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The Rules.

There are 12 questions.

PM me your answers by 9am on Tuesday 22/03/2011. Please put RSQ49 in the subject header and give the corresponding number for each question.
There will be no extra marks for neatness but you will get a nod of approval from me.

The reveal will take place at 8pm on Tuesday 22/03/2011 on this thread.
I will even set my alarm.
The usual haggling will then take place.

Your score for each question is the number of people who give the same correct answer. The answer most commonly given is called the sheep, with the corresponding sheep score.  If you score the only ACE (an ace being a correct answer which no-one else submits) in any round, you will receive MINUS 1 points for that round.
You are not allowed to do research such as Google searches to come up with answers, and you are not allowed to ask others for help with your answers.  Remember, you are only cheating yourself (and your illustrious peers).

If you give an incorrect answer, you will receive the sheep score + 5 points

You MUST pass on one, and only one, question and you will receive a score of 0 for that question.

I will try to be reasonable about spelling but I cannot guarantee that my rulings will meet with universal approval.


Objections will be considered during the reveal but I will try to keep the process short and as painless as possible.


The lowest aggregate score after the 12 rounds will win. In the event of a tie, I will create an arbitrary rule to decide the winner.


The Questions.


1. Name a chemical element (with atomic number less than 92) whose name begins with the letter C.

2. Name a non-American (i.e. born outside the US) poker player that won a WSOP bracelet in 2010 (events 1 to 57).

3. Name a film that has been nominated for more than 9 Oscars.

4. Name a player who was in England's squad at the start of the current Cricket World Cup.

5. Name a husband of the actress Elizabeth Taylor.

6. Name a female tennis player who has won a Grand Slam singles title since (and including) 2000.

7. Give a whole integer square number between 101 and 300.

8. Name a Nobel Peace prize winner (1990-2010 inclusive).

9. Name a musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (where they are the major credited composer and lyricist) that has run in the West End.

10. Name a book by Charles Dickens.

11. Name one of the nine countries that were part of the European Economic Community in 1973.

12. Give the title of a record by Abba that reached number one in the British charts.





I will accept and consider objections including (but not limited to) "too difficult", "too easy", "badly expressed", "not suitable for RSQ", "already asked" and "lacking in variety" so long as the objection is raised before 10am tomorrow. If I deem it necessary, I will revise the questions before 1pm tomorrow but there will be no revisions after that time.


This quiz may lack a little of the flair of previous versions but you should blame Tighty for that. If I am ever asked to do it again I will try to be more creative.


The Field.

TightEnd
Acidmouse
moonandback
thetank
The-Crow
Silo Graham
redsimon
George2Loose
TommyD
Girgy85
snoopy1239
kinboshi
Waz1892
technolog

For you or the entrants?



Stiky button pressed, there is no hiding

Me, of course; what do I care about the entrants?

A pointer, it will get really bad from the start otherwise

2. Name a non-American (i.e. born outside the US) poker player that won a WSOP bracelet this year (events 1 to 57).

WSOP hasn't been this year yet.

Thanks. I will clarify.

Wont be entering with those Questions!

Can I Google avoirdupois?

It's a subset of "imperial" and includes the common ones.
If you Google it you will see the answers on the results page.

1. Name a chemical element (with atomic number less than 92) whose name begins with the letter C.  (I along with 99% of the population have no idea what atomic number less than 92 means, therefore utter fail.)

3. Name a film that has been nominated for more than 9 Oscars. (this begs for a google activity)

4. Name an English football team in the top four divisions (I don't know the collective name for these any more) whose name starts and ends with the same letter. (2-3 possible answers?)

5. Name a husband of the actress Elizabeth Taylor. (i am guessing younger people have no idea who she was let along who she was married to)

7. Give a whole integer square number between 101 and 300. (do you have OCD? seriously bad bad question)

8. Name a Nobel Peace prize winner (1990-2010 inclusive). (not a scoobie, i assume others don't know either)

10. Name a (British) avoirdupois measure of weight. (avoirdupois = fail)

11. Name a character that was listed in the end credits of Eastenders last night. (Tuesday 15/03). (fail fail fail fail)


This is a fail I am afraid, it assumes way too much intelligence in the forum users!

That bad?

lol


Two brains strikes!

EXCELLENT!

Men from the boys, this will sort.*

*Copyright Yoder

I considered:

Name a vegetable
Name a colour of the rainbow
Name one of the seven dwarves

Yoder?

All the questions should be really easy to answer, the skill is picking an answer that no one else picks and for that reason it fails.

Some excellent questions, some dodgy questions, and some ridiculous ones tbh.

The idea is that virtually everyone (everyone except Laxie and TRIP) will be able to give a couple of answers to every question, and the art for entrants is picking a non-sheep answer using nth level thinking.  Sometimes questions will have a discrete set of answers (such as "Name a planet in the solar system), that most will know all the answers to (and some will even go for Pluto and the fail) - and the art is to pick the least obvious one (or maybe the most obvious one).

Others will have more answers, but not everyone will know many of the answers.  Sometimes there might be an option to 'gamble' and go for a risky answer, rather than the obvious (but sheepy) one.

With the exception of the Eastenders question, that's what I thought that I had done.
Misjudgement by me, obv.

4. Name an English football team in the top four divisions (I don't know the collective name for these any more) whose name starts and ends with the same letter. (2-3 possible answers?)


4 possible answers I think

Hate to complain, as I appreciate Mr Novice's efforts here..but that doesn't make it a good RSQ question. Just some friendly advice.

A character whom to I am often admiringly compared, in Star Trek he was, a famous film.

I thought that a couple of easy answers was exactly how I'd pitched it with a chance for people with a bit more knowledge of any particular question to pick something a little more obscure.
I'm guessing by the feedback so far that I'm a little wide of the mark.

I like the feel of the questions tbh and small tweak with different wordings and it be perfect.

I hate rsq. mere has set questions, that I don't know the answers to, and has used some words I don't even the meaning of.

And for that reason I'm IN!

Happy to remove it.
I was sure that there used to be about seven but four appears to be closer to the mark.
Whatever happened to York City?

Leave 'em
Fk 'em
You're QM

In the Conference now

lol
I'm happy to adjust the questions.

Perhaps people could post the numbers for the questions (if any) that they feel are suitable/reasonable.
If there any that receive general approval I'll keep them.
I'll consider replacing everything else.

Keep the feedback coming.

Farce, this is.

I knew you'd like it.

Questions 4 and 11 have been changed.
I am happy to keep changing the questions (within reason) if a concensus is achieved.

this is awesome. you thought they were all easy except for the eastenders one. lolz

I'd assumed that, since there had already been 48 of these quizzes, that the participants were pretty experienced "quizzers".
My mistake.
I'm determined to try to get something acceptable by 1pm tomorrow though.  :)

I'd also assumed (but didn't want to say) that everyone cheated like feck.  ;)

Sharplea resembles that remark.

If one of the questions was " name a reverse sheep quiz master who fully gets and understands the concept of it ?" we would all know that merenovice would have to be marked as a fail. Regrettably i will have another free Tuesday evening.

Assumption number 392.

Having watched the Blonde team on Eggheads, I didn't want to insult your intelligence.

That's a spiffing review.
Most entertaining.

In yer eye, lads.

Anyone seen or heard of TRIP5 since last night's debacle?

Will the same fate befall Mere?

Will he get The Tank seal of approval?

+1 to acidmouse!!

Pretty much gotta google most of it!!

lol WTF is this.

1. Name a chemical element (with atomic number less than 92) whose name begins with the letter C. Fine by me as most of them are

2. Name a non-American (i.e. born outside the US) poker player that won a WSOP bracelet in 2010 (events 1 to 57). ???

3. Name a film that has been nominated for more than 9 Oscars. Could guess but ???

4. Name a player who was in England's squad at the start of the current Cricket World Cup. ???

5. Name a husband of the actress Elizabeth Taylor. ???

6. Name a female tennis player who has won a Grand Slam singles title since (and including) 2000. Fine

7. Give a whole integer square number between 101 and 300. Fine, but not exactly an RSQ question. It boilds down to pick a random number between 1..n

8. Name a Nobel Peace prize winner (1990-2010 inclusive). Prob fine, me personally: ???

9. Name a musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (where they are the major credited composer and lyricist) that has run in the West End. ??? Unless some of his BBC one things share name...

10. Name a (British) avoirdupois measure of weight. A what??

11. Name an American state that begins with the letter 'M'. We had this like 2 weeks ago

12. Give the title of a record by Abba that reached number one in the British charts. Fine

Fix please :)

I'm not exactly sure what the emoticon that you've used signifies but I'm guessing that it means that you're perplexed by the questions?

Are you seriously saying that you can't think of a few non-American poker players who won a WSOP bracelet last year?

oh, that was supposed to be three question marks - didn't realise it did that lol

Actually yeah, just realised the obvious answer to the WSOP one. Yeah, that's fine.

Yea we can but the rest are tosh so sort them out!!

I'm happy with them pending further feedback.
If the American states question has been asked recently I'll replace that one.

Sad indictment on myself but I can give several answers for all but one question.  In fact I can see the obvious answers, the risky ones and some traps.  Personally I think they are a cracking set.  I'll wait until tomorrow to send in my answers as these appear to be subject to change.

Positives from this - I feel confident in this RSQ

Negatives from this - I think like Mere.

Lol gg rsq!!

can you change 10 please? avoirdupois indeed!

11 you are already changing


that apart, rest of the questions are now ok I think. Challenging no doubt, but multiple answers not tough to find

For One Million Pounds:
Can you name/who is/what was?? etc

Err too hard Chris, can you change the question please



The questions were set, entrants all woking from the same sheet, some don't like, just woke up so not doing sentences.

If I enter, I will wait for all the bullying to die down and wait for the final questions.

what bullying?

just giving honest opinions, that if a few changes are made he'll get more participants


This is an intelligent man, we're mainly in safe hands, unlike the last few RSQs..

I was going to use the word "imperial" but that left too much room for haggling.
10 and 11 now changed.

I'm happy with the questions as they are now.

Assumption 374.
I thought that since everyone seemed to have an avatar from an Eastenders character at one stage that you were all intimately familiar with the cast. Another mistake, I guess.

elizabeth taylor question is awful for anyone under 50. I've just googled it and have only heard on 1 of the 7 and even for that one had no idea he'd married her

I like these questions now

All part of the fun.

There will be no further changes after 1pm tomorrow and, as I'm likely to be comatose for a good part of the time before then, I suspect that there will be very few changes at all.

Thanks for the support.

Compared to setting forty questions to satisfy a pub audience of students, OAPS, locals, strangers, intellectuals and drunks this is a doddle.

really? I'd have a good stab at 4 or more

Please tell me that you're kidding me.

This isn't meant to be like a normal quiz, such as a pub quiz.  It's an RSQ.

The answers are meant to be obvious to all.  It's not the worst one ever, but I think it's going to put off lots of people from entering (was that the plan?).

+100

me too -  they were all pretty good looking from what I remember. 

I can name two of them.

A good RSQ question then or not?

yeah fine i think. but i am old.

By the way, I know one for sure (the obvious one) and another that I think is right...

Not originally!

I'm aware of the difference between a normal quiz and an RSQ. However, I assume that the goal is still to reward the players with greater knowledge (as well as tactical nous).

My intention was to have at least a couple of fairly obvious answers for each question, some slightly more obscure and, in some cases, some really obscure ones. If the questions all have 7 obvious answers (e.g. name a colour of the rainbow, a day of the week, a month with 31 days or one of the seven dwarves) then it's just a random guessing game trying to decide what everyone else is going to put. It has already been argued that the square number question is pretty much in that category but I'm going to leave it in.

I'd not seen any of the quizzes prior to Irene's spectacular last week so I think that I may have misjudged my audience. Apologies.

On the plus side, if no-one enters, it should simplify the scoring for me. :)

she last got divorced 15 years ago and it's longer than that since she was last in a film. why would anyone who isn't old have a clue who she is let alone who she married?

13 perfect questions http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=41974.0

ok, 11 perfect questions, 4 and 13 are debatable

these are the sort of thing you should go for

haven't clicked the link, but presume it's to one of my previous RSQs?

Why do you continue to post in rsq threads gatso? I thought you'd retired? The pre quiz complaining is all part of it so you're breaking your retirement.

I'm like a retired footballer who goes into coaching. I'm not gonna turn out on match day but I'm there to assist during the week

I'd say that one of her marriages was the most famous show business marriage of all time so I thought that everyone would know that.

All these questions irked me because I don't know obscure answers to them.

I do know the common answers, or can make an educated guess in the case of Oscars and the EU question so have to concede they are decent RSQ questions.



It certainly is a quizz to seperate the men from the boys. The problem is there's one man (tightend) and the rest of us are boys. We all already know this and have made our peace with the fact, and thus the value of man/boy seperation questions not as much as one might think.

I reckon tightend vs the field is an odds on bet.

Still looking forward to the reveal, and aiming for 2nd place.

FYP

Who is Elizabeth Taylor ?

really!?


lolol

She's the woman who was married to pass.

she was in the flintstones

that's the only film of hers I've seen plus I remember her voicing maggie simpson

The man does make a fair point.

I just wish I knew more. :(

i'm not a boy :(

That's the spirit

mon the field!

Entered and enjoyed it

Nailed on to win this one. None of you need bother.  ;)


cheers

It's all urs!! Don't think anybody is gonna bother!!

really

Just looked her up on wikipedia. She's not been in any films recently or that I recognize. I was born in 85. Before that she was in a lot of stuff. After that not so much. Her last wedding was when I was 6 years old. The previous one was 10 years before I was born.

Why should I know who she is or who she has been married to?

Great Questions Vince

This may not be the best RSQ ever , but it may be the funniest

Answers sent via Pigeon Post


By the way, did anyone see the Eggheads get beat by a student tonight

All 5 quizmasters in, against one giggling student who beat 'em all ,lol

I'm out now, I liked the fact that I knew fk all about the questions, and didn't even understand some of them. New ones aren't as much fun.

glglglglggl all.

mon the field imo

I've received several entries already which is quite impressive since the questions are still volatile for another eight hours.

It's possible that one competitor (no names) may achieve a negative score.

Haven't entered one of these for a while, but the threads remain fascinating reading for a variety of reasons...


Pretty sure this question is too hard if you weren't around 35 years ago. I could only name one - having looked it up I realised that I knew another one but wouldn't have remembered his name, and might have come up with a surname for another given a couple of months to think about it.

Hope you're not thinking of Graham Taylor...

I'm intrigued by the response to this question.

As people have several days to contemplate the questions, I tried to add a couple where people would have to think a bit before coming up with an answer that wasn't one of the top two or three answers. I accept that this particular question may have only one obvious answer. Given that, people can then decide to play tactically and use their pass on this question because they assume that the sheep score will be large. Similarly, if anyone tries to be clever and gets it wrong, the fail score should be large too. It's a risk/reward balance that you need to consider as part of an RSQ.

 rotflmfao

...and if anyone doesn't know another answer?  They might as well not enter.

She was great in Cleopatra and her co-star was a hunk of the time *wink*

If they don't know another answer (which would surprise me) they should go with the obvious answer to this question or back their best hunch for a non-obvious answer. Alternatively they could gamble that there will be no score greater than one for the other question they don't know and take a wild guess assuming that the worst they will score is six. Lots of things to consider basically. As this is the 49th RSQ on this forum (if the numbering was sequential starting from one) I guess participants will have honed their tactics to a fine edge by now.

Are you sure you're not confusing her with Amanda Barrie?

This is all well and good, but if there's a question you don't know the answer to the tactical edge goes completely out of the window as you are forced into which question you're passing.

Your new questions are generally better. I'd argue the cricket one isn't particulary great (i sometimes think cricket fans misunderestimate how completely unintersting others find their sport...). I can manage it but can see others struggling.

But the Elizabeth Hurley one... it's all well and good saying surely everyone knows this, and there's at least one obvious answer... but please consider that for quite a few of us on here she was simply before our time. Looking through her list of films i've heard of some of them but never watched them. And considering her last marriage was when I was 6 years old I don't understand how i'm expected to know the names of her husbands. I asked my mate who's much more into films than I am. He'd heard of her and was aware she'd been married a few times but didn't know any of the names.

I stand by my comment that one of her marriages is the most famous show business marriage of all time.
I accept that I misjudged my audience for that particular question (but you're stuck with it) - I thought that most people would know of at least one of the others.

I'm not going to rise to the bait with regard to cricket. The World Cup is currently being played daily and there are 15 players to chose from.
I have no particular interest in football but I would accept that I may be in a minority.

 

[  ] merenovice gets what rsq is all about
[X] merenovice kills rsq
[  ] this rsq is gonna be fun

We aim to please.

I last used my brain at school where I may of been able to answer the science and maths questions! Not now as it's full of boobs and useless information!!

I'm with cf on the liz Hurley Q!! Don't know one possible answer!!

Nobel prizes meh again no clue!!

FIX IT!!!!

QFT.

Here's a great (non-RSQ) question. How many consecutive Posts has girgy made which included an exclamation mark, prior to this? Is this the first ever?

Nah, he had a bet recently where he wasn't allowed to use !!!! in his posts.

VIIIIIIINNNNNNNNCCCEEEEEEEEE WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

GLGLGLGLGLGLGLGLGLGLGLGLI shall happily join in as soon as I can confirm I can get reveal night off from hospital duty

For now.....

(http://holidaygiftsfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/st-patricks-day.jpg)

Have a pint of the Irish on me ;)

Happy St. Patrics Day

xx

This quiz matches the specification.
I'm glad that I lived up to your expectation.

It does. It is everything I expected it to be........

Seriously man, sorry if I've caused you some headaches, hang in there though.

Not a hint of a headache (for me, anyway).

I'm just worried for Tighty who has submitted his answers already and I've still got ten minutes left to change the questions before the deadline I set.

I cannot imagine you are considering being mischievious, & having some sport with his Tight-ness......

The deadline has passed.
It is now too late to change any of the questions.

Any whinging between now and 8pm Tuesday is purely for entertainment value.
Enjoy.

You mean there was still time to fix that awful elizabeth hurley question!? Farce!

Will tikay be entering this quiz?

No, but I shall enjoy watching the carnage from the sidelines.

I know nothing of Elizabeth Hurley, but if pushed, I bet I could name at least 6 of Liz Taylor's hubbies. she was bigger than Victoria Beckham & Lada Gaga combined in her day. I doubt there has ever been a bigger "star" in my lifetime.

If only someone had said something about it in time. ;)

I'm still waiting for Tikay's entry.

oops massive fail on the name by me there

Were not all 76 tho Tikay.

Bigger stars in your lifetime (in no particular order, off the top of my head):

Moses
Jesus H Christ
Henry VIII
Gengis Khan
Alexander the Great
Julius Caesar
Cleopatra (thought you'd like the connection with that one)
Boudica
King Arthur
William Shakespeare
...etc.

i struggled enough to name a cricketing county the other week - never mind a player.  gonna have to sit this one out i think :(

:(

If you watch any news program today, you'll almost certainly see at least one of them.

In other news there is a Cricket World Cup thread somewhere in these forums.  Happy hunting ;)

that's research though (i.e cheating!)

What Claw said! I remember Laxies cheescake question where I had to avoid her diary for the whole week til reveal...even then I got the question wrong ooops!!!!

Badmemory.com ;)

Ok, fair play.  However I'm sure on any breakfast news show tomorrow the England game will be mentioned.  Surely having the TV or radio on as you would normally do isn't research?

New question.

What's the smallest ever field for a Blonde RSQ?

zero for the 2 sharplea tried to run before he relented and changed his ridic questions

Damn, I thought I had a chance at the record.

Nobody wants to play cos ur questions are crap!!

Thanks for your deep insight.
Where did you get your D.Phil?

he obtained it while working for the diplomatic service :)

In before girgy.

"!"

MereNovice. Kills all known quizzes. Dead.

As long as you get 11 entries you beat my ahem...record.

Time to submit your entry Kendall :)

We've til 9am on Tuesday to enter.  No rush. 

I WILL be in Mere. Just need time to google think up some answers.

Google thinking is your friend.

That's the problem.

Oi!

I don't reckon you were the model for Rodin's sculpture either, although you were around at the time ;D

After racking my bird brain for minutes , I came up with a set of answers

 I am sure no-one else will think of

roll on Tuesday, I could win this

( If no-one else enters )

PS  Is it too late too add a sausage question

For those who still don't know who Liz Tyler is here's apicture

Submitted some answers last night just to make u work a little!! Might have a chance of winning it after my mum started telling me a liz taylor story out of the blue! She also knew a bit about west end musicals so I listened intently to what she had to say and she may of given me an answer or two in her stories!!

Didn't she give you the Queen Mother as an answer to a famous person over 80 years old before? :)

No that was all my thinking!!

My answer was correct IMO!!

They didn't accept it ?

Worryingly quiet round here...

yep

For each question in turn, I will post the respective answers and scores.
After haggling, I will then post the aggregate scores before the next question.
By my reckoning, it is close at the top so it is worth checking.

Ready?

Gagging.

Q1. Name a chemical element (with atomic number less than 92) whose name begins with the letter C.

Answers and scores:


TightEnd   Cerium      1
Acidmouse   Chlorine   3
moonandback   Cadmium      2
thetank      Caesium      3
The-Crow   Coal      8 (FAIL)
Silo Graham   Chlorine   3
redsimon   Cadmium      2
George2Loose   Carbon      1
TommyD      Cobalt      1
Girgy85      PASS      0
snoopy1239   Copper      1
kinboshi   Caesium      3
Waz1892      Chlorine   3
technolog   Caesium      3

No objections?

Aggregates scores after round 1:

TightEnd           1
Acidmouse           3
moonandback   2
thetank           3
The-Crow           8
Silo Graham           3
redsimon           2
George2Loose   1
TommyD           1
Girgy85           0
snoopy1239     1
kinboshi           3
Waz1892           3
technolog           3

Hey don't pick on me

Coal is over 90% Carbon init

You  try buying a bag of carbon in Tesco's

ffs what is this mess?

Blame it on the Blonde forum software - it looks beautiful in my spreadsheet.

Feck me. I was gonna go for Chromium :(

Q2. Name a non-American (i.e. born outside the US) poker player that won a WSOP bracelet in 2010 (events 1 to 57).

Answers and scores:

TightEnd   Tomer Berda   1
Acidmouse   Steve Jelinek   1
moonandback   Gavin Smith    1
thetank      PASS      0
The-Crow   PASS      0
Silo Graham   James Dempsey   4
redsimon   James Dempsey   4
George2Loose   Scott Shelley   9 (FAIL)
TommyD      Sammy Farha   2
Girgy85      James Dempsey   4
snoopy1239   Simon Watt   1
kinboshi   Sammy Farha   2
Waz1892      Praz Bansi   1
technolog   James Dempsey   4

Aggregates scores after round 2:

TightEnd   2
Acidmouse   4
moonandback   3
thetank   3
The-Crow   8
Silo Graham   7
redsimon   6
George2Loose   10
TommyD   3
Girgy85   4
snoopy1239   2
kinboshi   5
Waz1892   4
technolog   7

Q3. Name a film that has been nominated for more than 9 Oscars.

Answers and scores:

TightEnd   The Last Emperor   9 (FAIL)
Acidmouse   My Fair Lady      1
moonandback   Chariots Of Fire   9 (FAIL)
thetank      Gone With The Wind   1
The-Crow   Sound Of Music      2
Silo Graham   Titanic         4
redsimon   The Godfather      1
George2Loose   PASS         0
TommyD      Chicago         1
Girgy85      Titanic         4
snoopy1239   Titanic         4
kinboshi   Gandhi         1
Waz1892      Titanic         4
technolog   Sound Of Music      2

Q2 already, WTF??

Too fast?
I'm trying to complete this today.

Come on Waz ffs! Help me out here, I can't abuse the QM effectively single-handed!

I'm flabbagasted...its only being 18minutes

I very nearly missed your answers altogether so that would have given you plenty of ammunition.  :)

Objection. Praz banzi 2010? Objection. Original question was nine or more oscars?

No answer to why coal is a fail

How about Burnt Coal  thats 100 % Carbon

Objection. Too quick. Objection. Formatting fails

It was a intelligent broad guess, I trust the QM to have done the research.

Banzi 2nd bracelet 2009?

your moods last forever don't they!  ;)

The oscar question never changed - you must have mis-read it.

Praz Bansi won event 5 in 2010 - or am I being whooshed?

Sadly, "coal" is not a chemical element - good try, though. :)

Objection how is my answer to question 2 a fail?

I explicitly stated events 1 to 57.

Google  -then playwinningpoker.com stating 2010, NLHM - $515k
 

I think I'm being whooshed here.
Event 5 2010, surely ? ? ?

No u didn't. It bracketed. How is that explicit?

Objection. Whoever thought of asking this qm to do it is a wassock

not sure what whoosed is...but your fine

Correct but no extra points.

I typed it in myself; that's as explicit as I can make it.
Objection over-ruled.

Aggregates scores after round 3:


TightEnd   11
Acidmouse   5
moonandback   12
thetank   4
The-Crow   10
Silo Graham   11
redsimon   7
George2Loose   10
TommyD   4
Girgy85   8
snoopy1239   6
kinboshi   6
Waz1892   8
technolog   9

Disagree - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 -[10]- Agree

Please order the scores top to bottom

Only critic so far is scoring is horrid to view

As a special treat, I'll do that after question 12.

Agreed.
It's the shoddy forum software.

bearing in mind this is only my 5 RSQ out of 49 - but the other 5 managed it - Just saying

Nothing to do with the forum software. What a cheek for a sky forum alumni to say that. Horrific software, many thousands more expensive than this

Moving on:

Q4. Name a player who was in England's squad at the start of the current Cricket World Cup.

Answers and scores:

TightEnd           Luke Wright              1
Acidmouse           Bresnan         1
moonandback   James Anderson      1
thetank      Matt Prior              1
The-Crow           Monty Panesar      7 (FAIL)
Silo Graham           Paul Collingwood           1
redsimon            Kevin Peitersen      1
George2Loose   Andrew Strauss      1
TommyD      Ravi Bopara              1
Girgy85      Ajmal Shahzad      2
snoopy1239     PASS                 0
kinboshi           Bell                 1
Waz1892      Alastair Cook      7 (FAIL)
technolog           Ajmal Shahzad      2

Objection

Why were question 3 answers posted before the objections to Q 2

Gimme a F
...F
Gimme an I
...I
Gimme an E
...E
Gimme a L
...L
Gimme a D
...D

What does that spell?

;)

It has one advantage as far as I can see - it allows direct c&p'ing of spreadsheets.

Tighty's demise as RSQ supremo?

You've got to be quick if you want to get your objections in.

How the feck did I manage to hit the sheep with Ajmal Shahzad? FML.

Objection

Monty's catch was world famous an Helped win the ashes

Quote
" Monty Panesar stuns himself and cricketing world with brilliant one-handed catch
It was the internet hit of the day on Wednesday. Monty Panesar’s brilliant one-handed catch stunned not only the man himself but almost the entire cricketing world.
End Quote

Note to self - Read World Cup, Not ashes.  Ty.

My 9 rsq wins will never be beaten. Supremo for evermore imo

No objections.


Aggregates scores after round 4:


TightEnd   12
Acidmouse   6
moonandback   13
thetank   5
The-Crow   17
Silo Graham   12
redsimon   8
George2Loose   11
TommyD   5
Girgy85   10
snoopy1239   6
kinboshi   7
Waz1892   15
technolog   11

Q5. Name a husband of the actress Elizabeth Taylor.

Answers and scores:

TightEnd   Eddie Fisher   4
Acidmouse   PASS      0
moonandback   PASS      0
thetank      Conrad Hilton   -1
The-Crow   Michael Jackson   8 (FAIL)
Silo Graham   Richard Burton   3
redsimon   Eddie Fisher   4
George2Loose   Sean Penn   8 (FAIL)
TommyD      PASS      0
Girgy85      Eddie Fisher   4
snoopy1239   Richard Burton   3
kinboshi   PASS      0
Waz1892      Richard Burton   3
technolog   Eddie fisher   4



Congratulations to thetank for a negative score.

can the Pass be a sheep aswell?

even call it a Lamb

That might be a good addition for future RSQ. ;)

I could say the same thing!!

Collusion?

I admit it - ashamed :(

Please deduct 10 points from my score as a penalty.

I'm glad that everyone's happy with the Elizabeth Taylor question.
Richard Burton wasn't even the sheep answer!

Aggregates scores after round 5:

TightEnd           16
Acidmouse            6
moonandback   13
thetank           4
The-Crow           25
Silo Graham           15
redsimon           12
George2Loose   19
TommyD           5
Girgy85           14
snoopy1239     9
kinboshi           7
Waz1892           18
technolog           15

The leader is in bold.

Q6. Name a female tennis player who has won a Grand Slam singles title since (and including) 2000.

Answers and scores:

TightEnd   Svetlana Kuznetsova   1
Acidmouse   Justine Henin      2
moonandback   Serena Williams      4
thetank      Venus Williams      1
The-Crow   Angela Jolie      9 (FAIL)
Silo Graham   Serina Williams      4
redsimon   Serena Williams      4
George2Loose   Kim Clijsters      3
TommyD      Monica Seles      9 (FAIL)
Girgy85      Kim Clijsters      3
snoopy1239   Serena Williams      4
kinboshi   Ivanovic      1
Waz1892      Justine Henin      2
technolog   Kim Clijsters      3

At least the scoring is getting better

Thanks.

Objection to Ivanovic

Which Ivanovic?

If you've ever seen Ana Ivanovic, you'll know that there's only one Ivanovic.

Objection to serina williams. Serena pls. Where is the hard line crackdown on shoddy spelling?

One hour in and half way there.

Aggregates scores after round 6:

TightEnd   17
Acidmouse   8
moonandback   17
thetank   5
The-Crow   34
Silo Graham   19
redsimon   16
George2Loose   22
TommyD   14
Girgy85   17
snoopy1239   13
kinboshi   8
Waz1892   20
technolog   18

Indeed but the answer wasn't Ana Ivanovic.  Objection still stands

I said that I was going to be as tolerant as I could.
That one stretched me to the limit.

I allowed "Bell" and there were no objections.
I can't apply a different rule for this question - anyway, I'm busy thumbing through my album of Ana Ivanovic pictures.

Q7. Give a whole integer square number between 101 and 300.

Answers and scores:

TightEnd   196   1
Acidmouse   256   1
moonandback   169   1
thetank      225   2
The-Crow   144   3
Silo Graham   144   3
redsimon   144   3
George2Loose   117   8 (FAIL)
TommyD      289   2
Girgy85      222   8 (FAIL)
snoopy1239   289   2
kinboshi   121   1
Waz1892      225   2
technolog   1968   8 (FAIL)

Tense, isn't it?

Didnt see Bell - Fair doos

That's exceedingly reasonable of you - highly commendable.

My answer was 196 you clown!

I thought that it was an odd answer!
I'll accept that objection.

If he put 1968 it is a fail. Why the leniency. Idiot makes a basic error, punish him

the answers were

121  144 169  196  225   256  289 next was 324 ( too high )

Also interesting and fascinating is the gap between the numbers goes up evenly by 2

23  25  27  29  31  33

Revised answers.

Q7. Give a whole integer square number between 101 and 300.

Answers and scores:

TightEnd   196   2
Acidmouse   256   1
moonandback   169   1
thetank      225   2
The-Crow   144   3
Silo Graham   144   3
redsimon   144   3
George2Loose   117   8 (FAIL)
TommyD      289   2
Girgy85      222   8 (FAIL)
snoopy1239   289   2
kinboshi   121   1
Waz1892      225   2
technolog   196   2

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBeT4ptY9sY

makes a good point...

Darn parents evening, only just catching up now.

Could have sworn Seles won here last major in 2000, guess not....

FAIL for me :)

My rebuttal of your objection repudiation deserves a response. Most disappointed in you and technoprat

It was a badly formatted answer sheet, tbf.
However, I'll famous for my leniency so I'll accept his answer.

1996, I think.

My pm in my sent folder says 196. Mere Novice managed to mangle it and add an 8. Sorry about you losing your ace :)

STEFFI GRAF RULES.....(sorry had to - too many mentions of Seles - gets on my nerves)

2nd'd

Ace please

Good ruling imo

obv that the 8 at the end of 196 was for question 8 (the next question)

How is that a badly formatted answer sheet. Don't try to off-load your own failings onto others.

It arrived as:

1Caesium2James Dempsey3The Sound Of Music4Ajmal Shahzad5Eddie Fisher6Kim Clijsters71968PASS ...

Easy mistake to make. ;)

Gogogogo vince!!!!!trying to rail you from the hozzy but the reception is feckin awful!!!! Haven't the nhs heard of wi-fi ffs????
I'll put money on this being the most organised rsq ever though!!!!!
The only thing to remember is...
DO NOT LET TIGHTY WIN
Xx

and no nod from him

I don't see how it could have when I sent it in tabulated.

After the first accepted objection of the evening,


Aggregates scores after round 7:

TightEnd   19
Acidmouse   9
moonandback   18
thetank   7
The-Crow   37
Silo Graham   22
redsimon   19
George2Loose   30
TommyD   16
Girgy85   25
snoopy1239   15
kinboshi   9
Waz1892   22
technolog   20

1968 is appalling qm'ing. Disasterous derogation of duty

Thanks, I'll do my best.   ;)

Well this has shocked me more than anything else so far this year.

Good year for the long jump tho.

I feel deeply ashamed.

Objection to the fact that I am losing badly

I am sure my next answer is an ace

The year is young.

It's certainly unique.
It just doesn't manage to satisfy one of the criteria for an ace.

Q8. Name a Nobel Peace prize winner (1990-2010 inclusive).

Answers and scores:

TightEnd           John Hume   1
Acidmouse           Nelson Mandela   3
moonandback   Nelson Mandela   3
thetank      Nelson Mandela   3
The-Crow           Saddam Hussein   8 (FAIL)
Silo Graham           Liu Xiaobo   1
redsimon           PASS      0
George2Loose   Tony Blair   8 (FAIL)
TommyD      Jimmy Carter   1
Girgy85      Barack Obama   2
snoopy1239           Barack Obama   2
kinboshi           Al Gore      1
Waz1892      Tony Blair   8 (FAIL)
technolog           PASS      0

Aggregates scores after round 8:

TightEnd   20
Acidmouse   12
moonandback   21
thetank   10
The-Crow   45
Silo Graham   23
redsimon   19
George2Loose   38
TommyD   17
Girgy85   27
snoopy1239   17
kinboshi   10
Waz1892   30
technolog   20

We have a tie for the lead.

I feel sorry for the FAILs here, these people have really helped world peace by creating more need for it.

ooops thought it said " In pieces " Prize

Saddam's statues were in pieces all over Iraq

Also its poetic justice that Saddam and Tony Blair were both a fail

Objection. I'm sure Blair won it for the,northern Ireland peace process?

Blonde sn describes this qm well

+ 1.

Nope. Hume and Trimble.

sn?

Tony Blair has also been a Middle East Peace Envoy for the last few years

Wonder if he visited Egypt , Bahrain and Libya

Q9. Name a musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (where they are the major credited composer and lyricist) that has run in the West End.

Answers and scores:

TightEnd   PASS   0
Acidmouse   Evita   4
moonandback   Evita   4
thetank   The Phantom Of The Opera   9  (FAIL)
The-Crow   Draughts   9 (FAIL)
Silo Graham   Starlight Express   9 (FAIL)
redsimon   Evita   4
George2Loose   Cats   9 (FAIL)
TommyD   Aspects Of Love   9 (FAIL)
Girgy85   Jesus Christ Superstar   3
snoopy1239   Jesus Christ Superstar   3
kinboshi   Jesus Christ Superstar   3
Waz1892   Phantom Of The Opera   9 (FAIL)
technolog   Evita   4


Get your objections in quickly, please.  :)

Wft is going on with the formatting?? Filters ftw mr vince sir!!!!
I may not have got much right with my spreadsheetery last week but at least my scores were in feckin order!!!! Tis making my eyes fuzzy on my iPhone!!!!
FARCE!!!
Sort it out QM....filters are your friend...
Xx

Thanks for the tips.

Also a good QM will list ALL the possible answers to each question to show some people missed an easy ace

I have been assisting where I can like the square on the hippopotamus thingy question

Who were all of Liz Taylors Husbands

Acidmouse, moonandback & redsimon require an extra point. Though as a favour to you, I'll accept me having one deducted. No need to thank me.

Well spotted. I have corrected the original post.
Humble apologies.

OBJECTION

Tim Rice wrote 5 of the songs, just getting proof now.  Darn multi tabling and RSQing is hard...

ah wank, thought it was my time

ERgo therefore and maybe

You could post all the correct possible answers to the last question

Don Black and Charles Hart are credited as the main lyricists.
Objection over-ruled.

Some people would take it as a source of pride not to know much about Lloyd-Webber/Rice musicals.

Taken from WIKI:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspects_of_Love

Lloyd Webber was introduced to Aspects of Love in 1979, when he and Tim Rice were approached to write a few songs for a proposed film version. When nothing came of it, he suggested to Trevor Nunn that they collaborate on a stage adaptation. In 1983, they presented a cabaret of numbers they had written, but it was not until five years later that they tackled the project in earnest.[1] For the finished project, Lloyd Webber used at least five of the tunes he had written for the 1986 one-act musical Cricket, which he had written with Tim Rice.[2]

Is it my fault that ALW screwed over Rice in the credits?

Aggregates scores after round 9:

TightEnd   20
Acidmouse   16
moonandback   25
thetank   19
The-Crow   54
Silo Graham   32
redsimon   23
George2Loose   47
TommyD   26
Girgy85   30
snoopy1239   20
kinboshi   13
Waz1892   39
technolog   24

Excellent research but still a FAIL.
It's not your fault but I'm going to be tough on this one.

Less controversially, I hope:

Q10. Name a book by Charles Dickens.

Answers and scores:

TightEnd   Dombey And Son   1
Acidmouse   Martin Chuzzlewit   2
moonandback   Martin Chuzzlewit   2
thetank   Bleak House   2
The-Crow   Little Best Expectations   7 (FAIL)
Silo Graham   Tale Of Two Cities   2
redsimon   Bleak House   2
George2Loose   Tale Of Two Cities   2
TommyD   The Old Curiousity Shop   1
Girgy85   Oliver Twist   1
snoopy1239   A Christmas Carol   1
kinboshi   Hard Times   1
Waz1892   PASS   0
technolog   Little Dorrit   1

Sigh. I hate ALW even more now...

moving on..........

Nah, I like my musicals.

Just not enough to know my Webber/Rice from my Webber/other bloke

Lloyd-Webber's a bit of a tart, obv.
He'd write a musical with anyone.

Latin to English translations with alternatives

Bibo ergo sum" (I drink, therefore I am).

"Carp Diem" (gone fishing today)

"Carp Diem".(sieze the fish).

 "Carp Diem" (the fish of the day!) ...

Aggregates scores after round 10:

TightEnd   21
Acidmouse   18
moonandback   27
thetank   21
The-Crow   61
Silo Graham   34
redsimon   25
George2Loose   49
TommyD   27
Girgy85   31
snoopy1239   21
kinboshi   14
Waz1892   39
technolog   25

1/4 - could do better. ;)

Q11. Name one of the nine countries that were part of the European Economic Community in 1973.

Answers and scores:

TightEnd   Denmark   2
Acidmouse   Ireland   1
moonandback   France   4
thetank      France   4
The-Crow   Australia   9 (FAIL)
Silo Graham   PASS   0
redsimon   Luxembourg   1
George2Loose   Belgium   4
TommyD      Belgium   4
Girgy85      France   4
snoopy1239   France   4
kinboshi   Belgium   4
Waz1892      Denmark   2
technolog   Belgium   4

Thank goodness for kinboshi/acidmouse

So sick if tighty had managed to win this RSQ despite the early fail on his scoresheet

As I am the easy winner tonight I nominate Tighty to host the next Quiz

So he can't win it again

Very sporting of you.

Aggregates scores after round 11:

TightEnd   23
Acidmouse   19
moonandback   31
thetank   25
The-Crow   70
Silo Graham   34
redsimon   26
George2Loose   53
TommyD   31
Girgy85   35
snoopy1239   25
kinboshi   18
Waz1892   41
technolog   29

Just one point between the top two with one question to go. Anything could happen.

Q12. Give the title of a record by Abba that reached number one in the British charts.

Answers and scores:

TightEnd   Name Of The Game   2
Acidmouse   Fernando   2
moonandback   Money Money Money   7 (FAIL)
thetank   Dancing Queen   2
The-Crow   The Winner Takes Most Of It   7 (FAIL)
Silo Graham   Waterloo   2
redsimon   Fernando   2
George2Loose   Mamma Mia   -1
TommyD      S.O.S   7 (FAIL)
Girgy85      Dancing Queen   2
snoopy1239   Super Trouper   2
kinboshi   Super Trouper   2
Waz1892      Waterloo   2
technolog   Name Of The Game   2

A new career as a sheep douser awaits.

Extra point for tighty imo :)

Were you a vacuum pump in a former existence Mere? Not sayin', just sayin'.

Well done acidnouse. Questions please. 3rd with a fail. Supremo, still

Cheers for the quiz

Well done kinboshi

meh

Final aggregates scores after round 12:


kinboshi        20
Acidmouse        21
TightEnd        25
snoopy1239        27
thetank        27
redsimon        28
technolog        31
Silo Graham        36
Girgy85        37
moonandback   38
TommyD        38
Waz1892        43
George2Loose  52
The-Crow       77

Lovely quiz mate.

Nice one :)

22.18pm.

Earliest I have ever known!

Well played.

Well, I think I managed to suck all of the joy out of that.
Tikay will be pleased.

Thanks to everyone who entered and to those who stuck with it through the reveals.

Thanks for the quiz

great fun

pity only 6 people were watching

I thought Chess was a webber / Rice musical

Nope.
Tim Rice wrote it with the guys from Abba.

Thanks for the kind comments.

Damn, it's already finished.

Farce.

ty Mr Vincent bibo ergo somewhat!

You will be entering the next one and molesting the new QM, yes?

:) just logged in, wow close i nearly got top spot! nice reveal.

I think it would be churlish of me not to.

You're disqualified.
You didn't put RSQ49 in the title of your PM - "farce" FACT.

Thanks. Great effort.

:)up

You can be relied to to disappoint, Dearest Vince.

And yes, I'm, delighted.

PS - Well done you. If you did the job as I anticipated you would, you will not be asked to return ever again. A job well done indeed.

where are the questions kinboshi?

I'd expect better from a mod.

I thought I was DQd? 

I can do some this evening, and get the RSQ back on track.  Busy working today (honest), so if peeps can wait till this evening I'll post one up?

I'm hurt.

You are up, questions this evening please


If not you, Acidmouse.


You then

We're hurting.

;)

You've only got yourselves to blame.

I would be up for doing one but I need a few days to get the questions sorted. What with Baby inc soon, busy job, I am always busy.

Maybe if I win the next one :)

Elizabeth Taylor has died.


R I P

A real piece of macabre timing that, all things considered.

I'm sure some threads about her passing will be started, that'll be an absolutely massive media story.

So it's conceivable that the last time Liz Taylor's multiple marriages were discussed in her lifetime was in a RSQ.  Bit freaky.

RIP

I knew I had forgotten something

Questions will be up soon...

Gone for a Burton.

rip