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Reverse Sheep Game:

Saw this on 2+2 last night, figured it would probably work on Blonde too as the Blonde Quiz was quite popular.

The goal for the participants is to try and think of an answer that they believe no one else will know/submit.

Rules

Here's the deal.

There are 11 questions, if you want in PM me your answers for them to me by Sunday Feb 22nd 8pm, each answer on a different line please.

Your score for each question is number of people who give the same correct answer. So you want to go for answers that you think will be less commonly given. Levelling commonly happens. The answer most commonly given is called the sheep, with the corresponding sheep score.

You are not allowed to do research such as Google searches to come up with answers. Just read the questions, wrack your brain, think ‘what would Andrew T do’ etc… These aren’t meant to be impossible questions the skill isn’t in thinking of an answer, it’s in thinking up an uncommon answer

If you give an incorrect answer, you will receive the sheep score + one half the number of distinct answers given, rounded up.

You MUST pass on one question and score a 0 for that question.

Any questions post in this thread (or PM), but don’t post your answers obv. I’ll do a reveal thread sometime Monday if we get a few participants, if no one enters then meh, it passed sometime at work.

Anyway to the questions:

Name a multiple WSOP bracelet winner (WSOPE bracelets do not count)

Name a hotel on the Las Vegas strip

Name a movie with ‘Vegas’ in the title

Name a recurring Simpsons character, whose surname is not Simpson.

Name a prime minister of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, anyone from 1720 to the present day counts.

Name a country whose flag is red and white (no other colours)

Name one of the 15 best selling works of fiction (novels) in history. Religious texts don't count, plays don't count, compilations of poetry don't count.

Name a suffix of a professional English football team who play in the Premier League, Championship, League One, or Two. FYI Rangers as in Queens Park Rangers doesn’t count

Name a standard chess piece

Name one of the top 20 websites (traffic), according to alexa.com

Name a city that has hosted the modern Summer Olympics (1896 onwards). However this city must not be the capital of its country e.g London doesn’t count.

[  ] I understand the rules
[  ] I especially understand the sheep bit
[X] I'll play anyway

WTF NO SHEEP BAAAA

Good idea.  Will send my answers over in a tick.

k, think I've done it right. I got 11 answers anyway

Done, 10 and a PASS for me...

Yeah you did it right  :)up

Sent.

+1 I just hope everyone doesn't have the same idea as me as going for the obvious in the hope everyone else will try to be obscure ;D

2nd level thinking imo

5th level ftw


I'll be sending a PM with answers when I work out what the 5th level is. :D

A couple of people who've sent me anwsers haven't passed on any questions. Even though all questions are answerable, it's in the rules for this that you must use a pass. In some other versions of the game (one with tougher questions) then there's a points bonus for not passing, but not in this game.

This doesn't make sense - here you've said you can use a pass, you might as well use a pass and then you must use a pass.

Would it be better to reword that as:

You MUST pass on one question and score a 0 for that question.

???

Probably! Have ammended OP

sent, with pass

sent, with pass, cheers.

Sent!

This

[  ] I know what suffix means

Sigh

http://tinyurl.com/cdm4fa

it's like a broken crucifix

sent

Afix,stem of a word or sum shit like that WTF you having a giggle with me ?

lolol, maybe you should use your pass for that question

Blatant anti-Superhoop discrimination IMO.

FML as I already used it on the previous question

[  ] I can remember whether fiction is true or not,i think it's not ?
[  ] I can name one of the top 15 history books
[  ] I'm kidding

you never heard of spot goes to the farm?

I think I just actually pmsl. cheers mond

I've sent mine.

Although the Olympics one I could only think of one answer, let alone decide which would be the least likely. Possibly not a good sign.

PM sent - not sure why though as i'm sure my attempt was

BBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAd

(should get me -5 points as well :))

Sent mine. Be interesting to see what the sheep answers are - I suspect I'll have at least 3 or 4 :).

Not sure I understand, but sent anyway.

You're too tall to understand.

that'd explain it

Matt and I are having a proper old disagreement over what constitues a 'suffix' for the footy team question.  Now normally I'd just post on blonde to get clarification (to prove that I am right, obv), but I can't until at least Monday!

I'm guessing there might be some debate on this one.  Surely, it's any word(s) that are placed after the place name.  Such as Academicals after Hamilton.

sent, gg

that's what I think.  it's when the place name forms the whole team name but it has more than two words (eg whether York would count if a team was called, simply, New York) that is the subject of our debate.

please, please be a level

I wish it were - Charlton fans, eh?!

behave woman

OK - fmp

lol, much better

Northerners >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Southerners

FACT

Has to be.  How is York suffixed onto the name of a place to make the name of a team?  New York YANKEES would work, but please.  Must be a level.

I'm sure this is true in your mind, after all you did tell me you thought grimsby was down south

LOL

 ;popcorn;

baa

Am collating the anwsers now, expect the reveal to start around 9ish

an hour after the walsall comp starts :( means i wont be back to see it at least 20 minutes after you post

fyp

Reverse Sheep Reveal:

The Players:

TheChipPrince
Gatso
Kinboshi
Claw75
RobertHM
Wardonkey
Rod Paradise
Mondatoo
Cdw1111
JonMW
ItsMrAlex2u
Matt674
Rupert
Rex008
SiloGraham
Dousche
Suzanne
bobAlike

The Questions:
Name a multiple WSOP bracelet winner (WSOPE bracelets do not count)

Name a hotel on the Las Vegas strip

Name a movie with ‘Vegas’ in the title

Name a recurring Simpsons character, whose surname is not Simpson.

Name a prime minister of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, anyone from 1720 to the present day counts.

Name a country whose flag is red and white (no other colours)

Name one of the 15 best selling works of fiction (novels) in history. Religious texts don't count, plays don't count, compilations of poetry don't count.

Name a suffix of a professional English football team who play in the Premier League, Championship, League One, or Two. FYI Rangers as in Queens Park Rangers doesn’t count

Name a standard chess piece

Name one of the top 20 websites (traffic), according to alexa.com

Name a city that has hosted the modern Summer Olympics (1896 onwards). However this city must not be the capital of its country e.g London doesn’t count.

;popcorn;

Name a multiple WSOP bracelet winner (WSOPE bracelets do not count)

A sheep and an ace...

What does the ace mean?

I understand the game even less now you've started on the answers

did I win?

looking forward to seeing the 'incorrect' answers given to the suffix question ;D

i'm even more confused than when it started

if ive worked it out correctly i didnt enter any answers and am therefore odds on to win?

presume the pics are just added bit of fun - first one is a sheep answer, 2nd one was unique...maybe

I'd be surprised it there was only one unique answer, especially to that one.

LOL - my answer is unique

[ ] I read the first question properly

Allen Cunnigham 4 points – Robert HM, Mondatoo, Rex008, Silo Graham

Paul Eskimo Clark 2 points - JonMW, Matt674

Eric Seidel 2 points – ItsMrAlex2u, Rupert

Aces:

Mike Matusow – The ChipPrince

Layne Flack – Gatso

Johnny Chan – Claw75

Scott Fischmann – Wardonkey

John Juanda – Dousche

Doyle Brunson – Suzanne

Phil Ivey – BobAlike

Pass - 0

Rod Paradise, CDW1111

Incorrect - 9 points

Mary Jones Meyer – Kinboshi (she has just the one bracelet)

Notable unused anwsers:

Daniel Negreanu
Phil Hellmuth
Stu Ungar

wooo. ace is good right? like in tennis

Ah That's the kind of breakdown of answer I can appreciate.





oh and ffs Matt.

yes - i think it's just an example of each

Name a hotel on the Las Vegas Strip:

One of each again...

another game with a mangled scoring sytstem

i wouldve smacked this game if i had played, where are all the laterall thinkers? everyones gone for the least obvious answer and come up with the same thing, was a certainty hellmuth would get 0, he'd of been my choice.

but then i'm great and pretty much the best at everyhting i do so i cant really expect you lot to live up to me.

lol - i'm not sure which one of us should be more worried!! :D

3 points:
Bellagio– Claw75, RobertHM, Suzanne

Mirage - TheChipPrince, Rex008, SiloGraham
 
2 points:

Luxor – RodParadise, Dousche

Aces:

Mandalay Bay – Gatso

MGM Grand – Kinboshi

Stratosphere – Wardonkey

Casino Royale – JonMW(1)

The Hilton – ItsMrAlex2u

Treasure Island – Matt674

Circus Circus – Rupert

Wynn - BobAlike

Incorrect (9 points)

Imperial Hotel – Mondatoo (should be Imperial Palace i feel this might be a bit harsh but IDK?)

Hooters – CDW111 - Not on the strip

will there be disqualifications? I distinctly remember reading a 'no googling' rule. there's no way 2 of you came up with that eskimo bloke that I've never heard of without googling

there is always the possibility that they are sad poker geeks ;D

[ ] an enforceable rule

ha ha - well I've gone quite deep in a WSOP event with him - that's my evidence for non-googling ;D

EDIT: and evidence for non poker geekery

Yeah ace is good. I'll post a running total in a little while but my dinner is ready so will be back in about 20 minutes.

Two things:

Keep track of your own score, i may well make an error
Challenges are welcome, i (read wikipedia/imdb etc) may get things wrong

he's an honourary monkey!!!

he has more hair than most of us!!! :D

not to be picky (ok, i do want to be picky) but the hilton isn't on the strip

obv you didn't cheat, honour of the cowboy code and all that but you can't trust a damn monkey

how many points for an ace? zero or one?

I've walked from the Hilton to the Strip - I have to agree with Claw, there's no way you can count it as on a Strip hotel

because you could?

hilton grand vacations is on the strip but guess that's not the same as the hilton


so predictable yet so, so, so funny

I think you could have probably taken this for granted :D

Sigh at the hotel question lololololololololololololololololololololololololololol

hehehehe giggling here

The Hilton is on the strip monorail as a stop, that makes it a strip hotel IMO

Hilton Grand Vacations Club® on the Las Vegas Strip
2650 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States 89109

The defence rests

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hilton+las+vegas

First results suggest otherwise (although others agree with the defence).  I guess it's similar to London Stanstead...

The Monorail is the Las Vegas Monorail not the Strip Monorail

And the Hilton Grand Vacations Club is not The Hilton

Hilton grand vacations club is not the hilton hotel!

[ ] same hotel as lv hilton

^^^ lol at us sheep!

FFS are we really taking it this serious christ

Well, you obviously weren't...

http://www.all-hotels.com/usa/nevada/las_vegas/las_vegas_strip_3.htm

Half way down.

Quiz master called it, good enough for me !

I think it needs to go to the video ref...

Too bl00dy right

Competitiveness?

On a poker forum?

Who'd have thought?

that's all the game needed, controversy and confusion

clicked on your link, scrolled down to the hilton, clicked on 'more' to read about it, read the following

Meanwhile, his Lordship has buggered off for some nosh.

ffs dino, step in and take order!!!!!

this is the best game we've ever played. can we play every week please

and someone tell me how many points I get for an ace. do I get to choose if it's 1 or 11 like in blackjack?

Dont you know the golden rule of quizing, first answer must be taken and dino called it.

Move along, nothing to see here.

(http://www.pcap.com/et-map-strip.jpg)

number 10 on Paradise Road is The Hilton

Compare and contrast this location to the actual Strip

from a "strip hotels website"

FFS I am going to waste my thousandth post arguing about strip hoetls if i am not careful !

FFS...
I figured we wouldn't get any controversy to the football question but...

ItsMrAlex2u's anwser was just one word - Hilton. Of the two Hilton hotels, one is known as Hilton Grand Vacations CLub (on Strip), one is known as Las Vegas Hilton (off strip). Am not sure which one ItsMrAlex2u meant but by a stroke of dumb luck the fact that he just stated Hilton and the on strip hotel begins with that word and the off-strip one doesn't I'm going to let his answer stand.

Scores to follow...

also tactful answer having 2 horses running for me with the oher Hilton.

Job done

WOO HOO

the grand vacations club isn't a hotel though - it's apartments innit?

straws/clutching at

lol @ poor old mond. he gets the name slightly wrong and gets a fail, alex clearly is incorrect and gets a pass. corrupt judge imo, biased against geordies

lol - well played I suppose!  I wish I'd just put 'hotel' now :D

Time Share Apartments for sale - not hotel rooms

Evidence for the prosecution http://www.hiltongrandvacations.com/index.php (http://www.hiltongrandvacations.com/index.php)

Imperial result was a bit harsh, should be over turned

Onto next question methinks

Points off for questioning quiz master judgement IMO, despite said quiz master confirming and re confirming correct asnwer. Dangerous game this appealing lark

The small print reads " 3rd challenges will really test the quiz masters patience"

Our Hotel


Hilton Grand Vacations Club® on the Las Vegas Strip

Cut paste from http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/LASVSGV-Hilton-Grand-Vacations-Club-on-the-Las-Vegas-Strip-Nevada/index.do

Also note "take a tour of our HOTEL" link and use of word HOTEL in link itself.

Job done, end of.

ok - you said earlier it was on the strip in  your opinion because it had a monorail stop.  Clear therefore that you were referring to the Las Vegas Hilton rather than the vacation club :P

(PS I would have let it go but you're protesting too much!!!!!!) :D

I'm such a shit quizmaster, really should do proper research. After looking at those links it's clear that an answer of Hilton, whichever of the two is wrong. So sorry Alex but 9 points it is for you.

With that taken care of here's the running totals.

On the rail:
Mondatoo 13
Kinboshi 10
ItsMrAlex2u 10
Cdw1111 9

Short stacked:

SiloGraham 7
RobertHM 7
Rex008 7

Middle of the pack:

TheChipPrince 4
Claw75 4
Suzanne 4
JonMW  3
Matt674 3
Rupert 3
Dousche 3

Chip Leaders:

Gatso 2
Wardonkey 2
Rod Paradise 2
BobAlike 2

FML lol i'm even staying there in may/june wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

And less of the old please

yeah but thats alright

and when you said Hilton

did you mean The Hilton
or The Hilton Grand Vacations Club?


EDIT: and I would have let it go, but arguing is fun

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Its a HOTEL

You dont need to buy a flippin time share.

Is this like when Man Utd players gang up on the ref until he makes the "right" decision.

You are being initimdated dino, dont let the bullies win. Hilton HOTEL, you know it makes sense.

Question 3) Name a movie with 'Vegas' in the tite:

 rotflmfao rotflmfao

Jonny Chan

Paris

Viva Las Vegas

Mo

Sir Tony Blair

Tunisia

Harry Potter

?

Queen

Yahoo

Paris

FYP

Obv :)

whee glad spacefrog didn't enter - there goes my johnny chan ace!

Just out of interest, what happens if two or more people get the same 'incorrect' answer?  do they the score for being incorrect plus whatever the sheep score is?

also lol at Paris!!

been googling my answers,this is not going to end well.

rotflmfao

At least you didn't start as badly as I did.

5 points:

Viva Las Vegas – Suzanne, RobertHM, Rod Paradise, Mondatoo, Matt674

Two Points:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Dousche, Silo Graham

Viva Rock Vegas - JonMW, Gatso

Aces:

Destination Vegas -  BobAlike

Leaving Las Vegas – Claw75

They Came to Rob Las Vegas – CDW1111

National Lampoons Vegas Vacations – Rex008

What Happens In Vegas – TheChipPrince

Las Vegas Warrior - Kinboshi

Pass:

Rupert, Wardonkey, ItsMrAlex2u

What mugs would put viva las vegas its soooooooooooooooo obv ffs  ;)

Have courage dino !

I've never heard of this film before tonight but it sounds cool!!! :)up

FYP

Have I won yet?

absolutely,shocking  was on sky a while back

The mugs who don't google

any complaints?????

LOL so true,i didnt even google that word that a made a tit of me self with,fuk cheating add rather come last hehe


Yeah soon when uv passed twice  ;)

Swept Away

Mondatoo 18
RobertHM 12
Kinboshi 11

A life Less Ordinary

ItsMrAlex2u 10
Cdw1111 10
SiloGraham 9
Suzanne 9
Rex008 8
Matt674 8

Trainspotting

Rod Paradise 7
TheChipPrince 5
Claw75 5
JonMW 5
Dousche 5

Slumdog Millionaires
Gatso 4
Rupert 3
BobAlike 3
Wardonkey 2

Ok, this is taking longer than i thought, so i'm going to put up the anwsers to the next two questions then call it quits for the night and put the other anwsers up tomorrow evening. Apologies, but didn't think it would take quite this long.

Bitterly FYP

if it makes things quicker, just leave Mondo out, he's gone anyway...   ;)

too many questions with too many multiple anwsers IMO

boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

lol

[ ] googling was necessary to tell me that viva las vegas might not be the best choice on that round

Two points:

Comic Book Guy - TheChipPrince, Rupert

Nelson Muntz – Gatso, Claw75

Santas Little Helper – Suzanne, BobAlike

Aces:

God – Kinboshi (very thin value bet, nh)
Mr Burns – Robert HM
Duffman – Wardonkey
Ralph Wiggum – Rod Paradise
Edna – Mondatoo
Fat Tony – Jery onMW
Todd Flanders – ItsMrAlex2u
Kang – Matt674
Sideshow Bob – Rex008
Chief Wiggum – Silo Graham
Troy McLure (RIP) – Dousche

Incorrect - 9 points
Frank Grimes – only appeared in 1 epsidose according to Wiki - Cdw1111

 sigh @ gatso.  Was gonna go with Otto too!

I hoped that you may have been one of a number with the same idea and left the answer alone. Unfortunately you succeeded in your 2nd level thinking but there were a number of third level efforts.

Stewards enquiry

Question indicates that the person should have a surname.

Following answers are incorrect:
God
Comic book guy
Santas Little Helper is a Simpson
Duffman
Edna
Fat Tony
Kang
Sideshow bob

ooh yeah - good one Alex!

whose surname is not Simpson

They should have a surname.

I want my Hilton back !!!!!

[ ] Dino is glad he started this

Wholeheartedly agree

lol, ban for dino pls!

LOL just LOL

gotta agree with this. I was going to go for one without a surname but than thought that would be a fail so changed to nelson muntz

and santa's little helper deffo wrong as he's a simpson

think there's a lot of fails in there

BAN FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!

1. If that's how they are credited then they are valid answers.

2. Just because they aren't credited with a surname doesn't mean they don't have one.

3. I contend that Santa's Little Helper is a Simpson and that God does not indeed have a surname.

[ ] these characters have surnames (ok Edna does)
[ ] there's more than one Edna,Duffman, Fat Tony etc in the Simpsons

God's surname is Almighty - but like Pele and other Brazillian footballers, he prefers to go by one name.

This is so much fun.  Are we doing it again next weekend?

 "In the third-season episode "Bart the Murderer", Fat Tony is referred to in a news report given by Kent Brockman as "William 'Fat Tony' Williams"."

And there is definitely only one character credited as Fat Tony

Whos SURNAME is not simpson.

If surnames can be googled to prove they exist, answer can be accepted. Otherwise the answer is no better than the Hilton Hotel on the strip

good enough.

Any others?

Bob is Terwilleger or summit like that. Not sure many more will be valid though.

Diiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooo

Pick the bones out of this lot

shame you didn't answer william williams then isn't it?

pmsl

quality

I refer the gentleman to the answer I gave some moments ago

Alex makes a move to become table captain quizmaster.

I think this is def my fave thread ever. so happy it won't be finished tonight

I raise you a Hilton

Next week "Name a colour that isn't a sea"

In The Simpsons question it doesn't say you must give a surname it just said 'who's surname is not simpson'. Santas Little Helper may be a member of the Simpson family but his name is Santa's Little Helper, i'm going to let that slide. All the others (with the exception of Enda) do not have surnames and/or are reffered to simply as Comic Book Guy, Fat Tony etc. Mondatoo has taken a bit of a bashing thus far (and it doesn't get much better tbh in the later questions) and i'm going to let Edna go on this one.

Updated Scores:

That question didn't change a lot, Wardonkey still leads the way with a perfect score, although he's used his pass.

Doh!

Mondatoo 19
Cdw1111 19
RobertHM 13
Kinboshi 12

I didn't do it

ItsMrAlex2u 11
Suzanne 11
SiloGraham 10
Rex008 9
Matt674 9

Why you little...


Rod Paradise 8
TheChipPrince 7
Claw75 7
JonMW 6
Dousche 6
Gatso 6

Excellent

Rupert 5
BobAlike 5
Wardonkey 3

Homer goes to visit Frank Grimes grave and he appears in a vision and a couple of times you here his voice in other episodes,re-occuring IMO
also best Simpson character ever IMO.

Fuschia

WTF WTF WTF WTF

Name a charachter whos surname is not simpson, clearly indicates that said charachter must have a surname. This is a travesty of quizadry. Dino you need to take a long hard look at yourself.

I demand justice.

All characters who do not have surnames should be struck from the record and all Hiltons should be reinstated forth with

 rotflmfao

from wiki: "Homer's Enemy" is one of the darkest episodes of The Simpsons and is a favorite of several members of the production staff, including Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Matt Groening, as well as The Office creator Ricky Gervais. Although Grimes makes his only appearance in this episode, he was later named one of the "Top 25 Simpsons Peripheral characters" by IGN.

Disqualified, read the rules "next week"

[ x ] ItsMrAlex2u runs bad

(http://www.failings.co.uk/photos/directions_fail.jpg)

FML

Sod the usual slushy emotional post to mark the 1000th entry.

JUST GIMME BACK MY HILTON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wiki is wrong and when i make a storming comeback from only beating Mondo i will prove it

this, apart from the hilton bit

if the question was for example

name a simpsons character whose hat is not red

you couldn't go around saying that people were correct when they named characters who don't have a hat. it's a simple case of following the structural rules of the english language. correct answers must be characters who have a surname and that surname cannot be simpson just as in my other example answers would have to be characters who have a hat and that hat must not be red

Last one for tonight, also fml.

Congratulations
No

yeah and thing is if we don't know their surname, how do we know it's not Simpson.  Not the most uncommon surname.

but would it count if by chance their surname was simpson and we could prove it was just a coincidence and they had no genetic connection the the main family?

Last one as in that was the last one, or 1 more to come?

If the former, may i refer you to your earlier post in which you confirmed 2 more to come tonight.

That represents a written contract.

Postaments please or I may sue.

Name someone who has been UK prime minister (1720 to present day counts) surely this one can't go too wrong...

Two Points:
Clement Atlee – BobAlike, Dousche

Robert Peel – Robert HM, Gatso

Asquith – Wardonkey, CDW1111

John Major – Matt674, TheChipPrince

Churchill – Rupert, Silo Graham

Aces:

Harold Wilson – Suzanne
James Callaghan – Claw75
Lord Palmerston – Rod Paradise
Earl of Bute – JonMW
Duke of Wellington – Rex008
Pitt The Elder – ItsMrAlex2u
Charles Watson-Wentworth – Kinboshi

Incorrect - 8 points
Alan Chamberlin - Mondatoo

the question wasn't 'name someone who doesn't have a genetic connection to the main family' though, ldo.

Alan Chamberlain - quality!  if 'churchill' and 'asquith' are allowed then gotta give mond this one though imo!

Why?

Maybe if Mont had just said ALAN it would be ok, seeing as surnames are irrelevant in this game and there may have been an Alan somewhere along the way.

you should get a discretionary point though if you picked a character that wasnt related to the simpsons and it turned out that was their second name was simpson, i'd question the competency of the writers if they did that.

edit- i mean you shouldnt get a point for it, or an ace, or a pass or however this game works!

(

bolt sees a ruck a mile off and wants to rumble. Next time he might post some frigging answers :)

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEr5I5d_EKw
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rBRrtw5XrQ


bloody hell it was his son and somehow he turned Spanish

Off to bed

Will be back tomorrow for more dino baiting healthy debate

Points totals after five questions:

Life Peers

Mondatoo 27
Cdw1111 21

Back Benchers

RobertHM 15
Kinboshi 13
ItsMrAlex2u 12
Suzanne 12
SiloGraham 12
Matt674 11

In the cabinet

Rex008 10
Rod Paradise 9
TheChipPrince 9
Claw75 8
Dousche 8
Gatso 8

Leaders of the pack

JonMW 7
Rupert 7
BobAlike 7
Wardonkey 5

night night.

See you there :)up

!!!

pretty sure there's never been a pm known as charles watson-wentworth

he was known as the marquess of rockingham during both his ministries

at tomorrow's healthy debate!!!

Reverse sheep game for the quiz at BB8 please!!!    ;D

LOL me too, just caught up, great fun :)

GTFO

I gave edna krabbapol's blidey surname obviously i spelt it wrong but so fk i still gave it

PS Alan, neville thats just as picky as my hotel choice imo blatant geordie hater

LOL Mond, ul mate :D

I blame the alcohol abuse but surely i'm to young,sigh

Guess i'm just  ;dingdell;

Two surnames - so up yours.

Still unhaappy about my disgraceful Hilton treatment, and the moral fibre of the quiz master giving in to such blatant bullyng......

(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc43/kinboshi/hilton.png)

Updates please!

Ok I have slept on thisand thought about it throughout the day. I have looked at the issue from your prospective and have to say "whatever"

WHERES DINO???

rumour is after last night he's shut his blonde a/c and emigrated

LOL,i hope so i'm having a hard night as it is without the scores to this to make it worse

I win!

Apologies, had no time to continue the reveal last night. Will try and finish it tonight.

I'll be out tonight - relying on Gatso and Kinboshi to fight my corner when it comes to the suffix reveal! :)up

I'll be fighting my own corner on that one :D

£5 you went for Argyle or Vale Kin!

my corner don't need fighting actually, but I do need someone to challenge the monkey! 

Ship it to me on blonde please.

grr, you better not have chosen mine!

You didn't go for 'pool' did you?  As in Liverpool, Blackpool, Hartlepool, etc.?

Nothing wrong with Matt's answer as far as the source i'm using is concerned. Although according to that rangers should've counted  ;yellowcard;

Rangers should have counted.  I didn't understand why that one was singled out as wrong. 

objection!  it's not a suffix!!!

Probably because there is also a team simply known as 'Rangers'.  Can't see any other reason why not.

claire, if you give me matt's answer now I'll start preparing my objection

good man.  PM sent.

now that I know dino is minded to allow it the objection is all the more important.  I cannot be seen to be wrong and lose this argument!!! ;D

having read the pm I have to say that it's not going to take long to prepare the objection. it's just wrong, plain and simple.

Dino, I can't believe you're even considering marking that as correct. it's not a suffix in any way, shape or form; it's the second word of a 2 word name of the location of the club

Gatso knows what he's talking about.

[  ] bet Dino is really glad he started this now ;D

I can't remember what I put for the suffix one. I really hope it wasn't anything stupid

'stupid' like 'athletic' or something?

As i remember it was on an old episode of the detectives with Jasper Carrott when i first heard the question to name all the suffixes - and the answer i gave was included. Have seen it as a quiz question on the internet also and it was included every time there as well. Though the answers change near enough every year depending on which teams yoyo between league 2 and the conference.

As for the overall scheme of things its unlikely i'm going to trouble the winners knowing some of the other answers i put so i'm just going to go with what Dino says........

Oh and the February payment for the monkey madness is due at the end of the week and i've not done bad this month dont forget ;whistle;

just coz jasper said it don't make it right!  Common sense must come in to play here somewhere!

Ok we shall be gogogo in about 10 mins. In keeping with the blonde spirit if there are any disputes they will be settled by AQA, i've already posed the question regarding Matt's suffix question and have a reply.

Good idea dino

Name a country who's flag is red and white (no other colours)

3 points
Denmark

ItsMrAlex2u
Suzanne
BobAlike

2 Points

Canada
Claw75
RobertHM


Poland
Gatso
Wardonkey


Aces

Peru
Mondatoo

latvia
Cdw1111

England
SiloGraham

Indonesia
Matt674

Tunisia
Kinboshi (had it odds on that you'd go japan)

Japan:
Rod Paradise

Austria
JonMW

Monaco
Rupert (nh)

Pass 0

Rex008
TheChipPrince
Dousche

Updated scores:

Mondatoo 28
Cdw1111 22
RobertHM 17
ItsMrAlex2u 15
Suzanne 15
Kinboshi 14
SiloGraham 13
Matt674 12
Rex008 10
Rod Paradise 10
Claw75 10
Gatso 10
BobAlike 10
TheChipPrince 9
Dousche 8
JonMW 8
Rupert 8
Wardonkey 7

 ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause;

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we could be here till christmas at this rate, someone just shoot me now.

This question really made a difference, loads of incorrect answers

Scoop the ace!  Can't believe no one else put England.

Oooo, I've read a couple of Paulo Coelho's books, bit different but enjoyable

Name one of the 15 best selling works of fiction (novels) in history. Religious texts don't count, plays don't count, compilations of poetry don't count.

LOTR - 7 points
BobAlike
Dousche
SiloGraham
ItsMrAlex2u
RobertHM
Claw75
TheChipPrince

The Hobbit - 2 points
JonMW
Gatso

Aces:

The Alchemist (Coelho)
Wardonkey

红楼梦(Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin
Kinboshi

Pass
Mondatoo

Incorrect:

Incorrect - 9 points
Lady Chatterley's Lover - Suzanne
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (17th) - Rex008
The Canterbury Tales- Rupert
War and Peace - Matt674
Gone with the wind (top 25) - Cdw1111
Little Women - Rod Paradise

Notable unused answers:

A Tale of Two Cities
Catcher in the Rye
Da Vinci Code

A well played pass mondatoo!

Updated Scores: Wardonkey still in front, JonMW 2 points behind. Kinboshi surges up the field thanks to some excellent googling knowledge

Cdw1111 31
Mondatoo 28
RobertHM 24
Suzanne 24
ItsMrAlex2u 22
Matt674 21
SiloGraham 20
Rod Paradise 19
Rex008 19
Claw75 17
BobAlike 17
Rupert 17
TheChipPrince 16
Kinboshi 15
Dousche 15
Gatso 12
JonMW 10
Wardonkey 8

noooooooooooooo i'am last
and i was sure GWTW was in the top 10 nevermind 15

fml - was a toss up between LOTR and the Hobbit for me!

Watching this quiz >>>> watching Eurovision song contest scores*



* high praise coz I like that bit

I gonna come a cropper in the suffixes question, cos I answered it in the spirit that it was asked (I think) rather than the nerdy pedantic way.

There may be trouble ahead...

Name a suffix of a professional English football team who play in the Premier League, Championship, League One, or Two.

can't wait to see what you put as I have no idea what you mean by that

Maybe I'm just an idiot...

2points
United
Claw75
Mondatoo

2 points:

Dons

Gatso
Kinboshi

County
ItsMrAlex2u
rex008

Aces:

Alexandra
TheChipPrince

Rovers
Wardonkey

Town:
Rod Paradise

Orient: (i believe this is correct but what about when they were just called orient?)
Cdw1111



Hotspur
Dousche

Wanderers
BobAlike

Passes:

Pass:
RobertHM
JonMW
Suzanne

Incorrect - 8 points

Palace - Matt674 (according to AQA, i too alwasy thought this counted and I live in CP! where's Matt50 when we need him?)
Ham - Rupert (fairly sure this is incorrect if Crystal Palace is)
AFC - Silo Graham (abbreviation of three words (obv) not a suffix IMO

fk the live updates

just have these

wiiii on the palace ruling.

out of interest dino, why would you see this as different from ham? exactly the same surely? west ham is a place, crystal palace is a place

lol, now I've seen your answer I'm well confused by your post as you answered in the uber normal standard way, same as everyone else

what is the nerdy pedantic way?

they are a team from London village who go by the name of Crystal Palace - therefore Palace is the suffix and always will be :)

yeah hence both incorrect, i just remember doing a footy team suffix quiz and Palace being one, it's also the anwser to which English football team has the most letters in its name until you get to a vowel.

Also Palace listed as a suffix here FWIW: http://www.onpedia.com/encyclopedia/list-of-british-football-club-suffixes

I thought we were gonna get all technical about what a suffix was.

Is a suffix not usually a part of a larger word rather than a word?

Also the example of a 'non suffix' was confusing.

I think it would be bizarre to call Palace the Suffix.

The team isn't from Crystal is it?

Updated Scores:

Cdw1111 32
Mondatoo 30
Matt674 29
SiloGraham 28
Rupert 25
RobertHM 24
Suzanne 24
ItsMrAlex2u 24
Rex008 21
Rod Paradise 20
Claw75 19
BobAlike 18
TheChipPrince 17
Kinboshi 17
Dousche 16
Gatso 14
JonMW 10
Wardonkey 9

Updated to rectify all errors hopefully

ah, ok. I assumed you saw the 2 as being different. seeing as you didn't please ignore my question

OK - Matt and I still can't agree on this.  How about this one - is 'end' (as in preston north end) a suffix?  

PS Gatso - Matt says Ham doesn't count coz they are west ham united - if they didn't have a 'united' then ham would count.

no - London

if they were called london palace then it would be allowed... ;D

I see. that would indeed have been properly anal but also entirely correct. luckily everyone understood in context.

the example was indeed confusing, in fact out and out bizarre

need a gimmick though, not cat pictures. Ahh i got it...

Thanks for the praise guys lolol

But errrm... ... i put united not county

 rotflmfao

Agree massive fail on my part, no clue why i put that as an example

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ffs!!!!

Technically I think "North End" would be the suffix. Again using the context of football clubs there's nothing to say that the suffix has to be one word/

Shit, have mixed up yours and MrAlex's answers, will ammend

I've either had a total brain-fart or something, but I'm fairly sure I answered County for this one. Can't get Sent PMs though on my end :( Then again, I may have thought County, but typed United :).

Out of interest, where did the definitive book sales list come from? Can't believe Harry Potter's not up there :). Maybe your list is out of date? :)

Edit: You enjoying yourself Dino? :)

Peru was mine

As was my excellent pass :)

You did indeed put County, i shall ammend. Apologies.

I used a wikipedia list, you're right in that Harry Potter may have sold more copies (certiainly in comparsion to some above it) since the list was last updated. Feel free to find a bigger figure than that list quotes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books

So Dino, are we doing this every week?

lol we might be but I doubt Dino will!  How about we have a weekly rota and all take turns at being quizmaster?

Please no, 8 tabling while following this thread is -ev...

Yeah it takes more work than i'd bargained for. Over on 2+2 they've got some clever script to make life easier. I like the idea of taking turns, perhaps the winner of the previous week can have first refusal?

sod the first refusal bit - I say winner gets to do it next week as their prize ;D

No worries for me then

[  ] It would be a good idea to get me to do it

Ok i'm done for the night, three more questions, which will be revealed at lunchtime most likely. If i don't get all three up in an hour then any overmatter will go up 6pm ish.

You would have thought that somewhere there would be a current total, but can I find it? The 44m figure came from data in June 2008, before the paperback was published! It only needs another 2m to get into the top 15 by my reckoning.

I'm going to phone Bloomsbury in the morning :).

ask AQA

I will probably live to regret this but......

I will volunteer to come up the quiz for next week.

FML

Now, must just make a few notes regarding those who baited the ref the other day........

now that I've had time to think I reckon hilton was right

Always thought that.

Deserved bonus points imo.

(what the hell were you thinking of going for MK Dons though ;grr;)

FMP
x

sorry hadnt read previous posts properly, if the winner this week wants to do it, fine by me

Let us go go go....

Name a standard chess piece:

5points

Rook

RobertHM
ItsMrAlex2u
Matt674
Suzanne (she said castle but this is apparently the same as rook – I don’t play chess)
BobAlike


4points

Bishop

Gatso
Rod Paradise
Rupert
SiloGraham

3 points

Queen

Wardonkey
Mondatoo
Dousche

2 points

King

TheChipPrince
Rex008

Knight

Cdw1111
JonMW

Pass:
Kinboshi
Claw75

Was a smart move to pass here as there were only six correct answers, one of which - pawn - wasn't used.

Updated scores:


Matt674 34
Cdw1111 34
Mondatoo 33
SiloGraham 32
Rupert 29
RobertHM 29
Suzanne 29
ItsMrAlex2u 29
Rod Paradise 24
Rex008 23
BobAlike 23
Claw75 19
TheChipPrince 19
Dousche 19
Gatso 18
Kinboshi 17 (bets he wishes he'd read question one right)
JonMW 12
Wardonkey 12

Yes it is the same. That's why I chose that piece because of the different name in the hope that people would use "castle". It obviously didn't work. I'm tempted to chuck in an appeal on Suzanne's behalf but I think she may want to fight her own battles.

Name one of the top 20 sites in terms of traffic (according to alexa.com)

3 points

Facebook (5th)
TheChipPrince
Claw75
Mondatoo

microsoft.com (14th)
Gatso
Cdw1111
Rex008

Aces:

Yahoo.co.jp
Kinboshi

Myspace
Wardonkey

Youtube
Rod Paradise

msn.com
JonMW

Google:
ItsMrAlex2u

Yahoo.com
Dousche

Pass:
Matt674

Incorrect – 7 points

Amazon.com (34th)
RobertHM
SiloGraham
Suzanne

Aol.com (30th)
Rupert

Cnn.com (51st)
BobAlike

FML, 34th for Amazon, thought it was better than that!

Updated Scores:

SiloGraham 39
Cdw1111 37
Mondatoo 36
Rupert 36
RobertHM 36
Suzanne 36
Matt674 34
ItsMrAlex2u 30
BobAlike 30
Rex008 26
Rod Paradise 25
Claw75 22
TheChipPrince 22
Gatso 21
Dousche 20
Kinboshi 18
JonMW 13
Wardonkey 13

It's a two horse race between a donkey and a cowboy...

I've emailed Bloomsbury. I confidently expect them to reply promptly and tell me that Deathly Hallows has now sold well above 50m and you can deduct 8 points from my score. In fact do it now, and we'll fix it later if they don't :).

Last question:

Name a city that is not the capital of its country and has hosted the modern olympics (1896 onwards)

5 points

Barcelona

RobertHM
Mondatoo
Matt674
Dousche
Suzanne

3 points
Los Angeles

Claw75
Rod Paradise
JonMW

2 points

Munich:
Rupert
Rex008

Atlanta:
Kinboshi
Cdw1111

Aces:

Melbourne:
ItsMrAlex2u

Sydney:
SiloGraham

Montreal
TheChipPrince

Pass:

Gatso
BobAlike

Incorrect – 9 points

Amsterdam
Wardonkey

ZOMG

Schoolboy error from the Donkey!  Obv didnt' want to do it next week !

Final Scores (pending any challenges)

Updated Scores:

Mondatoo 41
RobertHM 41
Suzanne 41
SiloGraham 40
Cdw1111 39
Matt674 39
Rupert 38
ItsMrAlex2u 31
BobAlike 30
Rex008 28
Rod Paradise 28
Claw75 25
Dousche 25
TheChipPrince 23
Wardonkey 22

3rd:
Gatso 21

2nd:
Kinboshi 20

WINNER
JonMW 16

TYTY for taking part, Wardonkey so nearly led from wire to wire, but JonMW takes it down.

Cheers for doing it Dino, been fun :)

Well played Jon, nice sheeping

dunno - I've always thought The Hague was the capital of the Netherlands so presumably donk thought the same.  A quick google reveals that I was obviously taught incorrectly!!

well done  Dino and Jon!

It's a crap game anyway...

orly?

I looked up the list after I sent my answers and this one and Baidu.com were the two that I thought I should have put - because I did 'know' that they would be up there, but just didn't think about them at the time.

Aye. This.

[and I'll be joint 2nd just as soon as Bloomsbury get back to me :)]

Absolutely.  I only knew this for sure because google.co.jp got a penalty from Google for buying links earlier this month and it was mentioned in an article!  Yes, Google penalised itself.  Google.co.jp was trying to eat into Yahoo.co.jp's dominance in Japan (a country of over 100 million internet users).  Not only is it the main search engine, it is also the main auction site there (http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/).  Ebay has a very small presence in Japan.

Gonna bid on some おもちゃ、ゲーム later....

OK.... you're actually bidding on two things there.  Babies and games. 

;goodluck;

lol awesome :D

Can you read this Japanese text?  Dead curious, looks very complicated.

Which Japanese text?  I can read Japanese as I studied it at uni.  Haven't used it properly for over 10 years now, so a bit rusty.

GG Dino.

Thanks for doing this.

Thanks Dino.

Well done Jon.

cheers dino, best game ever. I almost understand it now as well. when we playing again?

:D  Nice work dino.

Is JonMW setting the questions this time?

I'll think about it. :)

But timing wise I don't think we can have one every week.

It takes about a week to go through the answers

So a week to go through the answers then a week for the next person to set the next one would work - Reverse Sheep Game every fortnight anyone?

No - start it now!!

;grr;

I suggest that the loser of the next one should be question master. It seems a thankless task and a fitting forfeit.

Doesn't take a week, get it sorted Cowboy!

What no Pwwwwwwn?

In light of my finishing position i formally withdraw my irrelvant appeal regarding my harsh Hilton related treatment.

I am still happy to set one of these on Sunday or Monday but its JonMW's shout.

jfdi - we'll be waiting til next year for Jon to get it started otherwise.  Jon can do it next week.

ffs I'll see what I can do.

Get back to you later

LoL

FYL

I'm off out now.  Will expect questions here when I return.  thank you.

She, who must be obeyed, has spoken.

been playing broadway and walsall for the last week so havnt had a chance to keep updated with this thread. just read it from front to back. priceless. effing barcelona and lotr!

We want sheep!

Coming Soon

PM KingPoker - I hear he's a good source of sheep.

Too much information

Sheep - Coming Soon

is that better? :D

lol, not really

sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, now

Ewe could get fleeced saying things like that.

:)

Found it.... :)