Blackjackking

What do you reckon JBHA? I thought you sniffed it out early.

i have my suspicions regarding a couple of those involved in that quiz - although as always it is impossible to prove

a witch hunt is good though

what quiz?

I presume I'm being accused of summat?!

You missed it Munch...

a lot of paranoia surrounding quizzes recently. i don't know which quizzes you are on about but allegations of googling seem to have quadrupled since the turn of the year. maybe i'm just naive in believing it doesn't happen, at least to the extent that others seem to think.

that said, googlers should be shot.

SSS, Take your place in the dock please.

QC Jimmy69 shall be robed shortly.

I'd rather not get involved Dan.

I'm with you Easter. I don't think it goes on that much at all.

:^0

as for the "he tried to hide it towards the end" - the Boris Becker Q I was so slow on that about 20 answers had already been answered, I put 22nd in the hope it was a trick Q - as IIRC there were only 16 official seeds, and was hoping it was a trick Q

For the last one I read it wrong, missed out the "common" part out of the question, as I'm sure I've heard somewhere before that one of, if not THE fastest creature in the world is some sort of butterfly.

Look through the quiz again. Twice I posted late on, and even then I got one of the answers wrong!

I don't google, and I'm not a fast typer. Everyone who has seen me quiz on here should know I'm not a **.

Judge me however you want. I finally win a quiz, and get accused like this. Fine, I won't join in the "fun" again.

Well if that's the case I apologise Super.

which quiz was it?

The one tonight Munch hosted by The Dragon.

Precisely why witch-hunts are out of order imo. I'll be frank with you SSS, I've had my doubts but I wouldn't accuse you of googling unless it became reasonably apparent that that's what you, or anyone else, was up to.

Answering 'artemis' last week just before the 100%-guranteed-googler El Gran Senor didn't help!

And I had a look at Dragon's quiz before I'd seen SSS's last post. Sure he might've been, but has no case to answer in my mind.

Apologies SSS, I was just having a laugh anyways. I was only at the quiz for about 3 Q's. ;)

lol Dan...

yes jimmy, nap landed!!! LOL

He has denied it though. I suppose if you are a googler then you would though wouldn't you.

like easter mentioned the artemis answer the other day really didnt help

I didn't see that.

Take a look at GTs quiz earlier. I joined in on page 3, so I missed the start, finished 6th.

GTs quizzes you hardly have time to have a sip of coffee before the question has been asked, and time up and get ready for next question. So no chance of googling! So did I ** there to finish so well?

Also his is a FFF quiz, take a look. I'm not the fastest. I've questioned before how do you lot type so quick, as I wouldn't say I'm slow as such, just not as quick as you guys. What do you do? 2 windows? 2 computers? I'm the old "read question, hit reply, type answer and hit post" and I'm just not as quick as these FFF.

I can assure you, I don't **.

But I won't be taking part in anymore on here.

SSS, ignore it. Most of us have been accused of it at some point. If you're not, just get on with it imo. As I mention earlier, and BJK also suggests, the episode last week when there was an obvious googler didn't help as you had the misfortune to answer correctly just before google had given him the answer. I don't think anybody pointed a finger at you though.

Anyway, I hope you change your mind.

SSS i say ignore it too and prove the point by playing quizzes as normal

Don't be so ridiculous SSS. You must take part again. The more good quizzers there are the better the quizzes get. I have apologised. Let's move on.

Evenin' all.

:)

Study was accused of googling about 6 years ago. He's still here SSS...

SSS i thought you were suspect - hands up i said it. Sorry if i got it wrong

As jimmy says play on, forget it and im sure alot have been accused of googling. I know Jockay got a load of stick for a couple of quizzes he trotted up in, people saying he was googling.

Then people found out he knew his stuff on sports stadia :^0

Yes. I remember that one well as I hosted that quiz. Jockay's knowledge of Sports Stadia was unbelievable. It was no wonder he was accused.

to stop all this bickering and nastiness, why don't we just have different quizzers for non googlers and other quizzes for googlers? SSS can play in that one and everyone's happy.

MM :^0

^^

oooooh controversial

I keep telling you, google proof Q's is the way forward.
I'm going to do a series of quizzes with them soon..... It would be lovely if everybody turned up.
Watch this (or at least a similar) space.

btw, I don't think I have been accused of googling. If I was, whoever did the accusing is a bad man.

on a serious note, if you don't want to be suspected of googling just answer quickly. it ain't that difficult. i'm nearly a bloody pensioner, so if I can answer in a few seconds so can anyone else. i've said it before and i'll say it again - youre all either too kind or your in denial over it. they are LOADS of googlers in these quizzes, newcomers and regulars alike.

Name and shame Munch. You know it makes sense.

i want to know how to do those questions study.

is it classified information?

can't without proof can I jimmy.

Not sure if it is sadder to be googling, or moaning about ppl who do google.

Get on with it I say.

Dan Chipwoski
Quizzing Inc.
Est. 2008

I'm happy to show you, rob, redrich showed me.
email me bookiemike@ukonline.co.uk , and I'll send you how - tomorrow though, I'm going to sleep now.

no one above suspicion imo.

i shall be asking myself a few searching questions i can assure you.

MM as we have had this debate numerous times, i do think some people need to think over certain answers. Thats why they probably come in late with a right one (it doesnt make them a **, but makes it hard to prove).

I dont think though MM you can ask others to have the same standards you have, we are all individuals with different thoughts and speeds.

i thought the picture quizzes were great as they are google-proof, along with the one where the quizmaster provides a question to which there are many answers of which he is looking for 5...if I could remember the quizmaster it would be far easier to explain!

cheers study, it does intrigue me.

well i'm one of the quicker ones munchie so hopefully most believe i'm not a googler but i just can't accept that it's widespread. all these accusations flying around, none at me that i know of, is making me think about stopping playing them too.

JBHA - poppydogs quizzes were the multiple answers

Let the wild accusations begin;

Jimmy69 is a googler imo.

Anymore for anymore?

I am spartacus

OK OK Dan...you've outed me. I have got to come clean...

mikael d'haguenet does it for certain.

We haven't seen Mik for a bit. I trust he's keeping well.

Any of you googling**bags want a quiz? Or is it too late?

sample googleproof question...... 15 seconds to answer.

On which planet of the sοlar system, would you find the Cοloris Βasin?

yes you are right easter, complete **. burn at the stake IMVHO

im in dan

ercury

BTW how come my name is above this whole bloody thread LOL

im not liking that

With an M

yep, wd dan, Mercury

try googling it!

I googled study, just typed in coloris basin.

jimmy's a googler ?! :(

ffs JB

I though googlers always c+p'd.
Having to type it must slow you down, dan.

:(

Mik is well but he only really comes out for a ruck these days. Even that isn't going too well...



Calling Mikael D'Haguenet

comeonkautostar 10 Jan 15:36

Due to your continued stalking of me on here, only posting on threads I do just to have a go while never offering an opinion of your own, even following me onto the boxing forum, Ive used the forum filter on you. I will thankfully no longer see your pathetic posts any more. So fire away.

lol

yep that doesn't work study, though i typed in coloris basin and the answer was there straight away.

you must need a long sentence or somethng. when i did my 100 question quiz the other week, some of them were blatantly googlable in no time. was gonna get in touch with you or redrich beforehand about the ungooglable trick thing.

i believe a zero tolerance to **ing should be implemented. the best way to achieve this imo is to enforce a very speedy TIME UP to prevent googling. if this can be coupled with the new anti googlable questions as well, so much the better. better to disadvantage a few slow typers than to allow these **s to rob the rest of us of our righteous quiz wins imo.
And another thing, it's funny how certain people seem to be very quick enough when they actually know the answer.

Who are these certain people Munch?

So there is no such thing as 'googleproof' questions then? Like I say, it might just be best to stop playing them altogether.

I will show you, and I will do a quiz even fast typing googlers can't win.

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.

what is your name

Im doing a quiz on another fred, if any of you googlers wanna try it out.

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

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?

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.

:)

study, what programmes have you been on

OK, I sent you an email study about the ungooglable questions.

No rush, I only did it now because I would forget otherwise. cheers.

OK rob, tomorrow.
Y
Tell you later Jayco - quizzing :)

ok np

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.

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?!

list to follow, jayco.

If I can remember them all

Accusations of googling are often made with no evidence imo

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?

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...

googlers are easy to spot

eg Chatname

You can't play in dozens of quizzes and get away with it

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

how did you do on 100% study? I liked that programme, don't know why theystopped it, must've been cheap to make.

2nd with 71 !!!!
A score which would usually**s it. and every sodding guess was wrong., not that I'm bitter, you understand. :)

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.

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.

Yes. The bloke who beat me won 30 odd.
I still think I was better.