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Thread: The New Crew's Quiz
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Teekeey Misha
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I'm not sure I understand the scoring system on this quiz malarkey. It says on this page that I earned +7 today and my score is 955. It says on yesterday's scores page that I scored +9 points and my score was 954.
How does adding +7 to 954 give 955? ![[Confused]](confused.gif) Is the "score" column not a cumulative score? If not, what does +7 mean? +7 what (or what +7)?
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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That's something I can answer, Teekeey Misha, unlike quiz questions about 'Murrican rock groups and movies. Regardless of the fact that I'm 'Murrican. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
The score is 1000 points minus how ever many seconds you take to answer ten questions correctly. If you only get nine questions correct, your score is 1000 minus your time plus 100. Eight correct answers is 1000 minus your time plus 200.
The award is based on the number of people playing on a particular day. For instance, today there are 13 people so far. So, top person gets all 13 points. I'm not sure what the formula is for figuring the rest of the points, but both today and yesterday had 13 players, and the award point spread is the same for both days.
Does this help?
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Teekeey Misha
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quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
Does this help?
I think it does; the key is that "score" is a daily score, not a cumulative one? Thank you.
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Misha
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Teekeey Misha
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It makes even more sense having just found the page with my "personal profile" showing my scores for two weeks! ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Misha
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Teekeey Misha
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Today, three of my random guesses were incorrect but four were correct. Should I be worried that there were only three answers I actually knew?
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Misha
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Piglet
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Not at all, TM - it sometimes happens that way . Today, I had two right guesses and two splats (American TV and popular music are not my speciality). ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
And it's very rare for nobody to get 10/10.
[ 03. December 2016, 22:31: Message edited by: Piglet ]
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Piglet
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I was a bit rubbish today, but I still made it to seventh place, and the questions I got wrong were both about Americans I'd never heard of, so I'm not going to feel too bad.
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Teekeey Misha
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Rats! Fell for the old "select first correct answer and don't bother reading to see if it's one of the pesky 'all the above' questions."
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Misha
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Piglet
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From my experience (and I think I was in the quiz right from the off), if there is an "all of these" option it's more often than not the right one.
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Piglet
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'murcan television ... ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
mump grump moan
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sharkshooter
Not your average shark
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Nailed it today.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Briefly at the top, until those with lightening fingers get here. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Well done, little Guessometer!
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Piglet
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Oh no it wasn't.
Read the bl**dy question, Piglet!
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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The Guessometer tried so hard to tell me. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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L'organist
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GUM ? They're now asking questions about gum? Dear God ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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The Rogue
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Looking at this month's scores, part of me thinks "Blimey people actually played on Christmas Day. Didn't they have better things to do?" and the rest of me thinks "Bugger, I didn't play on Christmas Day".
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Piglet
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If I ever get a chess question right, I'll expect there to be three moons in the sky, in varying shades of blue.
![[brick wall]](graemlins/brick_wall.gif)
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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I believe that's two days in a row that I was on the bottom of the list.
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Piglet
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A couple of lucky guesses (thank you Guessometer - have a wee dram!) and a couple not so lucky.
Second place with only 8/10? That'll do nicely (not that it'll last ...)
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L'organist
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Bl**dy yanks! Not only do they not spell correctly, they don't get the difference between the use of a word as a name and a word that sounds the same but is spelled diferently as the name of a colour.
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Piglet
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There are certain questions in the Bible Trivia quizzes that I always get wrong, and number 10 was one of them.
You'd think I'd remember, wouldn't you?
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L'organist
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Cartoons trip me up every time.
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Piglet
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So I don't know much about country and western music. That's just as well. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Piglet
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The Guessometer was rocking it today! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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Mine too. I was gobsmacked. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Piglet
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I'm an idiot. I changed a right guess (and tbh it wasn't really even a guess - I sort of knew the answer) to a wrong one.
brainless piglet
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Piglet
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[pedant alert]
The editors really ought to update their information - in the blurb on question 8 they say that Queen Victoria is the longest-reigning British monarch, which she isn't.
[/pedant alert]
[ 21. January 2017, 22:24: Message edited by: Piglet ]
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The Rogue
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I have spent some time on the general site and there are a lot of questions which are all set by site users as individual questions or part of a themed quiz. A volunteer host must approve all of these before they are allowed in to the question pool from which our quizzes (and plenty of others) are chosen randomly. To maintain all of the questions where the facts might fall out of date would be pretty time-consuming and probably beyond the small army of unpaid hosts. If someone takes a quiz they can report an inaccuracy to the quiz writer who may or may not make a correction - if they are still involved on the site at all. There are guidelines for setting questions which suggest avoiding facts which might fall out of date but it it will still happen and some people's attempts not to fall into this trap become quite tortuous to read. It can be interesting to see this and think to yourself "Oh, yes, she was the longest ruling at one time".
To quote our IT department: it's a feature.
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Piglet
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Fair enough.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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You never know if I'll be at the bottom of the heap or at the top.
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Piglet
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You're nearer the top than I am today - just.
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Piglet
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Guessometer working beautifully - speedometer not so much, as I'm using a laptop without a mouse and am consequently not a happy piglet.
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Drifting Star
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Whoa! Six of those were complete and utter guesses, and I got 10/10. I must have used up the whole of this year's luck in 66 seconds.
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sharkshooter
Not your average shark
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For me, today, 4 complete guesses (got 3 right) and 3 other educated guesses (got them all right).
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Sounds like the Guessometer is working hard for his evening toddy!
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Piglet
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My score of 9/10 is testament to the Guessometer's general wonderfulness.
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Piglet
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I don't know on what planet that quiz was "harder", but I suppose it's all a matter of getting questions to which you know the answer.
Pass me that oxygen! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Piglet
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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
... Pass me that oxygen!
I think that must be the first time I've gone to the top and stayed there.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
... Pass me that oxygen!
I think that must be the first time I've gone to the top and stayed there.
We all got together and thought you might like that as a b-day gift!
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Piglet
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Thank you!
As it turned out I couldn't even play yesterday, as we were snowed in and I had no computer access.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Holding up the Quizzers. Again.
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Sioni Sais
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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
I don't know on what planet that quiz was "harder", but I suppose it's all a matter of getting questions to which you know the answer.
Pass me that oxygen!
Easy quiz + film question = hard quiz!
(Others find this applies with sport, pop music, anything "foreign")
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Welease Woderwick
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I've got another excellent opportunity to come in last again!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Welease Woderwick
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I did it!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Oh, mighty Guessometer, will you give me the answer to four questions?
I guess not. Three must be all I'm allowed.
*sigh*
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Piglet
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I love it when I suddenly remember the answer to a question from the last x times it came up and change a wrong to a right.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Allow me to be a sad warning to all of you. Listen to the Guessometer when it whispers in your ear.
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Piglet
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I did (several times), and it took me into second place!
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