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You have until the X Factor final starts, whenever that is. PM answers. Time taken and answer correctness both count.

1. Name one of the two main kinds of Asiago cheese.
2. On which organelle might you find cristae?
3. Complete the sequence: Corinthian, Ionic, ?
4. Je suis means I am in French, what else does it mean?
5. Solve the conundrum: COPYGHATE
6. Which online encyclopedia, founded by Larry Sanger, has Editors as a user type?
7. Broker, Algonquin and Alderney are all what?
8. Which UK town consumes the most Benedictine?
9. What links Uzbekistan to Bedfordshire?
10. Who wrote the piece 'The Lark Ascending'?
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Re: Saturday quickfire quiz I

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Wow, that was incredibly tough. If you're going to do it quick-fire I think you should lower the difficulty.
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Using Joseph's Arbitrarily Calculating Knowledge Addition/ Subtraction Scoring, I have decided that Thomas wins and Eoin comes second.
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What were the answers/scores?
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Will post later.
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Joseph Krol wrote:Joseph's Arbitrarily Calculating Knowledge Addition/ Subtraction Scoring
:lol:

Can the winner set up the next quiz?
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If you want, Thomas.

1. Pressato or d'allevo
2. Mitochondria
3. Doric
4. I follow
5. PHAGOCYTE
6. Citizendium
7. GTA4 areas
8. Burnley
9. Double landlocked
10. Vaughan-Williams
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Re: Saturday quickfire quiz I

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Thomas: 3/10, 59 minutes left - 9 points
Eoin: 1/10, 79 minutes left - 9 points
Thomas wins due to higher points out of ten.
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Joseph Krol wrote:8. Benedictine
Where in the UK is there a town named Benedictine? :?
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Phil Reynolds wrote:
Joseph Krol wrote:8. Benedictine
Where in the UK is there a town named Benedictine? :?
Surely he means Burnley, which I believe is the answer. :geek:
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I was under the impression (thanks to my French teacher) that "Je Suis" actually means "I have" which is what my answer would have been.
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Absurdly tough unless you're an avid viewer of QI. Think I got 4. Give us some warning next time, I was online quite a bit yesterday and saw nothing of this.
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As I'm running the next one, I think I'll start it Saturday morning at whenever I wake up (usually about 6am). Is this good or should it be earlier?
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Ian Volante wrote:Absurdly tough unless you're an avid viewer of QI. Think I got 4. Give us some warning next time, I was online quite a bit yesterday and saw nothing of this.
Also, if you're going to say "Time taken and answer correctness both count" it would help to know in what way. Also, it doesn't say but presumably you're not allowed to look stuff up? In absurdly hard quizzes you often are.

And also, having when X-Factor starts as a time limit instead of an actual time is just ridiculous!
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Conclusion: this was extremely badly run. :D

Hopefully Thomas will run it better.
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Joseph Krol wrote:Conclusion: this was extremely badly run. :D

Hopefully Thomas will run it better.
Don't count on it.

Just incase I'm not up by 6, the quiz will go from 8am to 8pm. You won't be allowed to look stuff up. The questions probably will still be quite hard but not as hard as this quiz. I'm not sure how to use the JACKASS scoring system so I'm going to do it by the amount of correct answers, and in the event of a tie, the fastest person. The winner will run the next one (if they want to).

Think I've explained all.
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So, about this then.
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Eoin Monaghan wrote:So, about this then.
Hoped it would go unnoticed.

Alarm didn't go off, so sorry but it's now a Sunday quiz for this week. :(
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Thomas Carey wrote:
Eoin Monaghan wrote:So, about this then.
Hoped it would go unnoticed.

Alarm didn't go off, so sorry but it's now a Sunday quiz for this week. :(
Dead on, I'm away tomorrow so will have to reply late.
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Sorry for missing it, alarm didn't go off :( . Hopefully next person will do it better.

1. What kind of animal is an opah?
2. Which element has the chemical symbol Sb?
3. What is the capital of the US state Idaho?
4. Which country’s local name is Magyarorszag?
5. Conundrum: THEYRECAP
6. Which London underground line contains Maida Vale station?
7. In which British county is the National Motor Museum?
8. Which animal has the scientific name vicugna pacos?
9. Which country was the first Eurovision Song Contest, held in 1956?
10. Who won Series 35 of Countdown?
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Results? Was I the only one that entered? :?
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The lines are closed.

Eoin: No, but you won. 6/10 (taking your first answer for Q8) in 1hr53.
Joseph Krol got 5/10 in 0hr57.

Answers:

1. Fish
2. Antimony
3. Boise
4. Hungary
5. ARCHETYPE
6. Bakerloo
7. Hampshire
8. Alpaca
9. Switzerland
10. Pete Cashmore
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Woo. Tbh, this clearly hasn't gone down too well unfortunately, I don't really see the point in doing it next week to have.
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One out of ten again..
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Jon O'Neill wrote:One out of ten again..
Aye, I only managed two and one of those was a guess. I don't think my general knowledge is especially great, but it's not that shit either, so I think there's still a problem with the question difficulty. If you want more entries, I think there needs to be at least a couple of questions that most people would know the answers to, then say four or five more difficult but gettable ones (maybe the level of the General Knowledge questions on Mastermind), then a couple of real bastards that you wouldn't expect most people to get, but might just hit somebody's area of expertise. Also having it on a Saturday evening probably isn't the best time to maximise entries.
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Well then I'll do it next week but make them easier.
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I think this is good difficulty; some easy questions (2,3,4), some medium questions (5,6,8,9) and some insanely hard ones (1,7,10).

Maybe it should be a weekly quiz. Drop the quickfire element. Just say the winner is the one who scored the most points.

If it will be weekly, there should probably be 20 questions, maybe 30 or even 50. The winner will get to design the next quiz if they want.
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Err, knowing the capital of Idaho isn't easy at all and Antimony is a pretty obscure element, never mind knowing it's strange symbol. This whole thing is a good idea IMO, but the 2 quizzes have been far too difficult.
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Eoin Monaghan wrote:Err, knowing the capital of Idaho isn't easy at all and Antimony is a pretty obscure element, never mind knowing it's strange symbol. This whole thing is a good idea IMO, but the 2 quizzes have been far too difficult.
That's true, but they should be easy for people on a Countdown forum. And they're easy compared to the others.
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Thomas Carey wrote:
Eoin Monaghan wrote:Err, knowing the capital of Idaho isn't easy at all and Antimony is a pretty obscure element, never mind knowing it's strange symbol. This whole thing is a good idea IMO, but the 2 quizzes have been far too difficult.
That's true, but they should be easy for people on a Countdown forum. And they're easy compared to the others.
I wouldn't count on it, just because someone is good at Countdown doesn't mean they're good at quizzes.
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Thomas Carey wrote:
Eoin Monaghan wrote:Err, knowing the capital of Idaho isn't easy at all and Antimony is a pretty obscure element, never mind knowing it's strange symbol. This whole thing is a good idea IMO, but the 2 quizzes have been far too difficult.
That's true, but they should be easy for people on a Countdown forum. And they're easy compared to the others.
I got 1 out of 10 and I'm demonstrably significantly more intelligent than you.
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I'm not sure these quizzes have much potential to be honest. Just ten straight out general knowledge-type questions. You know them or you don't (apart from the anagram one), and that's it. Twenty seconds work, whether you get one or onety. It would be better to have a quiz where you think about the answers. Perhaps you could see if you can make them Google-proof and allow research.
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Got four on both of them. They're far too hard!
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I agree with gev. I think there's potential for a Google-proof connections type quiz like the RSS one posted by raccoon, but a straight GK one just seems a bit uninteresting. Might try to write one...
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Ryan Taylor wrote:Got four on both of them. They're far too hard!
I'm a second quizmaster who agrees that these are particularly tough.
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Eoin Monaghan wrote:Err, knowing the capital of Idaho isn't easy at all and Antimony is a pretty obscure element, never mind knowing it's strange symbol. This whole thing is a good idea IMO, but the 2 quizzes have been far too difficult.
These were two that I got almost immediately, but it helps to be from America and to know what element shares your initials :lol:

EDIT: but of course I had no clue on the Euro-centric questions so it balances out
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