Og the quizmaster

[oggbashan]

I have been asked, again, to run a quiz for a pensioners' group.

I have adapted the questions from a quiz book published in 1956.

How would you do? I have had to change some of the questions because they always complain that I make them too difficult.

Here is the first set of questions:

Partners

Whose name do you associate with?

01. Romulus
02. Darby
03. Romeo
04. David
05. Ophelia
06. Pyramus
07. Damon
08. Roland
09. Gog
10. Tristram

Og

 

[oggbashan]

The second set...

Child’s Play

11. What were Cinderella’s coachmen before they took to driving?
12. Where did Peter Pan take Mrs Darling’s children
13. What was the source of the sea in which Alice was nearly drowned?
14. What was the only password to open the robbers’ cave?
15. How long did Rip Van Winkle’s nap last?
16. How was Rumplestiltskin in the habit of disappearing?
17. What did Tweedledum and Tweedledee quarrel about?
18. Who was Bluebeard’s last wife?
19. Who wore seven-league boots?
20. Who buried the babes in the wood?

 

[Liar]

10. Tristram

Tristan?

(If not, I have no idea.)

 

[oggbashan]

Tristan?

(If not, I have no idea.)

Yes. Tristan, Tristam - the question and answer depends on the language/myth used.

Og

 

[Stella_Omega]

I got all but two-- Maybe only two-and-a half.

Darby's partner I only know because Dorothy Sayers referenced them at some point, and I looked them up.
Ophelia... her brother?
Damon, I only know from Runyon
and I know who Childe Roland is, but not who his pair-partner is... Not anymore.
The second group, I don't know Bluebeard's last wife's name, but I remember her sister's...

 

[Liar]

Yes. Tristan, Tristam - the question and answer depends on the language/myth used.

Og

Alrighty.
7 of 10 then.

 

[smexygirl]

this is too fun not to answer...

01. Romulus... Shakespear
02. Darby... no association
03. Romeo... Juilett
04. David... Goliath
05. Ophelia... Oedipus
06. Pyramus... no association
07. Damon... Matt
08. Roland... Orzabal (Tears for fears)
09. Gog... ?
10. Tristram ?

 

[oggbashan]

this is too fun not to answer...

01. Romulus... Shakespear
02. Darby... no association
03. Romeo... Juilett
04. David... Goliath
05. Ophelia... Oedipus
06. Pyramus... no association
07. Damon... Matt
08. Roland... Orzabal (Tears for fears)
09. Gog... ?
10. Tristram ?

Oops! 1/10, perhaps 1.5/10

Og

 

[sadangel]

I have been asked, again, to run a quiz for a pensioners' group.

I have adapted the questions from a quiz book published in 1956.

How would you do? I have had to change some of the questions because they always complain that I make them too difficult.

Here is the first set of questions:

Partners

Whose name do you associate with?

01. Romulus
02. Darby
03. Romeo
04. David
05. Ophelia
06. Pyramus
07. Damon
08. Roland
09. Gog
10. Tristram

Og

01. Romulus Remus
03. Romeo Juliet
04. David Goliath
09. Gog Magogg (Sp?)

 

[smexygirl]

Child’s Play

11. What were Cinderella’s coachmen before they took to driving?
Mice
12. Where did Peter Pan take Mrs Darling’s children
Never Never Land
13. What was the source of the sea in which Alice was nearly drowned?
in Wonderland??? I didn't know there was a sea... maybe it's a different Alice.
14. What was the only password to open the robbers’ cave?
Sesame???
15. How long did Rip Van Winkle’s nap last?
40 something... or is that Noah???
16. How was Rumplestiltskin in the habit of disappearing?
by going POOF
17. What did Tweedledum and Tweedledee quarrel about?
Each other I think? Stupid stuff.
18. Who was Bluebeard’s last wife?
no clue... Amelia???
19. Who wore seven-league boots?
questions are getting harder... I know puss-in-boots.
20. Who buried the babes in the wood?
I don't know.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Ophelia + Oedipus?

It's so right somehow!

 

[oggbashan]

Child’s Play

11. What were Cinderella’s coachmen before they took to driving?
Mice
12. Where did Peter Pan take Mrs Darling’s children
Never Never Land
13. What was the source of the sea in which Alice was nearly drowned?
in Wonderland??? I didn't know there was a sea... maybe it's a different Alice.
14. What was the only password to open the robbers’ cave?
Sesame???
15. How long did Rip Van Winkle’s nap last?
40 something... or is that Noah???
16. How was Rumplestiltskin in the habit of disappearing?
by going POOF
17. What did Tweedledum and Tweedledee quarrel about?
Each other I think? Stupid stuff.
18. Who was Bluebeard’s last wife?
no clue... Amelia???
19. Who wore seven-league boots?
questions are getting harder... I know puss-in-boots.
20. Who buried the babes in the wood?
I don't know.

Better.
2/10 or perhaps 2.5/10

Og

 

[Liar]

Child’s Play

6/10

Unless this...

17. What did Tweedledum and Tweedledee quarrel about?

...is a trick question. Didn't they quarrel about, well, everything?

 

[sadangel]

11. What were Cinderella’s coachmen before they took to driving?
Mice
12. Where did Peter Pan take Mrs Darling’s children
Never Never Land
13. What was the source of the sea in which Alice was nearly drowned?

14. What was the only password to open the robbers’ cave?
Open Sesame
15. How long did Rip Van Winkle’s nap last?
25 years?
16. How was Rumplestiltskin in the habit of disappearing?
17. What did Tweedledum and Tweedledee quarrel about?
18. Who was Bluebeard’s last wife?
19. Who wore seven-league boots?
20. Who buried the babes in the wood?

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

01. Romulus--Remus
02. Darby-- ???
03. Romeo--Juliet
04. David--Goliath
05. Ophelia--Hamlet
06. Pyramus--Thisbe
07. Damon--???
08. Roland--???
09. Gog---Agog
10. Tristram--???

Og

6/10 a failing grade

 

[oggbashan]

I suspected that question 4 would produce an answer that's not in the book.

I'll have to revise that question or accept the answer the literati are giving.

Og

 

[Stella_Omega]

01. Romulus- Remus
02. Darby-- Joan
03. Romeo-- Juliet
04. David-- Golliath
05. Ophelia--
06. Pyramus-- Thisbe
07. Damon
08. Roland
09. Gog-- Magog
10. Tristram-- Isolde


11. What were Cinderella’s coachmen before they took to driving?
White mice (eta; NO! The horses were mice! Was the coachman a fine fat rat?)
12. Where did Peter Pan take Mrs Darling’s children
NeverLand
13. What was the source of the sea in which Alice was nearly drowned?
her own tears
14. What was the only password to open the robbers’ cave?
Open Sesame
15. How long did Rip Van Winkle’s nap last?
50 years
16. How was Rumplestiltskin in the habit of disappearing?
He stamped his foot
17. What did Tweedledum and Tweedledee quarrel about?
Tweedledum said tweedledee had spoiled his nice new rattle
18. Who was Bluebeard’s last wife?
19. Who wore seven-league boots?
Jack the Giant Killer
20. Who buried the babes in the wood?
The little birdies

I suspected that question 4 would produce an answer that's not in the book.

I'll have to revise that question or accept the answer the literati are giving.

Og

Oh, I want to know, please?

 

[Liar]

Ophelia + Oedipus?

It's so right somehow!

Psst: Hamlet.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Psst: Hamlet.

*primly* I don't do incest porn.

 

[driphoney]

I suspected that question 4 would produce an answer that's not in the book.

I'll have to revise that question or accept the answer the literati are giving.

Og

I'm so illiterate that I only know question 4.

David killed Goliath, and not in a love tryst gone awry.

David put his eyes on the lovely Bathsheba, who was inconveniently married to the honorable Uriah. David, King by this time, had the poor sucker killed and took his wife, Bathie. Now, if David was having different kinds of thoughts, he would have prolly been having them regarding his best buddy, Jonathan.

Now, I just need to go read some more and figger out all 'em other people ...

 

[packersfan]

Ophelia + Oedipus?

It's so right somehow!

Oepidus' Mom/Lover was Jocasta...

 

[oggbashan]

Answers to first 10 questions

Partners
Whose name do you associate with:

01. Romulus REMUS
02. Darby JOAN
03. Romeo JULIET
04. David JONATHAN
05. Ophelia HAMLET
06. Pyramus THISBE
07. Damon PYTHIAS
08. Roland OLIVER
09. Gog MAGOG
10. Tristram ISEULT

 

[oggbashan]

Answers to Child's Play

Child’s Play

11. What were Cinderella’s coachmen before they took to driving? RATS
12. Where did Peter Pan take Mrs Darling’s children? NEVER-NEVER LAND
13. What was the source of the sea in which Alice was nearly drowned? HER OWN TEARS
14. What was the only password to open the robbers’ cave? OPEN SESAME
15. How long did Rip Van Winkle’s nap last? TWENTY YEARS
16. How was Rumplestiltskin in the habit of disappearing? BY STAMPING HIS FOOT
17. What did Tweedledum and Tweedledee quarrel about? A RATTLE
18. Who was Bluebeard’s last wife? FATIMA
19. Who wore seven-league boots? TOM THUMB
20. Who buried the babes in the wood? ROBINS

 

[oggbashan]

One from last year...

Words, just words

1. What is the meaning of the noun OSCULATION?
2. What is the meaning of the noun FLOCCULATION?
3. What is the meaning of the noun AGGLOMERATION?
4. What is the meaning of the adjective CYMBIFORM?
5. What is the difference between the words FLOTSAM and JETSAM?
6. What is the meaning of the adjective QUOTIDIAN?
7. What is the meaning of the verb IMPIGNORATE?
8. What is the meaning of the adjective OTIOSE?
9. What is the meaning of the noun RIP-RAP?
10. What is the meaning of the poetic noun WELKIN?

 

[packersfan]

1. The act of kissing
2. The process by which particles of clay aggregate into clotlike masses or precipitate into small lumps
3. A confused or jumbled mass
4. Shaped like a boat
5. flotsam – debris left after a ship sinks
jetsam – material thrown overboard to lighten a ship in distress
6. everyday or commonplace
7. to pledge or pawn
8. Lazy; indolent.
9. A loose assemblage of broken stones erected in water or on soft ground as a foundation.
10. Vault of Heaven; the sky. The upper air.