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Thread: The New Crew's Quiz
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Thought I'd join in.
Note to self: in a timed quiz, don't waste time reading the category headings for each question. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Hail Gallaxhar
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
# 333
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Posted
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Originally posted by AristonAstuanax:
Iiiiiiiiit's QUIZTIME!
And again!
Welcome, Marvin! Yes; skip words, cheat, go fast! Just don't expect to beat Antisocial Alto too frequently. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Antisocial Alto
Shipmate
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Yes, my fast clicky finger is awesome! Look upon my radio buttons, ye mighty, and despair!
(But seriously, I envy/admire you denizens who are good at limericks and Mafia and the other Circus games that require some creativity. Being quick at multiple choice questions isn't very useful once you're out of school.)
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Hennah
Ship's Mother Hen
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Aww, shoulda done it this morning!
Also I need a proper mouse, I reckon this touch paddy thingy adds a good few seconds to my time. If I get one, AA, I'm coming after you.
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Never stand behind satan in a Post Office queue: the devil takes many forms.
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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welcome to the er, light side, Marvin. We has pablum.
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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In spite of the UK question, I got them all right. However my placement was miserable, unlike my friend and compatriot JediJudy, likely because I was half-listening to the 4 O'clock Show on Radio 4e instead of answering at warp speed as she and her colleagues did!
![[brick wall]](graemlins/brick_wall.gif)
For some odd reason, my score is always superior on the 'harder' quizzes.... As it was yesterday....
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Piglet
Islander
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I got 10/10 by changing a wrong answer for a right one ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) but spent too long thinking about it.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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For a while I was top with just 8 points, now I am bottom ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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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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It took me four reads of the fourth question to work out what on earth they were on about.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I am tempted to make a comment about the attention spans, etc. of our aquatic avian friends but given my score today I'll think I'll leave it for another time.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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A bit quicker than yesterday. This is good.
And yes, question 4 was a bit... weird.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Could this be the day I actually end up last? At last?
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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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shines fingernails
Temporarily in first! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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joan knox
Knoxy is my homeboy
# 16100
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well... I'm not utterly last...nearly, but not...
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Damn it all! I had to click the bloody thing three times, else I would have been ninth or tenth...
![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
# 473
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I suppose this is not the time to say, 'It's only a game?' ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Perhaps not...
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
I suppose this is not the time to say, 'It's only a game?'
I'm not sure that expression ever applies to the Crew's Quiz. ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Woohoo! I'm still last - only another 3.5 hours to go!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Top of a list with 3 on it!
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Even more so than I was before
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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quote:
Originally posted by PeteC:
Top of a list with 3 on it!
Mwahahahahahahahaha ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
Not sure I agree at all with one of the questions. All depends on your point of view. I hate motor sports.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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quote:
Originally posted by Smudgie:
quote:
Originally posted by PeteC:
Top of a list with 3 on it!
Mwahahahahahahahaha
Not sure I agree at all with one of the questions. All depends on your point of view. I hate motor sports.
![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Though, of course, the last question doesn't actually have his real name—which is one of those wonderful Victorian names only an Oxford don could ever wear well.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Well, I managed dead last yesterday to prove how very stoopid the quiz is.
Today I hit 10/10 again and am in a tie with Pingu!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
# 4360
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I do loathe questions that rely on a matter of opinion rather than fact.
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Hail Gallaxhar
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
# 3492
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Aaargh! In a four-way draw for fourteenth place....
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
... In a four-way draw for fourteenth place....
Not any more.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
# 10422
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Saturday's quiz was dead easy. So, at this point, why am I the only one with all correct?
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Erm, because only sad people know the middle names of dead political has-beens?
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
# 10422
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Actually because I read his obituary carefully, so I could be sure the old bastard was dead.
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Even more so than I was before
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... only sad people know the middle names of dead political has-beens ...
... and lucky piglets guess them correctly.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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Bother - it's refusing to submit my answers... I suspect I may have a long time!
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Yup, even longer than Pete - who is nearly as old as you-know-who!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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joan knox
Knoxy is my homeboy
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22 seconds? 22 seconds??!!! that's just unnatural...!
*ahem*
Jolly well played
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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Too right, JK - I thought my 10/10 in 40 seconds might have been moderately good on a Sunday but it only got me to 13th place.
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Editing the sentence in the final question slowed me down a wee bit, but I'm still in the top two!
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Ooh, second by a second. Well, until someone comes along and does it even faster...
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Hail Gallaxhar
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joan knox
Knoxy is my homeboy
# 16100
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Why... tell me why I do not learn to trust my first hunch, but instead feel the need to go back and change what would have been the correct answer to an incorrect answer...?
Also, while we're at at: tell me why I don't like Mondays?
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
# 3492
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Hey, I can empathize: yesterday my Spurs had a nil-nil draw against bloody Stevenage! That's ninety minutes wasted that I'll never get back.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Piglet
Islander
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Never mind, Sir K. - I support Ipswich Town. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) Anyway, when the Really Big Teams™ play little squitty teams in the FA Cup they tend to field a team made up of their cleaning-ladies, as they don't think it matters.
As if that wasn't bad enough, I've just snuck in front of you on the leader-board.
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Lucia
Looking for light
# 15201
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What the heck is overeasy???
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
# 3492
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It is a fried egg which is very carefully turned over after cooking so that it is yolk side down. It has been cooked for the minimum amount of time required as opposed to over medium which is what my wife and I prefer in the US.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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I win, I win, I win.
Well, at least until someone else plays today - what a disgracefully pathetic score. I hate it when my mind says "Noooo... you've put the wrong answer....." just as my finger hits the "submit" button.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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You were already 4th before I played, Pingu - and then I got the first 10/10 for the day - terrible time but there you go!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
# 10422
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Damned if I know how I got them all today! It was sheer guesswork on at least 4 of them!
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Guessed one wrong. Guessed a few others right.
But what the hell - I came in the top ten yesterday! Celebration tyme
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Hail Gallaxhar
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MiceElf
Not your average mouse
# 4389
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I got a 10!!!!
I've hugged the cat and kissed the postman.
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What do we want.... Cure for Obesity
When do we want it.... After Dessert.
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
# 3492
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I changed my answer on number four and got it wrong; I never read the book about Badger and Mole and Q3 was shite!
This is the worst and most unfair quiz I have ever taken. Now I know how the British feel when faced with obscure questions about US culture and television. I knew about the TV one because I actually saw Bill Hanna years ago and I was a big fan of his cartoons, though I declined to purchase a cel from the gallery where we met. He did sign the invitation, though.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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