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Thread: The New Crew's Quiz
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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And the Quiz again
piglet, it must have seized up crossing the North Atlantic! ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Pats good little guessometer on the head
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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I just joined this thing. I think... I'll soon find out if I set it up right...
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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Um, I appear to be on top of the board thingie! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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And that state of affairs lasted for less than 5 minutes. Darn.
RIGHT. SEE YOU TOMORROW.
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The Weeder
Shipmate
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I am in at 5th place- my highest ever placing so far.
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claret10
Ship's Paranoid Android
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Well today I learnt, remember u clicked to start quiz, and don't get distracted or u get a silly time ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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![[brick wall]](graemlins/brick_wall.gif)
Rats. Rats. Rats.
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Piglet
Islander
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What's the opposite of "rats"? ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) That guessometer really travels well, doesn't it?
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
What's the opposite of "rats"?
Star.
![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Well, Tuesday's harder quiz was dead easy. Didn't even use the guessometer.
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The Weeder
Shipmate
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I was very briefly second, but now am third. My highest ever placement. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
What's the opposite of "rats"?
Star.
Right on, orfeo!
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
Hmmph. Something else I should have noticed about D-U.
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Piglet
Islander
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Absolutely, Pete - 43 seconds and 7th place!
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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Now, how am I supposed to know about cultural traditions from before I was born??
Found the first one I did much easier.
[ 28. November 2012, 09:14: Message edited by: orfeo ]
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Stoopid dyslexia! It's very entertaining, but can be so, so wrong.
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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I looked at this page, and Google Translate came up to say "This page is in Slovenian".
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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I've often been below 90 seconds on the easier sets. This was easy.
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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The clue is in the options? I ahould have guessed it because one of the options was the right answer and the other three were wrong???
Ex.Cuse.Me!!!!
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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I guessed it from knowing the other three options weren't right. But yeah, you still have to know the other three aren't right... ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Hail Gallaxhar
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Lucia
Looking for light
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I think that was my fastest ever, but you're all too damn fast for me to catch you...
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ArachnidinElmet
Shipmate
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55 seconds of quizzing + 150 seconds of swearing and pressing submit = FAIL.
Aargh.
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Piglet
Islander
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My computer (which is the same model Noah used when he was building the ark) was very slow to let me in to the quiz, putting me much further south in the table than I'd like.
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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November's Nuggets
52 players played during the month.
1. indianwells (662 points, 6 wins)
2. Star (565 points, 2 wins)
3. Ariston (506 points, 7 wins)
4. Gussie (425 points, 0 wins)
5. Loveheart (396 points, 1 wins)
6. jedijudy (394 points, 0 wins)
7. ceesharp (392 points, 0 wins)
8. AntisocialAlto (381 points, 11 wins)
9. Marvin_the_Martian (378 points, 2 wins)
10. TheRogue (341 points, 0 wins)
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“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” - Mark Twain
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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Smudgie knocked me off me perch!
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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The Weasel comes in one second before The Piglet!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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Just noticed that I got my first ever first place yesterday. Hooray for the Bible, that's all I can say. Wish I was as knowledgeable about film stars, adultresses, advertising slogans, minor celebrities and their offspring, American sport..........
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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... not to mention the natural history of obscure American cartoon characters.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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Oh my goodness. I just had my first, explicit "could be anything, guessometer has to save me" moment... and I'm in first place because of it.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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pats lucky little guessometer on the back
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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**chucks not-so-lucky guessometer out the window**
Actually, it worked for the 'murcan sports but not for the cartoon character ...
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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Darn. A family member's been telling me for years I should read that book, and I still haven't, and now my inaction has cost me.
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Lucia
Looking for light
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Singers I haven't heard of from some other part of the world...hmph...stomps out of thread muttering....
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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The answer to Q2 could easily be "Felon"
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Piglet
Islander
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Snuck into the top 10 with a combination of luck and judgement, despite my computer having a brief freeze half-way through.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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For those flummoxed by yesterday's questions . . .
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Piglet
Islander
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Today my computer decided to freeze just as I clicked "play today's quiz" which had a somewhat detrimental effect on my perceived velocity.
Hmph.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Do you mean it meant you had a lousy time?
but look on the bright side, it meant I beat you!
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Damned sport question!
bounces guessometer off the wall
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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"Anyone who's ever taken a long car trip with a brother or sister knows this game"
Errm, no.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Finds broken guessometer. Repairs it lovingly in hopes that it will aid quiz scores.
Wonders who would break such a magnificent thing.
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ArachnidinElmet
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
"Anyone who's ever taken a long car trip with a brother or sister knows this game"
Errm, no.
I had never heard of this game until I watched a repeat of 'Frasier' on tv this morning...and I still got it wrong.
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Piglet
Islander
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Guessometer still broken - feckin' 'Murcan sports.
And marine creatures. Still
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Lucia
Looking for light
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It's alright , I'm in last place now! American actors... ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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The guessometer knows effing all about obscure Murrican talkies.
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Piglet
Islander
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It's not bad on obscure Old Testament kings though.
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