What would YOU bring to the NSC pub quiz team?

mejonaNO12 aka riskit

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• Mar 11, 2014

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Pretty basic.

What area of KNOWLEDGE would you bring to a pub quiz team? What genre of question pops up and makes you instantly think "RIGHT. This is my moment".

It may not neccesarily be that you are anywhere near an expert in it...but perhaps you feel you would certainly gain your team points if a question on it was asked, whereas other teams may not know it.

Mine's WORLD FLAGS or PINK FLOYD.

Go.

 

edna krabappel

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Wine producing regions, particularly those of Iran

 

Simster

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• #4

Put me in for Geography, including world flags.

 

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halbpro

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• Mar 11, 2014

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Reasonably solid on sci-fi, computing comic books and cricket, as well a hodge of general scientific and political knowledge. Yes, I am a massive nerd.

 

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dougdeep

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SUNNY SEAFORD

• Mar 11, 2014

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Schpelling and Gramer

 

Socialist Sid

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Simster said:

Put me in for Geography, including world flags.

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Good for you there, Sim.

I knew I'd fail my geography o level when I couldn't find the classroom.

 

hans kraay fan club

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• Mar 11, 2014

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Good: Geography, Science, Pop, Sport (Football, Cricket, Olympic stuff)

Bad: Politics, History, Sport (Horse Racing and boxing)

"Bob Champion, Aldiniti" is about the TOTAL extent of my racing knowledge.

 

The Large One

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• Mar 11, 2014

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Your collective sorry arses to Dick's Bar next Friday night?

 

shaolinpunk

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• Mar 11, 2014

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Anything 'geeky'. Video games, films, superheroes...

 

mejonaNO12 aka riskit

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But who's bringing the BANTAAAA?

 

fire&skill

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• Mar 11, 2014

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Human Biology, pre-hospital healthcare and The Jam. Although I did make the mistake of writing 'Eton Rifles' in an Intro Round when it was in fact 'Going Underground. That was in 1987. Still haunts me to this day.

 

Badger

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• Mar 11, 2014

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Computing, physics, those cryptic Dingbats type rounds, geography (i.e. knowing where places are, not that other crap you had to learn at school)

I'm also REALLY good at knowing the answer after it's been read out.


When we used to do pub quizzes at uni we always made sure we took a history student, mainly because he only had about 2 hours a week in lectures and had the rest of the time free to absorb useless pieces of information.

 

mejonaNO12 aka riskit

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Badger said:

those cryptic Dingbats type rounds, .

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Thank god. I'm terrible on those.

 

Simster

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Badger said:

Computing, physics, those cryptic Dingbats type rounds, geography (i.e. knowing where places are, not that other crap you had to learn at school)

I'm also REALLY good at knowing the answer after it's been read out.


When we used to do pub quizzes at uni we always made sure we took a history student, mainly because he only had about 2 hours a week in lectures and had the rest of the time free to absorb useless pieces of information.

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Could you be smug and pompous and a total prick if you had the answers in front of you, but cerebrally challenged otherwise? If so, perhaps you should apply to be the next quiz master of university challenge if Jeremy Paxman ever quits?

 

Badger

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Simster said:

Could you be smug and pompous and a total prick if you had the answers in front of you, but cerebrally challenged otherwise? If so, perhaps you should apply to be the next quiz master of university challenge if Jeremy Paxman ever quits?

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I reckon I could pull off "holier than thou" and with the addition of my glasses I could get that smug look down to a tee.

 

KZNSeagull

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The Large One said:

Your collective sorry arses to Dick's Bar next Friday night?

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Make sure there are no questions on any of the subjects mentioned in this thread. That'll show 'em

 

The Large One

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KZNSeagull said:

Make sure there are no questions on any of the subjects mentioned in this thread. That'll show 'em

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Already written rounds about

• The history of Marmite and its derivatives
• Dadaism
• The life-cycle of Bird's Eye packaging
• The calculations behind Mies Van Der Rohe's Bauhaus designs

I'm keeping it light...

 

Bozza

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• Mar 11, 2014

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With 18,565 members in the team, I'd fancy our chances of winning.

Dividing up the £30 and bottle of vodka winnings might prove tricky however.

 

Tim Over Whelmed

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• Mar 11, 2014

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Sandwiches, and a large quiche