Honesty Quiz - October

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Honesty Quiz - October 2010 - Theme 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.

This month, the questions do not have a theme.




Q1. Discovered in 1799, what became the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphics?

Q2. What is a saltire?

Q3. Which artist produced works entitled "Belvedere", "Another World" and "Relativity" amongst others?

Q4. What are the chances of rolling exactly 10 with 3 normal 6 sided dice?

Q5. What are the three colours found on the Italian flag?

Q6. What is the largest body to be found in the asteroid belt? (It's approx 950km/590miles in diameter)

Q7. What is a nightjar?

Q8. In the NATO phonetic alphabet, where A is Alpha, B Bravo, C Charlie, which word is used to signify U?

Q9. The films "Blade Runner" and "Alien" were both directed by which person?

Q10. What is the capital of Chile?




Good Luck.

[jesternl]

I think I did OK... now off to check my answers.

yup, not too bad indeed.

[Internet Stranger]

Im awesome.
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[3iff]

I'm thinking of finishing the quiz in December with a picture quiz...10 self-contained pictures/questions.

So how do I get the pictures to contestants? I don't have a web area where I can store them and due to the fact that I'm going to have to edit some of them I won't be able to use existing internet pictures. Also sending you to an existing website to see a picture is likely to give away the answer.

Advice appreciated.

[Jaguar]

Host them on Imageshack or something of the like. Then just provide links to the pictures if you don't want to show the actual picture.

[referee]

That's more like it. At last we're back to Terra Firma.
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Last call for entries..12 so far

Entries from: Mole, Scurra, Duke Gnome, ralphmerridew, Internet Stranger, Sentran, Jaguar, Jesternl, Zag, Groza528, Termital, Referee

Of the regulars, Puzzlescot and Quailman are missing.

Quiz will close at the end of next week...(22nd October)

[Zag]

Oh, I meant to respond to 3iff's earlier question about the pictures.

If imageshack isn't working for you, I'd be glad to host them on zag.net for you.

Also, I highly recommend the free Photoshop-like tool Paint.net, which is at getpaint.net, in spite of its name. I have, so far, only found one thing that I wanted but couldn't figure out how to do, and I suspect that it was user inadequacy, not the program's.

(I wanted to take an existing image and change its background color to be transparent. It has an easy color-change tool, but it wasn't handling the fringes of the object, where there were a range of colors that faded from the image color to the background color. I wanted them to change to be fading from the image color to transparent, but it didn't do that.)

[3iff]

Zag,

Thanks for the offer...I think that might be easier for me...wasn't keen on imageshack. This will probaby be a one-off and I hate registering for things as they seem to insist on all sorts of personal info (which I fake anyway).

I use an oldish version of paintshop-pro which does most of the things I want to do. I'll check out that program anyway.

I've had that same problem with changing the background colour and having fringing issues...In my PSPro there is a facility to affect 'nearby' colours (those close to the base colour) but it's generally something I don't need to do. Perhaps I might be able to try?

Ok, I'll start preparing my picture questions. Any limits on size, format, Kb? PM me if it's easier.

[Zag]

[Termital]

Regarding image hosting, I am very happy with photobucket. Their policy actually encourages embedding in other sites, such as in a forum post here. They do require registering, but far as I recall (joined about a decade ago), they play nice with you and your (fake) info. And once I had the option available, I found that I make use of it a few times a year.

I wonder if I ran afoul of a Bayesian filter just now .
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[Nsof]

glpics?
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Honesty Quiz - October 2010 - Theme free - Answers

15 entries this month. A notable absence was Puzzlescot...spoiling his 100% entry record.
Numbers in brackets indicated the number of correct answers.


Q1. Discovered in 1799, what became the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta Stone (15). A rare 100% success rate

Q2. What is a saltire?
It's a diagonal cross (Like an "X"). Look at a scottish flag. (5)

Q3. Which artist produced works entitled "Belvedere", "Another World" and "Relativity" amongst others?
M.C.Escher (9). Dali was a popular answer

Q4. What are the chances of rolling exactly 10 with 3 normal 6 sided dice?
There are 27 chances from the 216 combinations. That's 1 in 8 or 12.5%. Any of those answers were acceptable (12)

Q5. What are the three colours found on the Italian flag?
Green, White and Red (13).

Q6. What is the largest body to be found in the asteroid belt? (It's approx 950km/590miles in diameter)
Ceres (8)

Q7. What is a nightjar?
A bird (7). Many guesses suggested a chamber pot...

Q8. In the NATO phonetic alphabet, where A is Alpha, B Bravo, C Charlie, which word is used to signify U?
Uniform (13)

Q9. The films "Blade Runner" and "Alien" were both directed by which person?
Ridley Scott (13)

Q10. What is the capital of Chile?
Santiago (9).

Generally an easy set of questions, producing an average score of 7.1

October Points

10 Scurra (his second maximum score)
9 ralphmerridew, Referee
8 Duke Gnome, Internet Stranger, Groza528
7 Mole, Jaguar, Jesternl, Termital, Quailman
6 Zag, Undercover Monk
4 Trojan Horse
3 Sentran

Total score

86 Scurra (seemingly cannot be caught)
58 Jesternl
57 Puzzlescot
56 Groza528
56 Internet Stranger
51 Zag
48 Duke Gnome
48 Quailman
46 Jaguar
44 Referee
39 Termital
29 Lepton
27 Undercover Monk
17 Courk
16 Mole
16 ralphmerridew
12 Trojan Horse
8 Sentran


Best 6

56 Scurra
49 Internet Stranger
46 Groza528
44 Jesternl
42 Puzzlescot
41 Duke Gnome
40 Referee
39 Jaguar
38 Zag
36 Quailman
39 Termital
29 Lepton
26 Undercover Monk
16 Mole (2 entries)
16 ralphmerridew (2 entries)
12 Trojan Horse (2 entries)
11 Dragon Phoenix (2 entries)
8 Sentran (3 entries)

[Quailman]

Bah! I blanked on Ridley Scott, but knew that Nightjars, aka Goatsuckers, include Nighthawks, Chuck-Will's-Widow, and Whippoorwills. They're primarily nocturnal.

And Escher would have been my second guess after Dali.

[Scurra]

Defintely not looking forward to a "picture" round,
Can we have ten mathematics questions instead?
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[groza528]

The obvious compromise is geometry.

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[Zag]

While math and/or geometry would certainly help my score (and pictures is likely to be a disaster for me), you should make the quiz you want to make. Don't let Scurra push you around. (He could get a zero and everyone else a 10 and he would still be in the lead.)

[3iff]

[PuzzleScot]

[3iff]

Ah, Puzzlescot finally appears. I guessed there was something diverting his attention.

Entry accepted. 7 out of 10.

Updated scores

Total
86 Scurra - Champion
64 Puzzlescot
58 Jesternl
56 Groza528

Best 6
56 Scurra
49 Internet Stranger
46 Groza528
44 Jesternl
43 Puzzlescot
41 Duke Gnome

[PuzzleScot]

Thanks I'll make sure I don't miss any more, not that Scurra can be beat!
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[3iff]

Not a problem. It looked like you wanted a 100% entry record and I'm happy to accommodate it.

[Amb]

So, is my entry not counted because I needed to be in from the start?

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