by John Nolan
December 22, 2011 in Gilligan's, Quizzes
Here are the answers to the questions posted last week in Now that’s what I call…
I’ll be back later today with a post about a very tough quizzing experience I had last night.
In the meantime, click on the Continue Reading… for the answers.
by John Nolan
December 15, 2011 in Gilligan's, Quizzes
… a Christmas quiz.*
The final quiz of 2011 took place in Gilligan’s, Claremorris, on Tuesday last and, fittingly, it was Christmas themed.
The picture round featured 12 “santas”, there was a round in which we had to name the carols which matched the cryptic clues and we had a round in which the questions were nothing to do with Christmas but the answers were homonyms of things that were. It was very well done.
I was on the same team for the second week in a row. That’s right, even though the tables are pulled from a hat, we three (kings) managed to end up together once again. Thankfully, while we hadn’t been anywhere near winning last week, this time we managed to take home the final prize of the year.
It turns out we know a lot about Christmas.
by John Nolan
December 6, 2011 in Gilligan's, Quizzes
Here are the answers to the questions posed in yesterday’s last week’s Delightful obscurity post. I’m sorry these took so long to appear on the site. I’ve had a very busy last few days. Chief among those activites which kept me away from the site was the upgrade to Mrs tablequiz.net’s website, leavingcertenglish.net. Check it out if you feel like being educated!
Anyway, let’s move on. Click the continue to see the answers.
by John Nolan
December 1, 2011 in Gilligan's, Quizzes
Not long after Mike’s post on questions and how, knowingly or unknowingly, the question setter may ease them for the benefit of the crowd hit this site, I attended the weekly Tuesday quiz in Gilligan’s Bar, Claremorris.
This week’s quizmaster was Mick, my recent team-mate on a couple of successful outings. He produced a quiz to savour with questions coming from all angles and obscure locations. He opened up with a round featuring songs with numbers in the title. Let me tell you, not alone had I not heard of some of the songs involved, but, in two or three of them, I’d never heard of the artist either!
That set the tone. A couple of rounds were played out to a soundtrack of audible groans from the crowd but, after Bruges and this week’s discussion on difficulty, I found it very entertaining. Why do we quiz if not to be challenged?
My favourite was a round on Shakespeare. Yes, we all know “Forsooth I know not why I am so sad…” but do you know what play it’s from? And which character said it? It turned out that I did, although it was an educated guess.
My team finished second on 83, behind the winners’ 91. These weren’t out of 100 though. Several of the rounds had 11 questions, many of them had multi-part answers (worth a point each and a bonus awarded to any team who got all) and the picture round had 22. Truth be told, I don’t know what the potential full score was!
by John Nolan
November 20, 2011 in Gilligan's, Quizzes
Here are the answers to the two quizzes worth of questions posed in Twofer won. Or should that be “two quiz’s worth”?
I’m on quiz master duty again on Friday evening. If you’re anywhere in the vicinity, please come on in to The Dalton Inn, Claremorris, for a quiz in aid of Claremorris Community Radio. Kick-off is scheduled for 8.30pm, tables of four are €40 and all are welcome!
Right, let’s get on to those answers.
by John Nolan
November 18, 2011 in Gilligan's, Quizzes
If only I had read the full title...
I have been very busy this past week and unable to come to the blog. However, this does mean that today I have a bumper, two-for-one blog for you.
Starting last Thursday, I’ve quizzed twice in the past week and, I’m happy to say, ended up on the winning team both times. The first of those was in The Loft Bar, in Ballina. Ger was the svengali behind this excursion, rounding up Pat and Mick, two of the regulars, at Gilligan’s the previous Tuesday night. Once there, we performed like a wonder team – even more than the sum of our parts – and won out by four points. It’s not often you get to score over 100 points in an Irish quiz so our 107/115 was something to savour. That said, the runners-up must have felt hard done by – they scored 103!
This quiz, which was in aid of Croí, featured three handouts, only one of which was a picture round. The other two were quite clever: Famous slogans and Anagrams of Irish towns. I’ve included them both below. One the whole the quiz was very well organised. We did suffer at the hand of some very pedantic marking though when we weren’t awarded the point for identifying Joe Frazier’s nickname correctly. What we wrote down: Smokin’. What they wanted: Smokin’ Joe. Even a trip to the correctors’ table by one of the guys didn’t result in any flexibility. Ah well, luckily it didn’t matter.
I hadn’t been to Gilligan’s on that previous Tuesday. My head needed some time to recover from Bruges. By all accounts it was a dramatic night with Ger’s team eventually winning on the sixth, sudden-death, playoff question. This Tuesday night my team-mates Mick (the same man as above) and Aidan ensured that the crowd would have no such drama – we scored 92/100 and won by three.
by John Nolan
October 28, 2011 in Gilligan's, Quizzes
Here are the answers to the questions posed in Sorry about that, Chief.
Don’t forget, I’m hosting a quiz in Claremorris tonight. It’s at 8.30pm in Warde’s Bar on Main Street. Please come along if you’re anywhere near! We’ve got some picture rounds, an audio round and a couple of Hallowe’en themed rounds. It should be a fun night.
Ok, on with the answers. I alluded to the fact that one of the answers called out the other night was wrong. To be more accurate, one of the questions was wrong.
by John Nolan
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.
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