do you ever contradict yourself, Minister?" "Well, yes and no..."
"Middle value theory" (i.e. on any question with numerical answers, going for the middle one if you don't know the answer) used to work well in the old era of JPM and Maygay stand-alones. I'd say it's less good nowadays and doesn't yield any more success than a random guess would do. I'm not sure there is a "pro approach" any more to this kind of question. My approach is to go with my gut instinct. My quiz knowledge is getting to the stage where I'm maybe right 50 per cent of the time on questions such as this, compared to a 33 per cent random guess approach. On Metallica, I might very well have gone for 1991 as I seem to recall them releasing a slew of singles that year (I was sad enough to write down the top forty every week back in 1991). 1992 did tempt as well though so can't say for definite.