The Kitten Pub Quiz 5.5 - We Have a Winner!

[HC]

Spoiler:

Tell me, HC, did you guess, or did you know the answer? If that was a guess it was damn good!

No, not a guess. Wish I could be that lucky with guesses though, otherwise I'd have more luck with the lottery.
Can't be sure where I got that from, maybe one of Ted Moseby's fun-facts or from when the Doctor and Martha's visit...
Gee I'm a big nerd.

Thanks for an enjoyable mental workout.

Hey nice job, HC!!! Only 1/16th of an inch off! Impressive!! You are a genius; getting only one question wrong! CONGRATULATIONS!



Jen

Thanks for the kind words Jen, and a big round of applause to you too, afterall this tie-breaker was because you only got one question wrong as well. It was neck and neck all the way there!

Three cheers for masterjendu and Paint the Sky and everyone else who took part!

[Foomatic]

HC, impressively dethroning two previous winners, and on your first try. Congratulations! Here is your Winner's Foovatar™. May it adorn your profile as a symbol of your (nerdiness) accomplishment!!

[masterjendu]

Aww man! Willow hearts HC!!! That coulda been me!!!

Nice work, Foo!

[Candleshoe]

Well done HC!!

[dlline]

Congrats HC!

Nicely done.

[kisstheviolets]

congrats hc.... more than the sweetness of victory, i covet that foovatar!

[HC]

HC, impressively dethroning two previous winners, and on your first try. Congratulations! Here is your Winner's Foovatar™. May it adorn your profile as a symbol of your (nerdiness) accomplishment!!

Thanks Foo, that's awesome!!

[Kessari]

Congrats HC!!!

[Paint the Sky]

Hi quizzers, well, I waited for hondos to submit her answers, but as she seems to be a no show, here is the correct order of minerals in R5:

Talc
Gypsum
Calcite
Fluorite
Apatite
Orthoclase/Feldspar
Quartz
Topaz
Corundum
Diamond

Congratulations to HC, and well done to the rest of you, there were some pretty impressive scores all round

And, a big mention for Boschi, who for the first time, managed to compete in every round

Maybe she should get a special Foovatar just for that - lol.

I'd just like to say how much I covet that Winner's Foovatar, I'd even trade the penguin for it.

I've been thinking of doing a music round - naming the song and the artist after listening to the intro or a snippet of the lyrics sort of thing. I know how to rip and save the files, but I've nowhere to upload them to. If anyone can help with that one, give me advice where I can upload etc, I think it would be a fun round.

Thanks again to all of you who took part

[dynigirl]

Well Done HC

Round 3 Q4 actually helped me in a rl pub quiz on Thursday night. Because of the question here I knew that it was Hemlock that Socrates took.

[Boschi]

And, a big mention for Boschi, who for the first time, managed to compete in every round

and still finished so close to the bottom of the rankings that only an inexplicable choke by gorn in the final round saved me from last place. (Duuuuude, what happened?)

But I shall return! I have clever tricks and secret plans for next time, MKF.
The Foovatar wil be mine, mine I tell you. Just you wait my pretties, just you wait ... (insert maniacal laughter here).

Congrats to HC and thanks to PtS and to everyone who participated - fun stuff.

[gorn]

and still finished so close to the bottom of the rankings that only an inexplicable choke by gorn in the final round saved me from last place. (Duuuuude, what happened?)

Alas, you have now discovered my weakness - my vast knowledge does not extend to the Animal or Mineral. Come to think of it, I don't know all that much about Vegetables, either ... Seriously, I thought I was doing pretty well until those last two rounds. I had no clue what you call those groups of animals, and the mineral one I believe I submitted in reverse order by mistake (hardest to softest). Not that it would have made much difference - I knew Diamonds & Talc were at the extremes, but didn't have a clue about anything in between.

Even the round before those two, that question about Douglas Adams? Honestly, what is the difference between a Porpoise and a Dolphin???

Anyway, I enjoyed the experience and I'll do it again. I may have to cheat liberally if the Rounds wander off into unfamiliar territory, but so be it!

Congratulations to HC for a most impressive win!

[HC]

I've had a word with resident quizmaster extraordinaire, Paint the Sky and we've worked it out so I'll be guest host the next quiz, giving PtS the chance to take part with everyone else this time.

I've played the format slightly regarding the five categories but nothing too extreme.

It'll be starting on Sunday 28th of September and these will be the five categories for you to have a think about in the meantime.

Pass the science ingredient.
Riddle me this.
Shake those spears!
Apocalypse Wednesday.
Putting the art into smart.

There will be one picture round and two of the others will be multiple choice, but I'm not letting on which ones yet....

[thiswomanswork]

This looks like fun, can I play too?

[Paint the Sky]

All are welcome in the wonderful world of quizzing.

I'm looking forward to playing myself this time round.

[HC]

The more the merrier!

[HC]

Just a reminder but the first round of the new quiz will go up on Sunday 28th.

[Paint the Sky]

I'm really looking forward to participating this time, so I hope there is a as good turn-out for Quiz 5 as there was for the Quiz 4.

HC - do you intend to post each round at 11pm GMT?

I only ask so I know when to update the thread title.

[HC]

Yeah we'll go for 11:00 GMT each evening, as with the previous quiz.

[Boschi]

I'm in - somebody has to fill in the back half of the scoreboard.

I take it we will be sending our answers to HC?

Gee, that was a dumb questions, wasn't it?

[HC]

I'm in - somebody has to fill in the back half of the scoreboard.

I take it we will be sending our answers to HC?

Gee, that was a dumb questions, wasn't it?

All answers to me via PM please.

And don't count yourself out of the running before we've even started, I'm sure you'll do fine.

[HC]

I'm now pleased to announce the start of Pub Quiz #5.
In traditional style we will start with round 1.
Two points are awarded for each correct answer in this round.

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Round 1 - pass the science ingredient

#1
What is the name applied to this peice of algebra?


a. Golden mean
b. Golden ratio
c. Golden rod
d. Golden rule


#2
What was the first animal sent into space from the Earth?

a. A dog
b. A rhesus monkey
c. A fruit fly
d. A chimpanzee


#3
Which of these is NOT a type of dinosaur?

a. Coelophysis
b. Basilosaurus
c. Hypsilophodon
d. Giganotosaurus


#4
Which of these is a moon of Saturn?

a. Io
b. Europa
c. Ganymede
d. Mimas


#5
Which chemical element has the symbol Sb?

a. Arsenic
b. Tin
c. Antimony
d. Strontium


#6
What is the name of the following scientific law?
"For a fixed amount of gas kept at a fixed temperature, P and V are inversely proportional (while one increases, the other decreases)."
With P denoting the pressure of the system and V, the volume of the gas.

a. Hooke's law
b. Boyle's law
c. Archimedes' principle
d. Van der Waals equation


#7
What is coral?

a. A plant
b. An animal
c. A crystal formation
d. A rock formation


#8
Marble is what type of rock?

a. Sedimentary
b. Igneous
c. Metamorphic
d. Conglomerate


#9
Which of these is the linear equation?

a. y = Mx + c
b. E = Mc^2
c. ax^2 + bx + c = 0
d. y = x^2


#10
What is used to measure electrical resistance in an electical circuit?

a. A voltmeter
b. An electrometer
c. An ohmmeter
d. An ammeter


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Please submint your answers to me via PM by 11GMT tomorrow, when the next round will be posted.


Good luck to everybody taking part, I hope you enjoy it as much as Paint the Sky's previous 4 quizes.

[HC]

A few hours to go and not too many entires so far....

C'mon everyone you're in with a good chance of winning if you enter now.

[masterjendu]

Yeah, come on peeps!

[Paint the Sky]

yeah, c'mon kiddies, play along

[HC]

Only five entries for round 1, so in the sake of competition I'm going to hold back the answers for now, and give anyone else wanting to take part a bit longer to formulate* their answers.
*(Ha, see what I did there?)


Here's the scores for our five on-time entries:

masterjendu - 18
Paint the Sky - 10
Foomatic - 12
hondos - 16
Knock yourself out - 16


Now onwards with round 2, no multiple choice on this one I'm afraid, so you're on your own to figure out the solutions this time around to these ten riddles.
2 points for each correct answer.


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Round 2 - Riddle me this

#1
What gets larger when it's turned upside down?

#2
I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness.
You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses.
I am always in risk, yet never in danger.
You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.
What am I?

#3
What do you break by naming it?

#4
You can take away the whole and still have some left.
You can take away some and still have the whole left.
What is it?

#5
What five-letter word has six left when you take two letters away?

#6
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

#7
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

#8
2 9 3 1 8 4 3 6 5 7
What number comes next in this sequence?

#9
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

#10
Which female animal can you name by putting five in front of nine and adding two thirds of ten?


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Best of luck everyone!

[Paint the Sky]

Damn, I thought I got 12 ... wonder which one I thought I got right but got wrong - lol.

[Boschi]

Well, thaaaaaat was a flashback to science classes and riddle books... I feel punished somehow. I can't decide if I like it or not.

[HC]

Some people pay a lot of money to feel years younger, and you got it from me for free......

[Paint the Sky]

HC, I checked my answers on google, and by my reckoning the questions I answered correctly are 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, and 10.

Dammit, I'm fighting for every point cos I think I sucked in Round 2 as well. I only hope round 3 is about the bard of avon, cos if it's about Zulu's I'm well and truly f**ked

ETA: It's true, I am as thick as pig-shit, I got number 2 wrong. Should've checked the wording of that question better