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Make sure to read the rules, there's a few important things in there.

Good luck!

RULES

There are 13 questions, most of which have a limited answer set, so there shouldn't be too many objections. PM me your answers by Tuesday 14th July, at 2.30pm. Put the answer to each question on a seperate line, along with the corresponding question number.

The objective of the quiz is to score the least number of points possible.

Your score for each question is the 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.

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

You have two passes. Their use is optional. If you pass a question you will score 0 for that question. If you don't use your passes and still win the quiz then you get to be awesome.

Any questions post in this thread (or PM), but don't post your answers obv.

The reveal will be Tuesday 14th July, at 8pm.

During the reveal objections to answers is allowed, but they must be made before the scoring for that question is finalised.

In the event of a tie then the winner is the first person to post "I am a fish" after I have revealed the final scores.

There is a "special answer" to one of the questions which will recieve a special bonus of -10 points to anyone who selects this answer. If multiple people select this answer then the amount of people who select it is ignored for the purposes of determining the sheep score.

QUESTIONS

1. Robert's Rules of Poker defines 10 different scenarios which can cause a misdeal. In some cases the misdeal may be called as the cards are being dealt. In others it may be called after the cards are dealt, but before 2 people have acted upon their hands. Describe to me one of the the 10 scenarios. Be as specific as you can - I will classify your answer as the scenario I suspect you're reffering to.

2. Download Festival 2009 was recently held at Donington Park. Name a band who has headlined the main stage of the festival from 2003 and onwards.

3. Name a football team who has been relegated from the premier league, and since then also relegated from the championship (aka division one in the old days).

4. I own a rather nice set of poker chips, with printed denominations. When playing a tournament the starting stack is 5,000. Name one of the denominations of chips in my set. If you're feeling confident I have a couple of denominations you might not expect for the sake of a complete set...

5. Super Mario Kart Wii contains many playable characters, all taken from a variety of Nintendo games. Name one of them. (One of the characters that is).

6. Name a Motorway that goes through Lancashire.

7. Name one of the tracks from "Greatest Hits" by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

8. Terry Pratchett has written over 30 Discworld novels. Name one of them.

9. Name something you might expect to find in a bedroom. SPECIAL NOTE: non-ace answers will incur a 5 point penalty.

10. Name a country in Europe beginning with a consonant. Contrary to rulings by previous QMs I require that all answers are given in English.

11. Name a chemical element beginning with the letter "c".

12. The Dusk Till Dawn monthly £300 deepstack game starts with 10,000 chips and has a 45 minute clock. Name one of the first 10 levels, and give me that level's small blind, big blind, and ante. If there is no ante then say 0 for the ante.

13. Give the name (real name, not blonde username) of one of the 10 shrewdies as given in the first post of "SHREWDIES ON TOUR 2009".

CURRENT ENTRANTS
Josedinho
RichEO
Shogun112
Girgy85
kinboshi
cdw1111
Stokes
xxMAIRxx
TightEnd
G1BTW
The_duke
Laxie

Sorry I can't do the reveal earlier, but Friday/Weekend is no good for most and I'm busy Monday. I would prefer to do it this Thursday but I'm busy then as well :(

in b4 farce

WTF?

How much and what did you smoke before concocting these?

About as far removed from the RSQ ideal as possible

p.s WTF is Lemmings?

Malta in Eurovision WTF?

THREE repeat questions from past quizzes (pure QM laziness that)


The reveal should be extraordinary.

However my overriding concern is WTF?

Saved me writing that.

Utter farce already.  You reckon that there'll be few objections!!!  20 questions, lots of objections, start the reveal early otherwise they'll have to close the roof and put the lights on to play to the finish...

I like this one.  Already giggling at some of me answers too!

the main thing that made rsq on blonde a success in the past was the interactivity. the arguing of objections back and forth between qm and entrants and the goodnatured abuse.

in recent weeks several qms have taken to completely ignoring objections and just soldiering on regardless rendering the whole reveal process pointless. for this reason I decided to hang up my rsq boots and go into retirement recently but I thought I'd just check back to see what you've done with this one and I find this


awesome, you've actually written it into the rules now. institutionalised blandness

those of you that are happy sending in your answers and then coming back on reveal day to pick up your scores without any interactivity then I'm pleased for you, have fun. however it's really not for me so my retirement will continue. gg rsq

SECONDED

OBJECTION!!!

I seconded it, you must be thirding.

I think I will join you

Oh puhleeeeeeease!  When have we ever listened to a QM?  Surely this is the quiz where everyone steps it up a notch!

Dont worry, I will do my best to answer all objections. I only put that in there as a disclaimer unless we get a daft number of objections on a single question and I deem it neccesary to move on. I don't think I will have to invoke this rule however.

I'm good with numbers/spreadsheets/etc and think I can keep up with objections and keep the reveal going at a fast pace. Your reveal enjoyment can be trying to break me and prove me wrong lol

Tighty: I highly recommend you get yourself an Amiga emulator and a Lemmings ROM...

urgh - going to sit this one out I think.  It's going to be very messy.

Do people think it'd be better if I cut the number of questions and keep to a more standard format then?

[ ] no

Cut the number of questions, hopefully that's better..

Two passes is good.  Now I will participate.

CORRECTION...!!  Division TWO in the old days..!!!

OBJECTION, you're wrong!!

It was never called Division Two whilst the top division was called the Premier League.  If it was Division Two in the old days that would also allow teams who were relegated from Division 1 (when that was the top league in the country).

DUCY?

OBJECTION..  It was never the olden days post 1991

Read the rest of my post.

No..!!  too blummin long.!!!

Is this a question of symantics? Does the motorway have to go completely through lancashire or just be in Lancashire at some point?

Sigh, I'm starting to feel old now that I can say "in the old days"...


Just be in lancs at some point

Would that be Lancs current day or including Lancs of the olden days?

ok this works now I think. Bedroom question is brilliant. This will be war!

Im making my RSQ debut....

I sure wanna win so i am QM next week!!

Virgin..!!!  On the ridiculous...!!  LOL

Much too hard for me, my bird brain got the american president question wrong

Good luck anyway

D'oh, was looking forward to seeing a certain country make it's 4th appearance as one of your answers  rotflmfao

Had a couple of interesting answers to the bedroom question lol

Anyone struggling with one or two of the questions, remember that you have 2 passes this time around.

Rhyme with Mildo?  LOL

[ ] I remembered.

Can i add one in?

How farcical is it if I say yes to that request?

Depends if she chooses a fail as a pass..

So far the reveal of one of the questions is going to go down in the history books...

Just a reminder that the reveal for this is tomorrow evening. If you haven't already submitted your answers then you have until tomorrow afternoon.

If I had to rate how farcical the reveal is shaping up to be I'd prob give it a solid 9/10

[ ] is looking forward to it
[ x ] well, maybe a little

Would love to enter but can only answer half the questions - cf must be a youngster!

Aye, probably reflected in the questions lol

I'm currently hungover so in no mood to compile the answers to this yet, so if anyone else wants to send some late entries in then feel free.

And even the recent entries contribute to one question where I'm going to get absolutely slaughtered for a decision i've made.

Ok, no more entries. 12 people, which makes life slightly easier for me.

[ x ] Will be starting with Q1 at 8pm
[ ] Will be finished with Q1 by midnight

Dunno how you reckon life is easier.  Have you taken a proper look at the list of entries?!   rotflmfao

Gatso's name's not on that list to be fair.

Thius is going to be the biggest farce ever - in a tourney earlier but will keep my eyes on proceedings as this is bound to be an early morning finish!

Good Luck cf You will need it! ;smackedbottom;

I've just finished compiling the answers and scores.

What the hell am I setting myself up for here. I might go and jump in front of a bus right now.

I am at the computer already for this

Prepare for hell, if you are going down the routes I think you are, it will get messy

Thats what she said last night.. !!!  LOL...

Gonna go grab my tea before the torture commences. This is going to be memorable...

Welcome one and all to the reveal of RSQ26.

Each QM has contributed some new element of farce to their quizes, and I'm no different.

With some of the stuff that is gonna occur during this reveal I'm not sure if people will laugh or cry, but it should be good fun. What price will someone give me on me commiting suicide before this is over?

Question 1 results in a few minutes...

QUESTION 1 - Robert's Rules of Poker defines 10 different scenarios which can cause a misdeal. In some cases the misdeal may be called as the cards are being dealt. In others it may be called after the cards are dealt, but before 2 people have acted upon their hands. Describe to me one of the the 10 scenarios. Be as specific as you can - I will classify your answer as the scenario I suspect you're reffering to.

SHEEP - Cards have been dealt to an empty seat or a player not entitled to a hand. - 2 points
kinboshi (Someone has been dealt cards incorrectly, as they have just come to the table and are seated in the SB. This was only noticed after the cards had been dealt to all the players and people had looked)
The_duke (Cards have been dealt to a player not entitiled to a hand)

SHEEP - An incorrect number of cards has been dealt to a player, except the top card may be dealt if it goes to the player in proper sequence. - 2 points
G1BTW (More cards than specified dealt to an individual player, eg 4 in Holdem)
Laxie (Improper number of cards dealt to one or more players.)

ACE - The button was out of position. - 1 point
Stokes (The button has not been moved on to the right seat)

FAIL - Card falls onto floor during deal - 5 points
TightEnd (A card, in the act of beling dealt from dealer to player, falls off the table onto the floor)
Shogun112 (Dealer was a little strong and dealt card off the poker table onto the floor)

FAIL - Cards not returned from previous hand. - 5 points
RichEO

FAIL - First card of UTG or UTG +1 is revealed. - 5 points
Josedinho

PASS
Girgy85
cdw1111
xxMAIRxx

Calm b4 storm imo

FAIL - Card falls onto floor during deal - 5 points
TightEnd (A card, in the act of beling dealt from dealer to player, falls off the table onto the floor)
Shogun112 (Dealer was a little strong and dealt card off the poker table onto the floor)



What? this is a misdeal in every casino I have ever been to

This is gong to be fun

Indeed. I would also consider this to be a misdeal myself.

However... that doesn't make it a correct answer to this question.

Seconded

Steaming

If its failed I'm logging off and going to watch TV

complete farce

FAIL - Card falls onto floor during deal - 5 points
TightEnd (A card, in the act of beling dealt from dealer to player, falls off the table onto the floor)
Shogun112 (Dealer was a little strong and dealt card off the poker table onto the floor)


This is severely harsh, their answers mean the same thing

well you can stick roberts rules where the sun doesn't shine sunshine

goodnight

Another QM who wants to ruin the quiz...  My last one because of this, following Gatso....

For reference:

MISDEALS

1. Once action begins, a misdeal cannot be called. The deal will be played, and no money will be returned to any player whose hand is fouled. In button games, action is considered to occur when two players after the blinds have acted on their hands. In stud games, action is considered to occur when two players after the forced bet have acted on their hands.

2. The following circumstances cause a misdeal, provided attention is called to the error before two players have acted on their hands.

(a) The first or second card of the hand has been exposed by a dealer error.

(b) Two or more cards have been exposed by the dealer.

(c) Two or more boxed cards (improperly faced cards) are found.

(d) Two or more extra cards have been dealt in the starting hands of a game.

(e) An incorrect number of cards has been dealt to a player, except the top card may be dealt if it goes to the player in proper sequence.

(f) Any card has been dealt out of the proper sequence (except an exposed card may be replaced by the burncard).

(g) The button was out of position.

(h) The first card was dealt to the wrong position.

(i) Cards have been dealt to an empty seat or a player not entitled to a hand.

(j) A player has been dealt out who is entitled to a hand. This player must be present at the table or have posted a blind or ante.

How do you mean?

Isn't the floor the wrong position ???

well they have clearly missed a card falling onto the floor then


card falls

player "misdeal?"

dealer "no sir, play with one card"



Just what a farce

goodnight

Seconded

well if the dealer throws a card on the floor, it is surely a misdeal

OBJECTION: Question asked for Robert's rules but I think we should now change this to Robert, Mike and Davey's Rules too keep everyone happy.

GUKPT rules cover it: http://www.grosvenorukpokertour.com/rules.shtml

I'm suprised RRs don't tbh. I originally marked the answer as correct. But when I came to pick it from the list it simply wasn't there.

It's not me that's the farce on this one. It's (can't believe i'm slagging them) RRs!

f) Any card has been dealt out of the proper sequence (except an exposed card may be replaced by the burncard).

Is effectively what they are saying its been dealt out of proper sequence eg hitting the floor!!, how can you fail them

I say a misdeal as  a)the dealer saw the cards - when they fell on the floor

Cf is the TD using RR.

Good call.  That's what poker players need, a firm TD.

;)

agreed either a or f can be the answer they have given

Robert is obviously a major person for rules in poker...  The FA have been using Carl's rules for ages, I banned offsides in my rules...

or (h)

This is com :D ty

'out of proper sequence eg hitting the floor' errrrr

You should become a barrister

You cannot fail their answers, a reasonable explanation as to how a misdeal can be called by their answer is easily within those 2 or 3 as ger has said rules

I'm failing to see how any of the quoted rules cover this.

I've also just found under IRREGULARITIES:

14. If you drop any cards out of your hand onto the floor, you must still play them.

Not quite the same thing, but it possibly suggests that bob doesn't consider this to be a misdeal.

but it was not a player who dropped card to the floor, but the dealer. Therefore a misdeal as per rules A and F

Please do not try arguing the case any more.  As I said, cant be doing this any more as it is being ruined.  I also see this as the reason 25 players has gone down by half..

what if it floats to the ground face down? how's that exposed?

(a) The first or second card of the hand has been exposed by a dealer error.

This rule only applies to the first or second card dealt. So it wouldn't cover it if it was say the 3rd card dealt.

(f) Any card has been dealt out of the proper sequence (except an exposed card may be replaced by the burncard).

And this means dealing to players in the wrong order. I don't think we apply this here.

Complete nonsense failing them for this when it is written within the rules as scenarios that could happen and their answer is one of those scenarios.

lol. don't give in to the haters cf

fyi most london cardrooms and several in europe do not declare a misdeal for a floored card, it is put faceup on the table and treated as an exposed card

for the purpose of this quiz it could have been the first card so not a fail

This makes sense.

I only consider this to be a misdeal because everywhere I play treats it as one.

Treating it as an exposed cards makes more sense to me.

move on...

Well gr8 start to your job as QM cf, another 2 people lost from the RSQ and I expect more to follow and here I thought you would be a fair QM

Ok, moving on. I'm just glad RichEO wasn't here. I've even got a thread discussing his scenario on another forum lol.

SCORES AFTER QUESTION 1

Girgy85: 0
cdw1111: 0
xxMAIRxx: 0
Stokes: 1
kinboshi: 2
G1BTW: 2
The_duke: 2
Laxie: 2
Josedinho: 5
RichEO: 5
Shogun112: 5
TightEnd: 5

Should be slightly more plain sailing for a while now :)

;iagree;

QUESTION 2 - Download Festival 2009 was recently held at Donington Park. Name a band who has headlined the main stage of the festival from 2003 and onwards.

SHEEP - Feeder - 3 points
Girgy85
Stokes
TightEnd

ACE - Slipknot - 1 point
Josedinho

ACE - Linkin Park - 1 point
kinboshi

ACE - My Chemical Romance - 1 point
xxMAIRxx

ACE - Black Sabbath - 1 point
The_duke

ACE - ZZ Top - 1 point
Laxie

FAIL - Biffy Clyro - 8 points
RichEO

FAIL - Motorhead - 8 points
Shogun112

FAIL - Kaiser Chiefs - 8 points
cdw1111

FAIL - Ting Tings - 8 points
G1BTW

Just spotted the cause of the trouble here in the rules

RULES

There are 13 questions, most of which have a limited answer set, so there shouldn't be too many objections. PM me your answers by Tuesday 14th July, at 2.30pm. Put the answer to each question on a seperate line, along with the corresponding question number.

The objective of the quiz is to score the least number of points possible.

Your score for each question is the 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.

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

You have two passes. Their use is optional. If you pass a question you will score 0 for that question. If you don't use your passes and still win the quiz then you get to be awesome.

All Tightends answers will be failed as hes won it enough times already

Any questions post in this thread (or PM), but don't post your answers obv.

The reveal will be Tuesday 14th July, at 8pm.


I think Rule 6 is a bit harsh

Good to have a QM with a spine for once.  That's the reason the RSQ has been in decline. 

I disagree, the problem with QM's has been that they fail to discuss valid objections and stick with their original decision

No problems with that one...

SCORES AFTER QUESTION 2

xxMAIRxx: 1
Girgy85: 3
kinboshi: 3
The_duke: 3
Laxie: 3
Stokes: 4
Josedinho: 6
cdw1111: 8
TightEnd: 8
G1BTW: 10
RichEO: 13
Shogun112: 13

Thanks for waiting for the objections..!!!  What a waste of time

I gave 5 minutes. If you have an objection I'm happy to hear it seeing as I've not posted Q3 yet. My spreadsheet can easily cope with score changes.

 ;ashamed;

gatso sticking up for a QM - the worlds gone mad!! :D

not interested any more.. move on...  Even if I object any more, wont bother, just fail every question for me or better still, remove my scores altogether...

QUESTION 3 - Name a football team who has been relegated from the premier league, and since then also relegated from the championship (aka division one in the old days).

ACE - Sheffield Wednesday - 1 point
Josedinho

ACE - Bradford City - 1 point
Girgy85

ACE - Wimbledon - 1 point
kinboshi

ACE - Leeds - 1 point
cdw1111

ACE - QPR - 1 point
Stokes

ACE - TightEnd - 1 point
Leicester City

ACE - Swindon Town - 1 point
The_duke

FAIL - Newcastle United - 5 points
xxMAIRxx

PASS
RichEO
Shogun112
G1BTW
Laxie

I think there's about 12 teams or there abouts that fit this criteria. Got quite a few of them between you.

Norwich City was one as well

Man City are another.

Complete guess, expected the fail

ACE - QPR - 1 point
Stokes

ACE - TightEnd - 1 point
Leicester City

ACE - Swindon Town - 1 point
The_duke

FAIL - Newcastle United - 5 points
xxMAIRxx

Please tell where the team Tightend play, is it near arsenal

oops lol

Any objections to moving on?

SCORES AFTER QUESTION 3

Laxie: 3
Girgy85: 4
kinboshi: 4
The_duke: 4
Stokes: 5
xxMAIRxx: 6
Josedinho: 7
cdw1111: 9
TightEnd: 9
G1BTW: 10
RichEO: 13
Shogun112: 13

QUESTION 4 - I own a rather nice set of poker chips, with printed denominations. When playing a tournament the starting stack is 5,000. Name one of the denominations of chips in my set. If you're feeling confident I have a couple of denominations you might not expect for the sake of a complete set...

SHEEP - 100 - 6 points
Josedinho
Shogun112
kinboshi
Stokes
xxMAIRxx
G1BTW

ACE - 500 - 1 point
Girgy85

ACE - 10 - 1 point
cdw1111

ACE - 25 - 1 point
The_duke

FAIL - 5 - 9 points
RichEO
Laxie

PASS
TightEnd

For reference, the complete set is currently: 10, 25, 100, 500, 1000, 5000, 25000

gg to cdw1111 for succesfully taking a punt on 10.

RichEO and Laxie have been sort of bad beated in that I currently have some .25, 1, and 5 chips on order for the same set. But as I don't currently have them...

my attacks on QMs have always been justified as they have failed to understand the workings of the english language either in their questions or in their answers (or often both). in this instance however cf understands perfectly and it is the objectors who fail to grasp either their mother tongue or laughably the rules of poker

Doh would have got an Ace there - Leyton Orient

there is no one set of rules in poker. It was reasonable to assume that the answer given, which applies in every casino I have ever been to including London casinos the Vic, Sportsman and Palm Beach, would be covered under Robert's rules

Trick questions, another reason the quiz is ruined...

fyp ;)

furthermore it could be argued that the rule itself is covered in Robert's rules, but there we are into semantics, where you gatso should feel right at home, alongside myself on the sofa eating pringles and practicing arson techniques.

furthermore the rule is specifcally mentioned in other sets of rules I have checked in the 90 minutes since failure

furthermore, I continue to simmer, not so gently, with indignation

I even consulted Simon Webbe from Blue, in Brussels. He concurred with me.

I know the feeling

gah, don't reply! i wanted to see how long tighty would take to himself for :)

Do they play  poker as well

On the subject of rules though. Poker really would benefit from a standardised set of rules that everywhere uses.

There's simply too many rule sets out there that contradict each other in places.

Then there's casinos with house rules etc.

It's a big mess.

tightend "simmering".........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e4f9tjBuTA

better than they sing

taking back to myself now

SCORES AFTER QUESTION 4

Girgy85: 5
The_duke: 5
TightEnd: 9
kinboshi: 10
cdw1111: 10
Stokes: 11
xxMAIRxx: 12
Laxie: 12
Josedinho: 13
G1BTW: 116
Shogun112: 19
RichEO: 22

QUESTION 5 - Super Mario Kart Wii contains many playable characters, all taken from a variety of Nintendo games. Name one of them. (One of the characters that is).

SHEEP - Yoshi - 3 points
Girgy85
cdw1111
Laxie

ACE - Baby Peach - 1 point
Josedinho

ACE - Peach - 1 point
RichEO

ACE - Diddy Kong - 1 point
Shogun112

ACE - Wario - 1 point
Stokes

ACE - Bowser Jnr - 1 point
TightEnd

ACE - Luigi - 1 point
xxMAIRxx

ACE - Bowser - 1 point
G1BTW

ACE - Donkey Kong - 1 point
The_duke

PASS
kinboshi

if, as you say, there is no one set of rules then surely it would in fact be reasonable to assume that rules would differ would it not? therefore you should not be surprised to find a set of rules in which there is a ruling with which you are unfamiliar

now compare your answer to the set of rules referenced in the question, take a deep breath and try to justify your answer

hate the question, not the marking

Doh - I fell for that one - You should have consulted Duncan James in Antwerp rotflmfao

Indeed. I think Robert was trying to refer to it in his rules though, but got lost in the oblique arcane chicanery of poker minutiae

OBJECTION : 116 points? already? :O

Pressing on. These few questions are all quite straightforward. Very much the calm before the storm. Question 1 wasn't where the farce is.

SCORES AFTER QUESTION 5

The_duke: 6
Girgy85: 8
TightEnd: 10
kinboshi: 10
Stokes: 12
cdw1111: 13
xxMAIRxx: 13
Josedinho: 14
Laxie: 15
G1BTW: 17
Shogun112: 20
RichEO: 23

typo lol, should have been 16 :)

QUESTION 6 - Name a Motorway that goes through Lancashire.

SHEEP - M65 - 3 points
Girgy85
TightEnd
The_duke

M6 - 2 points
xxMAIRxx
G1BTW

ACE - M66 - 1 point
RichEO

ACE - M602 - 1 point
Shogun112

ACE - M55 - 1 point
kinboshi

ACE - M62 - 1 point
cdw1111

PASS
Josedinho
Stokes
Laxie

Presume everyone is happy with that.

Moving on still, no need to spend too long on these few.

SCORES AFTER QUESTION 6

The_duke: 9
Girgy85: 11
kinboshi: 11
Stokes: 12
TightEnd: 13
cdw1111: 14
Josedinho: 14
xxMAIRxx: 15
Laxie: 15
G1BTW: 19
Shogun112: 21
RichEO: 24

tighty, out of intrerest, have you ever got an actual ruling on a floored card in any of the venues you've played or has it been a case of everyone around the table just deciding/assuming it was a misdeal and throwing their cards into the middle. I've seen this a few times and it's no indication of the actual house rule

QUESTION 7 - Name one of the tracks from "Greatest Hits" by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

SHEEP - Suck My Kiss - 3 points
Girgy85
kinboshi
Stokes

Scar Tissue - 2 points
Josedinho
cdw1111

Californication - 2 points
xxMAIRxx
Laxie

ACE - Otherside - 1 point
RichEO

ACE - My Friends - 1 point
Shogun112

ACE - Fortune Faded - 1 point
TightEnd

ACE - Give It Away - 1 point
G1BTW

ACE - Breaking The Girl - 1 point
The_duke

Yes I get your point

A mixture tbh, at my local there are inexperienced dealers and often players call the misdeal in these circumstances

In other venues I've seen the rule called

I wonder if its "card on floor=misdeal" in the GUKPT for example. Never seen it happen there

Sigh.  Should have gone for the obvious one "Under the Bridge", but thought I'd go for a lesser known one - and surprise surprise everyone's a Chilis fan ::)

a lot are. massive around the time of greatest hits and by the way with stadium tours, the lot

Everyone?

Yeah, when setting that question I figured the chili's are quite well know, and most might at least have an idea of one or two of their more popular tracks.

Impressed with a couple of the answers to that one - Tighty's particulary.

No idea, Far be it for me to cast aspersions on The Duke.

I can see Duke as a chilli's fan tbf

SCORES AFTER QUESTION 7

The_duke: 10
Girgy85: 14
kinboshi: 14
TightEnd: 14
Stokes: 15
cdw1111: 16
Josedinho: 16
xxMAIRxx: 17
Laxie: 17
G1BTW: 20
Shogun112: 22
RichEO: 25

Massive fan of the jalapeno

I don't like the fact that this is going smoothly so far - I know it's not going to last :(

QUESTION 8 - Terry Pratchett has written over 30 Discworld novels. Name one of them.

ACE - Hogfather - 1 point (should really be bonus points for this as it's the book i'm currently reading lol)
Josedinho

ACE - Pyramids - 1 point (one of Pterry's finest)
RichEO

ACE - Jingo - 1 point
Stokes

ACE - Thud! - 1 point
TightEnd

ACE - The Fifth Elephant - 1 point
Laxie

FAIL - Discworld - 4 points
G1BTW

PASS
Shogun112
Girgy85
kinboshi
cdw1111
xxMAIRxx
The_duke

I have to admit this suprised me slightly. I thought the Discworld series was slightly better known. Esp considering the recent Sky 1 adaptations.

Can't imagine there's any objections to that, so:

SCORES AFTER QUESTION 8

The_duke: 10
Girgy85: 14
kinboshi: 14
TightEnd: 15
Stokes: 16
cdw1111: 16
Josedinho: 17
xxMAIRxx: 17
Laxie: 18
Shogun112: 22
G1BTW: 24
RichEO: 26

OBJECTION: Discworld was the first novel, but Pratchett got Alzheimer's and forgot to tell people.

4 for a fail, record surely?

Oh yeah, they're well known.  Just can't stand them.

rofl, bit harsh lol

my score 14+1=15

Not 16

Hmm, indeed it is. Sorry about that.

I'm typing the scores into the forum by hand. It's still correct in my spreadsheet tho. I'll edit the post.

Ok, the fun question. I liked this one. I can't help but think with more people we might have got a couple of duplicates on one or two of these lol.

QUESTION 9 - Name something you might expect to find in a bedroom. SPECIAL NOTE: non-ace answers will incur a 5 point penalty.

ACES - 1 point each
Josedinho: Cricket Bat
RichEO: Oxygen
Shogun112: A Gimp mask
Girgy85: Semen stains
kinboshi: Bedbugs
cdw1111: Stop snoring nose strips
Stokes: A teddy
xxMAIRxx: Bedside Table
G1BTW: HOUSEMITE
The_duke: Power Socket
Laxie: Handcuffs

PASS
TightEnd

ACES - 1 point each
Josedinho: Cricket Bat


O RLY?

Doh not even a rabbit

I keep my golf clubs, tennis racket, and badminton racket in my bed room. Cricket bat not too hard to imagine.

kinboshi: Bedbugs
G1BTW: HOUSEMITE


Whale!

 :o

but I do not think most people "might expect" to keep a cricket bat in their bedroom

Shogun112: A Gimp mask

Laxie: Handcuffs


Both sadly all too likely

OBJECTION!  Housemites and bedbugs are the same thing!

Seconded

I do for obvious reasons

Hutches are better in the garden, sheltered, for the welfare of the animal

Erm, completely different species, bedbugs are insects - housemites are arachnids - and neither are aquatic mammals.

clear whale answer

This was my first instinct.

Upon consulting wikipedia though they appear to be of sufficiently different species..

because..........?

bedbug: Cimex lectularius

Housemite: Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus

I knew I should have put the full name to avoid this happening

disagree - they are different ...

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/homeandhealth/article.jsp?section_id=3&theme_id=2&subtheme_id=4&article_id=169&site=uk

I do think you are streching it to say you "might expect" to find a cricket bat in a bedroom

Would have, but not got one at the minute as they keep breaking on me.  Sigh.

yet more evidence of superlative QMing. The farce is dead

christ, Copyandpasteandfold has turned up now. My night is complete

lol, i'm not an expert on bugs/insects/whatevertheyare

I was thinking tighty for that question..!!! :)

They're more than different species - they're from a different class of animal as well.

But with the knowledge of the animal kingdom on here, that probably needs some explaining.

another   :o

those things are BIG, HUGE, my god ....... no way jose

well, you was having it far toooo easy  rotflmfao

Did you read the instruction manual?

They are not animals, they are classed with other insects like mosquitos as 'wee flyey things'

RIP Linnaeus, long live Laxie

just buy the carrots IMHO

Ok.

The two bug things are seperate answers. Seperate species etc.

And i'm allowing cricket bat to stand.

They have instructions?  Blimey.

SCORES AFTER QUESTION 9

The_duke: 11
Girgy85: 15
kinboshi: 15
TightEnd: 15
Stokes: 17
cdw1111: 17
Josedinho: 18
xxMAIRxx: 18
Laxie: 19
Shogun112: 23
G1BTW: 25
RichEO: 27

why?

i reckon they'd be in less than 0.1% of UK bedrooms and I am sure most concur with me on that

Like a blow up doll, kept going down on me..!!  Had to take it back, the replacement had a schlonger, blummin thing was inside out..!!

Because if I had a cricket bat I would keep it in my bedroom. As I'm sure others without sheds/gardens and living in shared houses would.

reckon more cricket bats in bedrooms than gimp masks tbh



But then judging by the bedrooms Tighty's been in  ;whistle;

Yeah Why?? Most likely, Tighty  is right, no way is that a most likely answer to have in any bedroom but a very rare percentage.

and aside from the 10 Test playing nations in zero percent of bedrooms

you wouldn't expect to find a cricket bat in a bedroom in Rio, Salt Lake City, Riyadh or Riga just to give four examples

It is good for defence

wtf? QM sees it from his perspective and no other shocker

Why not, I have one in my room. As would quite a few people...mine is because I play cricket, for others it could be used as a weapon for burglars.

Onwards.

QUESTION 10 - Name a country in Europe beginning with a consonant. Contrary to rulings by previous QMs I require that all answers are given in English.

SHEEP - Moldova - 3 points
RichEO
kinboshi
Stokes

Finland - 2 points
Shogun112
G1BTW

ACE - Norway - 1 point
Josedinho

ACE - Ukraine - 1 point
Girgy85

ACE - France - 1 point
cdw1111

ACE - Bosnia-Herzgovnia - 1 point
TightEnd

ACE - Portugal - 1 point
xxMAIRxx

ACE - Lithuania - 1 point
The_duke

ACE - Monaco - 1 point
Laxie

Onwards.



why? you have yet to satisfactorily answer my objection

kk ang on, if cricket bat is in, then what wouldn't be in? How 'might you expect' to find a cricket bat in a bedroom?

Met this bird in the pub. One thing led to another, brought her back to mine. We stumbled into my bedroom. 'WTF?, 'she cried , 'where's the cricket bat??? This is a bedroom, no?'

Sigh - would have got an Ace there

:dontask:

"Lets go back to my place sweetheart, got a great Gray Nicholls under my bed, all oiled and knocked in"

ORLY..??

How about a temporary bus stop?  Would that be a correct answer? 

 rotflmfao  -  Im not the only one then

what about a Wheelie bin?

The handle comes in handy

If the rabbit is in his hutch

rofl, i've been racking my brains as to what was wrong with Ukraine... i've only just noticed

Ukraine is now obviously a fail.

8 points.

A Ducati 916 brake disc?

Approaching Laxie and foldorfoldquickly QM status, carry on

If you spell it as Youcrane, then it's fine.

::)

I was starting to doubt it was even in Europe lol. Obviously it is, but I had to go and double check and for the life of me couldn't see why you were all commenting on it.

QM not knowing what a consonent is, awesome.

For the record...I also have a baseball bat in my room.  And a black thorn walking stick.  

SCORES AFTER QUESTION 10

The_duke: 12
TightEnd: 16
kinboshi: 18
cdw1111: 18
Josedinho: 19
xxMAIRxx: 19
Stokes: 20
Laxie: 20
Girgy85: 23
Shogun112: 25
G1BTW: 27
RichEO: 30

...and a broken and beaten rabbit.

or even how to spell it

Very useful items in the bedroom

Naw.  Throw em out once they're broke.

And we now move onto the questions I'm not looking foward to. Sigh, I may kill myself after the abuse I'm no doubt about to recieve.

You could go to Switzerland via the Youcrane

When I first designed this quiz there were more questions as you know. Furthermore, I expected more players. As such, the 10 points I allocated for this seemed fair at the time. Obviously now it doesn't seem so fair, but I can't change it after I've compiled the answers. Also, to be fair, this is a somewhat logical choice, not completely arbitary. That said...

QUESTION 11 - Name a chemical element beginning with the letter "c".

SPECIAL - Californium (Cf) - -10 points
Girgy85
kinboshi

SHEEP - Cobalt - 3 points
Josedinho
TightEnd
Laxie

SHEEP - Chlorine - 3 points
cdw1111
xxMAIRxx
The_duke

Cadmium - 2 points
RichEO
Stokes

ACE - Calcium - 1 point
Shogun112

ACE - Chromium - 1 point
G1BTW

I'll be back in 5 minutes to asses the damage.

sigh

Californium (pronounced /ˌkælɨˈfɔrniəm/) is a metallic chemical element with the symbol Cf and atomic number 98. A radioactive transuranic element, californium is used in starting nuclear reactors, optimizing coal-fired power plants and cement production facilities (via online analyzers), medical treatment of cancer, and oil exploration via down hole well logging. It was first produced by bombarding curium with alpha particles (helium ions).

OBJECTION

Right, I'm banning Cf for giving me and Girgy 10 points for an answer that wasn't even the sheep answer.

The annoying thing is I nearly went for caesium instead, but thought no one would go for Californium. 

What is your objection?

It's an element.  What is the problem?

You haven't got 10 points.

You've got MINUS 10 points.

he gave you minus 10

Cf? Cf? Geddit? Special answer!

You idiot...go back and read the OP.  You both LOSE 10 points off your score and are now well within firing distance of a win.  Sigh.

I thought he had failed it, I was trying to back you up Kin

why on earth do they get negative points?

Oh - bonus points.  Interesting...

Sorry. What's the objection? You've even emboldened the is an element part...

Ah!  I see.  I thought I was being penalised as well.  Apparently not...

oH FFS

There is a "special answer" to one of the questions which will recieve a special bonus of -10 points to anyone who selects this answer. If multiple people select this answer then the amount of people who select it is ignored for the purposes of determining the sheep score.

So the whole last three hours become a complete waste of time because of some arbitrary quiz fixing malarky?

with that, I am out.

it was getting interesting -- but with -10 points -- wow thats huge and now not so interesting

Absolutely

use it on an early question for gawds sake not when you've kept us here for hours before you ruin it

LOL @ me getting the bonus answer without even knowing there was one!

:D

its not my week - rivered again

LMAO @ Tighty being out - TWICE tonight!

Yeah, I realise now it was worth too many points. I expected the scores to be generally higher.

I don't think there's much I can do about it now though..

Once more for his hat-trick?

What about the people who were REALLY going to win this quiz?  Having to put up with a ridiculous decision..?

It could very well happen on the next question if he reads it.

OBJECTION: I have just checked the periodic table and Cr Cricketium is not there, confounding my expectations

Rules are rules.  Robert knows best.

;)

I'll fucking read it you numpty

I am at Alea Leeds tomorrow night. I hope you won't be

You need the periodic bed-side table of the elements.

These are the official scores. At the end I will post what girgy/kinboshi would have got without this bonus, and we can see if it would have made a big difference.

SCORES AFTER QUESTION 11

kinboshi: 8
Girgy85: 13
The_duke: 15
TightEnd: 19
cdw1111: 21
Josedinho: 22
xxMAIRxx: 22
Stokes: 22
Laxie: 23
Shogun112: 26
G1BTW: 28
RichEO: 32

Thankfully I'm not lol

(http://goatmilk.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/mushroom-cloud1.jpg)

Now, this next one. I am willing to listen to objections. What we have here is a case of a question which perhaps wasn't very clear. That said, I think this might make history:

QUESTION 12 - The Dusk Till Dawn monthly £300 deepstack game starts with 10,000 chips and has a 45 minute clock. Name one of the first 10 levels, and give me that level's small blind, big blind, and ante. If there is no ante then say 0 for the ante.

FAIL - 150/300-0 (not a level) - 5 points
kinboshi

FAIL - 4000/8000-800 (not one of the first 10) - 5 points
cdw1111

FAIL - 300/600-50 (no level number given) - 5 points
Shogun112
TightEnd

FAIL - 25/50-0 (no level number given) - 5 points
The_duke

FAIL - 50/100-0 (no level number given) - 5 points
Stokes

FAIL - 100/200-0 (no level number given) - 5 points
Laxie

FAIL - 100/200-25 (no level number given) - 5 points
Girgy85

FAIL - 150/300-25 (no level number given) - 5 points
RichEO

FAIL - 400/800-100 (no level number given) - 5 points
xxMAIRxx


PASS
Josedinho
G1BTW

Name one of the first 10 levels, and give me that level's small blind, big blind, and ante.

There was no one, no matter how normal, no matter how strong, who did not, if you watched and studied him long enough, sooner or later show his flaw, the exposed nerve that, if pressed at the right time, could paralyse him

OH FFS!!!!  If the whole feckin lot of us did it the same way, don't ya think just MAYBE you could cut us some slack on this one?!

LOLOL you complete and utter fool


You are now officially the worst RSQ QM ever. Congratulations

A+, wp sir

Twat.

OMG -- bye bye

 rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao  I think this has buried the RSQ

very open to misinterpretation though.

Had it been just one or two of us, fine...but the WHOLE FECKIN LOT?!

lol, passed it cos I knew blind amounts but didn't know what level number to attribute them to, go figure

take away the italics and read it again  cf you clown

As I say I'm open to objections here and will reworkout the points if I need to.

If you can tell me why the question isn't clear I will change it. To me it was, but written English is hardly my strong point.

After Q1, that was VERY VERY VERY evident and it has gone downhill ever since...

lowest rsq turnout you should have known!

-10 points could be overlooked - maybe just maybe, but this just puts it beyond comprehension, not even farcical - its just plain silly

OK - you asked us to 'name' the level - not provide the ordinal tag for that level.  If someone said level 4, they could name it as the 150/300 level (antes 0)  - if it is level 4, it's something like that.

Edit, it's actually level 5 that can be named the 150/300 level.

do you know this plonker?

before I ban him please give us the background to this berk

If there was such a thing as Worst Of Blonde, this post would have been top of the list..

If it had been clear at least ONE of us would have answered the way you expected.  Obviously not clear to say NOT ONE answered that way.  

That said, happy to hand over the Derry torch to you.  Well done!  lol

Ok, obv no-one agrees with me here, so I'm willing to change it. I suspected I might, but left it as is for the (somewhat unlikely) scenario that someone agreed lol. Give me a few minutes.

All gone quiet, hiding with embarrasment?

I'm trying to remember an online poker site I play on where they don't name levels 'Level 1, Level 2' etc, then state the corresponding blind chip amounts alongside. Granted, QM could have made it much clearer, by choosing wording such as 'Name one of the first 10 levels, and give me that level's small blind, big blind, and ante.' or something

Actually worse than saying Holland is a country..!!

OBJECTION! It's perfectly clear what you meant, you can't really override the obvious meaning of your question just because everyone fucked it up. I passed it because it was dead obvious what you meant, but I couldn't correspond the Level numbers

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/tourStructSnGHold.php

http://www.partypoker.com/tournaments/types_tournament/multi_table/blind_structure.html

Overruled I'm afraid.

To me I was happy that the question made sense and was clear. Evidently however it wasn't as no-one seemed to understand what was asked.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's go again:

QUESTION 12 - The Dusk Till Dawn monthly £300 deepstack game starts with 10,000 chips and has a 45 minute clock. Name one of the first 10 levels, and give me that level's small blind, big blind, and ante. If there is no ante then say 0 for the ante.

SHEEP - 300/600-50 - 2 point
Shogun112
TightEnd

ACE - 25/50-0 - 1 point
The_duke

ACE - 50/100-0 - 1 point
Stokes

ACE - 100/200-0 - 1 point
Laxie

ACE - 100/200-25 - 1 point
Girgy85

ACE - 150/300-25 - 1 point
RichEO

ACE - 400/800-100 - 1 point
xxMAIRxx

FAIL - 150/300-0 - 7 points
kinboshi

FAIL - 4000/8000-800 - 7 points
cdw1111

PASS
Josedinho
G1BTW

well played CF. too late to save your reputation but better late than never

lololololol

Tighty back in.  Will be interesting to see if he makes it through the last question.

Ok, onto the scores before the final question:

SCORES AFTER QUESTION 12

Girgy85: 14
kinboshi: 15
The_duke: 16
TightEnd: 21
Josedinho: 22
xxMAIRxx: 23
Stokes: 23
Laxie: 24
cdw1111: 28
Shogun112: 28
G1BTW: 28
RichEO: 33

And finally:

QUESTION 13 - Give the name (real name, not blonde username) of one of the 10 shrewdies as given in the first post of "SHREWDIES ON TOUR 2009".

SHEEP - Brent Horner - 2 points
Josedinho
Laxie

SHEEP - James Moody - 2 points
kinboshi
TightEnd

SHEEP - Dave Jones - 2 points
cdw1111
The_duke

ACE - Ben Turnstill - 1 point
Shogun112

ACE - Benji Muir - 1 point
Girgy85

FAIL - Richard Offless - 6 points
xxMAIRxx

FAIL - Claire McGregor - 6 points
G1BTW

PASS
RichEO
Stokes

OBJECTION.

Gooooooooogle.

I'm sorry, but there's absolutely no way that some of those answers were known without looking them up.

ok I know you won't change it but let's be honest that is a bit farcical eh lol, but keep the peace in case someone throws their rattle out pram

QUESTION: Name one of the first 10 levels, and give me that level's small blind, big blind, and ante. If there is no ante then say 0 for the ante.

ANSWERS: "Name one of the first 10 levels" (OK they failed to see that this bit shouldn't be completely ignored, easily done)

"and" Normally used in an english question to indicate that some other separate piece of info should be supplied (ignored)

"give me that level's small blind, big blind, and ante. If there is no ante then say 0 for the ante." Ok we'll just ignore the first bit and give you that bit instead. If we ALL do this, maybe the fact that we ALL fucked it up will be ignored.

Give me 3 European Countries and their capitals:

Bob: Edinburgh
Mike: Paris
Dave: London

Sorry, you're all wrong, you missed out the obvious first part of the question.

'Waaah! How can we ALL have misunderstood! You're obviously crap at this!!'

Duh, ok then, I can see your point, you're all in fact right in reading the question wrongly and ignoring a crucial part of it.

Farce, should have stuck to your guns.

It's James Patrick Moody. 

Or are you accepting part answers now as well?

LMAOOOOO @ objecting to yer own answer.

Obviously he's lacking the spine that was evident earlier.

James Patrick Moody was my answer.

Just checked the thread. It's listed as simply "James Moody".

behave or else I will disclose your middle names

Ok fuck it, I've had enough of this farce, I'm off, bye.












In keeping with tradition I will in fact be back in 2 minutes to discover that I have unexpectedly done ok and am near the top of the leaderboard again.

you learn well

No final objections before the results?

Yeah, minus 10 should be reversed as it is plainy unfair

Only have one, and it's James. 

Richard Quentin Albert Crispin Prew

Yeah, plainy.  Whatever that means.

FINAL SCORES

Girgy85: 15
kinboshi: 17
The_duke: 18
TightEnd: 23
Stokes: 23
Josedinho: 24
Laxie: 26
Shogun112: 29
xxMAIRxx: 29
cdw1111: 30
RichEO: 33
G1BTW: 34

lol @ girgy winning. He only entered because I told him to. I'm pretty sure he has no interest in running one however so I will pass the responsibility of the next (hopefully better) quiz to kinboshi, or whoever he wishes to nominate. I would suggest that The_duke gets first dibs on running the next one due to kinboshi/girgy only having better scores because of the -10 thingy.

It's been an experience! I hope everyone "enjoyed" the quiz. It was perhaps slightly more farcical than it should have been!

Who wants to run the quiz nobody wants to play? erm...

My problem was that when I read the original rules I didn't take into account the interim rules or even reagrd the special rules or indeed the eventual final rules - but rules are rules however twisted -

well done to the winner I am getting impervious to bad beats

I read them all on twitter!

:D

been a bad week

 ;ifm;

notwithstanding this sillyness -- Trafficjam for QM

I didn't enter this one - glad I didn't too rotflmfao

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Right who wants the job next week? Please reply with a short paragraph as to why you think you would be the best QM and i shall pick a winner 2moro!

Just give it to trafficjam.  She may not want it, but all of us want her to have it.  Go on.  You know it makes sense.

I'll do it Girgy.  Pick me and I'll bring the RSQ back on track.

Proberly...

farce imo. i run an awesome quiz, started on time, finished in a reasonable time frame, etc, etc. questions prob weren't the best, but the actual running of the quiz can't be debated. i quite clearly pass the responsibility of the next quiz on to kinboshi, and still nothing has been arranged. complete joke.

(the next QM is going to get hell as tighty puts it. running one of these things turns you into a twisted hateful person who wishes to inflict pain on the next poor QM!)

You won't feel better for a while...enjoy!   rotflmfao

Shush Farcemeister.  Where does Girgy say he wants you to pass the QM baton on to anyone?

The running of your quiz can be debated.  From a strong, firm but fair QM you changed into a spineless jellyfish on the levels question, and then proceeded to ignore objections on subsequent questions.

::)

I think Girgy should do it as looking at his other posts he will lose weight fast.  If not, it is only fair that the next in line, even if they have done it before etc.,

When it does, if ever, come to my turn rightfully earned, God help you, I crack a really good whip. I am not ready yet    rotflmfao rotflmfao

Girgy for QM. Since when does not wanting to do it count?

+1 take your comeuppance.

You'd better accept quick.  Longer you delay the inevitable, the more you'll regret it later.

Get on with it buster

You can't do much worse than your mate.

Im sorry guys i dont have the time!

I had a PM from someone accepting to run next weeks RSQ so if thats ok with them i bring you next weeks QM............PAWPRINT!!

No, you must do it

complete farce i tell you

losing momentum

I'm keeping out of it.


I think the people have spoken.

omg, complete farce. QM agrees to run quiz. 2 posts later QM bails!

I'm happy to do it, but not if everyone boycotts it as a show of protest to Girgy's lack of willingness to follow in RSQ tradition.

Id run it if i knew what to do! This week was the first time id entered and only cos CF was badgering me to do so!

FYP

Get on with it already ;)

Hurry up

p.s look at the first post of an RSQ. Copy the rules onto a new thread

set ten questions

set a reveal date you can make


then mark the scores

reveal the answers


job done

Ok il do it.

Just jotting down some questions now and i wil post them up tonight when i have more time ok?

They'd better be good.

;nemesis;

Well done

And remember, Laxie is mad, trafficjam is madder and if I object, agree with me

FYP

 ;ifm;