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There are 22 posts tagged: quizzical
- Spitting image
- 16 July 2024
In the wake of the hullabaloo over AI-generated fake images, The New York Times posted a handy-dandy spot-the-difference test.
(more…)- Too much sport and politics
- 12 July 2024
This week's BBC News quiz seemed to mainly cover sport and politics; two subjects not at all dear to my heart. So I'm going to forgive myself for only getting one question right, the final one regarding Cypress Hill's concert with the London Symphony Orchestra, as it happens.
(more…)- Mark my words
- 19 April 2024
On two of the three questions I guessed wrong in this week's BBC News quiz…
(more…)- From hero to joker
- 12 April 2024
This week's BBC News quiz started with a hero, and ended with an antihero.
(more…)- Don't bother they're here
- 12 January 2024
This week's BBC News quiz ends, as is so often the case, with a celebrity death. This time, it's that of Glynis Johns, and the category descriptions all refer to her stage hit, Send in the Clowns.
(more…)- The total fucking irony
- 1 January 2024
BBC Radio 4 has an online grammar quiz dedicated to that most maligned of punctuation, the apostrophe. In prefacing the quiz, they have apparently
(more…)used the BBC style guidelines for these examples – so blame them, not us
. Well, okay then; but are they not part of the BBC? (confused)- Madge on the march
- 20 October 2023
Madonna opened her greatest hits Celebration Tour in London on Saturday, and with it this week's BBC News quiz. Performing four decades of songs, from her first album released in 1983 through to 2019.
(more…)- Big and dense
- 6 October 2023
A week of news that I barely paid attention to ends with a BBC News quiz result that speaks both to me and of me in equal measure: Supermassive Black Hole.
(more…)- Stargazing
- 22 September 2023
This week's BBC quiz of the week ended with a question on astronomy, hence the scores' categories: Lucky Star; Waiting for a Star to Fall; and Space Oddity.
(more…)- False advertising?
- 1 September 2023
The BBC's quiz of the week headlines with the teaser to the right, but follows with this question:
(more…)Rap star Eminem asked Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to stop using his songs, after the biotech entrepreneur performed Lose Yourself at the Iowa State Fair. Which other politician was previously told to stop using the rapper’s music?
- No sex please, we're rabbits
- 28 July 2023
Celebrity deaths seem to be quite the thing for closing the BBC's quiz of the week. This week's ended with the passing of Tony Bennett. But that's not what made it remarkable, at least for me, because I knew about Bennett's death already, albeit not that his stage name had been given to him by Bob Hope.
(more…)- With great power…
- 16 June 2023
The death of Marvel Comics artist John Romita Sr, who worked on Spider-Man during his career at the comics publisher, was marked by three quotes from the webslinger's adventures. I'm not really a Spider-Man fan, and none of them were familiar to me. The only quote that springs to my mind would've been perfect for the top spot:
(more…)with great power comes great responsibility.
- Twinkle toes
- 28 April 2023
Len Goodman, head judge of Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars, died this week, and the BBC News quiz of the week honoured him with its final question. The categories' descriptions are three of his witticisms (apparently, I never watched the bloody shows myself).
(more…)- Low self esteem
- 21 April 2023
This week's BBC News quiz finished off with a question on the BBC Proms:
(more…)Pop star Self Esteem was included in the line-up for this year's BBC Proms. But which children's TV show also has two slots in the eight-week classical music festival?
- Mr whippy
- 31 March 2023
This week's BBC News quiz of the week ended with a question on the UK following the Dutch lead in banning nitrous oxide, or
(more…)laughing gas
, for recreational use.- Harsh, but fair
- 2 September 2022
The BBC's quiz of the week is an opportunity for you to discover how little of the week's news you paid attention to. Seven multiple-choice questions shouldn't be too hard, though, should it?
(more…)- Clueless
- 22 March 2022
BBC News runs a weekly timed multiple-choice quiz: ten news-based questions, with four possible answers, and ten seconds to answer each one.
(more…)- His Royal Popness
- 25 February 2022
This week's BBC News quiz is teased with
(more…)Which pop royalty will play this jubilee gig?
Someone has an insanely liberal definition ofpop royalty
if the answer's George Ezra. (pipe)- When correct is incorrect
- 10 December 2021
BBC Bitesize is a series of purportedly educational learning materials and quizzes for children. Or is it? Educational, that is.
(more…)- This little piggy…
- 26 November 2021
BBC News' quiz of the week starts off with a question about BoJo's enjoyment of a children's theme park. I hadn't read the article, so I didn't know the answer…
(more…)- It must be Thanksgiving
- 22 November 2021
To celebrate Thanksgiving, BBC Food asks me
(more…)How much do you know about American food?
And presents a handy-dandy little quiz, to check whether I'm lying or not.- Blue, not blue
- 2 October 2020
Five African grey parrots at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park have been removed from public view for swearing at visitors. They swear to trigger a response, even among themselves, and that encourages them to swear even more. So, not unlike teenagers and Frankie Boyle then. (pipe)
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