Xela Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 5 hours ago, Paddywhack said: I went to Himley Hall fireworks on Bonfire Night and my mate mentioned that Guy Fawkes got captured at a house just round the corner. I said "Nah, they actually caught him with the gunpowder in parliament, didn't they?". A few others joined in and they couldn't believe that I didn't know Guy Fawkes was caught so close to home. The other day I googled it and Guy Fawkes was caught red handed in parliament, it was others in his gang that were captured (and some killed) at Holbeche House in Kingswinford. Next time I see them, I know I'll bring it up and I'll know I'll sound like a petty prick, but it's going to happen. I'd put it in writing to them just to prove your point even more. Also, I would have had to google it there and then on my phone! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 2 minutes ago, Xela said: I would have had to google it there and then on my phone! WTF did people do before mobile internet to prove a point!? "I'm know I'm right, so you just wait...I'm gonna go to the library and get a book out on Guy Fawkes" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 6 hours ago, Paddywhack said: I went to Himley Hall fireworks on Bonfire Night and my mate mentioned that Guy Fawkes got captured at a house just round the corner. I said "Nah, they actually caught him with the gunpowder in parliament, didn't they?". A few others joined in and they couldn't believe that I didn't know Guy Fawkes was caught so close to home. The other day I googled it and Guy Fawkes was caught red handed in parliament, it was others in his gang that were captured (and some killed) at Holbeche House in Kingswinford. Next time I see them, I know I'll bring it up and I'll know I'll sound like a petty prick, but it's going to happen. I've got a mate like that , I tell him stuff and he won't have it , of course I'm above telling him to google it and check it out .... plus I know him well enough that he'll do it when he thinks I'm not looking anyway once it's established I'm right it sorta goes into the let's never speak of this subject again category 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 16, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted November 16, 2016 1 hour ago, Morley_crosses_to_Withe said: WTF did people do before mobile internet to prove a point!? "I'm know I'm right, so you just wait...I'm gonna go to the library and get a book out on Guy Fawkes" Yep. Exactly that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 My Mum and Dad still have the 1988 version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in their front room and it's about the size of Google. I can imagine that got used to settle a few arguments back in the day. Each volume makes a decent weapon too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted November 17, 2016 Moderator Share Posted November 17, 2016 12 hours ago, sharkyvilla said: I can imagine that got used to settle a few arguments back in the day. It still has some of the bloodstains and some brain matter on one of its corners? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 20, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted November 20, 2016 If the correct name for Bombay is 'Mumbai', why isn't the Indian film industry called 'Mummywood'? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 4 hours ago, mjmooney said: If the correct name for Bombay is 'Mumbai', why isn't the Indian film industry called 'Mummywood'? As I understand it, (some) actual Indian people call the city Bombay? I don't think it's only known as Mumbai in India, though this is very much 3rd or 4th hand 'knowledge'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 (edited) I once corrected a bloke running a quiz that catch the wind was by Donovan and not Dylan, the entire pub agreed with him, I lost the quiz based on that single question. Re: knowitall. Edited November 21, 2016 by Seat68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 21, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted November 21, 2016 11 minutes ago, Seat68 said: I once corrected a bloke running a quiz that catch the wind was by Donovan and not Dylan, the entire pub agreed with him, I lost the quiz based on that single question. Re: knowitall. Whut??? I'd have seriously lost my shit over that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 I joined an existing quiz team that was made up of two teachers, and two doctors. Because there was an existing strong dynamic in the group I felt I had to be quite assertive. A throw away question came up to begin a round of questions: ‘where is the national railway museum?’ They put down York. By sheer strength of character I persuaded the four of them to change it to Swindon. We came second. Lost by a single point. I guess the team split up, because I never got any more invites. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 On 11/16/2016 at 18:57, Morley_crosses_to_Withe said: WTF did people do before mobile internet to prove a point!? "I'm know I'm right, so you just wait...I'm gonna go to the library and get a book out on Guy Fawkes" Microsoft Encarta disks! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 2 hours ago, mjmooney said: Whut??? I'd have seriously lost my shit over that. I did, I went spare, my wife ended up siding with the pub, I was furious, predated mobile phones being everywhere. Was livid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted November 21, 2016 Moderator Share Posted November 21, 2016 14 minutes ago, Seat68 said: I did, I went spare, my wife ended up siding with the pub, I was furious, predated mobile phones being everywhere. Was livid. Oh that's one thing I absolutely hate. Also, poorly written questions i.e. ambiguous ones that can be interpreted and therefore legitimately answered more than one way. It's infuriating. As the quizmaster YOU HAVE ONE JOB !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: I joined an existing quiz team that was made up of two teachers, and two doctors. Because there was an existing strong dynamic in the group I felt I had to be quite assertive. A throw away question came up to begin a round of questions: ‘where is the national railway museum?’ They put down York. By sheer strength of character I persuaded the four of them to change it to Swindon. We came second. Lost by a single point. I guess the team split up, because I never got any more invites. That's brilliant 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted November 21, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted November 21, 2016 2 minutes ago, Paddywhack said: That's brilliant Haha! **** hell! that was exactly what I thought of when I read Chrisp's post 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 16 minutes ago, BOF said: Oh that's one thing I absolutely hate. Also, poorly written questions i.e. ambiguous ones that can be interpreted and therefore legitimately answered more than one way. It's infuriating. As the quizmaster YOU HAVE ONE JOB !! I find the quizmaster is usually the stupidest person in the room. Our work one thought a Chinese gooseberry was a lychee and refused to believe us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 1 hour ago, BOF said: Oh that's one thing I absolutely hate. Also, poorly written questions i.e. ambiguous ones that can be interpreted and therefore legitimately answered more than one way. It's infuriating. As the quizmaster YOU HAVE ONE JOB !! Oh yes. I think Tony alluded to it when talking about Mooney's Brain of Britain quiz. One of the questions was what is the busiest airport in the world? There are a number of correct answers to that based on different metrics; most people movements, most plane movements, most cargo movements, etc. There are/were (not checked recently) a number of airports who could claim that title, 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 21, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted November 21, 2016 To be fair, our current quizmaster is a smart feller, but we have been to pubs where the hosts were real dimwits, who simply read out the questions from a sheet supplied by the brewery. If the answers on their sheet were incorrect you were snookered, as that's all they would accept. We've had loads of them - The Da Vinci Code was written by 'Dan Smith', a picture of Virginia Woolf was supposedly Florence Nightingale, and so on. Maddening. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 3 minutes ago, mjmooney said: a picture of Virginia Woolf was supposedly Florence Nightingale, and so on. Maddening. I've had that. There was a picture of Harry Secombe and I was delighted I could remember his name. But no, the 'correct' answer was Ronnie Barker. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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