Need to see the official answers before I can post my score for this last round.

Rnd1: 7/10
Rnd2: 5/10
Rnd3: 5/10
Rnd4: 6/10
Rnd5: 2/10 [5/10]
Rnd6:

Ooh, I see I've just entered the Edwardian era.    [Posts: 1902]

Roy, no apology needed for me.
I was just playing - I know how much Ian (Lord Kermit) loves anything Welsh!
Sorry if I sounded like teddy was being prepared for defenestration - the large toothy grin was supposed to be disarming. Difficult to show nuance in text! Sorry.

I was seriously impressed with the Google translate. Much better than it used to be.

No need to apologise, as long as I know everyone is taking this light hearted,  I'm fine. It's just "Fun Stuff" thread that I hope everyone is enjoying. I'm more worried I am boring you all!

It isn't boring me.

I was heavily involved, including running an English Premier League (football)/Euro's winners prediction game for years over on the Steve Dean figure painting forum. Won the League version twice and the Euro's once (winning for myself a couple of trophies to sit under my forum username badge). The admin for those games lasted months, with record keeping/trivia and online updates, posted on the forum and on Facebook.

I, also, played in that forum's "Fight Club" games. Again, later on, running the last one.

I participate in forum fun stuff more than the regular stuff, normally.

   Exactly what it says on the tin, answers.

1   Rio Grande means 'big river'.

2   Zhanmadao means 'horse chopping sword'

3   The Welsh for short is cor, and for legs it is ci, so the Welsh corgi.

4   The beer is India Pale Ale – it was ale meant to be taken to India, and the lots of hops needed for the journey gave it a pale colour.

5   The sauce made of apples is apple sauce.

6   The islands are 'Micronesia'

7   "The World's Largest Hedge Fund Is a Fraud" was written about Bernie Madoff.

8   The Great Sandy Desert is the second largest desert in Australia.

9   The canyon that is grand is the Grand Canyon.

10   The air flight with Samuel L Jackson is 'Snakes on a plane'.


You can argue with me all you like on number 3, but I will remind you of the First Rule of Pub Quizzes - The Quizmaster is always right.

New Round

0   Late 2023 Events – News stories from September to December 2023

1   In September 2023 the Guardian newspaper reported that two prospective candidates for election had been dropped following warnings from MI5 to the Conservative Party. What did MI5 say the problem was?

2   A Victorian tradition of a Dahlia exhibition at which famous monument has taken place again in October 2023?

3   In October 2023 what did engineers hang from the Millennium Bridge in London in compliance with an ancient law, to warn river traffic that work was taking place on the bridge?

4   What happened in Iceland on 24 October 2023, repeating the same event from 1975?

5   Britain hosted an international conference about AI at the start of November 2023. Where was this held?

6   The first one happened 10 March 1801, the most recent in 2021. As of November 2023 the government is proposing this is also the last. What is it?

7   Why has Hugo Keith been in the news a lot?

8   In November 2023 Nestle caused dismay among customers with their announcement to discontinue which confectionary?

9   What do Swedish politician Carl Bildt, Danish politician Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Latvia's Krišjānis Kariņš, Ireland's Micheál Martin, Laurent Fabius of France, Bjarni Benediktsson and Kalevi Sorsa of Finland have in common with David Cameron? (Keep it clean, gentlemen...)

10   Who called on Ant and Dec to end 'appalling abuse of animals' on I'm A Celebrity

QuoteExactly what it says on the tin, answers.

5 The sauce made of apples is apple sauce.

Technically a puree not a sauce. Which, as it turns out, Wikipedia points out. Unlike Apple Butter which, having checked Wikipedia, it identifies as a sauce. But since Apple Sauce was my first thought I'll give myself 10/10.

The text on Wiki has since changed (I've just looked) to

QuoteApple sauce is a purée (not necessarily served as a true sauce) made of apples.

However at time of writing the question it was defined as "A sauce made of apples". That made me laugh, so I made it into a quiz question.

Last but one quiz-I know I said it before but #3 answer is unequivocally, without doubt 100% wrong.
Cor = dwarf (or spider) or with a to bach (cȏr) choir. But not 'small'.
Ci = dog.
No mention of legs at all.

+1 to my post count 

Rnd1: 7/10
Rnd2: 5/10
Rnd3: 5/10
Rnd4: 6/10
Rnd5: 2/10 [5/10]
Rnd6: 7/10

Ah! People arguing with the quiz master ... feels like a real pub quiz now!

+1 to my post count 

Rnd1: 7/10
Rnd2: 5/10
Rnd3: 5/10
Rnd4: 6/10
Rnd5: 2/10 [5/10]
Rnd6: 7/10
Rnd7: 1/10

Don't think a lot of those news stories made it into the Darlington & Stockton Times (D&S Times). Got number one correct, forgot the answer to number four until I did an Internet search & remembered seeing it on the news.

Do feel free to post your answers here.

Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 March 2024, 06:32:57 PMAh! People arguing with the quiz master ... feels like a real pub quiz now!

Not arguing.
I'm right!

Without looking:

1. China, spies, maybe.
2. No idea.
3. A peasant? No idea.
4. A women's strike
5. Nope, can't remember
6. Census? I think
7. He's a barrister - so making tons of dosh, but why...? No idea.
8. Er, no.
9. Former prime ministers who became foreign ministers?
10. No idea but I'll guess Chris Packham as he is always ... being active