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Rules

There are 12 questions, to enter you should PM your answers by Monday 19th May 20:00.  Please put RSQ in the subject line (otherwise you will receive an additional penalty point to your score), and put each answer on a different line (same penalty for ignoring this as well).

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

You are not allowed to do research such as Google searches to come up with answers. These aren’t meant to be impossible questions the skill isn’t in thinking of an answer, it’s in thinking up an uncommon answer

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

You MUST pass on one question and score a 0 for that question, and you may not pass questions 11 or 12.

Objections will be considered during the reveal, however my decision will be final. The reveal will likely take place on Monday 19th May.  If there is a tie for the lead after the 11 rounds, then there will be a tie-break question. This will be given on the evening of the reveal and will probably be a closest-wins type affair.


QUESTIONS

1.   Name an English County which both starts AND ends with a consonant.

2.   Name any of the 20 premier league clubs (2013-2014 season).

3.   Name any Country with a population above 100 million.

4.   Name any winner of the US Masters golf since 1990.

5.   Name any casino on the Las Vegas Strip which both starts AND ends with a consonant.

6.   Name a current daily British newspaper.

7.   Name the colour of any ball on a snooker table.

8.   Name any of the top 25 selling music artists of all time.

9.   Name any of the current flavours of original Walkers crisps (This excludes variations such as Sensations, Monster Munch, Doritos etc.: Original flavours only).

10.   Name a Country where Spanish is an OFFICIAL language.

   You CANNOT pass any of the next 2 questions:

11. Choose any whole number between 20-50, with this number being the number of points you risk getting penalised. BUT: If you choose the highest number out of all the entries, you get penalised that number of points. If you choose the lowest number out of all the entries, you get a penalty equal to that of the person who chose the highest number). All other answers in between the highest and lowest answers score 0. Choose wisely!

12.   As always, select an answer that has been given for any of the previous questions.

Good luck!

Any questions, post on here or DM me.

Q11 just overtook Q12 as the best question ever.

wow epic question. Reallll good!

There's no room for nits with this question!

question 11 is the penalty added or taken away from your score?

IN

Penalty added if you choose the highest or lowest number between 20-50.

in

Q11 so fkn pure btw

In.

Entries so far: 6

Longines
arbboy
Ant040689
MintTrav
moonandback
Nakor

Entries so far: 7


Longines
arbboy
Ant040689
MintTrav
moonandback
Nakor
TightEnd

Can the winner nominate any other player of his/her choice to do the next quiz and they have to do it because you said so?

If they are willing to do it, then why not?

No, they have to.

Imagine the fun we could have.

Are you imagining it?

Find the newest member (maximum 10 posts) and force them to produce the greatest quiz these forums have ever seen. If not, they get banned for life

In.

Good effort Sir. Definitely in.

Entries so far: 10

Longines
arbboy
Ant040689
MintTrav
moonandback
Nakor
TightEnd
mulhuzz
Rubbish2407
dwh103

in

Entries so far: 12

Longines
arbboy
Ant040689
MintTrav
moonandback
Nakor
TightEnd
mulhuzz
Rubbish2407
dwh103
verndog158
HutchGF

I'm not sure how to edit the main post, but the reveal has now been pushed back a day to Tuesday 8pm

Can I still enter? I forgot :p

Yes, the big reveal is now tomorrow (tuesday)

Entries so far: 14

Longines
arbboy
Ant040689
MintTrav
moonandback
Nakor
TightEnd
mulhuzz
Rubbish2407
dwh103
verndog158
HutchGF
Jono3131
Rexas

i am in can you ignore my first PM pleasei was rushing as i had forgotten about this

Last chance to enter!

Entries so far: 15

Longines
arbboy
Ant040689
MintTrav
moonandback
Nakor
TightEnd
mulhuzz
Rubbish2407
dwh103
verndog158
HutchGF
Jono3131
Rexas
Ironside

I think in the interest of fairness, there should be a rebuy option available to accommodate rexas :D

You're going down harder than James Corden off the top diving board.

The big reveal!

Question 1: Name an english county which both starts AND ends in a consonant.

Sussex (2)

Rexas
Ironside

Tyne and Weir (2)

HutchGF
Mulhuzzz

Greater London (2)

dwh103
Ant040689

Incorrect answers (2)

Longines (westmorland)
City of London (MintTrav)

All other answers were unique: (1)

West Sussex- Arrboy
Devon- moonandback
Norfolk- nakor
Rutland- Tightend
Dorset- Rubbish2407
Kent- verndog158
Surrey- Jono1313

After 1 round:

1 point
Arrboy
moonandback
nakor
Tightend
Rubbish2407
verndog158
Jono1313

2 points
Rexas
Ironside
HutchGF
Mulhuzzzz
dwh103
Ant040689

5 points
Longines
MintTrav

Anyone let me know if i make a mistake- first time doing this and I'm surely going to cock up at some point.

if someone actually answered Tyne and Weir they are wrong, it's Tyne and Wear :p

Not that it's my answer but I think City of London is a county?

And the nit comment of the day goes to.... ;)

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

My extremely reliable source of wikipedia says otherwise

Question 2- Name any premier league club from this season

A disappointing round for clashes, with 15 entrants you'd expect more than 1 clash.

Southampton (2)

arbboy
Ironside

All other answers were unique (1)

Longines (aston villa)
Ant040689 (arsenal)
MintTrav (chelsea)
moonandback (West Ham)
Nakor (Hull)
TightEnd (Swansea)
Mulhuzz (Norwich)
Rubbish2407 (cardiff)
dwh103 (newcastle)
verndog158 (west brom)
HutchGF (Man united)
Jono3131 (Fulham)
Rexas (Everton)

pretty sure its a borough, not a county? Also Tyne and WEAR :) EDIT I meant city of london is a borough not a county :p

what is classified as a county is rather difficult to define: administrative, ceremonial, etc etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_England)

This Wiki page has a map which says "not shown, City of London"?

Wish this was Arbboys one as we could argue for hours over this.

Like you said, it could go on for hours so lets move on!

Standings after Q2:

2 points

moonandback
Nakar
TightEnd
Rubbish2407
Verndog158
Jono3131

3 points

Arbboy
Ant040689
mulhuzzz
dwh103
HutchGF
Rexas

4points

Ironside

6 points

Longines
MintTrav

Stop trying to get me sheeped so you can have an ace. I deffo spelt it correctly!

More abuse required in this reveal.

Question 3: Name any country with a population above 100million

Passes (1)

Ant040689

Indonesia (3)

Longines
Mulhuzzz
HutchGF

Bangladesh (3)

TightEnd
dwh103
verndog158

Brazil (2)

arbboy
Jono3131

Nigeria (2)

moonandback
Nakor

Every other answer was unique and correct:

Mexico (MintTrav)
Pakistan (Rubbish2407)
Russia (rexas)
India (Ironside)

:D :D

Verndog is shit

Hutchgf, are you Hutch from Blackpool?

Yes.

Are you my little Welsh friend?

Standings after question 3:

3 points

Ant040689
Rubbish2407

4 points

moonandback
Nakar
Jono3131
Rexas

5 points

arbboy
Tightend
verndog158
Ironside

6 points

mulhuzzz
dwh103
HutchGF

7 points

MintTrav

9 points

Longines

I might be little and Welsh but I'm not your friend you fat twunt.

So, I know that I've fouled at least once for sure, and it's now that verndog wants to prop on the winner. Can't say the lad doesn't jump on edges :p

Mulhuzz - gtfo and stop pinching all my answers!

not sure what ill do if rexas wins....

beginning to think I might have PM'd them to you not baldock!

Question 4: Name any winner of the US masters golf since 1990

Tiger woods (2)

MintTrav
Ironside

Trevor Immelman (2)

Nakor
Verndog158

Mike Weir (2)

arbboy
TightEnd

All other answers were correct and unique

Nick faldo (Longines)
Phil Mickleson (Ant040689)
Bernhard Langer (moonandback)
Vijay Singh (Mulhuzz)
Ben Crenshaw (Rubbish2407)
Jose Maria Olazabal (dwh103)
Mark O'Meara (HutchGF)
Fred Couples (Jono3131)
Bubba Watson (Rexas)

definitely some cheating going on here, rexas doesnt even know what a golf bat looks like ;)

Standings after question 4:

4 points

Ant040689
Rubbish2407

5 points

moonandback
Jono3131
Rexas

6 points

Nakar

7 points

arbboy
TightEnd
mulhuzz
dwh103
verndog158
HutchGF
Ironside

9 points

MintTrav

10 points

Longines

Solid answer Mulhuzz - and not mine. Well played.

Rubbish deffo cheating by the way. He can't even spell his own name never mind answer general trivia questions (unless they were Strongbow related).

Call, I used to play golf.

(http://clipartist.info/openclipart.org/SVG/mazeo/croquet_mallet-800px.png)

;applause; ;hide;

Question 5: Name a Las Vegas casino on the strip which starts and ends with a consonant

Passes (3)

Longines
verndog158
Ironside

MGM grand (2)

Ant040689
Rexas

Luxor (2)

arbboy
HutchGF

Treasure Island (2)

moonandback
Rubbish2404

Unique answers:

The quad (MintTrav)
New York New York (Nakor)
Mandalay Bay (TightEnd)
Harrahs (mulhuzz)
Paris (dwh103)
The cosmopolitan (Jono3131)

Standings after question 5:

6 points

Ant040689
Rubbish2407
Jono3131

7 points

moonandback
Nakor
verndog158
Rexas
Ironside

8 points

TightEnd
mulhuzz
dwh103

9 points

arbboy
HutchGF

10 points

Longines
MintTrav

Apologies if this is taking ages, i'm doing it the old school method of using a pen and paper because i'm awful with computers (Y)

fish

Question 6: Name any daily newspaper. I never specified it had to be one of the bigger names, but most of you were too clever and figured this out anyway.

Passes (1)

Rubbish2407

Racing Post (2)

arbboy
dwh103

Metro (2)

Mulhuzz
Jono3131

Mirror (2)

Ant040689
Ironside


All other answers were unique:

Edinburgh Evening news
The news
The guardian
Eastern Daily Press
The scotsman
Daily star
financial times
London evening standard

Oi! Good job I showed up. City of London is a county FFS.

And Sussex isn't.

Incorrect scores get sheep score plus 5 so this should be 7?

You're right, i'll edit it on the next table.

i am having a slumdog millionaire sorta game here

Oh shite, I've been looking at the wrong list this whole time for english counties. You're correct, sussex is not a country (west sussex is) and City of London IS.

This will tilt a few people...

2 minutes whilst this is corrected. Thank god when this is over...

Genuinely tilted.

OBJECTION

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

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

2nd column from the right is the list. I've been a massive cock and made the mistake. CURRENT counties

tell your fucking story walking rexas

No mention of current.

Does it need to be mentioned? I was in the cub-scouts once, I wouldn't label myself as one today.

great reply, totally agree. rexas objection must be removed. unluckkyyyyyy

Surely it does? I've answered the question, it was an English County that both starts and ends with a consonant! I'm within the boundaries set by the question.

his RSQ, his rules

Can't randomly add boundaries to the questions during the reveal!

By that same notion you could answer the 'colour of the ball on a snooker table' you could say lime, i put my tennis ball on their once. The idea of it being a snooker ball is implied in the question, as is the idea that it's a current county.

Only genuinely tiled myself, like a lovely Bathroom floor.

We need a Boundary Commission.

You should do the online equivalent of the guy who ripped his aces up and threw them at the dealer before threatening to burn the place down. Then Baldock can issue the first RSQ D Q.

That would be awesome.

But in other questions there is an indication of time. CURRENT British daily newspaper, season given for the premier league clubs. Is it not fair to assume given that its mentioned in other places, if it's omitted then it has been for a reason?

Tighty knows geet loads about cricket. think he can help here.

 ;applause; next question?

Mulhuzz, you are the Jury. Sussex- county or non county? The ball is in your court.

Hutch, I take it Rexas is your mate?

Just stirring the pot for more mutual abuse.

That's the Hutch I know.

I wanted to exclude it originally however I am suitably convinced by the idea that if you explicitly state 'current' in other questions then its absence here could suggest that any county is acceptable.

I will allow Sussex as a correct answer.

Chris,  could you please explain in detail how you feel right now? ;)

I would think that an answer that gives a past English county was a good lateral way of answering the question and taking advantage of the opportunity provided by shoddy question-mastering. if you don't want a debate, don't leave a loophole

Jury decides. Sussex counts. You lucky boy. Updated league positions will be provided, as Longines now has the first answer correct with 'westmorland' aswell.

oh thank fuck Tighty agrees with me. *phew*

OBJECTION

I run so good ;)

Anyone need their bathroom floor done?

Right. Updated table after whatever fucking question that was, 6 i think.

6 points

Rubbish2407

7 points

Longines
MintTrav

8 points

Ant040689
moonandback
verndog158
Jono3131
Rexas

9 points

Nakor
Ironside

10 points

arbboy
TightEnd
mulhuzz
dwh103
HutchGF

Question 7: Name the colour of a ball on a snooker table

Passes (5)

MintTrav
TightEnd
dwh103
HutchGF
Jono3131

Green (2)

Ant040689
moonandback

Yellow (2)

Rubbish2407
verndog158

Pink (2)

arbboy
Mulhuzz

White (2)

Ironside
Nakor

Unique Answers

Brown (Rexas)
Red (Longines)

Standings after Question 7:

7 points

MintTrav

8 points

Longines
Rubbish2407
Jono3131

9 points

Rexas

10 points

Ant040689
moonandback
TightEnd
dwh103
verndog158
HutchGF

11 points

Nakor
Ironside

12 points

Mulhuzz
arbboy

Question 8: Name any of the top 25 selling music artists of all time.

Incorrect answers (2)

Bee Gee's (Longines)
Katy Perry (verndog158)

Rihanna (2)

Ant040689
Jono3131

Mariah Carey (2)

Mulhuzz
HutchGF

All other answers were unique.

Madonna
Abba
Elvis Presley
Elton John
ACDC
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
U2
The Beatles

ffs man. you're like my fucking shadow.

Just lol.

Standings after question 8:

8 points

MintTrav

9 points

Rubbish2407

10 points

Jono3131
Rexas

11 points

moonandback
TightEnd
dwh103


12 points

Ant040689
Nakor
HutchGF
Ironside

13 points

arbboy

14 points

Mulhuzz

15 points

Longines

17 points

verndog158

JusticeForTheRexas

Question 9: Name any of the current flavours of original Walkers crisps

Passes (2)

moonandback
Mulhuzz

Prawn cocktail (4)

Longines
verndog158
Jono3131
Rexas

Smokey bacon (2)

Ant040689
TightEnd

Ready Salted (2)

Rubbish2407
dwh103

Roast Chicken (2)

arbboy
HutchGF

Cheese and Onion (2)

MintTrav
Ironside

Unique answers:

Pickled onion (Nakor)

Standings after question 9:

10 points

MintTrav

11 points

moonandback
Rubbish2407

12 points

Rexas

13 points

Nakor
TightEnd
dwh103

14 points

Ant040689
Mulhuzz
HutchGF
Jono3131

15 points

arbboy

16 points

Ironside

19 points

Longines

21 points

verndog158

Unbelievable tekkers.

Question 10: Name any country where spain is an official language.

Passes (2)

Nakor
Rexas

Spain (3)

Longines
arbboy
Ironside

All other answers were unique:

Venezuela
El Salvador
Mexico
Ecuador
Equatorial Guinea
Guatemala
Colombia
Cuba
Nicaragua
Panama

<3

was my answer as well until I realised i needed to pass one ;)

Updated positions after question 10:

11 points

MintTrav

12 points

moonandback
Rubbish2407
Rexas

13 points

Nakor

14 points

TightEnd
dwh103

15 points

Ant040689
Mulhuzz
HutchGF
Jono3131

18 points

arbboy

19 points

Ironside

22 points

Longines
Verndog158

Question 11: Pick any number between 20-50, with the lowest and highest amounts being penalised.

Highest Answer (1)

39 (Ironside). Rubbish2407 and Jono3131 were leading the way with 38 until our last entry of the quiz, ironside came and trumped them at the very last minute. Very noble.

Lowest answer (1)

23 (moonandback)


Both are penalised 39 points, the rest of you score 0.

After question 11 the standings are:

11 points

MintTrav

12 points

Rubbish2407
Rexas

13 points

Nakor

14 points

TightEnd
dwh103

15 points

Ant040689
Mulhuzz
HutchGF
Jono3131

18 points

arbboy

22 points

Longines
Verndog158

51 points

moonandback

58 points

Ironside

Question 12: Give an answer previously given by another player to any of the previous questions.

Holes in One:

arbboy (red)
Ant040689 (yellow)
moonandback (mexico)
Nakor (Elvis Presley)
Tightend (Green)
Mulhuzz (white)
dwh103 (red)
verndog158 (Vijay Singh)
Jono3131 (Rihanna)
Ironside (35)

Misses:

Longines (Michael Jackson)
MintTrav (The news)
Rubbish2407 (black)
Rexas (china)

God knows, I must be mad but........Objection!

The final standings are:


13 points

Nakor

14 points

TightEnd
dwh103

15 points

Ant040689
Mulhuzz
Jono3131

17 points

MintTrav
Rubbish2407
Rexas

18 points

arbboy

20 points

HutchGF

22 points

Verndog158

26 points

Longines

51 points

moonandback

58 points

Ironside

?

I gave a correct answer. You can't change the question at this point.

'The news' was your final answer. The only other person that gave that answer was yourself!

You've played the quiz before, and know that they're the rules- if you were a first timer I would have let you off!

It's not a question of letting me off. You meant to ask for an answer that had been given by a different contestant, but you messed up the wording and asked for us to "select an answer that has been given for any of the previous questions". I knew that my answer had been given for a previous question cos I gave it, and I was pretty sure that no-one else would have, so it was not only guaranteed to be correct, but an ace.

You come along tonight and quote the wording you meant to use as if that is what you had put all along.

My answer was correct for the question you asked. You can't change the question during the reveal to the one you meant to ask.

Minttrav is correct. It should he nakor's Lucky night!

Too early to announce FARCE! :D

this RSQ has been a total farce

Once again, can you describe to the fans exactly how you feel at this moment? I so should have taken that bet...

Sigh. I fold. Last time I cut corners on questions.

Congratulations MintTrav

I agree. First time and all that. Apologies

All in good fun though, was a good RSQ imo.

Fun can fuck off haha. It was a nightmare!

Holes in One:

arbboy (red)
Ant040689 (yellow)
moonandback (mexico)
Nakor (Elvis Presley)
Tightend (Green)
Mulhuzz (white)
dwh103 (red)
verndog158 (Vijay Singh)
Jono3131 (Rihanna)
Ironside (35)


i think those guys need an extra point

Objection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmorland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_counties_of_England

It was updated to include it as a correct answer around question 6

Objection.

(I think - haven't read to the end of the thread yet and there's a danger I might win this if the objections are upheld)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Gees
"The Bee Gees has sold more than 120 million records worldwide, making them one of the world's best-selling music artists of all time."

120m puts them in the top 25 - even if they're missing from the wiki page for top artists.

Pretty sure this one went through, we spent a few pages arguing it :p

Phew that was far too close.
Epic farceness, the perfect RSQ.

Any news from MintTrav?