Pub Quiz
I was given the task (actually I volunteered because of the free beer) to host the weekly quiz in a local wine bar.
Given that the same team won every single week due to current affairs and showbiz type questions, I decided to make the main portion of the quiz around science and nature.
It gets to the end and the swapping of each other teams' papers to mark and we get down to the nitty gritty.
The team that normally wins were getting more and more irate and I could see them grinding teeth and they started to argue the toss over the answers with me.

One of the questions was, "What is the only type of fish that can swim backwards?" The answer being an eel.

And that's when matey chirps up. *Bear in mind that he was a middle aged chap and held with high regard by most people in the town.

"Eels go across land they're not a fish"

"Yes, eels do have the ability to travel across land, yet the defining characteristics of the eel determine it to be a fish."

"IT'S NOT A FISH!" he bawled at me.

"Ok, what is it then?"

"B b b b b ITSASNAKE" was what he blurted out.

It took a good couple of minutes for everyone in the room to simmer down from laughing and pointing at the big stroppy baby who was just about to lose a meaningless pub quiz.

*Actually, he was a cunt.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 10:27, 7 replies)

Pub Quizzes....the great divide
i once tried to argue with the gent hosting a quiz that Antarctica is the largest desert in the world as it is based on rainfall, not how much sand there is.

He was clearly not a scholar as he had more tattoos than teeth and was clutching his "big book of quiz questions" which was "a published book and therefore had to be right".

I protested mainly as a bit of fun but his assertion that "it cant be a desert, theres no sand" got many a chuckle for weeks to follow
(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 11:29, closed)

Yep, it's classed as the dryest.
...I think.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 11:57, closed)

What about salmon?
I've seen those nature films when they try to swim against the current and waterfalls and keep getting knocked back. I'm sure I've seen one facing up-stream but travelling backwards. I suppose you'll tell me that it's not 'swimming' backwards, but swimming forwards and travelling backwards.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 14:23, closed)

Uh yes, that'll be the fish relaxing against the flow water.
Not swimming per say.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 14:46, closed)

I've been threatened with being disqualified from a pub quiz
for answering a phonecall.

this is AFTER the last answer papers for one round have been handed in for marking but before the next set of questions arrived.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 18:23, closed)

There's some proper bellends in the quiz world.
They'll argue black's white sometimes.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:14, closed)

seahorses.
they are fish. They swim backwards.
( parttimedogfish is a Born-Again Reincarnationist, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 12:56, closed)