Honesty Quiz - June

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Honesty Quiz - June 2010 - Astronomy Free

No research is allowed after seeing the questions. They must be answered solely with the information currently in your head.
No internet, books or consulting other people...or 'accidentally' seeing information.
One point per correct answer with no penalty for incorrect or unanswered questions. If you don't know an answer, it's worth guessing. I will accept ONLY your first answer list (send to me via PM). Spelling accuracy is not required for person names. You may freely use pen, paper and simple (non-programmable) calculators.

No entry = no points.

Answers provided when entries close. Quizzes usually last for about 3 weeks until entries dry up. I shall warn players a few days before I provide answers.

Questions are below


1. Who wrote the novel "Little Women"?

2. Where would you find a lunula?

3. January 1st 2010 fell on a Friday. When will January 1st next fall on a Monday?

4. What is the volume of a square based pyramid of base length 4 units and height 3 units?

5. In heraldry, what colour is "Gules"?

6. In the board game Diplomacy, you have a single army in Vienna. Assuming no other pieces on the board, how many other supply centres can this army reach in 2 moves? You don't have to list the supply centres but you can if you wish.

7. Which film stars the character Roger "Verbal" Kint?

8. Scurvy is a disease caused by the deficiency of what?

9. What is an apiarist?

10. The White Nile and Blue Nile meet at which city?




Good Luck.

[jesternl]

this is going to be nowhere near the scores I had before

[Internet Stranger]

I already nailed this thing, you all might as well give up.
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[Termital]

/sent, though I would count question 3 as breaking the "astronomy free" declaration.
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[PuzzleScot]

Ugh! (Perhaps falsely) confident of 3/10. Yukkity Yukkity Yukkity Yuk!

[Zag]

Really? I found this to be the easiest one, yet. I was confidant of 6 (well, 5 and a half) when I sent it in. And it turns out I got one ridiculously lucky guess.

[jesternl]

Ha.. I thought this was the toughest one...

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Final call for entries.

Answers already received from:
Quailman
Zag
Scurra
Internet Stranger
Groxa528
Termital
Jesternl
Puzzlescot
Dragon Phoenix
Jaguar

Answers will appear Friday (if I'm not too busy that day...) or soon after.

[lexprod]

/sent
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Honesty Quiz - June 2010 - Astronomy Free

Answers...13 entries this time.

1. Who wrote the novel "Little Women"?
Louisa May Alcott. (7/13)
Best answer by far was "Jane Eyre"....a fictional character.

2. Where would you find a lunula?
It's the white crescent at the base of a fingernail. I allowed any reference to "the body" as a correct answer. (8/13)

3. January 1st 2010 fell on a Friday. When will January 1st next fall on a Monday?
The next Monday Jan 1st will be 2018 (9/13)
Some players were confused by the leap years.

4. What is the volume of a square based pyramid of base length 4 units and height 3 units?
The formula is B*B*H/3. This gives us 4*4*3/3 for 16 cubic units. (6/13)

5. In heraldry, what colour is "Gules"?
Red. Favourite answer was "Lions". A tip: Always read the question. (3/13)

6. In the board game Diplomacy, you have a single army in Vienna. Assuming no other pieces on the board, how many other supply centres can this army reach in 2 moves? You don't have to list the supply centres but you can if you wish.
7. Mun, Tri, Ven, Bud, Rum, Ser, War. If you've never played the game then you're not going to get it right...except Jesternl had a wild guess and did get it right. (3/13)

7. Which film stars the character Roger "Verbal" Kint?
The Usual Suspects...character played by Kevin Spacey. (5/13)

8. Scurvy is a disease caused by the deficiency of what?
Vitamin C or Ascorbic acid. (12/13)

9. What is an apiarist?
A beekeeper. (9/13)

10. The White Nile and Blue Nile meet at which city?
Khartoum in Sudan ((4/13). Cairo was a popular but incorrect answer.

May points (A wide range of scores this time)

9 Scurra
8 Groza528
7 Zag
6 Quailman, Internet Stranger, Termital, Jaguar
5 Jesternl, Dragon Phoenix
4 Puzzlescot
3 Lexprod
2 Jennifer
1 Undercover Monk


Overall scores after 6 rounds (number is total entries submitted)

51 Scurra (6)
39 Puzzlescot (6)
35 Jesternl (6)
31 Zag (5)
29 Groza528 (4)
27 Quailman (5)
27 Internet Stranger (4)
25 Referee (4)
24 Lepton (5)
21 Duke Gnome(4)
21 Jaguar (4)
17 Courk (4)
14 Undercover Monk (4)
13 Termital (2)
6 Lexprod (2)
5 Dragon Phoenix (1)
2 Jennifer (1)

Another great performance from Scurra while Puzzlescot slips up with just 4 this month.

Considering average scores for performance, Scurra is way ahead on 8.5 per entry, followed by Groza528, Internet Stranger, Puzzlescot and Termital.

[referee]

I missed the call this time, sorry. Probably wouldn't get more than 4 or 5.
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[Undercover Monk]

How did I miss the Usual Suspect I just re-watched that a couple months ago. Aghhhhh!
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[Scurra]

Well, I got lucky with a couple of guesses this time (esp. the "lunula" one!)
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[Zag]

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[jesternl]

I totally gambled on Luluna too, with the same reasoning as mentioned before,.. I even went with hand.

I'm beginning to think that Scurra might actually be an alias of Ken Jennings!

[Scurra]

I did get barred from playing Trivial Pursuit et al at college.
But, just so you know (for anyone playing the Perfect 10 game ) I am generally not hot at sport or "popular" music. Although sometimes I do surprise myself by what I discover I can actually remember!

(The other one I lucked out on was the pyramid one. I had a vague recollection that there was a "divide by 3" bit in that formula so gambled on the answer.)
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[Zag]

[3iff]

I'm a Brit too...so I know nothing about US sports...

In any case, I'm trying to avoid strong US or UK based questions as they are unfair to the 'other' side and the few non US/UK players.

I have included quite a few maths questions but I don't think Scurra has had too much of a problem with them!

Let's see how you like the July questions...coming soon.

[Zag]

I was kidding, you do realize. I wouldn't want you to try to gear the questions specifically to help or hurt any one player.

[Quailman]

bah! 6 correct was more than most on this round, but again I had stupid answers.

I'm the guy who missed the scurvy question, because it was so simple I didn't think about it and put D instead of C. And for the January 1, I misread the question to say this year's 1/1 was a Monday, so I worked from there. All that work for naught.

At least I guessed right on Gules.

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[Termital]

5: Due to RPG DM research of yore, I recalled sanguine as red, so I guessed "skin"; alas, sanguine is a red stain (not a tincture) . Skin is apparently "carnation" .
7: I was sure I din't know this one; I forced a guess for completeness' sake. I came up with "the usual suspects", and it suddenly felt right. High of the round .
8: 3iff's submission reply mentioned he had to look up my answer of ascorbic acid, which kinda me. For me, the scurvy/ascorbic etymological connection is clear; then again, pronunciation in my native tongue is a lot closer.
10: I really really wanted to answer Ohmdurman for this one, but that would have been one transliteration too many to risk. I would have gone with Bahri (the city on the remaining side of the river junction), if only I actually remembered it.
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