To ask you all to share your favourite quiz questions?!

[stressedmum95]

I stupidly got my weeks mixed up and have just realised I'm supposed to be hosting a zoom quiz tomorrow night (not next week!) I've done a little prep and got a good advertising section together I think (slogans and pictures) but I really need good general knowledge/geography etc

The guy who done last weeks quiz was brilliant (wasn't too hard all questions you knew you should know the answer to iykwim) and I thought at the time how glad I was I didn't have to follow his class act now it turns out I do have to

Deffo steal Jimmy Carr's quiz questions. He does a good one with 3x chapter names from dvds. Guess the movie from the 3 chapter names.

What language do they speak in Iceland? (Icelandic)
Add the same three letters, in the same order to each end of ergro to make an 11 letter word (UNDergroUND)
Who would you greet respectfully by kissing the Fisherman's Ring? (The Pope)

Geography - the most Westerly capital city in Europe? (Reykjavik)
The river on which Lisbon stands? (Tagus)
Which city is at the mouth of the Rhine? (Rotterdam)
Name all the countries that end in "-stan" ( Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan)

Spotify has an intros music round.

Which meat is eaten the most globally? Chicken or pork?

I think its pork because of China but I still remember it from a pub quiz 10 years ago because it really made us think!

Which polymath invented contact lenses? Leonardo da Vinci

Name three artists who have had a top ten hit with a song entitled The Power of Love. (Original versions, not covers, sorry Celine!)
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Jennifer Rush
Huey Lewis and the News

There could be more songs that have been released since I heard this question at a pub quiz!

Which foodstuff is named after the French word for cooking pot?

Marmite

How many bones in the human body? 206
Who wrote the book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? Ian Fleming
Guess the person from DOB/birthplace and/or DOD/deathplace. Real or fictional.

What day did the uk first use decimal coins. 15th feb 1971 or to twist it around when was the last day that there was 12 pennies to the shilling and 20 shillings to the pound 14th feb 1971.
If you had a tanner, a bob, a crown and a guinea in your pocket how much money would you have in old money. (6d, 1s, 5s, £1.1s)
total £1 7s 6d
Can you guess I worked in a bank!

I was on a TV game show and I remember these:
What is the currency of Costa Rica
What was the first product ever advertised on British TV
Who wrote Notes from a Small Island
Who's daughter is Frances Ethel Gumm

Who are the reigning champions of the Five Nations in rugby?

Who were the only undefeated team in the 2010 football world cup held in South Africa?

Which train were Annie & Clarabel friends with?

Which island was home to the dodo?

What was the UK's last number one of the 20th Century?

(and yes, the first two are trick questions. But sometimes you have to be difficult)

Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth shared great, great, great grandparents. Who were they?

Which is the only Scrabble tile with a value of 5?

I always like a flag/country matching round. Especially a themed one eg red white and blue flags or flags with stars on them.

What is mickey mouse's sister called?

Amelia Fieldmouse

What were Mickey`s first words on screen?

Hot dog

I did a quiz for my family last week. I've still got all the questions on my phone so I'll paste them here so you can pick out some you like.

1 Who was the first woman in space?
Valentina Tereshkova

2 How many electrons in a hydrogen atom?
1

3 What is the common name of the' Auora Borealis'?
Northern lights

4 Into which sea does the Nile flow?
Mediterranean

5 Who wrote the 'Famous Five' series of books?
Enid Blyton

6 Which country won the Eurovision song contest in 1996? Ireland

7 In Monopoly, what colour are Bow Street, Marlborough Street and Vine Street properties? (orange)

8 What was the nickname given to the V1 flying bombs that rained down on London and the South East UK during the latter part of WWII? (doodlebug)

9 Name the world's biggest island. (Greenland.)

10 Which garden is considered to be among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? (The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.)

11 Which Band Released The Album Automatic For The People
(REM)

12 Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis starred in which bizarre classic directed by Tim Burton?
Beetlejuice

13 In Children's TV, who had the ability to swap heads? Worzel Gummidge

14 Which film won the 2019 academy award for best picture?
Green book

15 Who discovered penicillin?
Alexander flemming

16 in computing what is Ram short for?
Random access memory

17 From which country does pitta bread originate? Greece

18 Where in your body is your patella?
Kneecap

19 In the song -Sing a song of sixpence where was the queen and
what was she up to?
In the parlour
eating bread
and honey

20 In the TV show Family Guy, what is the name of the Griffins` lecherous neighbour?
Quagmire

21 The largest man made gold object in the world is what?
Tutunkamuns coffin

22 Which dinosaur with the name meaning 'roof lizard'
Stegosaurus

In father Ted what is Mrs Doyle's first name ☺️

These are great. I’m doing the family quiz round next week so I’m going to use some of these. Also, we’ve had anagram rounds which have proved popular (one was European capital cities), and I might do a Flags of the World picture round too - will try to keep it fairly straightforward.

Chocolate and sweet adverts.

How do you stop people googling on zoom quizzes? I know that they're only cheating themselves, but some people will think nothing of googling on another device so they can win.

Questions about the Wombles always trip us up. Despite DP and I being children of the 1970s and I certainly remember watching it, when we played trivial pursuit with friends it became a running joke that we knew all sorts about many different subjects but couldn't answer any of the questions about the Wombles.

On a related theme, questions about children's television. Name the red, green, blue engines in Thomas the Tank engine sort of thing.

You can set the timer on the questions so it times out in 10/20 seconds so no time to google as you’re using your device to play as well.

What year did Good Friday fall on Easter Monday?

Oh this is great. Got one this evening.

I caused quite the stir with my question in what colour packets are walkers alt and vinegar crisps.

Where is Britain's only desert? Dungeness

Henry VIII had ( at least) 4 children as he recognised Henry Fitzroy as his. There were another 5 or 6 "suspected" with various women too!