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Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz
« on: November 04, 2023, 04:10:26 PM »
Leans a bit too much to you either know it or you don't from my pov. Prefer some questions where you can work out an answer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5m4tC2Z6xbk7T7sF5KkDHgV/test-your-perfect-pub-quiz-knowledge

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Re: Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2023, 01:18:17 PM »
Leans a bit too much to you either know it or you don't from my pov. Prefer some questions where you can work out an answer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5m4tC2Z6xbk7T7sF5KkDHgV/test-your-perfect-pub-quiz-knowledge

There were two where I successfully worked out the answer from the question
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Re: Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2023, 01:25:45 PM »
Thi's apostrophe's quiz i's good.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/12vbByzjT1hcmFgh79f2MHw/are-you-grammatically-gormless-or-a-punctuation-perfectionist
I would argue the toss with several of their answers.

For example, how many godfathers can you have? Under CofE rules, it's two if you are a boy.
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Re: Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2023, 10:15:10 AM »
There were two where I successfully worked out the answer from the question
I would be interested to know which ones? I think anyone from here that is going to do the quiz will.have answered by now.

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Re: Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2023, 01:39:23 PM »
I would be interested to know which ones? I think anyone from here that is going to do the quiz will.have answered by now.

The godfather one. The Jesus one. The date one, possibly. There was also another "name ending in S" one which you could argue.
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Re: Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2023, 03:09:11 PM »
The godfather one. The Jesus one. The date one, possibly. There was also another "name ending in S" one which you could argue.
Those are the in the apostrophes quiz in Steve's link, not the pub quiz one in mine. You did make me think I was goung mad since I was thinking what godfather one, what Jesus one???
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Re: Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2023, 04:24:00 PM »
Those are the in the apostrophes quiz in Steve's link, not the pub quiz one in mine. You did make me think I was goung mad since I was thinking what godfather one, what Jesus one???

Sorry, my mistake. I only skimmed your question and thought you were referring to the apostrophe one.

The one about Cambridge I worked out from "ponte" (meaning bridge) at the end of the name.

I figured out the long words one by elimination. It looked like a numerical thing, which eliminated swamps and if it had been seven, it wouldn't have had all the unaccounted for syllables in the middle.

Also, the tortoise one, I had no clue, so went for the obvious answer.

You could also probably get the OS map one by elimination, but I knew it anyway.

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