Is GS definitely not dead? He just suddenly stopped posting one day.
Is GS definitely not dead? He just suddenly stopped posting one day.
That TTH Awards GS hosted was the best one we did. When 'Tobias' got on the podium for Most Boring (or Most Overrated or whatever it was) you could feel him buzzing through the screen.
I remember that. He was having a meltdown and desperately tried to hide it.
I won’t take part (playing WoW) but happy to submit a round of questions, if you want.
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I'm happy to submit some questions too.
Just me and igor
Maybe he got right into 'the ganja'.
He strummed one out and now he can't face us.
Surprised he can face the group seeing as he did it whilst thinking of Keeks.
I bet 95% of GS' Group contributions are 'Haha yeah'.
Lots of tee hee, I can assure you.
Vaguely on the topic, I did a quarantine pub quiz earlier with my m8s which was fine (we had 1 quizmaster rather than many, though), and I've had other quarantine video calls with family etc - all I can say is that although it's better than nothing, my god is it nowhere near the experience of being with people in person. Nowhere near.
Having not done conferencing etc before I thought it would be a close second but it really isn't.
Aye I get that, but I actually much preferred the actual quiz with my boiz cus we're all dorks with similar levels of intelligence, and a similar obsessive appreciation of the META of quizzes. Most pub quizzes we've done IRL have led to us mostly moaning about awfully worded questions, poor difficulty balance, etc.
The absolute worst quiz we did had about 7 teams. We got about 90% right and finished 2nd last. Wtf is that.
Or, my personal pet peeve in quizzes, is musical intro rounds where some people will nail it within a few seconds, but the quizmaster let's the fucking song run for practically a whole verse and chorus by which point every cunt has it.
For a taster I'll share the round I wrote:
In case you dont spot it, every person has the initials T.P. in honour of the great toilet paper shortage of 2020.
In thought I was going to score a 0 there unroll got to number 10.
I was utter dogshit in the one I did earlier (still came 4th/12, but I'd expect top 2 against those simpletons). My brain is addled from this lockdown.
As an example I've been trying to think of that astronaut's surname for the last ten minutes and all I can come up with is Tim Palin. And for the chess player I have 'Tiger Petrosian', as if he moonlights fist-pumping on the greens. I need to soak in cold water for a month.
I’ve also done a few quizzez with my mates through a zoom/kahoot combo and it’s actually quite fun to have a drink with your mates without actually leaving the house.
You have come the closest to getting the chess player by an absolute mile, and I've given these questions to about 14 people. It's Tigran, and I mostly just put that q in as a token dickhead impossible question, so I'd have probably given you the point.
Average score was 4, highest 6.
Yeah. I mean, with that one I just happen to know it (chess 50s-90s is a weird niche speciality) - but normally I'd either know something or I wouldn't. Currently I'm in a haze of vagueness where I am unable to summon the things I do know.
I got 2.5 out of 10 on the cricket round earlier and couldn't remember who MS Dhoni was, ffs.
I know 4 from Igor's questions.
Zoom is way better than houseparty.
Hey @igor_balis in the subject of quizzing over zoom or whatever, how do you deal with marking the answers to prevent cheating?
Been roped into one next weekend.
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Trust?
Yeah as @Kikó alludes to, trust is the easiest method. It helps that my gang of pals would never cheat, out of a pathetic nerdy respect of the integrity of quizzes, but just to put everyone's minds at rest we've been generally following the system of:
1. everyone writes their answers on their computer
2. everyone copies and pastes and PMs them to@Bamthe quizmaster
3. everyone marks their own, and reads out their scores
That way, even if you can't be arsed to actually check them, the option is there if you smell a rat, or someone bitter moans about another person's high score.
3 is the only non-boring option. If you're cheating on a Zoom quiz at this point in proceedings then there is no hope for you anyway.
Wouldn’t Google Forms be really handy for that anyway?
Oh. The ones I've done you just mark yourself. To be honest I couldn't even give a shit if other people cheat, it's just a way of 'seeing' each other and passing the time without the 'So...' awkwardness that remote video socialising creates.
Alcohol removes the awkwardness.
We're two weeks into our family quiz. We came last (just) in the first week, scoring 24/50. My sister and her fiance won, meaning they hosted last week. That was a much harder quiz and we scored a mid-table/bottom half 19 (scores ranging between 14 and 26), with my parents winning overall. My dad's given me a hint this week to learn about the counties.
We do number three from the list above: just mark our own.
We send answers at the end of each round to the quizmaster, who then tots up the scores. I somehow won the music quiz last night with a score of 109/180. I expected to come dead last, but we only really did pop and rock songs.
If anyone wants to know what my family is like, the winning score in yesterday's affair was 17/40 (my last placed total was 11.5) and my sports round was the highest scoring round at an average of 4/10 (only one of the other 6 people is a sports fan).
One of the rounds was there were screenshots of sheet music, i.e. musical notation, and we had to identify the piece/song and who wrote it. I can read music well and scored zero.
I think i could probably identify Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and La Marseillaise. There’s no chance i would get any other piece
One of them I managed to work out what it was, but couldn't remember what the thing was actually called (turned out to be the Skater's Waltz). There was also something by the Bee Gees, and something by Britney Spears (for that one, I guessed Handel).
But yeah, the person who set that round should set himself on fire. He doesn't even like music, he just fancied a spot of sadism.
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There's an assumption I'll always do well in the sports round, whereas in reality I'm average and would be just as likely to score higher on history, geography, film or music. We've started with a picture round the past two weeks: week one it was children's TV programmes (many from our generation) and last week it was flags of the world. Even on the flags I only managed six which was a great disappointment. Arts and literature I'm pretty much useless.
My sister made a point that you're only *supposed* to score around 40% on a quiz. If and when I host I've created some zany literacy and maths SATs based questions, partly for my own amusement but I'm genuinely interested in whether people can answer them.
With the recent rise in popularity of Zoom quizzes, and me mentioning Ale or Horse in rl at every possible chance, I made two Ale or Horse Powerpoint quizzes, than can be used over screen share:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OJO...ew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12V1...ew?usp=sharing
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Got another quiz tonight. Each couple has to do a round of 10 questions. Here’s mine:
1. What is the name of the cat in the Mr Bean cartoon?
2. Who was the Prime Minister of England when World War 2 started?
3. In what year was the first Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game released on Playstation?
4. How many series of The X-Files are there?
5. How old is @Mike?
6. In America, Rawlings is the official manufacturer of balls for which professional sport?
7. When a player creates a character in World Of Warcraft Classic, they start their journey as a level 1. What is the maximum level a character can reach?
8. Daniel Hernandez is a musician better known by what name?
9. On 25th May 2005, Liverpool won the Champions League final against AC Milan. What was the score after 90 minutes?
10. What strength is BrewDog’s Punk IPA?
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