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  • #62
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    We should have a boards table quiz championship!


  • #63
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    MacGyver007 wrote: »
    Yes it was. He won it in 2005.
    Ah yes, it is the same guy after all. Beaten Kevin Ashman a few times in recent quizzes - not too shabby


  • #64
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,092 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    MacGyver007 wrote: »
    He is Pat Gibson, another winner of the top prize in the UK version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"

    Didn't know that! Yeah he knows his stuff, weak on sport though like most of them :D


  • #65
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    Ah yes, it is the same guy after all. Beaten Kevin Ashman a few times in recent quizzes - not too shabby

    I bet he used to get beaten up at school for smugness.


  • #66
    Lollers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Lollers


    Kevin seems a bit dull on Eggheads, but I have heard good stuff from others while he was off TV , decent unassuming bloke.


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  • #67
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Had to stop watching eggheads because they pissed me off so much.they're needlessly smug,it's like they're told to be as smug as possible


  • #68
    sgb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭sgb


    Snakeblood wrote: »
    WHAT ARE THE 39 STEPS?

    The 39 steps refers to the number of stairs in the clock tower of Big Ben from the Lauderdale Door to the clock itself


  • #69
    Cill Dara Abu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Cill Dara Abu


    I was at a quiz night last weekend for the local GAA and one question that came up was what is the capital of Australia, the other 3 lads on my team all got it wrong as did the other tables, I was the only person in the place that knew the answer but our captain didn't trust me :mad:


  • #70
    earpiece
    Closed Accounts Posts: 550 ✭✭✭earpiece


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Anyway table quizes just arent fun anymore - The usual team consists of three idiots and an Iphone!

    What's an Iphone? and who are U2?


  • #71
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    I have beaten the eggheads on numerous occasions. They just don't know it.

    The intelligence shown on this forum amazes me sometimes.


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  • #72
    Cill Dara Abu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Cill Dara Abu


    Kasabian wrote: »
    I have beaten the eggheads on numerous occasions. They just don't know it.

    The intelligence shown on this forum amazes me sometimes.
    You're arrogance knows no bounds does it?


  • #73
    sgb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭sgb


    Cill Dara Abu wrote: »
    I was at a quiz night last weekend for the local GAA and one question that came up was what is the capital of Australia, the other 3 lads on my team all got it wrong as did the other tables, I was the only person in the place that knew the answer

    Must be great to stand out in your local GAA


  • #74
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Kasabian wrote: »
    I have beaten the eggheads on numerous occasions. They just don't know it.

    The intelligence shown on this forum amazes me sometimes.

    were you watching a repeat again?:p

    It amazes me too.


  • #75
    InkSlinger67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭InkSlinger67


    Can I be the host's Pointless friend, Richard?

    I have my "Hiya!" down to a T


  • #76
    Cill Dara Abu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Cill Dara Abu


    sgb wrote: »
    Must be great to stand out in your local GAA
    It is thanks.










    weirdo


  • #77
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    Cill Dara Abu wrote: »
    I was at a quiz night last weekend for the local GAA and one question that came up was what is the capital of Australia, the other 3 lads on my team all got it wrong as did the other tables, I was the only person in the place that knew the answer but our captain didn't trust me :mad:
    Tis easy........A


  • #78
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Cill Dara Abu wrote: »
    I was at a quiz night last weekend for the local GAA and one question that came up was what is the capital of Australia, the other 3 lads on my team all got it wrong as did the other tables, I was the only person in the place that knew the answer but our captain didn't trust me :mad:

    They all said Sydney I suppose.


  • #79
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    They all said Sydney I suppose.
    I guess technically the correct question would be "What is the federal capital city of Australia?" Sydney is an Australian capital city, albeit an Australian state capital city, as are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, etc.


  • #80
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    stupidusername wrote: »
    Had to stop watching eggheads because they pissed me off so much.they're needlessly smug,it's like they're told to be as smug as possible
    yeah, i hate it too. its like they give you multiple choice for the easy questions, and then give an impossible question when the multiple answers are removed, hate it.


  • #81
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    how many notes in two octaves?


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  • #82
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,422 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I'm another fan of Kevin from Eggheads. Apart from the fact that he's way better than the rest, he also just gets on with it, without showing off extra facts about the question that aren't needed. CJ is the worst for over-embellishing. I remember once when CJ answered a question correctly, he went on to explain his answer. His reasons for picking the correct answer were completely wrong, the charlatan!!

    I like Pointless too. Alexander Armstrong is obviously fairly knowledgeable himself, but the humour in the show is what I like about it. Richard Osman is quite witty (and his brother is the bassist in Suede!).

    Does anyone here watch Only Connect on BBC Four? That can be fairly tough sometimes, and it also has an intelligent presenter, the lovely Victoria Coren. I hate when a quiz show presenter is obviously lacking in knowledge. Anne Robinson on The Weakest Link springs to mind...

    I like Jeremy Paxman's sneering when somebody gets a question very wrong. "Domenico di Pace Beccafumi? He didn't start painting until 10 years after that!!!" :D


  • #83
    Das Kitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,231 ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    I'm a big quiz fan.

    My mates and I founded the Quiz Soc in NUI Galway. We used to go to table quizzes in college for spending money.

    We were in the semi finals of the Ray D'Arcy big quiz two years ago.

    The rest of my team are currently in Bruges at the European Quizzing Championship http://www.eqc2011.be/site/

    I'd be there too if it wasn't for us being too broke to both go. :(


  • #84
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Cill Dara Abu wrote: »
    You're arrogance knows no bounds does it?

    Your

    As in what is your problem?


  • #85
    sgb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭sgb


    Kasabian wrote: »
    Your

    As in what is your problem?

    No problem, but the only person in the local GAA that had ever heard of Canberra








    wierd


  • #86
    Da Shins Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    I watch University Challenge from time to time, the questions can be quite difficult though.


  • #87
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Da Shins Kelly wrote: »
    I watch University Challenge from time to time, the questions can be quite difficult though.
    i would watch, but it clashes with eastenders,


  • #88
    Cill Dara Abu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Cill Dara Abu


    sgb wrote: »
    No problem, but the only person in the local GAA that had ever heard of Canberra








    wierd
    FAIL!


  • #89
    Lollers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Lollers


    Anyone remember Knightmare on Channel 4, still find that a bit creepy. Crystal Maze was class though, Richard O' Brien with his skinny jeans and harmonica was so great, loved the desperate literally money grabbing final scene.


  • #90
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Oh yeah,forgot about Crystal Maze,i was always so tensed up for the final thing.


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  • #91
    Dotrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    Lollers wrote: »
    Anyone remember Knightmare on Channel 4, still find that a bit creepy. Crystal Maze was class though, Richard O' Brien with his skinny jeans and harmonica was so great, loved the desperate literally money grabbing final scene.

    Knightmare was ITV. Contrary to popular belief a few teams actually won the game. Tho most failed miserably.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IEnuKlbBic


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