Pub quiz darts question

grabec · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:24 pm

To settle an argument, if you were asked in a quiz, the question, 'How many different scoring sections are there on a dart board?', what would you say?

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:26 pm

82 imo

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:30 pm

MadJohn wrote:

82?

Two separate bits of "single" plus a double plus a treble, times 20

Plus 25 + bull

yeah that adds up to 82!

each number has 4 scoring sections starting at the outside edge (double>single>treble>single) multiply 20 x 4 then add the bull and the 25 ring.

=82

simples

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:31 pm

I would have said 4, namely singles, doubles, trebles and the bull. I think what MJ was originally going to say.

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:31 pm

MadJohn wrote:

Actually forget that, I'll say 83 just to disagree with grave :roll:

grabec · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:33 pm

Well, I said 62. I suppose you could read it as 'different scoring-sections' but I read it as different-scoring sections. There aren't supposed to be trick questions in pub quizzes.

:evil:

grabec · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:36 pm

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad wrote:

I would have said 4, namely singles, doubles, trebles and the bull. I think what MJ was originally going to say.

Erm, yes. That should have been what I said, following my own logic.... :uhoh:

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:36 pm

grabec wrote:

:evil:

Well, I said 62. I suppose you could read it as 'different scoring-sections' but I read it as different-scoring sections. There aren't supposed to be trick questions in pub quizzes.

:evil:

lol you could even argue its less than 62 as you get 10 for hitting single 10 or double 5 etc etc.

A very rubbish pub quiz question.

And just for talbot, whoever come up with that question is a c&nt! :grin:

lol, sorry just sort of copied MJ's logic there and missed your previous post.

grabec · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:37 pm

MadJohn wrote:

grabec wrote:

:evil:

Well, I said 62. I suppose you could read it as 'different scoring-sections' but I read it as different-scoring sections. There aren't supposed to be trick questions in pub quizzes.

:evil:

Is treble four the same-scoring section as single twelve? :wink:

I'm not going to tell you my tooth-ache remedy now.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

did that ever work? the old string a door handle thing?

grabec · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:50 pm

No, sorry, MJ, I know it's no joking matter.
If you've got some oil of cloves, put 3 drops onto a quarter tea-spoon of olive oil, soak the mixture up onto a cotton-wool ball, and hold (or bite) the cotton wool ball onto the aching tooth for as long as pos. Should ease the pain while you get to a dentist...but the trouble not many households contain oil of cloves now.

Warwick Hunt · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:51 pm

Yubep wrote:

did that ever work? the old string a door handle thing?

Only in The Beano.

grabec · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:53 pm

Yubep wrote:

did that ever work? the old string a door handle thing?

I heard that people of my parents' generation used to do it. Often, they couldn't afford dentists' fees. I suppose the pain of the door handle thing was a small price to pay to get rid of the bad tooth.

P.M.T. · **Joined:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:14 pm **Posts:** 968

I tried that, then somebody opened the door and the handle hit me in the mouth and knocked my tooth out .

:laugh:

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 7:33 pm

MadJohn wrote:

grabec wrote:

No, sorry, MJ, I know it's no joking matter.
If you've got some oil of cloves, put 3 drops onto a quarter tea-spoon of olive oil, soak the mixture up onto a cotton-wool ball, and hold (or bite) the cotton wool ball onto the aching tooth for as long as pos. Should ease the pain while you get to a dentist...but the trouble not many households contain oil of cloves now.

Now there is a one I can vouch for. Last time I had really bad toothache will have been about 15 years ago. I used clove oil and it works a treat. Potent stuff, effectively anaethetises half your gob. Don't have any to hand but I took some tramadol this morning, and some paracetamol extra this afternoon. It works, but it knocks you a little queasy. I've been painless most of the day and I'm at dentists Tuesday.

Thanks grabec :coool:

...you could always turn up at Quakerz' front door and tell him something derogatory about his beloved Darlo, then hope he knocks the right one out.

jumbodabber · **Joined:** Wed Jun 06, 2007 1:35 pm **Posts:** 534

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad wrote:

I would have said 4, namely singles, doubles, trebles and the bull. I think what MJ was originally going to say.

Plus the '25', making five

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2010 11:59 pm

I've have said four too. I always think of both the bull and 25 as middles.

But I'd have written 82 because I know how quiz writers' minds work. :)

At least that one is debatable. But I hate it when you have to deliberately put a dodgy answer.
Like "France and what other country have both Atlantic and Mediterranean shores?"

(did they really forget to include the word European?)

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