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pony

08:08 / 11.02.08

are we all getting different questions?

Fungus of Consciousness

08:15 / 11.02.08

It would seem so, I might have had a chance on the Australian animals!

Mistoffelees

08:23 / 11.02.08

I´m just waiting for the first time, someone has a question that´s in french or spanish.

Fungus of Consciousness

09:19 / 11.02.08

Grr, missed by that much! *holds fingers close together and peers between them*

9/10

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

09:23 / 11.02.08

10 correct! that's more like it. and at 6 AM too.

just as long as there aren't any more questions about movies which don't suck. I only see the suck ones.

HCE

19:40 / 11.02.08

I also got two questions about musicals, both of which I got wrong, unsurprisingly, since I hate musicals.

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

19:47 / 11.02.08

what, my 10 doesn't count? I guess the quiz they email to you is not the Real Quiz.

7 again. I'm a big dummy head.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

19:48 / 11.02.08

#8 this time. It seemed quite snappy today.

Closed for Business Time

20:34 / 11.02.08

8 again. Damn some of you guys are either kings of trivia or very lucky. All those musical question f@@@ed me up.

Essential Dazzler

00:28 / 12.02.08

Next months suitname:

Pacific State: Guessing only makes you look smart a quarter of the time.

Paralis

04:41 / 12.02.08

blech. I was not prepared for multiple questions on Stephen King. My lead will be gone by morning, but for now I dance and sing songs of praise about myself!

pony

04:43 / 12.02.08

yeah, the combo of stephen king and shakespeare just destroyed me, even with some lucky guessing on my part.

Fungus of Consciousness

06:54 / 12.02.08

Damn Stephen King!

5/10, bombed!

The Natural Way

07:27 / 12.02.08

9 out of 10. Some of them I got through a process of elimination. I'm certainly not up on the king either, but I know Cujo's about a dog. And Red Rose sounds rubbish.

Jack Fear

12:43 / 12.02.08

How random is this thing, anyway? I got a Stephen King question, too—which I got wrong, BTW—and two about Lord of the Flies. Damned odd.

Papess

12:53 / 12.02.08

It doesn't help that I decided to do the trivia while making breakfast. If it wasn't multiple choice I think every answer would have been "waffles".

Lama glama

13:22 / 12.02.08

Gah, I was doing so well up until today's round. Damn you obscure quotations!

Lama glama

13:23 / 12.02.08

I finished up ahead of you Papess, despite doing worse. At least the system appreciates things done the Homer Simpson way. Which is of course, the wrong way, but faster.

Papess

13:38 / 12.02.08

I was wondering about how being so slow and distracted changed my score. Yesterday, I was also distracted by random huggings from a certain seven-year old affection-ninja. It was so easy to lose my focus, even though I got a 10/10.

Closed for Business Time

14:46 / 12.02.08

Gah. 5 of 10. I'm shit today.

HCE

21:46 / 12.02.08

I know, Stephen King! I ate it on that one, and Terry Pratchett too. Some of these writers I've never even heard of.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:28 / 12.02.08

5. I am teh suxx0r.

Just one question of my own- what the fuck is "an AP book"?

pony

23:32 / 12.02.08

"advanced placement", maybe? these are "college level" courses for high schoolers similar to the IB courses that I think the rest of the world has. depends on context, of course.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:34 / 12.02.08

Context was "which of these is considered a good AP book". Advanced Placement sounds plausible, but... hang on, what's IB?

I've got a degree majoring in English Lit but I've never heard these terms before...

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

23:46 / 12.02.08

International Baccalaureate, Stoat. Run outta Geneva, basically advanced-placement, college-level curriculum in high school. You can either do a full diploma or just get certificates in particular courses (which is how I did it, focused on geography, French, and English Lit). Schools will set up an IB program if there's enough interest.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:59 / 12.02.08

Ah, makes sense. I'd have understood that. Being tested on knowledge of acronyms is a different thing to being tested on knowledge of literature, though!

Mind you, I'd still only have got 6 even if I got that one.

Essential Dazzler

01:20 / 13.02.08

Well, I beat Stoatie. That's enough for me.

This is going to become a daily feature. I apologise, but I'm trying to cultivate a small self-esteem garden, it needs lots of watering.

Paralis

04:40 / 13.02.08

Blech. 8/10. I don't mind that I got the question about the 11 Oscars wrong--that's a fact or a record or something I might have known.

But "8. In what year did Lee make a guest appearance on 'Family Ties'?"

Leaving aside the fact that Family Ties isn't a movie, and that it's a stupid question, who the sweet fuck is Lee?

Oi. If they keep sandbagging me like this, I'll never be able to afford that suspicious horse.

Papess

11:20 / 13.02.08

I am going to have to speed things up a bit.

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

12:35 / 13.02.08

well, I am, at least, sucking consistently.

Closed for Business Time

12:51 / 13.02.08

3 0f 10. Haysus.

pony

00:19 / 14.02.08

If I get a third day of multiple Stephen King questions tomorrow, I'm so quitting.

Paralis

04:30 / 14.02.08

And religion is not at all my area of expertise. 4/10, and I wasn't even quick about it. I think I'll take next Thursday off.

HCE

05:36 / 14.02.08

I didn't even try, I just clicked through. Good to know religion=Jesus.

Paralis

06:09 / 14.02.08

Hm? That must be a strange sample, then. Mine was skewed Judeo-christian, but there was one question about Satanism(!), two about Hinduism, and at least two that could loosely be considered comparative (one about the nature of sin, and another about Lao Tsu). I really thought the whole thing was relatively balanced in exposing my ignorance, all told.

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