Quiz Questions

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Created by hughie1986 on Fri 16 Sep 2011.

Following the trend on here, I'll give the first question, answer it and ask another pub quiz question

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by PJHolybloke Today at 10:20 am

Which well known children's book includes the chapter "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn"?

I know little either but I read an article today about a certain sports star who injured his thumb while holding said gun.

OK, are we talking a pistol here and is it a production model?

Yes,handgun and pistol are pretty much the same thing aren't they?

They are, I was making sure it wasn't one of them there trick questions and it was going to be a handheld rocket launcher....

Smith & Wesson claim to have the most powerful handgun in the 500 magnum but a German manufacturer makes a .600 handgun that they claim is the most powerful, confusingly this is also called a Magnum.

So if it's not a Magnum I'm stuffed.

It's a desert eagle according to my intel Cal.50 to be specific.

Well you learn something new every day, who was the sports bod with the bad thumb?

Article is above, PJ. Click on the bit that says sports star. He was an NFL quarterback called Josh Freeman.

I don't know why, but as I was reading that Danny Cipriani sprang to mind. Fancy going to a shooting range with a sprained thumb in the first place and then firing a .50 cal when a 9mm would be bad enough.

What a chump.

I've just done a bit of research and it appears the S&W .500 and the Desert Eagle .50AE are the two most popular answers for production handguns, the other one I was thinking of was Austrian not German, the Pfeifer Zeliska .600 Nitro Express Magnum and it's not a production model it's made to order.

Ask us another one.

It would explain some of his throws recently!


Name one person who has got an EGOT. (that's Emyy,Oscar,Grammy and Tony.)

Kevin Spacey?

Oh hang on, he doesn't sing. How about Barbra Streisand? Cher?

Whoopi Goldberg

You're both right but Lucky got it first. Go ahead there kid.

Who scored the first ever try at the Millennium Stadium?

The curator's 7 year-old daughter?

Ha, possibly, but I meant who scored the first try in an actual match!

Shane Williams?

Nope.

Gareth Thomas?

Thinking back to the period I am guessing it wasnt a Welsh player.

So most likely someone from England or France would be my guess. Thomas Castaignede?

No, it was a Welshman, believe it or not!

Thomond, I think Gareth Thomas scored in the match but his try wasn't the first.

Gibbs?

No, but he played for the same club as Scott Gibbs.

Must be Bateman then?

Nope.

Well you said it was a Welshman which rules out the other Shane .

Was it someone obscure who only got a couple of caps?

I can tell you who their oponents were...... don't suppose I can have a point for that?

You can have a point for that but you won't have answered the question!

This player won plenty of caps for Wales. He played in Wales's Grand Slam match against Ireland in 2005.

South Africa - one point

I've presumed it's a back we're after, is it a pesky forward getting in on the action?

Yes, he was a back. He played the Grand Slam match out of position, which might be too big a clue...

The answer should be pretty obvious given his career spanned 99-05, as the 05 Slam team wouldn't have had many players in it from 99.

But it isn't....

His dad played for Pontypool and was called Ivor, if that's any help!

Stephen Jones?

No. He played in midfield.

Centre but not Bateman, not Gibbs, still playing in 2005, surely it wasn't Henson was it?

Nope.

Ignore that, he'd be about 15!!!

I heard this one before. It was Mark Taylor.

I've got to go to work, so I Googled it (it would have killed me all day), can't believe it, he never entered my mind.

Good question so I'll leave the answer to someone else.

.....or Mikado.

I was going to give the clue 'why the long face,' but that would have given it away!

The old “who scored the first try in…” is a great type of question.
So I’ll continue with who scored the first try in croke park?

And indeed, who scored the last try in croke park.

O' Gara was the first, have a good day fellas.

Hmm, who scored the last... it was Ireland v Scotland and I think a Scot scored the last try...

O’Gara was not the first.

The last was scored by a Scot though Lucky.

Johnny Beattie scored an early try in that match but who scored the last... Simon Danielli? It might have been a winger for Dan Parks's conversion to have been on the touchline.

Crap. Sorry Luck. I got my info wrong. The last try scorer was Tommy Bowe. But I was thinking it was Beattie so I’ll give that one to ya.

Who got the first though?

Gordon D'Arcy?

Nope. PJ was on the right track in that O’Gara did score a try in that game. But it wasn’t the first.

The first try scorer wasn’t Irish.

Home nation or other?