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"The next (big) quiz"

It's going to be a big one, hopefully 100 questions!

Here's how it's going to work, 10 rounds of 10 questions as follows:

Round 1 - News Round - A recap of the news, most questions will be on quite recent news, though I might stray :P

Round 2 - Your General "General Knowledge" Round - This one explains itself, I hope.

Round 3 - Pot Luck - This will involve questions on History, Geography, Science, Entertainment etc. They will hopefully be quite hard questions to test you :)

Round 4 - Pyramid - This is quite a good one, each question will be asked as follows: Question 1 has 1 answer, Question 2 has 2, 3 has 3 and 4 has 4. So that's 4 questions with 10 answers in total. Anyone lost?

Round 5 - "I'll have a P please, Bob!" - This is another interesting one, I give you the letters to the answer followed by a clue or synonym and you work it out.

Round 6 - Movie Stills - As you can probably guess, this is going to be a round where I'll link you to a picture of a movie still and you tell me which film it is.

Round 7 - Music Round - This will be a round where I link you to a 30 second clip of a piece of music that I've kindly edited :) Then you tell me the title of that song. I've checked around and I'm pretty sure this isn't breaking copyright laws :P

Round 8 - Build Your Answer - Another pot luck round, but the first letters to each of the answers in the first nine questions build your clue to the final question. For example, If the answers followed like this:
Octupus
Politics
Trains
Indigo
Cats
Iris
Ant
Numbers
Skeletons
Then you know question 10 will be to do with OPTICIANS.

Round 9 - Famous People - I'll give you the birth and death dates of a famous person in history, followed by a vague clue, then you work out who it is.

Round 10 - Numbers Round - Don't worry not maths based :) Simply questions like "How many Polos are there in a regular tube of Polos?" Alas, my poor nature will require me to ask a maths based question at question 10 based on the numbers in the answers.



All sound good? Or too complicated in areas?




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Now, if people still want to do staffies vs regulars, the only ways I've come up to do it are as follows:

1) We could let everyone do it individually, then average the scores from staffies and average scores from regulars, but depending on how you look at this, this could give the advantage or disadvantage to the staffies.

2) Work in groups and submit team scores, you could even have original names like "The Dead Parrots", only problem I see with this is the lack of members :P

3) Working in groups, you each take it in turns to answer a round's questions.

I'm open to other ideas



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Also, it seems that people want a certain date for this to be posted, so what works for all of you?

I guess I'm on my own as usual. :(

Oh well, more fun for me! :D

I'm away all of next week though.

The Reaper wrote:
> jubbachainsaw wrote:
> Me and Luetcyboy will be a team. We will be called the
> Midgeteers. Also if you can set a date for this to start I can
> do
> so adverts to put up in the cheats section etc to try and get
> some more players.
>
> Most people seem ready now, so why not Monday coming? To give
> time for adverts.
>
> We can do a prize but we will need the competition to have set
> guidelines etc and we need to work out how the teams would
> work.
> If we use this post for discussions then if you can make a new
> post Reaper I will sticky it and we will use that for the main
> quiz.
>
> I'm all for prizes but of course there is the simple opportunity
> to cheat :)
>
> If we will be issuing G.A.Ds then unfortunately by doing Teams
> we will only be able to issue the one G.A.D between the whole
> team. If we did this as individual entrants then the winner
> would
> receive the usual full G.A.D
>
> I will leave this decision for you to make Reaper.
>
> People seem content enough, if we do GADs then I'm sure people
> won't mind sharing :D


Okay we have to rely on all of you being honest in your knowledge and I am hoping that no one will actually cheat.

Teams can either be single, pairs or teams of 3 which then can be a pro and con to both team. If you want to be greedy and go for the full £30 play on your own or if you just want to win and don't mind about the prize then play as a 3.

To ensure that its fair if more than one team submit submissions with the same score those teams will be entered into a lottery to determine the winner.

Does this sound fair enough to you Reeper?

If so I have some banners we will get put up over the weekend and if you can make a new thread with the rules and details of when it will start we can link the banner to that new thread. If all the teams can also post their team name and members up to 3 members in that thread I can sticky it and get all the teams finalised.

ButchML wrote:
> jubbachainsaw wrote:
> Is this going to be Staff vs Regulars then? Why dont we just
> have
> teams of 2 members, regulars have to stick with regulars and
> staffies the same.
>
> This way the winner will still pocket £15 each and then
> it
> makes it fairer as if a team had 4 or 5 members if someone was
> stuck on their own it may be slightly unfair.
>
> I'll go on my own then yea jubba? Or am I just gonna nick your
> place next week when you're on your hols?

Your with Wayne :O

I wont play then, I'll step down and you can play with Luetcyboy. Its like P.E all over again *CRIES*

We'll go as a 3 then Butch sorry :(

jubbachainsaw wrote:
> Me and Luetcyboy will be a team. We will be called the
> Midgeteers. Also if you can set a date for this to start I can do
> so adverts to put up in the cheats section etc to try and get
> some more players.

Most people seem ready now, so why not Monday coming? To give time for adverts.

> We can do a prize but we will need the competition to have set
> guidelines etc and we need to work out how the teams would work.
> If we use this post for discussions then if you can make a new
> post Reaper I will sticky it and we will use that for the main
> quiz.

I'm all for prizes but of course there is the simple opportunity to cheat :)

> If we will be issuing G.A.Ds then unfortunately by doing Teams
> we will only be able to issue the one G.A.D between the whole
> team. If we did this as individual entrants then the winner would
> receive the usual full G.A.D
>
> I will leave this decision for you to make Reaper.

People seem content enough, if we do GADs then I'm sure people won't mind sharing :D

I think teams of two would probably be simpler given we dont have that many people

pb wrote:
> Happy to be in anyone's team.

Gahahahahahahaha, you should not have said that.

Our team shall be called Lecherous Treacherous, Experts of the Exceptional. Pioneers of Piracy. Kings of the Sea. Arrrrrrrrrrgh.

Make me some tea. Pip pip.

jubbachainsaw wrote:
> Is this going to be Staff vs Regulars then? Why dont we just have
> teams of 2 members, regulars have to stick with regulars and
> staffies the same.
>
> This way the winner will still pocket £15 each and then it
> makes it fairer as if a team had 4 or 5 members if someone was
> stuck on their own it may be slightly unfair.

I'll go on my own then yea jubba? Or am I just gonna nick your place next week when you're on your hols?

I'll join in as well.

Although I'm just joining in for fun, so I don't want anyone too competitive on my team. They would only be disappointed. :p

Is this going to be Staff vs Regulars then? Why dont we just have teams of 2 members, regulars have to stick with regulars and staffies the same.

This way the winner will still pocket £15 each and then it makes it fairer as if a team had 4 or 5 members if someone was stuck on their own it may be slightly unfair.

If the staffies win, the prize goes towards Vexxxeds retirement fund :)

A GAD split two or three ways is fine.