Looking for a ​top tip on how to answer quiz questions?

Every-so-often a quiz question appears to be unanswerable: perhaps it's about a person you've never heard of, perhaps it's something that happened a few decades ago or perhaps it's just worded in a way that seems long-winded and complicated.

It's not unusual to think 'I can't do this, so I won't bother', then leave a blank answer and declare that the question was too hard.

Sometimes those long-winded questions are actually hiding a simple question, it's just clouded with irrelevant detail.

For example, a question might ask about an English playwright from the 16th century who wrote 154 sonnets.
You might not know ANY playwrights who wrote 154 sonnets.
But, if you take out the part about the sonnets and concentrate on the 16th century English playwright, you might decide to write down William Shakespeare.... and you'd be correct!!

So, the next time you get a seemingly unanswerable question, just check what the question is actually centred on and you might get yourself that extra point 😍

{Hilary - Quiz question writer}
Originally posted 18-2-22