RSQ 76- there's a FARCE-t time for everything

[Skippy]

The reveal will take place on Monday 3rd October @ 19:30. Answers in by 19:00 on that day please.

Rules as stolen from Kinboshi are:

The object is to get the lowest total score.

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, with the corresponding sheep score.  If you score the only ACE (an ace being a correct answer which no-one else submits) in any round, you will receive MINUS 1 points for that round. So for newbies, you're trying to get unique, correct answers.  For Trip5, you're just trying to get correct answers to start with.

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.  Remember, you are only cheating yourself (and your illustrious peers).

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

You MUST pass on one, and only one, question and you will receive a score of 0 for that question.


1. Name an olympic sport OR a sport recognised by the IOC that involves a lake, sea or pool of water.
2. Name a country that borders the Russian Federation
3. Name a museum in London that is funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (hint: most of the big London museums and Art Galleries are a part of this list). London is defined as inside the M25
4. Name a type of Poker you can choose at the Dealer's Choice game at Dusk till Dawn (to clarify- they have a list of games on plastic plaques attached to a keyring- I want a game that is on that list.)
5. Name a city in the UK that has at least one tram line. Not the Croydon Tramlink- I can't be bothered to work out whether any of the bits it goes through counts as a city.
6. Name a full length novel by Jane Austin. It must be available to buy from Penguin Classics and must not be a collection of short stories, or anything that isn’t fiction.
7. Name a casino with a Hotel attached in Las Vegas, Nevada. The hotel must be both open now, and be open for bookings.
8. Name a brand of motorbike you can buy new from a dealer in the UK today (Bike= manual gears, no scooters please)
9. Name a presenter of the Radio 1 weekday breakfast show (someone who was give the job full time- no standins or temporary presenters. You can have half of a double act)
10. There are 5 ways of scoring points in Canadian Football. Name one. (it’s basically the same as American Football, but there is one extra scoring play that American Football doesn’t have.)

Thank you for playing, and good luck to you all.


Lucky entrants so far:

DaveShoelace
Dmorgan
hector62
cambridgealex
rhinoass
Tighty
Sheriff Fatman
kinboshi
smashedagain
Longines
milligan84
JK
ManuelsMum

[DaveShoelace]

with the sport question can we distinguish between distance of races? so the same sport, with a short, middle, and long distance variant, or is it just the sport?

farce etc

[Skippy]

with the sport question can we distinguish between distance of races? so the same sport, with a short, middle, and long distance variant, or is it just the sport?

farce etc

Sports, not events. Athletics is one sport, but it has many events, like the 100m sprint, 200m sprint, etc.

[cambridgealex]

IN

Did rubbish.

Still gonna win though.

[Skippy]

Roll up, roll up- only 4 and a bit hours to get those answers in!

[smashedagain]

in but suspect a large flock of sheep again

[millidonk]

in, just to give herbie a sweat for last place. Not the best questions ive ever seen tbh. But lets be fair, i'll never win one to do better..

[smashedagain]

in, just to give herbie a sweat for last place. Not the best questions ive ever seen tbh. But lets be fair, i'll never win one to do better..

tighty n kinboshi are back to  eliminate any first place sweataments for most of us lol

[Skippy]

Right answers are in!

The reveal is at 7:30pm -in 15 minutes. See you then!

[Skippy]

Talking to myself here, which is great as it means NO OBJECTIONS!

Yay!

[smashedagain]

here but i only knew one answer to most of em so just happy if its correct

[TRIP5]

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Reveal going well then??

FARCE

xx

[Skippy]

1. Name an olympic sport OR a sport recognised by the IOC that involves a lake, sea or pool of water.

The official list of sports in the Olympics are listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_sports. This page also contains the list of IOC recognised other sports.

Answers given:

2pts
Triathalon: hector62, kinboshi
Athletics:   Sheriff Fatman, ManuelsMum

Both Sheriff Fatman and ManuelsMum have noticed that there is some water in the steeplechase.

Swimming: JK (Open Water Swimming), cambridgealex (800m butterfly)- these are two events that come under the sport Swimming in the Olympics. The Open Water Swimming is the 10k marathon swim, new for 2008.


1pts
Diving Dmorgan   1
Rowing rhinoass   1
Water Polo smashedagain 1

Modern Pentathalon DaveShoelace 1
There is a swim in the modern pentathalon, but it comes under a different sport banner in the Olympics, so it's not the same as Swimming, above.

Powerboating Tighty 1

Powerboating is not an Olympic sport, but it's governing body is recognised by the IOC.

Pass
milligan84

Fail 7pts
Fin Swimming: Longines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_swimming is a sport, but it's governed by CMAS who are the Scuba Diving Governing Body, and not recognised by the IOC.

[TightEnd]

Get on with it

First answer is 12 minutes late

Poor, most poor

[Skippy]

Scoreboard:

DaveShoelace   1
Dmorgan   1
hector62   2
cambridgealex   2
rhinoass   1
Tighty   1
Sheriff Fatman   2
kinboshi   2
smashedagain   1
Longines   7
milligan84   0
JK   2
ManuelsMum   2