alanharper Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Can I clarify that "appearances" includes coming on as sub, and all cup games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onge Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 This is hard! The first quiz was about trying to think of obscure answers... this time I'm just trying to think of any answers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal M Posted October 15, 2016 Author Share Posted October 15, 2016 15 hours ago, alanharper said: Can I clarify that "appearances" includes coming on as sub, and all cup games? Yeah. But first team only. And no friendlies. I move a lot of concrete on the QVC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal M Posted October 15, 2016 Author Share Posted October 15, 2016 Entries received from Onge, Beast of Boulogne, AlanH, Birley, and Owlbert E. I move a lot of concrete on the QVC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthowl Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Comment on the scoring, perhaps a change for future rounds? Surely a blank or incorrect answer should score worse than a correct one. In your example, an incorrect answer of "b" would score the same as the correct answer "e" i.e. 8. An incorrect answer should score at least "the maximum" plus 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitechapel Owl Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 (edited) 2 hours ago, Tamworthowl said: Comment on the scoring, perhaps a change for future rounds? Surely a blank or incorrect answer should score worse than a correct one. In your example, an incorrect answer of "b" would score the same as the correct answer "e" i.e. 8. An incorrect answer should score at least "the maximum" plus 1. Incorrect answers always score more than a correct one, (those rules have just been copy and pasted from the first time we did this) it usually scores the same number as the amount of participants eg if 20 of us play then an incorrect answer would score 20. Sometimes however the person running the quiz will cap the score for a wrong answer in order to give anyone with an incorrect answer a chance of still getting a decent score. In the last quiz there were 34 of us, I thought 34 was too high to give so capped it at 20 based on the highest scoring correct answer which was 16 in that particular game. Everyone does it slightly differently but an incorrect answer will always score higher than any that are correct. Edited October 15, 2016 by Whitechapel Owl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal M Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 Entries received from Ralph, Tamworth, and Arenotwhat... Still time to enter. Get them in by 5pm (BST). I move a lot of concrete on the QVC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 I'm in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal M Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 Think we had 24 entrants including Utah. Thanks all. Currently marking. Will be back later today with the scores. I move a lot of concrete on the QVC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal M Posted October 17, 2016 Author Share Posted October 17, 2016 (edited) Ok, here we go. We had 23 entrants. I originally tried giving 23 points for all wrong answers - but the totals were insane - so I went with maximum scored on that question +1 (see Tamworth's suggestion above). Anyway, huge congratulations to Alan Harper - well played. Some explanations behind the answers marked as incorrect: Reda (France), Bougherra (France), and Ekoku (Manchester) were not born in Africa Kuqi was born in Yugoslavia - not Finland Dave Clements played in the U.S. long before the MLS was formed Lee Chapman joined Chamois immediately after their relegation in 1988. He only played in Ligue 2 Ronnie Whelan didn't play for us We played Basle in the Intertoto, and Kaiserslautern in the UEFA Cup - not the Fairs Cup. Surprisingly, neither Kovacevic, nor Nicol won more than 1 major European club trophy in their career Harkes joined us 6 months after the 1990 World Cup Petrescu was signed immediately after the 1994 World Cup Carson was a late (replacement) call up to the England squad. It happened on May 25, 2006 - so almost a month after the end of the 2005-06 season and the end of his loan period at SWFC. Big thanks to all for playing. Edited October 17, 2016 by Neal M I move a lot of concrete on the QVC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenhgate Owl Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 how can someone who got 5 more wrong answers more than me finish higher the me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adem Poric Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Thought I was being really clever with Petter Rudi on the serie A question. Didn't even read the question properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last_Great_Hope Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Hi Neal. You gave Tamworth a correct 1 point scoring answer for Juan Cobian, but he didnt play 25 games for us - he was nowhere near that, only 9 league games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southportdc Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Wait, Neal entered his own quiz? Surely you had to check the questions had answers first? This is highly suspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southportdc Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 1 hour ago, Adem Poric said: Thought I was being really clever with Petter Rudi on the serie A question. Didn't even read the question properly. Same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onge Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Would help if I actually read the questions. Still, that's quite a score I got there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenhgate Owl Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 3 minutes ago, Onge said: Would help if I actually read the questions. Still, that's quite a score I got there... scores don't make any sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanharper Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 So I win this week with one unique answer, after getting six last week and finishing fourth. I've queried this with NASA, Stephen Hawking and the finest brains in academia and their verdict was that it just goes to show. Cheers Neal, that was a tough one - thought I'd blown it by being only able to think of Waddle for the Ligue 1 question, completely forgot about Fletcher being on loan at Marseille and although Stainrod was one of my answers last week I didn't know he'd played in France. Has anybody ever won this with over a million points before?! I might do one, but this is dependent on me thinking of more questions than the four I've got so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_ Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 I liked it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroswfc Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 (edited) Congratulations and well done Alan Harper. Finished 2nd Great quiz Neal M. Really enjoyed It. Edited October 17, 2016 by aeroswfc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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