Family Quiz Questions Cryptic Televion Programme Clues
Lutero Chaloux
I do a family quiz on Christmas day and it gets taken very seriously
There'll be about 11 of us there, aged 20 - 85. I try and do quiz rounds that everyone has at least a chance of getting right. My dad used to do rounds like 'top selling singles of the 70s' and questions such as 'who who the Grand National in 1983?' which I can't stand because it gives an advantage to those who were actually born and able to remember, so it was a great day when he was finally overturned and I became quiz master.
So anyway, I'm doing this year's quiz and I'm stuck for round ideas. I always do the first round about the previous year, and I've got a 'name that connection round'. What else can I do? Over the years I've had a Christmas trivia round, missing word rounds, song lyrics rounds, but I don't want to repeat myself. Anyone got any good ideas?
Christmas carols or Christmas pop songs? Can do names of artists, lyrics or even covers as the classic pop ones are covered so often but often obscure so everyone on the back foot :)
Food - ingredients with odd names, traditional xmas meals in different countries
Blue Planet - DC been covering this at school and constantly coming up with under the water facts - huge topic!
Sports - but to make it more challenging, find names of moves/equipment from popular and obscure sports and ask in a multiple choice way? Think there must be some classics in curling, rock climbing, fencing, green bowls.
Can't think of any more....can see how hard it is!!
Do you have many photos of family houses? Do a picture round, who's front door is this, who's garden is this tree in, who's baby blanket is this, name the pet, guess the year of this Christmas photo etc. So go through your photos and look in the background for items you can crop out etc and use them as the clue.
Filling in the missing word from Christmas carols/songs, mix of well known and more obscure.
Picture round with naming the actor from Christmas films.
Identifying which pantomimes characters appear in e.g. Buttons is from X?
Herbs and spices
Put different herbs and spices in individual pots/cups and everyone has to guess what they are
Do the obvious ones like basil and parsley but you can also put more obscure ones in. Grind them up so things like Star Anise aren't as obvious
A map of the UK/Europe/the tube and they have to guess the cities/countries/stops
Dance moves
Stickmen pics doing a dance routine and they have to guess the song
Or, you do the routine and they have to guess the song - YMCA, Gangnam Style, Stayin' Alive, Macarena, Saturday night etc etc
Brief intro to a Christmas number one single. One point for getting the artist, one point for guessing the year.
Give each person a shot glass of different Wkd (I mean the drink Wicked, but I think it has an abbreviation!) flavours which they have to guess. Could do similar with crisps and jelly beans. Obviously, the more obscure the flavour, the better!
Picture round to identify different countries' flags.
Picture round where you have photos of a very small part of different chocolate bars, or company logos, which have to be identified.
Christmas and/or family general knowledge - you can adapt this for true or false? questions.
So a question might be -
"What year did (insert funny family thing that happened) happen?"
or
"Grandma used to be a seamstress - true or false" (obviously the questions can't relate to the family members there for the quiz!)
'Famous' family quotes might work if you have a few examples of daft things family have said that were funny and now family legend, give the quote and ask who said it.
Google has loads and loads of downloadable pub quizzes that you can get ideas from.
Christmas based anagrams or cryptic clues to Christmas things (food, drink etc)
Ohhh I love stuff like this. I did one last year which was all based on current events for each month, the picture round was 'name the dead celeb' (a little morbid but 2016 was a bad year for celebs) and then my absolute fave, instead of a dingbats round I did famous politicians signatures.
I am doing something based on the TV programmes Pointless and Tenable and who Dares wins. Ages range from 11 to 73 so finding a good mix of lists and everyone takes it in turns to give an answer from the list.
We used to do picture quizzes based on 1) TV personalities and people in the news (quite easy to include some which will be known by the younger generation and not the older ones) 2) magazine and poster adverts - cut out the name of the product wherever it appears. It's one thing recognising what type of product is being advertised, quite another to remember which brand.
I think it's more fun to have things that you can puzzle over and try and work out rather than something that you either know or you don't so I like for instance @LilyDisney 's suggestion of 12 D o C (the 12 days of Christmas) etc.
Similarly, another one we've liked in the past is cryptic clues to towns e.g. A Dirty Place To SwimBlackpool
I think these sort of questions avoid the situation when you haven't got a clue what the answer is as you can try to work it out.
My friend's husband does a quiz every new year which has ridiculous questions which you don't know the answer to but whichever team gets the closest gets the point. So you can be miles out but if you are just a bit nearer than the other team you still get it. e.g. how many gallons of paint does it take to paint the Eiffel Tower? How far can a kangaroo jump in one jump? How long does it take to hardboil an ostrich egg? Great fun because all the team members debate the answer. He often repeats the questions from one year to another but because a little, (ok then, a lot) of booze has been sampled, we can never remember the answers.
I must go and look up how long it takes to boil an ostrich egg.
I like the cryptic ones and anagram ones too.
Name That Tune is fun, especially if you play a bit in the middle of the song rather than the beginning!
Also guessing emblems and logos can be fun.
Don't know if anyone can help here, but I was up late one night earlier this week in Townsville (not sure which night actually) and was watching this cheesy old B movie about a dentist who fakes his own death and takes his dead twin's identity...only to discover that his brother was a horribly corrupt ex-CIA agent
I know what you're thinking..."Sounds Super!"lol Anyway, at the ad breaks it was advertising the film as 'Consequences', but I have not been able to find it anywhere. I'm trying to find the name of the lead actor. Any help would be appreciated.
"Adapted from an Appalachian Jack Tale set in the late 1940s, this tale follows a World War II veteran named Jack who, in return for an act of kindness, receives two magical gifts: a sack that can catch anything and a jar that can show whether a sick person will recover or die. Jack becomes a national hero when he rescues the president's daughter from a serious illness by capturing Death in his magic sack. However, after many years without Death in the world, Jack realizes that he has upset the natural order and releases Death to save humankind from perpetual old age and misery."
1. That a stealth plane docks onto the underside of the hijacked jet. People then unload from the stealth plane and board the hijacked aircraft. Their objective is to then disable a bomb that is on the plane. They find the bomb, but the first one is a fake, the real one is further in and protected by red lasers.
2. In one scene before the us Air force is about to destroy the hijacked plane, one of the pilots notices that the tail lights are flashing in Morse code, they then decide not to blow the plane up, and give it more time.
3. I think it then goes on to them landing the hijacked plane at an airport, but the two pilots are dead, so the main character must then land the plane. He then spies an airstrip that he is familiar with, so he aims for that. As he lands he wipes out about 50 small aircraft.
From what I remember, it was in French. A French girl (early 20s) was working in Japan. She struggled with the language, to come to terms with Japanese customs and working conditions, and ended up doing strange things like sleeping in the office. She had poor relationships with her bosses except the CEO, who seemed to 'accept' her.
It was a brilliant movie. A really simple plot but very moving and acting was great from what I remember. Sorry for such a vague description, I'd love to watch it again but no idea what it was called.
people digging and they either found aliens in the ground
ok... BEFORE i go on a wild goose chase...
HOW do you qualify those "aliens"... meaning are they really ETs...
or just look-alike as perceived by a child then...
I think it might have been in England and they were digging a tunnel and found a "Space ship" buried there. I remember dream sequences of the alien "Grasshoppers" hundreds of them hopping along, might have been a war.. not sure. It's a very long time since I saw it, racking the old brain for memories!!
England and they were digging a tunnel and found a "Space ship" buried there
hmmmm...
there was a Brit horror movie about some interplanetary archaeologists... who encountered a big grasshopper creature which impregnated one of them... BUT was released in early 80s...
It was released recently (1-3 years ago), featuring interconnecting relationships
among urban young professionals set in modern Mumbai.
It's a "serious" movie and doesn't include any Bollywood-type dancing and music.
On and off for 30 years I had tried to find the name of this move but had been unsuccessful, nor had I ever seen it on TV again (not that I would have recognised the name in the TV guide as I didn't know it).
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