eckthearab Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 A middling 5 to finish the week. Relegated again [emoji24][emoji24][emoji24][emoji24] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 6/9 for me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Sorry I'm late, chaps. Not worth the wait, in all honesty. Five for Thursday, and a honking four for Friday. Bah. The East Swaringshire dressing room are thinking this cup tie is coming at the right time. Fast forward to a 10-0 hounding! Friday - 3, knew 1. Edit to add; I got the controversial question wrong so if everyone is getting an extra point then I'm up to 4.[emoji6] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 We chose to do the Aussie quiz so the convict ref is always right. No exceptions. People who knew the real world answer should have predicted that the Aussies would have got it wrong. They're probably doing the quiz half cut from an Earls Court doss house anyway. Agreed. Rule one - the question master is always right.Rule two - if the question master is wrong, see rule one.(No idea what I put, btw -not that it matters) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted March 30, 2017 Author Share Posted March 30, 2017 Aye, I think the consensus is that the Australian is right, even if they're wrong. Let's be honest, when we agreed to continue with the Convict Quiz (hat tip to Welshbairn), we have to abide by their silly questions and lackadaiscal checking of facts. And as I said, it's a bollocks question anyway ... who knows what mounds of rock each country lays claim to. No mention of mainlands in the question. So I'll go with option 1 which also means I don't have to sift through teams' posts deciphering whether they should get the extra point or not. AFJ won't be happy, but like Linfield - he should be happy with second place. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 If you google shortest distance between USA or Canada or India and Fiji they all come up with a starting point that is nowhere near the coast but well inland. Despite that it's my fourth 5/10 of the week with the Fiji one wrong. Knew Sunshine Coast, Egypt flag & Liberia. Guessed author and PMs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arabdownunder Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 5/10 Accept the referees decision then spend the entire weekend complaining about it. Its the PnB way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBo10 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 2/10 to nosedive towards the bottom. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotfree Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 A less windy 6/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotfree Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 14 hours ago, Jacksgranda said: If that's the sort of scores you get when you're distracted by a cyclone I wouldn't mind one battering my house... Instead of taking 10 mins to sit and mull over a question I didn't know, I just went "f**k it, that one will do". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 2/10 Knew 1 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkneil Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 5/10 for Thursday and Friday 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 3/10 to f**k the promotion charge. Hibsed it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeds Saint Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 5, even meh'er than yesterday 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee_62 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 8 hours ago, scotfree said: Instead of taking 10 mins to sit and mull over a question I didn't know, I just went "f**k it, that one will do". This is the category I fall into - On realising it's an Aussie question, my concentration goes and I seem to go into random select mode - As I pressed my answer on that sports question, I couldn't have told you what the other 3 options were or even what the full name of the team was. Likewise the political one. 30 seconds after seeing my score, I couldn't have even told you what my answers had been. I'm becoming more convinced that there's only about 20 Aussie questions, I just never read through them or pay enough attention to the answers to be able to learn from my mistakes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie S Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 (edited) Hadn't realised which question was contentious. No surprise that it was the distance one though. Got it wrong at the time and didn't think anything of it. Was just a guess. Can't remember what I put now. Calculating lengths of things and distances between things is frequently contentious. The most controversial question I can remember hearing at a quiz was 'In order, list the 10 countries of the world with the longest coastlines.' The first query from the floor was, 'Does that include dependencies, constituent countries and other territories?' The poor QM clearly wasn't sure and spluttered a nervous 'yes', but when the answers were revealed, Denmark wasn't in there. And of course, with the inclusion of Greenland, it should have been. Setting aside the fact that calculating the length of a coastline, any coastline, is a highly subjective business, an exercise in fractal geometry that would have tested Mandelbrot himself, it was clearly a duff question. It didn't help that the question was set to a field of top class quizzers including more than one Egghead and the (then) World Quiz Champion. And to compound everything, the round was a wipeout round, so if you got one wrong you got no points at all. So all the best teams crashed and burned and the teams who were clearly none the wiser after the 'dependent territories and constituent countries' clarification prospered. Who'd be a quiz setter? We went with the answer on the card then, even if it provoked much grumbling. The default rule is 'the question master is always right', even if he is patently wrong. Edited March 31, 2017 by Frankie S 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irvine_buddie Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 I've been doing this quiz for a few weeks now and seem to consistently get 4, a few 3s and a few 5s but usually bang on 4. Tend to know 2 and guess 2.. if I ever hit 6 I'll be delighted 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted March 31, 2017 Author Share Posted March 31, 2017 Just now, irvine_buddie said: I've been doing this quiz for a few weeks now and seem to consistently get 4, a few 3s and a few 5s but usually bang on 4. Tend to know 2 and guess 2.. if I ever hit 6 I'll be delighted That's about average for this quiz! You'd nestle yourself very comfortably in mid-table mediocrity position! If you want to post your scores for the week, I'll add you to the league. Eckthearab might even be able to squeeze you into the cup if you'd like! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 15 minutes ago, Cardinal Richelieu said: Eckthearab might even be able to squeeze you into the cup if you'd like! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleslie99 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 This must be the friendliest thread on P&B. There should be some sort of nobel prize for this! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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