Last Hussar's Quiz Night

[Gwydion]

1- Monopoly
2- Zero
3- One! but I presume you mean from 12 possible moves? [I just had a quick think about this instead of being smug - it's 20 possible moves isn't it? B*gger!] Edited for stupidity.
4- Little Wars (did I escape censure?)
5- Ludo
6- Can't remember - thought it varied?
7- Dungeons & Dragons
8- Wei Chi/Go
9- Draughts
10- Haven't a Scoobies - Castlemaine XXXX?

[Unmarked - I have my suspicions about which are right and wrong but I have not checked so if you copy any of this it's your own fault when we all end up in detention]

[Leon]

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?

Monopoly

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.

Eight?

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

Two?

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?

Little Wars

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?

Ludo?

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?

1000!

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

Dungeons and Dragons

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.

Chess

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

Pictionary?

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.

Not a clue. Extreme, Exciting, Excellent, Eggs.

[Last Hussar]

Don't tell Nobby, but Leon isn't the God of Eternity... He has AT LEAST one wrong!

[DecemDave]

Oh come on.  He clearly would delegate forum work to the assistant to the third deputy acting IT technician.  And anyway he was busy with my order placed Thursday afternoon and dispatched 26 hours later!!

[Raider4]

Answers to Round 1

6/10 here. Need another pint...

[Raider4]

Round 2

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

Pretty certain I've got 8/10 here (unless question 3 is a trick, in which case I'm out). The other two I don't have a clue.

[Last Hussar]

I haven't written 3 as a trick.

[Last Hussar]

6/10 here. Need another pint...

That makes it 7 out of 11!

[mollinary]

I haven't written 3 as a trick.

I am assuming it is 20. Eight pawns move one square, eight pawns move two squares, two knights dog leg to the right, two knights dog leg to the left. Or have I missed something?

[Gwydion]

That's what I thought - 20 as described - but you could (although why you would want to I haven't the foggiest) resign - so 21?
But of all those you are only allowed to carry out one move. So possibly only 1 legal move from all the above possibilities.

[Last Hussar]

White can only make one move, yes, but the question is how many do the have.

[sunjester]

White can only make one move, yes, but the question is how many do the have.

Be pedantic (what on this forum? ), I think white can only have one move, you are asking about how many potential moves. Knowing how people operate here (and how you run quizzes) it's no wonder some people assume it's a trick question!

[Last Hussar]

You think I would ask a trick question?

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

[Leon]

I just realised I've completely misunderstood question 3!  I thought it was how many moves the piece could make 'first', rather than how many potential moves could be made as your first move... 

[Last Hussar]

That's... not helpful...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Every piece can move, just not all of them are legal!
 

[Last Hussar]

I refer the ?honourable? gentleman to the answer I gave just a few moments ago.

[Last Hussar]

Answers to Games

1   "The Landlords game" was turned into its nemesis Monopoly.
2   Zero is the highest scoring digit, which scores thirteen. That is Zero, not Nought.
3   White has Twenty possible moves in chess. (16 for pawns, 4 for Knights)
4   HG Wells wrote 'Little Wars', which today we call a Wargame. Either of those is right.
5   'Play' in Latin is 'Ludo'
6   A Spanish suited deck has either 40 or 48 cards – either will do.
7   Gygax and Arneson are the original authors of Dungeons and Dragons.
8   The Chinese game is Go or Wei Qi, depending on whether you have the Japanese or Chinese name.
9   The game that means 'to draw' is Draughts
10   4X is an abbreviation of Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate – If you've played Civilization on your computer, that is a 4X game. Any order will do, and half a point for 2 right

[Last Hussar]

New Round - Pubs, Bars and Taverns

1   During which Musical does inn-keeper Monsieur Thénardier sing the show-stopper 'Master of the House'?

2   In which soap opera is the 'The Bull' the village pub?

3   In which fantasy city is the inn 'The Broken Drum' – You can't beat it! After it is burned down and rebuilt it is renamed 'The Mended Drum' – you will be beaten.

4   Which movie starts in the Club Obi Wan?

5   Which movie, the third of the 'Three Flavours Cornetto' trilogy, is about a pub crawl of twelve pubs that ends up at the titular pub, interrupted by an alien invasion.

6   The Prancing Pony sees the meeting of important characters in which seminal book?

7   George Orwell described his ideal pub in an essay in 1946. What was it called?

8   What is the name of either of the pubs located in the village of Hogsmeade in Harry Potter? I only want one – no bonus point for both.

9   In which movie does the lead character propose the plan "Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over" more than once?

10   The Black Prince, in Black Prince Road, Kennington, is a real pub that appears in which 007 pastiche, where the mentor character is shown using a lot of hi-tech weaponry during a pub fight?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Ohhh I actually know the answer to six of those.

But not saying the answers...