University Quiz Night

[Yew]

Just a thought, but a bar near me runs an uncheatable quiz, with things like a 'sounds around the house round' where sunds are recorded, then effects are added. (played backwards, echo and such) This limits the effect of google.

 

[telstarbox]

Ivo - are you confident none of the quiz participants are on the forum?

 

[Ivo]

Ivo, I would advise dropping "senior" leaving just "Grand Slam singles", or specifying "Grand Slam Open singles". There are senior (and junior) age-restricted tournaments. Unless a question is phrased unambiguously to permit only one correct answer then it can lead to acrimony - I know, I've had arguments on both sides.

Done.

Ivo - are you confident none of the quiz participants are on the forum?

99.9% confident, unless WelshBluebird decides to be a traitor (to the University of Bath) and come along, in which it becomes 0%. Almost all students at my University would find a forum like this intolerably boring - they tend to prefer dancing (often like an idiot) Literally a couple of students have known I'm on here, but they have all graduated now.

Besides, I can always change the questions at the last minute if I have to.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Question 31... You could test your contestants by asking for the square root of minus 1

 

[SS4]

Question 31... You could test your contestants by asking for the square root of minus 1

i don't know if that would work . You'd also have to accept j as it means the same thing in engineering but then that incredibly lame pun wouldn't work

 

[Temple Meads]

I'll leave it up for a couple of days and then present the full answers.

So are we ever going to get the full answers then? :P

 

[Ivo]

Oh, sorry. It got cancelled because the SU messed up (as usual)

1. Tony Warren
2. Chisholm
3. Ringo Starr
4. Any three from: Barry Simmons, Chris Hughes, CJ de Mooi (still regularly seen even though he has technically left), Daphne Fowler, Dave Rainford (new, replacing CJ), Judith Keppel, Kevin Ashman, Pat Gibson
5. Bollywood (officially “Hindi Cinema” but accept either)
6. Chester
7. Keith Moon
8. 8’2” (accept 249/250cm)
9. Bruce Forsyth
10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (the first colour film produced by anyone, not just Walt Disney)
11. Southampton
12. 1485 (22 August to be exact)
13. Reading (by council area, Dudley is largest, so accept either)
14. Any one from: Crown, (Right) Hand, Star (of St David)
15. Aquae Sulis
16. Coventry
17. Robert Stephenson
18. Cornwall
19. Southport
20. Margaret Thatcher
21. Preston North End
22. 26
23. José María Olazábal
24. 1936
25. Scotland
26. Doncaster
27. Seattle
28. It was the shortest race in history (only 14 laps were officially recorded due to monsoon-like conditions caused several accidents and made driving almost impossible)
29. 9.58 seconds
30. Cricket
31. 1 or -1
32. Bank
33. Alan Tracy
34. Income Tax
35. 1997
36. Fairfield Park
37. Diamonds are Forever
38. Oxygen
39. Premium rate services
40. Any three from: Birmingham, Canterbury, Chelmsford, Chichester, Gloucester, Manchester, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Sunderland, Winchester
TIE-BREAK: 176,016 (population of Bath and North-East Somerset according to 2011 Census)

Note that these are lifted directly from the answer sheet, which does have a few instructions on it.