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Gotta love a long weekend where you get a cold and spend most of the beautiful sunny beach weather curled up on the couch feeling sorry for yourself. That's two for this year, and both were officially after winter ended.

The first hall of fame quiz results are in. I think the first month was a good way of getting used to the timed part of it. But now everyone has had a chance to acclimatise, I am expecting that the next month will see a big variation on results and that I will fall away from top spot fairly quickly.

Bring it on.

And if you haven't joined up yet, the beginning of the month is the time to do it.

Re the Quiz.

I'm pretty happy with the way the quiz is going. (Link to the right for the uninitiated. Join up!) It's nice to have a little friendly competition. Just a note. We all get different questions in each daily quiz. I tend to fall in a heap when questions about US Presidents dominate, but on the same day someone will get a quiz without a political question in it. Behind the scenes I choose from a selection as follows:

               
General Knowledge Trivia: Easy/Intermediate 3000 Select this pool
General Knowledge Trivia: Intermediate 3000 Select this pool
General Knowledge Trivia: Intermediate/Difficult 9000 Select this pool
Music Trivia Mix 3000 Select this pool
History & Geography 3000 Select this pool
Mixed Sports Trivia 5000 Select this pool
Bible Trivia 4000 Select this pool
Movie Trivia 4000 Select this pool
Science & Technology 2000 Select this pool
Hobbies 2000 Select this pool
Famous People 2000 Select this pool
The 1980s 900 Select this pool
The 1970s 900 Select this pool
Everything Baseball: Intermediate 3000 Select this pool
Everything Baseball: True Fans Only 7000 Select this pool
Australian Trivia: Easy - Intermediate 1000 Select this pool
Australian Trivia: Intermediate - Hard 1000 Select this pool
United Kingdom Trivia: Easy - Intermediate 3000 Select this pool
United Kingdom Trivia: Intermediate - Hard

It is currently set to general knowledge intermediate, which seems the most appropriate as there are people from various countries and walks of life playing. Let me know if there are any requests.

I am thinking that after three months there should be a prize which will coincide nicely with Christmas. I'm thinking a choice between a Flickr subscription, a typepad subscription or a fun trivia subscription.

Any thoughts?

Daily Quiz

Welcome to the daily quiz in alphabetical order:

Thanks for joining! There's plenty more room for new players. I must work out some sort of prize for the monthly winner.

Quiz

Question_markI've put a new link just under the photo to the right. It's the world famous JtH daily trivia challenge which I have set to General Knowledge. Click on the link, sign up for free and show us your book smarts. The quiz runs daily, players are ranked on their score over a calender month and win absolutely nothing the kudos of being the B&BM smartypants of the month.

I'll leave it on trial for a month or two and see how it goes.

Euro English

European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas. If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl

Islington

                                              
      Islington
      You scored -2 sophistication and 1 scintillation!     
      You are Islington!

There are two possibilities here.

(1) You are a mild-mannnered middlebrowish kind of person. Overall, you're probably quite a good human being. About 25-35% of the time, it's "good" as in being "positively virtuous", and the rest of the time it's that more insipid form of "good" that comes from a mere absence of malice. In any case, "nice" is an appropriate adjective for you. "Quite nice" is an even better description.

(2) You're like Shakespeare's Cleopatra or Hamlet. Your moods are variegated and mercurial. Your contradictory answers to my test have cancelled each other out and have left you in this, the "middle" category. Your life teeters on that tightrope between madrigal and scream. People mistakenly accuse you of a lack of conviction. Actually, the reality is that you prefer Truth to Facts, and you're not so much "indecisive" as "ambidecisive" - you can see the advantages of many different courses of action. You go, girl! (Even if you're a boy - heck, especially if you're a boy!)

(Psst!  Most people - including the writer of this test - are (1)'s.  But you're definitely a (2)!)     

           



 
   My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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You scored higher than 17% on sophistication
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You scored higher than 41% on scintillation
 
Link: The WHICH PART OF LONDON ARE YOU? Test written by fine-and-dandy on Ok Cupid
Found at Sarcasmo's Corner

Who would live in the real world.....

....if you could spend time with your favourite fictional characters. For future exulted leader of the Universe, Sarcasmo has always remembered her childhood lesson that sharing is good. I choose to share this meme:

Best fictional Character to...

  • Be at your side after the Apocalypse: Eldon Tyrell from the Tyrell corporation. Who needs humans when he can provide replicants as good looking as Sean Young?
  • Be at your side fighting a war: Richard Sharpe, from the Bernard Cornwell books. I love a street fighter who comes good and thumbs his nose at society whilst climbing its ladder.
  • Take over the world with: Ernst Stavro Blofeld of SPECTRE. The one from the Bond books rather than the feline addicted chrome dome from the movies.
  • Run your Country with: Niall of the nine Hostages. I know this is fictional literary characters, but much that is fiction has been written about him, and I don't think I would enjoy running a modern country. Niall was the sort of bloke that got songs written about him. He did a good job whilst still being one of the boys. If not him then Leoghaire a few years later. Someone needs to knock some sense into him and make him get rid of the St Patrick Mob. Ireland was never the same again after that.
  • Be stuck on a desert island with: Robinson Caruso. Who else?
  • Marry, grow old and have children with: Lucy Honeychurch from the novel Room with a view by EM Forster. Especially if she looked anything like Helena Bonham Carter from the movie adaptation. Lucy was a woman who, regardless of the expected propriety of a lady at the time, found and embraced passion after a short bout of indecision bordering on cute. We would live out our days in a beautiful country home having visitors for tea during the day, and leaving a trail of whalebone corsets and bustles strewn amongst the topiary at night.
  • Wander the Wilderness with: Tank Girl. Wilderness (read desert) was pretty much all she had but she still manages to fuel a tank and kick arse every time.
  • Sail the seven seas with: Captain Hook. And we'd get that Peter Pan and give him what for once and for all. Then we'd open up a store selling all manner of Alligator skin products.
  • Be your mad scientist: I nearly went with Dr Strangelove, but decided on Frank-n-Furter from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. You get a mad scientist, an alien and a transvestite in one neat little package. What's not to love?
  • Carry you off across his/her horse into the sunset: Arwen as played by Liv Tyler, Black riders not included.
  • Be your companion in a prison cell to save you from boredom and madness: Is it cheating to pick the entire cast of Chaucer's Canterbury tales? Too bad. The epic was never completed and I would spend my incarceration hearing the stories that the world missed out on, plus the ones we know first hand from the Knight, the Miller, the Reeve and so on.
  • Outwit the Dragon with: That's a hard one. The easy answer is probably Bilbo Baggins. He has experience and a magic ring. But I think I would feel safe with anyone who happened to be carrying a vorpal sword.

And now per the instructions of the meme, one of my own.

  • Travel in time with: Undoubtedly Dr Who. Most likely in the form of Tom Baker. I'd need his expertise to mop up after all the catastrophe and carnage I would wreak on the very fabric of time itself, and he would need two hearts to survive it.

Ok, pick it up and run with it, add your idea to the end and let me know so I can see your answers.

Black Gold

Got to work to find we were out of coffee. That just can't happen. Haven't done a quiz for a while but it seemed appropriate.

You Are an Espresso
At your best, you are: straight shooting, ambitious, and energetic At your worst, you are: anxious and high strung You drink coffee when: anytime you're not sleeping Your caffeine addiction level: high

Lingo

Just a time waster.

If I was a...

I've taken this meme from Sarcasmo. Being such a polite girl she offered to share.

According to the rules, now that I'm “it” I have to continue the meme, and then make others “it”. The meme is to pick five of the professions below and finish the sentence.

Feel free to pick it up and run with it. If you do, leave me a comment so as I can take a peek.

If I could be a scientist...
If I could be a farmer...
If I could be a musician...
If I could be a doctor...
If I could be a painter...
If I could be a gardener...
If I could be a missionary...
If I could be a chef...
If I could be an architect...
If I could be a linguist...
If I could be a psychologist...
If I could be a librarian...
If I could be a lawyer...
If I could be an inn-keeper...
If I could be an athlete...
If I could be a professor...
If I could be a writer...
If I could be a llama rider...
If I could be a bonnie pirate...
If I could be an astronaut...
If I could be a world famous blogger...
If I could be a justice on any one court in the world...
If I could be married to any current famous political figure...
If I could be a dog trainer...

I will tag two bloggers whose answers would interest me, but I will not reveal their names unless they participate, should they find the idea abhorrent.

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