Frankie S
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8/10. Got the book and the obligatory Aussie sport question wrong. The TV show was a guess, have never watched it. Knew the other 7. -
For the quiz addicts amongst us, here's a bonus 10 question multiple choice quiz from Olav Bjortomt, the guy who writes The Times quiz. 8/10 for me (missed Qs 2 and 5 - nature, like Aussie sport, a perennial weakness of mine). Guessed the French fashion house. Quiz
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That's better. Knew 6, the tennis one was a process of elimination, was fairly confident on Central American capitals and the iconic entertainer was a guess. As is now traditional, got the Aussie sport question wrong. 9/10.
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Knew 5 (flag, novel, song, BASIC and cricket), scored 5. Total guessometer failure.
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7/10. Knew 5 (Armistice Lines, Steve McQueen film, Turks & Caicos, Azerbaijan/Turkmenistan and clothing questions), guessed cake and golfer.
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Bit of a guessathon today. Only knew 4 (sculptor, railway, pop song and internal organ), but landed three guesses for a fortunate 7/10.
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7/10. Got an Aussie-related sport question right at last - the golfer who won the US Open in 2006. Got the NZ deputy PM, Aussie netball team and Banjo Paterson poem wrong.
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Yeah, The Times quiz is tough. Got 7/15 today, which is the best I've done for a while. I'm normally in the 4-6 range. It's set by Olav Bjortomt, who is a former World Quiz Champion, and it's meant to be difficult. I don't really mind that, as I always learn one or two new things from it that might be useful further down the line, and while tending towards the obscure at times, there are always a few nuggets of interest in there. I acknowledge it is pitched at the 'serious quizzer' though. My issue with the Aussie quiz is that, given a relatively limited amount of time in each day to devote to quizzing, there is a hard limit to the number of 'so what?' questions that I can justify giving attention to. I know little or nothing about the Australian sports franchises Cronulla Sharks or Collingwood Magpies, but don't really consider this to be a gap in my knowledge worth addressing. Being bombarded with half a dozen questions every week in which one of the options is either Cronulla Sharks or Collingwood Magpies seems like overkill. Agree that multiple choice quizzes are the best format for this though.
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Six to a team, including reserve. Five appear on the show. Would be a bit unfair to cut the player who hung around all day and didn't get on the show out of a share. Know a few of the Eggheads fairly well - all are of unimpeachable character, CJ excluded. Mind you, you wouldn't need to bribe him to beat him, he's just not that good.
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Yeah, if you call winning £166.66 (a sixth share of a grand) on Eggheads and the occasional bottle of wine or case of beer in a pub quiz 'professional', I guess.
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That was brutal. 6/10. Far too many Aussie-specific questions, all four of which I got wrong. Rather bizarrely, Druk Yul came up in a pub quiz I did tonight. Semi-educated guess (which are the only kind I can land ATM) on Donatello. Knew the other 4. Miss the Guardian quiz. Shame The Times daily quiz is behind a paywall.
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9/10. Knew 8. Landed a guess on the musical. Sport continues to let me down.
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The Queen of the South thread
Frankie S replied to qos_75's topic in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
I suspect Rusty1111 is a self-replicating nanobot. A popular scare story, passed round by experts in artificial intelligence, is that we are approaching a technological singularity, and that super-intelligent machines will soon take over from humans. In one example of this story, a machine, that has been instructed to maximise the manufacture of paperclips, attains superintelligence, and realises that the most efficient means to attain its goal is to dismantle the Earth, and eventually most of the observable universe, and convert the raw materials into paperclips. The paperclip-making machine doesn't realise it's doing anything wrong, it just does what a maximally-efficient paperclip-making machine would do, given the chance. Rusty1111 has already clogged up all QOS-related threads and, labouring under the bizarre delusion that all posts are addressed to him personally and must be answered, the odds are that he poses an exponentially-expanding existential threat to P&B as a whole. It's entirely possible that a future interstellar traveller might alight upon our particular corner of the universe and discover nothing but a black hole of excruciatingly inane digital platitudes dedicated to the unknown entity 'Queen of the South.' -
Scored 7, knew 7. Can't buy a guess. Got the two Aussie questions (don't think I've ever got an Aussie sport question right) and the geological period wrong.
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7. Knew 6 and guessed the Vivian Solon one. No idea on the Aussie sport question, as usual, or the ecchymosis and transit of Venus ones.
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The Queen of the South thread
Frankie S replied to qos_75's topic in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
Not sure why the club needs a Football Development Manager, whose role 'oversees all footballing aspects of the club'? That implies that he oversees the first team (as well as the Under 20s, Under 17s etc) and therefore circumscribes the manager's role from day one. It's inevitable that the manager and a FDM with such a wide remit are going to come into conflict from time to time. Skelton chooses his words cautiously, but the quote 'they've been there at the club a long time and will be there a long time' sounds like the words of a man resigned to his fate. Clearly he wanted to appoint his own assistant and recruit one or two new players, but didn't get the support he was looking for. It's glaringly obvious from this that there was more to Skelton's departure than 'personal reasons.' I have no idea why the board believes that it needs an FDM, it sounds like needless job creation to me, but that role should be limited to the age group squads below the first team. The manager is the one who will lose his job if results aren't up to expectations, so he should be given full control over first team matters, and the freedom to appoint his own assistant. -
7/10 for me for Friday. Got Carolyn Jones, semibreve and Supercars questions wrong. Common denominator on this week's quizzes - I'm crap at sport, Aussie sport particularly.
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Ok, just caught up with the quizzes from earlier in the week. Mon 21st 8 Tues 22nd 8 Wed 23rd 6
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Thanks Cardinal. Already do two online quiz leagues daily (2020 and Learned League) and sometimes it's tough to find time for those two. Will try to have a go at this daily from now on though. I'll give the quizzes from earlier in the week a shot later.
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Not done this for a while. 7/10. Knew the ones I got right. Random guesses on NRL anthem singer, Asian country and 2016 hit song failed to pay off.
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Max Ernst - The Fireside Angel, 1937
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Gustave Courbet - Self-portrait (The Desperate Man), c. 1843-45
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James McNeill Whistler - Nocturne in Black and Gold - The Falling Rocket, c. 1875
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Joseph Wright of Derby - An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768
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John William Waterhouse - The Lady of Shallott, 1888
