What's your favourite quiz question?

ohnonotgmail

antodeco wrote: »

Cardiff? (As they're Welsh). I'm assuming Swansea but can't remember if they've ever played in the PL

Neither of those were founding members of the Premier League.

Roger_007

Cilldara_2000 wrote: »

** Cough **





It can't be just Luton Town!

This question came up in a pub quiz a few years ago and when it was was queried we were assured that Notts County were not signatories of the original founding members agreement. I am unable to verify this.
Perhaps someone could verify this?

antodeco

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Neither of those were founding members of the Premier League.

There's 2 seperate questions at the minute. One was general English premier League and one was the founding members one. Think they've cross overed!

ohnonotgmail

antodeco wrote: »

There's 2 seperate questions at the minute. One was general English premier League and one was the founding members one. Think they've cross overed!

this is the question. they even responded to the user that posted the question. the quoted posts lead directly back to the original question.

Cilldara_2000 wrote: »

Name the two English premier league clubs which have never played in the English premier league.

ShineOn7

Deleted User wrote: »

Sting, I only know this because I had a neighbour who had some element of psychosis who legally changed her surname to Sumner as she believed they were married.

Wow :pac:

chooseusername

chooseusername wrote: »

The catch is the word dice , used as both singular or plural
at first glance it appears as a single dice to most people.

Bingo. People hear 'dice', which is plural, and think singular. The singular word is "die", but plenty of people have never heard that.

Throwing the word "standard" in after "pair" also puts people off.

antodeco

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

this is the question. they even responded to the user that posted the question. the quoted posts lead directly back to the original question.

Your quoted question doesn't even say anything about "founding members"

Name the two English premier league clubs which have never played in the English premier league

Clearly THIS question (which is the one I replied to) doesn't have anything about founding members in it. If there's ANOTHER question fine, but that's not the question I replied to. I replied to the question you quoted, and then said my reply isint for that question, yet you quoted the question that I replied to.....

vriesmays

In music theory/notation what's the difference between Tr and tr.

vriesmays

vriesmays wrote: »

In music theory/notation what's the difference between Tr and tr.

Wild guess here - one is for trombone section , and t'other for lead trombone

magicbastarder

One is tremolo, the other trill maybe?

whatawaster81

magicbastarder wrote: »

One is tremolo, the other trill maybe?

Is it treble?

indioblack

Deleted User wrote: »

Bingo. People hear 'dice', which is plural, and think singular. The singular word is "die", but plenty of people have never heard that.

I hadn't heard of the singular for dice before. Would it explain the expression, "The die is cast?"

magicbastarder

i assume that's more a reference to die casting, i.e. a type of metal casting.

indioblack

magicbastarder wrote: »

i assume that's more a reference to die casting, i.e. a type of metal casting.

You're explanation makes more sense now I think of it.

Fake Scores

No it's as in die or dice. Cast as in throwing. Said by caesar as he crossed the Rubicon river - an act which committed him irretrievably to civil war.
'Crossing the Rubicon' is also an expression for committing yourself to something.

A 'ginnery' is a place used in the production of ?

chooseusername

Deleted User wrote: »

A 'ginnery' is a place used in the production of ?

Gin?

chooseusername

chooseusername wrote: »

Gin?

A good 'wrong answer'

EmmetSpiceland

[Deleted User] wrote: »

A 'ginnery' is a place used in the production of ?

Cotton?

EmmetSpiceland

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Cotton?

CorrectaMundo!!

EmmetSpiceland

[Deleted User] wrote: »

CorrectaMundo!!

Thank you, Gordon Lightfoot!

Capt'n Midnight

Fake Scores wrote: »

No it's as in die or dice. Cast as in throwing. Said by caesar as he crossed the Rubicon river - an act which committed him irretrievably to civil war.
'Crossing the Rubicon' is also an expression for committing yourself to something.

Follow on questions

Where is the Rubicon ?

What is the Rubicon ?

Who crossed the Rubicon ?

ohnonotgmail

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Follow on questions

Where is the Rubicon ?

What is the Rubicon ?

Who crossed the Rubicon ?

the border between gaul and italy proper. it is a river. Caesar crossed the rubicon thus declaring war on rome as roman governors were forbidden from marching their troops into italy.

Uncle Pierre

I see we still don't have a definitive answer for the difference between Tr and tr.

I know nothing about music, so I'm just going to say.....the capital T.

chooseusername

From the interesting maps thread;
Quote;

if you're going from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Panama canal, are you travelling east to west or west to East?

Itssoeasy

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Follow on questions

Where is the Rubicon ?

What is the Rubicon ?

Who crossed the Rubicon ?

Its in northeastern Italy( once they worked out where it was again). It’s a river.

Roger_007

chooseusername wrote: »

From the interesting maps thread;
Quote;

if you're going from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Panama canal, are you travelling east to west or west to East?

North to South!

Louis Friend

Roger_007 wrote: »

North to South!

It’s Northwest to Southeast, so West to East I guess…the exact opposite of what you’d expect basically.

Quantum Erasure

In what section of an orchestra would you find a saxophone?

Cilldara_2000

chooseusername wrote: »

From the interesting maps thread;
Quote;

if you're going from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Panama canal, are you travelling east to west or west to East?

Brilliant.

EmmetSpiceland

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

In what section of an orchestra would you find a saxophone?

Two over from the french horn?

bigar

Name the Three Musketeers from Alexandre Dumas' novel.

bigar

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

In what section of an orchestra would you find a saxophone?

It has its own section between the flutes (or whatever their section is called) and the brass section. The mouthpiece is like from a flute but the instrument is made from brass. I learnt this in the Adolphe Sax museum in Belgium, no less

branie2

What are you looking at?!

retalivity

bigar wrote: »

Name the Three Musketeers from Alexandre Dumas' novel.

Athos, Porthos, and ..... thats all I can remember from Dogtanian

ohnonotgmail

retalivity wrote: »

Athos, Porthos, and ..... thats all I can remember from Dogtanian

Aramis. A lot of people say d'Artagnan but he wanted to become a musketeer.

branie2

Film-related questions

ohnonotgmail

branie2 wrote: »

Film-related questions

The only actor with at least one film credit every year since 1954.

magicbastarder

there is an actor who only appeared in five movies, but every movie he was in was nominated for best picture oscar. who?

Pherekydes

Uncle Pierre wrote: »

I see we still don't have a definitive answer for the difference between Tr and tr.

I know nothing about music, so I'm just going to say.....the capital T.

Treble and trill.

Music abbreviations

Louis Friend

magicbastarder wrote: »

there is an actor who only appeared in five movies, but every movie he was in was nominated for best picture oscar. who?

Is it something of a trick question?

e.g. cameos by someone like Oliver Stone or Quentin Tarantino in their own movies?

magicbastarder

no, this is an actor who never directed a movie.
an aside - he was never nominated for an oscar for his roles.

Louis Friend

Fredo in the Godfather, John Cazale. He died.

Didn’t realise he was Meryl Streep’s partner.

Lung cancer.

magicbastarder

correct - he appeared in the godfather, the conversation, the godfather part two, dog day afternoon, and the deer hunter. he died before the release of the deer hunter.

Joe_ Public

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

The only actor with at least one film credit every year since 1954.

Dunno but Clint is first name that popped into my head anyway.

Blue850

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

The only actor with at least one film credit every year since 1954.

Christopher Plummer?

magicbastarder

lassie?

ohnonotgmail

Blue850 wrote: »

Christopher Plummer?

no. he has gaps

ohnonotgmail

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Dunno but Clint is first name that popped into my head anyway.

no. he has gaps

EmmetSpiceland

retalivity wrote: »

Athos, Porthos, and ..... thats all I can remember from Dogtanian

Aramis.