Pub Quiz (8 Viewers)

rob9872 said:

B - binary?

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Nope

Happy_Martian said:

Spock, I'm a network builder, not a programmer, Now, if you'd asked me about Fortran or PASCAL, I'd still have no idea but it'd make me sound intelligent

B = Business as a total guess

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YES

Fortran is formula translation isn't it? Used to program in that too. Never done Pascal, but assumed it was named after the mathematician.

shmmeee said:

The u shaped river is that an oxbow lake?

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Yep

shmmeee said:

My favourite tech acronyms are the recursive ones like: WINE, cURL, PIP and PHP.

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Don't know any of those, although I've heard of PHP. I guess these are newer languages as recursion was a no-no when I were a lad.

shmmeee said:

WINE: WINE Is Not an Emulator (allows Windows programs to run on Linux)

cURL: cURL URL Request Library (Linux command for downloading from URLs basically)

PIP: PIP Installs Packages (python package manager)

PHP: PHP: Hypertext Processor

Recursion shouldn’t be a no no, key tool in programming, the classic example being calculating factorials.

Of course as they say: to understand recursion, first you have to understand recursion.

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In my day I'd have created a do loop to calculate a factorial.

State of play, with clues for the unknowns.

History

1. Which of Henry VIII’s wives did he consider ugly? – Ann of Cleeves

2. Who was the US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis? - JFK

3. In early life I was known as Soso (one of many pseudonyms I used) and trained to be a priest. After leaving the seminary I started a criminal organisation and for many years conducted raids on banks; ships etc. In later life I became the leader of my country. Who am I? - Stalin

4. I claimed to be one of the princes in the tower and rightful heir to the English throne – but I was defeated by Henry VII at Deal, in Kent. Who am I? – CLUE: Just one of those odd things I remember from school. There were two pretenders to the throne at the time – the other was Lambert Simnel.

5. Whilst Prime Minister I closed 253 coal mining pits, more than any other PM. Who am I? - Harold Wilson

Geography

6. This U-shaped body of water is formed when a river meander is cut off. What is it called? – Oxbow lake

7. Which capital city was formed from three distinct towns separated by the Danube? - Budapest

8. What is the name of the deepest part of the ocean, which is estimated as being 10,994 metres below sea-level? – Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench

9. Which is the only sea that has no land boundaries? - Sargasso Sea

10. Which city in Myanmar was the subject of a poem by Rudyard Kipling? CLUE: The poem is called ‘The Road to....’

Science and Nature

11. What is the first element in the Periodic Table? - Hydrogen

12. What is the common name for the plant Digitalis Purpurea? - Foxglove

13. The acronym COBOL is a computer programming language. What do the letters stand for? – Common Business Oriented Language

14. Which star is closest to Earth? – The Sun

15. Speed is to scalar as Velocity is to ....... ? - vector

Art and Literature

16. Who wrote The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s Woman? CLUE: Cannot think of a clue.

17. Which poet wrote the line: ‘If I were called in to construct a religion I should make use of water’? CLUE: The poet was born and raised in Coventry

18. The musical film Cabaret starred Liza Minnelli. The musical was based upon the novels of which British novelist? CLUE: The books were collectively known as the Berlin novels, as he lived in Germany in the 30s. He was gay and also wrote ‘A Single Man’, which was made into a film a few years ago starring Colin Firth

19. As a young adult I served in the Navy and worked as a stockbroker. I later became an artist and lived in poverty for years; my art was never appreciated until I died. Somerset Maugham’s novel ‘The Moon and Sixpence’ was loosely based on my life. Who am I? CLUE: I emigrated to Tahiti and my most famous paintings are of native women.

20. Which artist is famous for making statues of long thin elongated human characters? CLUE: He was Swiss but his name sounds Italian.

Music

21. Which 70s pop band was headed by Andy Pelos? CLUE: They dressed like Teddy boys.

22. Who composed ‘The Ring Cycle’, a collection of four operas? - Wagner

23. Which band’s debut single, Killing An Arab, was released on Small Wonder records in 1978? – The Cure

24. It has been noted that many rock stars die at the same age – amongst the list are Janis Joplin; Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain. What is that age? - 27

25. Which Polish jazz trumpeter’s work is used as the theme to the US TV series ‘Homeland’ CLUE: Cannot think of a clue. TBF this is quite hard and you’ll only get it if you like jazz.

shmmeee said:

17: Larkin?

(literally the only Cov poet I know)

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Yep. I was going to quote the Mum and Dad fucking you up as the last clue.

RegTheDonk said:

21 - clue I guess either Mud or Shadowaddywaddy? I'll go Shadowaddywaddy.

Excellent quiz btw but way too hard for me. Got JFK and Sol (the Sun) but that was about it.

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Showaddywaddy is correct. Nice one

25

wingy said:

10 ... Mandalay.

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Get in!

Answers. If people like this I'll do another one soon. Got a better sense of the right level of difficulty now so I'll try and make the art/lit ones easier. If anyone wants to send me some sports questions will include a round - not something I'm generally interested in or know anything about. Apart from the City and The Six Nations/Ashes I never watch any sport.

History

1. Which of Henry VIII’s wives did he consider ugly? – Ann of Cleeves

2. Who was the US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis? - JFK

3. In early life I was known as Soso (one of many pseudonyms I used) and trained to be a priest. After leaving the seminary I started a criminal organisation and for many years conducted raids on banks; ships etc. In later life I became the leader of my country. Who am I? - Stalin

4. I claimed to be one of the princes in the tower and rightful heir to the English throne – but I was defeated by Henry VII at Deal, in Kent. Who am I? – Perkin Warbeck

5. Whilst Prime Minister I closed 253 coal mining pits, more than any other PM. Who am I? - Harold Wilson

Geography

6. This U-shaped body of water is formed when a river meander is cut off. What is it called? – Oxbow lake

7. Which capital city was formed from three distinct towns separated by the Danube? - Budapest

8. What is the name of the deepest part of the ocean, which is estimated as being 10,994 metres below sea-level? – Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench

9. Which is the only sea that has no land boundaries? - Sargasso Sea

10. Which city in Myanmar was the subject of a poem by Rudyard Kipling? Mandalay

Science and Nature

11. What is the first element in the Periodic Table? - Hydrogen

12. What is the common name for the plant Digitalis Purpurea? - Foxglove

13. The acronym COBOL is a computer programming language. What do the letters stand for? – Common Business Oriented Language

14. Which star is closest to Earth? – The Sun

15. Speed is to scalar as Velocity is to ....... ? - vector

Art and Literature

16. Who wrote The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s Woman? John Fowles

17. Which poet wrote the line: ‘If I were called in to construct a religion I should make use of water’? Philip Larkin

18. The musical film Cabaret starred Liza Minnelli. The musical was based upon the novels of which British novelist? Christopher Isherwood

19. As a young adult I served in the Navy and worked as a stockbroker. I later became an artist and lived in poverty for years; my art was never appreciated until I died. Somerset Maugham’s novel ‘The Moon and Sixpence’ was loosely based on my life. Who am I? Gaugin

20. Which artist is famous for making statues of long thin elongated human characters? Giacometti

Music

21. Which 70s pop band was headed by Andy Pelos? Showaddywaddy

22. Who composed ‘The Ring Cycle’, a collection of four operas? - Wagner

23. Which band’s debut single, Killing An Arab, was released on Small Wonder records in 1978? – The Cure

24. It has been noted that many rock stars die at the same age – amongst the list are Janis Joplin; Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain. What is that age? - 27

25. Which Polish jazz trumpeter’s work is used as the theme to the US TV series ‘Homeland’ Tomasz Stanko

rob9872 said:

FFS I've not even heard of some of the answers!
8, 9, 16, 19, 20 & 25!!!!

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Soz, trying to adjust the difficulty for the next one.

You got quite a few there - you can see the answers now, by reckoning 11/25. I get the Keats guess... as he asked for his tomb to be inscribed 'here lies one whose name was writ in water'.

New larger quiz coming today