maqroll Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Too many, but I'll start off with 2120 South Michigan Avenue. Show off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Lost out on tonight's quiz's rollover/gamble question (we won the picture quiz and tied the main quiz). Tiebreaker question (nearest the bull type thing): In km, how long is the River Severn? Gamble question: In what year did the first regularly scheduled daily airline service between Paris and London begin? (+/- 3 years) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 28, 2015 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 28, 2015 About 1921? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 About 1921? You would have won the cash. It's 1919, apparently. We went with 1926 (I didn't have a scooby, tbh). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 28, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted January 28, 2015 I don't like tie break questions like that. I prefer a real question where quickest to answer wins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 28, 2015 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 28, 2015 The length of the river one is a good TB, but not ones with a date. We once got asked the date of the battle of Bannockburn as a TB. Piss easy, 1314. Some woman looked at me in astonishment and said "Bloody hell, what were the odds against you guessing that bang-on?" When I told her I didn't guess, I knew, she was even more gobsmacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 28, 2015 Moderator Share Posted January 28, 2015 Iirc the Severn is about 215 miles long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 28, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted January 28, 2015 I don't like them to be guesses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) The length of the river one is a good TB, but not ones with a date.The date one wasn't a tie breaker - that was for us to gamble our win for the 'rollover prize' (and we picked the difficult one according to the chap in charge).The answers given by the bods put forward by each team for the river were:Them: 220kmUs: 350kmAnswer: 354km.Edit: Actually, we'd have been tied 4km either side with Bicks (if he'd converted his answer to km). Edited January 28, 2015 by snowychap 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 We had a quiz at a work's Christmas do a few years back to win an ipad. It came down to a tie breaker question which was 'How many light's on the Rockefeller Christmas tree?' Neither of them had a clue. The first person guessed 200, so the second person said 201. The answer was 45,000. He wasn't happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 28, 2015 Moderator Share Posted January 28, 2015 The length of the river one is a good TB, but not ones with a date.The date one wasn't a tie breaker - that was for us to gamble our win for the 'rollover prize' (and we picked the difficult one according to the chap in charge). The answers given by the bods put forward by each team for the river were: Them: 220km Us: 350km Answer: 354km. Edit: Actually, we'd have been tied 4km either side with Bicks (if he'd converted his answer to km). Couldn't be arsed converting plus its a British river, its length should be in miles 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Spores from the mold of what fruit were used for the first mass production of penicillin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 28, 2015 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 28, 2015 A guess: bananas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted January 28, 2015 Moderator Share Posted January 28, 2015 The penecillin one - I guess it's a widely grown fruit, for mass production, so maybe apples? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Both incorrect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 29, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted January 29, 2015 Tomatoes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 29, 2015 Moderator Share Posted January 29, 2015 Its got to be a fruit that is common in America, might not be so common here as the Americans were the ones that started to mass produce penicillin during the war iirc.So my guess is Watermelon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 29, 2015 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 29, 2015 I know. It's the penicillin fruit. It was the name that gave them the idea that there might be penicillin in it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Its got to be a fruit that is common in America, might not be so common here as the Americans were the ones that started to mass produce penicillin during the war iirc. So my guess is Watermelon close Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 This is my kind of quiz...NAME THAT CHOCOLATE BAR! (I don't have the answers) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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