Sorry about that, Chief
October 26, 2011 in Gilligan's, Quizzes
After a couple of weeks away, I returned to Gilligan’s for Tuesday quiz night last evening. The welcome was warm but the questions were hard.
At the end of the night, my team had scored a hard-fought 59. Pitiful on any other night but good enough for second place on this occasion, just two points behind the winning team.
I’ll give you a sample of how this state of affairs came about, after the Continue.
Questions:
- In which African country was presidential nominee David Norris born?
- How many British No.1s did Westlife have?
- The Bishop’s Palace in which county Roscommon town is currently for sale?
- What name is given to a triangle with all sides unequal? *
- What name is given to a four-sided shape in which only two lines are parrallel? *
- What breed of dog gets its name from the German word for splash?
- In which central European language does the word ‘ano’ mean yes?
- By what other name is GMT known?
- What was the name of U2’s first British No.1 single?
- Which poem ends with the verse: “He who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things, Asleep upon a chair.”?
- How many Israeli Shekels are equal to a Euro? **
- Who wrote The Maltese Falcon?
- Which island is the largest of the Greater Antilles?
- Which island is nearest to Lybia?
- During the 1960s, which TV character’s catchphrase was “Sorry about that, Chief.”?
- In manufacturing, what does the acronym SIN stand for?
- What was the original name of the Hoover Dam?
- Magnata is the ancient Roman name for which Irish city?
- In music, what does the term ‘Largo’ mean?
- What was the name of William Shakespeare’s final play?
- Which Irish port is believed to have been the entry port for the Black Death into Ireland in the 1340s?
- Who was mother to Edward V? ***
There was also a music round in which we somehow managed to guess our way to 5/8. I won’t be reproducing it here as I didn’t recognise all but one of the pieces.
And I doubt you’d be challenged either by Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries. 🙂
Update: answers here.
Footnotes:
* We got these right but I think they’re worth putting into the archive here.
** The exact answer given ended in .75. The quiz master accepted the numbers either side of that.
*** We also got this right but, for reasons I’ll explain tomorrow, we didn’t get a point for it.
Ger said on October 27, 2011
Winning score was 61? Nothing like a good tough quiz…and what little guilt I had for setting the quiz of 2 weeks back that had a winning score of 59 has now cleared my system! A brainy lot in Gilligans, they need to be tested! No point in an easy quiz I say!