Posted in Movies, Quizzes, tagged answers, galway, kellys, movie, picture round, quiz on October 11, 2011| 4 Comments »
Good day to you all. Here are the answers to those fiendish questions posted in yesterday’s blog.
It’s a good job I typed up yesterday’s post when I did as I have since lost the piece of paper on which the featured questions reside. Thus, I will have to do the round all over again. That said, it is a lot easier when you’ve heard the answers within the past week!
Posted in Movies, Quizzes, tagged galway, kellys, movie, picture round, quiz on October 10, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The title of this post is the name by which the quiz master at the Kelly’s monthly movie quiz always refers to the final round. He’s clearly proud of it. He must spend a lot of his week before the quiz going through Halliwell’s Film Guide, looking for the most obscure movie facts he can find.
Normally we do ‘ok’ in this round – by which I mean 6 points, or thereabouts. However, if you’ve read my post from last week, you won’t be surprised when I reveal that we scored a miserable 3 points this time out. I’m going to include the whole round below, as a separate set of questions to let you have a go.
We had been joint-leaders at half-time on 35 points but, after that final round, we ended up third on 64 points. That being said, we only lost by 3 points. Everyone else must also have found the final round to be a bit of a b*st*rd…
Posted in Movies, Quizzes, tagged answers, galway, kellys, movie, picture round, quiz on September 16, 2011| 3 Comments »
Following on from yesterday’s The war on movies, here’s the sequel – now with added answers.
Lost on the cutting room floor from the original post was the news that we actually won the quiz! Whilst we were an amazing eight points clear of second place, there was a bit of confusion surrounding third prize.
The quizmaster announced that they had a result but a play-off was in the works. Two teams were in “joint third” and they needed to play off. They did and, a slight controversy over the original name of Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope aside *, one of these teams defeated the other. Well done, here’s third prize.
Except, this play-off was immediately followed up by another play-off, this time featuring the two teams who were tied in “joint second”. The team that lost this one were a bit confused afterwards. Shouldn’t they be getting third prize, they no doubt wondered. To be fair to the organisers, this was resolved quite quickly and they were given some Star Wars merchandise – in honour of the ‘second-and-a-half’ place they’d just finished in…
Posted in Movies, Quizzes, tagged galway, kellys, movie, picture round, quiz on September 14, 2011| 1 Comment »
After a Summer hiatus, the Kelly’s movie quiz returned on Sunday night. Yeah, I know, Sunday night. Not since Where in the World ended have I associated that particular evening with quizzing.
The night wasn’t the only change – the quiz is now being sponsored by HMV. This week, in honour of the fact that you can now buy all the Star Wars films on Blu-Ray, the quiz was called ‘Movie Wars’ and featured a lot of (although thankfully not entirely) questions about George Lucas’s cash cow creation.
It was quite an enjoyable quiz. Its eight rounds included a picture round (on the big screen – no paper here) and two audio rounds. One of these audio rounds was most entertaining. It featured 10 samples of dialogue from famous movies. Nothing too novel there, you say, but these were all linked by the fact that they were almost entirely made up of expletives. Yes, I know, it’s a bit childish but it certainly made me laugh!
The Star Wars connection was kept light for the most part. For example, the picture round featured 10 stills of actors, who have appeared in Star Wars movies, in some other film – and that’s what you had to identify. There was also a round where a Star Wars actor was named, along with two others, and you had to say in which film all three of them appeared. You can sample some questions after the ‘Continue…’
Posted in Movies, Quizzes, tagged answers, audio, galway, kellys, movie, quiz on June 20, 2011| 1 Comment »
Here endeth the post created last Thursday, Back to the front. My apologies for the delay in posting the answers. I feel as if I am in the plot of a Richard Curtis movie as, within the last two months, I have been at four weddings. Well, the fourth of those took place last weekend and it knocked me out of my ol’ routine. Heck, even my little Friday podcast was only uploaded this morning.
I mentioned last week that this month’s Kelly’s movie quiz was won by ‘Things to do in John Denver when you’re dead’. And well done to them. They almost pulled off a clean sweep of the available prizes but were beaten to the top spot in the ‘Best Team Name’ competition, as voted for by audience applause, by the (hopefully) inaccurately named ‘Three Men and a Massive Slut’. Mind you, the team was made up of a 3:1 male-female ratio…
The poster included in the previous post was from the 1978 film, The Wild Geese. It was the only one of the ‘Photoshopped Posters’ round that eluded us. I must check it out sometime, it has quite the cast.
Posted in Movies, Quizzes, tagged audio, galway, kellys, movie, quiz on June 16, 2011| 5 Comments »
One of the beauties of table quizzing is that it’s rare you feel you are the cause of your team’s defeat. However, on Monday last, that unfortunate “honour” landed on my shoulders.
We have become the ‘playoff’ team as, apart from the first movie quiz three months ago, we’ve always been involved in a tie-breaker for some position or another. Three months ago we won the opening quiz but, since then, it’s been a playoff for third, a playoff for second and, this month, a playoff for third once more.
Mike is our star man when it comes to movies and it had been only right that he was our nominee for those previous playoffs. However, on Monday night, perhaps lacking the motivation to compete for a slab of beer (which we found difficult to give away, when we won it a few months back), he deferred. Consensus was that I should be the man to approach the stage…
There I met Luke, the other team’s representative. He looked about as up for this as I did – and I don’t even drink beer. “OK,” Dave the quizmaster told us, “we’re going to play another piece of music. The winner is the person who identifies it first.”
On came the music. After about 10 seconds I looked at my opponent. He shrugged his shoulders, indicating that I wasn’t the only one who HADN’T A CLUE what it was. “Alright,” says Dave, “let’s try another one.”
After another 10 seconds, myself and Luke had become impromptu comrades in this crucible of embarrassment. This second tune was (apparently) much easier as people in the crowd were now hurling invective in our general direction. Invective which said ‘Ah come on. This one’s EASY…” Still, Luke and I just stood there.
David on the mic was getting a bit impatient. “I’m going to run out of questions soon!” he told us.
Posted in Movies, Quizzes, tagged answers, films, galway, kellys, movies on March 9, 2011| 1 Comment »
Time for the answers to the movie themed questions I posted yesterday.
A very enjoyable, if slow*, quiz and great value too at €20 per table. Also, it featured the best table name I’ve heard in a while: Tequila Mockingbird! It didn’t have to be a movie quiz for that name to stand out.
Right, I’ll get on with posting up these answers as this is probably the busiest week in the blog’s history. I’ve already got another four posts lined up – after this one!
Posted in Movies, Quizzes, tagged films, galway, kellys, movies on March 8, 2011| 3 Comments »
Back in the day, by which I mean back before this blog existed, I used to make a monthly pilgrimage from Ennis to Galway to take part in the Bazaar Movie Quiz. This wasn’t a bizarre movie quiz. No, it was a quiz held in a bar called Bazaar.
Well, Bazaar is no longer there and, since it’s closing, there’s been a movie quiz shaped void in the Galway quizzing scene. This hole was filled last night by Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street*.
And lo!, it was good. Such a large crowd turned up that almost 100 people had to be turned away. By the time the quiz did kick-off, the staff had managed to squeeze 27 tables into the bar’s upstairs room. Clearly, this quiz will be back!
It was also the first time our ‘A’ team got back together since the All-Ireland final last November. And lo!, we did good. 🙂
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