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L'organist
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Click on the link (currently on page 94, second post down) and then you can register on the quiz site to start playing, using either your Shipboard name or another alter ego.

Happy quizzing!

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L'organist
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short-cut here

A little more new-user friendly.

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Piglet
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Do come and join us, aliehs - the more the merrier.

You'll get used to our little quirks ... [Big Grin]

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jedijudy

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Hahaha! Even if I wouldn't have messed up the one question that I really did know the answer to, I'd still be on the bottom! [Big Grin]

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Uncle Pete

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Warning: Obscure Merkin movies day today. [Paranoid]

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Even more so than I was before

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Tree Bee

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Very hard questions indeed, and the guessometer has gone AWOL.

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Piglet
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Enough with the fil-lum questions already! [Mad]

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Piglet
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Crikey - 10/10, second place and even sorted out the Medes, the Persians and the Chaldeans ... [Big Grin]

The Guessometer seems to have got its Mojo back.

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Piglet
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I've just put a note on the computer telling me who moves up and along in chess. [brick wall]

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Wet Kipper
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[brick wall] [brick wall] must... read...properly..before...clicking [brick wall]

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Piglet
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Dammit - I knew what sort of dragon Norbert was, but I still clicked the wrong one.

[brick wall]

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Piglet
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Chuffin' fil-lums again ... [Mad]

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Piglet
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Ah - that's better. Third place. [Smile]

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jedijudy

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Lesson to self number 9,403:
When you (me) click on the link to start the quiz, don't get distracted by your yummy salad.

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Tree Bee

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Guessometer working well today. [Smile]

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Jonah the Whale

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You worked it too hard - it was broken by the time I got there.
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Piglet
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quote:
Originally posted by Tree Bee:
Guessometer working well today. [Smile]

It certainly knows more about Welsh names than I do! [Yipee]

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Piglet
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I can handle getting a question wrong if it's about country singers.

I know very little about them, and have no intention of remedying this. [Devil]

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aliehs
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That was fun. But now I know what non English speakers feel like when doing a comprehension test. I had to think like an American.....EEEKKK!!!
[Yipee]

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Piglet
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Don't worry, aliehs, all of us who weren't born in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave have the same trouble.

They quite often repeat the questions, so you'll get used to it after a while! [Big Grin]

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Wet Kipper
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Jan 18

23 players played during the month.

1. Jonah_the_Whale (331 points, 8 wins)
2. ceesharp (319 points, 6 wins)
3. Loveheart (300 points, 5 wins)
4. TreeBee (280 points, 0 wins)
5. Gussie (264 points, 4 wins)
6. jedijudy (259 points, 0 wins)
7. wet_kipper (258 points, 6 wins)
8. TheRogue (236 points, 2 wins)
9. piglet (218 points, 0 wins)
10. SidneyRip (215 points, 0 wins)

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sharkshooter

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32 seconds, and I'm the slowest (so far) of the 10/10s. Power up the turbo charger today.

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Piglet
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10/10, fifth place and I even got the fil-lum question right! [Yipee]

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aliehs
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There's always ONE question that gets me. Usually pop of films. Must listen to the radio more. Or watch RAGE. Haven't tried the Guessometer yet; maybe tomorrow

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L'organist
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feckin' Murican "sports".

I propose we send the quiz setters a list of the historic nick-names of the older English football league clubs - anyone for the hatters?

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quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
feckin' Murican "sports".

Absolutely. [Mad]
quote:

I propose we send the quiz setters a list of the historic nick-names of the older English football league clubs - anyone for the hatters?

We don't need to: Wiki will be their friend.

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sharkshooter

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Guessed on 2, got 1 wrong. [Roll Eyes]

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Piglet
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Guessed on one, got it wrong. [Frown]

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L'organist
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'Murican comics [Mad]

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Piglet
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Preach it, L'Organist! [Mad]

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Piglet
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Sweeties that I don't like. [Mad]

Why are M&Ms so much less nice than Smarties? [Confused]

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jedijudy

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Oh, wow. The Guessometer (our gift from Uncle Pete [Votive] ) was amazing today. It gets a little star in its little crown!

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L'organist
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I realise I sound like a wuss but I've never figured out what the guessometer is, where to find it or how to use: enlightenment please!

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quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
... The Guessometer (our gift from Uncle Pete [Votive] ) ...

I was just thinking about that as I clicked on the quiz - it was good of Uncle Pete to leave it with us. [Tear]

It's hard to describe the Guessometer, as none of us has actually seen it. It's what inexplicably draws your mouse-pointer to the right button when you haven't a baldy notion of the answer to a question.*

We're sometimes very rude about it (it has malfunctions just like the rest of us, and occasionally it gets tired out before we've all played the quiz), but when it does work, it's rewarded with virtual GIN or 18-year-old Highland Park whisky.

* For most of us, these questions are either about films or American sports that are a mystery to the rest of the world.

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L'organist
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Thank you, Piglet: I had suspected the Guessometer was a relative of Mornington Crescent, now I know.

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aliehs
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I'd like to propose a "Time out while I think about it " button.
Or a handicap for touch typists.

Disgruntlement ? No sheer frustration; I go as fast as I can and still take more time to tick the correct answer, even when I know what it is. Don't mind me; I am just disappointed in myself.

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jedijudy

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Top of the list...well until Wet Kipper and some of the other young people get here! [Big Grin]

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interesting today to have 2 related questions, kind of giving away one of the answers!

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