Might be whoosh parrot, but I don't see how '2' is a complicated answer?
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Might be whoosh parrot, but I don't see how '2' is a complicated answer?
Weirdest response I've seen on here in some considerable time.. like your age or sexuality has anything to do with wanting to go to a pub quiz. Are you too young and straight or old and straight to go to a pub quiz? What exactly are you afraid of? bizarre.
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I saw a TV sketch once, it may have been Monty Python, where a quiz was being given to a class by their teacher.
He asked, "What is the capital of North Korea?"
A kid started vigorously waving his arm, "Please Sir, me Sir, Pyongyang Sir!"
"Correct Smythe, but no points, nobody likes a smart arse!"
He asked, "What is the capital of North Korea?"
A kid started vigorously waving his arm, "Please Sir, me Sir, Pyongyang Sir!"
"Correct Smythe, but no points, nobody likes a smart arse!"
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Fair point, I suppose the roundabout is technically part of the motorway.
It's these kind of ambiguities that are a pub quiz masters worst nightmare. Some drunken arse is bound to start a massive argument with you and not let it drop.
Well, yeah, and I do find you have to compile questions very carefully to avoid that. If it's ambiguous and you run into a pedant you are in for trouble!
I should really know this off the top of my head but I'm going to open the bible app on my phone to check... I think it's 14.
Edit: boom, genesis 7:2. God told Noah to take seven pairs of each animal.
Edit 2: although even that is not so simple, and is a good example of the ambiguity referred to above. God told Noah to take seven pairs of every "clean" animal and seven pairs of each bird, but only one pair of each "unclean" animal.
There were two pairs (i.e. 4) of the unclean animals and 7 pairs (i.e. 14) of the clean animals plus 7 pairs of the birds.
Although you could also argue (I think) that it was just 2 each of the unclean, 7 each of the clean and 7 each of the birds. I can't remember the specifics any more.
I had the feeling that the question caught people out because it asked how many MOSES took, when it was NOAH who had the Ark.
That'd do it haha!
Ha, didn't even notice the Moses bit in the original question. That sort of trick question is bad too, likely to start a riot 
Oh no, it turns out I'm the pedant
One pair of unclean, check your bible.
Oh no, it turns out I'm the pedant
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One pair of unclean, check your bible.
Oh no, it turns out I'm the pedant
The ambiguity comes from 7:2 and 7:3 - is it talking about pairs or actual numbers. I've seen arguments that at this stage it's referring to pairs.
Hence why even without the trick it's not an easy question to answer.
We should definitely host a pub quiz together.
Two tax advisors hosting a quiz? Imagine the pedantry!
Share scheme relief is now part of CTA 2009, but everyone still refers to it as schedule 23 relief. Which finance act was that schedule part of?
I went to a quiz once where the question was 'In which CITY do Tranmere Rovers play?' - he gave the answer as Birkenhead. That's not a city. The only team that got it right out of 26 teams was the one his daughter was on
Did no one know where they play? I have an advantage as I used to live near there, but surely someone would go for Birkenhead even if they had their doubts about it being a city?I went to a quiz once where the question was 'In which CITY do Tranmere Rovers play?' - he gave the answer as Birkenhead. That's not a city. The only team that got it right out of 26 teams was the one his daughter was on
24?
That's a guess based on the following... There are 42 points worth of balls on the table at the start of a game. If you were both terrible but the other guy was marginally more terrible then you'd pot all the reds without any colours, they'd hit reds but wouldn't pot any (so no foul scores) then you'd pot yellow, green, brown to get to 24 points and there would only be 18 left on the table.
Or is it like 0 points if the other person concedes or breaks some arbitrary rule?
Haha, just thinking back to pedantry... I had a sport question in one of my quizzes asking how many London derby matches there would be in the then ongoing premier league season. I think there were 5 London teams in the league at the time (Spurs, Chelsea, Arsenal, West Ham, Crystal Palace) so the answer should be 20. I'll not bore you with the maths here and now...
Anyway, I predictably got into an argument about how I should have included Watford
I told them it wasn't in London.
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Eh? In this context a "bender" has always meant "to drink excessively", hasn't it?
As in, "The lads are going on a bender."