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Questions:

1. From which song do the following lyrics come? “The girls come easy, And the drugs come cheap, We’ll all stay skinny, Cos we just won’t eat” A> ‘Rockstar‘ by Nickleback
2. Who won the 2009 All-Ireland U21 mens football title? A> Cork
3. Who did Bohemians FC defeat in the 2008 FAI cup final? A> Derry City
4. How many points did Michael Jordan score in his 17 year NBA career? A> 32,292
5. Which river flows through Sligo town? A> Garavogue
6. True or False – No word in the English language rhymes with “orange”? A> True*

Picture round:

11. Jonathan Rhys Meyers
12. Oprah Winfrey
13. Russell Brand
14. Anthony Keidis
15. Seán Kelly MEP
16. Vijay Singh
17. Gerry McCann
18. Guy Ritchie
19. Chris Evans
20. Jake Gyllenhaal

We missed #16 there. Vijay didn’t look like Vijay on the original photocopy.

* Either a case of incorrect quizmaster or incorrect QI. As I’m thinking of doing a piece about QI’s inconsistencies anyway, I decided to hold my counsel in this instance.

Our local tag league hosted a table quiz for charity following last night’s programme of games, with almost all teams in the league entering a team. As we obviously had nothing else to do, our team entered three teams!

The questions were mostly* well-thought-out and the standard of answering was high.  The winning team finished up on 56 out of 60**, with my own brigade in joint-third on 54. Yes, it was that tight.

You can check out the picture round and the questions that defeated us by clicking on the continue…

Questions:

1. From which song do the following lyrics come? “The girls come easy, And the drugs come cheap, We’ll all stay skinny, Cos we just won’t eat”
2. Who won the 2009 All-Ireland U21 mens football title?
3. Who did Bohemians FC defeat in the 2008 FAI cup final?
4. How many points did Michael Jordan score in his 17 year NBA career?**
5. Which river flows through Sligo town?
6. True or False – No word in the English language rhymes with “orange”?

Picture round (in lovely photocopy-ovision):

Yeah, I know they’re numbered 11-20.  It didn’t make any sense at the quiz either.

Update: Answers here.

* There was a True or False round. I consider that a bit lazy really.

** The Michael Jordan quesiton was a ‘tie-breaker’, at the end of the Sport round. I’m not sure if it was used for scoring purposes.

With it, we are now done with the raking over of the luke-warm coals from last week’s Habitat for Humanity table quiz.

I’ve milked this for all its worth just in case it’s another 4 years before I get to write another one!

Answers after the more…

1. A> Toxic by Mark Ronson

2. A> Stairway to Heaven by Rolf Harris

3. A> Wonderwall by The Mike Flowers Pops

4. A> Smooth Criminal by Alien Ant Farm

5. A> A Hard Day’s Night by Peter Sellers

6. A> I Will Survive by Cake

7. A> Cry me a River by Glen Hansard

8. A> Independent Women by Elbow

9. A> Walk this way by Hayseed Dixie

10. A> Teenage Kicks by Nouvelle Vague

So how did you do overall? The winners of the quiz scored 91/120. Of course, I only present nine round here so your score can only be out of 110.

Hope everyone enjoyed it!

That’s right, we’ve done it our way here on the blog with our re-run of the Habitat for Humanity quiz taking almost two weeks, and all that for just nine out of the 10 rounds!

Here’s the final one. It’s an audio round: Dodgy cover versions.

It’s a simple concept, you’ll hear a clip of an unusual cover version of a well-known song and you have to say the name of the song and who’s doing this version. On the night, this round was worth 20 points as we wanted both answers for each song.

You’ll find the clips after the more…

Update: see how you did.

Here we go with the answers to the no-longer correctly titled On This Day round I posted earlier.

Go on, click more…

1. Which famous American University was founded on March 13 1639? A> Harvard
2. Which member of U2 was born on March 13 1960? A> Adam Clayton
3. Which planet was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on March 13 1781? A> Uranus
4. Thomas Watt Hamilton killed 16 children and a teacher on a shooting spree at a primary school in which Scottish town on March 13 1996? A> Dunblane
5. Which former British Prime Minister, better known for the blend of tea named after him, was born on March 13 1764? A> Earl Grey
6. A person celebrating their birthday on March 13 belongs to which star sign? A> Pisces
7. The founder of Scientology was born on March 13 1911.  What was his name? A> L. Ron Hubbard
8. Which social networking website was bought by AOL for $850m on March 13 last year? A> Bebo
9. Which war ended on March 13 1940? A> The Winter War or Soviet-Finnish War
10. When was the most recent year in which March 13 fell on a Friday before 2009? A> 1998

Right, we’re almost there now. Tomorrow is an audio round: Dodgy Covers.

Well, I’m afraid you’re wrong. And there’s still one to go after this! Even though this one here may seem a little out of date at this point.

To explain, this round was originally called On This Day, as it is based completely on questions to do with Friday March 13 (the night of the quiz). As it’s now Monday March 23, I’m worried that this ship may have sailed. Oh dear.

Anyway, click the more… if inquisitiveness, or an obsession for completeness, compells you.

1. Which famous American University was founded on this day in March 13 1639?
2. Which member of U2 was born on this day in March 13 1960?
3. Which planet was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on this day in March 13 1781?
4. Thomas Watt Hamilton killed 16 children and a teacher on a shooting spree at a primary school in which Scottish town on this day in March 13 1996?
5. Which former British Prime Minister, better known for the blend of tea named after him, was born on this day in March 13 1764?
6. A person celebrating their birthday today on March 13 belongs to which star sign?
7. The founder of Scientology was born on this day in March 13 1911.  What was his name?
8. Which social networking website was bought by AOL for $850m on this day March 13 last year?
9. Which war ended on this day in March 13 1940?
10. When was the most recent year in which March 13 fell on a Friday before 2009?

Update: here are the answers.

Answers:

1. What drink is the main ingredient in the cocktail Kir? A> Wine
2. What was invented by Percy Shaw? A> Cats Eyes
3. What was invented by Jethro Tull? A> The seed drill
4. What was invented by Jesse W. Reno? A> The escalator
5. What was invented by Fick, Calt and Muller? A> Contact lens
6. What is the capital city of Montserrat? A> Plymouth
7. What is the capital city of Fiji? A> Suva
8. In what year did band leader Glen Miller die? A> 1944
9. In what year did climber of Everest Sir Edmund Hillary die? A> 2008
10. Who scored the final point for Clare in the 1995 Munster Hurling final? A> Fergal Hegarty
11. Who is the deputy Mayor of Clare? A> Bill Chambers
12. With which Clare town is associated with traditional musician Mrs Crotty? A> Kilrush
13. In which country was Satsuma Porcelain created? A> Japan
14. Which English county contained 11 potteries in the 18th century? A> Staffordshire
15. Who painted the Angelus? A> Jean-François Millet
16. Who painted American Gothic? A> Grant Wood
17. “My love’s like the melody, that’s sweetly played in tune”. What song? A> A red, red rose
18. “The overpowering feeling that any second, you may suddenly appear”. What song? A> On the street where you live
19. What kind of animal is a bushmaster? A> Snake
20. In the song Spancil Hill, the singer’s sweetheart was whose daughter? A> Mack the Ranger
21. Who sang ’80s hit Broken Wings? A> Mr. Mister

Back to normality tomorrow, and round 10 of the HQ quiz.

By way of answering I’ve simply created a mirror of the earlier montage, but this time without the effects.  If you’re still drawing a blank then, the names are printed aswell!

Click more… to see

Answers:

1. Simon Cowell
2. Ryan Tubridy
3. Kathryn Thomas
4. Kate Winslet
5. Brian O’Driscoll
6. Bono
7. George W. Bush
8. Mary Coughlan
9. Pádraig Harrington
10. Madeleine Taylor-Quinn

They’re a bit easier with the filters, aren’t they?

When did it start? 8.20pm.  This is indicative of the timing problems that would plague this quiz. At 8pm Clare FM broadcast a news bulletin, followed by an ad break, followed by a Saw Doctors tune. Finally we got to hear the voice of the host but, even then, we still had to listen to his explanation of the rules, in detail once more, before we could kick off.

Round one (the Mixed Round) started off and the host flew through five general knowledge questions. This didn’t seem like a problem at the time as we knew them all. Great start, 5/5, easy!

Round two (Cocktails) followed very quickly. “Cocktails?” I asked out loud. “Good luck to ya, if you’re not a big drinker.” It turned out we weren’t big drinkers. We only knew three of them straight off but, as we do, we noted down the other two to mull over. The only problem being that we weren’t going to get and thinking time as the collectors were out of the blocks almost as soon as he’d finished repeating question 5.

This didn’t seem accidental though as, on air, the host almost immediately proceeded to round three (Inventions). We only got two of these right but I won’t complain about that. Questions are like the cards you’re dealt and everyone who’s in a quiz has to cope with them as best they can. What’s hard to understand though is structuring the quiz itself in such an awkward and unfriendly manner.

On the night there were 11 rounds (10 regular + 1 music). These were read out in bursts, 1-3, 3-6, 6-9 and finally 10-11.  In between these frantic questioning periods we were treated to at least four MOR tunes, several ad breaks and a lot of banter from the studio. While the banter wasn’t too bad (to be fair), it, the music and everything else smacked of filler. Why? Why rush through the rounds (which only had five questions each. Again, why?) and then appear to be padding out the show to fill its two hour running time?

I’m afraid to say it but we were nowhere near being competitive. I guess we need our thinking time. We finished on 33/55, which is pretty terrible. To misquote Larry Gogan, “they didn’t suit us.”  The winning team were based in Carrigaholt and they scored an unbelieveable 51/55 so congrats to them.

Here, to the best of my recollection, are the (20+) questions we got wrong. See how you do:

1. What drink is the main ingredient in the cocktail Kir?
2. What was invented by Percy Shaw*?
3. What was invented by Jethro Tull*?
4. What was invented by Jesse W. Reno?
5. What was invented by Fick, Calt and Muller?
6. What is the capital city of Montserrat?
7. What is the capital city of Fiji?
8. In what year did band leader Glen Miller die*?
9. In what year did climber of Everest Sir Edmund Hillery die?
10. Who scored the final point for Clare in the 1995 Munster Hurling final?
11. Who is the deputy Mayor of Clare?
12. With which Clare town is associated with traditional musician Mrs Crotty*?
13. In which country was Satsuma Porcelain created?
14. Which English county contained 11 potteries in the 18th century?
15. Who painted the Angelus?
16. Who painted American Gothic?
17. “My love’s like the melody, that’s sweetly played in tune”. What song*?
18. “The overpowering feeling that any second, you may suddenly appear”. What song?
19. What kind of animal is a bushmaster?
20. In the song Spancil Hill, the singer’s sweetheart was whose daughter?
21. Who sang ’80s hit Broken Wings?

I’ve put * on the few that we actually knew the answer to but the overwhelming need to rush, rush, rush caused us to discount/not discuss them.  Also I can’t give you the 22nd one we missed as it was a piece of harp music and I’m a bit rusty on the harp these days.

Update: Answers (belatedly) are here.

I attempted to address all these issues with this round in last week’s quiz. Firstly, the photocopying issue was taken out of play by the fact that we had our big screen in action and the pics were being shown on a loop with the round was on.  Secondly, instead of just showing you simple pictures, I hoped to get everyone to engage the brain by passing these photos through various Photoshop filters.

It worked better for some than for others! Anyway, click more… to have a look.

All the best. Answers coming later.