Bad pub quiz question answers, as heanded in by real people.
This was a list question where the answers were all African countries.
Nicaragua is on another continent and that spelling of Djibouti is on another planet.
Apart from that, good guesses although I think they were all wrong anyway (I cannae remember the question to be honest).
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I can’t remember the question here but I’m guessing it was to name the largest countries whose (English) name begins with the letter S…
Slavia is not a real place. Neither is Samolia. And, real or otherwise, I’m glad I’ve never been to Samolia. It just sounds dirty.
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This happens sometimes
The needless wee sad face next to the word “England”.
Ah well, let it out.
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When you can’t quite remember all the names of Take That…
And you have to resort to Cunto
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Here’s a superb bad answer from the other week at the Newsroom.
In the double-or-bust round, question 5 asked in which year Chuck Yeager became the first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound in level flight.
You had to get within 10 years of the correct answer and I thought that was a wide enough envelope for most teams to warrant a guess.
Then this got handed in:
Most teams who answered did get near enough the correct answer (1947) to earn the points.
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Bad answers last night at the Argyle.
Teams were asked to identify this bloke in the picture round:
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.
This was enough clues for a couple of teams to come up with the answers:
This is despite Lou Reed (above) being a a fairly obvious white male.
Oh well.
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The furry cutie is a chinchilla. Difficult answer, but…
… “Squirrel Mouse“?
Really?
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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:
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 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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