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Re: Guess the Answer: Canadian version
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April 24, 2020, 11:34:42 AM »
Quote from: TightEnd on April 24, 2020, 11:11:23 AM
very tough but in
are you Canadian sir?
Hi Tighty - yes, well, 50% of my blood but 100% of my birthplace. But England’s been my home for a long long time now.
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April 24, 2020, 11:35:55 AM »
Quote from: Ironside on April 24, 2020, 11:31:14 AM
I have locked in bottom spot I could be out by million on all 10 answers including the shirt number
Don’t worry, Iron. Celtic’s made a strong play for bottom spot 🙂
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April 26, 2020, 07:23:52 PM »
Okay folks, I have 8 entries so far:
Scotty2hatty
celtic
arb
Cf
Karabiner
nirvana
Ironside
Tighty
Thank you for your entries.
Maybe I misjudged the interest in a quiz of this nature. It's a little more specialist than the others, but there's nothing at stake, so no harm done to enter for the fun of it.
Anyway, I propose to close entries at 4pm tomorrow (no point flogging a dead moose) and do a reveal from 6pm
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April 27, 2020, 04:58:25 PM »
So with Doobs sending his entry earlier in the day we now have a field of 9. I just want to say at this stage that I failed to judge the difficulty of several of the questions, and as previously mentioned, I didn't think through the impact of the ranges of answers. Having said that, I don't think the overall table would have changed that much.
But in any event, thank you to those that entered for having a swing at this!
Karabiner
Cf
arbboy
celtic
scotty
nirvana
Ironside
Tighty
Doobs
Stay tuned....
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April 27, 2020, 05:17:10 PM »
My daughter's just reminded me that it's Fish & Chips & pool night tonight, so I'm going to put out the answer to Q1 in order to get ahead of the reveal - and also to iron out any problems formatting.
He wanted his hero's (Gordie Howe, a legendary player with the Detroit Redwings) shirt no 9, but it wasn't available at Edmonton, so he doubled up to a 99. Here was me thinking that everyone would know this.
Player - Guess - (score)
Karabiner 77 (22)
Cf 11 (88)
arbboy 81 (18)
celtic 50 (49)
scotty 25 (74)
nirvana 37 (62)
Ironside 50 (49)
Tighty 99 (0)
Doobs 50 (49)
Of course it would be Tighty that knew
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April 27, 2020, 06:06:45 PM »
Q2. Gretzky's Regular Season Career Assists: definitely a very tricky question if you didn't realise that there are 82 games per season before the playoffs. Amazingly, for a slim, 13 stone silky player, Gretzky was hardly injured for the main part of his earlier career. So, 20 seasons of 82 games per season, allowing for 10% injury rate, that's 1500 games...
Just for a little more context for the sheer magnitude of his achievement, he's the ONLY player to score more than 200 points (scoring and assists) in a regular season - and he's done it 4 times in his career. Once you know all this, you won't be surprised to learn that he scored
1,963 career assists
Karabiner 660 (1303)
Cf 200 (1763)
arbboy 415 (1518)
celtic 354 (1609)
scotty 600 (1363)
nirvana 900 (1063)
Ironside 2000 (37)
Tighty 2500 (537)
Doobs 75 (1888)
I think that one or two of you didn't realise that it was Gretky's
Total Career
(regular season only - he had all sorts more in the playoffs) assists I was asking for?
Table after 2 Questions:
Ironside 86
Tighty 537
nirvana 1125
Karabiner 1325
scotty 1437
arbboy 1536
celtic 1658
Cf 1851
Doobs 1937
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Re: Guess the Answer: Canadian version
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April 27, 2020, 06:13:16 PM »
Quote from: 4KSuited on April 27, 2020, 06:06:45 PM
Q2. Gretzky's Regular Season Career Assists: definitely a very tricky question if you didn't realise that there are 82 games per season before the playoffs. Amazingly, for a slim, 13 stone silky player, Gretzky was hardly injured for the main part of his earlier career. So, 20 seasons of 82 games per season, allowing for 10% injury rate, that's 1500 games...
Just for a little more context for the sheer magnitude of his achievement, he's the ONLY player to score more than 200 points (scoring and assists) in a regular season - and he's done it 4 times in his career. Once you know all this, you won't be surprised to learn that he scored
1,963 career assists
Karabiner 660 (1303)
Cf 200 (1763)
arbboy 415 (1518)
celtic 354 (1609)
scotty 600 (1363)
nirvana 900 (1063)
Ironside 2000 (37)
Tighty 2500 (537)
Doobs 75 (1888)
I think that one or two of you didn't realise that it was Gretky's
Total Career
(regular season only - he had all sorts more in the playoffs) assists I was asking for?
Table after 2 Questions:
Ironside 86
Tighty 537
nirvana 1125
Karabiner 1325
scotty 1437
arbboy 1536
celtic 1658
Cf 1851
Doobs 1937
get in there
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Re: Guess the Answer: Canadian version
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April 27, 2020, 06:17:17 PM »
Q3. The brief predecessor to the NHL was the National Hockey Association, which was founded in 1909. That didn't work out and so the
National Hockey League was formed in 1917
- there were only 4 teams, all Canadian and hence the adjective National. The first US team was Boston, joining in 1924.
Karabiner 1920 (3)
Cf 1900 (17)
arbboy 1965 (48)
celtic 1906 (11)
scotty 1960 (43)
nirvana 1971 (54)
Ironside 1920 (3)
Tighty 1910 (7)
Doobs 1980 (63)
Table after 3 Questions: Ironside knows his NHL
Ironside 89
Tighty 544
nirvana 1179
Karabiner 1328
scotty 1480
arbboy 1584
celtic 1669
Cf 1868
Doobs 2000
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April 27, 2020, 06:20:50 PM »
Quote from: 4KSuited on April 27, 2020, 06:17:17 PM
Q3. The brief predecessor to the NHL was the National Hockey Association, which was founded in 1909. That didn't work out and so the
National Hockey League was formed in 1917
- there were only 4 teams, all Canadian and hence the adjective National. The first US team was Boston, joining in 1924.
Karabiner 1920 (3)
Cf 1900 (17)
arbboy 1965 (48)
celtic 1906 (11)
scotty 1960 (43)
nirvana 1971 (54)
Ironside 1920 (3)
Tighty 1910 (7)
Doobs 1980 (63)
Table after 3 Questions: Ironside knows his NHL
Ironside 89
Tighty 544
nirvana 1179
Karabiner 1328
scotty 1480
arbboy 1584
celtic 1669
Cf 1868
Doobs 2000
Vague Knowledge thanks to my old man who played for the pirates and still wore his boots when he was teaching my nephews to stake
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Re: Guess the Answer: Canadian version
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April 27, 2020, 06:32:12 PM »
Q4. Another very swingy question. Bit of a trick question, as it's easy to forget the Yukon/Alaska border, which adds another 2300 miles to the main border. So, in total, the
Canada-USA border measures 5525 miles
(next longest is China-Mongolia at 4677)
Karabiner 2400 (3125)
Cf 5000 (525)
arbboy 3650 (1875)
celtic 873 (4652)
scotty 5000 (525)
nirvana 2200 (3325)
Ironside 3000 (2525)
Tighty 5000 (525)
Doobs 3555 (1970)
celtic makes his bid for bottom spot...
Table after 4 Questions:
Tighty 1069
scotty 2005
Cf 2392
Ironside 2614
arbboy 3459
Doobs 3970
Karabiner 4453
nirvana 4504
celtic 6321
...and Tighty finds his way to top spot, as Ironside has a wobble
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April 27, 2020, 06:38:34 PM »
ffs
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April 27, 2020, 06:43:28 PM »
Celtic amazingly consistent whatever the subject. Very impressive
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April 27, 2020, 06:46:15 PM »
I seem to be reverting to my mean
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April 27, 2020, 06:48:44 PM »
i think i might end up close to bottom now
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April 27, 2020, 08:03:56 PM »
Q5. Unsurprisingly, Canada's population is growing relatively quickly. It was c25m when I lived there, but it's up to 35,151,728 as at the 2016 census. The answers have all been adjusted to Millions on advice:
Karabiner 50 (15)
Cf 10 (25)
arbboy 30 (0)
celtic 18 (17)
scotty 50 (15)
nirvana 40 (5)
Ironside 40 (5)
Tighty 35 (0)
Doobs 7 (28)
Cf didn't submit an answer, so rather than max points I put a 10m
Table after 4 Questions:
Tighty 1069
scotty 2020
Cf 2417
Ironside 2619
arbboy 3459
Doobs 3998
Karabiner 4468
nirvana 4509
celtic 6338
With the adjustment, this question was never going to change much. Bullseyes for arb and Tighty
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