Last night, we finally participated in a Pub Quiz at The Office Pub in Graz! What is a Pub Quiz? Well, a quiz that is held in a pub - in English. We had wanted to take part the week before, but got there too late. If you want to participate, make sure to find a "victim" who arrives at The Office at around 4pm and finds a table for your group!
The quiz consists of five rounds to ten points each. In the first round, we had to guess celebrities from pictures in which they were wearing funny hats (see picture on the right). In another round (personally, my favourite) we listened to parts of songs and when the music stopped, we had to write down the lyrics that would've come next. In the other three rounds, a quizmaster asked questions and we had to write down the answers - sounds easy, but is not.
The questions cover many different topics (sports, music, hisotry, medicine...), but one thing they all have in common: you have most likely not learned about them at school or university! Or did your teachers ever tell you what a Samurai without a master is called? Would you know the name of a card game that is played with a regular deck of cards, is most likely derived from the Italian Scopa, and whose goal it is to reach 21 points? Do you know in which country you are most likely to be poisoned?
It seemed like sheer luck that we knew any of those answers, but in the end, we were the second best "virgin team" (a team that participates for the first time). I highly respect the people who have accumulated so much useless knowledge over time that they could answer almost all the questions...we still have a long way to go, but we are going to participate again next week because it was great fun!
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