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 bird has the Latin name "puffinus puffinus"?

Manx shearwater

What's a monotreme and name the two types and the continent where they're found?

A monotreme is an egg laying mammal. They are echidnas and platypus and are found in Australia.

Or simpler version, do mammals lay eggs Y/N - yes

You can do rounds that feature a topic in either the question or the answer - eg a Bill and Ben round could include “What is the name of the bell in the Elizabeth Tower” or “What year did Bill Clinton first become President” (Big Ben and 1993).

Topics set in a decade can be good too eg for 1950s:

Who was known as The Brylcreem Boy and played both first class cricket and football? (Denis Compton)

When was The Treaty of Rome signed? (1957)

Which politician won a Nobel prize for literature in this decade? (Churchill)

You are all fantastic. Totally saved my skin

In a non Leap Year how many months have 28 days?

12, someone usually says 1!

What's the sum of the first 5 prime numbers?

2,3,5,7,11 = 28. SIt back and enjoy the arguments about 1! A prime number has precisely 2 factors, i only has 1 so it isn't prime.

Just a heads up... I was going to nick some questions for our big family quiz tonight and the first two I've checked have been wrong (sorry!) so make sure you double check the answers before using them.

I was only checking because I've got some serious pedants in my family and I couldn't cope with the arguments

Anyway, here's my contribution:

How long was the 100 years war?
Answer is 116 years (1337–1453)

@StCharlotte which ones were wrong?

What is the biggest desert on Earth? Antarctica

How many films are there in the Harry Potter universe. The answer is 10, 8 Harry Potter films and 2 Fantastic Beast films.

Who is the only premier league player to have played for Everton, Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United?

We did a fun round called same surname, no relation. Two celebs, same surname, point for each, eg “actor who voices Lightning McQueen / Kaiser Chief’s frontman who’s been a judge on the voice”.

Which country produces the most tomatoes?

A. China

Which animal appears first in the dictionary?

A. Aardvark

After a court case for VAT purposes, was a Jaffa cake classified as a biscuit or a cake?

A. A cake (a cake goes hard when it’s stale and a biscuit goes soft)

which ones were wrong?

Sharks can blink (they can’t - sharks have eyelids, but they don’t blink - they close their eyelids to protect their eyes from damage when fighting or feeding, but their eyelids don’t close all the way).

Q. In what sport do the winners move backward, and the losers move forward?

A. Tug-o-war