FG Trivia

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 1:18 pm

Bryn Mawr;1337304 wrote: Question, how does domestic violence come under the remit of Science and Technology?

A deserving subject it may be but two questions on it? As Science?

I agree. I had a couple on scientific equations that I think would stump a college student majoring in Science unless he had just studied it. I've given up trying to figure any rhyme or reason to the quizzes.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 1:29 pm

ZAP;1337311 wrote: I agree. I had a couple on scientific equations that I think would stump a college student majoring in Science unless he had just studied it. I've given up trying to figure any rhyme or reason to the quizzes.

Bring 'em on - rather that than questions about the American domestic violence support service and a film about domestic violence :wah:

Whatever next? They'll be filling the History section with questions about musicals next :yh_rotfl

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:01 pm

Bryn Mawr;1337314 wrote: Bring 'em on - rather that than questions about the American domestic violence support service and a film about domestic violence :wah:

Whatever next? They'll be filling the History section with questions about musicals next :yh_rotfl

Oh, I've had those already, haven't you? :wah:

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:32 pm

ZAP;1337316 wrote: Oh, I've had those already, haven't you? :wah:

By the thousand - History is Bunk!

Post by **spot** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:39 pm

Bryn Mawr;1337304 wrote: Question, how does domestic violence come under the remit of Science and Technology?

A deserving subject it may be but two questions on it? As Science?

I puzzled in similar vein a couple of days back when the BBC headlined a story "Indian language is new to science". Science, I thought? Westerners perhaps, but I've never thought of descriptive linguistics as a science.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:03 pm

spot;1337331 wrote: I puzzled in similar vein a couple of days back when the BBC headlined a story "Indian language is new to science". Science, I thought? Westerners perhaps, but I've never thought of descriptive linguistics as a science.

Que? The analysis of language families and the drift of language on a temporal or geographical basis has long been in the realms of science.

Post by **spot** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:15 pm

Bryn Mawr;1337339 wrote: Que? The analysis of language families and the drift of language on a temporal or geographical basis has long been in the realms of science.

In much the way sociology is.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:20 pm

spot;1337342 wrote: In much the way sociology is.

Having seen an in depth analysis of the population movements throughout the Indonesian archipelago covering the past 10,000 years based on the language differences of the native tribes I'd have to disagree with that assessment.

Post by **spot** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 8:42 pm

We're down to a mere six players today? That's not good. Dive in, people, it's more fun with a bigger list.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 10:52 am

Oh, come on everyone-the trivia quiz is quite blend of who knows what some days! I had food questions today, in religion.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 12:27 pm

I take the weekends off as I being on the bottom 5 days a week is enough.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:58 pm

chonsigirl;1338056 wrote: Oh, come on everyone-the trivia quiz is quite blend of who knows what some days! I had food questions today, in religion.

I have a wonderful food question for the religion section :-

Why did the British choose to waterproof rounds of ammunition in the Indian Army with a mixture of beef and pork fat?

To offend the Muslims

To offend the Hindus

To offend everyone

Pure incompetence

Seriously, Kosher and Halal would keep an army of quizzers in questions for months

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 6:40 pm

Bryn Mawr;1338317 wrote: I have a wonderful food question for the religion section :-

Why did the British choose to waterproof rounds of ammunition in the Indian Army with a mixture of beef and pork fat?

To offend the Muslims

To offend the Hindus

To offend everyone

Pure incompetence

Answer: E. All of the above.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 1:09 pm

I wonder if you can play trivia on a cell phone....anyone tried it?

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:54 pm

chonsigirl;1338423 wrote: I wonder if you can play trivia on a cell phone....anyone tried it?

You mean, you don't just talk on your 'phone?

Admittedly, mine will text as well but ... trivia, no chance.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:29 pm

i tried it on my IPHONE you can do it no problem just have to nimble with the fingers.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:12 pm

Oh, I hate to be 3-4 days without trivia.

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:58 pm

chonsigirl;1338469 wrote: Oh, I hate to be 3-4 days without trivia.

I'll have my laptop, Chonsi. you may borrow if you give me some answers.

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 9:12 am

For some reason I couldn't log in last night.?????Oh well, probably would've gotten a big fat zero.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 4:52 pm

I'm back..................I should have gone up and used your laptop Zap, I will be 3 or 4 days behind this month.:wah:

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 11:07 am

Oh no! I skimmed over the answers and didn't see the dot in an abbreviation! ACK!1

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:30 pm

I wish to complain! In my quiz today there were two questions labeled: Humanities, Art By Museum, Famous Paintings in London's Tate Museum. I got both wrong. I had never heard of the artists nor the paintings. I'm not complaining about that, but the fact that there were two questions about this particular museum and in the History quiz. That doesn't seem like a random pick of questions.

Post by **spot** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 2:26 pm

Oh go on Zap, most of the Famous Paintings of the World are in London's Tate Museum! It's well massive.

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:28 am

spot;1342142 wrote: Oh go on Zap, most of the Famous Paintings of the World are in London's Tate Museum! It's well massive.

Oh, to be sure, The Tate is massive with some of the most important art in the world. I'm just grumbling because I didn't recognize the artists or their work. (And probably because I didn't have a chance to visit the gallery when I was in London last summer.) My questioning the choices did accomplish one positive thing by making me curious about the other quizzes. I just finished taking the quiz on "Scandalous Art". Very interesting.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:31 pm

I got a "10" today imagine that cause to celebrate. :yh_party:yh_party

Post by **spot** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:25 am

They're few and far between Carla - well done!

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 7:28 am

True I'm usually at the bottom of the group.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:33 pm

The start of another month and the start of another quiz :-6

The start of a new quiz, fairly reasonably, coincides with the end of the old one and as I've long been suspicious of the points system they use it also means the end of an experiment.

Given that they calculate a perfectly good score, I thought to myself, why not use that for the ranking instead of converting it into points - you can have an equal score and end up a point behind or your score can be hundreds lower but you get equal points.

So, for the last month I've been keeping tabs on the scores rather than the points and, lo and behold - no difference. (one player changed position in the lower order).

Looking in more detail there was a wide variation in the price of a point but all the way through the month the ranking was the same either way.

Ho hum, back to playing the quiz for fun - any takers

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:20 pm

That must, I think, be the longest run so far of different winners - six days and counting.

Post by **spot** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:26 am

Would anyone like a switch from the current daily question packs?

We could, for example, move several days to Movies, Sports Baseball, Sports General and Music. Or we could leave it as it is.

Here's the current selection...

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Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 12:21 pm

spot;1353839 wrote: Would anyone like a switch from the current daily question packs?

We could, for example, move several days to Movies, Sports Baseball, Sports General and Music. Or we could leave it as it is.

Here's the current selection...

It's a reasonable selection now I think. The only one I'd change would be World Trivia - preferrably to one that was about the World.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:12 pm

Are you saying the World Trivia is not about The World ?

I am amazed how some of the questions get under the headings they are, History often has musical and literature questions.

I am waiting for the person that sets the Quiz to ask us their favourite meal or uncle

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:16 pm

I do worse on the ones I'm sure of then the ones I guess on.

Post by **spot** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:17 pm

flopstock;1353875 wrote: I do worse on the ones I'm sure of then the ones I guess on.

Moderating in a nutshell, that.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:23 pm

Bruv;1353874 wrote: Are you saying the World Trivia is not about The World ?

I am amazed how some of the questions get under the headings they are, History often has musical and literature questions.

I am waiting for the person that sets the Quiz to ask us their favourite meal or uncle

It is time to fight back - add questions to the pool with a European slant.

Questions about British Prime Ministers rather than interminable questions about the minutiae of Presidential history.

Questions about European universities rather than obscure American Colleges.

Questions about European coinage rather than who designed the obverse of the Nickle issued in Ohio.

Questions about the flags of Europe rather than those of American states.

Are you with me :wah: :yh_rotfl

Post by **spot** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:58 am

I was restricted to 7/10 this morning. These were the unplayable questions, each of which I guessed wrong. You'll note they're all completely US-centric.

What is the name of the actress who played Mrs. Brigance in 'A Time To Kill'?

Which President was born in New Hampshire?

Which one of these professional football players is not a quarterback?

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:46 am

So.....does that mean we are all getting different questions, because I had none of those questions.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:13 am

spot;1362943 wrote: I was restricted to 7/10 this morning. These were the unplayable questions, each of which I guessed wrong. You'll note they're all completely US-centric.

What is the name of the actress who played Mrs. Brigance in 'A Time To Kill'?

Which President was born in New Hampshire?

Which one of these professional football players is not a quarterback?

It is a built in bias. I wondered whether the excessive number of US centric questions was because most of the people submitting questions were from the US so I tried taking US specific questions, translating them into UK equivalents and submitting them for consideration and out of twelve submitted only four were accepted.

Given that these were direct translations, e.g. Which President was born in New Hampshire becomes which Prime Minister was born in Lancashire or which general won the battle of Gettysburg becomes which general won the battle of Culloden I'd say 1:3 is a definite level of bias.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:03 am

spot;1353839 wrote: Would anyone like a switch from the current daily question packs?

We could, for example, move several days to Movies, Sports Baseball, Sports General and Music. Or we could leave it as it is.

Here's the current selection...

let's re-move sports baseball and add animals.

Post by **spot** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:40 am

Odie;1362950 wrote: let's re-move sports baseball and add animals.

We don't have sports baseball, Odie.

Is there an animals category? I'm not sure I've seen it.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:04 am

spot;1362962 wrote: We don't have sports baseball, Odie.

Is there an animals category? I'm not sure I've seen it.

There is - and some odd questions to be found in it too - maybe we should replace the US Trivia on Saturdays?

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:52 am

Bryn Mawr;1362969 wrote: There is - and some odd questions to be found in it too - maybe we should replace the US Trivia on Saturdays?

US? yes please let's cancel that one.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 4:46 am

any further results come in yet?

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:46 am

Joseph1958;1363255 wrote: I :-4 trivia!

Look at spots signature. It has a link to the trivia game.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:15 am

flopstock;1363258 wrote: Look at spots signature. It has a link to the trivia game.

thanks Floppy!

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:31 am

Oh, I missed trivia when I was gone................

Post by **spot** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:56 am

We noticed! A window of opportunity opened to become highest scorer.

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:40 am

I got 3 out of ten today without reading the answers. Are the topics on a weekly rotation or just randomly selected?

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:20 am

New questions are added, the pot stirred. The most unique category is history with its musical questions........