Sunday, 26 June 2022
Rugby Quiz Book
Friday, 24 June 2022
Interview with the World Quizzing Champion
Over on his fantastic All Things Quiz Channel, Gareth Kingston has upload and interview the the 2022 World Quizzing Champion Didier Bruyere. Well worth a watch!
Thursday, 23 June 2022
Podcast Questions - Film
Another set taken directly from the podcast to give you a flavour of what its all about! This time a film episode...let me know how you get on!
Episode 245 – Film
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1 |
Nicolas Cage
plays Benjamin Gates in which Disney action-adventure film series that first
emerged in 2004? |
National
Treasure |
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2 |
Who plays the
role of Elvis Presley in the 2022 Baz Luhrmann movie….”Elvis”? |
Austin Butler |
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3 |
Which 1999
movie starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg,and Ice Cube centres on a group
of American soldiers on a gold heist during the 1991 Iraq uprisings? |
Three Kings |
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4 |
Who plays the
title character in the 2004 movie “Vera Drake”? |
Imelda
Staunton |
|
5 |
Which 2022
animated movie follows the plot of Georgia Nolan, a 16 year old who dreams of
becoming the world’s first female firefighter? |
Fireheart |
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6 |
Who plays the
character of Jack Ryan in the 1994 Thriller “Clear and Present Danger?” |
Harrison Ford |
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7 |
Which 1995
film, the second in Robert Rodriguez Mexico Trilogy, starred Antonio Banderas
as El Mariachi who seeks revenge of a murderous drug lord? |
Desperado |
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8 |
Crimson Tide,
True Romance, Man on Fire and Days of Thunder are all amongst the film of
which director who passed away in 2012? |
Tony Scott |
|
9 |
Which 2011
movie centres on a group of teenagers in 1979 who, whilst filming their own
movie, witness a train derailment? |
Super 8 |
|
10 |
Which actress
made her directorial debut in 1991 with the movie Little Man Tate? She plays
a lead character in the movie who is a working-class mother raising her
genius son Fred |
Jodie Foster |
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11 |
Which 1995
Paul Verhoeven film stars Elizabeth Berkley as heading to Las Vegas to find
work in the title profession? |
Showgirls |
|
12 |
Taron Egerton
plays which British Olympian in a 2015 movie of the same name? |
Eddie the
Eagle |
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13 |
Which 2018
movie is based on a novel by Kevin Kwan and follows a Chinese-American
professor who travels to meet her boyfriend’s wealthy family in Singapore? |
Crazy Rich
Asians |
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14 |
Which 2017
film by Boog Joon-Ho is about a young girl who raised a genetically modified
super pig? |
Okja |
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15 |
Which 2014
movie was the directorial debut of Alex Garland and starred Domnhall Gleeson
as a programmer working for the search engine Blue Book? |
Ex Machina |
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Friday, 10 June 2022
Podcast - 250th Episode!!!!!
Latest episodes of the podcast are now live and we have reached episode 250! With the specials it is slightly more than that but 250 is a nice little milestone. Over the coming period, podcasts will be uploaded daily throughout the week, with nothing new added at a weekend to give everyone the chance to catch up!
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Tuesday, 7 June 2022
World Quizzing Champion
The results are in and it has been confirmed that Didier Bruyere has been crowned the 2022 World Quizzing Champion! Huge congratulations to Didier on a storming win, and certainly one that has proven popular in the quizzing community.
Saturday, 4 June 2022
Irish Quiz League
The latest season of the Online Irish Quiz League came to an end last week and the team I am lucky to be part of 'Risky Quizness' gained a promotion to Division 1 with a solid victory in the final week. The league is in its second season and is open to anyone who can commit to playing the games via Zoom on Monday evenings. The format is unique, with both no-free guess individual questions and conferring subject-choice team questions and its certainly a highlight of my recent online quizzing.
If you are keen to know more, take part next season or see recent sets then head over to https://quizireland.ie/ for more.
Friday, 3 June 2022
World Quizzing Championship
Good luck to everyone competing in the World Quizzing Championships tomorrow! Can anyone depose last years winner Ronny Swiggers? With two seasons outside of the top 3 will the Brits storm back? Could we see our first female winner? We will find out tomorrow....
Sports Quiz
As promised more content taken from my podcast. Hope the questions prove useful and don't forget to check the podcast out at the links in the previous blog entry!
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1 |
Which striker
scored twice for Chelsea as they defeated Manchester City 3-2 in the final of
the 2022 Womens FA Cup? |
Sam Kerr |
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2 |
Who is the
only driver to have won the Indianapolis 500, Daytona 500 and the Formula 1
World Championship? The latter of which came in 1978 |
Mario
Andretti |
|
3 |
Sticking with
Motoracing, which British female driver won the first W Series season in 2019
and retained the title in 2021? She is also a development driver for the
Williams Formula 1 team |
Jamie
Chadwick |
|
4 |
Which
Australian batswoman scored a leading 509 runs at the Women’s Cricket World
Cup in 2022 including 170 in the final against England? |
Alyssa Healy |
|
5 |
Which city
hosted the 2022 Invictus Games? |
The Hague |
|
6 |
Ridden by Sam
Waley Cohen, which horse won the 2022 Grand National? |
Noble Yeats |
|
7 |
The event now
known as The Billie Jean King Cup, was launched in 1963 under what name? |
The Federation
Cup |
|
8 |
Who is the
only snooker player from outside the UK to have completed the Triple Crown –
winning the World Championship in 2010, The Masters in 2012 for the first
time and the UK Championship for the first time in 2013? |
Neil
Robertson |
|
9 |
Who were the
first English team to win Rugby Unions European Cup? |
Bath |
|
10 |
Which current
St Helens Rugby League player, won the Golden Boot Award at the 2018 Rugby
League World Cup? |
Tommy
Makinson |
|
11 |
Which 19 year
old became the youngest ever winner of a senior darts world championship when
she won the women’s event of the WDF
World Darts Championships in 2022? |
Beau Greaves |
|
12 |
The NBA star
Joel Embiid was born in which African country? |
Cameroon |
|
13 |
Which South
African batsmen is the only man to have had six sixes in a single over in a
world cup game and was the first to do so in an international match? |
Herschelle
Gibbs |
|
14 |
In which
English county is The famous golf course “The Belfry”? |
Warwickshire |
|
15 |
Which Eritrean
cyclist became the first black African winner of a Grand Tour Stage in 2022
when he won Stage 10 of the Giro D’Italia? |
Biniam Girmay |
Thursday, 2 June 2022
3 Person MIMIR Quiz
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
Podcast Episode - TV Questions
Just in case you haven't delved into the podcast yet, I thought I would upload a few sets from the recent episodes to give you a flavour of what its all about. Here is a recent set from a TV focused episode
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1 |
In 2022, who
was announced as Jodie Whitakers replacement in the lead role of the BBC
Series Doctor Who? |
Ncuti
Gatwa |
|
2 |
Who was
the original actress of the character of Sam Mitchell in Eastenders with on
off roles between 1990 and 2016? |
Daniella
Westbrook |
|
3 |
What is
the name of the carved wooden bookend shaped like a woodpecker in the TV show
Bagpuss? |
Professor
Yaffle |
|
4 |
Parminder
Nagra plays the title role in which ITV Police Drama that first aired in 2022
and is set in a fictious Birmingham Police Force? |
DI Ray |
|
5 |
Bill
Compton, Sam Merlotte, Tara Thornton and Sookie Stackhouse are all characters
that appear in all 7 series of which fantasy drama series that began in 2008? |
True Blood |
|
6 |
Which
actor hosts his own “Fight School” in a show broadcast by the BBC? |
Idris Elba |
|
7 |
Which 2022
Miniseries, stars Colin Firth and Toni Colette, and concerns a writer who is
convicted of murdering his wife? |
The Staircase |
|
8 |
Which actress plays the older sister of the title character in Fleabag, Diana Ingram in Quiz and Martha Crawley in an adaption of Vanity Fair? |
Sian
Clifford |
|
9 |
Which TV
series won the BAFTA in 2022 for Best Drama? If focuses on a Welsh teenager
Bethan dealing with her mothers bipolar disorder and her own sexuality |
In My Skin |
|
10 |
Who plays
Michelle Obama in the TV series “The First Lady”? |
Viola
Davis |
|
11 |
This was
originally a novel by Audrey Niffenegger, then 2009 movie starred Eric Bana and in 2022
became a TV series starring Rose Leslie and Theo James. What am I talking
about? |
The Time
Travellers Wife |
|
12 |
Which
Netflix drama mini series centres on a the title character, played by Vivian
Kent, and is based on the real life tale of a Russian born women who cons
members of New Yorks elite into believing she is an Heiress with access to a
substantial fortune |
Inventing
Anna |
|
13 |
Who hosts
the ITV gameshow The 1% Club? |
Lee Mack |
|
14 |
Which show
that premiered in 2014, features Claire Randall as the main character, a
former World War 2 military nurse who is transported back from 1945 to 1743? |
Outlander |
|
15 |
Which 2022
series stars Clara Rudgard as Neve Kelly and is about a girl who finds out
she is dead? The plot revolves around her trying to find her killer and the
show is based on a Belgian series from 2017 |
The Rising |
Friday, 27 May 2022
British Buzzer Quizzing Championship
See below information on an upcoming Buzzer Quiz Event ran by Quizzing/BQA
Thursday, 19 May 2022
Magnusson -Trebek Trophy Final
Last weekend saw the season-ending tradition of the best of the OQL USA vs the best of OQL UK. The video above shows you the final in action with the champions for each division going head to head.
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
The Quiz Addict Podcast Returns!
The Quiz Addict Podcast is back!
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