The Weekend Quiz Podcast

The very first episode of the podcast in it's new form as The Saturday Quiz.

The Kates take on the quiz from The Saturday Paper and really only falter when the question of which monarch started the House of Tudor comes up.

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Where is a wimple worn?

What word beginning with ‘i’ refers to the tendency of matter to retain its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line?

and which British monarch founded the House of Tudor?

In the final episode of season one of The Weekend Quiz, John is joined by Chris and Luke who go incredibly close to correctly answering every single question. And Chris' feats of imperial to metric and back again are something to behold.

What mountain is the highest peak in Africa?

Which British poet wrote, “ ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”?

and What is Australia’s oldest chocolate bar?

Real life married couple, Amanda and Adam, Zoom in to do the quiz from seperate hotel rooms in two different cities during their 14 day quarantine. The distance between them counts for little as they blitz through the questions.

What does a sphygmomanometer measure?

Ninety per cent of the world’s earthquakes occur within which seismic belt?

and What is Mr Darcy’s first name in Bridget Jones’s Diary?

This episode, the podcast threatens to go off the rails as the anxiety of the quiz almost gets too much for guest, Yael Stone. Nevertheless, she and Jack do really well with quite a few tricky questions - even managing to successfully phone a friend early on.

The US Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4 of what year?

Starting with “T”, what musical instrument is played without the physical touch of the performer?

and Which “barbarian” mercenaries sacked Rome in AD410?

I'm so glad I asked Sean and Anne-Louise to be on this podcast because not only do they do a smashing job of answering the questions, but unbeknownst to me, the quiz holds a special place in their relationship... or it does for one of them at least.

Where in the body is the ethmoid bone?

In what country do lions, tigers and leopards live in the wild?

and

Who was the first actor to win an Oscar playing a comic book character?

Not actually sponsored by Toblerone... 

This episode, answering the questions are Laetitia and Rob from their home in Darwin.

They get some really tricky ones in this quiz, but they bring it home at the end.

Which planet in the solar system has the most moons?

What type of instrument is a sackbut?

and What geographic feature is part of the Toblerone logo?

Geraldine Hakewill and Mark Winter are delightful humans. Geri manages to keep her competitive nature in check and Mark provides some very canny answers and at the end of the day, we've all learnt something. Like what a dithyramb is.

Which UK band produced the 1990s hit song Things Can Only Get Better?

Pembroke and Cardigan are breeds of which dog?

and Which is bigger: Neptune or Uranus?

Two Perth boys get more than their fair share of questions about Western Australia. And they manage to get a good deal of the answers to the questions outside their areas of expertise - but it's the ones inside that pose the greatest challenge.

Who was the first Australian to play in the US NBA?

Lake Taupo is the largest lake by surface area of which country?

and Which has never been an Olympic sport: squash, tug-of-war or horse long jump?

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Joining John on this episode are Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope, neither of whom know who is claimed to have said: “Doctor Livingstone, I presume." But then, who does know that?

Plenty of bonus points on offer in this quiz. And sometimes you find that the first thing that pops into your head is the correct answer... but also, sometimes you're way off.

What word denotes both a bureaucrat of imperial China and a kind of citrus fruit?

What country uses the internet domain extension fj?

and which city was the first to host the Olympic Games outside of Europe and North America?

Sure, the quiz seems a little easier than normal, but Kate Jinx and Zoë Coombs Marr smash this one out of the park. They don't get every question right, but they go very close. If it wasn't for those damn helmeted honeyeaters, they'd almost have a perfect score!

What was the aim of the US-led Manhattan Project during World War II?

What is the Battle of the Little Bighorn commonly known as?

and Which two Aboriginal nations had first contact with the British?

Listen in to find out.

Tackling the quiz this weekend are Adele Vuko and Christiaan Van Vuuren, and they get off to a rocky start. It's not until question 6 that they get their first points on the board. But thereafter, they manage to knock together a very decent score. 

And they do it much quicker than an infinite number of monkeys at infinite typewriters ever could.

They know what a mandrake is.

They know what Domino Theory refers to.

And they know how many strawberries the Very Hungry Caterpillar eats.

Do you?

What are people from Tokyo called? is not actually a question from this week's quiz, it's just something that stumped me during the recording.

This week, Alison Bell is once again the sole guest on what is fast becoming a view on a marriage in quarantine. And the rain doesn't stop falling on the tin roof. But there are 25 questions to be answered, including:

What is the name of Radiohead's third album?

In geometry, which shape has an infinite number of sides?

and

Marie Curie was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize for discovering polonium and what other element? (hint, she didn't discover penicillin)

John is joined by fellow Australian expatriates in America, Alison Bell and Christopher Baker.

Alison is the extraordinary Co-creator/co-writer and star of the hit Netflix show The Letdown.

Chris has been in Ozark, Gotham and True Detective, and will appear in the forthcoming Stargirl.

But they don't know what strait separates Europe from Asia, or who the husband of Queen Nefertiti was, or what the Latin word Nemo translates to in English. Do you?

Play along and keep score and let me know how you do.

John is joined by Patrick Brammall and Virginia Gay as they try and answer such questions as: Which three countries are the world's most populous? What is a maker of clocks called? And which branch of physics is involved in the study of sound?