Sports quiz tonight at 7pm

ans = celtics

im out

sports & usa doesnt add up

thanks, good luck.

...from boston...

different class nirv

is that the celtic nicks??

interestingly enough, I had time to delete the 'i' from 'knickies' and still be first to get the answer wrong

24 ~ Mafeking
21 ~ Nirvana
15 ~ Rocky
15 ~ BJK
13 ~ Knight


10 ~ Fenway

6 ~ Max
6 ~ I Think So

6 ~ Dan Ch
5 ~ GT
10~ sixtwosix
11 ~ Roy
10 ~ Gleeman
4 ~ Muntz
8 ~ Superbob
6 ~ Sonko
3 ~ Slippy
1 ~ ralphy
1 ~ charly
3 ~ pumpy
1 ~ punter

3 ~ klauk
3 ~ alex 69
3 ~ Andy
3 ~ tevez
7 ~ first
4 ~ liamcol
10 ~ jimmy69
1 ~ Ovalman
4 ~ Swindonboy
1 ~ Dk
3 ~ dps
7 - twodoggs
2 - huggy
2 - mexicano

49 Where was the word "Boston" misspelt as "Bqstqn" in 1972?

dyslexic baseball championship

Munich

On their arena

guardian

olynmpics

on the staney cup

your house

yankee stadium

ans = On the Stanley Cup

almost had it ffs

24 ~ Mafeking
21 ~ Nirvana
15 ~ Rocky
15 ~ BJK
13 ~ Knight


10 ~ Fenway

6 ~ Max
6 ~ I Think So

6 ~ Dan Ch
5 ~ GT
10~ sixtwosix
11 ~ Roy
10 ~ Gleeman
4 ~ Muntz
9 ~ Superbob
6 ~ Sonko
3 ~ Slippy
1 ~ ralphy
1 ~ charly
3 ~ pumpy
1 ~ punter

3 ~ klauk
3 ~ alex 69
3 ~ Andy
3 ~ tevez
7 ~ first
4 ~ liamcol
10 ~ jimmy69
1 ~ Ovalman
4 ~ Swindonboy
1 ~ Dk
3 ~ dps
7 - twodoggs
2 - huggy
2 - mexicano

good shout bob

50 Bill Hoffman (aka The Joker) of Columbus, Ohio is a 5 time world champion in what sport?

tiddlywinks

poker

american football

spitting

welly throwing

poker

arm wrestling

poker

curling

underwater darts

arm wrestling

pizza eating

answer = Tenpin bowling

hot dog eating

knew i'd heard that name

hahaha some good answers there too

wp all - tremendous quiz - cheers Pos & GT :D

24 ~ Mafeking
21 ~ Nirvana
15 ~ Rocky
15 ~ BJK
13 ~ Knight


10 ~ Fenway

6 ~ Max
6 ~ I Think So

6 ~ Dan Ch
5 ~ GT
10~ sixtwosix
11 ~ Roy
10 ~ Gleeman
4 ~ Muntz
9 ~ Superbob
6 ~ Sonko
3 ~ Slippy
1 ~ ralphy
1 ~ charly
3 ~ pumpy
1 ~ punter

3 ~ klauk
3 ~ alex 69
3 ~ Andy
3 ~ tevez
7 ~ first
4 ~ liamcol
10 ~ jimmy69
1 ~ Ovalman
4 ~ Swindonboy
1 ~ Dk
3 ~ dps
7 - twodoggs
2 - huggy
2 - mexicano

WD Mafeking, Nirv.

wp all

THANKS FOR THE QUIZ - WELL PLAYED

k o n = spitting top answer

Top quiz , some cool questions.

thanks pos, wd winniner

Bqstqn

3700 hits on google !!!

cheers pos. top notch quiz as ever and GT for the scoring. :)

wd mafeking

thanks for the top quiz pos

Wd Mafeking and Nirv

Cheers POS great quiz, excellently executed too

cheers Gt for scroing til HT

Thanks pos wd mafeking

thanks p4s and gt

Well played all
great quiz
passed a couple of hours at work

Tremendous quiz ,wp mafe

Great effort Pos - especially scoring in the second half.

Thanks also to GT, and vwp Mafeking and Nirv.

thanks pos, gt. impressive stuff from mafeking.

Cheers rob, exc quiz and scoring. Thx to Gt too.

Wp mafe and all.

cheers pos, wd the winners and scorers

lol Liam....your link earlier made me laugh.

That seemed to be a very good quiz Rob and a massive turn out too.

Ah, cheers jimmy, second time i posted it and not a fkin comment, boring feckers on here, :)

This would have been the scoring with 3 2 1

Mafeking 24
Nirvana 22
Rock Monkey 21
Fenway 17
Jimmy69 12
Sixtwosix 12
Dan Chipowski 11
First and goal at one 11
Max and Paddy 11
TwoDoggs 10
Knight of Ni 9
Superbob 9
Andy Murray 8
Bjk 6
I think so 6
Alex69 5
Klauk 5
Royclaytonstash 5
GT 3
Gleeman 3
Dk 2
Muntz Street 2
Dead Pop Stars 1
Huggy 1
Liamcol 1
Panglima 1
Slippy Blue 1

That still only gets you to 5th Jimmy :D

lol Pumps

cheers jimmy. yep v.good liam.

1 of the main problems was the scoring method, blatantly encourages copying and I'm sure lots of people were copying.
I stand by the Andy Gantaueme question, don't really know why some people (they were the cricket specialists too) took exception to it. Obviously wouldn't be Bradman, was far too easy.
The golf question about the non english speaking thing was badly worded admittedly
I fekked up the one about countries representing europe in ryder cup. thought i'd put spain in the question but hadn't, looking back i prob should'v just voided the question.
I timed up far too quickly on the colin mcrae question too, but once i'd done it i couldn't really go back on it.

pos, i posted this before the start,
scoring point for each correct :_| :_| :_|
i hate 1pt each correct, it not only encourages copying, it makes you feel guilty if you do get it right, anyway.

I didn't see much wrong in the quiz, a couple could have been worded a bit better, but they were still able to be understood, imo.
I enjoyed it anyway, well done.

The 1 point scoring system is flawed for that very reason Rob.

i shalln't be using that 1pt method again jimmy, i can assure you.

I had always thought that was the fairest, but in my naievety didn't
realise that people would so blatantly copy. Trouble is when there
are big fields it is infuriiating when you know the answer type it quick
as you like and you're still 8th or 9th in and get nothing for your
troubles, can be very demoralising.

Pos i think the biggest problem as such for quizzes are the scoring methods...

if its 5-4-3-2-1 or 3-2-1 it favours those that are good with FFF and quick connections.

But 1-1-1-1-1 leaves those that know or think they know not wanting to put an answer in early as to let everyone else know in case of copying.

I think everyone has a prefered method of scoring i think mine is 5-4-3-2-1 so more people can get on the board and those that genuinely know will get rewarded regardless.

Also depends on the level of difficulty, if they are hard Q`s then 5-4-3-2-1 works well as not that many gonna know even when a good quizzer gets it right and is in early. although when they are easy it lets the average quizzers in (like myself) to win alot of FFF purely because of speed and not ability.

Not sure whether ive given my opinion of what i think above. But i think it is a tricky area and think 1 for each is a problem.

BTW i thought your questions were excellent and some very hard and some very gettable for most.

Great quiz, just the scoring but thats a problem for everyone not you mate

One way round it is a point for any of the first six posts that have correct answer, by people waiting for the first couple of posts they will basically miss out on scoring if possible.
also no advantage for very fast posters but you do still have to be pretty quick.
only a suggestion

That makes sense pumpy. If you wait till the first question is up, read it, remember it, click reply, type it in then click post, there will surely be 5 other answers in by then.

I'm working on a system for my next quiz.
It will be along the lines of,
1st unique incorrect ok
1st duplicate wrong -1
2nd duplicate wrong - 2
etc. etc.
There was one quite recently where a question had the same wrong answer repeated about 10 times, this would make it interesting.

blackjackking 15 Nov 23:00


BTW i thought your questions were excellent and some very hard and some very gettable for most.

Great quiz, just the scoring but thats a problem for everyone not you mate


I was just a bit p.ssed off that max left early. i think he got a real bee in his bonnet about a couple of the qs which surprised me - i've never found him to be like that before. I met him once and he's a decent lad, we've had a bit of banter on the cricket forum before too.

just thinking of an idea to stop the copying Ro, plus the fact you want to keep the 1pt for a correct answer.
you could make it all correct answers in first 8 or even 10 replies
though probably 8 is top wack to stop most of the copying, that way most people will score points at regular intervals though of course not every time they get a correct answer.

can be hardwork keeping up on the scoring with that system liam, but makes sense. goodluck

The 3 2 1 scoring method produced the same top 3 that you had with the 1 point for each answer Rob.

think quite a few people might end up with minus scores if that system was adopted :0

Jimmy, work it out with my system, :)
report back in a month or so, lol.

fair enough jimmy

That's a challenge Liam. What's the scoring method for those who got it right?

6.175 points each

Was just wondering what it would be, 54321, minus the points i said for duplicates, looks difficult though.

OK.I have an hour free in the morning. I will have a look...lol

tbf there are a lot of duplicate wrong answers on some qs that were defo not copying;

DON bradman springs to mind

I will report back....lol

That was an excellent quiz - I had other things on this evening which is why I had to drop out

Nothing wrong with the Ganteaume question at all.

The non-English-speaking countries providing a major golf championship winner could have been worded better, I suppose, but I understood it (not that I knew the answer) and I couldn't provide an alternative wording for it.

As for scoring:

From a scorer's point of view, 1 point per correct answer is by far the easiest to operate. I'm sad enough to have a spreadsheet ready for scoring quizzes - the only problem I would have had is that loads of rare quizzers enter sports-only quizzes and it would take quite a while to put everyone's name in.

I've forgiven you for the Ponsford question!

This looks like it was good. sorry I wasn't home to take part :(

I enjoyed the quiz, there were a lot of excellent questions, e.g Bill Ponsford, Zina Garrison.

My one small beef is that I am not too keen on the 'oddball' type questions, expecially when they are sports that not many people know about. Those of us who do know a bit about them lose out. For example, there was only one greyhound racing question, which was not about a dog, track or trainer, it was to do with an SP. I wasn't keen at all on the Ganteaume question, as his 'average' is not officially recognised, but that is just a personal preference.

To be honest anyone who takes the time to prepare a quiz should be congratulated. This was a fine quiz.

OK...this is what you have been waiting for...Liamcol's scoring system...lol

Nirvana 28
Rock Monkey 22
Fenway 18
TwoDoggs 18
Dan Chipowski 17
Andy Murray 13
Jimmy69 11
Mafeking 9
Knight of Ni 7
Max and Paddy 7
Panglima 4
Muntz Street 2
Klauk 1
Joci Club -3
Slippy Blue -3
Huggy -5
Sixtwosix -5
First and Goal at the one -6
I Think So -6
Tevez is God -6
Alex69 -7
GT -7
Superbob -7
Ovalman -8
Dk 1986 -14
Mexicano -15
Gleeman -16
Blackjackking -18
Liamcol -21
RoyClaytonsTash -24
Dead pop stars -32
Ibrahima Sonko -32
Swindon Boy -38

What an excellent scoring system, though missing 3/4's of the quiz I came 11th :D

Sadly I didn't add up how many questions people missed Pumps...I think I missed about 30.

You did very well then Jimmy.

It's actually quite a fun way to score it but I wouldn't want to be the in running scorer...lol

But then again as has been said before with any scoring involving people taking a minus score for being wrong, when people dont KNOW the answer they simply wont have a go at it.

Why would you guess at 20Q you dont have a clue, for instance a country Q when you know it could be one of many and risk getting a minus when your a 10/1 poke to get it.

Minus scoring doesnt work, I did it a few times during my picture quizzes and it never showed as a good way IMO and a few others that took part.

Agreed bjk. Guessing is part of quizzes and good fun, so to discourage it would be a pity.

No perfect scoring system online - all the ones we've used have drawbacks.

Next quiz I do I might try 4-3-2-1-1-1 or something. That way a decent number score and it won't be worth copying as you'll probably miss out on the points. I like to give a bonus for unique correct answers, so 5 pts there.

Scoring like that you need to ensure of course Qs are tough, so that those with faster typing/conections don't have a big advantage.

I agree BJK. I would never want to have minus scoring. It will stop people guessing...and at the end of the day it should all be about a bit of fun. It's the taking part that counts.

" its the taking part that counts "


I expect that sentiment goes for 80% plus of people that take part in these quizzes as at least that ammount will very rarely win a quiz but just enjoy the crac.

I think Liam will want to get rid of his scoring system too considering he was near the bottom...lol

ttt for Liam...

ttt for Liam...again

Cheers Jimmy.
I think we can safely bin that system!
There were a couple of answers that would have skewed it somewhat, people getting up to minus 12, not through copying but misinterpreting the question.
In my own case, i know i never copy, yet to look at my final score, it is hard to believe, so back to the drawing board!

Yeah. I think Rock Monkey would have won but for getting minus 3 million on the cricket one.