Give me question ideas

Started by Last Hussar, 08 August 2025, 12:15:19 PM

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Quote from: Ithoriel on 08 August 2025, 04:20:41 PMNot this side of the Atlantic  :)

Yes, but that would make it an ideal pub quiz question(unless you consider"equally"
Too misleading.  :D
Encumbered by Idjits, we pressed on

Raider4

Who's the oldest (or youngest) - John, Paul, George or Ringo?

Last Hussar

Today's fun fact.
Autumn and Fall were both used pretty commonly in medieval England. After the new world was settled, Fall fell out of use in England, and Autumn in the colonies. Because they were separated by a big bit of water, and back in the 17th and 18th centuries there was little transfer between the two, the out of use one didn't get used.

I did consider the Beatles one, but as one team member is 'George' in the Dung Beatles, I tend to avoid Beatles questions.
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Last Hussar

QuoteWhich of the four cardinal points of the compass is not a Riding of Yorkshire?

South.

I am going with this one though. Thank you Nobby.
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Last Hussar

08 August 2025, 08:55:31 PM #19 Last Edit: 08 August 2025, 09:02:08 PM by Last Hussar
Does this work as a question?

QuoteOf the four canonical gospels of the New Testament, three are referred to as the synoptic Gospels because they include many of the same stories, often in a similar sequence and in similar or sometimes identical wording. Which of the main gospels is non-synoptic; that is it varies significantly from the other three, with different accounts in a different style?

That will be question 7 in the round, because it is so difficult. (I try to to start easy, bit tricky 3 and/or 4 , easier 5 an maybe 6, put the bad ones and 7, 8, and/or 9, then easier q10)
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Duke Speedy of Leighton

Quote from: Last Hussar on 08 August 2025, 08:42:36 PMI am going with this one though. Thank you Nobby.
He said it better than me
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Last Hussar

NEW TOPIC (But still need help)

Done a tabletop round (that is they get the sheets on the table rather than me read them out - usually because of pictures etc). This one is fantasy maps

I have
Wind in the Willows, Neverland / Peter Pan, Middle Earth / Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit, His Dark Materials, Wizard of Oz, Dante's Inferno – The Divine Comedy, A Song of Fire and Ice/Game of Thrones, Winnie the Pooh, Discworld/Ankh-Morpork, Earthsea by Ursula le Guin, Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion/the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Any more ideas? The map should be fairly recognisable, preferably the frontispiece etc (so official), and available online.

I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

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Ithoriel

Map of Azeroth - World of Warcraft.

Map of New Appalachia - Fallout 76

Map of the Empires of New Eden - EVE Online
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Gwydion

This is sort of fantasy - although the places are all real in Cheshire - From the Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner ( I grew up between Macclesfield and Macclesfield Forest and knew it well).
It's all about King Arthur's knights sleeping under Alderley Edge and the Wizard of Alderley.
Weirdstone of Brisingamen
The map is in the book.

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Duke Speedy of Leighton

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Last Hussar

I went through Alderley Edge once, managed not to get charged for looking at the houses.

Vaguely already considered Hyboreaa, wondered if too niche
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Techno 3

Best question (From Monty P, Live at Drury Lane.) ?

Quizmaster..." Which great opponent of Cartesian dualism, resists the reduction of psychological phenomenon to a physical state and insists there is no point of contact between the extended and the un-extended ?"

Mrs Scum...."I don't know that !"

QM.."Well, have a guess."

Mrs S...."Erm, Henri Bergson."

QM.."Is the correct answer !"

Mrs S.."Cor, that was lucky, I've never even heard of him."
I'll do this later