Tricky Pub Quiz questions.

evercloserunion wrote:

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

Heard a few good ones on radio 1 this morning..

What Country has 18 letters and only every second letter is a consonant ?

What three different fractions add up to one ? (Only one case of this)

Wait a minute... that can't be the whole question. There are surely many cases of three different fractions adding up to one. 1/7 + 1/4 + 17/28 is another one. To get that I just picked two random fractions, 1/7 and 1/4, added them to get 11/28, subtracted that from 1 to get the third fraction. You could do that with any two fractions and it will always fit the question unless the third fraction is the same as one of the first two fractions, which will only happen sometimes.

Am I reading the question wrong, or is there another qualification that EVM forgot to add?

I suspect the numerator has to be 1. Otherwise you can do it lots of ways.

Well that would make sense. It has to be De Gaulle's then.

What is the capital of South Africa?

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

What is the capital of South Africa?

Doesn't it have a divided capital - or multiple capitals? I know Pretoria and Cape Town are both capitals, for different functions. Is there another one?

ibis wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

What is the capital of South Africa?

Doesn't it have a divided capital - or multiple capitals? I know Pretoria and Cape Town are both capitals, for different functions. Is there another one?

Maybe there is. Maybe there isn't.

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

ibis wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

What is the capital of South Africa?

Doesn't it have a divided capital - or multiple capitals? I know Pretoria and Cape Town are both capitals, for different functions. Is there another one?

Maybe there is. Maybe there isn't.

It'll only take a second to find out...done.

ibis wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

ibis wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

What is the capital of South Africa?

Doesn't it have a divided capital - or multiple capitals? I know Pretoria and Cape Town are both capitals, for different functions. Is there another one?

Maybe there is. Maybe there isn't.

It'll only take a second to find out...done.

It's kind of hard to conduct this exercise when we all have Google but on mouse-click away.

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

ibis wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

ibis wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

What is the capital of South Africa?

Doesn't it have a divided capital - or multiple capitals? I know Pretoria and Cape Town are both capitals, for different functions. Is there another one?

Maybe there is. Maybe there isn't.

It'll only take a second to find out...done.

It's kind of hard to conduct this exercise when we all have Google but on mouse-click away.

Factual questions can indeed be easily researched. The Political One-Liners was trickier.

ibis wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

ibis wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

ibis wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

What is the capital of South Africa?

Doesn't it have a divided capital - or multiple capitals? I know Pretoria and Cape Town are both capitals, for different functions. Is there another one?

Maybe there is. Maybe there isn't.

It'll only take a second to find out...done.

It's kind of hard to conduct this exercise when we all have Google but on mouse-click away.

Factual questions can indeed be easily researched. The Political One-Liners was trickier.

That's very true, did you find out the answer to my question in the end?

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

ibis wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

ibis wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

ibis wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

What is the capital of South Africa?

Doesn't it have a divided capital - or multiple capitals? I know Pretoria and Cape Town are both capitals, for different functions. Is there another one?

Maybe there is. Maybe there isn't.

It'll only take a second to find out...done.

It's kind of hard to conduct this exercise when we all have Google but on mouse-click away.

Factual questions can indeed be easily researched. The Political One-Liners was trickier.

That's very true, did you find out the answer to my question in the end?

Indeed - the third one is Bloemfontein.

ibis wrote:

evercloserunion wrote:

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

Heard a few good ones on radio 1 this morning..

What Country has 18 letters and only every second letter is a consonant ?

What three different fractions add up to one ? (Only one case of this)

Wait a minute... that can't be the whole question. There are surely many cases of three different fractions adding up to one. 1/7 + 1/4 + 17/28 is another one. To get that I just picked two random fractions, 1/7 and 1/4, added them to get 11/28, subtracted that from 1 to get the third fraction. You could do that with any two fractions and it will always fit the question unless the third fraction is the same as one of the first two fractions, which will only happen sometimes.

Am I reading the question wrong, or is there another qualification that EVM forgot to add?

I suspect the numerator has to be 1. Otherwise you can do it lots of ways.

There are as many combinations as you want unless the top number of the fraction is 1. The nearest you can get to 1 with that is 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 .... but that's too much so I got this:

ibis wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

ibis wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

ibis wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

What is the capital of South Africa?

Doesn't it have a divided capital - or multiple capitals? I know Pretoria and Cape Town are both capitals, for different functions. Is there another one?

Maybe there is. Maybe there isn't.

It'll only take a second to find out...done.

It's kind of hard to conduct this exercise when we all have Google but on mouse-click away.

Factual questions can indeed be easily researched. The Political One-Liners was trickier.

And here was me thinking there was honour among posters, wracking their brains to shake out the right answers that you all had lodged in there somewhere!

Feck.

Auditor #9 wrote:

ibis wrote:

evercloserunion wrote:

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

Heard a few good ones on radio 1 this morning..

What Country has 18 letters and only every second letter is a consonant ?

What three different fractions add up to one ? (Only one case of this)

Wait a minute... that can't be the whole question. There are surely many cases of three different fractions adding up to one. 1/7 + 1/4 + 17/28 is another one. To get that I just picked two random fractions, 1/7 and 1/4, added them to get 11/28, subtracted that from 1 to get the third fraction. You could do that with any two fractions and it will always fit the question unless the third fraction is the same as one of the first two fractions, which will only happen sometimes.

Am I reading the question wrong, or is there another qualification that EVM forgot to add?

I suspect the numerator has to be 1. Otherwise you can do it lots of ways.

There are as many combinations as you want unless the top number of the fraction is 1. The nearest you can get to 1 with that is 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 .... but that's too much so I got this:

OOps ! Yes the numerator has to be one, as ibis suspected.

1/2 + 1/3 + 1/6 is the correct answer.

DeGaulle wrote:

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

Heard a few good ones on radio 1 this morning..

What three different fractions add up to one ? (Only one case of this)

1/6 + 1/3 + 1/2

DeGaulle had already got it, smart French b*oyo.

The tsars were described as the emperors of all the russias. What were the russias?

riadach wrote:

The tsars were described as the emperors of all the russias. What were the russias?

Great Russia - Russia
Little Russia - the Ukraine
White Russia - Belarus

possibly also, although I don't think these were part of the imperial title:

Black Russia - a bit of Belarus, also called Black Ruthenia
Red Russia - eastern Galicia, also called Red Ruthenia
New Russia - a bit of the Ukraine and southern Russia, including the Crimea

ibis wrote:

riadach wrote:

The tsars were described as the emperors of all the russias. What were the russias?

Great Russia - Russia
Little Russia - the Ukraine
White Russia - Belarus

possibly also, although I don't think these were part of the imperial title:

Black Russia - a bit of Belarus, also called Black Ruthenia
Red Russia - eastern Galicia, also called Red Ruthenia
New Russia - a bit of the Ukraine and southern Russia, including the Crimea

That answer raises some serious questions.

ibis wrote:

riadach wrote:

The tsars were described as the emperors of all the russias. What were the russias?

Great Russia - Russia
Little Russia - the Ukraine
White Russia - Belarus

possibly also, although I don't think these were part of the imperial title:

Black Russia - a bit of Belarus, also called Black Ruthenia
Red Russia - eastern Galicia, also called Red Ruthenia
New Russia - a bit of the Ukraine and southern Russia, including the Crimea

It would be so much easier to catch Ibis out if he had a tv.

riadach wrote:

ibis wrote:

riadach wrote:

The tsars were described as the emperors of all the russias. What were the russias?

Great Russia - Russia
Little Russia - the Ukraine
White Russia - Belarus

possibly also, although I don't think these were part of the imperial title:

Black Russia - a bit of Belarus, also called Black Ruthenia
Red Russia - eastern Galicia, also called Red Ruthenia
New Russia - a bit of the Ukraine and southern Russia, including the Crimea

It would be so much easier to catch Ibis out if he had a tv.

And no shelf full of history books...however, my fatal weaknesses in pub quizzes are sports, entertainment, and popular culture.

ibis wrote:

riadach wrote:

ibis wrote:

riadach wrote:

The tsars were described as the emperors of all the russias. What were the russias?

Great Russia - Russia
Little Russia - the Ukraine
White Russia - Belarus

possibly also, although I don't think these were part of the imperial title:

Black Russia - a bit of Belarus, also called Black Ruthenia
Red Russia - eastern Galicia, also called Red Ruthenia
New Russia - a bit of the Ukraine and southern Russia, including the Crimea

It would be so much easier to catch Ibis out if he had a tv.

And no shelf full of history books...however, my fatal weaknesses in pub quizzes are sports, entertainment, and popular culture.

Oooh, then we can put you in Science or History when the Machine Nation does Eggheads. I, personally, would love a crack at the Politics round on that programme.

There's no classical irish poetry round?

*hangs head in shame*

Here are some to have fun with (Lets see how many you can get, Ibis!) :

When did these people die?

1. The last Queen of Ireland: 1953, 1982 or 2002?

2. The last Austrian Empress: 1949, 1969 or 1989?

3. The first internationally recognised Irish head of state? 1949, 1966 or 1975?

4. One of only two surviving World War II leaders still alive, he held the post twice and ended up a businessman. His father's stamp collection changed the course of the war in his country.


Who are these people?

- 'The owner of an emporium in the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland' his landlord threatened to sue him over damage to a dog kennels in 1936. He threatened to sue Eamon de Valera before being appointed to the Council of State by de Valera decades later. He was famous as the last of a triumvirate.

- He succeeded Issac Butt as head of the Home Rule League and is almost nationwide.

- He made animal noises when addressing the European Parliament, was a close friend of Carry On actor Kenneth Williams, ran with Jimmy Saville and famously said the only thing he ever got elected to was the auditorship of the Literary and Historical Society in UCD.

A skier and mountain-climber, he sought gym tips from Arnold Swatzenegger when they met and had once been a man in black. He also opted not to wear a jewelled behive.

He stopped being 35 when he was 46. How it happened has fueled conspiracy theories.

His recollection was less mature than he thought but brought him a career change that angered his sister.

She never got a silver tea-pot when a chemist. Neither did her first name sake but her spouse was no menace.

The oldest heir to the throne not to have inherited it at 96, he is also the first crown prince elected to parliament.

riadach wrote:

There's no classical irish poetry round?

*hangs head in shame*

Hmmm, you'd be good at History, so we can put you in their. You'd have to brush up on the annals of perfidious Albion before going on the programme I'm afraid.

Papal Knight wrote:

Here are some to have fun with (Lets see how many you can get, Ibis!) :

When did these people die?

1. The last Queen of Ireland: 1953, 1982 or 2002?

2. The last Austrian Empress: 1949, 1969 or 1989?

3. The first internationally recognised Irish head of state? 1949, 1966 or 1975?

4. One of only two surviving World War II leaders still alive, he held the post twice and ended up a businessman. His father's stamp collection changed the course of the war in his country.


Who are these people?

- 'The owner of an emporium in the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland' his landlord threatened to sue him over damage to a dog kennels in 1936. He threatened to sue Eamon de Valera before being appointed to the Council of State by de Valera decades later. He was famous as the last of a triumvirate.

- He succeeded Issac Butt as head of the Home Rule League and is almost nationwide.

- He made animal noises when addressing the European Parliament, was a close friend of Carry On actor Kenneth Williams, ran with Jimmy Saville and famously said the only thing he ever got elected to was the auditorship of the Literary and Historical Society in UCD.

A skier and mountain-climber, he sought gym tips from Arnold Swatzenegger when they met and had once been a man in black. He also opted not to wear a jewelled behive.

He stopped being 35 when he was 46. How it happened has fueled conspiracy theories.

His recollection was less mature than he thought but brought him a career change that angered his sister.

She never got a silver tea-pot when a chemist. Neither did her first name sake but her spouse was no menace.

The oldest heir to the throne not to have inherited it at 96, he is also the first crown prince elected to parliament.

Hi,

Hope you don't mind me butting in but here are my answers. No google, honest!

1)2002 - the Queen mother
2)1989 - Dont recall the name but I remember reading once that she lived to a very old age.
3)Was it 1949 - O' Kelly. Hyde wasn't internationally recognised as head of state.
4) Is it The king of Romania? can't recall his name. Was only a child at the time.

Of the others

A skier and mountain-climber, he sought gym tips from Arnold Swatzenegger when they met and had once been a man in black. He also opted not to wear a jewelled behive. - Pope John Paul II

She never got a silver tea-pot when a chemist. Neither did her first name sake but her spouse was no menace.
Maggie Thatcher

His recollection was less mature than he thought but brought him a career change that angered his sister.
Brian Lenihan

shutuplaura wrote:

Papal Knight wrote:

Here are some to have fun with (Lets see how many you can get, Ibis!) :

When did these people die?

1. The last Queen of Ireland: 1953, 1982 or 2002?

2. The last Austrian Empress: 1949, 1969 or 1989?

3. The first internationally recognised Irish head of state? 1949, 1966 or 1975?

4. One of only two surviving World War II leaders still alive, he held the post twice and ended up a businessman. His father's stamp collection changed the course of the war in his country.


Who are these people?

- 'The owner of an emporium in the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland' his landlord threatened to sue him over damage to a dog kennels in 1936. He threatened to sue Eamon de Valera before being appointed to the Council of State by de Valera decades later. He was famous as the last of a triumvirate.

- He succeeded Issac Butt as head of the Home Rule League and is almost nationwide.

- He made animal noises when addressing the European Parliament, was a close friend of Carry On actor Kenneth Williams, ran with Jimmy Saville and famously said the only thing he ever got elected to was the auditorship of the Literary and Historical Society in UCD.

A skier and mountain-climber, he sought gym tips from Arnold Swatzenegger when they met and had once been a man in black. He also opted not to wear a jewelled behive.

He stopped being 35 when he was 46. How it happened has fueled conspiracy theories.

His recollection was less mature than he thought but brought him a career change that angered his sister.

She never got a silver tea-pot when a chemist. Neither did her first name sake but her spouse was no menace.

The oldest heir to the throne not to have inherited it at 96, he is also the first crown prince elected to parliament.

Hi,

Hope you don't mind me butting in but here are my answers. No google, honest!

1)2002 - the Queen mother
2)1989 - Dont recall the name but I remember reading once that she lived to a very old age.
3)Was it 1949 - O' Kelly. Hyde wasn't internationally recognised as head of state.
4) Is it The king of Romania? can't recall his name. Was only a child at the time.

Of the others

A skier and mountain-climber, he sought gym tips from Arnold Swatzenegger when they met and had once been a man in black. He also opted not to wear a jewelled behive. - Pope John Paul II

She never got a silver tea-pot when a chemist. Neither did her first name sake but her spouse was no menace.
Maggie Thatcher

His recollection was less mature than he thought but brought him a career change that angered his sister.
Brian Lenihan

I'm impressed. But the year for O'Kelly is wrong.