OT - The Pub Quiz Thread

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sb_73 said:
What did the monks of Weihenstephan Monastery first start doing in about 768AD, which is still being done under the same name?
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Brewing Benedictine. Oop North when I lived in Burnley a "Bennie and Hot" could be purchased in most licensed premises and was pretty much a local cure for just about everything. Found it useful on more than one occasion when feeling bloated from too much ale.
 
sb_73 said:
Well it’s Ars Longa Vita Brevis, no idea who the band is.
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Yeah, it's a bad question really. No one's going to know it's The Nice without googling. What a pretentious youth I must have been to own that album.

You win for the translation.
 
Stroller said:
Yeah, it's a bad question really. No one's going to know it's The Nice without googling. What a pretentious youth I must have been to own that album.

You win for the translation.
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Oh, don't know why I came up with ELP then?
 
QPR999 said:
Great translation, did you study Latin?
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For 2 years until I was 13. But it’s quite a famous phrase I know I have seen it used elsewhere and I speak very bad Italian, not a great jump.

ELP was so close with the Keith Emerson connection that I think it should be your go. Getting the balance right to set a challenging question that can still be answered, or got close to through deduction/educated guessing without using the internet is harder than getting them right.
 
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sb_73 said:
For 2 years until I was 13. But it’s quite a famous phrase I know I have seen it used elsewhere and I speak very bad Italian, not a great jump.

ELP was so close with the Keith Emerson connection that I think it should be your go. Getting the balance right to set a challenging question that can still be answered, or got close to through deduction/educated guessing without using the internet is harder than getting them right.
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You're right, I gave it up too soon. Ninesy would have got there after his ELP answer.
 
QPR999 said:
Correct.
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That was the result of long hours in the car when the kids were smaller doing geography quizzes. Plus I love atlases and maps.

IQ is (in my opinion) more about narcissism than anything else, but here goes. The ‘average’ IQ is 100, anything above 109 is above average. Gary Kasparov, the chess player, has an IQ of 194. Einstein 160-190, and Hawking 160. Apparently. Theoretically, because of distribution curves etc, it should be impossible to get a score over 200, but a small number of people, none of whom you would ever have heard of, have. The highest estimated was for William James Sidis, who could type and speak English, French, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Russian and German by the age of 5.

To the nearest 10 what is the bottom of the range his IQ was estimated to be?
 
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