Christmas Gift Guide for Quizzers #9

Christmas Gift Guide for Quizzers #9

 

Depending on what quizzing you do, the NFL may rarely come up, but either way as a book of information and an enjoyable read, this is perfect for anyone in your life who loves the NFL. This year marked the 100th anniversay of the league (in a sense) and there have been a ton of books on the subject. In terms of pure facts and quiz value, I would suggest this is the best of the bunch!

Weekly News Questions - Coming in 2020

I am looking to invest some more time into the Blog in 2020 and share the quiz content I am providing at my hosted quizzes. Hence from 2020 I will be posting up a Weekly News Quiz, every Monday, based on news of the previous 7 days. Hopefully this will help you in pub quizzes and give other hosts an idea for their own rounds!

The Guardian Quiz

Something I have really enjoyed this year  has been the weekly quiz in the Guardian. Its published online and you can see the full archive HERE. From the inventive general knowledge, to the quirky Only Connect style questions, this is a treasure trove of quiz content!

Quiz Questions # 3

Another set for you to get tucked into. Answers to follow later in the week.....

 

Referencing their later stage in life, what is the two word title of the sequel to the famous novel “Little Women”?

In 1805, the famous Battle of Austerlitz took place. The location of that battle is now in what European country?

 How many dots appear on the dice that forms the logo of Dominos Pizza?

 

What four letter male name connects a recent tv series about Anne Lister, a 1996 movie starring Robin Williams and a UK Number 1 single by the Rolling Stones?

 

Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Chris Pine and Ben Affleck have all played which fictional CIA operative in several different movies, created by the author Tom Clancy?

Christmas Gift Guide for Quizzers #8

 Christmas Gift Guide for Quizzers  #8

 

Not a book this time....but Flash Cards. Yes I know what you are thinking, you could make these alone for free, but the added informaton and the whole process of just having them, encouraged me to achieve a lifetime ambition this year (well last years ambition) to learn the periodic table.



Also this fantastic book helped alongside it....

Christmas University Challenge

 

Happy to see that the 10 episode run of Christmas University Challenge is returning from the 23rd December! Always a fun show and some interesting guests lined up this year!

Quiz Questions # 2 - Answers

Georgia

Waitrose

Adam Lallana

Speak Multiple Languages

Stirling

Only Connect Specials

 

Good news for fans of Only Connect! There are a wide variety of specials airing over the Xmas period. Rather than list them all here, you can find the upcoming dates HERE with a mixture of new and old episodes.

Christmas Gift Guide for Quizzers #7

 



I am quite a fan of "some" of Richard Osman's House of Games. Its one of those shows, a bit like Pointless, where I tend to watch on record and skip to the rounds that interest me. The book however, is much more interesting as it makes the most of the quiz-based rounds. A great gift for the quizzer and indeed a great game for some family Christmas theme quiz time!

Board Game Review -TV and Movie Quiz

Board Game Review - The Best of TV and Movies (The Logo Game)

 

In amongst the usual festive favourites (Cluedo, Scrabble, Monopoly etc) I managed to squeeze in a few quiz games with family and friends over the Xmas period.

 

One of them was the "Best of TV and Movies" which is under the Logo Game banner. Ignore the Logo Banner for all intents and purposes as it very rarely applies. This is a straight up quiz game that is easy to play and has a good range of questions to suit all. A crowd of entertainment quizzing experts will probably get very little wrong but there is enough testing questions to entertain all.

 

Works really well as a family game, questions over a range of eras and genres and very easy to set up and play. Nothing to complicated which is what you need from a quiz game.

 

 

A solid 8/10 and one to look out for in the sales.

 

Here is the Amazon Link...

 

 

 



Quiz Questions #2

Second set. Answers to follow early next week....

 

What state of the USA shares its full name with the full name of a country in Europe?

 

The 8^th largest in Britain, which Supermarket chain was founded by two mean with the first names Wallace and Arthur and was named after a combination of their two surnames?

 

Which Liverpool player scored the only goal of Sam Allardyces reign as England manager?

 

A Polyglot is the name given to a person who can do what?

 

The name of which Scottish City is also that of one of the most respected prizes awarded in the field of architecture?

Chaplins Xmas Quiz - Sunderland - Thursday 19th December

 

Chaplins, Sunderland

8.30pm

Thursday 19th December

 

Just a quick plug for the Chaplins quiz night which is ran by a good friend of mine and has its Xmas special this week. Always a packed night, jackpot is usually around the £300 mark and a fun festive night!

Grid Round - Answers

 Here are the answers from the Grid Round......This is what you should had left after eliminating the wrong answers!

Round 6

(Remember this was 2019 anniversaries)

The Queen’s wedding anniversary 72nd		Apollo 11 Moon Landing   50th	Fall of the Berlin Wall   30th
	D-Day Landings     75th	Birth of Queen Victoria   200th

 

 

Bonus Round – GAMBLE GRID

(Remember this was circling the answers you were 100% sure were correct!)

Saturn now has more identified moons than any other planet in the Solar System			Karl Lagerfeld was the creative director of Chanel when he passed away in 2019
	Between the 1994 and 2019 movie releases of the Lion King, the worlds Lion population has halved	Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in July

2019 Wedding Quiz - Answers

Answers to your anagrams from yesterday...

1.	Singer (Casper Jobling) - Ellie Goulding
2.	Actor (Sabrina Dhowre) - Idris Elba
3.	GOT Actress (Joe Jonas) - Sophie Turner
4.	Footballer (Kate Wright) - Rio Ferdinand

Grid Round - December 2019

One of the features I have in my quiz is a Grid Round which takes a slightly different format every week.

For example...this weeks quiz was the review of 2019 quiz and the grid rounds are themed in that manner.

For Round 6, I presented the teams with 10 anniversaries from this year. They had to circle the 5 which were true!

Round 6

The Queen’s wedding anniversary 72nd	Last Public Performance by The Beatles   40th	Apollo 11 Moon Landing   50th	Fall of the Berlin Wall   30th	The National Lottery     20th
Alton Towers opening     50th	D-Day Landings     75th	Birth of Queen Victoria   200th	TV debut of Monty Python     75th	Release of the first Sony PlayStation     20th

 

The gamble round is the last round of the Grid and involves 8 statements. Teams have to circle which ones are true. I don't tell them how many there are but the Gamble element plays a key role. If the teams circle 3, all of them are true, they score 3 points. But if they circle an incorrect answer they are wiped out and score 0 for the round. See how you get on! Answers tomorrow.

Bonus Round – GAMBLE GRID

Saturn now has more identified moons than any other planet in the Solar System	The Royal Baby Archie was born in June	Liverpool defeated Spurs in the Champions League Final in Baku	Karl Lagerfeld was the creative director of Chanel when he passed away in 2019
Eastenders celebrated its 10,000th episode this year	Between the 1994 and 2019 movie releases of the Lion King, the worlds Lion population has halved	Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in July	French Protestors who have made news throughout 2019 are known as the “Blue Vests”

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