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palace politics

11:08 / 11.02.08

are we all getting different questions?

Fungus of Consciousness

11:15 / 11.02.08

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

Mist combats dehydration
(prev. Alles Mist!)

11:23 / 11.02.08

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

Fungus of Consciousness

12:19 / 11.02.08

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

9/10

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

12:23 / 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.

brb

22:40 / 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

22:47 / 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.

Smith & Papers
(prev. MY CITY SCREAMS)

22:48 / 11.02.08

#8 this time. It seemed quite snappy today.

Notes from Boris-town

23:34 / 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.

Dazzler

03:28 / 12.02.08

Next months suitname:

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

Paralis

07:41 / 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!

palace politics

07:43 / 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

09:54 / 12.02.08

Damn Stephen King!

5/10, bombed!

The Natural Way

10:27 / 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

15:43 / 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

15:53 / 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".

The Stolen Llama

16:22 / 12.02.08

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

The Stolen Llama

16:23 / 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

16:38 / 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.

Notes from Boris-town

17:46 / 12.02.08

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

brb

00:46 / 13.02.08

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. Stoatie? STOATIE.
(prev. Stoatie's power level is >9000)

02:28 / 13.02.08

5. I am teh suxx0r.

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

palace politics

02:32 / 13.02.08

"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. Stoatie? STOATIE.
(prev. Stoatie's power level is >9000)

02:34 / 13.02.08

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...

Smith & Papers
(prev. MY CITY SCREAMS)

02:46 / 13.02.08

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. Stoatie? STOATIE.
(prev. Stoatie's power level is >9000)

02:59 / 13.02.08

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.

Dazzler

04:20 / 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

07:40 / 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

14:20 / 13.02.08

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

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

15:35 / 13.02.08

well, I am, at least, sucking consistently.

Notes from Boris-town

15:51 / 13.02.08

3 0f 10. Haysus.

palace politics

03:19 / 14.02.08

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

Paralis

07:30 / 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.

brb

08:36 / 14.02.08

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

Paralis

09:09 / 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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