What's your favourite quiz question?

y0ssar1an22

since its inception in 1960, a person has won the BBC international sports personality of the year and has since been stripped of that accolade. who?

Louis Friend

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

since its inception in 1960, a person has won the BBC international sports personality of the year and has since been stripped of that accolade. who?

Must be Lance Armstrong?

Fr Tod Umptious

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

since its inception in 1960, a person has won the BBC international sports personality of the year and has since been stripped of that accolade. who?

This is a guess, but there is a TV show starting about him on RTE Two soon tonight.

Lance Armstrong ?

MeisterG

Who father was grocer Alf Roberts?

LarryGraham

MeisterG wrote: »

Who father was grocer Alf Roberts?

That Blo ody Woman

Zebra3

MeisterG wrote: »

Who father was grocer Alf Roberts?

Thatcher.

whatawaster81

Might be an easy one but my favourite - Who was the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup final?

milehip

Barry Nelson was the first actor play James Bond on screen.

Fr Tod Umptious

whatawaster81 wrote: »

Might be an easy one but my favourite - Who was the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup final?

Kevin Moran

whatawaster81

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Kevin Moran

Yep - 1985

y0ssar1an22

Louis Friend wrote: »

Must be Lance Armstrong?

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

This is a guess, but there is a TV show starting about him on RTE Two soon tonight.

Lance Armstrong ?

yeah, good ole lance.

i think he still has all his yellow jerseys and has refused to give them back cos (paraphrasing) 'everyone was doping'.

will stick that on record. i quite like him and all he has done for cancer (and cycling).

MeisterG

Which 80s movie by John McTiernan stars two future politicians?

MeisterG

What band links the Hollies and Lana Del Rey?

golfball37

MeisterG wrote: »

Which 80s movie by John McTiernan stars two future politicians?

Die Hard 2?

Louis Friend

MeisterG wrote: »

Which 80s movie by John McTiernan stars two future politicians?

It’s probably Predator.

Governors Ventura and Schwarzenegger...

magicbastarder

MeisterG wrote: »

Which 80s movie by John McTiernan stars two future politicians?

predator.
but you could argue three, not two. sonny landham ran in multiple elections, so it depends on whether your defintion of a politician is dependent on election success.

Louis Friend

golfball37 wrote: »

Die Hard 2?

A good guess because of that Fred Thompson guy, but I don’t think McTiernan directed and I don’t think there was a second politician.

interlocked

The actor that played the Predator, Kevin Peter Hall was 7 foot 2 inches tall, he also played the helicopter pilot at the end.

Poor guy died of AIDS from a blood transfusion when he was only 35

ohnonotgmail

interlocked wrote: »

The actor that played the Predator, Kevin Peter Hall was 7 foot 2 inches tall, he also played the helicopter pilot at the end.

Poor guy died of AIDS from a blood transfusion when he was only 35

followup question. Which actor was originally cast to play the Predator?

magicbastarder

just a guess - the same chap who wore the alien suit in alien?

ohnonotgmail

magicbastarder wrote: »

just a guess - the same chap who wore the alien suit in alien?

No. He was eventually a major action movie star.

magicbastarder

i had to google that; i think i had heard that before and had forgotten about it.

Yurt2

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

No. He was eventually a major action movie star.

Was it Van Damme?

munster87

castletownman wrote: »

GAA question I devised myself:

Taking into account when it was first the Texaco Hurler of the Year, through to its re-brand as GAA-GPA All-Star Hurler of the Year, what is the most common first name of those that have won it? Two of the players on the list played for the same county.

Tony, Sullivan, Keady
Tommy, Walsh, Dunne
Ger/Jer Henderson, Cunningham, O Loughlin, (Jerry) Murphy

Think the Gers and Jerrys is a push

magicbastarder

magicbastarder wrote: »

which famous british musician was booked to fly on Pan Am flight 103 (which blew up over lockerbie) but missed the flight?

related; seth mcfarlane and mark wahlberg were in a similar situation on sept 11th. both were booked on american airlines flight 11. mcfarlane missed the flight, wahlberg had made other arrangements and didn't try to get to it.

DwightSchrute1

GAA question - who was the first player to win 6 consecutive Senior Inter County All-Ireland’s?

BrianBoru00

DwightSchrute1 wrote: »

GAA question - who was the first player to win 6 consecutive Senior Inter County All-Ireland’s?

Jack lynch

golfball37

munster87 wrote: »

Tony, Sullivan, Keady
Tommy, Walsh, Dunne
Ger/Jer Henderson, Cunningham, O Loughlin, (Jerry) Murphy

Think the Gers and Jerrys is a push

Gerry O Connor from Cork too won it

castletownman

munster87 wrote: »

Tony, Sullivan, Keady
Tommy, Walsh, Dunne
Ger/Jer Henderson, Cunningham, O Loughlin, (Jerry) Murphy

Think the Gers and Jerrys is a push

It is Tony.

58- Tony Wall (Waterford)
76- Tony Doran (Wexford)
88- Tony Keady (Galway)
90- Tony O'Sullivan (Cork)
98- Tony Brown (Waterford, Brian Whelehan won the other award that year too)
2012- Tony Kelly (Clare)

Don't think there'll be as many Tony's around in the next generation.

I see sheep

What animal has 32 brains?

cj maxx

I see sheep wrote: »

What animal has 32 brains?

A Leech

Fandymo

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

followup question. Which actor was originally cast to play the Predator?

JCVD

magicbastarder

what two music icons died in the same room in london, four years apart, both aged 32?

Riddle101

What's Cletus The Slack-Jawed Yokel's last name?

Remember getting that Simpsons question once and completely going blank because I only ever heard him called Slack-Jawed Yokel. For a long time, I didn't know it but apparently, it's Cletus Delroy Montfort Bigglesworth Spuckler.

Fr Tod Umptious

magicbastarder wrote: »

what two music icons died in the same room in london, four years apart, both aged 32?

Cass Elliot and Janis Joplin ?

The Cass Elliot one is an educated guess, the Janis Joplin one a wild guess.

Sam Quentin

cj maxx wrote: »

A Leech

So if a leech had 64 brains it'd be twice as stooop-id-er....

dulpit

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Cass Elliot and Janis Joplin ?

The Cass Elliot one is an educated guess, the Janis Joplin one a wild guess.

It's Mama Cass and somebody else alright. Can't think of who though... Isn't it also somebody famous who owned the apartment?

Black Swan

What is the difference between a coefficient of determination and an explained variance?

chooseusername

dulpit wrote: »

It's Mama Cass and somebody else alright. Can't think of who though... Isn't it also somebody famous who owned the apartment?

Nillson(schmillson)

magicbastarder

Cass elliot and Keith moon. Janis joplin was a member of the 27 club, which would make another question, no name as many of them was possible.

Bass Reeves

magicbastarder wrote: »

Cass elliot and Keith moon. Janis joplin was a member of the 27 club, which would make another question, no name as many of them was possible.

So is Keith Moon a member of the 27 club

golfball37

magicbastarder wrote: »

Cass elliot and Keith moon. Janis joplin was a member of the 27 club, which would make another question, no name as many of them was possible.

She choked on a chicken bone didn’t she?

Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin, Cobain and Winehouse are the members I know of for definite anyway. Brian Jones possibly too.

golfball37

The only band in history where all members died from substance/alcohol abuse related deaths. It was asked in a computer version of trivial pursuit before and always stayed with me

EmmetSpiceland

golfball37 wrote: »

She choked on a chicken bone didn’t she?

No, she died of heart failure, in her sleep.

magicbastarder

Bass Reeves wrote: »

So is Keith Moon a member of the 27 club

no, he was 32 when he died.

magicbastarder

golfball37 wrote: »

Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin, Cobain and Winehouse are the members I know of for definite anyway. Brian Jones possibly too.

robert johnson too.

magicbastarder

golfball37 wrote: »

The only band in history where all members died from substance/alcohol abuse related deaths. It was asked in a computer version of trivial pursuit before and always stayed with me

hmm; the ramones are all dead, but not all from ODs.

golfball37

magicbastarder wrote: »

hmm; the ramones are all dead, but not all from ODs.

Not them but a great guess

chooseusername

Emerson, Lake and Palmer, all gone , but I think one was in a car crash?

KevRossi

chooseusername wrote: »

Emerson, Lake and Palmer, all gone , but I think one was in a car crash?

Carl Palmer is very much alive, I'm happy to report. Probably the most underrated drummer of all time. Possibly the best drummer of all time.