The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

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795

But isn’t Ocenania is just an alternate name for that continent though? I thought Australia was a subcontinent like India

796

A couple of yours are going to have to be adjudicated. :slightly_smiling_face: Two answers for the continent one seems like you’re chancing it. And directions but no name to the church. :slightly_smiling_face:

797

Nope. Give it a google. :+1::slightly_smiling_face:

798

I did, google has things saying both confusing me more :joy:

799

Google is normally pretty solid on geography. :slightly_smiling_face: The answers are up tomorrow morning, so we can all debate openly then. :+1:

I hasten to add that I did not write these questions, and I think some are from 1983, so there will be a few odd ones over the course of it. :slightly_smiling_face: I’m not sure this question is one of them, but I don’t mind correcting scores if you prove the card wrong. :slightly_smiling_face::+1:

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800

I have many arguments i will keep for now Though for example you mentioned Oceania as a separate thing. I don’t see how both Oceania and Australia can be continents as it would mean there were 8 not 7 - otherwise it’s saying New Zealand is in Asia which i think both sides would disagree with Sorry i think I’m missing seeing people in person to argue with :sweat_smile: :joy:

801

To be honest, I don’t know. :man_shrugging::slightly_smiling_face: It seems like the answer has changed since I was at school. I think that’s the only possible answer that would fit though?

Remember that the questions are all super old. :slightly_smiling_face: Have you read the ‘Where do the questions come from?’ blurb in the quiz post?

802

Yeah i remember, sorry like i said i think my brain just misses arguing so has latched on to this :joy: i get what you mean though, nothing quite fits (like my answer doesn’t actually count as country)

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803

My Answers to The Great Hump Day Quiz! :dromedary_camel:

💙 Geography
  1. The Terracotta Army
  2. Australia but only if you consider Australia and Oceania to be different continents which sometimes they’re called but I think it’s dodgy :thinking:
  3. Camden?
  4. ?
  5. A church in London surrounded by Cockneys that I don’t quite know the name of… It’s something le Bow Church
💗 Entertainment
  1. Never heard of him in afraid
  2. Batman
  3. Smithers
  4. Teletubbies?
  5. T-Rex
💛 History
  1. David Cameron?
  2. Cars?
  3. Iraq
  4. Eliot Ness - Good film!
  5. Spartans
💩 Art and Literature
  1. :woman_shrugging:t2:
  2. The River Jordan is definitely mentioned in the bible
  3. Silence of the Lambs
  4. 7
  5. Blue Lagoon and Tequila Sunrise - no idea but nice tropical cocktails. Think I’m craving one.
💚 Science and Nature
  1. A rubber?
  2. Alexander Fleming
  3. Science so some sort of vitamin drink (though you’d think they’d have their own)
  4. Um, guessing not birth then, first period :see_no_evil:
  5. Ear
🧡 Sprot and Leisure
  1. Not the foggiest - Chelsea?
  2. Red, Black and hopefully White?
  3. Ranulph Fiennes
  4. Is that Rugby?
  5. Motor Racing
    (Top Gear helped with 3 and 5!)
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804

Haha fair enough, I don’t even know if that’s the right church I just know it’s a church in Bow near the Bow Bells Pub haha :woman_shrugging:t2: (my best friend may possibly live very close to there) also, having now googled I don’t think it’s the right one anyway so no adjudication needed on that one :blush:

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805

You may pick up some half points when someone explains the answers to me. :slightly_smiling_face:

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806

@Ian_Chimp Hump Day 21/10

My attempt!

:blue_heart: Geography

  1. Terracotta army?
  2. Australia
  3. Brixton
  4. Think the spanish for tomorrow is manana (fun accent in there somewhere)
  5. St Peter?

:heartpulse:Entertainment

  1. ?
  2. Batman
  3. Waylon Smithers
  4. Barbie?
  5. Slade?

:yellow_heart: History

  1. ?
  2. Population of China?
  3. Iraq?
  4. ?
  5. Spartans?

:poop: Art & Literature

  1. Desperate Dan
  2. Jordan?
  3. Silence of the Lambs
  4. 3?
  5. Tropic of Capricorn/Tropic of Cancer?

:green_heart: Science & Nature

  1. Rubber?
  2. Fleming
  3. Condoms?
  4. Leap years?
  5. Ear

:orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure

  1. Liverpool?
  2. Black, red, green?
  3. ?
  4. ?
  5. Formula 1

Many guesses again, some I couldn’t even attempt educated answers haha!

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807
Answers to Hump Day Quiz 21.10.20

:blue_heart: Geography

  1. Terra-Cotta army
  2. Australia?
  3. Brixton
  4. Manana is the only word I know for tomorrow in Spanish :woman_shrugging:t2:
  5. No clue… St Thomas’s?

:heartpulse:Entertainment

  1. :woman_shrugging:t2:
  2. Batman?
  3. :woman_shrugging:t2:
  4. It’s gotta be Barbie surely?
  5. :woman_shrugging:t2:

:yellow_heart: History

  1. George Bush
  2. I have no clue… I don’t even know what to guess to be honest.
  3. Iraq
  4. :woman_shrugging:t2:
  5. Sparta

:poop: Art & Literature

  1. Desperate Dan
  2. Jordan
  3. Silence of the lambs
  4. Seven
  5. :woman_shrugging:t2:

:green_heart: Science & Nature

  1. Got to be a rubber?
  2. Alexander Fleming
  3. :woman_shrugging:t2:
  4. :woman_shrugging:t2:
  5. Ear

:orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure

  1. Liverpool
  2. Red, Black and Green
  3. :woman_shrugging:t2:
  4. :woman_shrugging:t2:
  5. Racing

Gossshhhhhh I did not do well in this week’s :joy:

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808

Googling continental plates map will do your head in. :exploding_head:

809

Oh I’m 3rd this week, leave the answers as they are. :3rd_place_medal: :grin:

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810

I have added the answers to the Quiz post :slightly_smiling_face::+1:

How am I marking Blue 2? Australia doesn’t seem exactly right, but Antarctica isn’t a country?

And is the church @MsSubExperimenter describes the one named in the answers? :slightly_smiling_face:

Any marking advice greatly appreciated. :+1::slightly_smiling_face:

811

@Ian_Chimp wiki says this: “This article is about the church in Bow, Tower Hamlets. For the City of London church with the famous bells, see [St. Mary-le-Bow]”

So although my answer was a church in Bow, not the right one (which is apparently in Cheapside)

:blush:

(Yes I know I’m talking myself out of a point :joy:)

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812

That makes things easier. :slightly_smiling_face:

For Blue 2 I think I’ll give 1 point for Australia, and a ½ for Antarctica. :+1: (and a ½ of you chanced it and put two answers in :slightly_smiling_face:)

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813

I have adjusted the marks, but it made no difference to the scoreboard over all. :slightly_smiling_face:

I do declare this week’s winner to be…

:trophy: @WillC :partying_face::champagne::balloon:

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814

Whooo well done @WillC :trophy::1st_place_medal:

Thank you as always @Ian_Chimp for being the host with the most :grinning:

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