What's your favourite quiz question?

magicbastarder · 21-05-2021 1:29pm

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Going to guess Bon Scott.

Bon Scott's death happened many years after 'a day in the life'

golfball37 · 22-05-2021 3:00pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

on a related note, name the person whose death inspired the 'he blew his mind out in a car' line (and whose actual death was not gun related)?

Someone connected with Harods anyway but can’t think of the name

Hamsterchops · 22-05-2021 3:59pm

What are the 39 steps?

Itssoeasy · 22-05-2021 4:07pm

Hamsterchops wrote: »

What are the 39 steps?

The no of steps up the royal box at the old Wembley but you said what not where but there’s a Hitchcock film called the 39 steps.

Fake Scores · 22-05-2021 4:20pm

Itssoeasy wrote: »

The no of steps up the royal box at the old Wembley but you said what not where but there’s a Hitchcock film called the 39 steps.

There's two films. Both good. The 39 steps are different things in either film.

Hamsterchops · 22-05-2021 5:59pm

Itssoeasy wrote: »

The no of steps up the royal box at the old Wembley but you said what not where but there’s a Hitchcock film called the 39 steps.

Yes indeed, thanks for raising that, the question should be "Where are the 39 steps" as shouted out by Kenneth More in the 1959 film called The 39 Steps.

Jakey Rolling · 22-05-2021 6:35pm

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

What national flag is neither square nor rectangular?

Nepal - 2 triangles

Interestingly, I was aggreived when told Switzerland (square flag) was wrong answer to "what country's flag is not rectangular?".
It turns out the quizmaster was correct, as by definition a square is a special type of rectangle with equal length sides. News to me!

Jakey Rolling · 22-05-2021 6:39pm

IF

"11 P's in a FT" ====> 11 Players in a Football Team

THEN

"2000 P's in a TTB" ====> ?????

magicbastarder · 30-05-2021 10:05am

on what river lies the world's largest river island?

golfball37 · 30-05-2021 11:44am

magicbastarder wrote: »

on what river lies the world's largest river island?

Hudson?

Quantum Erasure · 30-05-2021 11:44am

I know there's a massive one in the Amazon,,

Capt'n Midnight · 30-05-2021 11:57am

How many moons does the Earth have ?

An old QI favourite.

Quantum Erasure · 30-05-2021 12:08pm

I'm going to take one for the team, and say one?

Edit: or none

30-05-2021 12:09pm

Jakey Rolling wrote: »

Nepal - 2 triangles

Interestingly, I was aggreived when told Switzerland (square flag) was wrong answer to "what country's flag is not rectangular?".
It turns out the quizmaster was correct, as by definition a square is a special type of rectangle with equal length sides. News to me!

It's all in the angles

EmmetSpiceland · 30-05-2021 12:10pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

I'm going to take one for the team, and say one?

More than one.

colbarr · 30-05-2021 12:13pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

I'm going to take one for the team, and say one?

Edit: or none

https://youtu.be/s-HoCVAqcx4

magicbastarder · 31-05-2021 5:20pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

I know there's a massive one in the Amazon,,

it's on the Brahmaputra, in india - Majuli Island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majuli

Capt'n Midnight · 01-06-2021 8:57pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

it's on the Brahmaputra, in india - Majuli Island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majuli

Marajó is over a hundred times bigger.

ohnonotgmail · 01-06-2021 9:04pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Marajó is over a hundred times bigger.

A river island is an island surrounded by river water. marajo island isn't entirely surrounded by river water. it is surrounded by the atlantic on one side.

Capt'n Midnight · 01-06-2021 9:19pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

A river island is an island surrounded by river water. marajo island isn't entirely surrounded by river water. it is surrounded by the atlantic on one side.

surrounded by fresh water from the Amazon

magicbastarder · 01-06-2021 9:28pm

we need arbitration.

the guinness book of records - not that they are the ultimate arbiters - seem to have replaced Marajo with Majuli in 2016, i'll try to find out what the basis of that decision was.

magicbastarder · 02-06-2021 9:16pm

what was the largest aircraft that ever took to the air?

Capt'n Midnight · 02-06-2021 9:19pm

and how much did it weigh ?

ohnonotgmail · 02-06-2021 9:24pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

what was the largest aircraft that ever took to the air?

define largest. largest in what dimension?

golfball37 · 02-06-2021 9:40pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

what was the largest aircraft that ever took to the air?

Was it Howard Hughes’s experiment- the spruce goose?

ohnonotgmail · 02-06-2021 9:50pm

golfball37 wrote: »

Was it Howard Hughes’s experiment- the spruce goose?

not even close. Even an A380 is longer though the hughes aicraft was wider

veryangryman · 02-06-2021 9:51pm

Who saved a penalty for Man United and scored the winner in the cup final for Newcastle?

Hint: It's not a real person

magicbastarder · 02-06-2021 10:09pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

define largest. largest in what dimension?

strangely not width. i actually thought Capt'n Midnight had given the game away.
but it's kinda nuts how big it was.

magicbastarder · 02-06-2021 10:26pm

the USS phoenix, an american warship commissioned as the USS Phoenix in 1935, survived the attack on Pearl Harbour, and was the last such surviving ship still in service, but is better known for what reason?

Skylinehead · 02-06-2021 10:54pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

the USS phoenix, an american warship commissioned as the USS Phoenix in 1935, survived the attack on Pearl Harbour, and was the last such surviving ship still in service, but is better known for what reason?

Light cruiser sold to Argentina as one General Belgrano?

Also the only ship ever to be sunk by a nuclear submarine, if it is indeed that ship.

magicbastarder · 02-06-2021 10:55pm

correct!

NedLowry · 03-06-2021 10:11am

veryangryman wrote: »

Who saved a penalty for Man United and scored the winner in the cup final for Newcastle?

Hint: It's not a real person

The Honey Monster?

cj maxx · 16-06-2021 11:24pm

I'm just after thinking of a question.
In what year did Germany first win the world cup

ohnonotgmail · 16-06-2021 11:30pm

cj maxx wrote: »

I'm just after thinking of a question.
In what year did Germany first win the world cup

As germany is the successor state of West Germany the answer is 1954. Otherwise it is 2014.

magicbastarder · 16-06-2021 11:36pm

heard a reference to this on radio nova the other day; what's the name of the castle featured on the cover of 'the unforgettable fire'? or even the county it's in.

Quantum Erasure · 16-06-2021 11:49pm

Dunno, but here it is... https://cdn.ontourmedia.io/u2/non_secure/images/20140418/discography/unforgettablefire_cover/600.jpg

yabadabado · 17-06-2021 1:28am

magicbastarder wrote: »

heard a reference to this on radio nova the other day; what's the name of the castle featured on the cover of 'the unforgettable fire'? or even the county it's in.

It's in Moydrum, Athlone.

There was some issue with that cover picture, copyright or similar.

Hint of Sarcasm · 17-06-2021 2:34am

pj9999 wrote: »

I like the following, but post any other's ye can think of.

After leaving Southampton on its maiden voyage, where did the Titanic next stop?

her maiden voyage!

It went to that place in France that I can't pronounce yet. And then it went to (I cringe when them say Queenstown) Cobh, and then it went to the ice berg... which it should've hit head on... that way it probably wouldn't have sank, and even if it did, people could have jumped onto it and the remaining people in life boats could've then rowed after the berg!

cj maxx · 17-06-2021 2:31pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

As germany is the successor state of West Germany the answer is 1954. Otherwise it is 2014.

Yes but W. Germany is a different country to Germany, so I'd imagine 2014 is the answer.

What's your favourite quiz question?

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