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    Pub quiz questions you'd be appalled to get wrong.

    Name three films in the Dirty Harry series. Now this came up and, even though I am not an expert on the series, I would be pretty appalled to get wrong. One that I did get wrong and was appalled by, "Name three ingredients of kedgeree named in the recipe in Delian Smith's Complete Illustrated Cookery Course" as I have cooked kedgeree from that recipe loads of times. In my defence, she put medium curry powder in that recipe and I put cumin, which is in the curry powder. Anyway, these aren't your Mastermind specialist subjects but subjects that you would kick yourself if your average pub quizmaster asked a question on.

    Motorhead, AC/DC, Sex Pistols, Ramones (although the last two decades of the former two may fox me a bit)
    The first three Star Wars film (assuming it isn't a Star Wars specialist quiz).
    Radio 4


    #2
    Who painted the Mona Lisa?

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      What kind of car did _______ drive in ___________?

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        #4
        Originally posted by Del Usory View Post
        Who painted the Mona Lisa?
        I wasn't thinking as specific as that.

        Cheese, as well.

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          #5
          Originally posted by WOM View Post
          What kind of car did _______ drive in ___________?
          "Delboy" Trotter?

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            #6
            Ok.

            What did I miss here

            Each and every one of the correct questions are blindingly obvious.

            Albeit no. 2 needs a pencil and paper to work it out. (,sort of. Until you spot the answer halfway through that)



            https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-...y-18510848.amp

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              #7
              Originally posted by Del Usory View Post

              "Delboy" Trotter?
              The answer is a Vauxhall Velox.

              And I claim my £50

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                #8
                Yes, they are easy.

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                  #9
                  How many buns did Paddington Bear claim made five?

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Guy Profumo View Post

                    The answer is a Vauxhall Velox.

                    And I claim my £50
                    Yes, I have been foxed by that before.

                    By the way, I forget that my specialist subject on my pub quiz teams is supposed to be God-bothering and, of course, I fail almost every single question. The last one, upon working out that all the answers were palindromes, I triumphantly put down Eve and it was Hannah that was the mother of Samuel, of course. The same happens to our team member who is a science teacher and gets half of them wrong and the Scottish member who appears to know nothing about his homeland.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Bordeaux Education View Post

                      Yes, I have been foxed by that before.

                      By the way, I forget that my specialist subject on my pub quiz teams is supposed to be God-bothering and, of course, I fail almost every single question. The last one, upon working out that all the answers were palindromes, I triumphantly put down Eve and it was Hannah that was the mother of Samuel, of course. The same happens to our team member who is a science teacher and gets half of them wrong and the Scottish member who appears to know nothing about his homeland.
                      But a lowlander will refuse on principle to acknowledge a highlander and vice versa

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Sporting View Post
                        Yes, they are easy.
                        I'll admit, they're designed to fox seven-year olds.

                        But there's no excuse for grown-ups getting them wrong.

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                          #13
                          I'd be gutted if 4th century church history questions came up and I didn't know the answer. Wrote a dissertation on that back in the day. My theology degree was handy recently for a pub quiz round on the Easter Story. 10/10

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                            #14
                            Hmmm: what would people's specialist subjects be if forced onto Mastermind? My mind would go blank under the pressure whatever I chose.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Sporting View Post
                              Hmmm: what would people's specialist subjects be if forced onto Mastermind? My mind would go blank under the pressure whatever I chose.
                              How about answers in the "Dumb Britain" feature in Private Eye?

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                                #16
                                Jesus, though, that feature. I'd like to charitably think that people's minds go blank under pressure rather than that thick people like that are allowed to walk around in society unchaperoned.

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                                  #17
                                  Mine would be French cinema, tho you’d have to cope with Humphreys mangling the pronunciations. Paxman is bad at foreign on Uni Challenge, too.

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                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by Felicity, I guess so View Post
                                    Mine would be French cinema, tho you’d have to cope with Humphreys mangling the pronunciations. Paxman is bad at foreign on Uni Challenge, too.
                                    Not as bad as Robinson though, incapable of pronouncing either whooper or bewick.

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                                      #19
                                      I was due to go on Mastermind 2 years' ago. My first subject was the European Football Championships 1980-2016', the second was Belle & Sebastian, and the final would have been the life and work of Robert Moses (figuring that the BBC would take me to NYC to be filmed looking at the Triborough Bridge or perhaps Verranzano.

                                      However, the day before we were due to drive up, I had a stroke, brought on in part by the extreme stress I felt from not having done enough revision (I think in truth I had, but didn't feel like it). My wife had to ring up and cancel, giving the poor stand-in less than 48 hours to prepare. I watched the episode I would have been on, and someone got 4 points, which I imagined to be that person.

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                                        #20
                                        2 friends of mine were on Pointless and actually won.

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                                          #21
                                          I'd be annoyed if a question came up about the Statue of Liberty and I got it wrong. Also if one came up about Lego. Not sure I'm an expert in either of those things, but I am interested in both of them.

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                                            #22
                                            The post 9/11 security theatre at the Statue of Liberty has completely ruined the visiting experience for me

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                                              #23
                                              A friend of mine was on Fifteen to One years ago. They had to retake at least twice because he initially refused to say 'hello' during the introductory section.

                                              He was knocked out almost immediately, which I think came as a great relief to the show's producers. I mean, if they'd asked him to wave, they'd probably still be shooting that edition now.

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                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post
                                                A friend of mine was on Fifteen to One years ago. They had to retake at least twice because he initially refused to say 'hello' during the introductory section.
                                                What were his reasons?

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                                                  #25
                                                  I watched the final of the most recent series of Fifteen to One and it was won by someone I knew nearly forty years ago. I'd also seen him on a couple of other quiz shows in recent years. We used to work together in the same pub. In those days he never showed any sort of inclination for that sort of thing.

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