The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

Games
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Ah, yes failing to fully read the original quiz post makes it even harder!

…I learnt this on your identify the product in the picture round :rofl:

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I read that the clue was in French, but I didn’t click that the answer was going to be. :slightly_smiling_face: What can I say? Je suis stupide. :man_shrugging:

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I’m 100% going to need a full explanation for number 10 when we get the answer because I can already predict I’m still not going to get it :joy:

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Rebus Puzzles Answers :puzzle_piece:

  1. Tea for two
  2. Scrambled Eggs
  3. A big fish in a little pond
  4. Sit down and shut up
  5. Too funny for words
  6. Mind over matter
  7. Once upon a time
  8. Painless operation
  9. Too wise you are, two wise you be, I see you are too wise for me!
  10. Literal… un sous p á cent sous ci? = J grand a petit! (1 under P á 100 under ci? = large J small a)
    To sound like… un souper á Sanssouci? = J’ai grand appetit!
    In English… A dinner at the Palace of Sanssouci? = I have a big appetite!

Seriously well done everyone who had a go and sorry about number 10! @SexInTheCity you definitely get your point for scrambled eggs even if you think you don’t deserve it, @Cassii certainly a half point, maybe full for Repeat oneself over time which does basically work I think :+1:t2:. @Ian_Chimp is Victorian Book of Rebus a real thing? …I googled it, couldnt find it though there are lots of books of Rebus puzzles. I might have to get one for the coffee table or bathroom :rofl:

Obviously the victor of this quiz is @VanillaWithSprinkles though for amazingly getting number 10! :tada::tada::tada:

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Ha. Sorry, no. :slightly_smiling_face: It was a comment on the archaic language of, ‘Too wise you are…’ It sounded very Gollum. :slightly_smiling_face:

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And there I was thinking you had a wonderful Victorian era book of all these things. I’m very disappointed (and slightly gullible!) :joy:

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Aaa thanks for that round @Peitho I certainly enjoyed the mental gymnastics

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Am I allowed to do another Sex Toy Picture Round yet, or is that still considered a bit shit? :slightly_smiling_face:

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Aha I enjoyed your zoomed in sex toy and blurry POTW rounds, happy to do another one if you have it lined up.

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Much prefer a question based one. I have a couple of music questions that I may add to a general knowledge quiz.

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I haven’t made one yet. I thought I’d better ask before I spent any time on it. :slightly_smiling_face:

Any requests/amendments?

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I especially liked the treasure hunting element from before.

I’ve had a couple of ideas that would take a while to prep so if you wanted to do them I’d be more than happy: match the sex toy to the review, name that sex toy from the silhouette.

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I’d like one!

Great idea!

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Yes definitely!!! I missed out on the last one :sleepy: only thing I’d have to work out is how I could flick easily between the two topics (on my phone) :thinking:

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I’ll call it Photo Hunt this time. :slightly_smiling_face::+1: (more on the Scavanger Hunt idea below…)

I love the picture hunt game, but if I make them I can’t play them. :slightly_smiling_face: I know other people would love them too, but you’ve got to tailor the rounds to the audience and so I completely understand @WillC. I honestly wouldn’t mind if people didn’t want another, I’m not precious. :slightly_smiling_face: But if enough of you do like them I’m happy to do them. :+1: (I’m thinking of popping it up on a Friday and letting it ride for the weekend? Not everyone has a weekend, but…?:man_shrugging:)

I’ve been playing in all the old threads now the Search is so good, and I did find a few fun things… :slightly_smiling_face:

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The blue quiz title is a link straight to the Picture Round:

And then there’s a link right back again at the bottom of the picture post. :slightly_smiling_face:

As long as you have something typed in your reply box it should follow right along with you. :+1:

(and there’s a link to www.lovehoney.co.uk in there too. I have the forum in the app, and the website open in chrome :+1::slightly_smiling_face:)

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Poetry Round :scroll::rice_scene:

Can you identify these poets from their words?
(extra points if you can name the poem :+1:)

  1. Sexual intercourse began
    In nineteen sixty-three
    (which was rather late for me) -
    Between the end of the “Chatterley” ban
    And the Beatles’ first LP.

  2. The fucking scene is fucking sad
    The fucking news is fucking bad
    The fucking weed is fucking turf
    The fucking speed is fucking surf
    The fucking folks are fucking daft
    Don’t make me fucking laugh

  3. The free bird thinks of another breeze
    and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
    and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn
    and he names the sky his own

  4. Nobody heard him, the dead man,
    But still he lay moaning:
    I was much further out than you thought

  5. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

  6. If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;

  7. Five million bags were six feet long
    Five million bags were five foot five
    Five million were stamped with Mickey Mouse
    And they came in a smaller size.

  8. No man is a man all through.
    I’ve seen you. Shivering. Fleeting weakness. Cold rain scuffing its feet on the beaches.

  9. You know this world is complicated, imperfect and oppressed
    And it’s not hard to feel timid, apprehensive and depressed.
    It seems that all around us tides of questions ebb and flow
    And people want solutions but they don’t know where to go.

  10. They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
    In a Sieve they went to sea:
    In spite of all their friends could say,
    On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
    In a Sieve they went to sea!

And here's all ten if you need them, (but jumbled up, and with an extra five thrown in 🙂

| | | |
:—: | :—: | :—: | :—:
John Cooper Clarke | Stevie Smith | Simon Armitage
Maya Angelou | Sylvia Plath | Spike Milligan
Philip Larkin | Edward Lear | Robert Frost
Kate Tempest | Pam Ayres | Rudyard Kipling
Christina Rossetti | Adrian Mitchell | Carol Ann Duffy

Good luck. :crossed_fingers::slightly_smiling_face:

Extra Bonus @Peitho Section

  • He sipped at a weak hock and seltzer
    As he gazed at the London skies
    Through the Nottingham lace of the curtains
    Or was it his bees-winged eyes?

And a clue if you need it 🙂

John Betjeman

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What are you currently doing? (Oct19-Feb21)
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Definitely not my round I’m afraid AND no John Betjeman which I find very sad as he is my go to when asked to recite something :rofl:. I knew 3 before looking at your possible answers… couple of then educated guesses based on the poet’s style and other totally random stabs in the dark!

My Attempt at Poetry Answers
  1. Philip Larkin? (though Pam Ayres also possible?)
  2. Kate Tempest? :woman_shrugging:t2:
  3. John Cooper Clark? :woman_shrugging:t2:
  4. Stevie Smith? (Very slight bulb somewhere but depressing so could well be Sylvia Plath?)
  5. Robert Frost (studied for GCSE English - sure of this one)
  6. Rudyard Kipling (Mum has this on a wall at my parents house! :+1:)
  7. Adrian Mitchell? :woman_shrugging:t2: (Modern)
  8. Simon Armitage? :woman_shrugging:t2:
  9. Pam Ayres? (Her sort of style and luckily I plumped for Philip Larkin for number 1)
  10. Edward Lear (I do know the Jumblies… more my level :rofl:)

ETA Titles and Bonus question thanks to my super duper Golden +1 edit. Thanks @Ian_Chimp !

Titles and bonus question answers

Titles

  1. “Coming of age”?
  2. “The Fucking Song”?
  3. “Rising Lark”?
  4. “The Moaning of a Dead Man”?
  5. “The Road Not Taken”
  6. “If”
  7. Either “The Dead Ones” or “Plastic Kills” depending on where the poem goes next?
  8. “Shivering Impression”?
  9. If Pam Ayres something along the lines of… “I Hurt My Brain With Over Thinking”?
  10. “The Jumblies”

Special bonus just for me :grin:
11. John Betjeman, “The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at… a hotel I can’t remember the name of”

“Hunter Trials” is my favourite poem, I’m horsey and it’s funny :joy:

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Are you not trying for the bonuses? :slightly_smiling_face:

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Damn it :see_no_evil: Why do I never read the question fully?! Am I allowed to edit in the three I know? …and maybe though it will take more time, make up the others?