Reply to: Pub quiz

[TheFaQQer]

Santa Claus was the name of the horse that won the Derby in 1964.

[TheFaQQer]

Donner the reindeer was Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer's dad.

[TheFaQQer]

King George V was the first monarch in Britain to make a Christmas Day broadcast, in 1932.

[Bear]

Actually this is a good one:

There are two Christmas Islands.

The Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean was formerly called Kiritimati.

Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean is 52 square miles.

[Bear]

Corruscant is the most expensive square on the Star Wars Original Trilogy Monopoly board.

Dagobah is the cheapest.

[Bear]

After "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens wrote several other Christmas stories, one each year, but none were as successful as the original.

[TheFaQQer]

Thanks, I'll look there. However, I like the "individual" nature of the contributors on this board and the things they know.

For example, I've seen the intellectual prowess of a leech mentioned twice now. Not spam from a leech salesman by any chance?

Corruscant is the most expensive square on the Star Wars Original Trilogy Monopoly board.

Dagobah is the cheapest.

[TheFaQQer]

Lord Lucan by any chance

Indeed. Have a banana

[wendigo100]

http://www.quiz-zone.co.uk has some good questions - there are usually some Santa picture rounds in there, for example.

Thanks, I'll look there. However, I like the "individual" nature of the contributors on this board and the things they know.

For example, I've seen the intellectual prowess of a leech mentioned twice now. Not spam from a leech salesman by any chance?

[KathyWoolfe]

I went to one last year where the answers to each question linked to the twelve days of Christmas somehow - e.g. "How is escaped fugitive Richard John Bingham better known?"

Lord Lucan by any chance

[Moose423956]

If you like you can contribute some suitable questions, which would be gratefully received. December's quiz will have a Christmas theme.

A leech has 32 brains.

[TheFaQQer]

I went to one last year where the answers to each question linked to the twelve days of Christmas somehow - e.g. "How is escaped fugitive Richard John Bingham better known?"

[TheFaQQer]

Ah, the prize comes in two parts.

Part one is the dosh, but it is a tradition that the winners donate it to the charity box.

Part two is that we get to compile and present next month's quiz.

If you like you can contribute some suitable questions, which would be gratefully received. December's quiz will have a Christmas theme.

http://www.quiz-zone.co.uk has some good questions - there are usually some Santa picture rounds in there, for example.

[wendigo100]

Which Monopoly? I'd have known the Star Wars Original Trilogy board, but that doesn't come up too often.

I can quite imagine the blank looks if that particular version had come up last night.

Or the Ulan Batar version. No, it was the traditional London version.

We once had a round where nobody scored any points. It was about 18 months ago, and if I recall correctly, it was on "famous" quotes.

[wendigo100]

What was the prize and how much is our cut?

Ah, the prize comes in two parts.

Part one is the dosh, but it is a tradition that the winners donate it to the charity box.

Part two is that we get to compile and present next month's quiz.

If you like you can contribute some suitable questions, which would be gratefully received. December's quiz will have a Christmas theme.