STUPID ANSWERS

 

The following represents a short list of genuine answers to questions that I have asked over many years of compiling and presenting pub quizzes.

Question What does the A stand for with regard to the FA Cup?
Correct answer Association
Answer given Action

Question Spell Chihuahua
Correct answer Chihuahua
Answer given Chiwawa

Question What is the capital of Australia?
Correct answer Canberra
Answer given New Zealand

Question What word beginning with B can go before bank, brother, orange and stone?
Correct answer Blood
Answer given Big (I ended up giving them a point for this!!)

Question Which US President was allegedly killed by Lee Harvey Oswald?
Correct answer John F Kennedy
Answer given Winston Churchill

Question Which bar of chocolate might one associate with Fletcher Christian?
Correct answer Bounty
Answer given Kit Kat

Question What name is given to an angle of less than 90 degrees?
Correct answer Acute
Answer given Triangle

Question What does REM stand for with regard to sleep patterns?
Correct answer Rapid eye movement
Answer given Right eye moving

Question By what fruity name is the thyroid cartilage otherwise known?
Correct answer Adam’s apple
Answer given Coconut

Question Which ball sport is played on the largest field?
Correct answer Polo
Answer given Horse racing

Question Which common food item has a name that means “baked twice”?
Correct answer Biscuit
Answer given Brown bread

Question How many degrees are there in a semi-circle?
Correct answer 180
Answer given One and a half

Question Which monkey gave its name to a blood group?
Correct answer Rhesus
Answer given Davy Jones

Question Who is the only rodent to have won an Oscar?
Correct answer Mickey Mouse
Answer given Roland Rat

Question How is two fifths expressed as a percentage?
Correct answer 40%
Answer given Half

Question What would one lose if suffering from alopecia?
Correct answer Hair
Answer given Voice

Question Nimbus and cirrus are both types of what?
Correct answer Clouds
Answer given Bread

Question What is hippophobia the fear of?
Correct answer Horses
Answer given Thongs

Question Which Gerry Anderson series was set in the year 2065?
Correct answer Captain Scarlet
Answer given Space 1999

And to finish a question from an individual round….

Question In which city did Anne Frank write her most famous work?
Correct answer Amsterdam
Answer given “I don’t know, but my wife would know that, she’s read all her books” !!!!!!