The "I was aiming for second" RSQ - Pokerpops has a crack at it.

[david3103]

Question 2 Name a member of the gull family ( as listed by the RSPB )

Surprisingly, despite the fact that so many of us refer to so many birds as Seagulls, inspired perhaps by the Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull which brought such gems as “We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.”  and “The gull sees farthest who flies highest”  and who could ever forget the sense of understanding of life when they first read “¡Si nuestra amistad depende de cosas como el espacio y el tiempo, entonces, cuando por fin superemos el espacio y el tiempo, habremos destruido nuestra propia hermandad! Pero supera el espacio, y nos quedará sólo un Aquí. Supera el tiempo, y nos quedará sólo un Ahora. Y entre el Aquí y el Ahora, ¿no crees que podremos volver a vernos un par de veces?” 


moving on...

Passes – nul point
Longines
BobaFett
swinebag22


Four for..
jbworldwide   Herring Gull
moonandback   Herring Gull
kinboshi      Herring Gull
MintTrav      Herring Gull

3 each for
JK         Common Gull
Tal         Common Gull
BulldozerD      Common Gull

Aces for these four
TightEnd       kittiwake
HutchGF      Black Headed Gull
millidonk      Iceland Gull
Fatctatstu      Little Gull


5+4=9 for these folks

dwh103      seagull - incorrect
Ant040689      seagull - incorrect
GrahamC      seagull – incorrect
Ironside      seagull - incorrect
George2Loose   seagull - incorrect
RedsGirl      seagull - incorrect
Stribling      seagull - incorrect
horseplayer      seagull – incorrect
Ruud         albatross - incorrect
Blueace      White Gull – incorrect

[david3103]

Scores so far

BobaFett            1
millidonk            2
HutchGF            6
jbworldwide            6
kinboshi            6
swinebag22            7
Tal            7
BulldozerD            8
Fatcatstu            9
Longines            10
Ruud            10
TightEnd            11
RedsGirl            11
JK            11
moonandback            12
George2Loose            13
MintTrav            14
dwh103            15
Blueace            15
Ironside            16
Stribling            16
GrahamC            18
horseplayer            18
Ant040689            24

[david3103]

Any queries or disputes?

Good - on to Question 3 Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute barrier for the mile on 6 May 1954. Name a male athlete who has held the World Mile Record, as ratified by the IAAF and their predecessor, since then.

Passes – nul point

Ant040689
GrahamC
HutchGf
jbworldwide
George2Loose
JK
millidonk


4 each for
dwh103      Hicham El Guerroj
kinboshi      El Guerroj
Fatcatstiu      Hicham El Guerroj
Tal         Hicham El Guerroj

2 for
TightEnd      Filbert Bayi
MintTrav      Filbert Bayi

and 2 for
Ironside      Seb Coe
RedsGirl      Seb Coe

and
BobaFett      Steve Ovett
BulldozerD      Steve Ovett

Aces
swinebag22   John Walker
horseplayer      Steve Cram
Ruud         Moraline Mourceli


Again it's 4+5=9 for the 'fails
Longine    Pass – incorrect, only one pass allowed
moonandback   John Watson – incorrect
stribling      Bernard Lagat – incorrect
Blueace      Ben Johnson - incorrect

[david3103]

Still no issues - I must be getting something right then??

Question 4
Name a sport that will be part of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Individual events such as 100 metres men will be marked as a fail, I'm looking for sports, as listed on the Official Games website.


3 each for those who chose Bowls, Rugby Sevens and Hockey
Longines      bowls
Ironside      bowls
MintTrav      bowls

TightEnd      Rugby Sevens
HutchGf      Rugby Sevens
Ruud         Rugby Sevens

George2Loose   hockey
kinboshi      hockey
BulldozerD      hockey

2 apiece for Wrestling or Swimming
BobaFett      wrestling
horseplayer      wrestling

swinebag22   swimming
Fatcatstu      swimming

and lots of Aces
RedsGirl      cycling
GrahamC      squash
jbworldwide   badminton
moonandback   judo
JK         netball
dwh103      table tennis
millidonk      basketball
Tal         squash
Blueace      Boxing

Incorrect answers for 5+3=8
Ant040689      javelin – incorrect
Stribling      archery – incorrect

scores so far in a moment

[david3103]

Scores after four questions

millidonk                     3
BobaFett                     5
jbworldwide                     7
HutchGF                     9
swinebag22                     10
Tal                     12
JK                     12
kinboshi                     13
BulldozerD                     13
Ruud                     14
RedsGirl                     14
Fatcatstu                     15
TightEnd                     16
George2Loose                     16
MintTrav                     19
GrahamC                     19
dwh103                     20
Ironside                     21
horseplayer                     21
Longines                     22
moonandback                     22
Blueace                     25
Ant040689                     32
Stribling                     33

[stribling]

This is embarrassing. I'm not even trying to get these wrong!

[david3103]

This is embarrassing. I'm not even trying to get these wrong!

unlucky with Archery, it was discarded this year and replaced with the triathlon

[david3103]

Onward

Question 5
Name a poker player in the top 20 GB & Ireland cashes list according to the Hendon Mob database as at Sunday 9 February 2014.

Passes – nul point

TightEnd
RedsGirl
Fatcatstu

Threes up for
GrahamC      Julian Thew
George2Loose   Julian Thew
kinboshi      Julian Thew

twosies for Trickett, Vamplew and Bloom
ironside      Sam Trickett
Tal         Sam Trickett

BobaFett      David Vamplew
MintTrav      David Vamplew

JK         Tony Bloom
BulldozerD      Tony Bloom

Aces...
Longine       John Gayle
Ant040689      Surinder Sunar
jbworldwide   james Akenhead
moonandback   Dave Ulliott
Stribling      Roland de Wolfe
millidonk      Andy Black
Blueace      Jake Cody

and 3+5=8...
dwh103      Jeff Duval - incorrect
HutchGF      George Geary - incorrect
swinebag22   Chris Brammer - incorrect
horseplayer      Tony 'Tikay' Kendall - incorrect
Ruud         Noel Furlong – incorrect

[david3103]

I feel somewhat underwhelmed by the response to the reveal thus far but I'll assume nobody has an objection yet

Question 6 Name an English City which is North of Nottingham


Six of you ...
dwh103      York
Ant040689      York
GrahamC      York
RedsGirl      York
moonandback   York
JK         York

Three headed north from Blackpool
Longines       Preston
HutchGF      Preston
Stribling      Preston

Three struck out for the coast
George2Loose   Hull
tal         Hull
MintTrav      Hull

and surprisingly two thought of Carlisle
BobaFett      Carlisle
Fatcatstu      Carlisle


Lots of Aces on this one
TightEnd      Ripon
jbworldwide   Lincoln
Ironside      Sunderland
swinebag22   Sheffield
millidonk      Durham
kinboshi      Stoke on Trent
horseplayer      Bradford
Ruud         Lancaster
Blueace      Manchester
BulldozerD      Wakefield

[david3103]

Scores...

millidonk                              5
BobaFett                              9
jbworldwide                        9
BulldozerD                              16
Tal                              17
kinboshi                              17
Fatcatstu                              17
TightEnd                              17
swinebag22                              19
HutchGF                              20
JK                              20
RedsGirl                              20
George2Loose                              22
Ruud                              23
MintTrav                              24
Ironside                              24
Longines                              26
Blueace                              27
GrahamC                              28
moonandback                              29
horseplayer                              30
dwh103                              34
Stribling                              37
Ant040689                              39

[millidonk]

Watching benefit street debate and also worried that I am actually going to win this. eeeek.

[david3103]

Question 7 Name an individual winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Organisations and multiple laureates are excluded.  

It would have been clearer had I said joint Laureates rather than multiple, but the context here was pretty clear to me and I think to most entrants so I am marking it as intended.

Passes – nul point

dwh103

Five points for
Ant040689      Barack Obama
RedsGirl      Barack Obama
Stribling      Barack Obama
horseplayer      Barack Obama
Fatcatstu      Barack Obama

Three for the Angel of Calcutta
Longines       Mother Theresa
BobaFett      Mother Theresa
Ruud         Mother Theresa

two for the peanut farmer
HutchGF      Jimmy Carter
BulldozerD      Jimmy Carter


and Aces for
TightEnd      Liu Xiaobo
jbworldwide   Dalai Lama – grudgingly allowed since you failed to specify which incarnation you had in mind...
Ironside      Woodrow Wilson
moonandback   Lech Walesa
JK         Martin Luther King Jr
Tal         aung san suu kyi
MintTrav      Mikhael Gorbachev

5+5=10...
GrahamC      Ghandi - incorrect
George2Loose   Tony Blair – incorrect
millidonk      Marie Curie – incorrect
Swinebag22   F W deKlerk - incorrect
kinboshi      Yasser Arafat - incorrect
Blueace      Nelson Mandela – incorrect

the last three were joint winners – not individual Laureates

Watching benefit street debate and also worried that I am actually going to win this. eeeek.

 

gee gee

[millidonk]

whaaaaaa? sure she won one? 

[millidonk]

ooops. maybe not. she was good at physics tho..

[david3103]

ooops. maybe not. she was good at physics tho..

quite