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Thread: The New Crew's Quiz
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Question 1 - you bastard ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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So, Marvin, did you get number 1 wrong by any chance?
Still, of a load of names I'd never heard of, I managed to pick the wrong one, so I guess I can't really gloat.
Or can I? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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What I liked about yesterday's quiz is the way Pete was so supportive of us all.
10/10 and first to play today but 46 seconds won't keep me there more than a few minutes.
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Alicïa
Shipmate
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Hmmm. Last again. Didn't enjoy those quiz quiz questions much.
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Piglet
Islander
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The key to the "quiz" questions is if in doubt, grovel to the editors.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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Yay. Looking at the monthly standings, I'm officially the best loser in the business.
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Piglet
Islander
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(*&^%$%#$ baseball questions. ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Slow but accurate.
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Piglet
Islander
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Also accurate, and a squitlet faster than you.
It was kind of Pete to leave the Guessometer under the flower-pot when he went away for the weekend, wasn't it?
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Still slow, still accurate but first on the list!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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Never heard of the item described in number 4!
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— Woody Guthrie
http://saysaysay54.wordpress.com
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ArachnidinElmet
Shipmate
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Two of my answers didn't register and then I managed to change a right answer to a wrong one. FFS.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Good Heavens! Still in second place!
(Would be first without the non-Shippie person!) ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Piglet
Islander
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Blimey - I'm in fifth place, and I didn't even need to use the Guessometer! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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tessaB
Shipmate
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Yay! First (for about 30 seconds probably)
I did need the guessometer ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) , luckily he was kind today.
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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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It worked in part for me today; I should have listened to it on one guess and not changed a right answer to a wrong one ...
For American sportists of whom I've never heard, though, it was peerless.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Guessie came up with a touchdown for me too!
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Who the heck knows? But I remember the question from previous quizzes. Thank God.
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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shame that I didn't have that previous knowledge to go by.
You know how every so often there's a question that says "what should you do if you find a question that you think is wrong"
- write to the setter and say "Fix your question, dumbass"
- complain to the people who run the site
- politlely point out your thoughts on the question to the setter
- Suck it up and deal with, there are more important things in life
maybe we should put what we learn from those questions into practice
[ 17. October 2013, 08:10: Message edited by: Wet Kipper ]
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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Ha. When I actually tried to submit a query or correction about a question, THAT part of the website seemed to mysteriously lead to a blank page.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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quote:
Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
What house?!
It was a HEADING to the question, rather than being in the question. Utterly dumb, I know.
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tessaB
Shipmate
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Normally I can at least understand the questions but that house one had me completely flummoxed ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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tessaB
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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there are Headings in the questions ?
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Piglet
Islander
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Clever Guessometer! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
Clever Guessometer!
On days like today, I see it all bedecked in red and white streamers, with several balloons and the drop kicks to his behind (from previous occasions) covered up.
With a beer stein filled with whisky and trusting puppy dog eyes looking at me.
YMMV
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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quote:
Originally posted by Wet Kipper:
there are Headings in the questions ?
Trust me, until today I hadn't noticed either. If people on this thread hadn't been carrying on about houses I might still not have known.
I believe that the 'headings' I saw were the titles of quizzes. I think that what happens is that we get quizzes made up of questions selected FROM various other quizzes. And this other quiz was titled with the name of the house. So the question worked fine in the context of an entire quiz about 'the house'. When we get a single isloated question about 'the house' we're all mystified.
[ 18. October 2013, 02:12: Message edited by: orfeo ]
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Piglet
Islander
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I can't blame the Guessometer for my complete b*llocks on the film question - I'm sure that at some point I guessed it correctly, but today was not that point.
![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Obscure TV shows and equally obscure musicians are my downfall.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Geez Louise!
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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Bloomin' brilliant guessometer! Who's next for it?
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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The Guessometer was amazing on two out of three guesses. Silly TV programs. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
[Someday I'll learn to spell.]
[ 19. October 2013, 13:54: Message edited by: jedijudy ]
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Piglet
Islander
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It was fine on the TV programme for me, but fell down on the phobia.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Not the first to play today but the first to 10/10 - in a SLOW time.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Beating The Penguin on a Sunday is SO satisfying!
![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Once again, movies I've never heard about, or actors who don't seem to make headlines (front pages of celebrity magazines.)
Who the fuck watches this stuff?
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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*views standings*
Oh, THAT'd be right. The one day of the month that I don't play is the one day of the month that the top 4 usual suspects all stumble. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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tessaB
Shipmate
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Not only got the actress one wrong but read 'least time' as 'most time'.
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Piglet
Islander
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**pats the Guessometer and gives it a dram**
The Guessometer knows more about 'Murcan television actors than I do, which is just as well.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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A fine start to the day!
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Painfully slow today. But at least I got back on the 10/10 train.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I may well have exhausted the Guessometer already, sorry about that.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I may well have exhausted the Guessometer already, sorry about that.
![[Eek!]](eek.gif) You sure did! ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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The questions did seem to have an interesting geographical bias today...
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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quote:
Originally posted by PeteC:
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I may well have exhausted the Guessometer already, sorry about that.
You sure did!
Pete, you are so wonderfully supportive in your role as, erm, support person on the Quiz Table - you have no idea how much we all appreciate it.
![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Hi Uncle Pete. *sigh*
It's actually kind of nice down here.
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Piglet
Islander
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I'm not very far above you, JJ, owing to a Guessometer malfunction on the pop-song question.
Bearing in mind that IMHO the last time there was a decent song in the charts was the week after Freddie Mercury died and they re-released Bohemian Rhapsody* I'm not really surprised.
* The last time before that was Moonlight Shadow by Mike Oldfield.
**shuffles off to get her slippers and cocoa**
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