The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

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:wink: haha thought it was more of a classic children’s tale but just googled and it’s only 6 years older than I am- whoops!

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Would it be rude to ask your age? My idea of a children’s classic is Stig Of The Dump, The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, The Hobbit etc! :wink:

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Oh no, definitely some kind of bell curve going on here with knowledge of the books on the x axis and quiz score on the y. Hits a point where the more you read the worse you will do :joy:

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Haha I’m still young enough to not be insulted by the question, turning 25 on Sunday.

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The Hobbit was written/published in 1937, and the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was 1950. :slightly_smiling_face: And Stig of the Dump was 1963.

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I’m 1963 vintage, so i grew up on them, i couldn’t really grow up on a book published when i was 26! :wink:

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I only know the Bear Hunt one from reading it to my kids. And I probably would have picked a different Matilda one if I hadn’t read it quite as recently. :slightly_smiling_face:

I’m hoping the GC one is cribbed from her dad’s book, but I don’t have any idea. Or the Faulty Stars ones.

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I don’t have kids, hence the huge gap in my children’s book knowledge! :wink:

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Part of the reason there are more than 10 questions was because I wanted my friends to be scored fairly when I originally put the quiz together. I’d feel mean putting together a round knowing people would only be able to come away with 3 or 4 out of 10. I figured that with the spread of books, they’d average about 7, with people who did have a better general knowledge being able to make educated guesses.

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The GC one was definitely an educated guess!

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I went with Genesis as I thought it was the most amusing. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I have actually read Robinson Crusoe! :wink:

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Funnily enough, both you and @Ian_Chimp chose different answers to that one and both got the herrings.

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The monkeys definitely wrote her book then! :wink:

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How about these then? :slightly_smiling_face:

  1. Le premier lundi du mois d’avril 1625, Le bourg de Meung où naquit l’auteur de Roman de la Rose, semblait être dans un révolution aussi entière qui si les huguenots en fussent venus faire une seconde Rochelle.

  2. En un lugar de La Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo, de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.

  3. Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ché la diritta via era smarrita.

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1, War and Peace?
2, Don Quixote?
3, No idea!
Extraplotated from key words i recognise!

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Love Captain Scarlet!

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To be honest, I thought that last one was by Green Day. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I can translate number one from French into English but don’t recognise it at all! The others, can probably tell you the language (Spanish and Italian).
Would guess at: Les Mis, Don Quixote and Dante’s Inferno.

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Everyone is pretty solid on Don Quixote, and Dante’s Inferno too. The French one is Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. :slightly_smiling_face:

  1. On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the small town of Meung, the birthplace of the author of the ‘Romance of the Rose’, appeared to be in a state of revolution, as complete as if the Huguenots were come to make a second seige of La Rochelle

  2. Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.

  3. Midway upon the journey of our life
    I found myself within a forest dark;
    For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

(for some reason I thought Dante’s Inferno started with something like ‘a fork in the road’, but I was mistaken. The Green Day joke has failed :slightly_smiling_face:)

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