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

Which is the only English city whose name solely contains letters from the first half of the alphabet?

Lichfield

Name any 3 of the jobs Miss Rabbit performs in Peppa Pig.

helicopter pilot, aquarium caretaker, gift shop worker (at the aquarium, at the beauty spot, at the museum, at the theme park), supermarket cashier, face painter (tiger faces only), nurse, dental nurse, librarian, bus driver, train driver, ice cream vendor, theme park ticket seller, recycling centre crane operator. There are probably a lot of jobs I’ve missed!

The answer to mine is 1946. A horse called Good Friday fell in a race on Easter Monday

Bump, as I have a quiz to prepare too

Thank God for this - I have to host a quiz at the weekend. Only one potential MNer involved so I'll know by how well she does 😉

If you are doing it on Zoom, can you share pictures? Because the best geography section I ever saw at a quiz was using satellite images of cities and asking people to identify them. They had zoomed out so that it was a fairly large section of the city and then people had to figure it out based on things like where the rivers /coastline were etc. Prominent landmarks were there but were zoomed out enough you couldn't see them specifically so teams would be having conversations like... "Mmm, I think this is Paris, this is the Seinne and here's the Eiffel Tower" type stuff.

I've just noticed on GoogleMaps that in satellite view it includes little tags of what things are but assume you could download a satellite map without those with a quick google search.

Brands in different languages/ countries can work well too - iconic brands like Nike, Coca Cola.

Also shape of countries - European only perhaps to make it marginally easier. Great geography question and surprisingly difficult.

Which city in Southern England is an island?

We took part in an online quiz last night that had a good round on advertising slogans - they gave you the slogan and you had to name the product. E.g.:
Never knowingly undersold (John Lewis)
Have it your way (Burger King)
Feel the bubbles (Aero)
Etc.

Zoom works really well for picture rounds too - a friend did one a few weeks back with movie posters where they’d removed all the text and you had to name the movie. There was also a round with pictures of flags from different countries - that round was tough!

What day did the uk first use decimal coins. 15th feb 1971

15/2/71 was decimilisation day, but decimal coins arrived and were in use in 1968. The 10p coin was legal tender from 1968 and was worth 2 shillings. And 10p on 15/2/71.

Which foodstuff is named after the French word for cooking pot

Could be casserole as well.

Which current and former stars from Strictly are exactly the same age?

Answer: Tess Daly and Darcey Bussell both born 27th April 1969.

In the series ‘A Touch of Frost’ what is Jack Frost’s real first name?

William

How many Orange Counties are there is the US?

8

Which country was the first to have a female majority in parliament?

Burney Finland?

No

The Answer is surprising but logical

Where in the body would you find the lunate bone? the wrist
Which year was the first model T Ford produced. 1908 where Detroit

Rwanda Burney?

Yep

Name 3 England captains who have played for Scunthorpe United

Kevin Keegan
Ray Clemence
Sir Ian Botham

Name 5 type questions:

Name the most expensive properties on Monopoly
The highest value letter tiles in Scrabble
African countries beginning with G.
Countries that have only 5 letters in their name - there are actually 6 but you could use that one as an example.
The last five films Daniel Day Lewis was Oscar nominated for
US presidents with the first name James - there are 6.

That should be countries with 5 letters and ending in N.

This thread is brilliant and is going to save my skin! I will come back and post some questions as well as just stealing them.

First film to sell over one million copies on video?
Dirty Dancing

What countries fought the War of Jenkin's Ear?

England and Spain

Who was the last of Henry VIII's wives to die?
Anne of Cleves