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QuizMusings: 2015 WQC
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On Saturday, I travelled with around 100 other UK quizzers to the National Brewery Centre at Burton upon Trent to take part in the 2015 staging of the World Quizzing Championship. I took part in 2014 (and gave a write-up of the day and my performance HERE. And came 893rd with 64 points, which I was reasonably pleased with then for a first attempt. However, this year, I wanted to do much better and set my target at the start of 2015 as top 500 in the world. Three mistakes I shouldn't have made:.
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QuizMusings: September 2014
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In which national capital was athlete Mo Farah born? Japan's second-highest volcano erupted this week, causing the deaths of at least thirty people. What is its name? Described as the largest electronic monitoring station in the world, in which English county is RAF Menwith Hill? 1979's Life in a Day. Was the debut album of which band? Ghent, Antwerp, and Valenciennes are all among the towns that stand on which major river of northern France, western Belgium, and the south-west of the Netherlands? Accord...
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QuizMusings: January 2015
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I'll try to write one of these a day for the next few days, but we'll see how that goes. Dubbed India's first "angry young man" for his Bollywood roles, which actor is regarded as one of the greatest in the history of Indian cinema, and starred alongside Rajesh Khanna in 1970s films such as Anand. Which 1977 surrealist horror marked the feature-length directorial debut of David Lynch? 1973) and Days of Heaven. 1978) were both works by which director? Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 film, The Conformist. Which...
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QuizMusings: October 2014
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Not posted that much recently - too much legal reading. :( Still, I've started a spreadsheet database of questions, which I add to when I find something sufficiently interesting / likely to come up (or so I think) in a future quiz. I'm going to extend the deadline for the second 100Quiz until the end of the month. Not got a chance to sort it all out yet but I will do. So, anyone who hasn't had a chance to enter yet, you've still got time to do so if you wish. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
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QuizMusings: World Quizzing Championship practice set
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World Quizzing Championship practice set. OK, with less than two weeks to go until the 2015 World Quizzing Championship, I've written a mini practice set consisting of five questions from each of the usual WQC genres. Only forty questions, but hopefully it'll provide a bit of revision and learning material for people, and hopefully you enjoy the questions! Here goes - answers for all the categories are at the end:. The title character in Miguel Ángel Asturias' novel, El Se. French poet Guillaume Apollina...
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QuizMusings: June 2015
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Question-writing - and some new questions. If anyone ever needs any questions writing, whether it be for pub quizzes or quiz leagues or whatever, feel free to send me an email at jackbennett@gmx.com and I'll reply as soon as I can. Competitive rates. The NBA team Golden State Warriors are based in which Californian city? Angel Falls, the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, drop over the edge of which flat-topped mountain in Venezuela's Canaima National Park? The musical Annie Get Your Gun. And came ...
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The Quiz Blogger: August 2006
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This blog burrows deep into the British quiz scene and sometimes even the wider world, the myriad facts that are used to power it, and everything else under the trivia sun. Wednesday, August 30, 2006. That's How I Escaped My Certain BH98. Seems like I've been really stingy with the quizzes. Therefore, have some offcuts and fancies that arose from paid setting. The next one - WARNING! Will be sport and games-themed. Just cos sometimes I gots to do that kinds of work. Right, out of illiterate mode. I have ...
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The Quiz Blogger: March 2006
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This blog burrows deep into the British quiz scene and sometimes even the wider world, the myriad facts that are used to power it, and everything else under the trivia sun. Thursday, March 30, 2006. BH #49 . the Hiatus Begins! Last quiz before I go to Worthing hospital to meet my destiny. Only 21 questions but it does mean you can go back and learn the thousand-odd ones I have set from the beginning of time. Or the start of February. BYE TIL NEXT SATURDAY.APRIL TIME. 5 Known for his Latin translations of...
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QuizMusings: July 2014
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Around a year or two ago, I was watching TV one day, bored, when I stumbled across a new quiz show - The Chase. Truth be told, I didn't know, but I sure was going to find out. And from there it started and spiralled. I've always had a fairly decent general knowledge for my age, I think - I remember having a pack of world capitals snap cards when I was younger, and I'd always had encyclopaedias and an interest in reading from a young age, but The Chase. Protozoa of the genus Plasmodium. Set Fire to the Ra...
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