Quiz night questions

If a school was going to hold a quiz night, what sort of questions do you think they'd ask?

I ask this thinking that if a group of teachers are compiling the questions, then the questions would probably reflect what they are teaching, or want to teach.

The quiz night last night had six rounds, and about 80 questions were asked (some were multi-part questions). One of the rounds was a "famous faces" round, where we were given a sheet with fifteen faces on it and had to name them all. The other five rounds were the usual type where someone stands at a microphone and reads them out.

We were in the back row of tables, and they had an overhead projector on all the time, but no one ever thinks to put the questions up on the projector. I have pretty good hearing, and I only just heard many of the questions over the 30 odd tables in front of us that were gossiping away at drunken decibels.

I only recall two questions that were of the "english lit" variety. One had to do with the play "Richard III" by Shakespeare, and the other had to do with Jane Austen. One question had to do with Tom Clancy, and even though I have read all his books about six times each, I would not classify him as 'literature'.

That's pretty sad.

There were only two geography questions, and both of them was part of a fun interval activity and not part of the quiz.

I recall only 2 or 3 history questions. One of them was 'in what year did a Japanese midget sub enter Sydney Harbour, and what was the vessel that it torpedoed?"

There was one science question - what elements have the symbols Au and Ag?

Most of the questions were related to music, TV, movie stars and sport.

I wish they'd said at the start, "All the questions are taken from what we are teaching your kids this year. Let's see if you know more than your children." That would have made it more interesting.

The whole night just gives me this horrible feeling that all that our kids are doing is watching TV all day at school.

We really needed Damien to help with the music section. The teacher that put the questions together is a sad music fan like Damien, and he asked plenty of obscure things that only another sad loony would know.