help with pub quiz needed

Sounds like a recipe for a bar-room brawl

I know, but it's good to be topical.

You need unGoogleable questions really ... ones that can't be answered by keyword matching.

May be too controversial a subject for a pub quiz until it actually happens, some people like may get diverted from the quiz to arguing which may detract from some peoples enjoyment of the evening.

What is the difference between a Bradawl and a Gimlet could be one. Wonder if may people who are not petrol heads know what a set of ignition spanners are .

G.Harman

There is no signal in the Rose & Crown so we never have that problem.

Calendar laundry

Last Cobbler

Retort chemist/gasworks

Macpherson spring motor mechanic

Otto cycle motor mechanic

Edinburgh tray Surgeon

How about capital cities of the world? Difficult as you like! Eg North Dakota = Bismarck Honduras = Tegucigalpa.

One of my favourites was;

What is the capital of the second largest country in the world by area?

Surprising how few people get it right.

really!

(I ought to get out more!)

biscuit cutter

No Wifi signals in range? If someone is a BT customer and there is a BT Fone signal available they may have an unfair advantage . Though I would think any use of devices would be regarded as cheating, just make sure nobody enters a contestant called Alexa .

G.Harman

Isn't this standard stuff for quizzers?

tim

I doubt there are 10 interesting facts about Brexit. There certainly won't be 10 interesting and undisputed facts.

Q Last - A Cobbler Q Bradawl - A Wood worker Q Fuller or Q Swage Block - A Blacksmith Q Crumming Knife - A Cooper Q Polelathe - A Wood turner

Trouble is if you don't phrase the question right, the answer will always be angle Grinder. Brian

halligan bar - firefighter / rescue worker

galt trephine pleximeter - surgeon or vet

lots of other medical ones here

Owain

What are the three main European Institutions called? (Parliament, Council, Commission) For an extra point, name two more (list here:

One of these bodies has a rotating Presidency, name the Member State which currently holds the Presidency. For an extra point name the previous and next MS that will hold the Presidency. (answers here:

Saggar - potter (historic, pre ~1960) Pyrometric cone - potter Wedging table - potter Blunger - potter Jigger - potter Jolley - potter Pug - potter Hawk - plasterer Dibber - gardener Skep - beekeeper Queen excluder - beekeeper

But some of them have several meanings.

Q - heart piece A - clock maker. (It's the cam used to return a stop clock to zero.)

I'm guessing being in Cambridge if you had a round on "London Underground" half the room would groan and the other half cheer (quietly of course)

and then you come up with a list of questions that no-one carries around in their head, but which are all guessable and countable.

So, using the names on the official London underground map (and only considering underground lines, not the tram or overground)

But I guess that a par score of zero is not a very good discriminator of teams :-)

(and no I know none of the answers without checking - except 10)

Bugger there are two with 4 letters!

tim

Ottawa

(I had to check, but my guess was right)

tim

I suppose that you could ask more generic EU questions:

what are the three largest (by population) members

what are the three smallest

which counties, not official members of the EU, issue Euro coins

what country issued a 2.50 Euro coin

What was the most recent county to join (the EU)

what was the most recent country to adopt the Euro.

which countries joined at the same time as the UK

etc