The furry cutie is a chinchilla. Difficult answer, but…
… “Squirrel Mouse“?
Really?
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Bad Answer – Chinchilla
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Tiebreaker for £300
£300 was at stake
Both entries nailed 8/8 in the multi choice, so it went to the tiebreaker.
The tiebreak question was to guess how many team members were included in the Chinese team for the Olympics in London 2012.
Can you guess who won?
Here’s a clue:
Bad luck, Gordon!
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Bad Answer – Nobel Prizes
Here’s a fairly shit attempt to answer a list question. I asked quizzers to name any five out of the six Nobel Prizes.
I know you know this already but the real answers are:
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Literature
- Economics
- Medicine
- Peace
Well done to Laura’s team whose answers are better and who may well one day win the Nobel Prize for Lovely.
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In This Day & Age
In this day and age it’s good to know that people can still remember who Olivia Newton John is… and even more gratifying that they can remember her correct nickname.
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Bad Answers – Gary Glitter, Venice Austria and the Early Early Irish Quiz Birds
I asked “Which city in Italy was the setting for Shakespeare’s play ‘The Taming of the Shrew’?””
Answer given = “Vienna”
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Teams had to identify Gary Glitter in the picture round.
Answer given: “Siegfried OR Roy”
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I asked teams to name the 1986 film starring Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert with a soundtrack by Queen
Answer given: “The Hunt For Red October”
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And a nice wee wtf moment at the Newsroom recently. I’m handing out sheets as usual and I come to a a couple who look a little bit sad and disappointed.
The speak in heavy Irish accents: “Yes, yes we’d love to do the quiz but we’re not here tomorrow.”
I explain that the quiz is happening now, not tomorrow. Suddenly they are happy and delighted and take part and have a great time and do really, really badly.
What happens in Ireland? Do you get quiz sheets 24 hours ahead of the actual quiz?
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Bad Answers
Here are some recent bad answers from the quizzes:
1. Pure Steaming Anger
There’s something just so nnnnnrggggh about Paraguay, don’t you find?
2.
2. Hell Dragon
A harmless salamander gets a fancy go-faster makeover and becomes… Hell Dragon!
3. Delboy Error
David/Jason confusion subtracts seriousness from epic Bible story .
Mister Happy, rebranded
The classic Roger Hargreaves character gets the Scottish treatment he so richly does not deserve:
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Baby Animal Murderer Sheds Light On Outdoorsmans’ Terminology at City Pub Quiz
I had a fairly inconsequential (first round) question last week where I asked for teams to give the four-letter word for the young of a deer.
Answer: Fawn (The additional clue was given by the fact that it was the same-letter round and the letter was F).
However, as I ask the question, one guy pipes up with “What species?”
I reply honestly enough: “I don’t know… a normal deer?”
Later, I asked him what he was talking about. He said that if it’s a red deer then it’s not a fawn, it’s a “calf”.
I asked him how he knew and he said that he used to disembowel them.
“What?”
“I used to live on Knoydart,” he says, “We used to take them down off the hills and disembowel them. Big ones, and little ones too.”
“Was this for food?”
“Oh, they’re pests, they eat all the trees, and there’s millions of the buggers. There’s no wolves, see?”
“Ah.”
So, although there is no strict logical connection between murdering an animal and knowing the technical term for its young, I thought there’s a chance me might know his onions so I head to God (aka Wikipedia) to check out the straight facts.
Wiki gives us this:
"For most types of deer in modern English usage, the male is a buck and the female a doe, but the terms vary with dialect, and according to the size of the species. The male red deer is a stag, while for other large species the male is a bull, the female a cow, as in cattle. In older usage, the male of any species is a hart, especially if over five years old, and the female is a hind, especially if three or more years old.[109] The young of small species is a fawn and of large species a calf; a very small young may be a kid. A castrated male is a havier.[110] A group of any species is a herd. The adjective of relation is cervine; like the family name Cervidae, this is from Latin: cervus, meaning stag or deer."
So there you have it. Blood-handed, wild-eyed, mountain-roaming outdoors type is correct.
Question edited.
Database saved.
Job done.
Thanks.
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Bad Franswer
No one knows ANYTHING about France.
I asked a list question recently looking for French Presidents. The answers handed-in included:
- Jean Luc Picard
- Charles de Ballz
- The Guy From Eurotrash
- Jean Paul Gaultier
- Justin Bieber
You are all flawed geniuses.
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Bad Answers
A few recent bad answers from the #dpquiz quiz scene:
1. Turning The Acrylic Up To Eleven
No one has ever gotten Spinal Tap mixed up with Pulp. Until now
2. Crazy Fools
This was a name-the-film from the picture round. Clues were given: year, plot, etc. The correct answer is “Open Water” but “Water Fools” is so much better.
3. Geography Fuckup
People get Australian geography mixed up; people get Eastern European geography mixed up… but rarely with each other.
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Fact Clearup: Snakes and Bridges
A couple of points of order raised by quizzers over the last week or so:
Anaconda versus Pygmy Hippo
Who is the heaviest? Everyone went for anaconda but the Wiki pages are clear. Heaviest verified anaconda weighed 97.5kg while the Pygmy Hippopotamus can reach 275 kg. It’s not even close.
Nigel in the Brass Monkey Leith found a Sun article about a supposed 60-stone anaconda which would be over 300 kg but there are plenty of these mega-snake stories about and the sources are rife with phrases like “estimated” and “thought to be”.
Not the same as facts!
Humber Bridge versus Golden Gate
Last week at the Joker & The Thief, I asked for the longest bridge with the Humber Bridge and the Golden Gate as options.
I said the Humber Bridge was longer, based on a reference I’d read that said the Humber was the longest in the world when it was built in 1981.
As the Golden Gate was completed in the 1930s, I assumed it was shorter.
Grace pointed out afterwards that she’d had a quick look-up (after all the questions) and this showed the Golden Gate as longer.
Indeed, a wiki check shows:
- Humber: 2220 metres
- Golden Gate: 2737 metres
However, this is the total length of the bridge and if you look at the longest span (distance between the towers) you have:
- Humber: 1410 metres
- Golden Gate: 1280 metres
Luckily the outcome of that particular question had no effect on the overall quiz outcome but it’s an undesirable ambiguity and ultimately, a shite question.
But don’t worry, the person who wrote the question has been sacked and the database amended.
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