Posted by Dr Paul on Thu, August 19, 2010 under Dr Paul's Blog | 
Question: If you have a million pennies, how many pounds have you got? The answer involves moving the decimal place a couple of shifts t oget £10,000.
Most got it right. A few stumbled in to £100,000 but the worst was this answer from a pair of American birds a the end of the bar (in the Reverie).
For cheats and hints to win Dr Paul quizzes in Edinburgh, get the weekly email.
Posted by Dr Paul on Mon, July 26, 2010 under Dr Paul's Blog |
Picture in the picture round:
Question: What is the name of this world-famous statue?
Answer:
I think they have mistake a statue for an ornament and spelled that “oriniment”.
Obviously knowing that they were short on the answer, they’ve gone down the route of providing as much information as they can. Like the fact he’s naked. Pure genius!
For cheats and hints to win Dr Paul quizzes in Edinburgh, get the weekly email.
Posted by Dr Paul on Wed, July 21, 2010 under Uncategorized |
The Spelling at the quiz is pretty bad these days.
That’s supposed to be “Pisces”
They got the points anyway
Posted by Dr Paul on Tue, July 6, 2010 under Dr Paul's Blog |
Question four in round four last night:
Edinburgh’s Waverley station is named after work by which author?
For cheats and hints to win Dr Paul quizzes in Edinburgh, get the weekly email.
Posted by Dr Paul on Sat, July 3, 2010 under Dr Paul's Blog |
Question number two in a recent picture round:
Q. What animal does that skull belong to?
Correct answer is dolphin, but the Perishers decided they could imagine a monkey with a head that shape.
Bad answer!
For cheats and hints to win Dr Paul quizzes in Edinburgh, get the weekly email.
Posted by Dr Paul on Wed, June 30, 2010 under Dr Paul's Blog |
Round One at the Dr Paul quiz is often the 50/50 round where every question has two possible answers.
This week at Jenny Ha’s the question was:
Q. How many people died in the great fire of London in 1666? Was it sixty thousand or just six?
At least two teams put “6,000″
For cheats and hints to win Dr Paul quizzes in Edinburgh, get the weekly email.
Posted by Dr Paul on Sun, May 30, 2010 under Dr Paul's Blog |
Newsroom, 24 May 2010. Picture question was name this tennis player. Clue: she’s American.
Lynsey Davenport: not a man, not Australian
Answer given by one team: “Pat Cash”.
Jesus Christ.
For cheats and hints to win Dr Paul quizzes in Edinburgh, get the weekly email.
Posted by Dr Paul on Sat, May 29, 2010 under Dr Paul's Blog |
On Monday at Jenny Ha’s, I asked the question
Q. Which city in the Repuclic of Ireland was European Capital of Culture in 2004. (Clue: It wasn’t Dublin)?
And at least two teams wrote
A. Belfast
Very poor. See that border on the map? That means different countries.
ireland
The correct answer, by the way, is Cork.
For cheats and hints to win Dr Paul quizzes in Edinburgh, get the weekly email.
Posted by Dr Paul on Fri, May 28, 2010 under Dr Paul's Blog |
Question number one in the last round at Newsroom last night:
If a car has “CU” on the back, What country does it come from?
As far as I know, Newcastle is not yet independent and even if it was, I can’t imagine it using the letters CU.
For cheats and hints to win Dr Paul quizzes in Edinburgh, get the weekly email.
Posted by Dr Paul on Sat, May 15, 2010 under Dr Paul's Blog |
At Reverie on Monday I had this fairly learned (for my quiz) question in the last round:
Q. Who was the last King of Troy, as killed by Pyrrhus, son of Achilles?
Real Answer: Priam
Answer Given by Team Holland: Orlando Bloom
Answer Given by Team RVC: Brad Pitt
For cheats and hints to win Dr Paul quizzes in Edinburgh, get the weekly email.
