Results are In! (Quiz of the Year)

I’ll tell you something – I’ll tell you a LOT if you encourage me! – Setting a QUIZ OF THE YEAR is an interesting exercise.
The results are in, the analysis has been done and at the end of this post the grand winner will be announced.

And there lies the rub.

Is that correct expression?

There lies the first problem.

How to judge the answers?

Ok, ok maybe I made some mistakes with the question formulation, but when a question says “name THREE anniversaries celebrated …..” and someone names TWENTY ONE!!!! – What do you do?

Mark the answer wrong because the question clearly said name 3?

Award 18 bonus points?

Disqualify the person because they are clearly insane?

Abandon the whole idea and give EVERYONE a bottle of wine?

Bonus points are going to be complicated – one of the people who replied was clearly intoxicated, although claiming they weren’t, and in the process gave some hilarious answers. They deserve encouragement for originality but how much?

Another person, I suspect, used Wikipedia more than once whereas others used a blog-trawl method. Who gets the bonus there? Slow and in the spirit but not so clever, or clever but not so slow and out the spirit?

Furthermore (that’s the first time I’ve used that word in the blog) should there be minus bonus points for taking longer to answer than others?

So many things to sort out!

But the good news is that EVERYONE got question 9 correct !!!!!!!!

So lets get to it.

Question 1. An easy one to start - how many times did Bob Dylan feature in the Bitsnbobs advent calendar 2009?

Ok, a little unfair as I said it was easy but in fact it was a little bit of a trick question.
Answer – three. Once as singer (just) once and once again as writer.

Question 2. Which of these did not feature in Terry Wogan's farewell morning broadcast on BBC radio 2 -Abba (Dancing Queen) The Who (Pinball Wizard) Dire Straits (Sultans of Swing)?

Answer (surprisingly) - Abba. He did feature them but with the song Waterloo.
So in the first two questions only one correct response!! But HOW did Janet know?

Question 3. A long time ago George Best (footballer) scored 6 goals against Northampton Town , thus setting a record. Which of the six did he score with his head?

Answer - Clearly the first.

Question 4. Where did the year begin?

Ok, lots of good answers but it was meant to be a BLOG quiz so
Answer – Paris.

Question 5. HOW many mosquitoes?

Although “Too Many” is clearly an excellent answer and one i agree with I was hoping for 1.2million. (see above).

Question 6. In the almost legendary September Improv challenge - what WAS the thing sliding across the table?

Well, I’m pretty sure, and not alone, in believing that eventually it was a banana, albeit a pointy one.

Question 7. Name three anniversaries "celebrated" on Bitsnbobs this year.

Answer – well apparently there were 21! (though as writer I was unaware).
Possibilities were – The Eiffel Tower, Woodstock, The Fall of the Berlin Wall, The Birth of Sesame Street., Walking on the Moon, Chernobyl Explosion and the Mini Car. Oh and Barbie.
“Dunno” is not an acceptable answer. Not really. Well…

Question 8. Name as many countries as possible with only four letters in their name.

Bali seems to be a province, not a country and Guam is apparently a US territory. Pala sounds like a nice place to be, even if fictitious and as for Hong-Kong…………!
Answer – Chad Cuba Fiji Iran Iraq Laos Mali Oman Peru Togo and possibly Niue.

Question 9. What's your name?

Full marks!

Question 10. What should Bitsnbobs do in 2010?

Ok, I guess I was hoping for one or two solid suggestions for future challenges, subjects, inspirations but thankyou all for nice words and for doing the quiz and for being there.

Now, let me tot up….. one, em maybe…… two……he he he………

Oh God, this is so close, so hard, so unfair.

Will you accept if I say you are ALL winners?

Will my bank account?

I’m going to chicken out of awarding bonus and minus points, it will be so, so difficult.

So the OFFICIAL WINNER of the BITSNBOBS 2009 End of the Year Quiz – with a grand total of 14 points, only one more than her nearest rival -is……….


SAFF!

Well done to all, I hope it was as much fun for yee as it was for me.

One bottle of excellent French Red Wine to be sent or delivered personally – her choice (look to the comments).