unknownpseudonym wrote:if it weren't for the social aspect of pub
quizzery 
i'd vote for SWP every time.
anyway, we've all had a good old moan about SWP questions which are inaccurate/misleading but taking a step back they are relatively very few. how many thousands of questions do you answer before noticing a troll?
anyway in this pub quiz league i've been doing with some dear old friends we were recently asked the old chestnut "which animal can't jump?"
despite knowing what answer they wanted, we decided to have some sport and put 'slug' as the answer but the stubborn old buzzard reading it out wasn't having any of that.
this was a calculated gamble but then we had to answer the top five island nations. now i'm not a genius but i would have said greenland and australia are bigger than cuba and iceland ffs.
I think SWPs aren't bad on the accuracy score, but if truth be told I rarely question the questions I'm given as I've seen so many of them before. Every so often I'll press an answer which is given as correct and then think "hang on, that question was totally wrong". Pub quizzes vary a lot - again, normally it's a case of having a feeling of what the "percentage play" is despite the fact you know the questions tendentious. Never any point arguing though: there are few more obstinate than pub QMs in my opinion.
As for island nations, I don't think Greenland would be acceptable as it's not a sovereign state, which is how I would normally interpret "nation" in a pub quiz setting (otherwise you couldn't accept the United Kingdom as an answer for example, as it's not one nation but four). Australia is always debated in this context: some say it's an island, some say a continental land mass. More often than not, it's not included in largest island lists so on that basis I think I might have avoided it for this question. It's a dodgy question, though: what about nations consisting of many islands? Indonesia comes to mind immediately. I'd be tempted with United Kingdom, Taiwan and Madagascar as the three other answers given though. Amazed Iceland's bigger than everything in the Caribbean.
Which quiz league were you doing, UP?
