BH quiz #10
Now buzzer quiz legend and 2001 British champion Ian Bayley (Hi Ian! Sorry I told the opposition last night that you were a computer scientist!) has informed me last night that "your questions are too hard ... they'll never come up". Ah, Ian, but they will come up, and you will wonder, whether they be in a European or World Championship or an international, where you heard them before. The hard stuff will always be vital. It is the stuff that wins you things.
Anyway, they're meant to be hard, in fact, "bastard hard". Slightly uncompromising is part of my aim. I've learned during my quiz career that if you practice tough then you can play tough a lot more easier, if you know what I mean. One day I will explain the inverted pyramind theory of general knowledge, e.g. it's easy to gather the knowledge be a medium-good quizzer but to have the ability to win titles you may need five times as much knowledge and so on.
Admittedly I have toned it down today, but that's because I am capable of being a merciful setter. I listen to my congregation, at least sometimes, and I do see the BH quizzes as a shifting canvas that accommodate any changes at short notice and which also aspires to be a useful one.
1 Rufus, a coloured bull terrier, has just collected the Best in Show prize at which prestigious dog show?
2 In which US city are Grant Park, Humboldt Park and Burnham Park?
3 Which US chat show host has been playing on his resemblance to Finnish President Tarja Halonen?
4 Robert Altman's latest film is a fictionalised account of the last broadcast of which 30-year-old Garrison Keillor radio show?
5 Whose first movie role was an uncredited one on Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round from 1966 and his first credited one under his name with a non-existent middle initial J in 1967's A Time for Killing?
6 Penguin have published which Roman poet's work On the Shortness of Life in their Great Ideas series?
7 When US Vice-President Dick Cheney shot his friend 78-year-old Harry Wittington while out hunting he mistook him for which small bird?
8 What is 19-year-old American snowboarder and Olympic halfpipe champion Shaun White nicknamed on account of his mop of red hair?
9 Which country singer released the i-Tunes exclusive Cowboys are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other) on St Valentine's Day?
10 In physics, what is a change of an electron within an atom from one energy state to another and is a discontinuous change in which the electron goes from one energy level to another without passing through any intermediate levels?
11 Ice hockey legend Wayne Gretsky is the current coach and part owner of which team?
12 The Puerto Rican Day, The Butter Shave, The Reverse Peephole and The Merv Griffin Show were the names of episodes in the last season of which comedy series?
13 What is the first name of Tory leader David Cameron's wife and their two older children?
14 Which architect was shot on the roof of the old Madison Square Garden by Harry K Thaw, who was enraged by the intimate relationship the designer of the Washington Square Arch had with his beautiful wife Evelyn Nesbit?
15 Banned in China, Stanley Kwan's 2001 movie Lan Yu is centred around which event?
16 Called a "good model for future privatisations" by the minister for defence procurement Lord Drayton, which British government defence research service is being controversially privatised? 17 What is the last pre-Neolithic tribe in the world?
18 Which actress has played the second longest role on Coronation Street, having made her first appearance two episodes after the character of Ken Barlow first appeared?
19 With a top speed of 190mph and a "photochromatic roof", the GG50 is the latest "concept car" from which company?
20 What do Spanish "caganer dolls" do?
Answers to BH #9
1 (White) swan 2 Jetstream 3 Birmingham City 4 Marquis de Sade 5 The Skittle Inn 6 Sophocles and Keats 7 Suffolk Punch 8 Nat Tate (from the hoax perpetrated by William Boyd) 9 Kate Millett 10 Alfred Jarry 11 Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption 12 The Pamirs 13 (Well-flavoured) stock (often made with fishbone) 14 Redcar 15 Henry Seagrave 16 Ernie Terrell 17 Godzilla 18 Playboy's rabbit-head symbol 19 Ohrwurm meaning 'ear worm' 20 John Stuart Mill
Anyway, they're meant to be hard, in fact, "bastard hard". Slightly uncompromising is part of my aim. I've learned during my quiz career that if you practice tough then you can play tough a lot more easier, if you know what I mean. One day I will explain the inverted pyramind theory of general knowledge, e.g. it's easy to gather the knowledge be a medium-good quizzer but to have the ability to win titles you may need five times as much knowledge and so on.
Admittedly I have toned it down today, but that's because I am capable of being a merciful setter. I listen to my congregation, at least sometimes, and I do see the BH quizzes as a shifting canvas that accommodate any changes at short notice and which also aspires to be a useful one.
1 Rufus, a coloured bull terrier, has just collected the Best in Show prize at which prestigious dog show?
2 In which US city are Grant Park, Humboldt Park and Burnham Park?
3 Which US chat show host has been playing on his resemblance to Finnish President Tarja Halonen?
4 Robert Altman's latest film is a fictionalised account of the last broadcast of which 30-year-old Garrison Keillor radio show?
5 Whose first movie role was an uncredited one on Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round from 1966 and his first credited one under his name with a non-existent middle initial J in 1967's A Time for Killing?
6 Penguin have published which Roman poet's work On the Shortness of Life in their Great Ideas series?
7 When US Vice-President Dick Cheney shot his friend 78-year-old Harry Wittington while out hunting he mistook him for which small bird?
8 What is 19-year-old American snowboarder and Olympic halfpipe champion Shaun White nicknamed on account of his mop of red hair?
9 Which country singer released the i-Tunes exclusive Cowboys are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other) on St Valentine's Day?
10 In physics, what is a change of an electron within an atom from one energy state to another and is a discontinuous change in which the electron goes from one energy level to another without passing through any intermediate levels?
11 Ice hockey legend Wayne Gretsky is the current coach and part owner of which team?
12 The Puerto Rican Day, The Butter Shave, The Reverse Peephole and The Merv Griffin Show were the names of episodes in the last season of which comedy series?
13 What is the first name of Tory leader David Cameron's wife and their two older children?
14 Which architect was shot on the roof of the old Madison Square Garden by Harry K Thaw, who was enraged by the intimate relationship the designer of the Washington Square Arch had with his beautiful wife Evelyn Nesbit?
15 Banned in China, Stanley Kwan's 2001 movie Lan Yu is centred around which event?
16 Called a "good model for future privatisations" by the minister for defence procurement Lord Drayton, which British government defence research service is being controversially privatised? 17 What is the last pre-Neolithic tribe in the world?
18 Which actress has played the second longest role on Coronation Street, having made her first appearance two episodes after the character of Ken Barlow first appeared?
19 With a top speed of 190mph and a "photochromatic roof", the GG50 is the latest "concept car" from which company?
20 What do Spanish "caganer dolls" do?
Answers to BH #9
1 (White) swan 2 Jetstream 3 Birmingham City 4 Marquis de Sade 5 The Skittle Inn 6 Sophocles and Keats 7 Suffolk Punch 8 Nat Tate (from the hoax perpetrated by William Boyd) 9 Kate Millett 10 Alfred Jarry 11 Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption 12 The Pamirs 13 (Well-flavoured) stock (often made with fishbone) 14 Redcar 15 Henry Seagrave 16 Ernie Terrell 17 Godzilla 18 Playboy's rabbit-head symbol 19 Ohrwurm meaning 'ear worm' 20 John Stuart Mill
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