Last Hussar's Quiz Night

[Last Hussar]

I am one of the quiz masters in the pub.

I will post a round here every so often - see if you can answer them WITHOUT LOOKING THEM UP. I'll post the answers after a couple of days, then another round.

Could they have met?

I'm going to give you the name of two famous people, and you have to decide if they could have met.  They don't have to have actually met, I just want to know if they were alive at the same time, i.e. the older dying after the birth of the younger.

1   Alan Turing, inventor of modern computing, and Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft.

2   King George 5th and the current Queen, Elizabeth 2nd.

3   Johann Sebastian Bach, famed composer, and Ludwig van Beethoven, famed composer.

4   The little tramp, Charlie Chaplin, and the man who played him in the film 'Chaplin', Robert Downey Jr.

5   Famed Prussian Emperor and General Frederick the Great, and famed French Emperor and General Napoleon Bonaparte?

6   Inventor of the modern Police service, Sir Robert Peel, and inventor of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

7   The First Doctor in Doctor Who, William Hartnell, and the 13th, Doctor, Jodie Whitaker.

8   Oliver Hardy, of Laurel and Hardy, and comedian Paul Merton, Laurel and Hardy super-fan.

9   Christopher Columbus, who found the Caribbean while trying to get to China, and cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, who coined the term 'America' for the new world.

10   King James I and King James II.

[Raider4]

2 King George 5th and the current Queen, Elizabeth 2nd.

Think your quiz paper is a little out of date...

Nice idea though. Will sit down and have a go later.

[Last Hussar]

Yeah, this round is from a couple of years ago!

[mollinary]

I am one of the quiz masters in the pub.

I will post a round here every so often - see if you can answer them WITHOUT LOOKING THEM UP. I'll post the answers after a couple of days, then another round.

Could they have met?

I'm going to give you the name of two famous people, and you have to decide if they could have met.  They don't have to have actually met, I just want to know if they were alive at the same time, i.e. the older dying after the birth of the younger.

1 Alan Turing, inventor of modern computing, and Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft. No

2 King George 5th and the current Queen, Elizabeth 2nd. Yes

3 Johann Sebastian Bach, famed composer, and Ludwig van Beethoven, famed composer. Yes

4 The little tramp, Charlie Chaplin, and the man who played him in the film 'Chaplin', Robert Downey Jr. No

5 Famed Prussian Emperor and General Frederick the Great, and famed French Emperor and General Napoleon Bonaparte?  Yes

6 Inventor of the modern Police service, Sir Robert Peel, and inventor of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. No 

7 The First Doctor in Doctor Who, William Hartnell, and the 13th, Doctor, Jodie Whitaker. No 

8 Oliver Hardy, of Laurel and Hardy, and comedian Paul Merton, Laurel and Hardy super-fan. No

9 Christopher Columbus, who found the Caribbean while trying to get to China, and cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, who coined the term 'America' for the new world. Yes

10 King James I and King James II. No

I await the judgement of Solomon!

[Raider4]

I await the judgement of Solomon!

Aren't we supposed to pass our answer sheets to the group on the next table? 

[Last Hussar]

Any others? Don't have my answers to hand, but pretty sure Mollinary didn't get 10 right.

[Roy]

I marked my own paper and got 7/10 correct. Some were educated guesses, the wrong answers were guesses, a few I definitely knew. (I used Google for the dates)

How I did based on my answers to the questions:

1. Correct      Alan Turing. Bill Gates.
2. Correct      King George 5th. Queen Elizabeth 2nd.
3. Correct      Johann Sebastian Bach. Ludwig van Beethoven.
4. Correct      Charlie Chaplin. Robert Downey Jr.
5. Correct      Frederick the Great. Napoleon Bonaparte.
6. Wrong       Sir Robert Peel. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
7. Correct      William Hartnell. Jodie Whitaker.
8. Wrong       Oliver Hardy. Paul Merton.
9. Wrong       Christopher Columbus. Martin Waldseemüller.
10. Correct     King James I . King James II.

[DecemDave]

Impressive scores.  Despite my younger relatives believing I have lived long enough to have possibly met all of them, I got 3!!   

[Roy]

I have to say that some of the ages/death dates of a few of the notables surprised me. Including some of them I got correct.

[Last Hussar]

Aren't we supposed to pass our answer sheets to the group on the next table?

Make sure you don't upset them, or they may take revenge with their marking.

[fred.]

I marked my own paper and got 7/10 correct. Some were educated guesses, the wrong answers were guesses, a few I definitely knew. (I used Google for the dates)

How I did based on my answers to the questions:

1. Correct   Alan Turing. Bill Gates.
2. Correct   King George 5th. Queen Elizabeth 2nd.
3. Correct   Johann Sebastian Bach. Ludwig van Beethoven.
4. Correct   Charlie Chaplin. Robert Downey Jr.
5. Correct      Frederick the Great. Napoleon Bonaparte.
6. Wrong      Sir Robert Peel. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
7. Correct      William Hartnell. Jodie Whitaker.
8. Wrong      Oliver Hardy. Paul Merton.
9. Wrong      Christopher Columbus. Martin Waldseemüller.
10. Correct    King James I . King James II.

Roy - are the correct / wrong's whether you got it right or wrong. Not if there was an overlap or not?

[Orcs]

I think the idea is you answer the questions privately.

Its a bit of a spoiler to have someone's marked answers posted
 

[mollinary]

I marked my own paper and got 7/10 correct. Some were educated guesses, the wrong answers were guesses, a few I definitely knew. (I used Google for the dates)

How I did based on my answers to the questions:

1. Correct   Alan Turing. Bill Gates.
2. Correct   King George 5th. Queen Elizabeth 2nd.
3. Correct   Johann Sebastian Bach. Ludwig van Beethoven.
4. Correct   Charlie Chaplin. Robert Downey Jr.
5. Correct      Frederick the Great. Napoleon Bonaparte.
6. Wrong      Sir Robert Peel. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
7. Correct      William Hartnell. Jodie Whitaker.
8. Wrong      Oliver Hardy. Paul Merton.
9. Wrong      Christopher Columbus. Martin Waldseemüller.
10. Correct    King James I . King James II.

I got seven as well,  but I am not saying which seven!

[Roy]

Roy - are the correct / wrong's whether you got it right or wrong. Not if there was an overlap or not?

Whether I got it right or wrong. I've not given away any answers. "Correct" or "Wrong" does not correspond with whether the two were alive, or not, during the same time period.

How I've written it is this:
Question Number.     My Answer Was.      The Two People In Question.

[Roy]

I think the idea is you answer the questions privately.
Its a bit of a spoiler to have someone's marked answers posted

Totally agree.

That's why I didn't scroll down the thread, in case anyone had done so.

If anyone assumed that I had done so, not saying anyone did, you understand, then I can only apologise. Sorry.

[mollinary]

I think the idea is you answer the questions privately.

Its a bit of a spoiler to have someone's marked answers posted
 

I have merely put down my answers, not which ones were right or wrong, so no spoilers from me! 

[fred.]

I think the idea is you answer the questions privately.

Its a bit of a spoiler to have someone's marked answers posted
 

Of course - but after a day I'm not too sure having the answers available is a big issue - especially if they are 10 posts or so later. It would certainly be more convenient. I attempted to share with my wife and daughter over tea - but then realised that what I'd thought were the answers as first glance weren't. 

[Last Hussar]

Things I didn't expect to cause a meta disagreement: This! 

I will post the answers, my assumption is what is posted is just people's guesses. Given the prize is "feeling of smug you knew" I don't think it matters if someone posts their answers, you'll know if you knew.

[Last Hussar]

Answers to Round 1

1   No. Turing committed suicide in 1954, while Gates was born in 1955.

2   Yes, George died in 1936, and the Queen was born in 1926.

3   No, Bach died in 1750, while  Beethoven was born 1770

4   Yes – Chaplin died in 1977, and Downey was born in 1965.

5   Yes – Frederick died in 1786. Bonaparte was born in 1769.

6   No, Peel died in 1850, Conan Doyle was born in 1859

7   No, William Hartnell died in in 1975, and Jodie Whitaker was born in 1982

8   Yes, just – Hardy died in August 1957, while Paul Merton was born in July 1957.


9   Yes. Waldseemuller lived 1470 to 1520, while Columbus bumped into the Caribbean but not the main land, in 1492.

10   No. James I died in 1625, while his grandson James II was born in 1633.

[Last Hussar]

Round 2

Games (Anyone who gets a certain ones of these wrong should be banished from the forum...)

1   Which game was originally called 'The Landlord's Game" and was invented to show how property owners became rich from the work of ordinary people?

2   Of the ten digits, which would score the most when played as a word in English language Scrabble? Write the word, not the digit.

3   How many legal first moves does White have in chess?

4   Author HG Wells wrote rules for toy soldiers, what he described as "a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books". How is it known?

5   Originally coming from a sixth century Indian board game, which race game for two to four players has the name which means 'Play' in Latin?

6   We are familiar with French Suited playing cards, which are 52 cards in a pack. Excluding jokers, how many playing cards are in a Spanish suited deck of cards?

7   Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson published which genre-defining game in 1974?

8   Which game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game? continuously played to the present day? It was the last game which A-I became good enough to beat the world champion.

9   Which common board game gets its name from the verb 'to draw' – draw as in the verb move?

10   If a game is described as a 4X game, what 4 things does the X stand for – half a point if you get 2.