Quiz round!

[undyingking]

We've got another London Road Community quiz coming up! - and as usual I'm asking you lot to be the hapless victims who test the hardness of the various questions. Thank you in advance!

So this is the connection round. As before, there's a connection between the ten answers (which are supposed to be fairly easy); and the earlier in the round you

Comments

[huggyrei]

I don't think I know any of these (I mean, I want to give the obvious answer for the shakespear heroine thing, but there may in fact be more than the one character who fakes her death, and I've not actually read Romeo and Juliet so don't know if there's a friar involved). Makes it difficult to get the connection - but then I already know I'm terrible at quizzes!

[undyingking]

Thanks for trying anyway, it's always useful to get a spread of different responses!

[bateleur]

Sorry to be negative, but I think this question set is broken.

The problem is, once you spot the connection you get the answers to almost all the questions for free (assuming you know the set from which the answers must be drawn). However, without that hint I think the questions are really hard. I wouldn't have got any of the ones I've marked with *s without knowing the theme.

Also, anyone who gets the first two questions will get the theme fairly easily I would guess. That seems a bit quick?

[dr_bob]

I agree that golf and (especially) zulu should be further down the list. India, sierra and lima nearer the top, perhaps (geographical red herring).

[undyingking]

Mm, I'm gong to move Zulu down I think. T (when I tried it on her at home) got that one without also getting the connection, but she's the only one so far I think.

[leathellin]

I got the connection from 2 & 10 and then stopped because I'm going out for dinner :-)
I know absolutely nothing about cars so that one wouldn't get anywhere with me but I can see it working in a team.
Also two Olympics questions, it isn't even 2012 any more :-)

[dr_bob]

Got Golf and Zulu, but was not really looking for the connection until I'd answered them all. Got Oscars only after dismissing Grammies, and then had to go back and change the largest country, Blues (wrongly!) and Roentgen.

[undyingking]

The scoring system is such that you score more the earlier you guess, but you only get one guess so it has to be correct. There's a tension between guessing early when you're 80% certain, and holding on for another question to be 100% but scoring less accordingly.

[gbsteve]

I just read the BBC story about McIlroy so it might have taken me a bit longer to get the first question otherwise but it was probably a bit easy once I got the link. That said, the only one I didn't know was Sierra. Perhaps you could do it in Only Connect style.

[undyingking]

It is Only Connect style, in the sense that the earlier you guess the connection, the more points you get, but if you guess it wrong you can't try again. (Or did you mean something more subtle?)

[triskellian]

I only got the two women's names, noticed the connection, then went back and got most of the rest from there. I missed the style of music, and the award.

[undyingking]

thank you! -- it's good to know that most of them can be filled in once the connection's known.