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Well after the success of our past chat room quizes, i thought it would be good if we had a proper quiz league rather than just chat room one offs
To this end I have added a
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The section will log all results, and due to the nature of internet based quizes we will have timed quizes as well (to prevent the googling etc of answers)
The quiz league section is all setup so you can see it in operation and been beta tested by the mods
There is a lateral thinking quiz called Brainteaser for you to test out (Be warned its a toughie)
Once you have had a play around I will need a quizmaster to take on the mantle of responsibility for it and to get questions for an ongoing competition through the year. (Its easy to add the questions to the quiz for the quizmaster as it can be done as simply as uploading a spreadsheet to the quiz module)
So go ahead and
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For a real stinker of a quiz try the King William school on the Isle of Man.
It is published in the Guardian
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My chum and I do it every Christmas after lunch we usually average 20-30 answers.
______________________________________________________________ Greetings from Birkenhead, the birthplace of Scouts
24th.January 1908
Centenary Exhibition at Wirral Museum Closing June after half-term
Admission free
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Well Bigfoot, . . I have to admit that I understood only a few of the questions posed and answered only 4 ! . . back to [secondary modern] school for me
As to the MHF quiz . . I got a better result but not 100%
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For a real stinker of a quiz try the King William school on the Isle of Man.
It is published in the Guardian
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My chum and I do it every Christmas after lunch we usually average 20-30 answers.
That is a stinker
Is it the one they let them sit 'blind' then let them do it again having 'cheated' by researching the answers. If so once, after researching I got all but two right, my score before 'cheating' was about 20 and it took me two days to get that many
PS after doing this one I seem to have knocked nuke off the top of the leader board (unless he's tried it for the third time) say is there a smilie for smirk?
______________________________________________________________ Regards Frank
Get behind early - it gives you more time to catch up.
Denn wir haben nichts in die Welt gebracht; darum offenbar ist, wir werden auch nichts hinausbringen.
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Well Bigfoot, . . I have to admit that I understood only a few of the questions posed and answered only 4 ! . . back to [secondary modern] school for me
As to the MHF quiz . . I got a better result but not 100%
We only succeed because we are p******/sorry tired and emotional.
The KWS quizes are like a crossword, the setter this year appears to be a Classics and English scholar.Once sussed you get into their mindset.
TRY THIS ONE!!! You will be surprised when I follow up in another posting.
What brand of underpants does
Richards LJ normally wear?
What international organisations
began:
(a) following a camp on
Brownsea Island?
(b) with the arrest of two
Portuguese students?
(c) after a battle near Solferino?
(d) in Jacob’s Pharmacy, Atlanta?
Connect hotel bedrooms, prisons,
theatres in England and Wales, and
non-Welsh tobacconists’ shops.
Who supply (respectively) the Queen’s
coffee, Prince Philip’s hats, Prince
Charles’s homeopathic remedies and
the royal family’s newspapers?
Dunkirk, Luxembourg, Paris, Liège,
Fromentine, Strasbourg, London, ...
where next?
Whose law asserts that:
(a) current out equals current in?
(b) word frequency is inversely
proportional to rank?
(c) computing power doubles every
18 months?
(d) it always takes longer than
you expect?
Which world championships take
place in Ashton (Northants), in
Egremont (Cumbria), in Marshwood
(Dorset), in Tinsley Green (Sussex)
and in Willaston (Cheshire)?
Which mythical creatures are
combinations of:
(a) woman and fish?
(b) eagle and lion?
(c) lion, goat and dragon?
(d) snake, cock and dragon?
(e) fox, greyhound, lion, wolf and eagle?
It is often claimed that ‘orange’ is the
only common English word that has
no rhyme, but this is not true. Give
at least five other common English
words that have no rhyme.
(a) How many English kings since
1300 were not previously Prince
of Wales?
(b) And how many Princes of Wales
never became King?
Excluding purely instrumental
numbers, there are at least six British
number-one hit songs whose titles do
not appear in their lyrics. Identify as
many as you can.
‘If you want a cathedral we’ve got one
to spare in my Liverpool home’ ... but
where else in the UK?
Identify and connect Frome’s fastest
driver, the omniscient Master of
Balliol, Lucan’s best-known character,
one who painted Monet painting, a
teenager pardoned 40 years after his
execution, the C-in-C when B-P was
in Mafeking, UCL’s first Professor of
Jurisprudence, a musical toper with
no money but four claps, an American
visitor at Rummidge University, and
a sea captain whose mate was old
and bold.
______________________________________________________________ Greetings from Birkenhead, the birthplace of Scouts
24th.January 1908
Centenary Exhibition at Wirral Museum Closing June after half-term
Admission free
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Re this quiz question, "is it legal for a man to marry his widows sister?"
Well in my view yes because he could have married the sister before he married the lady who later became his widow ie after the widows sister died or he divorced her.
Also you spelt temperature wrong which confused me but I had to plump for it anyway as nothing else made sense.
Vidura
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"Everybody knows everything - know what I mean?"
Me
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On a small point of order I don't appear in the top ten although I got 18 right on my first attempt and have the email to prove it.
Some more coding to do perhaps
and isn't it a bit silly to let people have more than one go someone has got it to 100% in less than 60 secs it takes longer to read the questions than that.
also the timing seems to start before you actually see the first question.
______________________________________________________________ Regards Frank
Get behind early - it gives you more time to catch up.
Denn wir haben nichts in die Welt gebracht; darum offenbar ist, wir werden auch nichts hinausbringen.
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but those questions are rubbish