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Liberty
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
Chelsea is first because of icklejen! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Really - I wasn't sure I'd mentioned I like Chelsea ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
But we're away from home this weekend, so I'm predicting a one-nil dirge!
Anyway, seeing as I spend my time praying for
Manchester United
Liverpool
Arsenal
to do badly, I shall see what it feels like to cheer them on for a change!
Now I just have to decide if football or the quiz is more important to me!
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Xposted with Rugasaw - if I didn't pick the Blues then dl is spared my wrath! Anyway - you make me sound obsessed - never!! ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Imaginary Friend
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Originally posted by rugasaw:
Are you going to be allowed back in the house after who you picked? Or rather who you didn't pick?
Even Jen acknowledges that Chelsea are not exactly a well-oiled goal-scoring machine.
Help, she's just walked in the room with a baseball bat.... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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the pilgrim
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I have no idea what I'm doing. I hope we have an NFL round before I'm knocked out!!
I pick:
Portsmouth
Wigan
Bolton
Haven't got a clue what they can do!
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the pilgrim
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OOOPS!! Do they have to be playing on Saturday? he.. hee..
If so, I pick:
Hull City
Sunderland
Bolton
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quote:
Originally posted by the pilgrim:
OOOPS!! Do they have to be playing on Saturday? he.. hee..
If so, I pick:
Hull City
Sunderland
Bolton
No. All weekend matches count so your first choice stands.
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The Rogue
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I will go against Lawro and choose Bolton, Hull & Sunderland.
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Man City
West Ham
Blackburn
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As there is a merseyside darby this weekend i pick Everton and Liverpool, also i'm always pleased in Portsmouth do well so i'll have them as well, but really know nothing about football!!
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fletcher christian
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Arsenal
Liverpool
Newcastle
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PataLeBon
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Originally posted by Geneviève:
OMG, I'm still in! Well, giddy with delight I shall peruse the teams and probably pick by color of the jerseys (do they show that?) because I know nothing at all about the subject!
That's how I pick American football teams.
(And I'm doing better than Rugasaw in our family football pool, much to his dismay.)
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rugasaw
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rugasaw
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Originally posted by Hart:
1) Arsenal
2) Hull
3) Chelsea.
Yes, I know Arsenal and Hull are playing each other. This is called hedging my bets. In a game where it doesn't matter a jot how well you do so long as you don't come last, I figure reducing your variance without reducing your expectation too much is always good and picking teams whose fortunes are negatively correlated achieves that.
This strategy will work great unless the game turns out 0-0.
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If it does, then I'll probably do pretty badly in round 1 (goals for), but given the number of people playing I'll probably at worst tie with people. I'll then do great in the second round and not get eliminated.
At least, that's the plan...
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Rugmaker
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I can't believe it! I'm away from the Ship for a day and I'm out of the Quiz. And I was so looking forward to getting knocked out on the baseball round again, particuarly as the Yankees are guaranteed not to feature
Also-ranning, I'll go for:
Tottenham
Everton
Arsenal
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Geneviève
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quote:
Originally posted by davelarge:
quote:
Originally posted by rugasaw:
Are you going to be allowed back in the house after who you picked? Or rather who you didn't pick?
Even Jen acknowledges that Chelsea are not exactly a well-oiled goal-scoring machine.
Help, she's just walked in the room with a baseball bat....
They didn't have jerseys on display, so I just picked the ones with names I liked...Chelsea just sounds nice, I mean, fighting fierce!
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by the pilgrim:
I have no idea what I'm doing. I hope we have an NFL round before I'm knocked out!!
If so, I will be guessing again. Actually, I like the "jersey color" theory of picking teams. I think I'll use that one next time!
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The Great Gumby
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Come on, Quizmaster! At least make it challenging for icklejen to bring football into the conversation! Her "Premier-ship" was brilliant, but this leaves her no room to shine.
I go for:
1. Aston Villa
2. Tottenham Hotspur
3. Arsenal
not on careful study of form, but for the reason that my first two picks are the only Premiership clubs with unique "titles" (Villa and Hotspur) among the 92 clubs in the league, and Arsenal play football the way it should be played.
(Rugmaker, I'm so happy that the Yankees are going to miss the play-offs with a week of the season to go, I don't even care that my poor Giants are still as crap as ever)
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Geneviève
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quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
quote:
Originally posted by the pilgrim:
I have no idea what I'm doing. I hope we have an NFL round before I'm knocked out!!
If so, I will be guessing again. Actually, I like the "jersey color" theory of picking teams. I think I'll use that one next time!
In the interest of disclosure I confess that the only time I have been to the horse races here (Pimlico) I used the jersey color method and was spectacularly unsuccessful with my $15 total bets! But I had a lot of fun.
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Golden Key
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Wigan Athletic
Bolton
Stoke City
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rugasaw
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Unless I am mistaken nobody has chosen the top three scoring teams.
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Liberty
ship's football fanatic
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quote:
Originally posted by The Great Gumby:
Come on, Quizmaster! At least make it challenging for icklejen to bring football into the conversation! Her "Premier-ship" was brilliant, but this leaves her no room to shine.
Bless you! I work with all women - so I have to take it out on you lot on my breaks ![[Smile]](smile.gif) Today's topic was how good looking Blair and Brown are, and therefore how lucky I am to be British. No. Really!
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Geneviève
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quote:
Originally posted by rugasaw:
Unless I am mistaken nobody has chosen the top three scoring teams.
In addition to the "color scheme" approach to
picking a team, I also operate from the perspective of a college basketball fan: any team can win/any can lose on a given day.
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Quizmaster
Quick quipper
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Good.
We have a full set of entries.
It really will be on the scores this year.
You deserve your brinkmanship point Rogue, even though you are already an Also Ran.
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rugasaw
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The players who could lose if I understand the rules correctly. And that is a big IF.
Doublethink-2
CuppaT-1 Portsmouth to play
Rugasaw-2 Man City to play
Caty-2 Man City to play
Genevieve-2 Wigan to play
Nutmeg-0 Wigan and Man City to play
Davelarge-2 Tottenham to play
Hart-2
Pilgrim-0 Wigan and Portsmouth to play
Surfing Madness-2 Portsmouth to play
Rugmaker-0 Tottenham to play*
The Great Gumby-2 Tottenham to play
Golden Key-0 Wigan to play
Golden Key seems to be closest to the edge, but anything can happen. If Wigan scores 2 and Man City scores, and Tottenham scores 0 then 8 shippies could be eliminated.
*denotes also ran.
[eta: clarity]
[ 27. September 2008, 17:34: Message edited by: rugasaw ]
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Quizmaster
Quick quipper
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The table with one more Saturday match to play is:
6 2 East Price Road
4 0 Icklejen
4 0 Quizmaster
4 1 Chicklegirl
4 1 Mertseger
4 1 Patdys
4 2 Flags_Fiend
3 0 Jedijudy
3 1 PataLeBon
3 2 Fletcher Christian
3 4 Angel Wrestler
3 4 Chorister
2 0 Caty.
2 0 Davelarge
2 0 Hart
2 1 Rugasaw
2 1 The Great Gumby
2 2 Doublethink
2 2 Genevieve
2 2 Surfing Madness
1 3 CuppaT
1 4 The Rogue
0 0 Nutmeg
0 2 The Pilgrim
0 2 Rugmaker
0 4 Golden Key
Golden Key is set for the drop.
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Geneviève
Mother-Hatting Cat Lover
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This is the point where despite my cynical distrust of Congress, the (gag) President, the ABC, etc., I declare my trust in the Quizmaster's integrity and abilityto figure out who has won and who hasn't because I haven't bothered to follow the games and might not understand anyway.
Cheers, and a nice sip of brandy here!
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Doublethink.
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I feel that my score reflects my nomenclature rather well ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Liberty
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![[Mad]](angryfire.gif) Damn the stupid quiz!
Now I am thinking "ah, cr*p Arsenal lost".
Despite the fact that it meant the Chels went back to top. And it was Hull who beat Arsenal (my beloved brother-in-law supports Hull, so they're my second team!). Quizmaster has turned this good thing into a bad thing! My head may explode! ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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Quizmaster
Quick quipper
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The table as it stands at the end of Saturday:
6 2 East Price Road
5 2 Icklejen
5 2 Quizmaster
5 3 Chicklegirl
5 3 Hart
5 3 Patdys
4 1 Mertseger
4 2 Flags_Fiend
4 2 Jedijudy
4 3 Doublethink
4 4 Fletcher Christian
3 1 PataLeBon
3 2 Caty.
3 2 Davelarge
3 3 Rugasaw
3 3 The Great Gumby
3 4 Angel Wrestler
3 4 Chorister
3 5 The Rogue
2 2 Genevieve
2 2 Surfing Madness
1 3 CuppaT
1 4 Rugmaker
0 1 Nutmeg
0 2 The Pilgrim
0 4 Golden Key
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CuppaT
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There you go, East Price Road! You're topping a list and a few pages ago you were ready to drop out because you didn't understand the quiz that nobody understands, which is half the fun. Good for you!
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Caty S.
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This round has entertained my entire family this evening: knowing that I am fairly indifferent to football, they were quite intrigued about why I was glued to the screen and cursing Hull.
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East Price Road
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quote:
Originally posted by CuppaT:
There you go, East Price Road! You're topping a list and a few pages ago you were ready to drop out because you didn't understand the quiz that nobody understands, which is half the fun. Good for you!
Thanks! This proves that understanding is overrated. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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quote:
Originally posted by East Price Road:
Thanks! This proves that understanding is overrated.
Indeed it is!
*cough*
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Quizmaster
Quick quipper
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The final table after the weekend:
6 2 East Price Road
5 2 Icklejen
5 2 PataLeBon
5 2 Quizmaster
5 3 Chicklegirl
5 3 Hart
5 3 Mertseger
5 3 Patdys
5 4 Flags_Fiend
4 2 Jedijudy
4 2 Surfing Madness
4 3 Doublethink
4 3 Genevieve
4 3 The Pilgrim
4 4 Caty.
4 4 Fletcher Christian
4 5 Rugasaw
3 3 CuppaT
3 4 Angel Wrestler
3 4 Chorister
3 4 Davelarge
3 4 Nutmeg
3 5 The Great Gumby
3 5 The Rogue
2 5 Golden Key
1 6 Rugmaker
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Quizmaster
Quick quipper
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Eliminated for not scoring enough goals:
Golden Key
QUALIFIERS
Angel Wrestler
Caty.
Chicklegirl
Chorister
CuppaT
Davelarge
Doublethink
East Price Road
Flags_Fiend
Fletcher Christian
Genevieve
Hart
Icklejen
Jedijudy
Mertseger
Nutmeg
PataLeBon
Patdys
Rugasaw
Surfing Madness
The Great Gumby
The Pilgrim
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ROUND SEVEN : CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS
You must choose a chemical compound and as always you must be the first to choose that particular compound.
You must post the name of the compound, the formula for that compound and then the value calculated as follows:
Add the letters of the compound using A=1, ..., Z=26 then divide by the numbers in the compound added together.
THE PERSON POSTING THE COMPOUND WITH THE VALUE CLOSEST TO THE MEAN AVERAGE VALUE WILL BE ELIMINATED.
My Choice:
NAME - Maitotoxin
FORMULA - C164 H256 Na2 O68 S2
VALUE -
C + H + N + a + O + S
3 + 8 + 14+ 1 + 15+ 19 = 60
164 + 256 + 2 + 68 + 2 = 492
60 / 492 = 0.12195121951219512195 approximately
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Oh goody! I get to be first. Gee, Quizmaster, you're making me remember high school chemistry.
I choose
Lead Nitrate
PbNO3
P + b + N + O
15+ 2 + 13 + 14 = 44
1 + 1 + 3 = 5
44 / 5 = 8.8
(I am presuming you mean for us to count the 1's that are implied when no number is given)
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rugasaw
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I choose Di-Hydrogen Oxide.
H2 O
8+15=23/3=7.6666...
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Geneviève
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Should we be rounding off to 2 decimal places, as in good scientific reporting? (and for ease of computing too!)
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Alizarin Crimson
Molecular formula = C14 H8 O4
value:
C + H + O = 3 + 8 + 15 = 26
14 + 8 + 4 = 26
26 / 26 = 1
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Geneviève
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I pick Decaborane
B10H14
Value: 2 + 8 =10
10 + 14 = 24
10/24 = .41
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PataLeBon
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Sucrose (which I couldn't do without. )
C12 H22 O11
So that's..
3+8+15=26
12+22+11=45
26/45 = 0.5777777777777777777and so forth....
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quote:
Originally posted by Geneviève:
Should we be rounding off to 2 decimal places, as in good scientific reporting? (and for ease of computing too!)
True scientific reporting would round to the nearest significant digit. Currently it looks like it will be one or two decimal places but it could stretch out to three.
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Someone's got to do it: Ethanol. C2H6O.
C H O
3+8+15=26
2+6+1=9
26/9=2.89.
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quote:
Originally posted by chicklegirl:
C+O+A+O=
3+15+1+15=34
2+4=6
34/6=5.7 (rounded up from 5.66666666666666666666...)
Ah, yes--I'm at least starting to catch my own errors. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
That should be:
C+O+A+L+O=
3+15+1+12+15=46
2+4=6
46/6=7.67 (rounded up from 7.66666666666666666666...)
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Doublethink.
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I choose the, ever popular, explosion in a custard factory:
C6H12O6(s)+6O2(g) --> 6CO2(g)+6H2O(g)
Now, I want to be clear here, in honour of the essential uncertainty that is the philosophical space of the Knockout quiz - I am choosing the "-->" bit, the moment of universal indrawn breath and quantum undeterminedness when nothing quite knows it is yet, the fragment of a second before everything goes bang. And as this is the moment of balance, represented by neither letters nor numbers I assign it the value 0.
(I know someone will now come and poke ever so gentle holes in my understanding of chemistry - But I don't care ! There is no such thing as truth ! All ontological claims must be stripped naked and made to dance in the light of their burning bridges ! Rage for the dying of the contested narrative ! I believe in the confused custard particle and you can't take that away from me !)
[ETA: Perhaps less caffeine before my next post.)
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the pilgrim
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I will use Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2), still a wonderful home medicine-cabinet Antiseptic, as any parent will tell you.
8+15=23 2+2=4 23/4= 5.75
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Being the plain, non-adventurous type, I choose
NaCl, or salt.
14+1+3+12=30
1+1=2
30/2=15
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