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"The next (big) quiz"

It's going to be a big one, hopefully 100 questions!

Here's how it's going to work, 10 rounds of 10 questions as follows:

Round 1 - News Round - A recap of the news, most questions will be on quite recent news, though I might stray :P

Round 2 - Your General "General Knowledge" Round - This one explains itself, I hope.

Round 3 - Pot Luck - This will involve questions on History, Geography, Science, Entertainment etc. They will hopefully be quite hard questions to test you :)

Round 4 - Pyramid - This is quite a good one, each question will be asked as follows: Question 1 has 1 answer, Question 2 has 2, 3 has 3 and 4 has 4. So that's 4 questions with 10 answers in total. Anyone lost?

Round 5 - "I'll have a P please, Bob!" - This is another interesting one, I give you the letters to the answer followed by a clue or synonym and you work it out.

Round 6 - Movie Stills - As you can probably guess, this is going to be a round where I'll link you to a picture of a movie still and you tell me which film it is.

Round 7 - Music Round - This will be a round where I link you to a 30 second clip of a piece of music that I've kindly edited :) Then you tell me the title of that song. I've checked around and I'm pretty sure this isn't breaking copyright laws :P

Round 8 - Build Your Answer - Another pot luck round, but the first letters to each of the answers in the first nine questions build your clue to the final question. For example, If the answers followed like this:
Octupus
Politics
Trains
Indigo
Cats
Iris
Ant
Numbers
Skeletons
Then you know question 10 will be to do with OPTICIANS.

Round 9 - Famous People - I'll give you the birth and death dates of a famous person in history, followed by a vague clue, then you work out who it is.

Round 10 - Numbers Round - Don't worry not maths based :) Simply questions like "How many Polos are there in a regular tube of Polos?" Alas, my poor nature will require me to ask a maths based question at question 10 based on the numbers in the answers.



All sound good? Or too complicated in areas?




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Now, if people still want to do staffies vs regulars, the only ways I've come up to do it are as follows:

1) We could let everyone do it individually, then average the scores from staffies and average scores from regulars, but depending on how you look at this, this could give the advantage or disadvantage to the staffies.

2) Work in groups and submit team scores, you could even have original names like "The Dead Parrots", only problem I see with this is the lack of members :P

3) Working in groups, you each take it in turns to answer a round's questions.

I'm open to other ideas



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Also, it seems that people want a certain date for this to be posted, so what works for all of you?

So how many teams do we have now?

El Vikings team with schummi and pb.

Grix with his pocketmonkey team.

Nin with Grandprix and Trish

Who else is playing?

Maybe I'll start a team for 80ies kids, our team name will be - The Goonies

Yep thanks EV that shall be good =)

schummi wrote:
> Count me in, not very good at this sort of stuff, but tis' all
> good fun =) and whose team am I gonna be on seen as everyone has
> made teams :( Team lonesome

Up for forming one with me? You in as well pb? As that would probably be quite a formidable lineup...

Happy to be in anyone's team.

Count me in, not very good at this sort of stuff, but tis' all good fun =) and whose team am I gonna be on seen as everyone has made teams :( Team lonesome

Count me in. I heard the winning team of 3 get a GAD to share. For £10 I could buy this!!

I'm honoured Nin. Hopefully my memory works well on the day.

I can cover history, politics, useless trivia and Heavy Metal... who's with me?

Right then, i want Grandprix and Trish on my team. The combined knowledge of music, sport and geek should be enough to take on all-comers.

I think Trish is on holiday shortly so hmmm. I dunno

Nin wrote:
> Yeah 1 person per round, 3 rounds for each person. 1 team round
> at the end

I like this idea, I'll put it into the post.

As for start dates, first let's sort out how you're going to do the quiz :) If we're doing teams, get them together and send me an email with the team name, who's in it and what date works best for you.