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PUB QUIZ #043
Season: Wintersemester 2024/25
PUB QUIZ #043
Season: Wintersemester 2024/25
Section 1: Do you know Tübingen?
1. What is the name of the podcast by Boris Palmer, the Mayor of Tübingen, which has been available on ARD since last week?
□Konsequent mit Boris Palmer
□Palmer. Auf den Punkt
□Palmer. Unfiltered
□xStunk. Palmer bringt die Welt in Ordnung
2. Where in Tübingen can you find the 5-meter-high pyramid created by the renowned sculptor Bernard Schottlander?
Derendingen in Konrad-Adenauer-Str.
Police HQ, Landratsamt, Arbeitsamt, Sparkassen Carré
Police HQ, Landratsamt, Arbeitsamt, Sparkassen Carré
3. Tübingen was a stronghold of NSDAP support during the Third Reich. Where was Adolf-Hitler-Straße located in Tübingen until 1944?
□Bismarckstraße
□xMühlstrasse
□Neue Strasse
□Wilhelmstraße
Section 2: Popcorn Science
1. Why is St. Patrick’s Day celebrated on March 17th?
□St. Patrick's birth
□xSt. Patrick's death
□St. Patrick's favorite day
□St. Patrick's victory over druids
2. Why did St. Patrick become a saint?
□He banned snakes from Ireland
□xHe converted Ireland to Christianity
□He turned water into Guinness
□He won Ireland’s first BeerPong Championship
3. As of 2025, who is selling a white T-Shirt with a large swastika printed on the front on their website?
□Balenciaga
□xKanye West
□Tesla
□Zara India
4. ChatGPT is everywhere — I even used it to write this! But what does GPT stand for?
□Generative Predictive Textmodel
□xGenerative Pre-trained Transformer
□General Processing Technology
□General Purpose Terminator
5. Speculate with me.. Why is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?
Because he is dead
Section 3: Royal Blunders!
1. Which noble house dynasty provided the last running succession German emperors?
□Habsburg
□xHohenzollern
□Wettin
□Wittelsbach
2. Before joining Britain's Royal Family, Meghan Markle starred in this TV show, which was a legal drama set in New York City
Suits
3. What is the real name of King Charles?
□xCharles Philip Arthur George
□George Alexander Louis
□Henry Charles Albert David
□William Arthur Philip Louis
Section 4: World travellers delight
1. There are 4 countries that start with the letter V, one of them is Vanuatu the other 3 you can figure out by yourself
Vatican, Venezuela, Vietnam
2. During a whole year, where does it rain the most on average?
□Berlin
□Dublin
□London
□xRome
3. Five Cities ... Since you've never played the game before, I'll make it easy for you... this time. Can you name the city where this picture was taken?
New York, Paris, Sydney, Rome, Rio de Janeiro
4. It's 1850, and you're sitting on your terrace in South India enjoying a Gin and Tonic. Where does the ice-cubes in your drink come from?
□Carried by sherpas from the Himalayas
□From the South Indian Ice King Factory that opened 1849
□xTransported by ship from the frozen lakes in North America
□Trough a process that involves killing large animals in the morning.
Section 5: Are You Smarter Than A 6th Grader?
1. Lets start easy... If every family keeps having children until they have a boy, what will be the average ratio of boys to girls?
1 to 1 - 50%
2. Dyslexic people be like: Where’s the puzzle?
1. I am easily readable
2. This text is upsidedown.
3. Find the right order.
4. Read this backwards.
5. No vowels in this puzzle.
6. The left side of the keyboard.
2. This text is upsidedown.
3. Find the right order.
4. Read this backwards.
5. No vowels in this puzzle.
6. The left side of the keyboard.
3. What is special about the number 8.549.176.320 besides having all digits? It's the only one of one of its kind.
All digits are in alphabetical order.
4. We all have that one friend whose WiFi password is a fucking riddle... well, here’s mine. He was nice enough to tell me it's an 8 letter word.
NETWORKS
5. I bet you were one of those kids in 6th grade who loved Tetris! Do you still remember all seven shapes? Can you draw them? ... inside these squares..
Other combinations are possible.
Bonus Challenge
You have ten stacks of ten silver dollars each. They are identical, except that one stack consists entirely of counterfeit dollars. You know the weight of an authentic dollar, and you also know that a counterfeit dollar weights one gram less. How many weighings are needed to reveal which stack is counterfeit?
Only one. Weigh one coin from the first stack, two coins from the second, and so forth. The number of grams by which the total is light will correspond to the number of the counterfeit stack.