QF Questions and Answers

occams_pyramid asked for these after HarmUni, so I figured I'd just share them with all of you.

For those of you who who are not familiar with QI, it's a BBC quiz show that focuses not on people getting the right answer, but on asking really difficult questions and having people answer interestingly.

We did a filk version of this quiz at HarmUni. Originally, I was just searching for some questions for a general filk quiz, but then pdcawley mentioned QI, and I thought that would be a great theme for a filk quiz game.

Not everybody is as familiar with QI as I am, so there was no way to really explain that the scoring is completely arbitrary with lots of penalties if the host doesn't think the responses are interesting, or if they answers are too obvious. However, I thought it worked very well for the most part.

Here are all the questions, organised by category, with a contributor's note if I can remember who contributed. :)

( Category 1: Terms and General Knowledge )

( Category 2: Awards )

( Category 3: Germany )

( Category 4: England )

( Category 5: Specific Songs )

So there they are, all the written down questions, anyway. But I'm afraid you had to be there to experience the magic that was unclechristo as Your Host, not to mention the theramin rounds and the objects from the fifth dimension! :-D

Thanks very much to everybody who contributed to making the one bit of programming I was a little scared about a big success.