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Thread: The New Crew's Quiz
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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![[brick wall]](graemlins/brick_wall.gif)
I'd have stood a chance of beating that smug little Ariston fellow if, when I'd opened up the quiz, I'd actually got on and done it instead of forgetting it was against the clock for the few seconds it took me to have a slurp of my coffee!
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flags_fiend
Shipmate
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I got them all right, even the one about the US ![[Smile]](smile.gif) , although I was still very slow ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Whoever decides which quizzes are Harder or Very Easy or whatever must be on some wonderful drugs!
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Piglet
Islander
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Like all quizzes, they're easy when you know the answer.
Or when you borrow Pete's guessometer and it's working ... ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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I'm glad there's a Sunday quiz. Gives the rest of us a shot at being farther up the list. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Piglet
Islander
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Lucky Guess Piglet staggers into 12th place ...
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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ArachnidinElmet
Shipmate
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Well that was an odd quiz. I think I wasted 20 seconds just staring baffled at the questions.
Decent score more luck than good judgement
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
# 333
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Question one. What a strange one. My answer could have been right! ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Just Me
Shipmate
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I was going to ask if there was a wrong answer to Q1?
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
Question one. What a strange one. My answer could have been right!
Haven't you noticed the editors' obsession with that part of the anatomy? ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
[pedantry alert ON]
From the answer to one of the questions:
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"I never did very good ..."
I'd have a bit more respect for the quiz editors if they'd speak proper English. ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
[/pedantry alert OFF]
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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3 seconds faster than yesterday but that ain't saying much.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Lucia
Looking for light
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Not hard but too slow, too slow... ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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First to play, first on the list, no chance of staying there.
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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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Glad to see the back of January.
Chose the answer I'd heard of. Realised there was another slightly more obscure answer I'd heard of and changed it. Idiot.
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Piglet
Islander
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I spent too long guessing the answer for question 6, but I got it right.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Under 50 seconds but someone else will be along shortly to do it in under 30, possibly under 20!!
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Piglet
Islander
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10/10 in 36 seconds isn't bad for me, but not much use on a Very Easy day. It's not so much duff brain as duff eye/hand/mouse co-ordination.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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What's coordination? Could I have some, please, ma'am?
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Piglet
Islander
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You could if I had any to spare ...
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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The guessometer doesn't work on the Indian power grid. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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It worked just fine in Newfoundland - I managed 5th place.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Slowing down in my old age but still impressivley accurate ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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8/10 AND a computer glitch - not my day!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Loveheart
Blue-scarved menace
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Fell down on the American question. Oh well...
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Lucia
Looking for light
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Only 6 right worst for a long time. Think I might be immersed in all the wrong cultural references for that one... (well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!)
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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Don't you just hate it when you change a right guess to a wrong one?
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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I'll never get 10/10 when the quiz contains a maths question.
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
Don't you just hate it when you change a right guess to a wrong one?
... and love it when you don't?
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Pathetically slow again - having to read one question twice didn't help.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
# 333
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Had no idea about the last question. Uncle Pete's Guessometer must be broken. Or out of gas. Or something.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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You know, it's bad enough having those dumb navel-gazy "Quiz Protocol" questions, but having one that's three lines long? That you have to read twice to parse? Sheeeit.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
Had no idea about the last question. Uncle Pete's Guessometer must be broken. Or out of gas. Or something.
No it wasn't - I borrowed it. Mind you, it didn't work on the mythical animal question; I got it just as wrong this time as I did last time. I think I'll write the answer on the wall above my computer ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Maybe it needs to go in for its 5000-mile service.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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BUMP!
Grrrr...
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
# 333
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Maybe I won't be sick in March! Maybe then I can tick the correct answers!!!! Especially when I know them. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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In Q.10 and in USA I reckon there is more than one correct answer!
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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Never heard of the phrase in question 9!
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tessaB
Shipmate
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10 out of 10 but just too blasted slow. Must think quicker!
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tessaB
eating chocolate to the glory of God
Holiday cottage near Rye
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
# 10422
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Would the person who has my Guessometer&trad; please return it before tomorrow's quiz?
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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So, which one did you get wrong, Pete?
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
# 333
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Piglet, do you still have Uncle Pete's Guessometer? I think I had it before you. I don't think I broke it, but it had a little part dangling, so I just shoved it in the Magic Hat aperture.
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tessaB
Shipmate
# 8533
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Oh Lordy, faster but got the last one wrong. Stupidly thought it must be a trick question.
Still I was faster than PeteC so not quite at the bottom (sorry Pete)
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tessaB
eating chocolate to the glory of God
Holiday cottage near Rye
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
Piglet, do you still have Uncle Pete's Guessometer?
I did have it, but I put it back on the shelf after doing Wednesday's quiz. I didn't use it yesterday - I dozed off on the sofa and when I woke up it was late so I went to bed ... ![[Snore]](graemlins/snore.gif)
Just for once, I didn't need it today.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Thanks for the loan of the guess-o-meter, Pete - I'll bring it down at lunchtime.
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Heavenly Anarchist
Shipmate
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I think I need to borrow the guessometer, I don't know UK TV (no television here) let alone US
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HenryT
Canadian Anglican
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Why were the correct answers marked on some of these? Seems easy that way.
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