Hey there, it's finally time to give you all the answers from last Wednesday's Pub Quiz. Once again we had a great turnout, an amazing crowd and a most triumphant evening! Special shout out to Pete Kosmider-Jones for the original accents round, check out his medical English blog if you've got the time. Congratulations once again to the winners, No Name. If you haven't done so already, be sure to like the Rabbitfire page to keep informed about the next quiz. We'll see you all in the New Year!
Around the World
1. What is the most common first name in the world?
(MOHAMMED)
2. Put the following cities in order from furthest west to east:
Reno, Nevada; Los Angeles, California; Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon
(PORTLAND/SEATTLE/RENO/LOS ANGELES)
3. Staying in America, where after all it is Thanksgiving tomorrow. Legend has it the first feast was celebrated by the Pilgrims together with chief Massosoit and 90 other male members of the Wampanoag tribe. Tell me what year it was, plus or minus a quarter century.
(1621)
4. More about that meal. 102 pilgrims had made the journey to America aboard the Mayflower but 45 of them died the first winter. Can you guess how many Pilgrim women were there for the first thanksgiving, I sure hope they didn't have to do all the cooking for the 90 natives and the Pilgrim men.
(4)
5. As you may know, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of every November. This year it falls quite late in the month and happens to occur during another important festival that also changes dates and happens to start quite early this year. This coincidence is so rare that it won't happen again for another 79,043 years. Can you tell me which religious holiday beginning at sunset tonight will be in progress when Thanksgiving is celebrated this year.
(HANUKKAH)
6. Most banks machines here in Poland offer the helpful function of offering the choice of using English. Can you tell me though, what is the only bank in the world that offers ATM customers the ability to do their transactions in Latin?
(THE VATICAN BANK)
7. Not counting the continental land masses of the Americas, Afro-Eurasia, Antartica and Australia, Greenland is the largest island in the world at 840,000 square miles, 3X the size of Texas. Tell me, what is the 3rd largest island in the world? And, I'll give you a hint, it's a six letter word ending in O.
(BORNEO)
8. This Pacific island nation's flag has equal horizontal bands of royal blue and scarlet red. There is an equilateral triangle on the left with a golden sun in the center surrounded by three golden yellow stars. What makes this flag unique however is that it is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war. The blue portioin in flown on top in time of peace and the red portion is at the top in war time. Judging by the recent news, it's unfortunate for them there's no war against climate change. What Pacific island country's flag am I describing?
(THE PHILIPPINES)
Round 2 - Music Round
1. Loser - Beck
2. Novocaine for the soul - Eels
3. Rock the Kasbah - The Clash
4. Rock me Amadeus - Falco
5. Shut up and let me go - Ting Tings
6. It must be love - Madness
7. Sheila take a bow - The Smiths
8. All these things that I have done - The Killers
Round 3 - Trivial Trivia
1. What word is the antonym of synonym?
(Antonym)
2. Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders. Agrophobia is the fear of public places. But what is gyrophobia?
(Fear of Women)
3. What is the current global fertility rate?
a) 1.5 b) 2.0 c) 2.5 d) 3.0
(c - 2.5)
4. Americans call it a faucet. What is it called in Britain?
(tap)
5. According to a recently published health report, what are the two biggest causes of disability in the world?
(1 - back pain ; 2 - depression)
6. Who married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten on November 10, 1947?
(Queen Elizabeth II)
7. Where would a Vietnamese deposit his dong?
(a bank)
8. How many months are named after men and what are they?
(2 - July and August)
Round 4 - Eponymous Words
An eponym is a person or thing, whether real or fictional, after which a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item is named or thought to be named. Louis Braille gave us the eponym of the Braille word system created by him for use by the blind.
1. This character from Voltaire's Candide spawned an eponymous attitude or philosophy best summed up in his words "All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." Please name the character who indoctrinated young Candide with the philosophy that everything that happens, no matter how calamitous or tragic, is for the best.
(Dr. Pangloss)
2. A type of radioactive metallic element, a stately dance popular in the 18th - 19th centuries, and an elaborate overdress worn by fashionable ladies of the aristocracy in the 18th century all derive their name from what country?
(Poland)
3. A crass, uncultured person preoccupied with material things and devoid of transcendental values may be called by this name, which derives from an ancient Middle-Eastern civilization.
(Philistine)
4. Named for a British Prime Minister, this tea is flavoured with bergamot oil, the bergamot is an aromatic citrus fruit that is grown in Italy. It was a "hot" item in Star Trek: The Next Generation".
(Earl Grey)
5. Surprisingly, the name of this device derives from that of a French physician who proposed a painless and private form of capital punishment equal for all classes as an interim step towards completely banning the death penalty. However, it remained his country's standard form of judicial execution up until it's banning in 1981.
(Guillotine)
6. This Charles Dickens character from A Christmas Carol has become an eponym for a stingy and miserly person.
(Scrooge)
7. A neurological syndrome, characterized by altered perceptions of body image and visual illusions, was named after this character from children's literature.
(Alice in Wonderland)
8. Jonathan Swifts novel "Gulliver's Travels gave us a treasure trove on eponyms including Lilliputian, from the miniature island nation in the South Pacific which refers to anything small or, in a more pejorative sense, small-mindedness or pettiness. It also gave the world a term which means a brutish, crude, ignorant person but is now more often used in reference to an Internet giant.
(Yahoo)
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Pub Quiz - October 24, 2013
Welcome to all those interested in finding out the answers from the Pub Quiz last week at Tanner's Pub. We had another great turnout and hope you had as good a time as we did. Don't forget, if you ever want to brush up on your English or had a tough time adjusting your ear to Dave or my (Shane) accent, you should click over the Rabbitfire.org to get your fill. Anyway, without further ado, here we go...
Round 1 - Halloween
1. The word Halloween is a contraction of, and is also known as, 'All Hallows Eve' - What does the Old English word "hallow" mean?
SAINT
2. As you may know, Jack-o-Lanterns are carved out of pumpkins today, however, this wasn't always so. Tell me, what do you think Jack-o-Lanterns were originally made from before the tradition came to America?
TURNIPS
3. Within 200 pounds, how many pounds did the largest pumpkin ever recorded weigh? If you insist on using kilograms, you must be within 100 kilograms
2,009lbs, 911kg
4. The American horror Halloween was so successful that it became a ten part franchise. The original was made for $300,000 and grossed almost $50 million at the box office. To get a point for this question all you need to do is get one of these 4 questions correct. When was the original film made? How long did the filming take (in weeks)? What was the name of the antagonist (the bad guy) and how much was the actor who played that character paid each day within $5?
1978, 3 weeks, Michael Myers, $25/day
5. Staying with the movie. To conceal his identity, the villain wore a Halloween mask which he painted white. Tell me, what Starship captain's mask did the film makers buy, spray paint white and use in the movie.
CAPTAIN KIRK/William Shatner
6. Every Halloween, American TV broadcasts a Charlie Brown Halloween special and every year, Charlie Brown helps his friend Linus wait for what character to appear? Is it Lucy, The Grinch, The Great Pumpkin, Godot or Snoopy.
The Great Pumpkin
7. Various games are played at Halloween parties, one of which involves bobbing your head into a barrel of water to grab something with your mouth. What do folks traditionally bob for at Halloween parties?
APPLES
8. Finally, a two part question worth ½ a point each. What are the most popular costumes for girls and boys each. Name the most popular Halloween costume for girls and that for boys.
PRINCESS/BATMAN
Round 2 - Music
F.E.A.R. - Ian Brown
I Kissed a Girl - Katy Perry
It's Real - Real Estate
Guns of Navarone - Skatalites
Blinded by the Lights - The Streets
All Apologies - Nirvana
Round 3 - This Day (Oct. 24) in History
1.October 24th marked a black day in Polish history as the finally partition of Poland occurred on this day in 1795. However, a century and a half before that, the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth was huge. In 1656, the Treaty or Truce of Vilnius was signed on this day by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tell me who did Poland sign this truce with and what country was it aimed against - between Poland and which country against which country?
(RUSSIA/SWEDEN)
2.This day also markes the 156th anniversary of the foundation of the world's first stand-alone-football (or soccer) club. For the pedantic out there, this means club not associated with an institution such as a school, hospital or university and the club recognized by FIFA and the FA as the world's oldest club now playing associatioin football. Tell me what club was founded on this day in 1857.
(SHEFFIELD F.C)
3.Today also marks the day the New York City subway opened, what year was it?
(1904)
4.October 24th is also the anniversary of both "Black Thursday" and "Bloody Friday", 79 years apart. What happened on those days?
(STOCK MARKET CRASH)
5.Just a couple years after Black Thursday, on October 24th 1931, the famous gangster Al Capone was sentenced to 11 years in prison. What was he sentenced for?
(TAX EVASION)
6.The United Nations charter came into force on this day in history in 1945. The UN headquarters are in New York City, however, the United Nations has 3 additional, subsidiary, regional headquarters. Name two of the three cities where these are located. Two are in Europe and one is in Africa.
(GENEVA, VIENNA, NAIROBI)
7.Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest on this day in 1956 in response to the first major revolt again the USSR. Who became Prime Minister of Hungary on October 24th 1956?
(IMRE NAGY)
8.Today also marks the anniversary of the end of supersonic air travel. October 24th of what year was the last commercial flight of the Concorde?
(2003)
Round 4 - Famous Quotes
1. "Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
a. Oscar Wilde
2. "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."
c. Mother Teresa
3. "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
b. Winston Churchill
4. "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
a. Albert Einstein
5. "Woman is the nigger of the world."
c. John Lennon
6. "Big Brother is watching you."
d. George Orwell
7. "If there were gold medals for taking drugs for England I would have won a shitload."
a. Noel Gallagher
8. "I believe that the presidential term should be limited."
b. Vladimir Putin
Round 5 - The Anglosphere - English Body Part Homophones
1. This word's first meaning came from a mixture of old English and Old French words signifying a part of your hand and it is also a type of tree with fronds (branches) that spread like the fingers of the hand.
(PALM)
2. Of latin origin this abrevation has come to mean both a campus courtyard and a muscle of the leg.
(QUAD)
3. If you are opposite to the shape described by number two, you may be described using this word which can either mean trendy and being up-to-date or the lateral prominence of the pelvis, the way you move them is vital to dancing, particularly belly dancing .
(HIP/S)
4. This word comes from Latin via a Greek word which meant tool or instrument, today it can either be a pipe or electrical musical instrument or a name for body parts with specific vital functions.
(ORGAN)
5. This word can mean came into English from an old French word via Latin where it meant sandal or shoe but today it can mean a part of the foot and is also a kind of fish thanks to their shape.
(SOLE)
6. From two unconnected Greek words, what five letter word links a punctuation mark used to separate clauses when the second expands or illustrates the first, and the main part of the large intestine, between the caecum and rectum? In other words, this is something you would prefer to get wrong for your teacher than have your doctor screw up.
(COLON)
7. The most commonly dislocated joint in the human body and the edge or border running on either side of a roadway.
(SHOULDER)
8. Toughened keratin at the end of an animal digit or what everything looks like if all you have is a hammer.
(NAIL)
Round 1 - Halloween
1. The word Halloween is a contraction of, and is also known as, 'All Hallows Eve' - What does the Old English word "hallow" mean?
SAINT
2. As you may know, Jack-o-Lanterns are carved out of pumpkins today, however, this wasn't always so. Tell me, what do you think Jack-o-Lanterns were originally made from before the tradition came to America?
TURNIPS
3. Within 200 pounds, how many pounds did the largest pumpkin ever recorded weigh? If you insist on using kilograms, you must be within 100 kilograms
2,009lbs, 911kg
4. The American horror Halloween was so successful that it became a ten part franchise. The original was made for $300,000 and grossed almost $50 million at the box office. To get a point for this question all you need to do is get one of these 4 questions correct. When was the original film made? How long did the filming take (in weeks)? What was the name of the antagonist (the bad guy) and how much was the actor who played that character paid each day within $5?
1978, 3 weeks, Michael Myers, $25/day
5. Staying with the movie. To conceal his identity, the villain wore a Halloween mask which he painted white. Tell me, what Starship captain's mask did the film makers buy, spray paint white and use in the movie.
CAPTAIN KIRK/William Shatner
6. Every Halloween, American TV broadcasts a Charlie Brown Halloween special and every year, Charlie Brown helps his friend Linus wait for what character to appear? Is it Lucy, The Grinch, The Great Pumpkin, Godot or Snoopy.
The Great Pumpkin
7. Various games are played at Halloween parties, one of which involves bobbing your head into a barrel of water to grab something with your mouth. What do folks traditionally bob for at Halloween parties?
APPLES
8. Finally, a two part question worth ½ a point each. What are the most popular costumes for girls and boys each. Name the most popular Halloween costume for girls and that for boys.
PRINCESS/BATMAN
Round 2 - Music
F.E.A.R. - Ian Brown
I Kissed a Girl - Katy Perry
It's Real - Real Estate
Guns of Navarone - Skatalites
Blinded by the Lights - The Streets
All Apologies - Nirvana
Round 3 - This Day (Oct. 24) in History
1.October 24th marked a black day in Polish history as the finally partition of Poland occurred on this day in 1795. However, a century and a half before that, the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth was huge. In 1656, the Treaty or Truce of Vilnius was signed on this day by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tell me who did Poland sign this truce with and what country was it aimed against - between Poland and which country against which country?
(RUSSIA/SWEDEN)
2.This day also markes the 156th anniversary of the foundation of the world's first stand-alone-football (or soccer) club. For the pedantic out there, this means club not associated with an institution such as a school, hospital or university and the club recognized by FIFA and the FA as the world's oldest club now playing associatioin football. Tell me what club was founded on this day in 1857.
(SHEFFIELD F.C)
3.Today also marks the day the New York City subway opened, what year was it?
(1904)
4.October 24th is also the anniversary of both "Black Thursday" and "Bloody Friday", 79 years apart. What happened on those days?
(STOCK MARKET CRASH)
5.Just a couple years after Black Thursday, on October 24th 1931, the famous gangster Al Capone was sentenced to 11 years in prison. What was he sentenced for?
(TAX EVASION)
6.The United Nations charter came into force on this day in history in 1945. The UN headquarters are in New York City, however, the United Nations has 3 additional, subsidiary, regional headquarters. Name two of the three cities where these are located. Two are in Europe and one is in Africa.
(GENEVA, VIENNA, NAIROBI)
7.Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest on this day in 1956 in response to the first major revolt again the USSR. Who became Prime Minister of Hungary on October 24th 1956?
(IMRE NAGY)
8.Today also marks the anniversary of the end of supersonic air travel. October 24th of what year was the last commercial flight of the Concorde?
(2003)
Round 4 - Famous Quotes
1. "Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
a. Oscar Wilde
2. "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."
c. Mother Teresa
3. "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
b. Winston Churchill
4. "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
a. Albert Einstein
5. "Woman is the nigger of the world."
c. John Lennon
6. "Big Brother is watching you."
d. George Orwell
7. "If there were gold medals for taking drugs for England I would have won a shitload."
a. Noel Gallagher
8. "I believe that the presidential term should be limited."
b. Vladimir Putin
Round 5 - The Anglosphere - English Body Part Homophones
1. This word's first meaning came from a mixture of old English and Old French words signifying a part of your hand and it is also a type of tree with fronds (branches) that spread like the fingers of the hand.
(PALM)
2. Of latin origin this abrevation has come to mean both a campus courtyard and a muscle of the leg.
(QUAD)
3. If you are opposite to the shape described by number two, you may be described using this word which can either mean trendy and being up-to-date or the lateral prominence of the pelvis, the way you move them is vital to dancing, particularly belly dancing .
(HIP/S)
4. This word comes from Latin via a Greek word which meant tool or instrument, today it can either be a pipe or electrical musical instrument or a name for body parts with specific vital functions.
(ORGAN)
5. This word can mean came into English from an old French word via Latin where it meant sandal or shoe but today it can mean a part of the foot and is also a kind of fish thanks to their shape.
(SOLE)
6. From two unconnected Greek words, what five letter word links a punctuation mark used to separate clauses when the second expands or illustrates the first, and the main part of the large intestine, between the caecum and rectum? In other words, this is something you would prefer to get wrong for your teacher than have your doctor screw up.
(COLON)
7. The most commonly dislocated joint in the human body and the edge or border running on either side of a roadway.
(SHOULDER)
8. Toughened keratin at the end of an animal digit or what everything looks like if all you have is a hammer.
(NAIL)
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Pub Quiz 4 - Review and Answers
Round 1 - Famous fraternities,
siblings, groups and gangs
- Name the four presidents whose faces are carved into Mt. Rushmore. For full points you'll need to give the first name of the only 20th century commander-in-chief – George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.
- Moving to literature, give me the first name's of the Bronte sisters. - Charlotte, Emily, Anne
- What were Dmitri, Ivan, Alyosha and Smerdyakov known together as? – The Brothers Karamazov
- Disney magic transformed the lives of seven dwarfs when they came home from the mines to find a woman who could cook and clean for them while they mined for jewels during the day and sang, played music and danced all night. Three were named Bashful, Dopey and Doc but can you name the remaining four dwarfs from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. - Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy and Grumpy
- Quentin Tarantinos 1992 film Reservoir dogs featured six characters who used aliases. What were the fake names given to the characters played by Michael Madsen, Eddie Bunker, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel and Quentin Tarantino himself in any particular order. - Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue, Mr. Brown, Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink and Mr. White
- Back to the books for an easy one. What were the names of the original Three Musketeers? - Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
- For these last two the names of character from books were given and the name of the book was needed. Napoleon, Snowball, Boxer, Squealer, Old Major and Mr. Jones – Animal Farm
- Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera, Shere Khan, Colonel Hathi and Rikki Tikki Tavi. - The Jungle Book.
Round 2 - South Africa
1. When was the FIFA world cup in South Africa?
a) 2011
b) 2010
c) 2009
d) 2012
2. What is the title of the official song for the FIFA world cup in South Africa?
…Waka Waka……………………………………………
3. Which of these cities is NOT the capital of RSA?
a) Pretoria
b) Bloemfontein
c) Cape Town
d) Johannesburg
4. The first free elections in South Africa took place in:
a) 1990
b) 1994
c) 1998
d) 2000
5. What’s the main denomination in South Africa?
a) Christianity
b) Islam
c) Hinduism
d) Buddhism
6. While we are struggling with establishing civil unions, in South Africa same-sex marriages have been legal since:
a) 1990
b) 2001
c) 2006
d) 2011
7. Which of these writers was born in South Africa?
a) Joseph Rudyard Kipling
b) J. K. Rowling
c) Ian Fleming
d) J.R.R. Tolkien
8. How many times has Die Antwoord (South African band) been in Poland?
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) 3
9. How many official languages are in South Africa?
……Eleven……………………………………………
10. What used to be situated on Robben Island?
a) stadium
b) fortress
c) castle
d) prison
11. Table Mountain is ………………….. mountain in the world.
a) the biggest
b) the oldest
c) the youngest
d) the narrowest
12. What is the origin of South Africa's second national anthem – Shosholoza?
a) it’s a traditional miner's song
b) it comes from Portugal
c) it was sung by prisoners in Australia
d) it’s a traditional football fans’ song
13. The world's first adult heart transplant was performed by Christiaan Barnard in:
a) 1960
b) 1967
c) 1977
d) 1978
14. Which of these people is NOT from South Africa?
a) Charlize Theron
b) Candice Swanepoel
c) Jake Gyllenhaal
d) Oscar Pistorius
15. Which star felt offended by Die Antwoord's music video?
a) Lady Gaga
b) Katy Perry
c) Madonna
d) Miley Cyrus
16. Which animated movie was produced in SA?
a) Toy Story
b) Finding Nemo
c) Madagascar
d) Zambezia
17. When did J.M. Coetzee get Nobel Prize in literature?
a) 2000
b) 2003
c) 2006
d) 2009
18. How many times has Jacob Zuma been married?
……Six…………………………….
19. How many children does Jacob Zuma have?
a) 10
b) 15
c) 20
d) 25
Music Break - The Electric Trousers!
Round 3 - Book, Plays and Smart Stuff
- What is the name of the French valet who accompanies Phileas Fogg on his trip around the world in 80 days? - Passepartout
- What two body parts follow the Exodus quote "Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" – Hand and Foot
For the following
three questions, not only did I read you the opening line of the
book, but I also gave a bonus hint, all you needed to do is
write down the name of the book.
- "I will not drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week." Which book opens with that line and mentions the actors Colin Firth and Hugh Grant in its pages, both of whom would later star in the movie of the same name? - Bridget Jones' Diary
- What famous 1818 novel with the subtitle 'The Modern Prometheus' opened with the line "You will rejoice to hear no disaster has accompanied the start of an enterprise with such evil forebodings". - Frankenstein
- Today we live in The Year of Our Lord 2013. Tell me what 20th century novel was set in The Year of Our Ford 632 and opened like this "A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY." -Brave New World
- Don Diego de la Vega is a fictional character in books, TV series, cartoons, and over forty films. He is the secret identity of which hero? - Zorro
- Estragon and Vladimir are the two main characters of which play, voted in a Royal National Theatre poll as the most significant English Language play of the 20th century, the title describes what they are doing the entire time. -Waiting For Godot
- And finally, the head scratcher question of the night. Widely considered the greatest writers of their respective nations, the Spaniard Miguel de Cervantes and the Englishman William Shakespeare oddly enough both died on the 23rd of April, 1616. Even stranger, however, is the fact that they did not die on the same day? Why not? Can you tell me how this can be? - Cervantes died using the Gregorian calendar while Shakepeare's England was still using the Julian ie. He died May 3 in the Gregorian. Spain switched in 1582, England didn't until 1752. Source
1. What country experienced the world's biggest electricity power-cut in terms of people affected in July 2012? India (affecting 620m people)
2. What organization won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize? The European Union
3. What nationality is Carlos Slim, the richest person in the world according to Forbes 2012? Mexican
4. In which nation's London embassy did Wikileaks founder Julian Assange seek diplomatic asylum in 2012? Ecuador
5. What popular cartoon TV series celebrated the airing of its 500th episode in 2012? The Simpsons
6. Who became the youngest F1 triple champion (to date) in Nov 2012? Sebastian Vettel
7. Who coached/managed both the England and Russia national football teams during 2012? Fabio Capello
8. Whose first personal Twitter posting, in Dec 2012 from @pontifex, ended: "I bless you from my heart"? The Pope (Pope Benedict XVI)
And that about wraps it up. Check back later if you want to see how your team did as I'll get a rundown of the scoring table up as soon as I can. We'll probably be taking a little summer break before the next quiz but if you want to keep your brain in shape, make sure to get yourself over to The Dubliner for those crazy South Africaners quiz tonight, Monday June 3rd!
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Pub Quiz Questions and Results
Well, we've got another successful pub quiz under our belts. Poznan's brainiest gathered once again at Tanner's Thursday night to test their wits against one another. Despite a few technical set backs, we made it through three rounds of trivia and crowned a new quiz champion: The Jack Pots.
We added a new twist this time around with a little live music provided by the Electric Trousers. Big thanks go out to them for their help. They were even kind enough to open the competition by playing the intros to five songs for a bit of name that tune. Round one was, well, rounded out by Malcolm with a trip back through time, naming a few events for the teams to guess the years. Round 2 was Wacky Trivia, riddles and tribonds in which the teams had to guess the link between three things. The final round was Americana. Below you'll find the questions. For those who couldn't make it out, you can test yourselves and see if you could've given the Jack Pots a run for the money. When you're done, and for those who were there Thursday and are dying to know the answers, scroll down below to find them.
Jack Pots
Sexy MFs
Pie-O'-Neers
Second Beverage
Happy Clovers
The Lazy Bastards
Vicious & Delicious
Flying Sharks
Chupachups
No Names
Tears of Our Enemies
Bazinga
Misfits
Team Duo
Dog With 2 Tails
KMM
Well, that's about it for this time around. Hopefully we'll have some pictures up here and on Facebook (click the link and like the page!) soon and a video to share on the Rabbitfire main page. Thanks again everyone, we're already looking forward to the next one!
We added a new twist this time around with a little live music provided by the Electric Trousers. Big thanks go out to them for their help. They were even kind enough to open the competition by playing the intros to five songs for a bit of name that tune. Round one was, well, rounded out by Malcolm with a trip back through time, naming a few events for the teams to guess the years. Round 2 was Wacky Trivia, riddles and tribonds in which the teams had to guess the link between three things. The final round was Americana. Below you'll find the questions. For those who couldn't make it out, you can test yourselves and see if you could've given the Jack Pots a run for the money. When you're done, and for those who were there Thursday and are dying to know the answers, scroll down below to find them.
Round 1 - Name That Tune + Name
the year
6. The US Housing bubble bursts when
year on year home prices drop by up to 15% in areas of the country
causing increasing numbers of foreclosures
US private security firm Blackwater is
banned by the Iraqi government from operating in Iraq following civilian
shootings
Apple introduces the iPhone
The final Harry Potter book is
published Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Oscar award for Best Documentary : An
Inconvenient Truth
Gordon Brown becomes the new British
Prime Minister
7. The human
population of the world surpassed six billion.
Lance
Armstrong wins his first Tour de France.
Two boys 17 and 18 years old go on
killing a rampage at Columbine
High School
The Barbie
Doll celebrates its 40th Birthday
Impeachment proceedings are bought
against President Bill Clinton
Napster
& My Space are officially introduced to the
Internet
Australian voters decided to keep the
queen and not become a republic
8.
Soviet Nuclear reactor at Chernobyl
Explodes on April 26th causing the release of radioactive
material across much of Europe
Haley’s
Comet reaches the closest point to the Earth during
its second visit to the solar system in the 20th century.
Mike Tyson becomes the youngest
Heavyweight Champion in history
A British newspaper reveals information
that Israel has secret nuclear weapons including 100 nuclear
warheads.
The 386
series of microprocessor introduced by Intel.
9.
Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming
the first Pope to visit a Communist country
President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and
Vice President Saddam
Hussein replaces him in Iraq
3000
Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade
the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90
hostages
Sony introduces the Sony
Walkman costing $200.00
First
Commercial Cellular Network NTT is invented
10. The Maple leaf becomes Canada’s
new national flag symbol
Malcolm
X shot in New York
Cigarette
advertising banned on Television in Britain
Troopers violently confront civil
rights marchers in Alabama
One of most popular films "Sound
of Music" released
J.K Rowling is born
Round 2 – Wacky Riddles & Tribonds
- A butcher, let's call him Bob, stands 5 foot 11 inches, that's 180 cm, tall; he wears size 9 shoes, that's size 43 here in Europe and has a body mass index of 25, now, can you tell me what he weighs?
- I'm going to give you three scenarios in which you must either perform the required task or suffer the consequences. Your job is to tell me which one of the three gives you the best chance of survival:
a) With one roll of the dice, roll
snake eyes, that's having a one on both dice, or eat cyanide for
dinner.
b) Flipping a coin so that it comes up
tails five times in a row or if a head comes up, have yours cut off.
c) From a standard deck of 52 cards
having only 2 cards dealt and both of them being aces or jump off the
Empire State Building.
Now tell me, which of a, b or c gives
you a better chance of survival
- If you had a million dollars and gave away one quarter and then another quarter, how much money would you have left?
- Enough math, let's think wacky English. Can you tell me what 5-letter English word can have its last 4 letters removed and still sound the same?
- The last of this type, don't worry. Tell me, what can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps.
- Little Red Riding Hood, A hot air balloon and A high-school gym
- Superman, Batman and Massachusetts
- The Ford Motor Company, Nebraska and an American penny
- Conspirators, Novels and Cemetaries
- Mouse, Bear and Booby
Round 3 – Americana
1. How many
American states begin with the letter ‘M’?
2. Back before
this state became the 48th on Valentine's day 1912 and
the railroad arrived, it was common to transport goods by camel
which may explain why it's illegal to hunt camels here. You can also
be put in jail for up to 25 years for cutting down the Saguaro
cactus. It's also illegal to refuse someone a glass of water if they
ask for it perhaps owing to the climate. Name this state in which it
is illegal to manufacture imitation cocaine and is home of the Grand
Canyon National park.
3. Name the
victim or the killer in the first live televised murder two days
after JFK was assassinated in 1963.
4. If you were
to list all of the American states alphabetically, name the states
that would come first and last. What states come first and last
alphabetically?
5. This
state's capital, Montpelier is the only US state capital without a
McDonald's. It's also home to the only self-described socialist
senator, Bernie Sanders and is the only state that shares a border
with only one other state. Disrobing in public is a crime but if you
get naked before going outside, you will not be charged. There are
laws on the books which state women here must obtain written
permission from their husbands to wear false teeth, make it illegal
to deny the existence of god and requires all residents to bathe
every Saturday night.
6. Name the
four American states that begin with the letter "I".
7. Can you
tell me the name of the state famous for its panhandle shape where
it's illegal to have a sleeping donkey in your bathtub after 7pm,
it's also illegal for the owner of a bar to allow anyone inside to
have sex with a buffalo and oral sex is a misdemeanor punishable by
up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine. Sounds like a good reason
I'd sooner avoid the 'Sooner' state. What state is it?
8. Your
European football's scoring is just a little too easy with goals
being worth a point each. So we call it soccer and began our own
football with different points. Can you tell me how many points a
touchdown is worth in both American and Canadian football. It's the
same number as a goal in Aussie Rules football and two goals in
Gaelic football. In cricket it’s a shot in which the ball clears
the boundary without bouncing. It’s also the number of carbon
atoms in a benzene molecule and the number of Geese a-laying in the
Christmas carol the 12 days of Christmas.
9. Which
geographical location was the first word spoken on the moon?
10. This state
is the home of the blues but last month became the final state to
ratify the 13th amendment finally officially making
slavery illegal. It is illegal to teach others what polygamy is and
for men to be sexually aroused in public. This may be a public
service however as it is the state with the highest rate of obesity
and the lowest life expectancy in the country with the lowest life
expectancy among the industrialized nations.
Answers:
Round 1
Songs - 1. Tequila, 2. Day Tripper, 3. Jumping Jack Flash, 4. Wicked Game, 5. Eye of the Tiger
Years - 6. 2007, 7. 1999, 8. 1986, 9. 1979, 10. 1965
Round 2
1. Meat, 2. B, 3. $999,999.50, 4. Queue, 5. A river, 6. Basket, 7. Cape, 8. Lincoln, 9. Plot, 10. Trap
Round 3
1. Eight, 2. Arizona, 3. Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald, 4. Alabama and Wyoming, 5. Vermont, 6. Iowa, Indiana, Illinois and Idaho, 7. Oklahoma, 8. Six, 9. Houston, 10. Mississippi
Even though we all know the results matter far less than the fun that was had, I'm sure many of you are dying to know how you fared. Here's a list of the teams, from first place to last:
Jack Pots
Sexy MFs
Pie-O'-Neers
Second Beverage
Happy Clovers
The Lazy Bastards
Vicious & Delicious
Flying Sharks
Chupachups
No Names
Tears of Our Enemies
Bazinga
Misfits
Team Duo
Dog With 2 Tails
KMM
Well, that's about it for this time around. Hopefully we'll have some pictures up here and on Facebook (click the link and like the page!) soon and a video to share on the Rabbitfire main page. Thanks again everyone, we're already looking forward to the next one!
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Podcasts, Pub Quiz and Supermodels
So, the new semester beckons and thoughts turn to GE exam questions/topics (well mine do anyway!) That means more podcasts on new topics. We've created somewhere in the region of 13 now but time constraints mean that we've had to stagger the addition of new materials over the course of a year.
New stuff
Moaning aside, we've managed to put up recent vids on obesity and work, and some revised ones on smoking ban and relationships (new edit suite software meant we could redo them). Controversial debates on multiculturalism and gay marriage are both in the pipeline so stay tuned!
Pub quiz
As Shane said in his last post, we will be having another pub quiz. The date is Thursday 7th March and we'll be starting earlier at 8.00. This time there will be musical interludes between rounds from Poznan acoustic mavericks, The Electric Trousers who have kindly agreed to play. More info to come. I was also wondering if the slide show projected onto the screen was useful or not? Let me know here!
Supermodels
Finally I've added a link to the politics section called 'The next supermodel';
Read it and think about this question (no it is not a trick one!);
Can politicians be rehabilitated into productive members of society?
Cheers darlings,
Dave
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