FG Trivia

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:24 am

Weekly rotation :-

Sunday - Religion (what else)

Monday - Geography

Tuesday - History (including music from the shows and Australian colloquialisms)

Wednesday - Literature (the bias towards Stephen King is dying away now)

Thursday - Science and Technology

Friday - General Knowledge

Saturday - World Trivia (majoring on US Presidents)

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:38 am

Bryn Mawr;1363349 wrote: Weekly rotation :-

Sunday - Religion (what else)

Monday - Geography

Tuesday - History (including music from the shows and Australian colloquialisms)

Wednesday - Literature (the bias towards Stephen King is dying away now)

Thursday - Science and Technology

Friday - General Knowledge

Saturday - World Trivia (majoring on US Presidents)

Thanks!

Spot should add that bit to his sig so that I'm reminded what days to stay away from..lol

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:22 am

Bryn Mawr;1363349 wrote: Weekly rotation :-

Sunday - Religion (what else)

Monday - Geography

Tuesday - History (including music from the shows and Australian colloquialisms)

Wednesday - Literature (the bias towards Stephen King is dying away now)

Thursday - Science and Technology

Friday - General Knowledge

Saturday - World Trivia (majoring on US Presidents)

Yes, Wed. and Lit. are a pip-Stephen King, the Three Cycle of Whatever, and To Kill a Mockingbird is quite popular lately.

I still want to know the link with history and musicals-Gilbert and Sullivan, those songs I never know, but the 1950s musicals I do.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:55 am

chonsigirl;1363362 wrote: Yes, Wed. and Lit. are a pip-Stephen King, the Three Cycle of Whatever, and To Kill a Mockingbird is quite popular lately.

I still want to know the link with history and musicals-Gilbert and Sullivan, those songs I never know, but the 1950s musicals I do.

I remember Ros asking that question - I told her they were older than she is so it must be history. She was not impressed

Post by **spot** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:33 am

flopstock;1363345 wrote: Are the topics on a weekly rotation

To complete the answer - the questions are randomly set from within the day's topic every few minutes.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:31 am

Do we all get the same questions ?

It always tickles me when at number four or five or six, it says "An easy one to start with....."

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:22 pm

No, they are mixed up-some of us get the same one but you never know.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:05 am

So when you get 10 out of 10 they could be an easier selection, hardly seems fair ?

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:35 am

Or you just knew those questions and answerws very well.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:41 am

Because they are all repeated over time ?

I would fail to read the questions sometimes, in the time others have read and answered.

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:56 am

Bruv;1363472 wrote: Because they are all repeated over time ?

I would fail to read the questions sometimes, in the time others have read and answered.

Oh, I never get close to the time. I'm usually either on the phone or in and out of my office, running back and forth, do this in between...lol

Post by **spot** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 5:46 am

chonsigirl;1363470 wrote: Or you just knew those questions and answerws very well.

I think if you only see 10 questions on a given topic in a week, and there are several thousand questions being randomly selected for that topic and more added all the time, you're unlikely to know the answers to a significant proportion of them as a result of prior exposure within the quiz. Knowing them for other, presumably trivial, reasons, is what's being tested.

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:58 am

Going for speed now...

Post by **spot** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:50 am

If we carry a dozen or so players into August then the trivia competition will get quite healthy. It's a while since that number were in there.

theia · Post by **theia** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:06 pm

I briefly lost my internet connection this morning as I was just submitting my responses. I went back to it this afternoon and had to start again...it tells me my time is nearly 22,000 seconds!

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 5:22 pm

Holey Moley Theia!

Don't worry, it's done that to all of us at one time or another.................

Post by **spot** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 5:33 pm

You'd have won if the system hadn't glitched, too.

theia · Post by **theia** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 12:15 am

Yes I know...and I bet it doesn't happen again!

Post by **spot** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:26 am

For those who might like to try playing for a month, the scores were all reset this morning and it's a clean slate. The more the merrier.

Post by **spot** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:43 am

For those who might like to try playing for a month, the scores were all reset this morning and it's a clean slate. The more the merrier.

Today's topic is Science and Technology. The previous Today was yesterday.

theia · Post by **theia** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:45 am

not playing anymore...thought I'd done well and I scored 4

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:30 pm

theia;1377326 wrote: not playing anymore...thought I'd done well and I scored 4

On days like that you could well find four is a good score

Post by **spot** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:12 am

theia;1377326 wrote: not playing anymore...thought I'd done well and I scored 4

See, you got more today. Keep saying Coué's mantra - "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better", you'll be scoring tens next week.

Post by **spot** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:43 am

Chonsigirl ought to have won the month award, yesterday. She was ahead by a point at the end of February 28th which is pretty cut and dried but then we had the intercalated leap day and she slipped to second. It was as about close a result as it can get.

Off we go again and this is a general notice to all potential players so they can bookmark the playing site. The scores were all reset this morning and it's a clean slate. The more the merrier.

Today's topic is Science and Technology. The previous Today was yesterday.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:30 pm

make them easier and I may play again :wah:

Post by **spot** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:46 pm

Betty Boop;1386299 wrote: make them easier and I may play again :wah:

I'm by no means certain that I any longer know how to effect a change. I'll look. Meanwhile if you want to win March you need to start anyway.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:50 pm

spot;1386301 wrote: I'm by no means certain that I any longer know how to effect a change. I'll look. Meanwhile if you want to win March you need to start anyway.

I did.

Post by **spot** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:55 pm

Betty Boop;1386305 wrote: I did.

Good go, that. Start as you mean to go on &c. If you keep going like that you'll come first.

And where's Nomad when you want him.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:48 pm

No taking advantage of a few days absence on my part.

So leap day did me in last month.

Well, one big flying leap in TKD did my knee in, it is being fixed tomorrow. See you on the flip side of surgery.

I wonder if pain killers will affect my score........

)

theia · Post by **theia** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:06 pm

chonsigirl;1388174 wrote: No taking advantage of a few days absence on my part.

So leap day did me in last month.

Well, one big flying leap in TKD did my knee in, it is being fixed tomorrow. See you on the flip side of surgery.

I wonder if pain killers will affect my score........

)

Wishing you well soon, chonsi, and sending you lots of love :-4

Post by **spot** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:34 pm

chonsigirl;1388174 wrote: No taking advantage of a few days absence on my part.

So leap day did me in last month.

Well, one big flying leap in TKD did my knee in, it is being fixed tomorrow. See you on the flip side of surgery.

I wonder if pain killers will affect my score........

)

It did, didn't it - you went into leap day a point ahead.

Surgery on knees is one of those potential events I'd be terrified of but that's just me and my phobias - perhaps I trapped a nerve once too often there as a child. I hope you come back improved. As for the trivia you've been pulling back steadily all week and I can't fend you off much longer.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:22 am

chonsigirl;1388174 wrote: No taking advantage of a few days absence on my part.

So leap day did me in last month.

Well, one big flying leap in TKD did my knee in, it is being fixed tomorrow. See you on the flip side of surgery.

I wonder if pain killers will affect my score........

)

If you take your laptop you could take your mind off the work the surgeon is doing - probably wouldn't do much for your score that day but...

Hope the surgery goes well

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:37 am

It went well, lot of repair work. He will tell me what he did Monday, I just know I went in with meniscus and ACL stuff, but something else came up before I went in. (probably because they let me walk on it for 4 months, the original doctor didn't believe I had more than a sprain.....duh!) Only missed one day with Trivia....

Post by **spot** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:56 am

I'm glad it's not upset your sense of priorities at least.

Screwed-up knees are a blight, I hope you're mended.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:34 pm

LOL Yes, priorities, trivia first, then a check on how the sub fared yesterday.

The knee is fixed, I will stay off it at least a week or so. The sub will be busy all next week while I sit back and eat chocolate bons bons and read books.....

Post by **Betty Boop** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:36 pm

Hope you make a good and speedy recovery Chonsi :-4

Post by **spot** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:37 pm

I think she should post photos of her buns.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:59 pm

How many musical questions in the history category!

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:16 pm

chonsigirl;1392135 wrote: How many musical questions in the history category!

Well, the musicals are very old :wah:

Congrats - a great score

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:25 pm

chonsigirl;1392135 wrote: How many musical questions in the history category!

Don't start me off............I want to know who sets these questions, and why there is one near the end that says 'Lets start with an easy one' or randomly ' While we are in the Algarve '

And how some people can finish ALL the questions in silly seconds when I can't even read them in double that time ?

Post by **Betty Boop** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:16 pm

Bruv;1392142 wrote: Don't start me off............I want to know who sets these questions, and why there is one near the end that says 'Lets start with an easy one' or randomly ' While we are in the Algarve '

And how some people can finish ALL the questions in silly seconds when I can't even read them in double that time ?

I'm right there with you, takes me ages sometimes to read the question, needn't bother half the time as it's just a wild guess for the answer :wah:

theia · Post by **theia** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:24 pm

Betty Boop;1392149 wrote: I'm right there with you, takes me ages sometimes to read the question, needn't bother half the time as it's just a wild guess for the answer :wah:

Yes, I scored 10 once and 5 were pure guesses

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:50 am

6. Which President banned broccoli from the White House?

Your Answer: Richard M. Nixon

The correct answer was George Bush.I should have known

9. Which of the following does not apply to Ulysses S. Grant?

Your Answer: He was once arrested for speeding in a carraige as president.Honestly!

Post by **spot** » Tue May 01, 2012 6:35 am

I concede there are occasional odd questions nobody in their right mind would know the answer to but even so.

Today's the first of the month, if anyone else would like to pile in and compete.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue May 01, 2012 12:51 pm

spot;1392633 wrote: I concede there are occasional odd questions nobody in their right mind would know the answer to but even so.

Today's the first of the month, if anyone else would like to pile in and compete.

You leave my pile out of this - I'll compete despite them :p

Post by **LarsMac** » Tue May 01, 2012 3:49 pm

I just wish I could read faster.

Some times a little dyslexic.

Post by **spot** » Wed May 02, 2012 2:43 am

Reading's overrated.

Post by **LarsMac** » Wed May 02, 2012 6:09 am

perhaps, but I have yet to figure how to grasp the meaning of the questions without it.

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Wed May 02, 2012 6:39 am

I'd like to make a motion to hereby exclude all literature written before

1990 from the quizzes, would anyone like to second that e-motion?

Can I get an eye?

Ah, man!