Interesting snippet in the paper today. It appears that google is one of the most commonly googled words.

Your scrupulous honesty was much appreciated. How did I do with my answers, I'd not seen the Myra one so that was a guess and now I'm intrigued.

Turkey is right. (Google, moi?)

Edit: BTW, I quite fancy myself at pub trivia games, but I could answer only a tiny minority of your questions. Either your friends are experts or your NYE quiz is going to foment rebellion.

Thanks for the feedback, as i've said previously I've looked at sooo many questions and stared at my own variations way too many times that I've lost all appreciation for difficulty and hence the reason for posting.

Guests are late twenties Canadians for the most part and so been aiming for questions to fit that demographic. I'm hoping that the team aspect/discussion time will also help people get a couple of answers that are tough individually. In my mind I have a final score of about 70/100 as winning which seems reasonable. Plan is also to play it fairly loose and if I feel extra clues are needed along the way then I'm not going to be stuck to what I've typed out.

Fingers crossed anyway and any more suggestions more than welcome, it's really appreciated.

Turkey it is. I found that question somewhere on Paul's Quiz pages too, I think.

It's on the south coast, northeast of Rhodes.

There's whole heap of trivia in St Nicholas's life story - he has all sorts of weird legends associated with him. Once upon a time I sang in a performance of Britten's "St Nicholas," which is effectively a biographical cantata/oratorio, so read up on some of the more outlandish stories. One of those is the legend of the Pickled Boys who had apparently been murdered and pickled in brine by a butcher, who then tried to serve them for dinner to Nicholas and his travelling companions in an inn. He miraculously brought them back to life and everybody sang hallelujah loudly. This legend still forms part of the Christmas tradition in bits of Eastern France, apparently, where Père Noël is accompanied by the evil butcher, Père Fouettard, who threatens the bad kids with chopping them up and pickling them.

as an ego-massaging aside, we were delighted with how well the concert was reviewed, and I've just found that the review's still out there in cyberspace: http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2000/12/camden.htm

Do your co-workers share elevators with you, or take the stairs?

Not a question, but how about having pub games between certain rounds, and the winner of the game gets additional points for there team?

When i owned my own pub in Edinburgh, A good game was to get a member of each team up hand them a dry weetabix, get them to eat ALL of it, then follow it down with a bottle( i.e miller).

More often than not a woman would win this round, purely because they would nibble at the weetabix,( which is the key!) where as some of the macho men, would just try to fit it in there mouths at the first attempt.

When most of the guy's tried to do it this way, more often than not, the outcome is not pretty, but it gives everyone else a good giggle ! Not everybodies cup of tea, but quite fun to watch !!!

I like the idea, though I'm already trying to squeeze the quiz in around the Flames game so logistics are tight as is!!

I know the 3 cream crackers in a minute game is also fun and sounds similair.

They are quite similar, but when you see the guy's munching on a weetabix at 100 mph, then gradually slow down to the point of ......well....no return !!
It's very funny to watch

Resurrecting this thread as it's the Friday before Christmas and I've a few more questions for testing, mainly a few that I've thrown in for my Chilean guest:

• Does Scotland have more or less regions than Canada has provinces
• In Chile their Santa Claus is called Viejo Pascuero, does this literally translate as Christmas Gnome, Grandfather Frost or Old Man Christmas
• Is Michelle Bachelet the Chilean President, Prime Minister or Queen
• What is the currency in Chile, Bonus what side of the road do they drive on
• Which Olympian won this years BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the year

1. It has more even if you included the territiories !

They are:
1. Shetland, 2. Orkney, 3. Outer Herbrides, 4. Highlands & Skye, 5. Aberdeen& Grampian, 6. Angus & Dundee, 7. Perthshire, 8. Argyll,The Isles, Loch lomond, stirling & The Trossachs, 9. Kingdom of Fife, 10. Edinburgh & Lothians, 11. Greater Glasgow & Clyde Valley, 12 Ayrshire & Arran, 13. Dumfries & Galloway, 14. Scottish Borders.

2. I actually thought that translated to Easter old Man, however on that basis , i would say Old Man Christmas.

3. Michelle Bachelet= President of Chile

4. Currency= Peso. Bonus= Drive on the right

5. Usain Bolt Jamaican World Record Sprinter, over seas sports personality of the year.

I think question 2. Might be Spelt wrongly ?

In Chile little figures made of clay are placed under the Christmas tree called pesebre.
Father Christmas is known as Viejito Pascuero and he would wish everyone a Feliz Navidad y un Prospero Anc Nuevo or Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year.

Nice work 6/6... too easy?

I'd seen the two spellings on the Chilean Santa on different sites, so went with the one I thought would be a bit easier to pronounce.

Good questions H.

I am sure the quiz will go down a storm, especially with you as mine host

I'm thinking the mini-keg and egg nog will make anything on the night go great, at least provided the Flames beat the Oilers!!