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Thread: The New Crew's Quiz
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I beat Pingu yesterday, the first of the year ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Long may it continue [but it probably won't!]
How about the Circus Hosts get a ten second handicap every day? It sounds good to me.
Another 10/10 today in less than half the time it took Unca Pete.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Here is the Link
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
How about the Circus Hosts get a ten second handicap every day? It sounds good to me.
Sounds even better to me. I'd love to have had a 16 second time today!
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I think you might be deliberately misinterpreting what I said - how about 20 seconds and then I might have a chance?
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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Foiled by the wrong shot in the dark. Bother. That Weasel will be getting delusions of grandeur at this rate.
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Lucia
Looking for light
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quote:
Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
Failed on US geography again.
Me too....
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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quote:
Originally posted by Smudgie:
Foiled by the wrong shot in the dark. Bother. That Weasel will be getting delusions of grandeur at this rate.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Mary Mother!
![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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10/10 today, the first to 100%!
![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Relative wins so far this year:
Weasel 3 - Pingu 1
But then pride is a terrible sin.
![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
[ 04. January 2014, 10:45: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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Guessometer working well, who's next?
Pocket lint is so 2013.
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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Vroooooooooooooooooooooooom........ penguin on a skateboard......... vroooooooooooooooooom
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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And now it is 3:2 to the Weasel!
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Beaten again yesterday so now it's a draw at 3:3.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Well, at least the Guessometer got two out of three right for me. (I miss that same question every time.) ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Thanks Smudgie for allowing me to beat you again yesterday so making it 4:3 to me over the year so far.
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Piglet
Islander
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Sixth place! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) And all because the Guessometer knows more about dragons than I do.
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Pearl B4 Swine
Ship's Oyster-Shucker
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Gaaaa...I even heard Mr.G O'Meter shouting at me, "DON'T CHANGE IT!"
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"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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5:3! But, of course, once Sunday comes revenge will be wreaked!
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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I would have had them all right, but my eyes skipped over a question, probably because I was stunned at the stupidity of the question.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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There certainly were some stupid ones there today.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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One to The Penguin yesterday so 5:4 ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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Are you going to keep track all year long? If so, I'm thinking we should take bets now on what the final Weasel vs. Penguin Grudge Match results will be.
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Leorning Cniht
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
Are you going to keep track all year long? If so, I'm thinking we should take bets now on what the final Weasel vs. Penguin Grudge Match results will be.
Are we just counting wins and losses, or does the spread matter?
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
I'm in!
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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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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Bloody Murrican fillums, of which only one I've heard.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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Spread doesn't matter; a win's a win!
I'm going to play Circus party loyalty here, and guess that Pingu is going to stomp enough Sundays to beat Wodders by…let's say up by 7 by year's end. It'll be close, and I've revised it a few times while I was typing (I originally had Smudgie up by 12, before I rethought things a few more times—like I said, it'll be by a flipper), but this may be the real game right here!
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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Points difference should count if the number of wins is equal at the end of the season. Surely.
Of course, we must also decide whether it's number of correct guesses that counts, or number of points allocated for the day. There are reasonable arguments for both approaches, but it best be decided now. The last thing you want to do is pull a FIFA 2010 World Cup qualification in Europe stunt and change the rules at the last minute because you don't like the outcome.
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Lucia
Looking for light
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Wow! For once a "very easy" quiz that really was what it said!
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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My little brain [smallest in South Asia, apart from politicians] won't cope with complications - just the number of times we appear higher or lower than one another on the board. I am banking on her taking l-o-o-o-n-g holidays/vacations when I will win by a walk-over.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Oh my ears and whiskers 5:5!!
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Leorning Cniht
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
I'm going to play Circus party loyalty here, and guess that Pingu is going to stomp enough Sundays to beat Wodders by…let's say up by 7 by year's end.
Well, in that case, I'll have to back the underdog (under-mustelid?) and say it'll be the weasel by a whisker - let's say 2 up.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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I will back Wod too-- if he trumps her, it will be surrogate vengeance for all the times she has whooped my ass at a certain social network wordgame that I won't mention.
5 up.
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I'm afraid my 8/10 today ain't gonna help my cause in the slightest!
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Jonah the Whale
Ship's pet cetacean
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I'll have to go with my fellow aquatic creature. Penguin by a flipper.
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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I would like to point out that the weaselly one does get a head start, weaselling in on the start of the day before it even gets here and leaving me unable to play until after a looooooooooooooooooooong day at school, working hard and taxing my feathery brain to the extreme.
And, being sooooooooo much older than me he has a head start with personal experience on all those questions which were really before my time.
This should definitely be taken into the reckoning!
Actually, on recent performance, I'm backing the Weasel!
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Piglet
Islander
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I'm not sure whether I should join in the weasel/penguin shenanigans; if I had to, my instinct would be to back the weasel as he's (a) a fellow-mammal and (b) a fellow-All Saints host.
I'm off now to sort out my Greeks from my Romans ... ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I was right, after yesterday's debacle I am 5:6 down.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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And you will be even more after this Sunday's bible quiz! As will I.
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Japes
Shipmate
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I confess to a long term habit of judging my performance in the Quiz against Smudgie, weasel and piglet. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
A good Sunday is one where my score is better than Smudgie's. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
[ 12. January 2014, 11:15: Message edited by: Japes ]
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Predictably 5:7 after the Sunday Bible quiz - I'm beginning to think this isn't such a good idea after all.
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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Fear not, there's only one Sunday per week and six other days. You wouldn't beat me in a month of Sundays ( ![[Biased]](wink.gif) ) but I don't rate my chance in a month of seven different days per week.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Aww! Tied Sharkshooter! Second place is better than where I've been all week. I'll take it!
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Originally posted by Japes:
I confess to a long term habit of judging my performance in the Quiz against Smudgie, weasel and piglet.
I'm not sure whether to be flattered or scared by that ...
My general wobbliness on most matters of the Old Testament (and several of the New) tend to make me a bit of a pushover on Sundays.
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Jonah the Whale
Ship's pet cetacean
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A bonus question for you all:
What kind of arithmetic do they use to get the average points per day in the rankings ?
JtW
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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Short answer: take total points, divide by number of days played, only calculate if number of days played is ten or more.
Long answer: your point total is calculated by your ranking, with first place receiving the as many points as there were players that day, second two or three off, third likewise, and then one or two points off for every position down to tenth, so long as the number of players is greater than fifteen (I think), at which point the people in places 11-20 receive a point more than those in places 21-30, who receive a point more than those in the next group of ten; those in the lowest group of ten receive four points. Your point total is not to be confused with your score for the day, which is calculated by starting with a base score of 1,000, but taking off a point for each second elapsed, and 100 points for each question missed, down to a minimum score that I can't actually remember at the moment, but would gladly have someone else in the top 5 volunteer to test.
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