RSQ 55 - Here we go again...

[KarmaDope]

The Rules

There are 11 questions.

PM me your answers by 11:59pm on Sunday 1st May. Please put RSQ 55 in subject header. Please give each answer on a SEPARATE line with corresponding question number.

The reveal will take place at 8pm on Monday 2nd May. (As I can't do Tuesday or Wednesday)

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, and you're not allowed to ask others for help with your answers.  

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

You MUST pass on one, and only one, question and score a 0 for that question. YOU CANNOT PASS QUESTIONS 10 OR 11

Any questions, post in this thread.

Objections are allowed, but as is standard, will probably be ignored. The QM decision is final.

Lowest score after the 11 rounds will win. In the event of a tie, some type of farce will take place.

Objections encouraged. Farce intended. Participation please!


The Questions

1. Name a current, sitting Cabinet Minister

2. Give me the title of a Stephen King book released after January 1st 1990.

3. 8 football clubs made the quarter finals of the 2010/2011 Champions League. Name one.

4. Name one of the top ten people in the line of succession to the British Throne.

5. Name a motorway service station on the M6.

6. Name a recruitment agency that operate in England.

7. Name an actor/actress who has appeared in all of the Harry Potter films released to date.

8. Name an "Official Companion" of the Doctor in Doctor Who.

9. Name anybody who has won a £75 buy in APAT Live Amateur Poker Championship.

10. Give me the forum username of a blonde who has a current diary thread that is open (and by current I mean updated within the last 14 days).

11. There were lots of blonde members that entered the "blonde/SkyBet naps competition" over in Betting Tips. State the current forum username of anyone who took part.


The Entrants

[KarmaDope]

Was going to do a Pointless style quiz but thought better of it...I know who I work with after all

[AndrewT]

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

No problems with Google this week (unless cf enters).

[KarmaDope]

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

No problems with Google this week (unless cf enters).

LOL!

Can you sticky please?

[Claw75]

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

No problems with Google this week (unless cf enters).

i'd need to google a few to have a chance

will probs play anyway and aim for mid table obscurity

[Cf]

Stickied.

I have to take exception to the following questions though:

5. Name a motorway service station on the M6. - I've used the M6 once or twice. I certainly don't know the name of service stations. Change the question to M62 and I can answer.

9. Name anybody who has won a £75 buy in APAT Live Amateur Poker Championship. - errrrrrrr? There's a name that I think might of won one but I'm not sure. I don't see why I should really know this.

11. There were lots of blonde members that entered the "blonde/SkyBet naps competition" over in Betting Tips. State the current forum username of anyone who took part. - I do not read this thread. At best i've skimmed it. It doesn't mean I know an answer. At least I don't have to google it.

[Cf]

To be fair there's a few names that are probably a safe guess for 11. But they're just that: a guess.

[Claw75]

To be fair there's a few names that are probably a safe guess for 11. But they're just that: a guess.

i'm not going to guess 'cf' now

[hector62]

3 questions that I can't even make an educated guess at and i refuse to cheat so I will have to give this one a miss.

[cambridgealex]

+1 hector

[gatso]

did you get a grown up to write the questions for you this time? the difference between this and your last 2 attempts is amazing, well done (though the m6 question is a shocker)

[kinboshi]

M6 isn't that bad a question.  Obviously penalises those who have an ASBO that means they can't leave the area within the M25. 

Overall the questions are much better - but I can see that a few will be tough for some, and if there's more than one they can't answer - that makes the quiz unplayable.

[Cf]

I think the M6 question is terrible. As was the M1 question. The only reason I knew an answer for the M1 question was because the name amused me and it stuck. I've used plenty of services on the M1 but never often enough to pay attention to and remember the names of them. I can name a few on the M62 because I drive past them regularly. If you don't drive or don't happen to live near or use these motorways regularly then I don't see why you should know the answers.

[Laxie]

I'd be guessing on two and don't have an iota on another two.  Sigh.

[TightEnd]

Thought I had come up with a twist to save RSQ

Sharplea immediately abandons it and sets tough questions that will disenfranchise half the potential runners!

Sigh!


1,2,6,9 I think are too specialist for a blonde audience

Will enter anyway