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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)

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

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.

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

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.

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....."

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

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

Or you just knew those questions and answerws very well.

Because they are all repeated over time ?

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

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

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.

Going for speed now...

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.

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!

Holey Moley Theia!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

make them easier and I may play again :wah:

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.

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.

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.

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........ )

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

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.

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

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....

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

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

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.....

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

I think she should post photos of her buns.

How many musical questions in the history category!

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


Well, the musicals are very old :wah:

Congrats - a great score

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 ?

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:

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

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!

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.

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

I just wish I could read faster.

Some times a little dyslexic.

Reading's overrated.

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

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!