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Christmas party quiz
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As a font of useless knowledge/trivia I've been asked to set my lab's Christmas party quiz. Whilst I'm pretty good at a quiz I have no idea where to start!
As I've mentioned the quiz is for my lab - the target audience is a mix of microbiology+biochemistry professors, postdocs and PhD students from a variety of mostly European countries who will all be drinking quite heavily throughout the evening.
My current idea is to have five rounds of 10 questions:
As I've mentioned the quiz is for my lab - the target audience is a mix of microbiology+biochemistry professors, postdocs and PhD students from a variety of mostly European countries who will all be drinking quite heavily throughout the evening.
My current idea is to have five rounds of 10 questions:
- General knowledge
- Geography
- History
- Science
- 2013
- Picture round
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Also this thread might have some cool ideas (just duck out when the conversation about rebellion vs. revolution starts up) http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/181088/the-semantics-and-cool-stuff-from-history-thread/p1
Jut troll through TMZ.com for the past year and pick out different celeb-related events (marriages, divorces, etc.) to quiz on.
What are the two main kinds of beer yeast?
What country contains Tim-Bul-Too?
How tall was Napoleon, A?B?C?D?
What is the name of the alkane with ten carbon atoms?
This American whistleblower/leaker took refuge in Russia.
Name this obscure sport [picture].
--LeVar Burton
Show a character or scene from a mix of different eras. You could make some of them easy (Jimmy Stewart from It's a Wonderful Life or Will Ferrel from Elf) and some harder (Alan Rickman from Die Hard or Ally Sheedy from Gremlins).
(for a curve ball you could have two pictures of Alan Rickman, one from Die Hard and one from Love Actually.)
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I'd also advice to keep teams small, perhaps 4 people. That way each person contributes more and has more reasons to pay attention, and you are also more likely to get differentiated scores (Two teams of 8 will probably come very close in sharing knowledge)
Be aware that grading even these simple questions takes time, so make sure you have some time somewhere to do it.
Especially with a young crowd, questions in the past are much harder, a decent way to fine tune is to have each round have questions from different decades.
One of my most succesful rounds I ever did was a 'big numbers' round. The reason is that noone knows for sure, so every participates in discussing the numbers. Stuff like 'How high is the national debt' 'what is the distance to the sun in kilometers' 'How many hairs do you have on your head' etcet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013 should really help you with your 2013 round.
--LeVar Burton
1. Which popular television programme celebrated its 50th anniversary this year? Doctor Who
2. Which country became the 38th to join the EU? Croatia
3. This year saw the election of a new Pope – from which country is he originally from? Argentina
4. The former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi was convicted of tax fraud this year, what is the alliterative name of the parties he used to throw? Bunga bunga
5. In the Islamic calendar which year what was it? 1434/5
6. In February, which film won Best Picture at the Oscars? Argo
7. And which film won Worst Picture at the Golden Raspberry awards? Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
8. We saw the birth of Prince George, assuming neither his grandfather or his father call themselves King George, what number George will he become? George VII
9. Which football team won the Champions League this year? Bayern Munich
10. To the disappointment of teenage girls everywhere, which Xfactor formed boyband announced their breakup this year? JLS
Science
1. In which country do they believe that sleeping in a closed room with an electric fan leads to the syndrome - ‘fan death’? South Korea
2. In 2013 the IgNobel prize for Public Health went to Wilde et al. their pioneering work "Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam" in which they describe medical techniques used except in cases where the amputated penis has been eaten by what? A: Dogs B: Ducks C: Jilted partners
3. According to ‘retractionwatch.com’ the anesthesiologist Yoshitaka Fujii holds the record for the most retracted papers, but how many has he retracted? A: 13 B:57 C:136 D:183
4. The chemist Carry Mullis, who shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of PCR believes he once had a conversation with a glowing green what? A: Alien B: Coyote C: Racoon
5. Which biochemist who has won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry twice died this year? Frederick Sanger
6. What has a great volume output: Amazon the river or Amazon the company? The river
7. Which Plantagenet monarch was identified by DNA testing this year? Richard III
8. Sufferers of the disorder prosopagnosia are unable to recognise what feature of the human body? The face
9. The first transplantation of what organ took place in the UK this year? Hand transplant
Geography
1. In which country can the following geographical features be found: Najd, Hejaz and Rub' al Khali? Saudi Arabia
2. In which English county can the Chicken roundabout be found? A:Suffolk B: Norfolk C: Durham
3. Which European nation has the highest per capita consumption of beer? Czech Republic
4. The blood red background in Edvard Munch's painting The Scream has been proposed to be a result of what volcanic event? Krakatoa eruption
5. Earth is described as Mostly Harmless in what novel/radio programme? Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
6. The Irish Garda gave more than 50 speeding tickets to the Polish individual Prawo Jazdy. How did this individual get away with so much crime? Prawo Jazdy translates to Driving Licence
The oldest clonal tree in the world is 9550 years old. In which Scandinavian country can it be found? Sweden
History
1. The shortest war in history was fought between the British Empire and the Zanzibar sultanate, how long did it last for? 38minutes
2. The Fertile crescent is called the cradle of civilisation. Name three modern day countries that contain land in the fertile crescent. Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Israel, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan
3. The youngest UK prime minister is William Pitt the Younger. At what age did he become prime minister? 24
4. Which of these types of Sushi is actually a Japanese emperor? Suiko, Uni, Anago, Ebi or Ikura
5. One of the cornerstones of human rights, Habeus Corpus was passed as an act of Parliament in 1679, but was it passed as a result of a fat joke or a your mum joke? Fat joke
6. Which is the only European nation to have had its capital city outside of Europe? Portugal
7. The Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed by what dropped by a passing Eagle? Tortoise
8. Prior to WW2 the USA drew up war plan Red in the event of war with the British empire. If invasion of Britain is red, Canada is scarlet, what nation of the empire did emerald refer to? Ireland
9. Under which emperor did the Roman empire reach its maximum territorial extent? Trajan
A colleague will be doing a picture round which features the faces of lab members blanked out. Anyway, thoughts?