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I was reading last night about a local guy who came second in a worst holiday photo competition. Apparently, he was taking a shot of a diver before he jumped into the sea. Here is the photo:


This man, who couldn't even win the worst photo competition, has inspired me to run this quiz as a tribute to runners-up and losers, which seems kind of appropriate for a Reverse Sheep Quiz. Below are questions concerning people who didn't win.

The reveal will be Monday 11 August at 7.30pm.

It will make life easier for me if you don't number your answers and don't leave a line in between. Just put each answer on a new line. No penalties, though, if you forget or don't read this bit.

You must pass one question out of 1-10 and will receive a score of zero for that question. Question 11 must be answered.

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.

You are not allowed to do research such as using Google to come up with answers, and you are not allowed to ask others for help with your answers.

The Questions:

1. Someone who has lost Heads-Up in a WSOP bracelet event.

2. A political party leader who has led his or her party to defeat in a UK general election.

3. 'Every Loser Wins' was a major hit for EastEnders actor Nick Berry - the song that propelled him to international stardom. Name another TV actor who has released a song.

4. A country that has scored nul points in the Eurovision (for a year, not in a single set of marks).

5. Someone who won a silver or bronze medal in the Olympics.
 
6. A country that was on the losing team in World War 1 or World War 2.

7. Christianity is the religion with the most members in every State of the US, but the second-largest varies around the country. Name the second-largest religion in any US State. You don't need to name the State (though you may if you want to). For the purpose of this question, subsets of religions are regarded as the same religion - take the fact that I have treated Christianity as a single religion as your example.

8. Someone who lost a famous court case.

9. A movie actor, living or dead, who never won an Oscar.

10. A country which has been beaten in a FIFA Football World Cup Final.

11. And the newly-traditional question 11 - an answer that someone else has given to one of the previous questions.

'Actor' in the above questions may be male or female.

In

I like this a lot I can name lots of answers for all the questions so I can choose answers

Very nice quiz and fits the theme well.

I really don't like question 11 though. It was an interesting one the first time around but really is tedious by now imo.

I am in

Participation confirmed.

Entries Received So Far:
Ant040689   
Ironside
dwh103   
TightEnd

Am I winning?

Quite possibly you are. I didn't know that the player you nominated had done as well as he has at WSOPs until I checked just now.

It's down to the rest of you to - STOP IRONSIDE.

can we end entries now then after all no one can compete with me at losing

In

Entries Received So Far:
Ant040689   
Ironside
dwh103   
TightEnd
Mark_Porter   
Rubbish2407

I have something else that I need to do on Monday night, so I'm going to defer the reveal til Thursday.

I'm also aware that a lot of you have been pokering this weekend at the big events in DTD and Coventry, so it'll give you a chance to catch up with this.

IN!

In :D

Entries Received So Far:
Ant040689
Ironside
dwh103
TightEnd
Mark_Porter
Rubbish2407
kinboshi
inittoit
david3103

So you mentioned before. We know you don't like it cos you posted to that effect on the last quiz I did:


You didn't manage to get around to entering that one. I hope you find time to do so this time.

Entries Received So Far:
Ant040689
Ironside
dwh103
TightEnd
Mark_Porter
Rubbish2407
kinboshi
inittoit
david3103
willrobrobu
DungBeetle

Haha. I shall try to remember to enter on my lunch break :)

admit it your scared cause you know your going to get beat by me

hum do i stay in tonight so i can watch myself win the RSQ

or go out with 4 lovely ladies to a lap dancing club followed by some dad dancing??


tough choice


NOT

sorry wont be here for the farce tomorrow night

Today is your last chance to enter.

The reveal will be at 7.30pm tonight. Still accepting entries, right up until then.

Entries Received So Far:
Ant040689
Ironside
dwh103
TightEnd
Mark_Porter
Rubbish2407
kinboshi
inittoit
david3103
willrobrobu
DungBeetle
The Wycher

Here's something to keep you entertained before the quiz starts:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5NULS9nw-Y

It's not your soundcard. They really are out of tune.

Okay, game on.

One of the entrants to tonight's quiz answered every question, ie they didn't pass one.

What should we do?

I don't think it is fair to take their best nine out of the first ten, as others don't have that option.

I could take the first nine, and treat Q10 as a Pass for zero.

I could give them a Fail for Q10.

I don't know if there has been a standard way of dealing with this in the past - I'm leaning towards treating Q10 as a Pass.

The fairest way I can think of is for someone to post any question number and I will treat that question as a Pass for the offender.

Not many tuned in so far though.............

Not sure what's been done in the past.

5.

I had asked this website for a random number 1 - 10.

http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/random/ (http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/random/)

but I'll go with 5.

We have a very low-scoring quiz. I didn't want it to be difficult, but it was probably a bit too easy. There are several questions with a huge number of correct answers, so it didn't take a lot of skill to Ace them, which means there isn't a reward for finding unusual answers. Anyway, lesson learned. Let's get on with it.

1. Someone who has lost Heads-Up in a WSOP bracelet event.

There are so many possibilities here that everyone is going to Ace it, yeah? No.

Rubbish2407	Daniel Negreanu	2
willrobrobu	Daniel Negreanu	2
Ant040689	James Akenhead	1
Ironside	David Colclough	1
dwh103	Barny Boatman	1
TightEnd	Crandell Addington	1
Mark_Porter	Jay Farber	1
kinboshi	Paul Phillips	1
inittoit	Julian Gardner	1
david3103	Neil Channing	1
DungBeetle	Paul Wasicka	1
The Wycher	Phil Hellmuth	1

2. A political party leader who has led his or her party to defeat in a UK general election.

A couple of clever answers here:

Ironside	William Hague	3
willrobrobu	William Hague	3
The Wycher	William Hague	3
dwh103	Screaming Lord Sutch	2
david3103	Screaming Lord Sutch	2
Ant040689	Iain Duncan Smith	1
TightEnd	Hugh Gaitskell	1
Mark_Porter	Nigel Farage	1
Rubbish2407	Neil Kinnock	1
kinboshi	Caroline Lucas	1
DungBeetle	Winston Churchill	1
inittoit	Pass	0

3. 'Every Loser Wins' was a major hit for EastEnders actor Nick Berry - the song that propelled him to international stardom. Name another TV actor who has released a song.

Martin Kemp or Carrie Brownstein have been in bands, but I can't find any evidence of them releasing a song on their own. Not clear that Brownstein has done any acting either.

Ironside	Bill Tarmey	1
dwh103	Rachel Stevens	1
TightEnd	William Shatner	1
Rubbish2407	Phillip Michael Thomas	1
kinboshi	Michelle Gayle	1
inittoit	Holly Valance	1
david3103	Paul Nicholas	1
Mark_Porter	Paris Hilton	1
DungBeetle	Jason Donovan	1
The Wycher	Kylie Minogue	1
Incorrect
Ant040689	Martin Kemp	6
willrobrobu	Carrie Brownstein	6

4. A country that has scored nul points in the Eurovision (for a year, not in a single set of marks).

Norway is the best known, having achieved it four times, but many countries have scored Nul Points in The Eurovision, especially before the scoring system was changed in 1975.

Year   Country
2004   Switzerland
2003   United Kingdom
1998   Switzerland
1997   Portugal
1997   Norway
1994   Lithuania
1991   Austria
1989   Iceland
1988   Austria
1987   Turkey
1983   Turkey
1983   Spain
1982   Finland
1981   Norway
1978   Norway
1970   Luxembourg
1967   Switzerland
1966   Monaco
1966   Italy
1965   Spain
1965   Germany
1965   Finland
1965   Belgium
1964   Yugoslavia
1964   Switzerland
1964   Portugal
1964   Germany
1963   Sweden
1963   Norway
1963   Netherlands
1963   Finland
1962   Spain
1962   Netherlands
1962   Belgium
1962   Austria
 

5. Someone who won a silver or bronze medal in the Olympics.

I was going to make this the London Olympics, but thought that might already be a difficult question. A silver or bronze ever was a gimme, as there are so many possible correct answers. Everyone who answered it, aced it.

Ant040689	Sonia O'Sullivan	1
Ironside	Tom Daly	1
dwh103	Neil Broad	1
TightEnd	Laura Bechtolsheimer	1
Mark_Porter	Rebecca Adlington	1
Rubbish2407	Galen Rupp	1
kinboshi	Kenenisa Bekele	1
inittoit	Amir Khan	1
david3103	Sebastian Coe	1
willrobrobu	Linford Christie	1
DungBeetle	Steve Cram	1
The Wycher	Pass	0

Half-time scores:

Mark_Porter	4
kinboshi	4
TightEnd	5
inittoit	5
Rubbish2407	6
Ironside	7
dwh103	7
DungBeetle	7
david3103	8
The Wycher	8
Ant040689	9
willrobrobu	12

I wish to register a complaint

Permission granted.

This is neither funny nor farcical. Buck your ideas up.

gg
You'll have another complaint in a second.

6. A country that was on the losing team in World War 1 or World War 2.

Ant040689	Italy	3
DungBeetle	Italy	3
The Wycher	Italy	3
dwh103	Austria-Hungary	2
inittoit	Austria-Hungary	2
TightEnd	Hungary	2
kinboshi	Hungary	2
Mark_Porter	Japan	2
Rubbish2407	Japan	2
Ironside	Thailand	1
willrobrobu	Prussia	1
Incorrect
david3103	Spain	8

7. Christianity is the religion with the most members in every State of the US, but the second-largest varies around the country. Name the second-largest religion in any State. You don't need to name the State (though you may if you want to).

Only five possible correct answers here, so this was the one to pass. Or so I thought. Thing is, just about everyone else thought the same, and not many people answered it, so it became a good one to answer.

Possible correct answers are:
Islam
Judaism
Buddhism
Hinduism
Bahá'í

Paris Hilton a TV actress?

I just picked the telly control up. Does that make me a weightlifter?

Martin Kemp released a song as a part of Spandau Ballet?

(http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/06/17/pub-second-largest-state-48549950fda53eec377c33cb5b0c2eaeeda3bc24-s4-c85.jpg)

How can Hindu be the second-largest religious group in Arizona and Delaware? It's all due to the IT industry. Large numbers of Indian programmers have moved to those two IT hotspots.

But Bahá'í in South Carolina? Come on. The thing is, there are some States where virtually everyone is Christian. It only requires a minute percentage to be the second-largest group. Some clusters, attracted to live where there are others who share their beliefs, are enough to register as the second-largest grouping. The number of Bahá'í followers in South Carolina is small, but there is almost no-one else who is not Christian.

Is that him releasing a song or is it the band releasing it?

8. Someone who lost a famous court case.

I deliberately left this open for civil or criminal cases. Even still, of all the numerous court cases that have occurred, two of you picked the same person and two others picked the same other person.

Scores after eight questions.

kinboshi	8
Mark_Porter	8
TightEnd	8
Rubbish2407	9
Ironside	10
dwh103	11
Ant040689	15
inittoit	16
willrobrobu	16
david3103	17
DungBeetle	19
The Wycher	19

The Simple Life.

You must know it. Coined the well known phrase 'do you love it?'

9. A movie actor, living or dead, who never won an Oscar.

When you look at how many top actors have never won Oscars, it seems like there are more who have not won than those who have won. Most of you didn't pick from the most famous actors though, playing it safe with lower level British ones. I was a bit disappointed that two of those who did nominate very famous ones went for the same person and got an extra point.

These are just a selection of the losers who have never won an Oscar:

Clint Eastwood
Donald Sutherland
Richard Harris
Cary Grant
Peter Sellers
Richard Burton
Tom Cruise
Robert Redford
Gene Kelly
Bob Hope
Tony Curtis
Jim Carrey
Gene Wilder
Charlie Chaplin
Christopher Lloyd
Peter O'Toole
Liam Neeson
Warren Beatty
Leonardo DiCaprio
Colin Farrell
Fred Astaire
Orson Welles
Omar Sharif
James Mason
Robert Mitchum
Errol Flynn
Vincent Price
Brad Pitt
Will Smith
Kirk Douglas
Kevin Bacon
Johnny Depp
Greta Garbo
Marilyn Monroe
Rita Hayworth
Shirley Temple
Ava Gardner
Carole Lombard
Lauren Bacall
Natalie Wood
Debbie Reynolds
Barbara Stanwyck
Michelle Pfeiffer
Glenn Close
Sigourney Weaver
Doris Day
Judy Garland
Deborah Kerr
Myrna Loy
Mae West
Marlene Dietrich

Scores after nine:

TightEnd	9
Mark_Porter	9
kinboshi	9
Ironside	11
Rubbish2407	11
dwh103	12
Ant040689	16
inittoit	17
david3103	18
willrobrobu	18
DungBeetle	20
The Wycher	20

That was a reality show, no? She was Paris Hilton in that. Her imdb entry does have a few credits as an actress; usually one episode as "pouty supermodel" or something similar.

Not what she's famous for :)

That was being the great granddaughter of Conrad Hilton and heiress to a megafortune.

Whoops, forgot about the person who didn't pass.

He's getting Q10 as a Pass.

Doesn't affect the result.

I believe it was a mixture of reality and 'set ups'. I can remember Paris and Nicole having many big dramatic, clearly scripted, fall outs and then having to wait til the next episode to see if they made up again.

10. A country which has been beaten in a FIFA Football World Cup Final.

Possible answers:

1930   Argentina
1934   Czechoslovakia
1938   Hungary
1950   Brazil
1954   Hungary
1958   Sweden
1962   Czechoslovakia
1966   West Germany
1970   Italy
1974   Netherlands
1978   Netherlands
1982   West Germany
1986   West Germany
1990   Argentina
1994   Italy
1998   Brazil
2002   Germany
2006   France
2010   Netherlands
2014   Argentina

Don't think Farage ever was leader ofv UKIP during a General Election?

That's the kind of knowledge that gets aces in RSQs :D

ARGGGHH

Sorry!

He's right, you know.

Gotta recalculate.

Am I right in saying you edited the wording of the beaten world cup finalists question?

Q2.

Ironside	William Hague	3
willrobrobu	William Hague	3
The Wycher	William Hague	3
dwh103	Screaming Lord Sutch	2
david3103	Screaming Lord Sutch	2
Ant040689	Iain Duncan Smith	1
TightEnd	Hugh Gaitskell	1
Rubbish2407	Neil Kinnock	1
kinboshi	Caroline Lucas	1
DungBeetle	Winston Churchill	1
inittoit	Pass	0
Mark_Porter	Nigel Farage	8

No.

Why would you think that?

Scores after ten questions:

kinboshi	10
Rubbish2407	12
dwh103	13
Ironside	14
inittoit	18
Mark_Porter	19
david3103	19
willrobrobu	19
DungBeetle	20
The Wycher	23
Ant040689	24

One question to go. Can kinboshi hold off Rubbish2407, dwh103 and Ironside?

hello could you include me in the table please?

If I do that there's a possibility you might win.

noted, thank you

please carry on lol

I read it completely wrong then. Bugger.

Scores after ten questions:

kinboshi	10
TightEnd	10
Rubbish2407	12
dwh103	13
Ironside	14
inittoit	18
Mark_Porter	19
david3103	19
willrobrobu	19
DungBeetle	20
The Wycher	23
Ant040689	24

One question to go. Can kinboshi and TightEnd hold off Rubbish2407, dwh103 and Ironside?

11. An answer that someone else has given to one of the previous questions.

Ant040689	Germany	2
Mark_Porter	Germany	2
TightEnd	Japan	2
DungBeetle	Japan	2
Rubbish2407	West Germany	2
inittoit	West Germany	2
Ironside	Italy	1
dwh103	Judaism	1
willrobrobu	Buddhism	1
The Wycher	Turkey	1
Incorrect
kinboshi	James 'Flushy' Dempsey	7
david3103	France	7

Good swerve Kin :)

New player The Wycher answered Turkey and put Q6 in brackets after it.

No-one gave Turkey as an answer for Q6, but it was given for Q4, so he gets his point.

Yes, kinboshi shows his experience with an excellent last-minute manoeuvre.

Final scores:

TightEnd	12
dwh103	14
Rubbish2407	14
Ironside	15
kinboshi	17
inittoit	20
willrobrobu	20
Mark_Porter	21
DungBeetle	22
The Wycher	24
Ant040689	26
david3103	26

Oh.

Well done John, very efficient quiz

any volunteers to do the next one? someone who hasn't done one and wants a crack at it?


i am busy til monday and can do one then onwards if needs be but happy for someone to have a go....

Sorry I forgot to enter :(

For future reference passes should be optional. In the situation that someone doesn't pass a question there's nothing to be done. They just score points for every question as normal. It only hurts them to not pass and not anyone else.

Never quite understood why people put you MUST pass a question...

You looking for volunteers to do it?

I know a couple of people who don't mind giving things a shot:

(http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/1522/article_83ed661b839e89cc_1330677380_9j-4aaqsk.jpeg)

Ooops

Saw the thread, submitted my answers......

Then saw thread was 6 pages long....

What a willy!

Are you volunteering to set next quiz then Dann :)

Nice one Dann. You have represented the theme of the quiz more than anyone.

For the record, I present Dann's answers:

James Akenhead
Pass
Robson Green
United Kingdom
Beth Tweddle
Germany
Islam
Amanda Knox
Leonardo Di Caprio
Argentina
Darvin Moon

Would have been well up there til the end. Nice touch with Amanda Knox and you went for a proper Hollywood actor instead of someone from On The Buses.

Finished by performing a perfect kinboshi and failing the last question. Good effort.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlandia_(TV_series)

I have at least one solo 7" record by her at home, and countless songs written and sung by her but released under a band moniker. regardless, you didn't specify it had to be a song released as a solo artist.

"3. 'Every Loser Wins' was a major hit for EastEnders actor Nick Berry - the song that propelled him to international stardom. Name another TV actor who has released a song."

Personally think we should rsq for a couple of weeks one of best rsq  got disappointing numbers give it a cpl of weeks then relaunch

;hattip;

Looking back over the quiz, I notice that Ironside would have finished second if I didn't receive a last-minute entry from The Wycher, who matched two of his answers.

about right I try not to win as I aint got a spreadsheet for the scores lol

I was out at the time so never got round to saying IDS is a fail he was not the leader during an election