23rd September 2008

Well another close finish in the Table Quiz, only 8 points seperating the 15 teams. This weeks winners were Just Us with 50 points in second place came Corner 5 with 48 points, the Golden Girls and We Three tied for third place on 46 points.
Family Fortunes and University Challenge got the bonus point for solving the anagram first.
Just us came top in the General Knowledge Quiz round with 40 points and 7 teams got all 10 Logo pictures on Financial Companies correct.
Most teams got the Pop Music Quiz question correct, answer Gerry and the Pacemakers. Everyone got the Sports Quiz question correct, answer Evander Holyfield.
No questions were disputed, but some teams still tried to pull the wool over my eyes, please find up to date table below.


GO WITH THE FLOW 45-54-54-42=1703 1st
UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE 47-54-49-45=1697 2nd
FRIENDS 46-48-46-45=1695 3rd
JAY'S MOB 43-54-49-44=1673 4th
PEANUTS 43-43-47-44=1641 5th
SQUABBLERS 48-54-47-42=1628 6th
GOLDEN GIRLS 49-50-51-46=1625 7th
CORNER 5 47-46-46-48=1622 8th
JUST US 43-43-49-50=1621 9th
WE THREE 44-43-43-46=1548 10th
FANDANGO 43-43-43-42=1483 11th
US GIRLS 43-43-43-42=1479 12th
FAMILY FORTUNES X-X-43-45=1468 =13th
THE IN-LAWS 43-43-43-42=1467 14th
THE BAR FLIES BOYS 43-54-43-42=1466 15th

Funquiznights - 16th September 2008

Go With The Flow win tuesdays table quiz by 3 points and stay top of the league, The Golden Girls came second but there was a three way tie for third place between Jay's Mob, Just Us and University Challenge.
Tie break question was in what year did whipping children become illegal (Short debate on whether it should of stopped) but back to the quiz, the answer was 1932 and Just Us were closer with 1896 so they took third prize.
Logos were this weeks picture quiz and Go With The Flow, Golden Girls, Friends & Corner 5 getting 10 out of 10.
The Anagram was solved first by Peanuts and Just Us so they got the extra point, one question was disputed about Welsh counties (Which is the only Welsh County not to have a coastline), the answer was Powys but Squabblers contested the answer and added that Wrexham was also correct. I have since checked and Wrexham is a County Borough, which is different from being a County and is not on any Welsh Maps as being a county.
Most interesting question was name the 5 largest planet in our solar system and for a bonus point if any team puts the in the correct order from largest to smallest of the five they get an extra point (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Earth) four teams managed to get them all in the correct order.
Listed below is the up to date league table including last nights game.


GO WITH THE FLOW 45 54 54 = 1661 1st
UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE 47 54 49 = 1652 2nd
FRIENDS 46 48 46 = 1650 3rd
JAY'S MOB 43 54 49 = 1629 4th
PEANUTS 43 43 47 = 1597 5th
SQUABBLERS 48 54 47 = 1586 6th
GOLDEN GIRLS 49 50 51 = 1579 7th
CORNER 5 47 46 46 = 1574 8th
JUST US 43 43 49 = 1571 9th
WE THREE 44 43 43 = 1502 10th
FANDANGO 43 43 43 = 1441 11th
US GIRLS 43 43 43 = 1437 12th
THE IN-LAWS 43 43 43 = 1425 13th
THE BAR FLIES BOYS 43 54 43 = 1424 14th
FAMILY FORTUNES X X 43 = 1423 15th

Funquiznight - 9th September 2008

Well what an exciting finish to tuesday's table quiz, a four way tie. Go With The Flow, The Bar Flies Boys, Jay's Mob and Squabblers all had 54 points. So a tie breaker question came into play(How many countries took part in the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, the answer 72) The Bar Flies Boys answered 89 so they were the nearest and won the quiz, with Go With The Flow and Jay's Mob taking second and third places.
The Picture Quiz on Television Shows, was shared by Jay's Mob and The Bar Flies Boys with 10 out of 10, a lot of teams went for Porridge but as the picture showed Ronnie Barker walking away from the jail, the answer was Going Straight.
Peter from University Challenge was very quick on the Anagram and came up with the correct answer "Written In The Stars" to earn his team an extra point.
Two general knowledge questions were queried "Which four countries share a land border with Italy" the answer being (Switzerland, Slovenia, France, Austria) Steve from Jay's Mob thought that San Marino was another, but it is classed as a Independant State within Italy just like the Vatican City.
The second disputed question was "In 1936, the American athlete Jesse Owens became the holder of the World 100 meters sprint record, what was his time" a few teams thought that meters were not used back then but yards. But after double cheking the answer, meters was correct.
So after tuesdays game Go With The Flow leapfrog over Friends to take top position with University Challenge in third place. The Bar Flies Boys won the quick fire quiz at the end so won the bottle of wine and completed the double.

2nd September Pub Quiz Report

The Pub Quiz this week went really well with University Challenge coming out on top with 47 points, closely followed by Friends and Go With The Flow.

We used the General Knowledge Pub Quiz with most teams scoring over 70%, the Logo Pub Quiz was a great success, remembering these famous brand company names was a lot of fun. Peanuts won this section with 19 correct answers out of 20.

Then came Fandango who came into there own on the Celebrity Pictures correctly recognizing all the faces of 20 Celebrities. But what won it for University Challenge was solving the Dingbat (Rebus) Puzzles with 12 correct Answers out of 12.

But everyone enjoyed the Questions and this told by how many correct Answers the teams came in with, so looking forward to another Table Quiz next week.

Your Quiz Master

John