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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.

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

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:

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


By the thousand - History is Bunk!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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.

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

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

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


Moderating in a nutshell, that.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

any further results come in yet?

Joseph1958;1363255 wrote: I :-4 trivia!


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

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


thanks Floppy!

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

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

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

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