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what is your name
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Im doing a quiz on another fred, if any of you googlers wanna try it out.
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I think making time up stops decent people playing quizzes. At the end of it all its meant to be fun. BC, TT would never ever play a quiz if there was quick time ups, we wouldnt wanna lose them
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mm - I have NEVER Googled, nor have I been accused, nor do I even copy. My quizzing credentials are proven, I've been on loads of TV quizzes, and done OK. Big-headed as that sounds, it's just true. BUT, even I need time to think sometimes - especially if tired, and by your reckoning, a tip-of-the-tongue answer or 2 would leave me open to accusations of **ing.
That said, I sometimes have had doubts, but if there ARE googlers out there, they not beating me very often (or at all overall), so it can't be helping them that much, can it? |
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blackjackking 16 Jan 00:40
BTW how come my name is above this whole bloody thread LOL im not liking that when i first opened the thread , having had nothng to do with the quiz, i did wonder if dan and jimmy were accusing you. it did look that way for a minute. :) |
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study, what programmes have you been on
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OK, I sent you an email study about the ungooglable questions.
No rush, I only did it now because I would forget otherwise. cheers. |
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OK rob, tomorrow.
Y Tell you later Jayco - quizzing :) |
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ok np
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studyform, if I had it my way on those times you need to think about the question for a while you would not score any points on that occasion. not such a hardship to eliminate the googlers is it. and, as i have said before to you, your answering patterns in the past fall well withing the range of a non-googler so i have never suspected you of being one.
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i'm not saying you're accusing me, Munch, I'm saying it doesn't help the googlers much, if they rarely if ever beat me, and I don't google. So maybe there's a bit too much fuss?!
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list to follow, jayco.
If I can remember them all |
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Accusations of googling are often made with no evidence imo
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well maybe youre just so good they can't beat you then. what about the honest quizzers googlers beat that aren't so good as you? this happens studyform. i know i bang on about googling, but why shouldn't i make a fuss about it if somebody is **ing?
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It's all very well banging on about it Munch but who exactly is doing it. I think I have only seen 1 person that I am 100% certain was googling..that was chatname...
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googlers are easy to spot
eg Chatname You can't play in dozens of quizzes and get away with it |
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The funny thing is, I only got 12 correct out of 20, and it's only the second quiz I've won on here (the first being a 5 runner event held in the early hours of the morning!)
Judging by the "banter" in the ongoing quiz, I'm getting accused of googling the golf Q - if thats so, how did I make a balls up of spelling Massachusetts (apologies, I just had to google how to spell it correctly) I'm 27, I've been quizzing since I was 16, drinking lager shandies with my dad at our local pub quiz! 11 years, and this question I've probably heard on at least 8 occasions. I'm sorry that I know the answer. General sports questions is a strong point of mine. |
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positively4thsteet 16 Jan 00:44
a good way to stop googlers is to have v. easy questions where everyone knows the answer and will post it well before anyone could google it. Most of my old quizzes had easy questions and a 1 minute time limit. Scoring was was 5-4-3-2- and 1 for every other correct answer, before time up was posted. If somebody googled he got 1 point, as simple as that. There was tons of banter in between questions. You knew when a Q was coming, a post would tell you, and they were spot on , not in 20s 30s 40s or quimminent. you never wore your thumb out pressing the space bar. If ithe Q was timed at 9-05 and it was 9-03 there was banter, laughter and gaeity :) and I used to score them myself. No arguments, threats, accusations of **ing or googling, no stewards enquiries, no rule 66, no committee meetings, or any other b0ll0cks. Apart from Waldorf Salads :^0 That came with the leagues, and the new type quizzes, 'let's get through 30 quesitions in 40 minutes, scorer required, do it quick so you don't have to chat , and we can then get another 3 in before midnight. For slow typists, nailng your plums to the desk is more fun. Which is why I do multiple choice quizzes with fun Qs thrown in. Everybody geta chance to score on an equal level. Decembers result Jimmy 66 Tommy Toes 63 Study 60 - and was only here for the last half Clarky 55 - and was only here for the last half Mik 56 Roy 54 Ralph 50 Dragon 48 Yab 46 Dan 43 DK 40 SSS 40 Muntz 38 BJK 28 Paddy 20 Shaky 15 DDuck 15 Sea 15 Grapp 10 Pos4St 5 Tev 5 Januarys result RoyClaytonsTash ~ 80 Baggers ~ 73 panglima ~ 68 (can't get a look in on a normal quiz - types too slowly) Paddy Mayne ~ 68 =============== TommyToes ~ 63 Easter1916 ~ 53 Tevez is god ~ 48 Jason**~ 45 Studyform ~ 45 Dan Chipshop~ 45 Alex69 ~ 43 The Dragon ~ 38 jimmy69 ~ 35 GT ~ 20 sixtwosix ~ 15 yaboya ~ 15 Gleeman ~ 10 Huggy ~ 8 Tobermory ~ 5 loads of scorers in both quizzes, played for fun. |
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Jayco, I've been on, between 1984 and yesterday (recording of a show 'A Question of Genius', to be on in 3 months or so):-
Busman's Holiday, Backdate, Move on up, One to win, Chain Letters. King of the Castle, It's anybody's Guess, Brainteasder, 100%, 100% Gold, Countdown, Brainbox, Whittle, Eggheads and Beat the Nation. I think that's all of them. |
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fair enough BC.
I'm afraid when i host a quiz i want to get through the questions as quick as possible. Don't knowwhy I just do. and I only give approximate times regarding the next question. People can banter if they like, but good chance they will miss a question. I realise yourself and TT are not fans of this type of quiz, but each to their own. would be pretty boring if we were all the same. |
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i've told you jim, i'm not prepared to personally make an accusation I cannot 100% prove. I am convinced certain people google at certain times, but proving it is another matter entirely. better to just prevent it imo.
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how did you do on 100% study? I liked that programme, don't know why theystopped it, must've been cheap to make.
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2nd with 71 !!!!
A score which would usually**s it. and every sodding guess was wrong., not that I'm bitter, you understand. :) |
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spot on from positively4street just then. some people play for fun and some play to win, nothing wrong with that. and those who play for the banter can still banter in the serious quizzes cant they? they just won't win that's all, and they supposedly don't care about that anyway.
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was that the one where you got a hundred quid everytime you won? and played the next day?
remember thinking £500 a week for life would be a decent living. |
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Yes. The bloke who beat me won 30 odd.
I still think I was better. |