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*Probably not.

Roll up, roll up folks, it's RSQ time again. Entries are being taken until 8pm 17.06.2014 and the reveal will be announced thereafter, but will probably be on 19.06.14 at 8pm.

There are ELEVEN questions. You must answer TEN of them and pass on one. You will score zero for the question you pass. You may not pass question 11.

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

Entries by PM please and include RSQ is in the subject line.

If you fail to put your answers on a single line without question numbering, you will receive a penalty score equal to the highest score given to an incorrect answer in the entire quiz +1.
 

For example,

This
Is
Correct

1. This
2. Is 3.Not
4. See?

You are not allowed to do research such as Google searches to come up with answers.

In the course of the reveal, objections will be considered. In the event that I don't agree with the objection, I will randomly telephone anyone in my phonebook and ask them for arbitration.

Thinks that's just about covered everything. On with the questions!

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QUESTION 1
There were some elections recently in which this man did rather better than expected and caused, he says, 'an earthquake'.

(http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/SausageServlet-8-405805.jpg)

At a European level, most national parties MEPs band together to form European Political Parties. Name one.



QUESTION 2
I love books. I love prizes. So you can imagine how I feel about the Man Booker Prize.

Give me any winner of the Man Booker Prize since 1980.  



QUESTION 3
A Man walks into a bar and says to the barman, 'I'll have ten times what he's having', to which the barman replies 'oh lord, not only is this a terrible joke, but that's an order of magnitude!'  Give me the name of the prefix of any order of magnitude in any direction. For example, I am mulhuzz. If you had 1000 of us, we might be a Kilohuzz.



QUESTION 4
This man died last week. Genuis doesn't even cut it, and he was rather prolific. Can you name any Television Show in which Rik Mayall has an acting credit?

(http://www.hellomagazine.com/imagenes/profiles//rik-mayall/2498-rikmayal1b.jpg)


QUESTION 5
With each passing day, I spend more and more time on the internet. Can you give me the name of any of the most visited 25 websites in the World, as measured by Alexa.com in February 2014? If you do not specify a TLD for your answer, I will assume .com.



QUESTION 6
The church is a mildly intersting thing, especially because of the hats. Give me the Papal Name of any Pope.



QUESTION 7
I'm sat in my house and a passing Metro-train just shook the house a little. Can you tell me a station it might be headed to, or from?

(http://www.nexus.org.uk/sites/default/themes/nexus/images/metro-map-large.jpg)



QUESTION 8:
Nirvana are the most overrated band of all time, after the Beatles. Give me the name of any track featured on this 'seminal' album:

(http://magazine.100percentrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Nirvana-Nevermind-cover.jpeg)


QUESTION 9:
Animal Conservation and Biodiversity is an important topic. Experts suggest that the current extinction rate is between 1000 and 10000 times higher than the 'natural' extinction rate. So can you name any animal which, according to the WWF, is currently classified as 'critically endangered', or 'endangered'.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Grosser_Panda.JPG)


QUESTION 10:
I speak a couple of languages and would like to learn more, particularly those which would help me communicate with the largest number of people in the world. So can you name any of the top 10 most widely spoken languages in the world by number of speakers.


QUESTION 11:
Give any answer given by another participant in this quiz, for any question, including this one.

Might actually remember to enter this one, but will take some thinking about!

can i get 4 passes

might get away with 3

I didn't even include a single question about grammar!

booker prize?

Just to clarify

I could guess and hope I get a correct answer for 1 and 5
No idea 2 or 8 and 7 unless that is a map and I can use one of them I wouldn't have a clue

Good luck with quiz but I will have to pull out

Superb Quiz, Mully, but I shall refrain from entrering in protest at this......


Nirvana are the most overrated band of all time, after the Beatles

The Beatles overrated?

Say that again, & you get a Red Card.

An outrageous thing to say.

I'm
with
Tikay
on
this



and
to
a
large
extent
also
with
Ironside


Good
Luck
All

7 is indeed a map and all stations on that map are valid answers.

I realise that 2 and 8 are quite narrow questions, but thought it was quite unlikely that someone wouldn't be able to punt at least one and pass another if they needed to - I'm open to changing the questions if people think they are too hard.

@tikay: apologies, thought that might induce a reaction ;) I actually like the Beatles, just, it seems, not as much as the rest of the world ;)

some feedback

very very tough indeed, and likely to put people off entering

particularly inappropriate for a generalist quiz, Q 1 and 2

remainder are guessable, except nirvana. either know that or you don't.


will of course enter, but wouldn't expect a bumper edition sadly

I'm loving this one tbh!

I'm with you on Q1 (pretty sure I've got that wrong), but most people know at least one or two booker prize winners, surely?

It's a bit sharplea.

think you'd be surprised

last time we had the question, 67.3% of the contestants passed it

not so easy to pass it in this one

It's not meant to be about knowing one or two answers for a question, it's about being able to give at least half a dozen, and trying to pick the best one.

havent a clue if bookie prize is fiction or non fiction tbh

Think Paddy Power won the last one of those

spell check on iPad won't let me say booker

Yeah bit tough this one. Although actually listened to Nevermind yesterday so should at least be able to answer a couple. Opening questions bit of a farce imo

Did you ask sharplea to set the questions for you?

phew i am glad i aint the only one that found in tough i dont feel so thick now

Must join a forum with less fewer clever people.

Actualy, I think I could have a decent stab at these.
 
They do at least cover a wide range of subjects and some of them you could take a guess at.

having my first stab at one of these. few of the questions i only know one or two answers for and they are prob the most popular :s
would have liked 2 passes, but made one educated guess

yeah but the idea of a RSQ is everyone should know atleast 3 or 4 answers to every question
you shouldnt ever be getting a question wrong apart from a miss read or deliberately trying to not win
guessing to maybe get one right is for pointless

i for one have never heard of that album not my type of music so that would rule out 1 questions, booker prize again unless your into books you dont follow so that 2 passes needed
question 5 would just be pure guess work question 1 i know of 3 groupings but only vaguely know the name of one does anyone pay any attention to the groupings or do we just slag off our own MEPs for having there noses in the trough question 7 is helped by the map

rest of quiz seems fair too middling with a little bit of wiggle room for everyone

I am willing to bet an awful lot of money (which I don't have) that you've heard at least one of the songs from that album :p

likely have heard the song but wouldnt know it was sung by them

ffs i thought your sex is on fire was sung by lady gaga untill i got it wrong in a quiz

Don't worry about it mate, at least you don't think Katy Perry is one of the best selling artists of all time.

Aight, based on freedback I will change question 1 for sure to something more generalist (but probably still politics) as it is admittedly tough.

Additionally I will expand the Nirvana question to include any record on one of the Beatles albums.

Would people be more likely to enter with those conditions?

Obv don't get sharplea references heh and would have liked to keep it the same but when too of (at least seems to me) people on blonde are telling me it's too tough I'll defo change it.

Accepting further feedback until 9pm and then I'll throw the new questions in after the World Cup match.

Said all of that whilst not seeing 4 people had entered or sent PMs.

@tighty (and everyone else) what do?

4 People have entered, stick with it then

more trouble than its worth starting again

+1

aight cheers.

might as well make this the biggest farce ever seen then.

nah cant beat sharples farces when he wanted us to know his neighbours first names

seeing i kicked up such a fuss i entered twice first time i didnt see question 10 and entered question 11 as question 10 2nd one is a correct entry can you disregard the first entry please
oh and i do hope my guess for nivada is correct if it is i will buy 10000000000 copies to get in number 1 single of all time

I vote for a new Q1!*



*this has nothing to do with the fact that I checked after submitting my answers and have deffo got that one wrong

I disagree.

Might be one I have to arbitrarily phone someone about if there's an objection, but looks ok to me heh.

ah ok - I must've been looking at the wrong wikipedia list.  Let it stand then!

good start

to be clear, you aren't the nirvana I think is overrated. ;)

Haha, I am in the process of writing answers to this quiz cause I'm so upset by the nirvana commentary

obv never played poker with him

When you ask a question with "can you" as in "can you name any of the top 10 most widely spoken languages in the world by number of speakers"? is "no" an acceptable and correct answer?

Shhhh, there's a quiz abroad

In.

Thanks for organising and good set of questions IMO. Good variety and degree of difficulty.

Helps that I taught a lesson to one of my classes last week about one of the questions :)

i knew someone would ask that.

I don't know what the answer is.

try and we'll find out ;)

I don't know anything about the World cup, but I still had a crack at it, after a little moan, because A: Even people who aren't interested in a particular thing are still bombarded with info all the time even if its only through things like shampoo adverts.

B: If you still genuinely don't have a clue on one and you just write something random, bad do's all that happens is you come last and are publicly humiliated, but you took part and it was a bit fun.

submitted, tricky, but might not be as bad as i thought

Entries thus far:

nirvana
hutchgf
verndog
dwh103
claw75
moonandback
longines
willrobrobu
Ironside
TightEnd

10 so far, let's be having the rest of you!

OK, I'm in, but won't be around for the reveal if you hold it at the advertised time and date.

I'm probably not the only one whose attention will be elsewhere on Thursday evening.

nope i havent plans for thrusday is there something more important the RSQ happening?

Yeah didn't factor that in, will change.

aight, a 7pm reveal on Weds prolly makes the most sense, so let's go with that.

12 entries now, will close at 12pm on Weds and we shall do the reveal at 7pm.

gl all.

I promise a Farce.

Sorry I am out for dinner Wednesday at 7 my dates will be annoyed if I keep checking the reveal so can we make it thursday

Btw I am nit rolling dinner fresh fish and chips for £6

In.

In it, not really to win it but hopefully to beat ironside.  ;)

Forgot to put RSQ in subject line but there isn't a penalty stipulated so  ;nanana;

wont be hard but i aint googling the album just praying my answer is on it if it is i will likely win the lottery jackpot for the next 4 weekends

Alright, closed now and reveal at 7pm tonight.

Farce guaranteed before Spain v Chile.

FARCE i have a dinner date sit down at 7pm you think i will be ok sneaking my ipad in ?

knock knock.....anybody there?

We shall begin the reveal in the next 5 mins or so... just making some final checks to ensure Farce ensues.

Here!

If you're sitting comfortably, then I'll begin:

Pretty rough start for many, but we shall see what effect that has on the outcome...

Name a European Party:

Greens: 8
Claw75
Longines
Ironside
TightEnd
Nirvana
dwh103
Rubbish
david1303




European People's Party: 1
Mint trav

European Alliance for Freedom: 1
HutchGF

Pass: 0
redsgirl
verndog
willrobrobu
moonandback

Scores after Q1:

moonandback   0
willrobrobu   0
verndog   0
redsgirl   0
HutchGF   1
Minttrav   1
Claw75   8
Longines   8
Ironside   8
TightEnd   8
Nirvana   8
dwh103   8
Rubbish   8
david1303   8

Question 2 suggests you're all bigger bibliophiles than I'd expected....

Q2: Booker Prize Winners:


Vernon God Little : 4
Claw75
willrobrobu
verndog
david1303


Midnight's Children: 3
Nirvana
dwh103
Minttrav

Wolf Hall:
redsgirl

The Old Devils: 1
Rubbish

Remains of the Day: 1
Longines

Amsterdam: 1
TightEnd

Rites of Passage: 1
HutchGF

Pass: 0
Ironside

Incorrect: 9
Martin Amis - moonandback.

Close, but it's not the one. Wrong Amis, I'm afraid.

If there are no objections, the scores....


Scores:

redsgirl           1
HutchGF           2
willrobrobu           4
verndog           4
Minttrav           4
Ironside           8
moonandback   9
Longines            9
TightEnd           9
Rubbish           9
Nirvana           11
dwh103           11
Claw75           12
david1303           12

Yay! Aced it. Thought I'd be sharing that one with you claw, being as you put it on the book thread.

[ ] good start :D

It was actually Bring up the Bodies I mentioned on the book thread, but thought I'd go for an older one that people might have forgotten about - FAIL!

oi oi, hurry up, I need to get food before the footie

Q3: Name a prefix.


Pico: 2
willrobrobu
HutchGF

Micro: 2
Ironside
Rubbish

Exa: 1
Longines

Mega: 1
Redsgirl

Giga: 1
TightEnd

Nano:
Verndog

Googol: 1
David1303

Pass: 0
Claw75

Incorrect: 7
Bi - moonandback
Octa - dwh103
Tri - Minttrav


To deal with possible objections: Bi, Octa and Tri, whilst valid prefixes, do not refer to an order of magnitude.

If you can write 2, 8 or 3 as 10^x where x is a whole integer I'll reconsider though ;)

Scores after Q3:

redsgirl   2
HutchGF           4
verndog           5
willrobrobu   6
Longines   10
Ironside   10
TightEnd   10
Nirvana           11
Minttrav   11
Rubbish           11
Claw75           12
david1303   13
moonandback   16
dwh103           18

redsgirl opening up a lead here mind....

Ha, tremendo knowledge of European Politics by us all

I'm surprised nobody went for The White Tiger since we had that as one of the short lived Blonde Book Club selections.
Couldn't believe the score of eight for Vernon Gpd Little

Q4: Rik Mayall acting credits:

New Statesman: 3
Rubbish
Minttrav
Ironside

Young Ones: 2
dwh103
Moonandback

Man Down: 2
Longines
HutchGF

Bottom: 2
Nirvana
willrobrobu

Blackadder II: 1
Claw75

The Comic Strip Presents: 1
TightEnd

Jonathan Creek: 1
Verndog

A Kick up the Eighties: 1
David1303

Incorrect: 8
The Black Adder - Redsgirl

Scores after Q4:

HutchGF   6
verndog   6
willrobrobu   8
redsgirl   10
TightEnd   11
Longines   12
Claw75   13
Ironside   13
Nirvana   13
Minttrav   14
Rubbish   14
david1303   14
moonandback   18
dwh103   20

will get a shift on to ensure Nirvana can get food pre-footy...

Q5: Alexa.com Top 25 Websites

Youtube.com (3rd): 3
Claw75
Moonandback
TightEnd

Twitter.com (9th) : 3
Ironside
Minttrav
Rubbish

Amazon.com (11th): 2
Willrobrobu
Verdog

Blogspot.com (16th) : 1
HutchGF

Bing.com (24th - but has since fallen to 26th!): 1
Longines

Pass: 0
David1303

Incorrect:
bbc.co.uk - Nirvana - 64th globally.
cnn.com - dwh103 - 58th globally.
Pintrest.com - Redsgirl - way higher in 27 than I'd have thought, but alas, not top 25.


Scores after Q5:

HutchGF   7
verndog   8
willrobrobu   10
Longines   13
TightEnd   14
david1303   14
Claw75   16
Ironside   16
Minttrav   17
Rubbish   17
redsgirl   18
moonandback   21
Nirvana   21
dwh103   28

oh man, im abso fumming at the beeb and my own lack of time invested in this quiz

If yr gonna do something kids, give it yr best, that's my advice

No incorrect scores recorded?

No contentious answers?

Fast paced reveal?

FARCE!

sigh there's my question 10 answer buggered!

My name was missed off one set of answers completely

was it? ah ffs.

any clues? Will need to see if I added points on, or just fucked it right up..

Pretty sure its the one I passed - orders of mag - carry on

FARCE

Q3 imo

tfft. he passed, so scores are still good.

mini-farce avoided, and Onward!

Gregory I: 2
Minttrav
Redsgirl

Gregory III:
Claw75
Rubbish

Benedict I:
Moonandback

Theodore I:
Longines

Sixtus I:
Ironside

Urban I: 1
TightEnd

Benedict III: 1
verndog

Pius I: 1
Nirvana

Pass: 0
HutchGF
dwh103
willrobrobu

Incorrect:
No Answer: david1303

Scores after Q6:

HutchGF   7
verndog   8
willrobrobu   10
Longines   14
TightEnd   15
Ironside   17
Claw75   18
Minttrav   19
Rubbish   19
david1303   20
redsgirl   20
moonandback   22
Nirvana   22
dwh103   28

now I've been missed out!

What was wrong with my black adder answer? I couldn't remember which series so I thought that would cover them all.

actually looks like three of us are missing from the pope list

ah, yes....thought this might come up.

Flashheart, played by Rik Mayall, appeared once in Blackadder II and also in the fourth series.

The Black Adder is the name of the first series, in which Rik Mayall doesn't appear.

I think he was only in Blackadder II and Blackadder Goes Forth - only the first series was called 'The Black Adder'

Unbelievable - why has Mullhuzz bothered if not going to do it properly

fixed now...

Q7: Metro Stations:

Nice and easy 'pick an answer from a map' and still someone passed.....oh well.


All aces here, except:

Whitley Bay: 2
Rubbish
HutchGF

Pass: 0
Longines

Scores after Q7:

HutchGF   9
verndog   9
willrobrobu   11
Longines   14
TightEnd   16
Ironside   17
Claw75   19
Minttrav   20
Rubbish   21
david1303   21
redsgirl   21
moonandback   23
Nirvana   23
dwh103   29

I'd originally planned, if I ever won one of these, to write a program/game to do the scoring etc for me, but working out when answers aren't unique, but aren't the same ('like 'European Green Party' and 'The Greens') is far too difficult for my modest coding ability, especially when I somehow won the one before the World Cup started ;)

Anyway, I promised farce, and that is what I am delivering :p

Objection!  Ive just googled and rik mayall appeared in episode 6 of season 1 as mad Gerald!

Q8: Nirvana Tracks:

Lithium : 5
Claw75
TightEnd
dwh103
verndog
david1303

Territorial Pissings: 3
willrobrobu
Nirvana
HutchGF

Smells Like Teen Spirit: 2
Longines
Redsgirl

Drain You: 1
Rubbish

Polly: 1
Moonandback

Pass: 0
Minttrav


Incorrect: 10
Cool back to the future with my love for you are my everything but i will be lost with out Audrey and the proclaimers rule - Ironside

Scores after Q8:

HutchGF           12
willrobrobu   14
verndog           14
Longines   16
Minttrav   20
TightEnd   21
Rubbish           22
redsgirl   23
Claw75           24
moonandback   24
Nirvana           26
david1303   26
Ironside   27
dwh103           34

oooo he did!

Ironside wins!

he may well have done, but wasn't credited as such:

(http://i.gyazo.com/510279185d86416f6db382f3580e1de3.png)

almost awarded -10000 points for roflability in the answer there like.

surprised this is a fail - must've been on In Utero - UL Iron

Q9: Endangered Animals, according to the WWF:

Snow Leopard: 4
Claw75
TightEnd
David1303
Redsgirl

Western Lowland Gorilla: 1
Moonandback

Sumatran Tiger: 1
Longines

Blue Whale: 1
willrobrobu

Giant Panda: 1
Nirvana

Hawksbill Turtle: 1
HutchGF

Mountain Gorilla: 1
verndog

Chimpanzee: 1
Minttrav

Pass: 0
Rubbish

Incorrects: 9
Red Wolf - Ironside
Great White Shark - dwh103



Before I post the scores. Just take a look at some of the names on this list. Some of what you might consider the most iconic, or closest relatives of ours are on this list. I know this is a bit soapboxy, but since I have your attention it's worth mentioning. People think the only possible explanation for the exitinction rate being so much bigger than the natural extinction rate is: humans. Something to think about.


Anyway, the scores:


Scores after Q9:

HutchGF           13
willrobrobu   15
verndog           15
Longines   17
Minttrav   21
Rubbish           22
moonandback   25
TightEnd   25
Nirvana           27
redsgirl   27
Claw75           28
david1303   30
Ironside   36
dwh103           43

Just logged in and I'm winning??? Because Mulhuzz can't duplicate my answers this week.

If I lose to Rubbish again at RSQ I'll be suicidal!

penultimate question before a small smoke break:

Q10: Most Widely Spoken Languages


Portuguese: 3
Longines
dwh103
david1303

Mandarin Chinese: 2
Moonandback
Redsgirl

Bengali: 1
Ironside

Spanish: 1
Claw75

Hindi:1
Minttrav

English: 1
verndog

Pass: 0
TightEnd

Incorrect:
German - willrobrobu
Urdu - HutchGF, Nirvana, Rubbish


Scores after the tenth question:

verndog           16
Longines   20
HutchGF           21
Minttrav   22
willrobrobu   23
TightEnd   25
moonandback   27
Claw75           29
redsgirl   29
Rubbish           30
david1303   33
Nirvana           35
Ironside   37
dwh103           46

expecting some objections to Urdu here...I'm not really sure, may require a phone call...

you were winning until you posted ITT ;)

Object to Urdu. It must be, surely?

Have no evidence, but it must be?

Standard bok :)

of course. Some fiendish plot to make us look thick

http://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/size

table 3 gives it 69.x m speakers and 20th place.

and the final question, with some absolutely amazing wrong answers...

Q11 : An Answer Another has Given:

Bottom: 3
Moonandback
Ironside
dwh103

English: 2
Nirvana
Minttrav

Spanish : 2
redsgirl
RUbbish


Nano: 1
HutchGF

Smells Like Teen Spirit: 1
david1303

Benedict I:
Longines

Incorrects: 8
Filthy Rich and Catflap - Claw75
Wikipedia.org - TightEnd
Come as You Are - willrobrobu
Life of Pi - Verndog

Final scores then...


Longines   21
HutchGF           22
verndog           24
Minttrav   24
moonandback   30
willrobrobu   31
redsgirl   31
Rubbish           32
TightEnd   33
david1303   34
Claw75           37
Nirvana           37
Ironside   40
dwh103           49




Congratulations, Longines!

Fair enough. Thought it was a definite!

Jeez what a dire result - at least Nirvana didn't beat me.

well done Longines - good quiz Mul :)up

Boom...... 2nd and beat the Welshman by 10 pts.

Perfect result.

lololol. wp all.

I look forward to entering Longines Quiz with nee stress next time out!

thought it was such a clev answer too. Good quiz mul, wp everyone, too good

I was robbed, but im taking it well.
Cheers mulhuzz, and well done Longines!

 ;mexicanwave;

Watchutalkinabout? They're all correct answers.

Can you express any of them as 10^x where x is an integer?

That's what an order of magnitude is!

good quiz in the end, well done

well done to Longines

no rush, quiz up by midnight please

Top quizzing

Bugger.

Will do.

Not saying which midnight mind.

Sorry why have you failed the red wolf? It's on the critical list less than 200 left in the world last time I heard unless something remarkable has happened in last few years it should still be on the wwe list

This gives me a much more respectable 32, can't believe nirvana didn't sing that song maybe someone should write to them and ask them to record it for there next album if they do I will buy it

Lol verndog you clown!

Yah correct. Didn't see it on list first time roun because it was named Mississippi Valley Wolf in list I was using for reference. This, according to Wiki, is the same animal.

Think the idea of Nirvana having another album is only slightly more likely than the track you suggested being on Nevermind, mind ;)

can we get a revised scoreboard lol

Fucks sake, tie break last week then that horrific choke last night. Life of Pi, I mean come on guys, really?!

arg for getting last 2 questions wrong

hang on, I didn't pass this, I passed the pope question. so while it means I did 9 points worse it also means that 8others did one point worse... including the winner, but not the runner up!!

Shhhhh......

Second place is the nuts.

FARCE! I demand a recount...

In the spirit of 'I told you I'd fuck it up...'

The new quiz is set now, so I don't care, Hutch doesn't care and Longines might care but he already has entries into a quiz far better than mine.

^^^^^ This.

Although declaring me the joint winner will really hurt Rubbish.

You not having to put a little effort into doing a quiz is the real bitch. Jammy twat.

does whoever wins have to post the next quiz?

Unless you're from Blackpool.

2nd place :)