BH quiz #23
Um, I still haven't finished off smartening up the trash tournament. In truth, I haven't done anything since I last said I was going to do it. But don't worry. I'll do it tomorrow. Tomorrow is always the best day to do things. Probably because it frees up today.
Because today is the last round of QLL play-offs. The BHs are two points behind Allsorts. It has been like that for sometime. Ever since we crashed to ignominious defeat to the Chester Army in week 7 in our last home game against them. I don't think we've been beaten since. Now we are in week 17.
So. The two best teams in the capital of the universe (hey, New York City is the capital of the world, Paris is the capital of Europe and so on) facing off to decide whether Allsorts win or we win and force another play-off where everyone will gather round and watch us babble incoherently. Doesn't it sound exciting? Or at least mildy thrilling. No? Perhaps, the cursory palpitation.
Here's the history
The BHs have had a bit of a yo-yo time in the league. After deciding that what the world needed was another quiz team, made up of broken-hearted University Challenge failures, we won Division 2 unbeaten. Hurrah, we thought, this was easy. Aha, said Fickle Fate, I'm gonna teach you a lesson. Therefore we were beaten in several embarrassing ways. I now call these the Dark Days. The only bright lights were the addition of Sean and Jesse, who were vital on account of their old world and geography and other archaic knowledge, but it was too late. We were relegated. Back at the bottom, we rose again and won Division 2, only losing once to the Hoghead Chestnuts. We got into the habit of smashing teams, so at least we learned something about team quizzing. We were quite surprised that it was easier in Division 1 than our previous baptism of fire, but perhaps we just got better. Stainer had aimed for mid-table respectability, thus avoiding relegation again, but we did a lot better.
That's the potted league history. Yes, it has got to the point where we are thinking about it like a football team. When that happens it gets slightly serious. And liable to act as a tranquiliser.
Of course, guess who stands in our way? The Ashman. My nerves ain't jittery, but I can credit that to I'm taking it casual-like. Let's wait and see at 8.30pm if this casual stance has not withered away to be replaced by a person at breaking point. I guarantee this though: watch me chain fags like they're gonna be outlawed tomorrow. Making myself ill will make me feel better. Do you see the beautiful logic in that?
1 The three rival kingdoms of Korea were united by which Dynasty in 668AD?
2 Who became the first ever Lord Chief Justice of England in 1613?
3. How many nations competed in the first Summer Olympics?
4. The Romans were routed by Gallic chieftain Brennus on the banks of which river, north of Rome, on July 18, 386BC?
5. What is the fine food centre of southern Ireland and home of the Gourmet Festival, about 15 miles west of Cork, which was also the scene of a 1601 battle between a combined Spanish and Irish force and English armies?
6. Ottawa in Canada celebrates the coldest season in what festival every February?
7. The attack on which fort inspired the song Star Spangled Banner?
8. Which city is the USA's first preservation project, and site of Catfish Row and Chalmers Street, the old slave market?
9. In Malory's Mort d'Arthur what was the castle of Lancelot?
10. Winner of the Nobel prize in 1912, which German dramatist wrote (his most successful play) The Weavers, The Rats, The Beaver Coat, and Agamemnon's Death?
11. Who wrote in his 1785 poem The Newspaper: "A master passion is the love of news"?
12. Which jazzman when asked what jazz was is popularly believed to have replied: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know"?
13. Bounded by Ethiopia and Djibouti, which republic is situated on the strait of Bab el Mandeb and the Gulf of Aden?
14. Assassinated in 1975, who was the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh?
15. Which ancient people were defeated by the Carthaginians in 474 BC in a naval battle off Cumae and lost their northern conquests to the Celts in c.400BC?
16. Which Russian hypochondriac composed the tone poem Prometheus and the piano piece Vers La Flamme (Towards the Flame), and also employed a revolutionary system of harmony?
17. Which retired US Air Force Colonel became the first American woman to take charge of a space mission in 1999?
18. Also known as the bicuspid, what valve from the Latin for 'girdle' is situated between the left atrium and the left ventricle and has two flaps?
19. Atomic number 81, British scientist Sir William Crookes discovered which bluish-grey metallic element resembling lead and toxic to humans?
20. Known for its propensity for eating anything, what large gull is Larus argentatus?
BH quiz #22
1 Eugene Fodor 2 Elephants (especially in India) 3 Silent Night 4 Twyla Tharp 5 Peace Pledge Union 6 Norman Pett 7 Admetus 8 Gram 9 Institut de Saint Louis 10 Columbia 11 Sombrero Galaxy 12 Bassoon 13 Boris Karloff 14 Protagoras 15 Paul Erdos 16 Diophantus 17 CG Langhans 18 Mesozoic 19 Meson 20 Lesbos 21 Nazarite 22 Giurgiu 23 Varna 24 Eisenhower 25 Speculaas
Because today is the last round of QLL play-offs. The BHs are two points behind Allsorts. It has been like that for sometime. Ever since we crashed to ignominious defeat to the Chester Army in week 7 in our last home game against them. I don't think we've been beaten since. Now we are in week 17.
So. The two best teams in the capital of the universe (hey, New York City is the capital of the world, Paris is the capital of Europe and so on) facing off to decide whether Allsorts win or we win and force another play-off where everyone will gather round and watch us babble incoherently. Doesn't it sound exciting? Or at least mildy thrilling. No? Perhaps, the cursory palpitation.
Here's the history
The BHs have had a bit of a yo-yo time in the league. After deciding that what the world needed was another quiz team, made up of broken-hearted University Challenge failures, we won Division 2 unbeaten. Hurrah, we thought, this was easy. Aha, said Fickle Fate, I'm gonna teach you a lesson. Therefore we were beaten in several embarrassing ways. I now call these the Dark Days. The only bright lights were the addition of Sean and Jesse, who were vital on account of their old world and geography and other archaic knowledge, but it was too late. We were relegated. Back at the bottom, we rose again and won Division 2, only losing once to the Hoghead Chestnuts. We got into the habit of smashing teams, so at least we learned something about team quizzing. We were quite surprised that it was easier in Division 1 than our previous baptism of fire, but perhaps we just got better. Stainer had aimed for mid-table respectability, thus avoiding relegation again, but we did a lot better.
That's the potted league history. Yes, it has got to the point where we are thinking about it like a football team. When that happens it gets slightly serious. And liable to act as a tranquiliser.
Of course, guess who stands in our way? The Ashman. My nerves ain't jittery, but I can credit that to I'm taking it casual-like. Let's wait and see at 8.30pm if this casual stance has not withered away to be replaced by a person at breaking point. I guarantee this though: watch me chain fags like they're gonna be outlawed tomorrow. Making myself ill will make me feel better. Do you see the beautiful logic in that?
1 The three rival kingdoms of Korea were united by which Dynasty in 668AD?
2 Who became the first ever Lord Chief Justice of England in 1613?
3. How many nations competed in the first Summer Olympics?
4. The Romans were routed by Gallic chieftain Brennus on the banks of which river, north of Rome, on July 18, 386BC?
5. What is the fine food centre of southern Ireland and home of the Gourmet Festival, about 15 miles west of Cork, which was also the scene of a 1601 battle between a combined Spanish and Irish force and English armies?
6. Ottawa in Canada celebrates the coldest season in what festival every February?
7. The attack on which fort inspired the song Star Spangled Banner?
8. Which city is the USA's first preservation project, and site of Catfish Row and Chalmers Street, the old slave market?
9. In Malory's Mort d'Arthur what was the castle of Lancelot?
10. Winner of the Nobel prize in 1912, which German dramatist wrote (his most successful play) The Weavers, The Rats, The Beaver Coat, and Agamemnon's Death?
11. Who wrote in his 1785 poem The Newspaper: "A master passion is the love of news"?
12. Which jazzman when asked what jazz was is popularly believed to have replied: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know"?
13. Bounded by Ethiopia and Djibouti, which republic is situated on the strait of Bab el Mandeb and the Gulf of Aden?
14. Assassinated in 1975, who was the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh?
15. Which ancient people were defeated by the Carthaginians in 474 BC in a naval battle off Cumae and lost their northern conquests to the Celts in c.400BC?
16. Which Russian hypochondriac composed the tone poem Prometheus and the piano piece Vers La Flamme (Towards the Flame), and also employed a revolutionary system of harmony?
17. Which retired US Air Force Colonel became the first American woman to take charge of a space mission in 1999?
18. Also known as the bicuspid, what valve from the Latin for 'girdle' is situated between the left atrium and the left ventricle and has two flaps?
19. Atomic number 81, British scientist Sir William Crookes discovered which bluish-grey metallic element resembling lead and toxic to humans?
20. Known for its propensity for eating anything, what large gull is Larus argentatus?
BH quiz #22
1 Eugene Fodor 2 Elephants (especially in India) 3 Silent Night 4 Twyla Tharp 5 Peace Pledge Union 6 Norman Pett 7 Admetus 8 Gram 9 Institut de Saint Louis 10 Columbia 11 Sombrero Galaxy 12 Bassoon 13 Boris Karloff 14 Protagoras 15 Paul Erdos 16 Diophantus 17 CG Langhans 18 Mesozoic 19 Meson 20 Lesbos 21 Nazarite 22 Giurgiu 23 Varna 24 Eisenhower 25 Speculaas
posted by That Quiz Guy at 5:22 AM
2 Comments:
I always manage to get at least one right, thanks to your always including at least one American history or culture question.
Please don't stop including them; I'm supposed to be good at this sort of thing.
-M
2 correct today.
Imagine if I was American, it would be even worse...
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