Questions Needed

[Rhyd6]

Bumped into one of the chaps who takes part in the Tuesday online quiz I run and he asked that I expand my question base to include his subjects which are MMA (I had to look it up to discover it's Mixed Marshal Arts) and heavy metal music. My knowledge of these can be written on the point of a needle never mind the head of a pin so if anyone has any interesting facts relating to these subjects I would be delighted to hear about them.
TIA

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[tonyreptiles]

Q. What is the name of the podcaster who recently signed a $100 million deal with Spotify and who is also a UFC commentator?
A. Joe Rogan

Q. Who is the highest paid athlete on the planet?
A. MMA fighter Conor McGregor - worth $180 million in total earnings.

Q. Which band is known for writing the shortest rock song ever?
A. Napalm Death (band) with You Suffer (Song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z1IGjr2cT0

There's plenty more where they came from - just holler.



TR
(Retired boxer and roadie. Also famed for beating up the guitarist from Napalm Death during a bar brawl in 1995. Career highlight!)

[Rhyd6]

Thanks TR - no-one could ever accuse you of having led a boring existance. I take it life on the boat is still a blast.
Take care

R6

[mc2fool]

Bumped into one of the chaps who takes part in the Tuesday online quiz I run and he asked that I expand my question base to include his subjects...

LOL! So he wants more questions that he's very likely to know the answers to and other contestants aren't, eh?

I'd think very carefully about acquiescing to that request if I were you, as you risk getting a flood of other requests for "specialist subject" questions if you do!

[Rhyd6]

mc2f, no problems there I know most of the contestants and their strengths and weaknesses, this lad finished uni last year and until he can get a proper job is helping out at his uncle's farm and he and some of his friends take part in the quiz, to say that they're younger than most of the other contestants is puting it mildly, what is history to them only happened the other day to most of us. RR's questions will even the balance up a little, his team are usually bottom but they take it all in good part and when he manages to get his nain and taid involved they stand a good chance of winning. We were going to go back to the pub but so many of those taking part have joined through relatives and don't live in the area, they've requested we continue online and at the moment the pub is only open Thurs to Sunday so this suits everyone. Our most distant contestant lives in Patagonia, another team are from Newcastle and team up with their relatives who are local, Shrewsbury, Matlock and Glossop provide another team and we're hoping to have a get together near Christmas just to meet everyone.
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[kiloran]

Q: What is the second-heaviest metal band?
A: Iridium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2XDWMvD66k

--kiloran

[tonyreptiles]

Bumped into one of the chaps who takes part in the Tuesday online quiz I run and he asked that I expand my question base to include his subjects...

LOL! So he wants more questions that he's very likely to know the answers to and other contestants aren't, eh?

I'd think very carefully about acquiescing to that request if I were you, as you risk getting a flood of other requests for "specialist subject" questions if you do!

Like a lot of folk, we've been doing a few quizzes with family and friends over the lockdown periods. Through trial and error we've come to understand where to pitch questions - or at least somewhat understand.

Initially we'd write questions which we personally found interesting or enlightening. Turned out that these questions weren't questions, but were essentially "Interesting facts that nobody knows". Nobody scored points and everyone felt a bit thick.

Then we started writing questions that we knew would appeal to specific contestants. Car questions for father in law. Gardening questions for mother in law. Reptile questions for me, etc. Predictably, I was the only person who knew that cobra venom is predominantly a neurotoxin and not a hemotoxin.

From there we decided to do things a little differently. We developed some 50/50 questions, the most popular of which was the 'Cheese or Service Station' series, which we admittedly acquired from our mate Paz. This went down a storm. (Questions and answers below.)

The questions I posed above I thought kinda hang on the topics requested, but could also be called general knowledge or current affairs, giving the non-specialist contestants a fighting chance, while not handing it on a plate to the MMA/Metal fan. (If we'd asked who won the recent McGregor/Poirier fight, only they would nail that one.)

I love stuff like this because it tests my ability as a writer to create content for a specific audience. It's the difference between a good, successful writer with a reputation, and an average 'content-mill' writer who churns out generic guff.

Cheese or service station?

Questions
41) Dovedale
42) Baldock
43) Rivington
44) Duddleswell
45) Hereford Hop
46) Tibshelf
47) Golden Cross
48) Cotherstone
49) Pease pottage
50) Knutsford

Answers
41) Cheese - a full-fat semi-soft blue-veined cheese made from cow's milk. It is from
the Peak District of Great Britain.
42) Service station - A1(M) Hertfordshire
43) Service station - M61 Lancashire
44) Cheese - hard creamy cheese with a nutty flavour
45) Cheese - firm cheese with a rind of toasted hops
46) Service station - M1 Derbyshire
47) Cheese - soft white goat's milk cheese made from the milk of hay-fed goats, it receives a
light dusting of charcoal.
48) Cheese
49) Service station - M23 West Sussex
50) Service station - M6 Cheshire

[brightncheerful]

Some years ago at quiz i went to we were asked whether polar bears are left- or right-handed.

The several PhDs amongst the attendees conferred and disagreed for months afterwards.

--

I am useless at quizzes. i know very little about sport, the arts, theatre, cinema, etc. I have a smattering of knowledge of pop songs but mostly of the 1960s. My general knowledge is "abysmal" - to quote an English teacher at my second school when I was aged 12 - and still is. To this day, i cannot remember whether it is section 40(1) or (2) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 that is the tenant's notice requesting information about the landlord. A friend explained how to understand the registration year from a car number plate but I still have to ask Mrs Bnc whose knowledge of the arts, theatre, cinema, etc makes her a candidate of choice for a quiz team.

I credit my lock of knowledge to a combination of disinterest and lack of curiosity. Despite having been an avid reader of books during my teens whenever
I encountered a word I did not know the meaning of I would skip it, rather than look it up in the dictionary.

[kempiejon]

Some years ago at quiz i went to we were asked whether polar bears are left- or right-handed.

The several PhDs amongst the attendees conferred and disagreed for months afterwards.

Left handed - because they're almost all white, when hunting polar bears cover their black noses with their right paws and swipe at prey with their left paws so polar bears are left- handed.

I propagated this lie at university.

There is evidence of handedness or laterlisation in animals including whales https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... scoop-food
and other animals including wallabies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterality

[Rhyd6]

TR you're a star. Your cheese/motorway quiz is brilliant for my table quiz, I'd already done Tuesday's table quiz but I'm going to swap it for yours which is much more interesting. I've been running pub quizzes for what seems a lifetime, fell into it by accident when our local pub lost it's quizmaster and was asked to fill in for a couple of weeks, that was 47 years ago and I'm still at it. My problem is that when I'm compiling a quiz and come across an interesting fact I get sidetracked and wander off down the highways and byways of fascinating bits and bobs, I mean I never realised that there are over 20 different types of bumble bee, with fascinating names, I just chanced on this because I notoced a bumble bee with a red rear end the other day and just had to look it up. I love learning new things.

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[Beerpig]

What nationality was Columbus?

[swill453]

What nationality was Columbus?

Is he heavy metal or MMA?

Scott.

[DiamondEcho]

Some years ago at quiz i went to we were asked whether polar bears are left- or right-handed.
The several PhDs amongst the attendees conferred and disagreed for months afterwards.

...Typical academics over-thinking it. It's obvious isn't it, they have paws not hands!

[bionichamster]

In a similar vein to Tony's cheese or service station. I once participated in a quiz where there was a round called 'Is it a tartan?'. Based on the fact that there are loads of tartans created for various names, groups, organisations and companies it isn't difficult to come up with plausible sounding fake examples or implausible sounding real ones:

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/az?searchString=T

BH

[Rhyd6]

Thankyou BH, that's a great one for a picture quiz, I can always post 10 pictures and 10 names and they've got to match the names to the tartans plus if I do it your way then I can always get a table quiz for future use. I've done the picture style with sheep and chickens, the guy who got all the sheep ones correct has never lived it down, there were a lot of comments concerning wellingtons!!!

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[DiamondEcho]

A visual question on Car logos? I imagine there are a few approaches for example:

a) 2 or 3 which some might confuse - example I could never remember Citroen vs Renault; there might be others similar.

b) Similar to above just you edit/blur any obvious identifiers such as lettering. For example the Mini winged roundel: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182686847237 with the Mini name blurred has quite a bit of x-over with the one from Bentley: https://www.dreamstime.com/bentley-winged-b-symbol-macro-monte-carlo-monaco-june-logo-bonnet-luxury-british-white-car-close-up-view-shot-image150696838

c) You could also ask people to ID some of the more obscure logos. There's good scope for how easy/hard you wish to make it.
https://thenewswheel.com/behind-badge-study-delorean-dmc-insignia-design-back-time/delorean-grille-emblem-logo-dmc/ - De Lorean
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Maserati_Trident_Badge_-exfordy.jpg Maserati
https://cartype.com/pics/1600/full/bugatti_front_grill_emblem.jpg Bugatti.
Too easy? How about ... https://www.carlogos.org/logo/Koenigsegg-emblem-640x430.jpg

ps. Oops seems I can't get the images to show. Well, I expect you get the idea...

[servodude]

How about a round of "Fall Song or Not"?

Where the contestants have to distinguish arbitrary phrases from the titles of songs by The Fall?

You just have to be careful that the arbitrary phrases chosen aren't accidentally songs by The Fall

- sd

[Rhyd6]

Hi TR your service station/cheese questions were much appreciated and caused quite a few laughs. Most people thought they were a welcome relief from some of the ditloids/anagrams I've used lately. Thanks once again.

R6