I am running a quiz (for fundraising) - I need some current affairs questions please?

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So far I have:

1)Which Southampton football club player was recently fined £96, 425 for driving offences?

Answer: Mario Lemina – the fine was for failure to disclose who was driving his car rather than the actual speeding offences

2)Which veteran Labour MP recently (August 2018) resigned the whip after claiming that Corbyn’s leadership is “a force for anti Semitism”?
Answer: Frank Field, MP for Birkenhead for the past 40 years. He claimed that Labour was increasingly “seen as a racist party” and that Mr Corbyn has done “nothing substantive” to address the issue
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I need some difficult ones to sort out the men (and women) from the boys (and girls)..as well as some more moderate to easy questions

I avoid the news mostly so would appreciate some suggestions. Cheers

Thanks

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I know there are some super intelligent well informed posters on Mn….

I'm going out briefly. Fingers crossed for some suggestions when I get back....

I think those questions are too difficult, and the second one is borderline inappropriate to be honest. If you must be political, keep it non-controversial, e.g

Who was the first female Speaker of the House of Commons?

Betty Boothroyd (fairly easy)

And which constituency did she represent as an MP?

West Bromwich

Or, which year did she become speaker?

1992

It’s best to have easier questions that have a more difficult counterpart, than just difficult ones that have people grumbling for various reasons rather than concentrating on the quiz.

Q1 will be quite easy for the quiz goers as its the local Premiership football club and has been all over the local rag

Really re Q2? The news is often controversial though, no? I personally don't agree with Frank Field but it has been big news this week (and so a fairly easy question?) and I am just 'quoting' him. I could reword to say "which Labour MP controversially claimed...." to demonstrate no political bias?

You need to give questions that people could have a fair guess at, even if they don't know the answer.

I'd be pretty pissed off with either if those questions.

Quizzes are supposed to be enjoyable, not an opportunity for the quiz master to show off, which is what comes across with those two examples.

There is nothing, and I mean nothing more boring than a table quiz where the questions are too hard. People get bored and hacked off.
My friend and I recently did a table quiz. We used Trivial Pursuit (a recent version) for the questions.
General knowledge round, sports round, history, geography etc. There was a ‘flags’ round which was good fun and popular.
I announced at the beginning that we had taken the questions from TP, so that answers were the ones in TP, and if anyone had an issue with an answer to take it up with TP not me!
Everyone said after it was good fun and the questions were fair. You can put some of the harder TP ones in.
We raised over £1000!

I agree that more general questions would be better.

E.g.- Which constituency is represented by the Prime Minister?

• Who is the Secretary of State for the Environment?

They allow a bit of chat between teams and allow people who don't know much about politics to guess at an answer without looking stupid.

Who was caught in the eye of a media storm this week following ''punchgate''?
(Roxanne Pallett Celebrity Big Brother)

Which classic movie memorabilia were located this week 13 years after being stolen?
(Wizard of Oz Ruby slippers)

Jebi wreaked destruction in Japan this week. What was it?
(typhoon)

What were found off the West coast of Scotland last week?
(tropical sunfish)

I think the football one is ok if its local and you have named the club. Assuming he's a well known player rather than one on the fringes and only widely heard of because of the offence.

The Frank Field one, just say "which veteran Labour MP resigned the party whip in late August?".

Really, buy a weekend newspaper or a copy of The Week magazine and find a few things there.

People enjoy questions they can guess and discuss. I'd go for something like

"There are x members of the cabinet. What percentage of them are men?" . Then give three possible answers.

Also current affairs can include anything that's been in the news so include celebs, royals, quirky human interest stories etc. We always had one lady on our team who would sit bored stiff through literature, history etc but perk up when we got a round of celeb gossip questions

How about not avoiding the news and looking on the BBC website?

Watch Have I Got News for You or listen to The News Quiz Podcast?

As an aside, how do they stop people just googling the answers these days? I have visions of people tapping away at phones hidden in handbags, under tables etc? I know it's not in the spirit, but some people will surely be tempted.

In quizzes I've been to recently people keep their phones in pockets/bags, its not the done thing at all to have one visible during the questions.

Q2 is ok but stop after the word 'whip'. The rest is unnecessary.
We did a quiz at school last term and the fellow PTA member who set the quiz had no experience of the type of questions to set so the first 10 were so complicated that no-one could understand the questions let alone come up with the answers. People got irritated and lost interest. We had to have a break so she could go through the remaining questions with someone else and cut out the impossible ones.
It may be a fundraiser and a chance for people to show off their general knowledge but it also needs to be fun.

How about Brexit acronyms? People can guess... Or come up with funny ones?

Some great suggestions here - thank you. I will certainly be using punch gate and other questions - I am mindful that out of 10 questions per round I would like to split it so that there are approximately 5 easy questions (which includes the likes of 'punchgate'), 3 moderate questions and 2 harder ones. I know 90% of the people who are attending so I am familiar with their 'level' if you know what I mean (and a good few of them are whip smart). Have thought of another one - 'which minor royal is tying the knot and marrying her long term beau in October'?

I like the flags round too. Easy to do

I also like the idea of putting in questions where people can guess / discuss

"Quizzes are supposed to be enjoyable, not an opportunity for the quiz master to show off, which is what comes across with those two examples"

Bit rude. I did do a quiz for the PTA around 10 years ago and I came up with all the questions for that one. People really enjoyed it so I can't be that crap at it!

Which veteran Senator and former Presidential candidate recently passed away?

In which British town did the Novichok poisoning take place ?

What is the name of Robbie Williams wife who has recently joined him as an X Factor judge?

All current and not too tough

"In which British town did the Novichok poisoning take place ?"

Ha! that would be a gift to quiz goers since Salisbury is literally down the road. I might put it in though because 100% will get it correct so it will give folk the feel good factor

I had to google the answer to the veteran Senator and former Presidential candidate

I think what they're trying to suggest is the questions you suggested are too hard and a bit complex for what we presume to be a fun and friendly charity quiz night?

The whole point of the quiz night is for everyone to enjoy themselves, so you need to focus on questions that need a bit of thought but not too much if you get what I mean?

What rounds are you thinking of?
I think the flag ideas that was suggested is good, you can have 5 really obvious flags, 3 that are similar to other countries and then some more obscure ones?
Current affairs = do some celeb gossip, I like which MP recently resigned from Labour, you could do who is the speaker of the house of parliament, name of Donald trump golf course in uk, what is the name of Scottish parliament, what percentage voted for brexit. But try keep the political questions light hearted and only a few.
Literatute= easy ones like who wrote some childhood favourites, then more classic literature books, and then maybe a what book is this famous quote from?

I think you can still ask the Frank Field question in a less convoluted way

Which Labour MP, who represented Birkenhead for over 40 years resigned this week?

Watch out for ambiguity.

Which Novichok poisoning? The first one with the two Russian people earlier this year, or the second incident where the woman died? The first one was in Salisbury and the second one somewhere else.

Here's a goody but a toughy!

What are The Duke And Duchess Of Sussex's legal first names?

Answer : Henry and Rachel