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Thread: The New Crew's Quiz
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Piglet
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Don't you just love it when you change a right guess to a wrong one and then change it back again??
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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I am completely astounded. Still first place? Surely I did something wrong! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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OK, tortuf...how did you get zero correct answers? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Tortuf
Ship's fisherman
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It took a while. Some of the questions were harder to get wrong than others.
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) reading praying
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Piglet
Islander
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Stuff that - I had a Disney-related brainfart. ![[brick wall]](graemlins/brick_wall.gif)
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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10/10 in 37 seconds and second place? That'll do nicely.
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Piglet
Islander
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Well, that was a bit rubbish. How should I know what sort of quizzes they don't have? Or for that matter, anything about whatever sport it is that needs a pitcher - championship Sangria drinking, perhaps?
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Just throwing out an idea - when we migrate to the new boards and the quiz continues, could we set up a new quiz with an administrator who posts currently?
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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Dec 17
24 players played during the month.
1. Jonah_the_Whale (329 points, 4 wins)
2. Loveheart (305 points, 7 wins)
3. TreeBee (303 points, 3 wins)
4. ceesharp (280 points, 1 wins)
5. jedijudy (273 points, 2 wins)
6. Gussie (267 points, 2 wins)
7. piglet (238 points, 0 wins)
8. wet_kipper (233 points, 8 wins)
9. TheRogue (230 points, 3 wins)
10. SidneyRip (163 points, 0 wins)
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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quote:
Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
Just throwing out an idea - when we migrate to the new boards and the quiz continues, could we set up a new quiz with an administrator who posts currently?
That's not a bad idea - I haven't seen any posts from Jahlove for ages. Are you still thinking of Fun Trivia, or did you have another quiz site in mind?
As to last month's standings, 7th place and no wins seems to be more-or-less my default setting.
[ 04. January 2018, 00:57: Message edited by: Piglet ]
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aliehs
Shipmate
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how does one join in the new crew's quiz?
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L'organist
Shipmate
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Click on the link (currently on page 94, second post down) and then you can register on the quiz site to start playing, using either your Shipboard name or another alter ego.
Happy quizzing!
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L'organist
Shipmate
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short-cut here
A little more new-user friendly.
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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Do come and join us, aliehs - the more the merrier.
You'll get used to our little quirks ...
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
# 333
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Hahaha! Even if I wouldn't have messed up the one question that I really did know the answer to, I'd still be on the bottom!
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Warning: Obscure Merkin movies day today. ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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Very hard questions indeed, and the guessometer has gone AWOL.
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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Enough with the fil-lum questions already! ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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Crikey - 10/10, second place and even sorted out the Medes, the Persians and the Chaldeans ...
The Guessometer seems to have got its Mojo back.
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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I've just put a note on the computer telling me who moves up and along in chess.
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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must... read...properly..before...clicking
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Piglet
Islander
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Dammit - I knew what sort of dragon Norbert was, but I still clicked the wrong one.
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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Chuffin' fil-lums again ...
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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Ah - that's better. Third place. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
# 333
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Lesson to self number 9,403:
When you (me) click on the link to start the quiz, don't get distracted by your yummy salad.
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
# 4033
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Guessometer working well today.
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Jonah the Whale
Ship's pet cetacean
# 1244
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You worked it too hard - it was broken by the time I got there.
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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quote:
Originally posted by Tree Bee:
Guessometer working well today.
It certainly knows more about Welsh names than I do! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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I can handle getting a question wrong if it's about country singers.
I know very little about them, and have no intention of remedying this. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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aliehs
Shipmate
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That was fun. But now I know what non English speakers feel like when doing a comprehension test. I had to think like an American.....EEEKKK!!!
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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Don't worry, aliehs, all of us who weren't born in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave have the same trouble.
They quite often repeat the questions, so you'll get used to it after a while!
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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Jan 18
23 players played during the month.
1. Jonah_the_Whale (331 points, 8 wins)
2. ceesharp (319 points, 6 wins)
3. Loveheart (300 points, 5 wins)
4. TreeBee (280 points, 0 wins)
5. Gussie (264 points, 4 wins)
6. jedijudy (259 points, 0 wins)
7. wet_kipper (258 points, 6 wins)
8. TheRogue (236 points, 2 wins)
9. piglet (218 points, 0 wins)
10. SidneyRip (215 points, 0 wins)
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sharkshooter
Not your average shark
# 1589
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32 seconds, and I'm the slowest (so far) of the 10/10s. Power up the turbo charger today.
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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10/10, fifth place and I even got the fil-lum question right!
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aliehs
Shipmate
# 18878
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There's always ONE question that gets me. Usually pop of films. Must listen to the radio more. Or watch RAGE. Haven't tried the Guessometer yet; maybe tomorrow
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L'organist
Shipmate
# 17338
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feckin' Murican "sports".
I propose we send the quiz setters a list of the historic nick-names of the older English football league clubs - anyone for the hatters?
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
feckin' Murican "sports".
Absolutely.
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I propose we send the quiz setters a list of the historic nick-names of the older English football league clubs - anyone for the hatters?
We don't need to: Wiki will be their friend.
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sharkshooter
Not your average shark
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Guessed on 2, got 1 wrong. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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Guessed on one, got it wrong. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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L'organist
Shipmate
# 17338
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'Murican comics
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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Preach it, L'Organist!
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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Sweeties that I don't like.
Why are M&Ms so much less nice than Smarties? ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Oh, wow. The Guessometer (our gift from Uncle Pete ) was amazing today. It gets a little star in its little crown!
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L'organist
Shipmate
# 17338
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I realise I sound like a wuss but I've never figured out what the guessometer is, where to find it or how to use: enlightenment please!
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
... The Guessometer (our gift from Uncle Pete ) ...
I was just thinking about that as I clicked on the quiz - it was good of Uncle Pete to leave it with us. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
It's hard to describe the Guessometer, as none of us has actually seen it. It's what inexplicably draws your mouse-pointer to the right button when you haven't a baldy notion of the answer to a question.*
We're sometimes very rude about it (it has malfunctions just like the rest of us, and occasionally it gets tired out before we've all played the quiz), but when it does work, it's rewarded with virtual GIN or 18-year-old Highland Park whisky.
* For most of us, these questions are either about films or American sports that are a mystery to the rest of the world.
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L'organist
Shipmate
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Thank you, Piglet: I had suspected the Guessometer was a relative of Mornington Crescent, now I know.
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aliehs
Shipmate
# 18878
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I'd like to propose a "Time out while I think about it " button.
Or a handicap for touch typists.
Disgruntlement ? No sheer frustration; I go as fast as I can and still take more time to tick the correct answer, even when I know what it is. Don't mind me; I am just disappointed in myself.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
# 333
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Top of the list...well until Wet Kipper and some of the other young people get here!
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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interesting today to have 2 related questions, kind of giving away one of the answers!
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