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Yes, it’s me. I have been invited by TightEnd to play Ringmaster of the RSQ Circus and, because I like red jackets and rrrrrolling my Rs for effect, I thought it would be rude to say No. Tighty knew it would be hard to follow Ian Gascoigne Thinks, so wisely sent a rookie up to the plate.

I have realised that I haven’t completed a Blonde Profile and, as a few people have asked who I am (whether because I’ve come across favourably or because they’d quite like to give me a slap if they see me at DTD), I thought what better way than a warts-and-all set of questions about my favourite subject: me.

As a handful of those who frequent these pages have met me and only a few of those have any sort of knowledge about me, I thought we could do things a little differently. I will provide the answers. All you need to do is choose the one that the fewest other people will choose. So, it’s a bog standard RSQ in format, but with frightfully revealing content.

The rules are simple:

I will give you 11 answers (I love prime numbers – lesson one: Tal is weird. This info will serve you well) to 11 categories.

You will choose one from each category.

You will get a score for each question that is the number of people who selected that answer.

The most popular answer is the sheep

If you’re bonkers enough to get one wrong, you get the sheep score plus 5 points

Lowest score wins

Use Google, social media, the guy who pushes the trolleys in Tesco’s car park (his name’s Malcolm), whatever you want.

You don’t have to know what the answer you give means, why it differs from the others or even agree with why I include it in the list; you just have to pick one.

No passes.

In the event of a tie, the player with the most aces wins, then the most twos and so on.

PM your answers to me by 7pm Sunday 18th November 2012. The reveal will be the following night at 8pm.  


None of these lists are necessarily my 11 favourites, as I’ve tried to use the breadth of my ranges so that there might be at least one in each you at least don’t vehemently object to. They all will give you an idea of what kind of monster has filled your minds with nonsense over 2,000 times. They will inevitably prompt debate on this thread, abuse and, equally, shunning of the highest magnitude. My aim is to avoid expulsion, which I could easily do by being more cautious but – he says, rising from his chair – I came to gamble.

Good good. Further adolessly, let’s get down to business.

Question 1: The Dinner Party
I am having a theoretical dinner party and have invited 11 guests. In no particular order, they are:

1. Stephen Fry
2. Stephen Hawking
3. Kate Moss
4. Sir Ranulph Fiennes
5. Capt. Robert Falcon Scott
6. Danny Baker
7. Ben Jonson (the dramatist, not the sprinter!)
8. Lord Denning
9. Garry Kasparov
10. Benjamin Franklin
11. Phil Hellmuth

You’re right. Mikhail Tal didn’t make the party. My Russian is terrible.


Question 2: The MP3 Five Star Shuffle
I went my top-rated songs on my generic mp3 player and went shuffle-happy. Eleven of the songs that came up were:

1.   My First Song by Jay-Z
2.   Soul Man by Sam and Dave
3.   Morning Glory by Oasis
4.   Raspberry Beret by Prince
5.   Let You Go by Chase and Status
6.   Get Outa My Way by Kylie
7.   F.E.A.R. by Ian Brown
8.   Flight of the Icarus by Iron Maiden
9.   Fuel My Fire by Prodigy
10.   I Can See Through You by The Horrors
11.   This Charming Man by The Smiths


Question 3: The Brag
Achievements are all relative, so some of the things we’re proud of we keep secret because we know full well that other people find that sort of thing easy. Other things we do are proper, bona fide rooftop-shouters. I jotted down a mixture for your entertainment, with a bit of context thrown in for free:

1.   Getting an A in GCSE Design and Technology (despite being truly, truly woeful at it – I can barely identify which end of the hammer to use)
2.   Completing the Times cryptic crossword (once and it took me a week)
3.   Writing a play (satirizing Big Brother and written in iambic pentameter)
4.   Getting a poem published in an anthology (a light-hearted 16 liner about Britain)
5.   Becoming an International Poker Champion (I won a 50 person bowl comp in a small casino in Dublin about 5 years ago, but that does mean I’ve won comps in more than one country. Quod erat demonstrandum)
6.   Making cheese on toast on my own (fine if I weren’t 28 at the time)
7.   Getting a HerbieMob Flag (150 Six Max at DTD)
8.   Player of the Season for a football team (Pembroke College 3rds and I also won Dirtiest Tackle of the Season – write your own jokes)
9.   Captained the victorious Varsity Chess Team (underdogs as well)
10.   Defeating M Bison for the first time to complete Street Fighter 2 in about 1995 (with Ryu, if you’re interested)
11.   Finishing as runner-up in the Universities Singles Plate Competition in Pool (didn’t get into the main event that year)


Question 4: Verbosity, darling
I love a good word, me. Not a long one; a good one. Eleven of my favourite are:

1.   Shark
2.   Paracetamol (because it alternates consonants and vowels)
3.   Asymptote
4.   Tmesis
5.   Squelch
6.   Marvellous
7.   Abstemious (one of two words to have AEIOU in that order)
8.   Growl
9.   Erstwhile
10.   Mellifluous
11.   Free (who doesn’t love that word?!)

I am aware that taramasalata is a longer word that alternates consonants and vowels and that monopolises is the same length, but I prefer paracetamol.



Question 5: Fame

I’ve met a few characters and some unabated miseries. At least eleven of them are known to others:

1.   HRH The Duke of Kent
2.   Darren “sicknote” Anderton
3.   TV’s Tony Kendall
4.   Jimmy Greaves
5.   Eric Bristow
6.   Baron Mustill
7.   Jimmy White
8.   Wayne “Hawaii 501” Mardle
9.   Stephen Hawking
10.   Rory McGrath
11.   D J Fabio


Question 6: Stuff What I Read

I’ve read a few things some other people have written. I used to read a lot when I was younger and hadn’t taken up handing money over to Mr Betfair and his friends. I still love English and would like one day to study it beyond A-Level (I read law at Uni, incase you were wondering). Eleven of my favourite books, plays and poems are:

1.   Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
2.   Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
3.   Things Snowball by Rich Hall
4.   If by Rudyard Kipling
5.   Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
6.   The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
7.   Volpone by Ben Jonson
8.   Modern English Usage by H. E. Fowler
9.   Lord of the Flies by William Golding
10.   A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11.   Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anon.


Yes, I have put a reference book on grammar in this list. Again, the clues are there as to what you’re dealing with.


Question 7: Adverts

What? Adverts?! Yep. Most adverts are rubbish and are what Sky+ x30 was invented for. However, when it is done well, they get stuck in my impressionable head and these are some of the ones I’ve never been able to shake out:

1.   EDF flame in the birdbath
2.   Bud Lite anteater
3.   Papa/Nicole with Vic and Bob
4.   Nike parklife
5.   Carling Black Label – squirrel doing Mission Impossible
6.   Peter Kay – ‘Ave It!
7.   Pimm’s Rave (Prince Charming)
8.   Kia – A dream car for real life
9.   Honda – The cog
10.   Nike – Brazil at the airport
11.   Dime Bar – armadillos.

My advice would be to youtube any you can’t remember.


Question 8: Chess

I’ve played chess since I was 9. I had a family holiday in Tunisia and, as is the way, we found the other English people. Two were lads my age playing chess, which I had never played before. By the end of the holiday, I was beating them both and 18 months later, I was playing for the England Under 11 B team. I was a decent standard junior player and still play as a keen amateur, but was never destined to be anything special.

Eleven of my favourite players of all time are:

1.   Alexander Alekhine
2.   Akira Rubenstein
3.   Mikhail Tal (ofc)
4.   Bobby Fischer
5.   Garry Kasparov
6.   Aaron Nimzowitsch
7.   Paul Keres
8.   Joseph Blackburne
9.   Magnus Carlsen
10.   Mikhail Botvinnik
11.   Vassily Smyslov

If you don’t follow the Chess Thread, you might want to wiki these people and see who you’re dealing with. There’s a fairly wide range of characters here.


Question 9: Things that Rocked My World

OK, maybe a bit extreme, but these are moments that opened my eyes a little bit further and have stuck with me. Eleven of them are:

1.   Fred Astaire dancing in Top Hat
2.   Peeling a banana like a monkey
3.   Stewart Lee: Stand-up comedian
4.   Gazza’s Euro 96 goal against Scotland
5.   The Shield
6.   Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
7.   The Thick of It
8.   Tal v Panno (1958)
9.   First of the Year by Skrillex
10.   Kill Bill
11.   The apple corer and peeler
 
Some of these might not be known to you and, if that is the case, you might well have a fabulous moment to come, with the aid of Google/Youtube. Admittedly, if you don’t know how to play chess, number 8 won’t mean anything to you, but this quiz isn’t about you, is it?



Question 10: The all time Spurs XI

I yap on enough about being a Spurs fan. Here is my XI:

1.   Pat Jennings
2.   Steve Perryman
3.   Gary Mabbutt
4.   Ledley King
5.   Gareth Bale
6.   Glenn Hoddle
7.   Danny Blanchflower
8.   Dave Mackay
9.   Paul Gascoigne
10.   Jimmy Greaves
11.   Jurgen Klinsmann

Plenty of controversy there, but I picked an 11 that would just about fit together.



Question 11: Minor Simpsons Characters

My favourite TV show of all time is The Simpsons. There was a point when I could quote just about the entire Stonecutters episode (Homer the Great) and had collected all sorts of trivia in my head. “Release the Stone of Shame!” “Woohoo!” “Attach the Stone of Triumph” “Owwww”

Eleven of my favourite minor characters are:

1.   Akira (the waiter come karate expert)
2.   Duffman
3.   Johnny Tightlips
4.   Dr. Nick Riviera
5.   Hans Moleman
6.   Leopold (Supt. Chalmers’s assistant)
7.   Mr Costington
8.   Lucius Sweet (He’s exactly as rich and famous as Don King…and he looks just like him, too!)
9.   Uter
10.   Artie Ziff
11.   Handsome Pete


So, pick one from each category, PM me your list and post any comments you feel helpful, apposite or incendiary on this thread between now and reveal time.

Good luck.  

Oh and, if we meet, feel free to call me Simon.

In

Booked.

You're winning so far.

The Entrants:

paulhouk03
TightEnd
redsimon
Karabiner
Cf
Kinboshi
DaveShoelace
cambridgealex
smashedagain
Nakor
stribling
pokerfan
taximan007
SteveF
ruud
millidonk
montadoo
skolsuper
TRIP5
tikay

Brilliant!

IN, please.

OBJECTION:

"adolessly"?

At the very least, I demand a hyphen.

It's not even close to a word. Artistic licence only.

Right I am confused but definatly want in. Gonna have to read this op again but could do with some cliffs. Is this a Sheep quiz or a reverse sheep quiz and where is the skill/edge factor? And if tighty reads everyone's answers then submitts his responses why he is 2nd in behind the Ho. Thinking about it how has Paul understood it at all?

Clue to the first question is the title, smashedagain...

Skill/edge factor is picking answers you don't think the others will. Tighty obviously has confidence in his ability to do this. That or he isn't trying to win again :)

I'm a bit confused too. Do you just randomly pick something from each list and hope no one else picks it?

You might be able to second-guess the opposition a little. 11 possible answers seems to be above average for a number of RSQs I've seen.

You can spend the next week trying to work out what everyone else might pick, analysing whether people in general choose answers at the beginning, middle or end of a list, or you can just pick one from each with a pin and a blindfold.

If we made this a complete skill game, TightEnd would win them all.

Is it against RSQ rules to post your answers in the thread? I'm wondering if I post mine here that might stop others picking them...

Tantamount to showing your cards mid-hand.

Imaginative but sounds like it's outside the spirit of the game to me. Would much prefer you had operated some sort of subl1minal m3ssage sy5t3m 4 the next week.

That horse has now bolted, I vier.

OBJECTION

List incomplete.

Facetious is the other. Excellent piece of trivvers.

Only two London Underground stations feature all five vowels. Can you name them?

Will get my answers in post-haste.

Did I miss the part where you send me your answers?

I have to send answers?

This is ageism at it's very worst.

Someone told me this once...South Ealing and is it Mansion House (might have made that last one up? I'm not au fait with the Tube system entirely!)

Do you know where Trivia comes from?

Now you put that apostrophe in just to annoy me, didn't you..?

I actually just laughed out loud. Got some funny looks at work.

Arguably no more than usual
 

Up at 10am just because I heard about this quiz.

IN.

Yes, and no.

I do now. Very surprising.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivia

Well thank you for your support :)

Cicero said that a wide range of education was essential for good rhetoric, which is broadly speaking why schools have since taught everyone a range of subjects.

Edutainment, ladies and gentlemen. We're even throwing in Classics on a Monday morning.

Sorry to burst your bubble but this well-known fact is actually a myth. There are dozens of words with the vowels in sequence. Apart from adding -ly to the above to create the adverbs, I think abstentious (+ -ly) is the only other one in common use but there are loads of other less-used ones.

Dozens might be pushing it, but I have just learned that there are more (beyond facetious):

The two most common ones are abstemious 'indulging only moderately in food and drink', and facetious 'treating serious issues with inappropriate humour'. Oxford Dictionaries Online also contains the chemical term arsenious 'relating to arsenic with a valency of three', while the 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary includes abstentious 'abstinent' as well as the rare botanical and zoological terms acheilous 'having one or both lips absent', anemious 'growing in windy situations', caesious 'bluish or greyish green', and annelidous 'belonging to the phylum Annelida'.

Don't apologise for bursting my bubble! Burst away!

I find this stuff fascinating, so the more words the better.

Tell me there's a longer word alternating consonants and vowels than taramasalata!

There's aerious, meaning airy.

Start a Word Thread immediately, MintTrav!

Otherwise seven days of this before the reveal might make it a 40 pager.

Middle pIN

(John) Good man.

Honorificabilitudinitatibus

In

I'd always treated that as Latin but wiki says it's the longest word in the English language with alternating consonants and vowels.

However:

http://oxforddictionaries.com/spellcheck/english/?q=Honorificabilitudinitatibus

The debate continues.

15 entries so far. Next prime number two away.

what's the next prime number a prime away? (I really wish I hadn't had this thought as I don't know the answer)

Same answer, mate. 2 is a prime number

 ;booder;

17 is the only prime number that is a prime number away (2) from 15, as all the other primes are odd.

Need 16 more entrants to get to the next Mersenne Prime (31)

rofl sigh I meant rook lol

Lol nice one

Oooh, prime number porn, love it, more please.

For many years I had a roulette system (lol) based on prime numbers, though I weighted it heavily towards 17 & 31. Obv.

Or the sexy primes (because they are six - sechs - apart):
 5, 11,17, 23, 29?

Many cicada have life-cycles that work around prime numbers (different prime numbers for different populations or species of cicada). It's hypothesised that they've evolved these cycles around prime numbers so that predatory species can't make the cicada their "prime" prey, so it acts as a defensive mechanism to ensure they can reproduce and perpetuate as a species.

http://arachnoid.com/prime_numbers/index.html

Explains it better than I ever could.

This is true but only for a small number of species (which I learned to great disappointment!). I think it is just the magicicada

It is not a locust. Completely different order. Cicadas are hemiptera whereas locusts are orthoptera.

Farce!

Yeah, he's more of a mathematician than a zoologist.

I think there are beetles that follow the prime number life-cycle as well. Will have to do a search for something to back up my failing memory...

I always felt that was one of nature's greatest "wow" facts that Cicada only appeared every 17 years. Then, some months ago, Tal broke my heart when he Posted that it was not exclusively confined to a 17 year cycle.

Damn spoilsport.

Boo!

It's even better that different populations have evolved to follow life-cycles of different prime numbers.

Is there a coliopterist in the house?

(First time that sentence has appeared on blonde, I'd venture)

Some magicicadas (omg at alternating consonanta and vowela btw) have 13 year cycles

I will just confirm to passers-by that this is still the place that RSQ results will appear on Monday. You have not pressed the wrong button. Do not adjust your sets.

A quiz will be born

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Cicada_molting_animated-2.gif)

A quiz every 17 years? Awesome. Time the next one comes, I'll be in my prime

Wahey!

Blonde has gone very educational and highbrow recently. I'm loving that.

Are you using a spreadsheet or lots of different coloured pens and reams of paper?

Nah, just in my head.

What's the worst that can happen?

you could kill it?

Don't worry Jase, if you cannot kill it - and you really tried - nobody can. :)

shotgun doing next quiz, providing the winner doesn't want to :)

Not sure I actually have even grasped what's going on, but entered anyway :)

Noooooooo.

I want to do it!

Better win it then ;)

Half the fun is making the winner actually run the next quiz. More farce potential.

Nice to know I'm considered such a hard act to follow

yup i'm still stuck on this 1958 chess game. it's as if chess is complicated sigh.

Seriously, have a look at the other Tal game I suggested instead.

It's like me reading Balzac. Because I can understand about half the words doesn't mean I can understand and debate his use of imagery.

oh yeah but now i've started and watched the board suddenly open up after a few exchanges i'm more interested in watching it through! forget me i'm a lost cause lol

the more I look the sooner i'll stop trying to be so confident about why they are doing each move.

As long as you're enjoying it.

Better than PHA anyway  ;hide;

Variance.

I need some dtd 300 deepstack style variance to beat amateurs at chess at the moment!!

Blatantly part of an elaborate hustle.

I wish.

The gentlest of reminderettes that the deadline for submissions is 7pm this very evening.

I've been impressed and amused by the imagination on display in selection methods and hopefully we can have some fun together going through the card tomorrow.

19 of you so far, so we are prime.

2 more for a Fibonacci number; 4 more for the next prime; 6 more for a square; 8 more for a cube.

An amuse bouche for you:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxQwwfjt2g0

Amazing what you can find on the internet...

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKLkQ4ncqQY

I've yet to see any demons on the ward and I'm particularly observant.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8MsYislXJg

A nice, round 20 of you have submitted entries.

See you tomorrow evening for the squeeze death by YouTube reveal.

(http://i49.tinypic.com/1e73op.jpg)

Did you park your A380 somewhere else, tikay?

Torbay, perhaps?

You're defo gutted the number wasn't a prime/cube/fibonacci etc ;)

Sick rubz.

Don't worry, it is the sum of two squares at least. Every cloud...

Oh bravo!

We can have some fun tonight.

See you at 2³ o'clock then ;)

Just under an hour to kick off (which, in an RSQ seems to be true in at least two senses).

It shall be erudite, engaging and edutaining, much like this:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UMedd03JCA

If it doesn't make you smile, tune in tomorrow for the results as this evening will likely not be your china cup of Earl Grey.

What ho!

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DRikT-17BfM/SocBYlrti8I/AAAAAAAABvQ/YdifRO25h8Y/s400/books+bertie+wooster.PNG)

The time has come for us to go through your answers and to see how you did.

From my limited exposure to these RSQ reveals, I understand that the rules are roughly similar to those on a pirate ship on the set of an Errol Flynn film being staged by chimpanzees, so I’m sure you’ll help keep the energy levels high.

First off, some numbers.

When you selected your pick to each question, you had the choice of eleven, so there were 19 other people who could choose either yours or any of the other ten options. This means that the average score is 11 x 2.72 = 30. That is your magic number. If you got less than 30, you are ahead of the game; more than 30, hang your head in shame.

A few people said it was just random, but others identified that there were patterns available. People generally choose lower numbers and anyone that chose 9 for every answer would have won.

Anyway, let’s get on with the quiz.

Question 1: The Dinner Party
I am having a theoretical dinner party and have invited 11 guests. In no particular order, they are:

1. Stephen Fry
2. Stephen Hawking
3. Kate Moss
4. Sir Ranulph Fiennes
5. Capt. Robert Falcon Scott
6. Danny Baker
7. Ben Jonson (the dramatist, not the sprinter!)
8. Lord Denning
9. Garry Kasparov
10. Benjamin Franklin
11. Phil Hellmuth



You chose:

paulhouk03   8
TightEnd   8
redsimon   3
Karabiner   10
Cf   1
kinboshi   5
DaveShoelace   7
cambridgealex   1
smashedagain   2
Nakor   6
stribling   2
pokerfan   1
taximan007   3
SteveF   6
ruud   7
millidonk   1
montadoo   4
skolsuper   9
TRIP5   4
tikay   8

How could this man be your sheep?

(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00441/news-graphics-2007-_441164a.jpg)

So the scores after round 1 are:

skolsuper   1
Karabiner   1
kinboshi   1
montadoo   2
SteveF   2
redsimon   2
smashedagain   2
stribling   2
taximan007   2
ruud   2
TRIP5   2
DaveShoelace   2
Nakor   2
paulhouk03   3
TightEnd   3
tikay   3
Cf   4
cambridgealex   4
pokerfan   4
millidonk   4

Question 2: The MP3 Five Star Shuffle
I went my top-rated songs on my generic mp3 player and went shuffle-happy. Eleven of the songs that came up were:

1.   My First Song by Jay-Z
2.   Soul Man by Sam and Dave
3.   Morning Glory by Oasis
4.   Raspberry Beret by Prince
5.   Let You Go by Chase and Status
6.   Get Outa My Way by Kylie
7.   F.E.A.R. by Ian Brown
8.   Flight of the Icarus by Iron Maiden
9.   Fuel My Fire by Prodigy
10.   I Can See Through You by The Horrors
11.   This Charming Man by The Smiths


You chose:

paulhouk03   8
TightEnd   8
redsimon   3
Karabiner   6
Cf   1
kinboshi   4
DaveShoelace   7
cambridgealex   2
smashedagain   11
Nakor   7
stribling   2
pokerfan   2
taximan007   8
SteveF   9
ruud   7
millidonk   2
montadoo   5
skolsuper   7
TRIP5   4
tikay   7

Your sheep:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f8wAXDZ9D0

Giving you scores for the round of:

skolsuper   5
Karabiner   1
kinboshi   2
montadoo   1
SteveF   1
redsimon   1
smashedagain 1
stribling   4
taximan007   3
ruud   5
TRIP5   2
DaveShoelace 5
Nakor   5
paulhouk03   3
TightEnd   3
tikay   5
Cf   1
cambridgealex 4
pokerfan   4
millidonk   4

Scores so far:

Karabiner         2
kinboshi          3
montadoo          3
SteveF          3
redsimon          3
smashedagain    3
TRIP5         4
taximan007         5
Cf         5
skolsuper         6
stribling         6
paulhouk03   3    6
TightEnd         6
ruud         7
DaveShoelace   7
Nakor         7
tikay         8
cambridgealex   8
pokerfan        8
millidonk        8


Can't have a Gooner winning this quiz

Its very quiet, thought reveal was Tuesday lol, might not be much controversy

Ridiculous.

y do ppl keep picking 8?

Question 3: The Brag
Achievements are all relative, so some of the things we’re proud of we keep secret because we know full well that other people find that sort of thing easy. Other things we do are proper, bona fide rooftop-shouters. I jotted down a mixture for your entertainment, with a bit of context thrown in for free:
1.   Getting an A in GCSE Design and Technology (despite being truly, truly woeful at it – I can barely identify which end of the hammer to use)
2.   Completing the Times cryptic crossword (once and it took me a week)
3.   Writing a play (satirizing Big Brother and written in iambic pentameter)
4.   Getting a poem published in an anthology (a light-hearted 16 liner about Britain)
5.   Becoming an International Poker Champion (I won a 50 person bowl comp in a small casino in Dublin about 5 years ago, but that does mean I’ve won comps in more than one country. Quod erat demonstrandum)
6.   Making cheese on toast on my own (fine if I weren’t 28 at the time)
7.   Getting a HerbieMob Flag (150 Six Max at DTD)
8.   Player of the Season for a football team (Pembroke College 3rds and I also won Dirtiest Tackle of the Season – write your own jokes)
9.   Captained the victorious Varsity Chess Team (underdogs as well)
10.   Defeating M Bison for the first time to complete Street Fighter 2 in about 1995 (with Ryu, if you’re interested)
11.   Finishing as runner-up in the Universities Singles Plate Competition in Pool (didn’t get into the main event that year)

You selected:

paulhouk03   8
TightEnd   10
redsimon   3
Karabiner   3
Cf   1
kinboshi   3
DaveShoelace   8
cambridgealex   1
smashedagain   7
Nakor   2
stribling   2
pokerfan   3
taximan007   8
SteveF   9
ruud   7
millidonk   3
montadoo   10
skolsuper   11
TRIP5   4
tikay   4

Meaning your scores for this round are:

skolsuper   1
SteveF   1
cambridgealex   2
Cf   2
montadoo   2
Nakor   2
ruud   2
smashedagain   2
stribling   2
TightEnd   2
tikay   2
TRIP5   2
DaveShoelace   3
paulhouk03     3
taximan007      3
Karabiner   5
kinboshi   5
millidonk   5
pokerfan   5
redsimon   5

Reveals need objections and dispute to be busy.

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=231422

Just to prove it happened

Objection

Next question has already had an objection upheld. Abstemious, I have learned, is NOT one of two words that has AEIOU in that order; it is one of several.

Question 4: Verbosity, darling
I love a good word, me. Not a long one; a good one. Eleven of my favourite are:
1.   Shark
2.   Paracetamol (because it alternates consonants and vowels)
3.   Asymptote
4.   Tmesis
5.   Squelch
6.   Marvellous
7.   Abstemious (one of two words to have AEIOU in that order)
8.   Growl
9.   Erstwhile
10.   Mellifluous
11.   Free (who doesn’t love that word?!)
I am aware that taramasalata is a longer word that alternates consonants and vowels and that monopolises is the same length, but I prefer paracetamol.

You chose:

paulhouk03   8
TightEnd   4
redsimon   3
Karabiner   7
Cf   1
kinboshi   2
DaveShoelace   2
cambridgealex   3
smashedagain   9
Nakor   2
stribling   2
pokerfan   4
taximan007   5
SteveF   6
ruud   7
millidonk   4
montadoo   7
skolsuper   8
TRIP5   4
tikay   4

Leaving the overall scores at:

SteveF   5
smashedagain   6
montadoo   8
Cf   8
skolsuper   9
taximan007   9
Karabiner   10
redsimon   10
TRIP5   11
paulhouk03   11
kinboshi   12
stribling   12
ruud   12
cambridgealex   12
Nakor   13
TightEnd   13
DaveShoelace   14
tikay   15
pokerfan   18
millidonk   18

Praise be for Milli, who is keeping me off last place.

Tal has got Tighty's number though, rare to see him struggle so.

Question 5: Fame
I’ve met a few characters and some unabated miseries. At least eleven of them are known to others:
1.   HRH The Duke of Kent
2.   Darren “sicknote” Anderton
3.   TV’s Tony Kendall
4.   Jimmy Greaves
5.   Eric Bristow
6.   Baron Mustill
7.   Jimmy White
8.   Wayne “Hawaii 501” Mardle
9.   Stephen Hawking
10.   Rory McGrath
11.   D J Fabio

You chose:

paulhouk03   8
TightEnd   9
redsimon   3
Karabiner   10
Cf      1   
kinboshi   1
DaveShoelace   7
cambridgealex   1
smashedagain   4
Nakor      11
stribling   2
pokerfan   5
taximan007   4
SteveF      8
ruud      7
millidonk   5
montadoo   11
skolsuper   2
TRIP5      4   
tikay      11

Lot of love for D J Fabio:

(http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/profiles/fabio.jpg)

This leaves the scores like this:

SteveF   7
smashedagain   9
montadoo   11
Cf   11
skolsuper   11
Karabiner   11
redsimon   11
taximan007   12
paulhouk03   13
TRIP5   14
stribling   14
ruud   14
TightEnd   14
kinboshi   15
cambridgealex   15
Nakor   16
DaveShoelace   16
tikay   18
pokerfan   20
millidonk   20


No one...no one...that's NO ONE chose this bloke:

(http://www.scifi-universe.com/upload/personnalites/grand/tony_kendall.jpg)

Oh no. Hang on. This bloke:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/Tony-kendall.jpg)

I did!

Let me finish!

No one...apart from redsimon

Question 6: Stuff What I Read
I’ve read a few things some other people have written. I used to read a lot when I was younger and hadn’t taken up handing money over to Mr Betfair and his friends. I still love English and would like one day to study it beyond A-Level (I read law at Uni, incase you were wondering). Eleven of my favourite books, plays and poems are:

1.   Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
2.   Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
3.   Things Snowball by Rich Hall
4.   If by Rudyard Kipling
5.   Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
6.   The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
7.   Volpone by Ben Jonson
8.   Modern English Usage by H. E. Fowler
9.   Lord of the Flies by William Golding
10.   A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11.   Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anon.

You chose:

paulhouk03   8
TightEnd   2
redsimon   3
Karabiner   10
Cf      1
kinboshi   1
DaveShoelace   3
cambridgealex   4
smashedagain   3
Nakor      2
stribling   2
pokerfan   6
taximan007   3
SteveF      6
ruud      7
millidonk   6
montadoo   10
skolsuper   3
TRIP5      4
tikay      7

Which puts the scores at:

SteveF   10
montadoo   13
Cf   13
Karabiner   13
smashedagain   14
paulhouk03   14
skolsuper   16
redsimon   16
TRIP5   16
ruud   16
taximan007   17
stribling   17
TightEnd   17
kinboshi   17
cambridgealex   17
Nakor   19
tikay   20
DaveShoelace   21
pokerfan   23
millidonk   23

Question 7: Adverts
What? Adverts?! Yep. Most adverts are rubbish and are what Sky+ x30 was invented for. However, when it is done well, they get stuck in my impressionable head and these are some of the ones I’ve never been able to shake out:
1.   EDF flame in the birdbath
2.   Bud Lite anteater
3.   Papa/Nicole with Vic and Bob
4.   Nike parklife
5.   Carling Black Label – squirrel doing Mission Impossible
6.   Peter Kay – ‘Ave It!
7.   Pimm’s Rave (Prince Charming)
8.   Kia – A dream car for real life
9.   Honda – The cog
10.   Nike – Brazil at the airport
11.   Dime Bar – armadillos.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RI6OGXq11Y

This was from this year’s Superbowl.

Here’s what you picked:

paulhouk03   8
TightEnd   7
redsimon   3
Karabiner   9
Cf      1
kinboshi   2
DaveShoelace   4
cambridgealex   5
smashedagain   1
Nakor      7
stribling   2
pokerfan   7
taximan007   6
SteveF      8
ruud      7
millidonk   7
montadoo   5
skolsuper   10
TRIP5      4
tikay      9

Leaving us with scores of:

SteveF   12
montadoo   15
Cf   15
Karabiner   15
smashedagain   16
paulhouk03   16
skolsuper   17
redsimon   17
TRIP5   18
taximan007   18
stribling   19
kinboshi   19
cambridgealex   19
ruud   21
TightEnd   22
tikay   22
DaveShoelace   23
Nakor   24
pokerfan   28
millidonk   28

SteveF maintains his lead.

Milli obv copied my answers  :D

Was wondering who would be first to notice. If it remains tied, you win on count back.

Can you alphabeticalize the tied scores pls.

Farce.


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=alphabeticalize

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvsiwOm551M

Some of you may remember when this was a hilarious insult.

Correction: if it is tied, the winner will be decided by alphabetical order.

Question 8: Chess
I’ve played chess since I was 9. I had a family holiday in Tunisia and, as is the way, we found the other English people. Two were lads my age playing chess, which I had never played before. By the end of the holiday, I was beating them both and 18 months later, I was playing for the England Under 11 B team. I was a decent standard junior player and still play as a keen amateur, but was never destined to be anything special.
Eleven of my favourite players of all time are:

1.   Alexander Alekhine
2.   Akira Rubenstein
3.   Mikhail Tal (ofc)
4.   Bobby Fischer
5.   Garry Kasparov
6.   Aaron Nimzowitsch
7.   Paul Keres
8.   Joseph Blackburne
9.   Magnus Carlsen
10.   Mikhail Botvinnik
11.   Vassily Smyslov

You chose:

paulhouk03   8
TightEnd   6
redsimon   3
Karabiner   1
Cf      1   
kinboshi   3
DaveShoelace   4
cambridgealex   8
smashedagain   10
Nakor      4
stribling   2
pokerfan   8
taximan007   11
SteveF      1
ruud      7   
millidonk   8
montadoo   2
skolsuper   7
TRIP5      4
tikay      11


(http://www.chess-theory.com/images2/encpbo029_01_garry_kasparov_02.jpg)

He doesn’t look happy.

SteveF   15
montadoo   17
smashedagain   17
Cf   18
Karabiner   18
skolsuper   19
redsimon   19
paulhouk03   20
taximan007   20
TRIP5   21
stribling   21
kinboshi   21
cambridgealex   23
ruud   23
TightEnd   23
tikay   24
DaveShoelace   26
Nakor   27
pokerfan   32
millidonk   32


Enjoying the sweat, SteveF?

Farce, I should be at least in the latter third!!!

Anyone with any sense would have selected number 4 across the board..

xx

Please hang in there Steve, Mondy and Herbie would be catastrophic for the future of RSQ.

Question 9: Things that Rocked My World
OK, maybe a bit extreme, but these are moments that opened my eyes a little bit further and have stuck with me. Eleven of them are:
1.   Fred Astaire dancing in Top Hat
2.   Peeling a banana like a monkey
3.   Stewart Lee: Stand-up comedian
4.   Gazza’s Euro 96 goal against Scotland
5.   The Shield
6.   Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
7.   The Thick of It
8.   Tal v Panno (1958)
9.   First of the Year by Skrillex
10.   Kill Bill
11.   The apple corer and peeler

You went with:

paulhouk03   8
TightEnd   6
redsimon   3
Karabiner   1
Cf      1
kinboshi   4
DaveShoelace   5
cambridgealex   8
smashedagain   1
Nakor      11
stribling   2
pokerfan   9
taximan007   4
SteveF      5
ruud      7
millidonk   9
montadoo   6
skolsuper   2
TRIP5      4
tikay      1

Leaving the scores at:

SteveF   17
montadoo   19
redsimon   20
smashedagain   21
skolsuper   21
Cf   22
Karabiner   22
paulhouk03   22
kinboshi   22
taximan007   23
stribling   23
TRIP5   24
ruud   24
cambridgealex   25
TightEnd   25
tikay   28
DaveShoelace   28
Nakor   28
pokerfan   34
millidonk   34

Still tight at the top. TightEnd is looking like KP when a left-handed spinner comes on.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akD7r3PClRc

Which one was Karabiner?

(Let me have this one, please)

We go to the controversial answer of the night.

Question 10: The all time Spurs XI
I yap on enough about being a Spurs fan. Here is my XI:
1.   Pat Jennings
2.   Steve Perryman
3.   Gary Mabbutt
4.   Ledley King
5.   Gareth Bale
6.   Glenn Hoddle
7.   Danny Blanchflower
8.   Dave Mackay
9.   Paul Gascoigne
10.   Jimmy Greaves
11.   Jurgen Klinsmann

One “comedian” did his best Chris Ramsey impression and said a dirty thing in answer to this question. Step forward, Nakor, who chose...

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/09/23/article-1093424-068CF0B7000005DC-108_306x423.jpg)

He obviously never played for Spurs, so that can’t be right. That's him in his Notts County get up. Sheep plus five for you, sir.

Your answers were:

paulhouk03   8
TightEnd   2
redsimon   3
Karabiner   1
Cf      1
kinboshi   5
DaveShoelace   7
cambridgealex   3
smashedagain   4
Nakor      WRONG!
stribling   2
pokerfan   10
taximan007   7
SteveF      1
ruud      7
millidonk   10
montadoo   11
skolsuper   6
TRIP5      4
tikay      4

Which puts your scores at:

SteveF   20
montadoo   20
redsimon   22
skolsuper   22
paulhouk03   23
kinboshi   23
smashedagain   25
Cf   25
Karabiner   25
stribling   25
taximan007   26
TRIP5   27
ruud   27
cambridgealex   27
TightEnd   27
tikay   31
DaveShoelace   31
Nakor   36
pokerfan   36
millidonk   36

Montadoo draws level. SteveF needs to come off the bridle now.

One question left, guys and gals...

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0NT6aUwN8c

Bit of extra rub there for SteveF.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIGUu0bvpMQ

Has Johnny Tightlips decided the fate of the RSQ?

Question 11: Minor Simpsons Characters
My favourite TV show of all time is The Simpsons. There was a point when I could quote just about the entire Stonecutters episode (Homer the Great) and had collected all sorts of trivia in my head. “Release the Stone of Shame!” “Woohoo!” “Attach the Stone of Triumph” “Owwww”

Eleven of my favourite minor characters are:
1.   Akira (the waiter come karate expert)
2.   Duffman
3.   Johnny Tightlips
4.   Dr. Nick Riviera
5.   Hans Moleman
6.   Leopold (Supt. Chalmers’s assistant)
7.   Mr Costington
8.   Lucius Sweet (He’s exactly as rich and famous as Don King…and he looks just like him, too!)
9.   Uter
10.   Artie Ziff
11.   Handsome Pete

You, in your delicious and bountiful wisdom, sealed your RSQ fate thusly:

paulhouk03   8
TightEnd   3
redsimon   3
Karabiner   10
Cf      1
kinboshi   1
DaveShoelace   1
cambridgealex   11
smashedagain   6
Nakor      2
stribling   2
pokerfan   11
taximan007   7
SteveF      3
ruud      7
millidonk   11
montadoo   4
skolsuper   5
TRIP5      4
tikay      9

This leaves the final scores at:

montadoo   22
SteveF   23
skolsuper   23
paulhouk03   24
redsimon   25
kinboshi   26
smashedagain   26
Karabiner   26
stribling   27
Cf   28
taximan007   28
TRIP5   29
ruud   29
cambridgealex   30
TightEnd   30
tikay   32
DaveShoelace   34
Nakor   38
pokerfan   39
millidonk   39

Montadoo wins, courtesy of Dr Nick Riviera

Congrats Monda

Thank you Tal

Beat Tighty so feel like a Winner  ;)

Wp Mond.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTz8rKJk-Vw

Let the new game begin.

Phew

Gah.

Had I selected number 9 instead of number 1 i'd have won :(

Objection! You spent the whole quiz calling him montadoo. His name is Neo mondatoo

Seconded, great spot.

Result obviously void.

GENIUS!!! Knew there would be a flaw somewhere.

Mea maxima culpa. Thank you for pointing that out.

Mondatoo wins (if montadoo isn't available)

Will he play himself or nominate one of the baying masses?

same time tomorrow?

I can go back to being a royal pain in everyone else's backside now.

This was a different concept for an RSQ but I hope it was at least enjoyable. I wanted to share a bit about me in the process, so if nothing else I hope you took something from that.

You have also learned that the only way to stop TightEnd from winning is to remove as much of the skill as is humanly possible. No offence, mondatoo :)

I'm so pleased with the variety of ways you used to select your answers, including the RNGs that were employed (you know who you are). Anyone who scored under 30, as I have explained, scored inside the expected result, so well done.

Thanks for your company.

Nominate me pls.

I nominate skolsuper if Montadoo declines.

That would be the nuts.

I was five from the left and two from the right.

Far too much like hard work, that. Glad to have it done.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGmOizgETU

Filmed in Woolwich, I understand, although when they finished and Fred asked the director what he thought, he just shrugged, said "I didn't see it" and put a baby elephant away.

Too clever Ralph!

 3d
Great minds..

Fair play to you, mind ;)

I have two quiz ideas. One is an intros round like on buzzcocks but with all sorts of random shit. Figured out a way to incorporate it itt as well, the other is a picture quiz with either close ups or cropped images. If I ever win one of these it will be a game changer.

Pick me monda.

Great job Tal even if I was unfamiliar with at least half of the questions.

Mind you I do feel  I am a bit of a natural reverse sheep...

So sorry I missed this. Gonna go back and read this now.

Cheers.

I prefer the RSQs, too. I love the obscure stuff.

I did have to select the titles, so there were a few subjects that didn't make the cut:

- Favourite shoes (the purple suede boots with the chunky stacked heel a particular fave)
- Favourite websites (would have been more boring that you'd expect)
- I was going to play an 11 move chess game and let you pick a move

And a few other odd ones. I think I chose well.
-

sigh i thought it was a sign when u said the reveal will be at 8

when I answered everything with 8

Well done all

Looking forward to your quiz Mondatoo. I think

Questions please

So my attempt at a control group by using an RNG for my answers was a failure? Or success? Proves I run bad imo.

Just as a quick reminder in case monda declines...

It was a perfect and unabated success, Alex! You scored 30, which was the mean. As controls go, it doesn't get controllier.

;hattip;

Ooh yes - if montadoo declines, Alex is the way forward.

Behave!

Worry not, you can trust me not to say a word to a soul.



http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=46739.4740

Duly replied. Poor chap won't know what's happened when he logs in.

The trick with C&P is to get it right first time. Apparently.

That and missing redsimon having selected you in the write-up (tho not in the score) aside, I did OK. Was always going to be a tough act to follow, I suspect.

So that smashedagain is happy, I'd best explain I used a spreadsheet, albeit from Office 2003 and my 9 year old laptop battled through like the War Horse. Truly heroic performance.

Wasn't sure if this was as big a slowroll as your Aussie Millions thread :P

This works for me if he wants to do it.

Otherwise Millidonk can do it.

When I do the double I'll do it.

Wiiiiiiiiiiii. You know it makes sense. Keys will never wanna do it.

I'm amazed no one set up an account called Montadoo and claimed their prize.

My liege, the sword is yours.

Sigh at missing this, congrats Ray (I think)

Don't do a picture quiz. Picture quizzes suck and are boring. Do the other idea instead.

I am. Even if Keys does it I am gonna knock up a quiz to have under my belt. Ideas I am having are pretty deece tbf. Will be a rebirth of the blonde quiz

Guys if you're going to besmirch the good name of recent RSQs, do it on someone else's thread!

I'm surprised anyone is willing to take on the task of digging the RSQ out of the gutter after this one..

You don't dig anything out of a gutter.

Come back when you've got a metaphor  :P

FML. i'm now down in the dumps.

Pyrrhic victories ftw

Go for it millidonk, I have no ideas. If I accidentally win one then I will step up to the plate but until then I'll leave it to the more capable quizzers.

Tikay said you'd be the nut setter, skolsuper.

I'm already seeing a word...

Why isn't Montadoo doing one? He won it

It would be beyond farcical plus I'm gunna be busy grinding (cough lolz cough) so would be a while before could do it.

Will do it if I somehow won again.

Safe. Double confirmed. Will have a quiz up tonight. Headphones at the ready.

Had a ridic amount of ideas so just gonna do a bit of a mash up instead.

Will be looking for >1k entries.

This had better be good now you've iterated you have a lot of ideas.