tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24866285153247370642024-02-21T04:48:39.080+00:00QuizOfTheDayQuizOfTheDayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575030169245621287noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486628515324737064.post-53530311157098595332024-01-09T20:39:00.003+00:002024-01-09T20:39:19.414+00:00Website Back Up<p>I think I've fixed all the issues now and the website should be back up.</p><p>Sorry for the break. If there are any remaining issues please get in touch at qotdenquiries@gmail.com</p>QuizOfTheDayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575030169245621287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486628515324737064.post-85136916234337985632024-01-08T17:40:00.003+00:002024-01-08T17:40:38.984+00:00Website Downtime<p> Apologies for the downtime that quizoftheday is currently experiencing. In upgrading a piece of the technology that the website is built on I inadvertently broke just about everything.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m working on getting it up and running and hope to do so in the next day or so.</p>QuizOfTheDayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575030169245621287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486628515324737064.post-52636112985292537432021-12-02T21:42:00.006+00:002021-12-02T21:42:53.699+00:00What Comes Next - Solutions<p>Solutions</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Spoilers below...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>First letter of the planets</li><li>Olympics not held in capital cities and the capital of the country they were held in</li><li>Noble Gasses by ascending atomic mass</li><li>Speakers of the House of Commons' initials and the year they were elected going back in time</li><li>NATO spelt out in the NATO phonetic alphabet</li><li>Repeated letter postcodes with the post code capitalised in alphabetical order (e.g. Blackburn is BB)</li><li>Fast and Furious film titles first letters</li><li>The Seven Ps without the Ps</li><li>The natural numbers (1, 2, 3) ascending represented by their digit repeated once for each letter in their name, e.g. ONE -> 111</li><li>Bonds and their first film, first letters</li></ol><div><br /></div><p></p>QuizOfTheDayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575030169245621287noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486628515324737064.post-30099125262880959362020-04-27T19:21:00.002+01:002020-04-27T19:21:38.707+01:00What Might Come Next? - Solutions<br />
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<li>Songs with numbers in the title - One Love (Bob Marley) , Two Tribes (Frankie Goes To Hollywood), Three Little Birds (Bob Marley)...</li>
<li>Greek equivalents of the planetary gods moving outwards</li>
<li>Time abbreviations and lengths 60 Seconds, 60 Minutes, 24 Hours, 7 Days</li>
<li>Monopoly Stations on a Standard UK board</li>
<li>Words that are the same length and start and end with the same letters as months of the year</li>
<li>Power of Two films with the numbers removed - 2 Weeks Notice, 4 Lions, The Hateful Eight</li>
<li>SI prefixes</li>
<li>NATO Phonetic Alphabet of the compass points</li>
<li>Official languages of the four most populous countries</li>
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<li>Harry Potter Books</li>
<li>Kings of England, first letter of their name</li>
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<li>UK PMs going back in time</li>
<li>Noble Gasses increasing in atomic weight</li>
<li>Colours of the Rainbow</li>
<li>Royal Houses first letter (Norman, Plantaginet, Lancaster...)</li>
<li>Pugh Pugh Barney McGrew Cuthbert Dibble Grub</li>
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QuizOfTheDayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575030169245621287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486628515324737064.post-14597966779135219842020-04-05T15:30:00.000+01:002020-04-05T15:33:27.118+01:0029th March 2020 - What Comes Next?<div>
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<li>Moon landing missions & years</li>
<li>Regular polygons, first letters of their names and number of edges</li>
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<li>First words from lines of Shakespeare's sonnet 18</li>
<li>First two letters of worlds largest countries (by population) and first two letters of their capital cities</li>
<li>Henry Kings and the years of the start of their rules</li>
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QuizOfTheDayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575030169245621287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486628515324737064.post-35237662645452049672020-03-23T17:37:00.004+00:002020-03-23T17:37:53.304+00:00Socially Distant QuizzingAs we're all being encouraged to spend a bit more time at home, Quiz Of The Day will be publishing quizzes on Saturday and Sunday for the foreseeable future.<br />
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Enjoy and Stay SafeQuizOfTheDayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575030169245621287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486628515324737064.post-75646347126392248762018-11-01T22:07:00.001+00:002018-11-01T22:08:54.779+00:00What Comes Next?<br /><br />Answers to 01/11/2018<br /><br /><br /> <a href="http://quizoftheday.co.uk/746">http://quizoftheday.co.uk/746</a><br /><br /><br /> Q1. Chancellors if the Exchequer going forward in time ending with Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, George Osbourne and Philip Hammond<br /><br />Q2. Prime numbers in Roman Numerals - XIII<br /><br />Q3. Rugby positions of increasing number giving F for Flanker<br /><br />Q4. First Ladies of the United States going back in time to give Rosalynn Carter<br /><br />Q5. World Cup finals culminating in this summers France v Croatia<br /><br />Q6. First and last letters of the NATO phonetic alphabet eg AlphA, BravO, CharliE... HoteL<br /><br />Q7. Group 1 elements - Rubidium<br /><br />Q8. Planets of the Solar System and the number of letters in their name giving Saturn 6<br /><br />Q9. The Fibonacci sequence in binary, 8 is next = 1000<br /><br />Q10. This is chess openings that correspond to moving the pawn in a certain file forward two squares, A4, B4, C4 (English), D4 (Queen’s Pawn), E4 (King’s Pawn) giving F4 Bird’s Opening (B)QuizOfTheDayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575030169245621287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486628515324737064.post-70089745361745308352016-04-14T06:00:00.000+01:002016-04-14T06:00:32.515+01:00100 Quizzes<h2>
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Quiz Of The Day QuizOfTheDayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575030169245621287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486628515324737064.post-11107009769644618282016-01-16T17:36:00.000+00:002016-01-16T17:43:18.506+00:007 Tips For Making The Perfect QuizWant to know how to write the perfect quiz? Well here are our seven things to bear in mind while putting it together:<br />
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Its important to keep in mind who you're writing the quiz for. Are they old or young? Do they have any special interests? Nobody wants to do an impossible quiz or sit through two hours of niche questions that they have no idea about. If in doubt, stick to staples: General Knowledge, Music, Pictures and History are the most universal rounds.<br />
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Another choice to make early on is whether to give possible answers or leave people to give their own answer. Multiple choice questions avoid misspelling or half right answers but can make a quiz too easy. I would tend to use multiple choice only for those really tricky questions; everyone can then get involved and try and work it out.<br />
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A whole round on cycling can be good if you know you've got a lot of cyclists in the room, or in a regular quiz a different 'Niche' round every week can be good. Good guidelines are to keep it short and don't make it too tricky. A fiendishly difficult round on 14th Century Austrian Literature is not going to go down well.<br />
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QuizOfTheDayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575030169245621287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486628515324737064.post-80891014978979140982016-01-09T15:48:00.003+00:002016-01-09T15:48:59.970+00:00Weekly Round Up 09/01/2016It's 2016 and we here at <a href="http://quizoftheday.co.uk/">QuizOfTheDay.co.uk</a> are very excited for the year ahead. We launched late last year with our daily general knowledge quiz and have some exciting features planned for this year.<div>
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This week saw the start of our 'Russian Week' series of special themed quizzes with our quizzes on <a href="http://quizoftheday.co.uk/37">Thursday</a> (music) and <a href="http://quizoftheday.co.uk/38">Friday</a> (history) coming courtesy of <a href="http://therussianstudent.com/">therussianstudent.com</a>. Check back on monday for another very special Russian Literature quiz courtesy of <a href="https://twitter.com/russtudentuk">The Russian Student</a>.</div>
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The first one is coming up tomorrow and it's all on Russian Music so get your thinking caps on and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/RusStudentUK">The Russian Student</a> and of course <a href="https://twitter.com/QuizOTDay">Quiz of the Day</a> on Twitter for daily updates.<br />
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Here's a teaser to get you thinking:<br />
<i>Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy is from which ballet by Tchaikovsky?</i><br />
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