Pub Quiz Questions: Most Popular Websites by Alphabet Letter

Jan 24, 2011
Paul Bradbury

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Finding pub quiz questions for the weekly village get together can be a time-consuming experience, especially as some thought has to go into the process to make it all inclusive. Here is a fun list that should appeal to the vast majority - which website beginning with "insert letter" is the most popular on the web? Some of the answers, taken from Alexa's list of top 500 sites, are surprising. Here is the list, including web ranking.

Pub Quiz Questions from the Top Ten Websites on the Internet

Below are the top ten websites in the world at time of writing, and here are some questions which should get teams thinking:

There is only one website in the top ten which is not a dot com. Which is it? The answer is wikipedia.org

Two Chinese websites make the top ten - can you name them? The answer is Chinese search engine baidu.com (which is more popular than Google in China) and QQ.com, China's largest internet portal site.

The top ten includes two cases where sites begin with the same letter. Can you name them? The answer is Y - Youtube and Yahoo, and B - Baidu and Blogger

Google
Facebook
Youtube
Yahoo
Live
Baidu
Blogger
Wikipedia
QQ
Twitter

When conducting a quiz question, it is always useful to have a tie-break question in reserve, in the event of two or more teams finishing on the same score. As the aim of a tie-break question is a sudden death finish, it helps if the question is a little more obscure and requires a numerical answer, so that teams can take wild guesses and the closest one wins. With that in mind, great pub quiz questions for tie-breakers are along the lines of 'what is the Alexa ranking for the most popular website beginning with J - joomla.org?'

With most pub quiz participants using the Internet regularly, the Alexa 500 list is a very useful resource for generating topical questions that will interest and challenge participants.