Return of the Pub Quiz!

[mcgillianaire]

So for the first time since last summer I headed back for what will probably turn out to be a one-off session at The Hemingford Arms for their weekly pub quiz on Thursday nights. The friend that I originally started going to these quizzes with over here, now works in Oxford and most of her friends who used to join us every week last year, have either returned to their home countries on the continent or gone on to pastures greener in the New World. Nevertheless my friend in Oxford was in town for the night and another common friend of ours from McGill was visiting from New York, so we decided to have a blast from the past and what a night it turned out to be. My friend in Oxford invited two further friends of hers who'd never been to a pub quiz before. They were both very good looking but the Northern Irish accented one attracted me more. And she studies law! Anyways I arrived first and completed half the quiz on my own before the rest of the crowd got there. My friend from Oxford thought we'd done so badly as to refuse to hand-in our answer sheet but the quizmaster would have nothing of it. Eventually we paid up the entry-fee and handed it over. Half-an-hour later we were stunned to learn that we'd not only finished second but we could've won had it not been for our laziness to finish answering a couple questions. We'd just assumed we'd done that badly as to not bother! Bish bash bosh! That was the team name. And the Thai Green Curry with Prawns was sumptuous. I love pub quizzes. I wish I still had friends who lived in London and liked pub quizzing.

Here's a selection of questions from last night's challenge:

a) A mesomorph is a person who is muscular. What do you call a tall/thin person and a round/fat person?
b) Henry Hudson, the famous English navigator has three waterways in North America named after him. What are they called?
c) Which (British) high street store is named after Ulysses' dog (of Greek mythology fame)?
d) Which musical instrument did Nina Simone and Thelonious Monk used to play?
e) Name the Year: democracy march in Hong Kong, women getting the vote in Kuwait and Mark Felt revealed to be Deep Throat.
f) What is the common name for prunus domestica?
g) In which animal do both eyes lie on one side of its head, or have one migrating through and around its head during development?
h) There were seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England including Mercia, Northumbria, Kent and East Anglia. Name the other three.
i) The ten tallest mountain peaks in England are located in which modern county?
j) What are the ingredients needed to make a non-alcoholic crêpe suzette?

Comments

[kali-kali.livejournal.com]

If I wasn't leaving London this weekend, I'd totally join in on pub quizzes.

[mcgillianaire.livejournal.com]

Aw! If you're in London on a Thursday again I'll definitely organise it. :)

[pappubahry.livejournal.com]

b) Hudson Bay,
e) This was recent... 2008?

These are too hard for me.

[elodie21.livejournal.com]

e- 2005 I believe

[mcgillianaire.livejournal.com]

Indeed! I had narrowed it down to 2004,5 or 6 because I knew that all three events took place a couple years ago but only after I had started writing on LJ but unfortunately we chose 2006 as our final answer.

[elodie21.livejournal.com]

Well its ok, there will always be more chances!!

[mcgillianaire.livejournal.com]

Yeh but if the last gap between appearances is anything to go by it might not be for another seven or eight months!

[mrputter.livejournal.com]

a) ?
b) Hudson's Bay and the Hudson River, clearly. I'm blanking on the third. Hudson... Straight?
c) I will kick myself when I hear the answer, I'm sure.
d) Piano. Easiest one here.
e) I'm gonna say 1999. I remember these happening, and it was recent, but I don't think as recent as pappubahry claims. Having said that, the last decade or two is all blurring together for me.
f) Plum, I would presume. (In the kitchen, with the lead pipe.)
g) ? I want to say "seahorse," but that's probably wrong. I'm almost certain it must be aquatic, though.
h) ?
i) I'll go out on a limb and say Lancashire. There are definitely a lot of hills there; I'm just not sure how high.
j) Depends on the recipe? I'd say: eggs, flour, water, milk, salt, sugar, oranges. Mebbe vanilla.

Nice userpic. :)

[mcgillianaire.livejournal.com]

a) Ectomorph and Endomorph
b) Very good guess! A few of us knew the obvious two and somehow this other girl and I guessed Strait correctly!
c) Argos (I wish I'd guessed this correctly. Argos is a high street store but I didn't think of it at the time and I was even mentally searching for stores ending in 'os'. And it's my mum's favourite store! We shortlisted Zara and Zavvi but were not satisfied with either one and settled on Zara.)
d) Nice one. We didn't get this.
e) Heh sorry, it's 2005! We guessed 2006... but I knew it was between 2004 & 6.
f) Very good! I threw our team off course by suggesting it was a domesticated animal but as soon as the answer was read out it was obvious. Typical trivia rookie error!
g) Right idea, it's the flatfish. We put down flounder but probably got it wrong because it's only a type of flatfish.
h) Wessex, Essex and Sussex. Wessex doesn't exist anymore but they are all corruptions of West Saxon (kingdom), East Saxon and South Saxon. The word English is also a corruption of AngloSax, England a corruption of Angle-land (which explains its form in French) etc.
i) It's actually Cumbria. (As an aside, Cumbria and Cymru (the Welsh name for Wales) are cognates).
j) Simplest recipe according to the quizmaster: butter, oranges and sugar. We put eggs instead of oranges. Dammit!

If we'd had the pleasure of your additional correct answers we'd've won the quiz and the prize money that comes with it! :) Good effort.

Re: Nice userpic. :)

[mrputter.livejournal.com]

> actually Cumbria.

Cool. That would have been my other guess. I was pretty sure that the average elevation in Cumbria is higher than that of Lancashire, but figured it might've been a trick question, with the peaks in the latter being higher. Hence my "out on a limb" claim. Turns out I was on crack.

> butter, oranges and sugar

Ah. So they were just looking for the ingredients for the sauce, not those for the entire crêpes. Either way, I can't believe I forgot the butter. D'oh!

[elodie21.livejournal.com]

c- argos

f- plum

[mcgillianaire.livejournal.com]

Well done!! I wish I'd gotten both of those, c) because it's my mum's favourite stores and I was looking for Greek sounding stores but Argos never crossed my mind as a high street store even though it is one and f) I threw our team off-track by saying it was probably a domesticated animal and therefore we didn't even think of a food.

[elodie21.livejournal.com]

I remembered Argos was the dog's name and hence assumed it must be a store too.

[charolastra00.livejournal.com]

I live in London and knew b, c, d, e, f, sort of g ( I would have said flounder rather than flatfish too), and two of the three of h.

:P

[mcgillianaire.livejournal.com]

Aw, if I'd known you earlier I'd've invited you for the quiz. Next time!