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| referee |
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:47 pm Post subject: 1 |
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| Correct. An alternative is a seven letters word with two blanks, using one of the blanks as the connection to make a two-letter word, with all the letters involved being one point, yielding the same answer. A seven letter word that doesn't connect must be the first play, and thus get a word bonus that raises the score to 60. |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:55 am Post subject: 0 |
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Ah...didn't know that. So I don't know everything after all
I never seemed to have the opportunity to play all 7 tiles in a go as they were either all vowels or no vowels.
Have to agree with the number from Duke Gnome. |
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| Scurra |
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:37 am Post subject: -1 |
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| A "bingo" is a word using all of your tiles, thus netting the bonus 50 points. Obviously it will usually be longer than seven letters since it has to link to something on the board. |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:22 am Post subject: -2 |
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| referee wrote: |
| pop quiz: What is the lowest possible (legal) bingo score? |
I don't understand the question... |
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| Duke Gnome |
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 3:50 pm Post subject: -3 |
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| referee wrote: |
pop quiz: What is the lowest possible (legal) bingo score? |
[56? An 8 letter word made up of 2 blanks and 6 1-point tiles, with no new non-blank tiles on bonus squares, and no connections] |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:14 pm Post subject: -4 |
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| referee wrote: |
| Yeah, I wasn't trying to make the result suspect (after all, I did so badly in this last round that it wouldn't matter for me), just mentioning a small back-door I've noticed so that more care is taken next time. |
It's these backdoors I try to avoid. The odd one may slip through but fortunately no damage was done this time. Sometimes formulating questions is hard as I have a particular way of seeing what I'm asking while another person sees it from a different angle... |
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| referee |
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:45 pm Post subject: -5 |
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Yeah, I wasn't trying to make the result suspect (after all, I did so badly in this last round that it wouldn't matter for me), just mentioning a small back-door I've noticed so that more care is taken next time. This was a greatly presented quiz, and quite interesting. Thanks for putting that out.
pop quiz: What is the lowest possible (legal) bingo score? |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:23 am Post subject: -6 |
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Ahh...I thought you were complaining about my question...but a perfectly valid comment. I prefer that my questions are mainly watertight, have one valid answer and no loopholes.
It's been a while since I looked at a scrabble board. I probably would have got that right but perhaps I had a sneaking suspicion that there was a line with no bonus squares at all.
A lot of my questions are along those lines...something that perhaps the player should know... |
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| MatthewV |
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:58 am Post subject: -7 |
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I thought your question was clearly specified. I just thought my question was a good pointless trivia question  |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:57 am Post subject: -8 |
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oh
Actually I never considered that possibility. One way 'around' that is to have the blank z on a double/triple letter square (still scoring 0) or alternatively I could cancel the question...but that wouldn't really change the outcome...just reducing Sentran to joint second.
However, as the play isn't possible within a game anyway because the first word should cross the centre double word bonus tile I think it's reasonable to allow the question as I specify 'no bonus squares' even though this isn't physically possible on a regular scrabble board.
And perhaps one slightly dodgy question out of 60 isn't bad going. I'll try to be more careful next time. |
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| MatthewV |
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:04 am Post subject: -9 |
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| 9. In Scrabble (English language tile set), if you were to play 6 tiles on an otherwise empty board to make the word PUZZLE on six non-bonus tiles, how many points would this score? |
So... what is the longest word you can make without hitting a bonus square if you could play anywhere on an open board?
A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5 |
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| Dread Pirate Westley |
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:27 pm Post subject: -10 |
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| Or you could have specified it was Pablo making the play. Although in that case, it would have actually been a trick question. |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 3:11 pm Post subject: -11 |
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| Well, but then how do we know that the P, U, other Z, L, or E is not the second blank? |
Well, do any of the alternate answers fit using a second blank? Using a second blank gives a score of 6, 13 or 15 depending on which letter the second blank replaces.
I should perhaps worded the question as "What is the maximum score..." |
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| referee |
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 2:32 pm Post subject: -12 |
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| Well, but then how do we know that the P, U, other Z, L, or E is not the second blank? |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:31 am Post subject: -13 |
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Thanks for all the kind comments.
I'll start question hunting, but in a leisurely way, and another olympiad will appear in due course...maybe before year-end. |
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| Scurra |
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 9:50 am Post subject: -14 |
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| Thanks for running it 3iff. It was a lot of fun. (I actually only knew 7 of the answers in the final round, but went for Lafayette and Sinatra as they seemed to be on the face of it the most ridiculous and Jay-Z as he was the least prominent artist mentioned.) |
I knew one of those, but got one of the other two guesses wrong. And I fell into the Scrabble trap...
Well done to everyone who took part and thanks for the fun quiz. |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 11:36 pm Post subject: -15 |
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Gongrats Duke
I do have to say this was well put together, thats for modding 3if! |
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| lexprod |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:54 pm Post subject: -16 |
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| Congrats Duke Gnome, and thanks for the fun 3iff! |
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| Suspence |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:00 pm Post subject: -17 |
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| Duke Gnome wrote: |
| I...went for...Jay-Z as he was the least prominent artist mentioned. |
I'm sure Jay-Z would beg to differ...
Congrats to Duke Gnome. Many thanks to 3iff for an extremely well-run game, I second everything Zag says about your superb trivia question-writing. |
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| jesternl |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:09 pm Post subject: -18 |
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| tahnks 3iff, that was fun! |
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| Sentran |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:48 pm Post subject: -19 |
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I'm very happy with second place!
Congrats to Duke Gnome, I'll get you next time! |
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| Quailman |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:42 pm Post subject: -20 |
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| Great job! If more than one person had been eliminated in Round 2, Duke Gnome would not have survived Round 4. |
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| Zag |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:37 pm Post subject: -21 |
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I would have gotten a 4 on that last round. Great job nailing that one, DG! Congrats!
Thanks very much for running the game, 3iff!
I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating: You have a great talent for making trivia quizzes. For almost all questions, you hit just the right level of trivia, where I can imagine myself knowing the fact even when I don't. (That is, they aren't so obscure that I can't even imagine knowing them.) And with many, you do a nice job of setting values such that a fairly knowledgeable person can eliminate one or two of the choices and be making a guess from a reduced set. I look forward to the next one, when your question list is built up again. |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:58 pm Post subject: -22 |
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Wow, what waas a little bit of a shocker....
*Runs to have a Congrats Duke Gnome banner* |
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| Duke Gnome |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:16 am Post subject: -23 |
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| Thanks for running it 3iff. It was a lot of fun. (I actually only knew 7 of the answers in the final round, but went for Lafayette and Sinatra as they seemed to be on the face of it the most ridiculous and Jay-Z as he was the least prominent artist mentioned.) |
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| MatthewV |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 8:23 am Post subject: -24 |
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| Personally, I think it is best to do well on the first round! |
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| Antrax |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 8:23 am Post subject: -25 |
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Thanks 3iff, I enjoyed it quite a bit. I got extremely lucky on round 2 when I think I guessed 8 questions in varying degrees of blindness (but never better than a 50-50 shot), I still can't figure out how it seems on some rounds I knew most of the answers and some I had absolutely no clue, when the topics were pretty consistent between rounds.
And congrats to DG for stealing the victory from Scurra! and of course to Scurra, for his consistently excellent performance |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:15 am Post subject: -26 |
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So ends the first Quiz Olympiad.
I hope everyone has enjoyed playing. I enjoyed it too although I seem to have used up all my question setting energy for a while. Thankyou for all the comments of appreciation.
It's been a pleasure to run this quiz as everyone plays it in such a good spirit and there's never any complaints about unfair questions. It is hard finding a balance for the difficulty of questions but I believe this format (multiple choice) offers an easy way to play the game and allows me to mark it fairly. Having separate rounds also stops any one player building up a big lead.
Once I get some time and build up my question list, there will be another olympiad.
Congratulations again to Duke Gnome. You now have a title to defend. |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:09 am Post subject: -27 |
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Olympiad Round 6 - Final round
1. Who had albums titles "The Blueprint" (2001) and "American Gangster" (2007)?
a. Eminem
b. Linkin Park
c. Jay-Z
d. Kanye West
e. R. Kelly
2. The wrote the "His Dark Materials" trilogy?
a. Terry Brooks
b. William Gibson
c. Alan Moore
d. Philip Pullman
3. Author L. Ron Hubbard. The L stands for what?
a. Lafayette
b. Lemuel
c. Leonard
d. Louis
4. What is the name of the paranoid android from the Hitchhikers guide to the universe?
a. Gort
b. Kryten
c. Marvin
d. Wall-E
Kryten is from "Red Dwarf", Gort from "The day the earth stood still"
5. What colour is the zero pocket on a roulette wheel?
a. Blue
b. Green
c. White
d. Yellow
6. What is a John Dory?
a. An Apple
b. A Fish
c. A piece of furniture
d. An unknown person
7. When Warner Brothers acquired the script for Dirty Harry (1971) they originally offered the part to which actor (who accepted the role before dropping out before filming started)?
a. Marlon Brando
b. Burt Lancaster
c. Steve McQueen
d. Frank Sinatra
All of these actors were offered the part at some stage. Sinatra took the job but various problems (including holding the large gun) caused him to drop out. Clint Eastwood eventually took the part...
8. Rickets is a disease that affects which part of the body?
a. Bones
b. Bowels
c. Ears
d. Nervous system
Rickets is softened bones due to a lack of vitamin D.
9. In Scrabble (English language tile set), if you were to play 6 tiles on an otherwise empty board to make the word PUZZLE on six non-bonus tiles, how many points would this score?
a. 16
b. 17
c. 24
d. 25
e. 26
A sneaky question. Although the move wouldn't be valid in the game (as we have to use the centre square at the start or join onto an existing word), the catch is that there's only one "Z" in the English language set. The second Z must be a blank, scoring zero for that letter.
10. What is a pashmina?
a. An Afghan woman
b. A member of the cat family
c. A rug
d. A woollen shawl
scores (average was a high 6.8)
1st: 10 Duke Gnome (if you're going to have a perfect score, the last round is the best time to have it)
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2nd: 8 Sentran
3rd: 7 Scurra, jesus_saves
5th: 6 MNOWAX
6th: 3 referee
And MNOWAX sheepishly takes down the"Congrats Scurra on winning another quiz tournament" banner and puts it away until the next quiz.
Congratulations to Duke Gnome and very well done to the other five players who made it this far. Thanks to everyone who joined in.
The one-shot round meant no matter how well you did the previous round, you would start fresh for the next round. That made the quiz less of a foregone conclusion. |
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| jesus_saves |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:38 am Post subject: -28 |
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| (Fixed the pronoun for you. --Zag) |
Thanks.  |
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| jesus_saves |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:37 am Post subject: -29 |
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| submitted; 7/10, which i m ok with. |
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| Zag |
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 2:03 am Post subject: -30 |
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| Isn't it rather tattered from overuse? |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:50 am Post subject: -31 |
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| *finds old "Congrats Scurra on winning another quiz tournament" banner and puts it up.* |
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| Quailman |
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:44 pm Post subject: -32 |
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| It's just as well that I'm gone. I'd have gotten the five that I knew and guessed wrong on all the others. |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:37 pm Post subject: -33 |
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Just waiting for Jesus_saves...she has until the Friday deadline but I'd appreciate an earlier reply if at all possible...
I'm sure someone is eager to claim victory.
(Fixed the pronoun for you. --Zag) |
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| Duke Gnome* |
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:58 pm Post subject: -34 |
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Alas I used up all my lucky guesses in previous rounds...  |
Whereas I got a bonanza:) |
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| referee |
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:01 pm Post subject: -35 |
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| Ouch, I definitely ran out of steam, but I'm glad I reached the final round. |
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| Antrax |
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:26 pm Post subject: -36 |
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| i know for sue about 6/10, the other four i guessed. |
Yeah, that's what I meant. I haven't bothered actually guessing, most likely 7 or 8 / 10 which is more than I'm worth  |
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| Scurra |
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:38 pm Post subject: -37 |
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Alas I used up all my lucky guesses in previous rounds...  |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:26 pm Post subject: -38 |
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| i know for sue about 6/10, the other four i guessed. |
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