Here are the answers to yesterday’s post, Quizzing with Sea The Stars.
They’re hiding after the Continue link.
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Towards the end of the Summer, we (my family) moved house. We moved two hours north to the Roscommon/Mayo border.
This has put a slight dent in my quizzing calendar as I’m slowly coming to terms with living in a new place with a different quizzing ’scene’. Truth be told, until yesterday I’d only heard of one quiz taking place and that, alas, happened on the night before my morning on the Ray D’Arcy Show quiz.
Yesterday morning, I received a call from my wife. She’d heard that there was a big quiz taking place in Claremorris later that night. “That’s great,” I said, “but unless you hear of a team looking for someone, it’s a bit short notice.”
10 minutes later she rings back. “Turns out the guy who told me about the quiz is actually looking for a fourth team member…”
“I’m in!”
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I received an email from Presentable Productions at the end of last week informing me that they are currently seeking contestants for the upcoming series of Only Connect on BBC Four.
Only Connect is a particularly hard quiz in which teams of three are presented with clues/facts and have to work out the connection between them. You can find some examples of these on its Wikipedia page.
If you’d like to take part, and you’ve got two willing mates, you have until midnight on November 10th to email contestants@presentable.co.uk
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For those who didn’t manage to listen in to Today FM for yesterday’s match in the Ray D’Arcy Show All-Ireland Quiz, I’m sorry to report that my team, Universally Challenged, were defeated by 4 pts.
It was a tough defeat, as we only lost one of the three rounds. Alas, it was the 1v1 buzzer round, the only one which allows for a large gap between the teams, and that’s what happened to us. At the end of that round, we were trailing by 16 pts to 9 and, with a maximum of 9 pts available for the final round, it was always going to be very unlikely that we could turn it around.
We did our best and, indeed, we did win the final round by 9 pts to 6, but that left the final score at:
The Mathemagicians 22 – Universally Challenged 18
“But, sure there’s always next year…” we’ve already been told by several, well-meaning friends.
Perhaps. It’ll depend on a few things. Firstly, will the Ray D’Arcy show team decide to do it again? Secondly, if they ever chance upon this blog, I hope they’ll take some advice and tweak the format of the live quizzes slightly.
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It’s now less than 24 hours until our team, Universally Challenged, will be live, on national radio, for our knockout round of the Ray D’Arcy Show All-Ireland Quiz.
If you’d like to hear how we get on, or even just want to know what I sound like, then tune in to Today FM (that’s 100-102 MHz in Ireland) or else click on the “Today FM Live!” link in the top-right of www.todayfm.com
We’ll be on-air from about 11.20am tomorrow (Wednesday) morning, in what will be the penultimate first round match.
Wish us luck!
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As you must now be aware, this blog primarily concerns itself with my experiences on the table quiz circuit. By now you also know that’s just as glamourous as it sounds!
Well, just like any good pro (or determined amateur), I find that it’s impossible to put the brain to rest just because you’re not actually taking part in a competitive event.
The sport similie breaks down at this point though as I’ve never been the type who prepares for quizzing like it’s a sporting event. I’ve known some – reading through almanacs and encyclopaedia on their spare time. One day, when I was in college, I popped into a service station to pick up some sweets to find a quizzing acquaintance working the till. It had been a quiet afternoon for him, obviously, as he had a copy of that year’s Who’s Who open on the counter. Not my idea of a fun read.
So, obviously I play along with other quizzing endeavour when I can. Here are some of my favourites.
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A final post on last week’s Sligo qualifier for the All-Ireland Quiz. Here’s a short video I recorded as Ray D’Arcy announced the final scores.
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Here are the answers to the 10 questions I posted earlier in the Quality All-Ireland Quiz article.
I was listening to the show this morning and Ray revealed that the questions were written by the same man who did them for Blackboard Jungle (the quiz show, not the movie), back in the day. That’s kinda cute IMO. I do wonder what this fellow’s been doing in the meantime though?!
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The opening round of the Ray D’Arcy Show All-Ireland Quiz took place in Sligo last night with myself and my team-mates in attendance.
The aim of the night was to find four teams who would then go through to 1v1 knockout rounds, live on Today FM, in October. I’m delighted to say that you’ll be hearing our voices on-air next month as our team, Universally Challenged, managed to finish in the top four – just!
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Here are the answers to the questions I posted in the Back in the game… post yesterday morning.
There are a couple of these that are dodgy. For instance Q1, Q3 and Q13 had more than one name for the right answer. Then, I opened up the business section of a certain Sunday newspaper to see a front page story declaring that the film they announced as Q8’s answer had been beaten into second place in this summer’s cinema takings (in Ireland anyway) by The Hangover. Bad luck to the organisers if this fact changed in the four days following the quiz. Otherwise they must have been wrong.
As usual, we play the ball as it lies and we’ll be back there again at the start of next month for the 2008 quiz.
Regarding the answers below: If you got them all right, here’s a bit of advice: send off your application to become a question writer for Trivial Pursuit: Game of the Year Edition right away. 
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