Voila: a pub quiz. Specifically, a pub quiz (or most of one) given by yours truly to a group of merrymaking Dopers in a London pub last year. As another bacchanal approaches, I post the last quiz as a pleasant aide-memoire for Dopers who were there, a guide to Iceland Blue who has rather bravely volunteered to do the next quiz, and as a diversion for others who may wish to try their knowledge of obscure and pointless trivia.
Feel free to post your guesses or not; you don’t win anything but a sense of inflated self-worth. I do ask in the interest of bandwidth and readability that if you’re posting answers, delete the questions you aren’t answering rather than just posting them with blanks or question marks next to them. Brevity is the soul of faster board speeds.
Finally, note that questions are largely aimed at a British audience, so some questions may seem ridiculously easy or phenomenally obscure to folk in other areas. There was a picture round and some final puzzles I’ve omitted as well. I’ll come back in a day or two to post the answers.
Have fun.
Animal Noises [Finish the Animal-Themed Lyrics]
Complete the next line of the song. All answers will contain a reference to an animal.
Q. The squaw is with the corporal
She is tied against the tree
She doesn’t mind the language
It’s the beating she don’t need
She lets loose all the horses
When the corporal is asleep
And he wakes to find the fire’s dead
And arrows in his hats…
Q. Hey man, where’d you get that lotion?
I’ve been hurting since I bought the gimmick
About something called love
Yeah, something called love…
Q. If the words sound queer and funny to your ear and a little bit jumbled and jivey…
Q. Your inside is out and your outside is in
Your outside is in and your inside is out
So come on come on
Come on is such a joy
Come on is such a joy
Come on make it easy
Come on make it easy
Make it easy make it easy…
Q. Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady you know who I am
You know I can’t let you slide through my hands…
Q. And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin’ and jingin’ the jango…
**Ask a Stupid Question…
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Q. How many gallons does a ten-gallon hat hold?
Q. Speaking of hats, in what country were Panama hats first made?
Q. What are camel’s hair brushes made of?
Q. Where was the Battle of Bunker Hill [in the War of American Independence] fought?
Q. From what animal does the catgut used to string tennis rackets come?
Q. What country did the English horn come from?
Bob’s Your Uncle
Q. Which avuncular comedian supplied the voices for animated characters Johnny Saveloy and Mr. Hell?
Q. Which song was famously knocked off the #1 singles spot in December 2000 by novelty song “Bob the Builder”?
Q. Who was the first British actor to portray James Bond?
Q. Which Washington town was terrorized by a malevolent entity named “Bob”?
Q. Which disgraced celebrity starred as the eponymous “Bob Martin”?
Q. Which quasi-religious guru holds the titles of High Epopt and Living Slack Master?
Great Moments in Sporting History
Q. During Manchester United’s 5-1 defeat of Benfica in Lisbon in 1966 a spectator ran on to the field with a knife; what did he do?
Q. The opening in 1965 of the Houston Astrodome, which was used both for baseball with the Astros and for American football with the Houston Oilers, also saw what important sporting first?
Q. Stanislawa Walasiewicz won the women’s 100m Olympic gold in 1932, becoming the first woman to break the 12-second barrier. Why was this record posthumously revoked?
Q. According to legend, Ta Mo (also known also by his Indian name Bodhidharma) originally went to China on a mission to spread the teachings of Buddha. What is he credited for doing there?
Q. In a race at Belmont Park, New York in 1925, jockey Frank Hayes and his horse Sweet Kiss crossed the finishing post first and were ultimately declared the winners, yet Hayes was unaware he had won and never entered the winner’s circle. Why not?
Q. And finally, a sporting moment that never happened: which city was to have been the venue for the 1940 Olympics?
Heavy Petting
For what it’s worth, this round has been blatantly swiped from the Brunching Shuttlecocks site. Your task is to tell me whether the name belongs to a porn star or one of the myriad My Little Pony toys.
Q. “Cherry Treats”
Q. “Lucky Star”
Q. “Honey Rose”
Q. “Ruby Lips”
Q. “Chocolate Delight”
Q. “Sweetie Pie”
I Heard It Through the Grapevine [Urban Legends]
Q. True or False: The fall 2003 California wildfires left the U.S. facing a severe toilet paper shortage.
Q. Which company had a close shave with bad publicity after a customer won their joke competition for a free trip to Mars?
Q. What term, invented in 1998 by Patricia Chapin, is used to describe “the body of inspirational tales which conceal much darker meanings than the uplifting moral lessons they purport to offer, and which undermine their messages by fabricating and distorting historical fact in the guise of offering ‘true stories’”?
Q. Similarly, in urban legends terminology, what is “ostension”?
Q. The Snopes are a family of characters who appear in the works of which author?
Q. True or False: A Corona, California, man sued Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge for emotional distress after duct-taping his “privates.”
It’s a Gas [Money]
Q. Who were the first people to mint gold coins, in about 640 BC?
Q. What was a George noble?
Q. In which country is the kwacha the unit of currency?
Q. If one dollar equals 100 cents, one rouble equals 100 what?
Q. Which one of the following countries does not use the pound as a unit of currency: Somalia, Syria, St. Helena, or Cyprus?
Q. In monetary slang, how much is a “monkey”?
Obscene Ornithology
Q. The “Kawau” type of cormorant is better known in New Zealand as what?
Q. Which members of the penguin family, native to the Galapagos Islands, are characterised by their tapered bodies, long pointed wings, long tails, and brightly-coloured feet?
Q. What’s small, soft, sometimes brown, and ‘turdiform’?
Q. Along the same lines, which redhead is the best-known member of the Picidae [PISS-I-dae] family?
Q. Which common British birds, related to chickadees, have a wide range of loud calls, including a distinctive *teacher, teacher *song?
Q. In Monty Python’s “Book Shop” sketch, which bird had specifically been omitted from the expurgated version of Olsen’s Standard Book of British Birds, and why didn’t the customer like them?
Sudden Death
Q. In 1890 William Kemmler became the first person to die by which method?
Q. What method of death do Michael Kennedy and Sonny Bono have in common?
Q. In Norse mythology, which plant caused the death of Baldur, the god of youth?
Q. Speaking of mythology, which hero was killed by the blood of the centaur Nessus?
Q. How did the rag-and-bone dealer, Krook, die in the novel Bleak House?
Q. Which epitaph was on the gravestone of James Bond’s wife?
You’re Crackers! [Christmas Cracker Jokes]
Q. What crustacean can you find in North London?
Q. How do monkeys make toast?
Q. What do you get if you eat Christmas decorations?
Q. What will they do if the Forth Bridge collapses?
Q. What does the ocean say when it meets the coast?
Q. What has a bottom at the top?
