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DriveVerySlowlyPastNumber23IWantThemToSeeMyHat · 22/08/2025 22:41

Pub Quiz question: 'How many months have 30 days in?'

What would your answer be?

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TheBeaTgoeson1 · 06/09/2025 10:03

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Ramona75 · 06/09/2025 09:39

Yup, all but 1 :-) There are some great quizzes and ideas here (https://quiztimeuk.etsy.com/listing/4364499825) if you need any, i've had a few quizzes from them and the visuals look great for a paper based quiz.

AmIEnough · 02/09/2025 07:48

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RavenhairedRachel · 30/08/2025 14:33

JudgeJ · 26/08/2025 10:37

Another attempt to rewrite the question! 'How many months have 30 days in', no 'strictly' or 'exactly', the word is 'in' and there are 11 months with 30 days in.

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Okayyyy Judgy judge J

SprayWhiteDung · 26/08/2025 11:10

JudgeJ · 26/08/2025 10:37

Another attempt to rewrite the question! 'How many months have 30 days in', no 'strictly' or 'exactly', the word is 'in' and there are 11 months with 30 days in.

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It all really just goes to prove the point of the question in the first place - the number of people who don't want to listen carefully to how a question is worded and then insist that it should be re-worded awkwardly as if it were a legal document to make it very clear that it's a 'listen carefully' question - rather than accept that they didn't listen carefully and assumed and then they lost the point as a result!

Taking it to extremes, I always remember an old episode of The Weakest Link where the question was asked to some reality show star who was abundantly clearly not the shiniest penny in the purse.

The question was "In which city in the English Midlands is there a famous bell known colloquially as 'Big Brum'?" The contestant obstinately insisted that the answer that Anne Robinson gave was actually wrong - the 'correct' answer had to be London, as they'd also got the name of 'Big Ben' wrong Grin

JudgeJ · 26/08/2025 10:37

RavenhairedRachel · 24/08/2025 18:09

If the question is worded as How many months have 30 days in them strictly speaking its 11. If its exactly 30 days then its 4

Another attempt to rewrite the question! 'How many months have 30 days in', no 'strictly' or 'exactly', the word is 'in' and there are 11 months with 30 days in.

ImWearingPantaloons · 25/08/2025 20:15

11

WifeOfAGemini · 25/08/2025 20:03

11

Kjpt140v · 25/08/2025 19:57

NoThanksNeeded · 22/08/2025 22:45

11 months have 30 days IN them. That's not up for debate

How many months HAVE 30 days is where you can get the debate over whether they mean have 30 days as the total (April, June, September, November) or have at least 30 days (all bar February)

Bull in a China shop

Kjpt140v · 25/08/2025 19:56

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saveforthat · 25/08/2025 13:50

SprayWhiteDung · 25/08/2025 13:07

What is the name of the main/central passageway in a traditional Christian church building, down which a bride will usually walk at her wedding?

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Nave.

SprayWhiteDung · 25/08/2025 13:07

What is the name of the main/central passageway in a traditional Christian church building, down which a bride will usually walk at her wedding?

SprayWhiteDung · 25/08/2025 13:05

JacquelineHigh · 25/08/2025 11:16

It's not a "trick" as so many people have said. It's basic reading and comprehension.

People saying 4 are answering a different question to the one asked.

I do agree with you; but I can see how different interpretations of the word 'trick' could legitimately be made.

I think that the phrase 'trick question' would often be understood to mean that a great many people would naturally be expected to assume a different answer - whether because of common (mis)understandings or a common way of thinking which means that many people will be liable to 'hear' a different question from the one that was actually asked.

JacquelineHigh · 25/08/2025 11:16

It's not a "trick" as so many people have said. It's basic reading and comprehension.

People saying 4 are answering a different question to the one asked.

Deepf60 · 25/08/2025 10:42

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Snakebite61 · 25/08/2025 10:41

DriveVerySlowlyPastNumber23IWantThemToSeeMyHat · 22/08/2025 22:41

Pub Quiz question: 'How many months have 30 days in?'

What would your answer be?

11

Seebothsides60 · 25/08/2025 08:17

11

PollyBell · 25/08/2025 01:15

RaininSummer · 24/08/2025 23:07

I hate those stupid questions. They are just designed to catch you out and either answer is kind of right whereas there should be one acceptable answer only.

There is only 1 acceptable answer

RaininSummer · 24/08/2025 23:07

I hate those stupid questions. They are just designed to catch you out and either answer is kind of right whereas there should be one acceptable answer only.

GeilistheWitch · 24/08/2025 22:10

DriveVerySlowlyPastNumber23IWantThemToSeeMyHat · 22/08/2025 22:41

Pub Quiz question: 'How many months have 30 days in?'

What would your answer be?

11: i.e. all of them apart from February.
Do you think it's a trick question?
Or did they really mean only exactly 30 days......in which case they should / would (if the question setters were worth their salt) have said so.
Will post this before I read the thread, as presumably you want "first thought" answers.

PUGMEISTER21 · 24/08/2025 22:08

DriveVerySlowlyPastNumber23IWantThemToSeeMyHat · 22/08/2025 22:41

Pub Quiz question: 'How many months have 30 days in?'

What would your answer be?

11 just Feb doesnt

Fluffmum · 24/08/2025 22:06

11

JohnTheRevelator · 24/08/2025 21:27

All of them, except February.

YowieeF · 24/08/2025 21:13

11

Tangyfan · 24/08/2025 19:52

11

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