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.
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.
Popular magician, Gary Glitter.
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?
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.”
The time to disemboweled by draws near.
“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.
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.
Clues were added that we were talking about a US rock star, famous both in a group and as a solo artist, someone who died in 2013 at the age of 71.
