QUARANTINE QUIZZING - TTH "Pub"Quiz Sign-Up Thread

[igor_balis]

Done a couple of QUIZZES with me my real life mates over skype. The simple format is that everyone has to write 10 questions, and you take it in turns being the quizmaster.

To stop people getting an unfair advantage by deliberately writing difficult questions, the quizmaster of each round also gets a score for their own round - the average score for everyone else.

Spose there's a few different places we could actually do it, but from personal experience skype seems the easiest, most stable and universally available programme.

Anyone interested? We've done it with 8 people and it's about right in terms of length of quiz etc.

[Offshore Toon]

Can you not just do it through Kahoot and Zoom? I want Mahow to be quizmaster too.

[Lewis]

Drop the charade and just tell us the wacky team names you've come up with.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I don't do Skype.

Well not anymore.

[Lofty]

Question one: why was Mahow ostracised from Skype?

[Luca]

I’m in, provided it’s on the weekend.

[Lewis]

Question one: why was Mahow ostracised from Skype?

https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?1168-I-think-I-ve-gone-full-mental

We should bump all the Classic Threads like the sports channels are doing.

[Lewis]

Speaking of the Classics:

https://i.imgur.com/IomZWNG.jpg

Sickening.

[John]

I'd forgotten Mahow's middle name is Andrea.

[Lewis]

Speaking of the Classics:

https://i.imgur.com/IomZWNG.jpg

Sickening.

https://www.facebook.com/225182617510971/photos/rpp.225182617510971/2032229606806254/?type=3&theater

What a lovely set of pictures.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'd forgotten Mahow's middle name is Andrea.

My Grandad's (and one of my Brother's) name.

It's the Cypriot version of Andrew.

[John]

My Grandad's (and one of my Brother's) name.

It's the Cypriot version of Andrew.

I know that, but you live here and here it's a girl's name.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Thankfully it doesn't have to come up too often though.

[Luca]

https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?1168-I-think-I-ve-gone-full-mental

We should bump all the Classic Threads like the sports channels are doing.

That was all sorts of wild. I remember stumbling on the profile as well - I literally googled "Mahow webcam" out of boredom and it was the first result to pop up. We were genuinely concerned someone less nice would have come across it eventually given how easy it was to find.

Soz, 'how.

[Giggles]

That was all sorts of wild. I remember stumbling on the profile as well - I literally googled "Mahow webcam" out of boredom and it was the first result to pop up. We were genuinely concerned someone less nice would have come across it eventually given how easy it was to find.

Soz, 'how.

Less nice? The fact you were stalking him for lols with the rest of them means you might want to reassess yourself there.

[Luca]

Less nice? The fact you were stalking him for lols with the rest of them means you might want to reassess yourself there.

Stalking :D

A cunt would have posted it to the board or gone on the chat and humiliated him or something. We let him know the information was easily-accessible so he could take the appropriate steps to mask it, because I'd imagine he'd not want it getting out. It's not hard to comprehend, Giggles.

[Offshore Toon]

Andrea is actually quite a cool name. You should start wearing a leather jacket and sunglasses, 'ho.

[Giggles]

Stalking :D

A cunt would have posted it to the board or gone on the chat and humiliated him or something. We let him know the information was easily-accessible so he could take the appropriate steps to mask it, because I'd imagine he'd not want it getting out. It's not hard to comprehend, Giggles.

The more worrying part is when you can’t even see it so you can clap yourself on the back.

[mugbull]

Done a couple of QUIZZES with me my real life mates over skype. The simple format is that everyone has to write 10 questions, and you take it in turns being the quizmaster.

To stop people getting an unfair advantage by deliberately writing difficult questions, the quizmaster of each round also gets a score for their own round - the average score for everyone else.

Spose there's a few different places we could actually do it, but from personal experience skype seems the easiest, most stable and universally available programme.

Anyone interested? We've done it with 8 people and it's about right in terms of length of quiz etc.

I’m in

[Giggles]

I won’t be partaking but I’m going to steal this idea. Good lad Igor.

[Kikó]

Tee hee.

[igor_balis]

Come on you bastards

[Giggles]

Tee hee.

In all fairness, you lot acted like absolute vermin regarding the whole episode.

[Lofty]

https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?1168-I-think-I-ve-gone-full-mental

We should bump all the Classic Threads like the sports channels are doing.

I missed this, would've been cheaper to just pump a pricey escort Mahow.


https://www.facebook.com/225182617510971/photos/rpp.225182617510971/2032229606806254/?type=3&theater

What a lovely set of pictures.

My stag do, I was about 15 pints in here, there is a video of me throwing up on the bar in Coral Island at about 8pm after being forced to down back to back tequilas. The bar manager called me a cunt. Still managed to stay out until 2am though.

[Kikó]

In all fairness, you lot acted like absolute vermin regarding the whole episode.

Sure.

[Giggles]

That probably doesn’t really matter anyway, most of us are cunts anyway. Telling yourself you’re great for doing it is fairly laughable though.

[Kikó]

Good point.

[Giggles]

You’re not good enough at that to be doing it.

[Kikó]

When is this quiz anyway?

[Giggles]

When is this quiz anyway?

You never told Igor to include you.

[Kikó]

*subscribe*

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I missed this, would've been cheaper to just pump a pricey escort Mahow.


My Dad had died a couple of months prior, my head was a mess.

[Giggles]

My Dad had died a couple of months prior, my head was a mess.

Tee hee.

[Kikó]

My Dad had died a couple of months prior, my head was a mess.

Wasn't your mother in law / step mum a bit erm, overbearing as well?

[Lewis]

Mahow don't be rowing back on it. The initial webcamming is a bit cringe, but actually going out there to try it on is heroic. How many weaklings do you reckon shit the bed before they get anywhere near that point? You are a legend. Embrace it. Wear it with pride.

[Spikey M]

Wasn't your mother in law / step mum a bit erm, overbearing as well?

And Eastern European. Freud would have gone in dry on this.

[Alex]

https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?1168-I-think-I-ve-gone-full-mental

We should bump all the Classic Threads like the sports channels are doing.


The group took a collective decision. We all love banter, but this was real life and nobody wanted you to get into actual shit. It seemed a sensible way of letting you know others could find out, without highlighting it to the world.

:D / :face:

GS talking about "the group" like it's some sort of clandestine government organisation, working behind the scenes for all our best interests.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Wasn't your mother in law / step mum a bit erm, overbearing as well?

She played nice until the whole matter went to mediation. We had to fill out expense reports and she had listed stuff like £2k a month for a gardener (who doesn't exist), thousands on dentists every year, holidays etc etc to make it look like she had a lifestyle that is meant to be maintained.

She still wont allow us to see our little brother (it's been 4 years since I've seen him) and my Dad also left me his Rolex in the will. However he had two but didn't specify the exact one. One was his and the other was one that he bought my Mum when they were together which is worth a lot less, hasn't got a chance of fitting me and has no sentimental value to me. Obviously she gave me that one and said that she doesn't know where the other is.

[Giggles]

:D / :face:

GS talking about "the group" like it's some sort of clandestine government organisation, working behind the scenes for all our best interests.

Heroes.

[Kikó]

What a piece of work.

Horrible with your brother - how young is he? I had siblings from my dad (half brother/sisters) who didn't see me for 15 years (the younger ones didn't know I existed). Rebuilding or creating a relationship again is possible. She sounds a disgrace.

[Lewis]

Giggles, you notice how he said 'didn't see me' rather than 'who I didn't see'?

[Giggles]

She played nice until the whole matter went to mediation. We had to fill out expense reports and she had listed stuff like £2k a month for a gardener (who doesn't exist), thousands on dentists every year, holidays etc etc to make it look like she had a lifestyle that is meant to be maintained.

She still wont allow us to see our little brother (it's been 4 years since I've seen him) and my Dad also left me his Rolex in the will. However he had two but didn't specify the exact one. One was his and the other was one that he bought my Mum when they were together which is worth a lot less, hasn't got a chance of fitting me and has no sentimental value to me. Obviously she gave me that one and said that she doesn't know where the other is.

Are you doing anything about either though or are you just taking it all lying down? You do come across as one that would do the latter but she really needs to be destroyed.

[Kikó]

Giggles, you notice how he said 'didn't see me' rather than 'who I didn't see'?

Oh ffs :D Fuck off Lewis.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a piece of work.

Horrible with your brother - how young is he? I had siblings from my dad (half brother/sisters) who didn't see me for 15 years (the younger ones didn't know I existed). Rebuilding or creating a relationship again is possible. She sounds a disgrace.

He'll be 13 later this year.

I sent him an Xbox for the Christmas right after mediation which I only knew was delivered because of tracking (no idea if she let him keep it or even tell him it came from me) and I've also sent Birthday cards/money/gifts with my number on.

Also in mediation she almost de-railed the whole thing right at the end (at like 3am and we had been there since 9am) because she refused to pay her son's solicitors costs of £7k despite basically now being a millionaire.

[Kikó]

Giggles, you notice how he said 'didn't see me' rather than 'who I didn't see'?

On a serious note, I didn't know where my dad lived and had no idea 2 of the 3 existed.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Are you doing anything about either though or are you just taking it all lying down? You do come across as one that would do the latter but she really needs to be destroyed.

Sent stuff to my Brother to make him know I'm still there and care and I did take up the watch stuff with my solicitor but because my Dad didn't specify model etc I'd lose a court battle because I have A rolex watch that was owned by him.

[7om]

Reading that old thread just brought it home how much of a bellend GS could be. Every post reads like a press release.

[Giggles]

Him saying “we all love banter” was the most mental thing in the whole thread. The most boring cretin to ever crawl the earth.

[igor_balis]

I should be fuming at MY THREAD being derailed, but fuck me, yeah, GS is something else. Borderline unsettling.

[Giggles]

He might be a bit better these days as, between Luca and Keeks, he’s surely cracked out that first wank.

[SvN]

Is GS definitely not dead? He just suddenly stopped posting one day.

[Lofty]

My Dad had died a couple of months prior, my head was a mess.

Fair enough, understandable then. Sorry to hear about your brother and everything since.

Still, the advice stands if this situation arises again.

[Lewis]

That TTH Awards GS hosted was the best one we did. When 'Tobias' got on the podium for Most Boring (or Most Overrated or whatever it was) you could feel him buzzing through the screen.

[7om]

I remember that. He was having a meltdown and desperately tried to hide it.

[Baz]

I won’t take part (playing WoW) but happy to submit a round of questions, if you want.

[Offshore Toon]

I'm happy to submit some questions too.

[mugbull]

Just me and igor :cool:

[mugbull]

And Luca :cool:

[Kikó]

Is GS definitely not dead? He just suddenly stopped posting one day.

He's not dead.

[Boydy]

He's not dead.

Assuming you're still in regular contact with him on your whatsapp group, does he never think of coming back? Why'd he stop posting anyway?

[Lewis]

Maybe he got right into 'the ganja'.

[Spikey M]

He strummed one out and now he can't face us.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Surprised he can face the group seeing as he did it whilst thinking of Keeks.

[Lewis]

I bet 95% of GS' Group contributions are 'Haha yeah'.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

*teehee.

[Luca]

Lots of tee hee, I can assure you.

[Lofty]

He strummed one out and now he can't face us.

I forgot he abstained from wanking :D

[Kikó]

Surprised he can face the group seeing as he did it whilst thinking of Keeks.

It is a requirement to be in the group.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Vaguely on the topic, I did a quarantine pub quiz earlier with my m8s which was fine (we had 1 quizmaster rather than many, though), and I've had other quarantine video calls with family etc - all I can say is that although it's better than nothing, my god is it nowhere near the experience of being with people in person. Nowhere near.

Having not done conferencing etc before I thought it would be a close second but it really isn't.

[igor_balis]

Vaguely on the topic, I did a quarantine pub quiz earlier with my m8s which was fine (we had 1 quizmaster rather than many, though), and I've had other quarantine video calls with family etc - all I can say is that although it's better than nothing, my god is it nowhere near the experience of being with people in person. Nowhere near.

Having not done conferencing etc before I thought it would be a close second but it really isn't.

Aye I get that, but I actually much preferred the actual quiz with my boiz cus we're all dorks with similar levels of intelligence, and a similar obsessive appreciation of the META of quizzes. Most pub quizzes we've done IRL have led to us mostly moaning about awfully worded questions, poor difficulty balance, etc.

The absolute worst quiz we did had about 7 teams. We got about 90% right and finished 2nd last. Wtf is that.

Or, my personal pet peeve in quizzes, is musical intro rounds where some people will nail it within a few seconds, but the quizmaster let's the fucking song run for practically a whole verse and chorus by which point every cunt has it.

For a taster I'll share the round I wrote:

https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/92174843_506966993309147_339793533009395712_n.jpg? _nc_cat=104&_nc_sid=b96e70&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ohc=vUbTuhXq80kAX8UmdWC&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-1.xx&_nc_tp=14&oh=befd5467fb4ffb8212255d2057caf376&oe=5EBA24DB

In case you dont spot it, every person has the initials T.P. in honour of the great toilet paper shortage of 2020.

[Giggles]

In thought I was going to score a 0 there unroll got to number 10.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I was utter dogshit in the one I did earlier (still came 4th/12, but I'd expect top 2 against those simpletons). My brain is addled from this lockdown.

As an example I've been trying to think of that astronaut's surname for the last ten minutes and all I can come up with is Tim Palin. And for the chess player I have 'Tiger Petrosian', as if he moonlights fist-pumping on the greens. I need to soak in cold water for a month.

[Pen]

I’ve also done a few quizzez with my mates through a zoom/kahoot combo and it’s actually quite fun to have a drink with your mates without actually leaving the house.

[igor_balis]

I was utter dogshit in the one I did earlier (still came 4th/12, but I'd expect top 2 against those simpletons). My brain is addled from this lockdown.

As an example I've been trying to think of that astronaut's surname for the last ten minutes and all I can come up with is Tim Palin. And for the chess player I have 'Tiger Petrosian', as if he moonlights fist-pumping on the greens. I need to soak in cold water for a month.

You have come the closest to getting the chess player by an absolute mile, and I've given these questions to about 14 people. It's Tigran, and I mostly just put that q in as a token dickhead impossible question, so I'd have probably given you the point.

Average score was 4, highest 6.

[mugbull]

You have come the closest to getting the chess player by an absolute mile, and I've given these questions to about 14 people. It's Tigran, and I mostly just put that q in as a token dickhead impossible question, so I'd have probably given you the point.

Average score was 4, highest 6.

I didn't get that one, but it was the closest I was to getting one

[Jimmy Floyd]

You have come the closest to getting the chess player by an absolute mile, and I've given these questions to about 14 people. It's Tigran, and I mostly just put that q in as a token dickhead impossible question, so I'd have probably given you the point.

Average score was 4, highest 6.

Yeah. I mean, with that one I just happen to know it (chess 50s-90s is a weird niche speciality) - but normally I'd either know something or I wouldn't. Currently I'm in a haze of vagueness where I am unable to summon the things I do know.

I got 2.5 out of 10 on the cricket round earlier and couldn't remember who MS Dhoni was, ffs.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I know 4 from Igor's questions.

[Offshore Toon]

Zoom is way better than houseparty.

[Baz]

Zoom is way better than houseparty.

So’s being bummed to death by a horse.

[Baz]

Hey igor_balis in the subject of quizzing over zoom or whatever, how do you deal with marking the answers to prevent cheating?

Been roped into one next weekend.

[Kikó]

Trust?

[igor_balis]

Hey igor_balis in the subject of quizzing over zoom or whatever, how do you deal with marking the answers to prevent cheating?

Been roped into one next weekend.

Yeah as Kikó alludes to, trust is the easiest method. It helps that my gang of pals would never cheat, out of a pathetic nerdy respect of the integrity of quizzes, but just to put everyone's minds at rest we've been generally following the system of:

1. everyone writes their answers on their computer
2. everyone copies and pastes and PMs them to @Bam the quizmaster
3. everyone marks their own, and reads out their scores

That way, even if you can't be arsed to actually check them, the option is there if you smell a rat, or someone bitter moans about another person's high score.

[Jimmy Floyd]

3 is the only non-boring option. If you're cheating on a Zoom quiz at this point in proceedings then there is no hope for you anyway.

[Giggles]

3 is the only non-boring option. If you're cheating on a Zoom quiz at this point in proceedings then there is no hope for you anyway.

I think they do all 3.

[Giggles]

Wouldn’t Google Forms be really handy for that anyway?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Oh. The ones I've done you just mark yourself. To be honest I couldn't even give a shit if other people cheat, it's just a way of 'seeing' each other and passing the time without the 'So...' awkwardness that remote video socialising creates.

[John]

Oh. The ones I've done you just mark yourself. To be honest I couldn't even give a shit if other people cheat, it's just a way of 'seeing' each other and passing the time without the 'So...' awkwardness that remote video socialising creates.

You probably should give a shit if your family cheating has you questioning the entire basis of your personality.

[Giggles]

Alcohol removes the awkwardness.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You probably should give a shit if your family cheating has you questioning the entire basis of your personality.

If you think there's any need for me to be consistent with statements made in different threads then you are mistaken. That was a few hours ago, anyway, before the martians landed.

[igor_balis]

I think they do all 3.

"this"

And my family is basically just me and my mum, so unless i wanna do a quiz that entirely consists of clips from escape to the country where she has to guess the value of the bougie bullshit house featured, I can't see her being that interested.

[ScousePig]

We're two weeks into our family quiz. We came last (just) in the first week, scoring 24/50. My sister and her fiance won, meaning they hosted last week. That was a much harder quiz and we scored a mid-table/bottom half 19 (scores ranging between 14 and 26), with my parents winning overall. My dad's given me a hint this week to learn about the counties.

We do number three from the list above: just mark our own.

[SvN]

We send answers at the end of each round to the quizmaster, who then tots up the scores. I somehow won the music quiz last night with a score of 109/180. I expected to come dead last, but we only really did pop and rock songs.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If anyone wants to know what my family is like, the winning score in yesterday's affair was 17/40 (my last placed total was 11.5) and my sports round was the highest scoring round at an average of 4/10 (only one of the other 6 people is a sports fan).

One of the rounds was there were screenshots of sheet music, i.e. musical notation, and we had to identify the piece/song and who wrote it. I can read music well and scored zero.

[Giggles]

If anyone wants to know what my family is like, the winning score in yesterday's affair was 17/40 (my last placed total was 11.5) and my sports round was the highest scoring round at an average of 4/10 (only one of the other 6 people is a sports fan).

One of the rounds was there were screenshots of sheet music, i.e. musical notation, and we had to identify the piece/song and who wrote it. I can read music well and scored zero.

I think I'd rather do one of Igors zany ones.

[Baz]

One of the rounds was there were screenshots of sheet music, i.e. musical notation, and we had to identify the piece/song and who wrote it. I can read music well and scored zero.

https://i.gifer.com/4kEx.gif

[mugbull]

I think i could probably identify Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and La Marseillaise. There’s no chance i would get any other piece

[Jimmy Floyd]

One of them I managed to work out what it was, but couldn't remember what the thing was actually called (turned out to be the Skater's Waltz). There was also something by the Bee Gees, and something by Britney Spears (for that one, I guessed Handel).

But yeah, the person who set that round should set himself on fire. He doesn't even like music, he just fancied a spot of sadism.

[ScousePig]

There's an assumption I'll always do well in the sports round, whereas in reality I'm average and would be just as likely to score higher on history, geography, film or music. We've started with a picture round the past two weeks: week one it was children's TV programmes (many from our generation) and last week it was flags of the world. Even on the flags I only managed six which was a great disappointment. Arts and literature I'm pretty much useless.

My sister made a point that you're only *supposed* to score around 40% on a quiz. If and when I host I've created some zany literacy and maths SATs based questions, partly for my own amusement but I'm genuinely interested in whether people can answer them.

[Baz]

With the recent rise in popularity of Zoom quizzes, and me mentioning Ale or Horse in rl at every possible chance, I made two Ale or Horse Powerpoint quizzes, than can be used over screen share:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OJO5U7A4vPksWzajVCHYsx80yYWtlcte/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12V1HsaN6pw6r6FeDPqPrThZw2L2uv_wD/view?usp=sharing

[Baz]

Got another quiz tonight. :rolleyes: Each couple has to do a round of 10 questions. Here’s mine:

1. What is the name of the cat in the Mr Bean cartoon?
2. Who was the Prime Minister of England when World War 2 started?
3. In what year was the first Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game released on Playstation?
4. How many series of The X-Files are there?
5. How old is Mike?
6. In America, Rawlings is the official manufacturer of balls for which professional sport?
7. When a player creates a character in World Of Warcraft Classic, they start their journey as a level 1. What is the maximum level a character can reach?
8. Daniel Hernandez is a musician better known by what name?
9. On 25th May 2005, Liverpool won the Champions League final against AC Milan. What was the score after 90 minutes?
10. What strength is BrewDog’s Punk IPA?

[Giggles]

I’ll give you an Irish round to flummox them all.

That said, I’d get every singe one of yours wrong.

[Mike]

I know one. It was 3-3 at full time ;)

[mugbull]

Baz why are you so obsessed with 6ix9ine?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Baz why are you so obsessed with 6ix9ine?

He loves absolute dickheads.

[Baz]

Baz why are you so obsessed with 6ix9ine?I really enjoy his music, and his life story is very interesting. Him being so accessible probably helps a lot. Like there’s no point being obsessed with someone you never see anything about or hear from. :sorry:

[Jimmy Floyd]

3/10 for me, reckon you should get a glorious zero out of someone.

[Giggles]

I should have known that 3-3. For some reason I thought 2-2 and 1-1 in ET.

[mugbull]

I got 4, took an educated guess on Tony Hawk and got it right :cab:

[mugbull]

I really enjoy his music, and his life story is very interesting. Him being so accessible probably helps a lot. Like there’s no point being obsessed with someone you never see anything about or hear from. :sorry:

Link his best track, i've never actually listened.

[Baz]

Link his best track, i've never actually listened.I like WAKA but STOOPID is probably your best bet:


https://youtu.be/VDa5iGiPgGs

[mugbull]

Hahaha this is exactly what i expected. Just like that Stitches music video, except My Little Pony themed