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QuizMusings: September 2014
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In which national capital was athlete Mo Farah born? Japan's second-highest volcano erupted this week, causing the deaths of at least thirty people. What is its name? Described as the largest electronic monitoring station in the world, in which English county is RAF Menwith Hill? 1979's Life in a Day. Was the debut album of which band? Ghent, Antwerp, and Valenciennes are all among the towns that stand on which major river of northern France, western Belgium, and the south-west of the Netherlands? Accord...
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QuizMusings: January 2015
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I'll try to write one of these a day for the next few days, but we'll see how that goes. Dubbed India's first "angry young man" for his Bollywood roles, which actor is regarded as one of the greatest in the history of Indian cinema, and starred alongside Rajesh Khanna in 1970s films such as Anand. Which 1977 surrealist horror marked the feature-length directorial debut of David Lynch? 1973) and Days of Heaven. 1978) were both works by which director? Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 film, The Conformist. Which...
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QuizMusings: October 2014
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Not posted that much recently - too much legal reading. :( Still, I've started a spreadsheet database of questions, which I add to when I find something sufficiently interesting / likely to come up (or so I think) in a future quiz. I'm going to extend the deadline for the second 100Quiz until the end of the month. Not got a chance to sort it all out yet but I will do. So, anyone who hasn't had a chance to enter yet, you've still got time to do so if you wish. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
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QuizMusings: August 2014
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Received some entries for the first 100 quiz - not as many as I was expecting, though. I'll extend the deadline for a few days to allow anyone who hasn't had a chance to enter yet to do so. Some very good scores so far. Been reading Simon Jenkins's excellent A Short History of England. Which was supposedly a symbol of the House of Anjou. And there's a load of other stuff I'd not known or forgotten. Lancaster City Quiz League. The new season starts in two weeks! Getting four (4) in the last game of last s...
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QuizMusings: World Quizzing Championship practice set
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World Quizzing Championship practice set. OK, with less than two weeks to go until the 2015 World Quizzing Championship, I've written a mini practice set consisting of five questions from each of the usual WQC genres. Only forty questions, but hopefully it'll provide a bit of revision and learning material for people, and hopefully you enjoy the questions! Here goes - answers for all the categories are at the end:. The title character in Miguel Ángel Asturias' novel, El Se. French poet Guillaume Apollina...
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QuizMusings: June 2015
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Question-writing - and some new questions. If anyone ever needs any questions writing, whether it be for pub quizzes or quiz leagues or whatever, feel free to send me an email at jackbennett@gmx.com and I'll reply as soon as I can. Competitive rates. The NBA team Golden State Warriors are based in which Californian city? Angel Falls, the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, drop over the edge of which flat-topped mountain in Venezuela's Canaima National Park? The musical Annie Get Your Gun. And came ...
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QuizMusings: July 2014
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Around a year or two ago, I was watching TV one day, bored, when I stumbled across a new quiz show - The Chase. Truth be told, I didn't know, but I sure was going to find out. And from there it started and spiralled. I've always had a fairly decent general knowledge for my age, I think - I remember having a pack of world capitals snap cards when I was younger, and I'd always had encyclopaedias and an interest in reading from a young age, but The Chase. Protozoa of the genus Plasmodium. Set Fire to the Ra...
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Quiz sites and other sites of local interest. Select a link from the lists below. Other web sites will be added gradually -. Association of British Quiz Leagues - umbrella organisation founded in 2012. Formed in November 2002 (as Quizzing) to support quizzing and organise events. Quiz site/blog posting twice weekly quizzes of a reasonable standard. The Belgian branch of the International Quizzing Association (IQA). A blogspot from a blogger based in Lancaster. Withington Pub Quiz League, South Manchester.
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QuizMusings: May 2014
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Which patriotic society, organised in the USA in 1890, stipulates that members must be directly descended from soldiers or patriots of the Revolutionary period? Which Italian painter, son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini, settled in Mantua in 1460, where his major works included nine tempera pictures representing the “Triumph of Caesar” (1482-92)? Are three albums by which English band, formed in Sheffield in 1978? First published in 1964, whose children's picture book, The Giving Tree. The first Central African...