2019 Weddings Anagram Quiz

Another round from my quiz of 2019 last Sunday. Most teams managed all 4 on this. All you need to do is identify the anagram of a famous person who got married this year? Ive given you the person they married and the their profession...just tell me who the anagram is! Answers tomorrow

1.	Singer (Casper Jobling) - GLUE GLIDE LION
2.	Actor (Sabrina Dhowre) - SAIL BRIDE
3.	GOT Actress (Joe Jonas) - SUPERHERO TIN
4.	Footballer (Kate Wright) - DRAINED IN FOR

Quiz Questions #1 - Answers

Here are the answers from the first set of questions I posted up earlier this week!

 

Arthur

London has Fallen, Olympus has Fallen

Money (Notes)

Phones 4 U

Linkedin

Christmas Gift Guide for Quizzers #6

Christmas Gift Guide for Quizzers #6

 

 

 

I do have something of a soft spot for the 1001 books, and one of the very best in my collection, that also serves as a great gift, is 1001 TV Series You Must Watch Before You Die. Covering all the major decades of TV, it contains fact packed entries on each show that will certainly prove usual for both quiz writing and building on knowledge!

2019 What Did I Win Quiz - Answers

Here are you answers from the quiz yesterday. As I said, a few teams in the quiz managed the full hose, but average score was 6 and lowest score was 2!

 

Colin Thackery – Britain's Got Talent

Megan Mckenna – Celebrity X Factor

Amber Gill – Love Island (with Greg O Shea)

David Atherton – Great British Bake Off

James Jordan – Dancing on Ice

Molly Hocking -  The Voice

 

 

Board Game Review: Who Dares Wins?

Who Dares Wins?

 



I almost forgot that part of my Boxing Day was spent playing the board game based on the TV show "Who Dares Win?". Thanks to Lauren on the comments board for the prompt!

 

If you have seen Who Dares Wins? before you will know that it involves listing items from specific list and the board game sticks closely to the TV format with bids and challenges etc. The only major differences are a) there are bonus cards to give you a second chance or indeed make the other team play another guess etc b) every list has only 10 answers and c) there is a board to travel around to win.

 

The game is very very fun and ideally needs 2-3 teams to make it totally worthwhile. 1 v 1 would work fine, but the team work element makes the game even more enjoyable. Like the show, the lists are either definite with only 10 possible answers of may be the dreaded "According to a survey/poll/magazine ranking....". I would say though that the latter only make up 10% or so of questions.

All in all, one of the very few board games that are actually better than the TV show itself! 

2019 - What did I Win Quiz?

A round from my last Pub Quiz of the year....and one that received a mixed bag of results!

I asked the teams which reality tv/competitive tv contest were won by the following people in 2019. A few teams did manage to get 6 out of 6, but the average score was around 4. How would you have done? Answers tomorrow

Colin Thackery – Megan Mckenna – Amber Gill – David Atherton – James Jordan – Molly Hocking -

 

Quiz Questions #1

Whilst I have some spare time over the next few weeks I will post up a selection of Questions. Mainly taken from the Albert Quiz, ran by me in Sunderland every week, answers will be posted a couple of days after the original post -

Starting off with Set 1....

In 2019, what baby name returned to the Top 10 of the most popular names for baby boys for the first time since 1924…..a fact for which the popularity of the TV series Peaky Blinders has been given the credit?

 A film called Angel Has Fallen was released in 2019. It is the third film in a series starring Gerard Butler as Mike Banning. Can you name the other two films in this series?

 Americans use the slang nickname “Dead Presidents” to refer to what?

 Which company was once upon a time, the leading retailer of mobile phones in the UK but went out of business in 2014 when EE and Vodafone prevented them from selling their products?

 

Which business related/networking/social media  platform did Microsoft purchase in 2016 for $26 billion?

Christmas Gift Guide for Quizzers #5

 

For the past decade of so, Trevor Montague, has been releasing his tome of General Knowledge under the title "The A-Z of Everything". Over 1000 pages, fact packed and a primer for all areas of quizzing, this is a vital entry onto any book shelf. Nicely priced now on Amazon too!

Christmas Gift Guide for Quizzers #4

Another book of quiz questions to suggest this time in the latest entry into the Christmas Gift Guide for quizzers. This is perhaps the finest quiz book on music I have had the pleasure to read, and its packed full of original and informative content. The book goes for quality rather than quantity and anyone with a keen interest in testing their music knowledge cannot fail to love this!

Podcast of the Year #2

 

 



The excellent American produced podcast Trivial Warfare has featured on my end of year podcast lists for the last 3 years, and will do for the foreseeable future as long as the quality remains so high! Where many quiz podcasts start and fade away, the Trivial Warfare team continue to go from strength to strength with even the addition of some new features this year including a spin off show "Blitz".

 

Well worth hunting down!

 

p.s. I always use Castbox for my Podcast platform of choice and you'll find all the episodes on there!

Christmas Gift Guide for Quizzers #3

Continuing on in the series, the next book I accidentally found online whilst searching for an up tod ate Atlas. This is part of what seems to be a new fad of Puzzle books on all sorts of themes that are being lined up for Christmas. (Another will be following)...although its perhaps 40% puzzle style and 60% quiz, it very addictive and you will soon find yourself getting lost in the 300 ish pages crammed with usual info!

Christmas Gift Guide for Quizzers #2

The second book in the series is one I have bought for myself, every year since I think it was first issued in 2017. It is from the team behind the excellent "No Such Thing As Fish" podcast (relating in some way to QI I believe) and takes a month by month look at the year gone by in  quirky yet humourous way. Easy to pore over, and the perfect present to remind people of the year gone by!

Christmas Gift Guide for Quizzers #1

An annual feature on the blog around Christmas time, has been a look at some of the finest books of the year/items I have discovered this year that would make ideal gifts for any quizzing relatives you have (or indeed in my case many times....yourself!).

Over the next few weeks I will be posting up some useful links and ideas, mainly books......Let me know in the comments if there are any you would recommend....



One of the most treasured books in my collection is what I will begin with. A hardback, weighty and hefty tome looking at the classics of world literature from Penguin. Bright and plenty of fascinating book covers to look over, as well as being rammed with information on the books under discussion. A perfect gift to please a quizzer in your family!

Podcasts of the Year #1

 

 

 

 

Another end of year tradition on the blog, involves looking at some of the podcasts that I have enjoyed this year and suggesting which ones may be worth your while. I have mentioned several times on the blog for both my quizzing and my quiz setting, podcasts play a huge role. The only downside is how many there are to wade through and for every podcast I have been hooked to after episode 1, there are many more that have simply been stopped after 10 minutes and never returned to.

 

Fingers on Buzzers is a good a place to start as any. The podcast from comedian Lucy Porter and Jenny Ryan from The Chase (who now thanks her incredible voice is more famous than when the podcast began) has been running for a couple of dozen episodes and looks at various quizzing issues including interviews with quizzers and writers, a history of quiz feature and indeed plenty of questions. Well worth a look!

Penguin Quiz Book

I picked up the Penguin Quiz book from Amazon recently after seeing it in store, and having just worked my way through it, it has to be ranked as perhaps the best quiz book I have used all year. It is superbly researched and obviously written by someone who has an idea of what makes a good quiz question! Well worth looking into and of course an ideal Xmas present for any quizzy minded people you may be buying for!