What is the largest lake in Scotland?

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I'm not as bitter as Vicky, but we were right you know.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

There aren't any. They have lochs instead.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

not strictly true that Mark, there's one. The Lake of Monteith, apparently.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

well if there's only one it must be that!

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

you'd think so wouldn't you?

still, we won the first round (20 quid ta) and got into a tiebreaker for the second.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, a pub quiz with prizes given out for each round. That's novel.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

two rounds of twenty questions, the first with a picture round and weird scoring - we got 46 from 30 questions???

winner of each gets 20 quid drink voucher, then there's four questions for a jackpot, which was 126 quid last night

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

yoooo wouldn't let it liiiiie

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a good job Vicky is at home with a sore ankle or this thread would be a long long list of vented bile.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never seen anyone so angry at a pub quiz since, well since I banned the ILx team from winning the SOAS quiz. Sarah still hasn't forgiven me.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i think Vicky is being a bit pedantic but i do sympathise - we should've put both Monteith and Lomond down and they probably would've given us the point

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i think Vicky is being a bit pedantic

because there appears to be no real science-based distinction between a lake and a loch. or is there?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah still hasn't forgiven me

give me ONE GOOD REASON why she should.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The weight/mass thing pissed me off.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

because there appears to be no real science-based distinction between a lake and a loch.

You only get lochs in Scotland?

(If I'm wrong, I'll have learned something cool.)

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The weight/mass thing pissed me off.

and you protested at volume.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete I am more pissed off at John McGee for getting a Pokémon question question wrong.

RED BLUE YELLOW GOLD SILVER RUBY SAPPHIRE CRYSTAL and **GREEN**!!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i spent about 20 minutes trying to remember who duetted with Celine Dion on 'Tell Him' - eventually remembering how the song went, EVENTUALLY, miraculously even, remembering who the co-vocalist was. as of now i call Erdinger Dunkel 'brain juice'

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course Ruby and Sapphire weren't out then.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I was kinda chuffed with the Beckham question.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

a diet of fish and Erdinger Dunkel ensures pub quiz succesh.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

surely white beer with fish?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly, we were all made to feel smart in our respective fields (haha, SteveM's field is Barbra Steisand), given £20 worth of bouze and given the moral high ground for £4 entry. And take the piss out of the Joe Pasqualesque temproary quizmang.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i felt sorry for the Quiz Apprentice - he was clearly out of his depth, and getting heckled by the Scouser behind us didn't help.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I did not feel sorry for him. Quizmaster incompetence is not to be tolerated!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

yeh but he probably stepped in at short notice. actually he probably didn't even work there and had just popped in for a swift pint but got roped in. maybe he only stepped off the plane from Brissie that same day.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

note: chris's team had SEVEN PEOPLE!! That's CHEATING!!!

(ours only had TWO .. not that we would have won if we had more but STILL)

― ken c, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

ability to pronounce words like coulis should be a pre-requisite for a quizmang I'd say. And dropping a question because you can't read it is unforgiveable, even if you didn't set the question.

With the lake thing, if it's the only lake in Scotland, doesn't that make it perhaps the whole point of the question? (i've been thinking about this too much)

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

So what was the answer they wanted: Lomond or Monteith?

Pretty dumb if the latter. That would be like saying there are no lakes in France, only lacs.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

For the first quiz we only really had five (the one we won). And I wasn't very helpful, and Tracer only knows about Americee, and Gareth only knows about Brown things, and SteveM only knows about Barbra Steisand and Vicki only knows about when is a lake not a loch and Cabbage only knows obscure facts about the Premeirship TWO YEARS AGO, and RickyT only knows about bits'n'bytes so we were lucky actually.

(N. this was my very quiet argument. Problem was if I had thought about the question I would have butted in, knowing the code of the quizmang)

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

they wanted Lomond, but I'm sure I've had this question before and they wanted Monteith, with the addition of "it's the only one!"

I thought it was a pretty well rounded team actually, we should do the Village on Wednesday.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The quiz had not shown any trick question tendancies. The hint should have been the kg question.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i was the only person who knew Shearer was England's joint top scorer at World Cup '98 (Chris had put Beckham!) - so that's Alan Shearer and Barbara Streisand - two fortes for the price of one, perhaps the best value in Quizland this morrow.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i am afraid i agree with the quizmaster, lakes are lochs are lacs, it is mere semantics to argue otherwise

admittely i only know about brown lakes, which is why i only really know about the lakes of belarus, or vozieras, as i prefer to call them

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

do the lakes in Belarus have gravy instead of water?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i wonder what the largest liqen in albania is though, it must be that one on the border, both scutari and ohrid are on the border, which means that there is a potential further linguistic minefield. they might be a huge liqen on one side of the border, but not a liqen at all on the other!

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, lochs really are lakes.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

at least there can be no dispute abt the largest lough in Northern Ireland.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

all fair points. I had a complete brain-knack with that 98 world cup question

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I said Shearer too. (But quieter cos everyone knows I know nutthing about football).

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i wanted to put Mecha-Streisand on the answer sheet of course, but that would be childish

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

it was oddd, some of the questions were proper, good standard pub quiz questions (which reminds me ,.... Quimra!!!) like the Titanic one (to which line did it belong?) and then there was the nonsense of "what do we measure in Kilogrammes?"

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah that was shit - who isn't going to know that unless he meant "MASS" as the answer. And he said it was a "Mathematics" question, dumbass.

― ken c, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

He said the answer was mass?? (if not, what was RickyT's complaint?)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I would have written "Mass, known colloquially as Weight".

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

He said it was a measure of weight, which is WRONG.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

mass isn't weight.

: /

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought mass was measured in Newtons.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

no, that's weight

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I think we've just demonstrated what an atrocious question it was.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

would I have got points for writing "Mass, known colloquially as Weight" or not?

weight takes account of gravitation, yes?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

he gave points for both, as the whole pub erupted in ire at that one, and not just our table.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I am surprised and confused.

I think the correct answer should have been 'bananas'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I once did a pub quiz in the Lake District with chums and one of the questions was about biggest lake or number of lakes in the LD or something and the quizmaster made a distinction between lakes and meres so we got it wrong. I give up when it comes to northerners and inland bodies of water.

― Emma, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, you've got the added complication that some (or is it one) of them is/are (a) reservoir(s).

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

what of estuaries?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Whither tarns?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Wimble womble?

Did anybody manage to make off with my cigarettes because I found an alien pack in my pocket on the way home.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

sell the ET fags and live like a queen

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

so then, Village tomorrow night? Steve and Trace should experience the Stow

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

yeh i fancy it. Tracer could get the Silverlink from Upper Holloway and I'll jump on at Green Lanes - directions from Queens Road tho?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

it's revision night tonight (*reaches for copy of Junior Sceptic*)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

come out the station, take first left and carry on to Hoe street (main road - lots of shops) Go up third avenue (which will be over the road, probably to your right) and just carry on up there, it joins Orford road, which the Village is on, after a chippy and the handbag shop and trattoria la Rouga.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Might make it up to the Village, not sure.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

One I was in last night had a wanky answer:

Q: - Which continent is wider at it's South than it is at it's north?

A: - Antarctica

I dispute this, in so many ways. I am probably wrong though. Still, won 2nd round runners up for second week running, and for the second week running, the answer to the tie-breaker was '55'. (last week - how old was Michael Kamen when he died; this week - how old is Ozzy osbourne this week). Spooky.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

How on earth could that be the right answer? My ire is raised on yr behalf Mr B.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Eeek! T ire raised! Take cover!

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

There were quizzical look all round. QM is of the 'fuck off i'm right variety' rather than the 'shite, everyone disagrees, maybe i'm a cockfarmer who needs to back down gracefully'.

Last night's tie breaker was against the team led by ex-Nigel from Eastenders. I felt his envious eyes as we drank our free bouze.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

that is an awful question, and surely the southern most point of antarctica = about 1mm?

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Yip. I meann, the only sensible rubric I can see is to to get the distance from the most easterly and westerly points at the most northern and southern latitudes of the continent. On that basis, it can be only Europe. It was an epiphanal moment in a kind of 'I'm not giving up my spare time to waste my brane on this shite again' way.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

My god, you pub quiz pedants had better never do the quiz at the Windmill in Ormskirk...

Country/County confusion...

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Loch Enlode.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

that sounds like a bad pun I haven't worked out yet

Loch Enkey.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i suppose it's only a matter of time before someone posts to ILX from a pub quiz via the wonders of technology.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

May I enter the pedantry by stating it's actually the Lake of Menteith not Monteith?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

the age of menteith is over!!
*orcs cheer*

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

might make tomorrow. what time start?

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Midnight, oh nu-God!

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

start is 8.30, but arrive early for a seat, it gets rammed

ha! I'm talking to Gareth here!

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

going to a quiz where yr seat gets rammed doesn't sound like my idea of fun.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

aren't you even a little curious?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoever gets there first, get a table down the back in the library bit. You can shoot up down there without hassle.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

the first bit is true, the second - a G-ism (there's a pun there I'm sure)

I'll be there about seven thirty, which, on occasion has been too late to get a decent seat.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

the last pub quiz I went to, in Cowley's Marsh Harrier on Sunday was so crowded that my friend & I could only find a space in front of the dartboard. Concluding that this was a bad idea, not least coz the shelf we'd precariously perched our drinks on was designed for chalk not glasses, we opted to sit on the floor instead! It was ok, no-one kicked us.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

student

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

if i come i won't get there before 8 - dang

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

we can save seats though dude, Jonnie is getting there around seven

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I just phoned the pub to confirm it was on. It is. Starts at 8.30pm. The answer to number 15 is "he masterbated diligently"

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

'with vigour' = half a point

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

is that in the picture round?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

They won last night! The opposition have very definitely dummed down in the Village, and there's no way they'd have been near the top with that score 12 months ago. I'd forgotten just how cocky the quiz master is though, but he has the best, most consistent music round I've heard.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 4 December 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel a bit rubbish, but the victory was kinda sweet, brought only about due to us getting ten out of ten for the music round.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

we had to identify the following 5 songs and artists

It Bites - Calling All The Heroes
Thompson Twins - Doctor Doctor
Mull Historical Society - Final Arrears
Wildchild - Renegade Master '98
and something else i've forgotten

enjoyable evening marred only by the quizmaster's insistence on playing the Warm Jets and Spacehog

i vote Chris and Vicky for Britain's Quizziest Couple

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

We were last night, as I managed to win a bottle of champers at the London archivists christmas party quiz, as part of a team of two, but normally I sit in the corner and there's about one question I can answer that no-one else can. (though on monday night I couldn't even do that!)

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The girl at the next table had a thong which rode high, wide and hansome. I used this as inspiration for the question on the Scilly Isles.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

what was that fifth song?

at least there were no stupid questions last night though.

Steve, did you get home ok?

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I would've known It Bites and Thomson Twins but not the others.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I now accept that Sudan is bigger than Algeria. I popped over this morning with a ruler.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i did chris tho waited about 15 mins for the bus, and there was bad traffic around Tottenham cos a 3 lane road had been closed to just one - it seemed surreal to have such busy traffic at that time of night.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a lake not far from where I went to school which is called the 'Hen poo'.

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?X=378000&Y=654000&width=500&height=300&client

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Last night me and mr ailsa won the pub quiz we normally go to for the fourth time running - cans of Miller a go-go round our house now (you win a case of 24 cans and we keep bloody winning and they won't let us swap it for anything else, but you do get a couple of free drinks from behind the bar too). Our music round involved Edison Lighthouse, Japan, Dean Martin and the Black Eyed Peas amongs others. The only we failed to identify was the new Kylie single, as we are old farts and know very little about stuff like that :(

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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