Ladyfest Table Quiz: Air Guitar for Your Brain. (1 Viewer)

[jane]

And you would have been right!
Mad wha?
Good job you guessed

Exactly, because educated guessing is a better option. You take a gamble. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but it doesn't mean it has to be a horrible experience. It can even be fun.

Maybe the questions were hard, and some of them perhaps too hard, but it would have been really boring if they'd been too easy. It's like when you finish the crossword before the train's even left the station. It's much more interesting when there are a few clues that wreck your head a bit.

 

[Catwoman]

Well Jane you have to look at it and see that a lot of the WOMEN involved with LADYFEST didn't have a good time, along with all the rest.

Lots of people left with a bad mindset about Ladyfest and what we do. Bore people? Heck I don't want to do that.

I felt shit because I had people saying "why are the questions shit jill?". And I had nothing to do with it.

I really don't understand why people were bored or alienated. When I looked at some of the questions (particularly the art ones) I thought 'shit, I don't know any of these (apart from Cynthia Plastercaster)' but this happens when I go to other pub quizzes and the sport or geography round comes along. I don't think the questions were shit. In fact I'm delighted to know that 'anus' is Latin for 'old woman'. Another useless fact to add to my collection of useless facts.

 

[damien]

all i am saying is that most of the people in my peer group at the quiz and a fair number of LF organisers (see this thread) were not 100% happy with the way it went and felt maybe that a little more collective imput would have improved matters, maybe that's something to take on board for the future, maybe not.
my contribution to the thread ends here...

 

[jane]

all i am saying is that most of the people in my peer group at the quiz and a fair number of LF organisers (see this thread) were not 100% happy with the way it went and felt maybe that a little more collective imput would have improved matters, maybe that's something to take on board for the future, maybe not.
my contribution to the thread ends here...

That's fine, but you could have phrased it that way in the first place. Nothing wrong with making suggestions, or saying what you didn't like about it, but to make it so extreme was truly unfair.

Jesus, we learned our lesson, but fucking hell, give us a goddamn break already!

 

[MDR]

I would also have two choices.

Actually it's one choice: Offaly or Kilkenny.

 

[minka]

I don't think the questions were shit. In fact I'm delighted to know that 'anus' is Latin for 'old woman'. Another useless fact to add to my collection of useless facts.

annoyingly, i thought of putting that down, and then went "hmm, senex is an old man, muler is a woman, that doesn't sound anything like either of them, probably not right". sometimes a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

i'm still quite tickled by the maggie thatcher/icecream connection.

 

[Catwoman]

annoyingly, i thought of putting that down, and then went "hmm, senex is an old man, muler is a woman, that doesn't sound anything like either of them, probably not right". sometimes a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

i'm still quite tickled by the maggie thatcher/icecream connection.

I was thinking regina means queen, so maby 'gina' has female connotations -so vagina would have been the obvious one.

As for Maggie Thatcher, she almost redeemed herself slightly in my eyes... Nah!

 

[Ex-User (250)]

all you haters need a kick in the face. ok, get this...

IT WAS A TABLE QUIZ!!! i've never been to a table quiz where some idiot didn't get pissed off for some stupid reason.

LAdyfest is not a table quiz.

fuckin' eeeejits.

 

[photon]

annoyingly, i thought of putting that down, and then went "hmm, senex is an old man, muler is a woman, that doesn't sound anything like either of them, probably not right". sometimes a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

I'm ashamed to say that we put down "vagina" for that one (honest, it made perfect sense at the time.)

I was annoyed (at myself) to find out earlier today that Joan of Arc actually *did* live in the 15th Century. Bah.

By the way, I'll express the minority and probably very unpopular opinion that I really enjoyed the quiz last night, and would love to see more like it. Challenging, thought-provoking and informative--all of which are both good and fun. To me, at least. Cheers to Anna/Jane/Kirstie/etc. for organising it.

Paul

 

[Anne OMalley]

I enjoyed it too.

 

[Ex-User (250)]

I enjoyed it too.

you're biased

 

[Cormcolash]

I had a great time last night! I stayed at home, had two wanks and found fifty cents down the back of the couch. Bliss!

One of the best posts ever made.

 

[minka]

I was annoyed (at myself) to find out earlier today that Joan of Arc actually *did* live in the 15th Century. Bah.

i would go "ha!" except we were wrong as well. and curse you and o'malley for your guessing madonna's age right, thus snatching victory from the jaws of our defeat. or something.

as i said earlier, i had great fun too. ta folkses.

 

[Jimmy Magee]

<gloat>The all-powerful team Grotbags!!</gloat>

Fix! Your bloody band was in one o the questions! Fix!

 

[Jimmy Magee]

Seeing as this seems to have died down, I might as well stir it up again...


Personally, I found the questions too hard. And not because they were all about girruls. But, y'know, who cares, God knows what'd happen if I set a table quiz. Of far greater concern to all I feel was the heat and smell of BO and God knows what else in there. And not off me, I might add.

 

[Ex-User (250)]

Seeing as this seems to have died down, I might as well stir it up again...


Personally, I found the questions too hard. And not because they were all about girruls. But, y'know, who cares, God knows what'd happen if I set a table quiz. Of far greater concern to all I feel was the heat and smell of BO and God knows what else in there. And not off me, I might add.

that's not what i heard...

 

[Psychotic no 2]

Wow, just saw this thread now. This is fucked. It was a table quiz. I can't believe people would take their experience at this and equate it with what the actual ladyfest event is going to be like. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

I too found the questions really hard but I figured that's what quizzes are like and you just do your best and answer the questions you know. But Jesus, what's the idea of whining, 'wah, the questions are too hard, I had a shit time'? Is that how you rate your fun at a quiz - by how many answers you get right? I answered what I could and had a good laugh, despite the fact that I don't think I could answer a single question on the Art round (and the smell, the rank smell).

Maybe it's got something to do with the fact that I didn't go in there expecting to win or to know all of the answers to the questions. Maybe that's why I didn't feel alienated or pissed off at the end.

 

[Latex lizzie]

Ten point for the lady who is right on the nose. I didn't go (other stuff on) wish I could've..sounds like a ball bar the smelly bits. Whats the point in having a quizzz where everyone knows the answers anyway? Is the point not to get the brainy bunch out and have a laugh in the process? It's like running a hurdle race and saying I didn't like the hurdles..I would have prefered a flat track.

I love the word hurdle. I makes my toes curdle.

 

[Stan Bowles]

Seems a bit rich passing judgement on something that you didn't even attend. All I can say is that I have been to two table quizzes on the last month, my team won neither. The fire zine quiz was good fun, the ladyfest one was probably a bit too tough, but I still had a laugh with my mates over a few pints regardless. The most important point for me was that the ladyfest quiz seemed to be making some kind of intellectual point, I dunno it felt more like a school exam than a pub quiz to me.

I think the reason people got annoyed on this here thread wasn't because of the quiz as such, more to do with the fact that they felt unable to criticise it without it being made a sexist issue.

Ten point for the lady who is right on the nose. I didn't go (other stuff on) wish I could've..sounds like a ball bar the smelly bits. Whats the point in having a quizzz where everyone knows the answers anyway? Is the point not to get the brainy bunch out and have a laugh in the process? It's like running a hurdle race and saying I didn't like the hurdles..I would have prefered a flat track.

I love the word hurdle. I makes my toes curdle.

 

[Latex lizzie]

Seems a bit rich giving an opinion on something I wasn't at? I can read you know.I have talked to people who were there.. People give their opinons on things all the time that they have never directly been involved in? 90% of the chatter that goes on here is such.
Anyways I wasnt having a pop at anyone in particular..as I said I wasnt there but it "seemed" like a good laugh.