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Post by LandieMark on Apr 25, 2019 21:43:34 GMT
It was pub quiz tonight. I don't usually question the answers as I can't be arsed, but tonight was an exception.
The question. Ayrton Senna was killed 1st May 1994 while racing in a grand prix. Where did he die?
I was wrong apparently (although I know I'm right) but am simply interested in your answers.
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Post by Boxer6 on Apr 25, 2019 22:00:02 GMT
Well as we all know, the accident itself was at Imola. I think he actually drew his last breath in the hospital he was taken to, but I wouldn't swear to it.
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Post by LandieMark on Apr 25, 2019 22:01:49 GMT
That's what I Answered - Imola - and was wrong.
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Post by Andy C on Apr 25, 2019 22:04:31 GMT
What did they say it was ?
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Post by LandieMark on Apr 25, 2019 22:11:27 GMT
The San Morino Grand Prix. Yes, that's the name of the race, but the question asked the location. This is why I can't be arsed with the pub quiz!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2019 22:13:32 GMT
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Post by Ben on Apr 25, 2019 23:51:17 GMT
The San Morino Grand Prix. Yes, that's the name of the race, but the question asked the location. This is why I can't be arsed with the pub quiz! Both are correct answers. I would have raised a complaint.  |
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Post by ChrisM on Apr 26, 2019 6:56:53 GMT
From what I read, I believe that he died at the track but for convenience, issues with Italian Law and racing etc, he was taken to hospital and attempts made to revive him so that the place of death could be given as the hospital rather than at the racetrack.
Can we move onto less morbid topics now please??
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Apr 26, 2019 7:15:07 GMT
The guy reading the questions probably didn't know the San Marino Grand Prix is held in the town of Imola and just went by what's in his answers. I'd have just shown him the a screen shot on your phone from when you looked it up.  |
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Post by PetrolEd on Apr 26, 2019 8:46:10 GMT
I would have answered San Marino, would that have been wrong as it didn't mention Grand Prix?
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Post by michael on Apr 26, 2019 9:08:33 GMT
I once successfully predicted a question in a pub quiz.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2019 9:54:30 GMT
I actually got a question right in a pub quiz once, can't remember what it was though.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Apr 26, 2019 11:40:17 GMT
I actually got a question right in a pub quiz once, can't remember what it was though. Name? |
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Post by Alex on Apr 26, 2019 13:38:28 GMT
The quiz master is a knob. That’s all I can conclude from this.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2019 14:04:49 GMT
I actually got a question right in a pub quiz once, can't remember what it was though. Name? I'll get back to you if I remember.  |
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Post by PG on Apr 26, 2019 17:02:18 GMT
From what I read, I believe that he died at the track but for convenience, issues with Italian Law and racing etc, he was taken to hospital and attempts made to revive him so that the place of death could be given as the hospital rather than at the racetrack. Can we move onto less morbid topics now please?? I'm pretty sure that it was always the F1 way that, after serious crashes, drivers always "died in hospital" and were never pronounced dead at the scene. That might be to avoid having to say that people were killed at a track, or it might be that no doctor immediately present is qualified to pronounce a death. I'm not sure which. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2019 11:29:34 GMT
I set lots of quizzes and would've let either answer stand as correct.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2019 11:31:27 GMT
Can we move onto less morbid topics now please?? "Right, round two is fictional bunnies". |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Apr 27, 2019 13:37:41 GMT
I set lots of quizzes and would've let either answer stand as correct. Surely "in his seat" would have been equally correct? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2019 14:56:16 GMT
The truth is that the question shouldn't have been written so it was so ambiguous. I'd have written it thus: At which Grand Prix (or Grand Prix circuit) did Ayrton Senna die? And for a bonus point give the year.
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Post by LandieMark on Apr 27, 2019 15:33:09 GMT
That's how it should have been written - no ambiguity.
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Post by Big Blue on May 7, 2019 10:04:43 GMT
I’d have said in a helicopter on his way to hospital is most likely.
He was dead to me when he left McLaren.
What ..... too soon?
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Post by grampa on May 7, 2019 21:03:00 GMT
Maybe the quizmaster just had the answers and not the knowledge. I got drafted in to be a quiz master at a charity quiz once at the last minute due to illness of the guy who was to do it (it was fund raising for a charity I was involved with) - he’d sent the questions and answers over. Out of 100 questions, I only knew the answer to two!
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