Pub Quiz question

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

What would your answer be?

Some questions are old chestnuts that come round often and that question is a really common one.

Indeed. In the same way as you'll pretty much always get a team called 'Universally Challenged' or 'Norfolk Enchants' or similar - and they'll usually think they're soooo original in thinking it up.

We were once at a quiz where two teams had chosen effectively the same (obvious, very weak pun) name, but with one letter different in the spelling. That was so irritating, hearing the QM have to over-emphasise the different letter to differentiate between them all evening.

11. All bar Feb.

Well I've heard it before and obviously it's 11; sneaky wording.

If you are in a pub quiz and you get a question like that, you have to look for the lateral view.

Although the 'in' makes it quite clunky and obvious IMO; 'How many months have 30 days?' is more likely to trick people into thinking immediately of months with a total of 30 days.

Made me laugh and I wondered if you are also an LOTR fan?

"Wicked, tricksy, false! What has it got in its pocketses? We wonders, aye, we wonders, precious."

(May not be the actual quote BTW...)

11

Why October @SprayWhiteDung? Surely September is longer?

If you are in a pub quiz and you get a question like that, you have to look for the lateral view.

Yes, in all quizzes, you have to think laterally and consider the reason for the person coming up with that particular obvious-sounding question in the first place - and also sometimes look for clues.

For example, if it's a multiple choice and they're asking something like "How old was X when he first became the US President - was he A-25, B-55 or C-85?", you can instantly discount the middle option, as why would anybody even think to ask such a boring, predictable question?

11

Ah, I see your thinking there, if somebody is maybe driving at the length of the name of the month! Also potentially valid!

I think, for fairness, I should have better worded it "Which month of the year lasts for the longest time?" or similar - the answer then clearly being October (if you think about it), because it lasts for an hour longer than any of the other months that contain 31 days.

I would say 4. Next question please.

Urgh, as a longtime pub quiz connoisseur, you have my commiserations, OP. This is exactly the sort of question that would have me / my team putting "4" as the answer, and then fuming about the cutesy trick to it.

Not a fan of those sorts of questions at all!

Better than the quiz at a certain holiday park where the question was "What is the last name of Martin Clunes'a character in the show Doc Martin?"

Ellingham.

That was a choice. The preprogrammed quiz had the wrong answer so half the people got it wrong when they got it right and some people got it right when they were wrong!

Oh those 2 have me stumped!

Can we maybe arrange a quiz on here?! I'm happy to host 😂

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Sting ("the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears")

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!!!!!!

I’m in for a quiz! I had to look up those ones. I wouid have said 4 months .. obviously wrong .

Ahh I went through the lines quickly and missed that one 🤦‍♀️

Easily done - it's only one word, which makes it harder than if, say, there'd been Rick Parfitt or Simon Le Bon somewhere in the lyrics!

I agree. We quiz a lot and hate stupid trick questions - it's the sign of a lazy host who enjoys winding people up.

11

7 months have exactly 30 days.
The other 5 months (or 6 months in Leap Years) have 29 days. No months have 31 days.

So those answering 4 or 11 who think they are are only assuming exactly or at least 30 days are also assuming which calendar is being used. The Gregorian calendar is not the only one.

The best pub quiz question I have heard is "On average, which planet is the closest to Earth?" Only one team in the pub answered correctly (and it wasn't my team).

I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that people understand you mean the current calendar system that's been exclusively in use in this country for centuries, and not a historical one from very long ago.

Flip it around: would you be impressed if you answered all of the questions correctly in English (in a pub quiz in England) and then the quizmaster marked them wrong, as you should have guessed they wanted the answers in Japanese or Icelandic and should know that English isn't the only language in the world?!

oh come on
this thread has devolved into an exercise in pedantry now

perhaps you could argue 'well technically because the sun doesn't rise for months in svalbard there aren't any days for several months....'