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thischarmingman
15/11/2008, 3:20 AM
**** it, done by a retard's question! :mad:
Which number has an eerie conection with the Twin Towers attack.
I figured it was going to be 9 or 11. :D
What I didn't know was there was 11 people on one plane, 65 on the other (6+5, wooooooo), and the flags flew at half mast until the 22nd (2 11s, woooooooo!)
(BTW, there was 11 crew on that plane, 81 passengers. Why not 8+1=9 woooooooo! Or why not 92, as the 65 on the other plane was passengers AND crew)
Jesus is there no quality control with the questions in this thing??!!
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I enjoyed that rant. Thoroughly.
Sorry.
These "spooky" occurrences drive me cracked anyway.
When sh!t like that is in a quiz and it costs me a perfect 10...
Feel better now though. Unless there's more today! :D
Not a rant, but FFS how could 4 of 10 literature questions be about Stephen King? And I wasn't the only one to get a pile of them by the look of it.
This, and the situation mentioned above, is what happens when you let the public get involved in anything! :p :D
Just as well I used to read his stuff. Missed a Dark Tower one (never read those), but got Cujo, Dreamcatcher and Needful Things. Oh, and missed the one Shakespeare one in the ten. :o
Magicme
17/11/2008, 9:59 AM
I got my shakespeare right but havent a clue on Stephen King as have never read any of his books and only have seen The Shawshank Redemption. Am too much of a softie for King!
stann
17/11/2008, 10:05 AM
Me too.
My parents made me read a pile of his books years ago.
Didn't work.
;)
I was getting worried when greeted with the first six red x's...
pineapple stu
17/11/2008, 11:23 AM
What important number do Percy Shelly and Sylvia someone or other have in common?
30. They both died age 30. Except for Percy, who was almost 30.
Like, wtf?!
oldyouth
24/11/2008, 12:29 PM
Time for a bump
pineapple stu
24/11/2008, 3:22 PM
Just thinking - as it's a foot.ie forum quiz, any chance of a football/sport round one of the days?
World: UK is up in a bit. :D
Hitman
01/12/2008, 10:10 AM
Congratulations Stann.
stann
01/12/2008, 12:24 PM
Ta Hitman, good battle!
oldyouth
01/12/2008, 12:28 PM
Well done Stann. A long way back to 3rd:o
superfrank
07/12/2008, 1:28 PM
Probably the strangest question yet:
10. All that frolicking in fountains and running around on mountains has taken its toll. Maria caught a cold, and it swiftly passed to the Captain and then through all the Von Trapp children. So, for the moment, the hills are alive with the sound of...?
Your Answer: Mucus
sligoman
11/12/2008, 5:13 PM
Father Dougal McGuire and Mrs Doyle served in which show?
'Father Ted'
'The Vicar of Dibley'
'Bless Me Father'
'Oh Brother'
:o, on a British channel alright but British, it was not.
HarpoJoyce
11/12/2008, 5:22 PM
Father Dougal McGuire and Mrs Doyle served in which show?
'Father Ted'
'The Vicar of Dibley'
'Bless Me Father'
'Oh Brother'
:o, on a British channel alright but British, it was not.
You're not getting on my table quiz team!
superfrank
11/12/2008, 5:35 PM
:o, on a British channel alright but British, it was not.
Well, technically the show was produced in the UK on a UK channel with UK companies. They were all Irish writers but they'd lived in the UK for a while.
Sorry Sligoman, it was made by Hat Trick, who do quite a few shows including Have I Got News For You, Room 101, and the new Armstrong & Miller - I think Rory McGrath is involved with them btw.
Also, pretty much all the inside scenes were filmed in England.
I think it can genuinely be claimed by both countries, as nobody can argue that it's not Irish, but yet when Linehan & Matthews went to the UK to get it made you could hardly argue that it's not British either.
As another btw, I think as well that that's a load of crap about RTE turning it down first.
passinginterest
19/12/2008, 10:05 AM
First 10 I've got this month after a run of 5's and 6's and I'm only 3rd out of 5 :(
pineapple stu
19/12/2008, 11:22 AM
Also on the Father Ted thing, the quiz was about British culture, not British-made stuff necessarily. So I got a question on Star Trek because Star Trek is popular in Britain, not because it's British.
superfrank
26/12/2008, 11:59 AM
Bump.
Anyone else for getting the categories changed again?
Battery Rover
30/12/2008, 10:00 AM
Bump.
Anyone else for getting the categories changed again?
Yeah would agree to that.
oldyouth
30/12/2008, 12:42 PM
If they're not changed we had better start reading everything Stephen King ever wrote
Hitman
01/01/2009, 1:44 PM
Congratulations again Stann. I may just copy and paste that on the first of every month now.
(bump)
European questions were much more difficult than usual. EU has only expanded 5 times? Thought it was 6 in a rush :o
Cheers Hitman.
Don't know about that. Long way to go yet this month. :)
Hitman
08/01/2009, 5:59 PM
I'm beginning to think you deliberately score less on the days with fewer players just to tease me without letting me gain points on you. Which I suppose suggests that you're winning the mind games too. Sob.
That's too complicated for me! :D
Nah, nothing so calculating, just got very, very lucky. Really thought I'd lost a pile of ground specially 'cos World:UK is normally my favourite one, but I got a load of bridges and stately homes and none of the 70s and 80s TV shows this time. Blessed to somehow stay in the top 10.
passinginterest
16/01/2009, 11:45 AM
Can't be letting this slip off the first page.
New topics might be interesting.
thischarmingman
19/01/2009, 11:50 PM
Changed topics! :)
Sunday: Movies 2 : Intermediate
Monday: General Knowledge 4 : Harder
Tuesday: People 2 : More Difficult
Wednesday: Celebrities : More Difficult
Thursday: Music 2 : Intermediate
Friday: FunTrivia Mix
Saturday: Religion : Bible Trivia
TheBoss
19/01/2009, 11:53 PM
About time :D
Saturday: Religion : Bible Trivia
:eek:
pineapple stu
20/01/2009, 9:58 AM
Agree.
Far more suitable for the Sunday quiz.
I disagree. :p
At a disadvantage now 'cos will probably end up boycotting the Bible trivia on a point of principle. :D
And Celebrities? Worse, American celebrities?? Here we go again with alum this, freshman that and sophomore the other. Gah!!!
Magicme
29/01/2009, 9:01 AM
bumpity bump bump bump
TheBoss
29/01/2009, 1:36 PM
I seem to be still bad despite the topic changes :D
Hitman
04/02/2009, 10:06 AM
Congratulations again Stann. I may just copy and paste that on the first of every month now.
Sorry for the delay this month.
tiktok
04/02/2009, 10:12 AM
At a disadvantage now 'cos will probably end up boycotting the Bible trivia on a point of principle. :D
Good...I might be in with a chance on those days so :D
Battery Rover
04/02/2009, 4:10 PM
Good...I might be in with a chance on those days so :D
Have you been reading the gossip magazines getting 10 on celebrities:D
Should I be pleased at momentarily being top or ashamed at the particular topic...:o
HarpoJoyce
05/02/2009, 4:25 AM
10. "I've never agreed with psychiatry, ever. Before I was a Scientologist, I never agreed with psychiatry. Here's the problem. You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do."
A. Tom Cruise
B. John Travolta
C. Tom Hanks
D. John Cleese
I am sorry but that's fifty/fifty right there.
Mission Impossible and I was right. TC correct answer.
tiktok
05/02/2009, 7:13 AM
Have you been reading the gossip magazines getting 10 on celebrities:D
I was impressed that I knew Aaron Carter was from Miami alright. :D
I only realised yesterday that you don't get the same questions as everybody else, someone had 6 questions on someone from survivor, I obviously got the easy ones yesterday.
thischarmingman
05/02/2009, 9:51 AM
I was impressed that I knew Aaron Carter was from Miami alright. :D
I only realised yesterday that you don't get the same questions as everybody else, someone had 6 questions on someone from survivor, I obviously got the easy ones yesterday.
I can set it to the same questions for everyone. It's automatically set to slightly different ones to prevent multiple accounts and cheating but I don't really think that would be much of an issue to be honest. ;)
gustavo
05/02/2009, 10:54 AM
I can set it to the same questions for everyone. It's automatically set to slightly different ones to prevent multiple accounts and cheating but I don't really think that would be much of an issue to be honest. ;)
I think that would be a decent idea , We're all honest people here :cool:
oldyouth
05/02/2009, 9:42 PM
If you're turning it in to an honest quiz, I ain't playin' :D
Who is Alyson Michalka? In which parallel universe is she a celebrity?
Denied my first zero by knowing Steven Spielberg's children's names :(
Hitman
14/02/2009, 1:39 PM
Q1. Whom did God tell to build an ark?
Q2. Whom did God order to build an ark?
These bible questions are really tricky.
oldyouth
15/02/2009, 11:45 AM
Q1. Whom did God tell to build an ark?
Q2. Whom did God order to build an ark?
These bible questions are really tricky.
I got the first one right, but the other one had me stumped
pineapple stu
15/02/2009, 4:05 PM
Are we all getting the same questions now, yeah?
(I didn't play on Saturday, so that post isn't a clue!)
rambler14
15/02/2009, 5:32 PM
Q1. Whom did God tell to build an ark?
Q2. Whom did God order to build an ark?
Q1: Noah
Q2: Ikea
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