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[TTRM]

Wait, what did you choose, The Woman in the Room wasn't one of the options? Or did you choose The Mist since the original book is the earliest?

Redacted the info. I have a bad habit of "posting before double-checking".
(Removal of the info in my post still came well before your quote of it though, so....)

 

[FreaKill]

Redacted the info. I have a bad habit of "posting before double-checking".
(Removal of the info in my post still came well before your quote of it though, so....)

Yeah, I noticed you had a link about Dollar Babies, but I removed it from my quote for brevity and when I went back to check it, it was already gone

 

[PurpleOverwhelmProtection]

Where did you find 35?
I only counted 12 King mini-series that are already out, and two of them were originally written as screenplays, so not adaptations, and another one might be considered a TV film.
Could you post your list?

For the sake of honesty, I'm using the term Mini-Series a bit loosely, since I'm following Wikipedia's list of Stephen King's Tv adaptations (and considering all of them as Mini-Series). Including the 8 upcoming Series. List here.

 

[TTRM]

Yeah, I noticed you had a link about Dollar Babies, but I didn't keep it in my quote and when I went back to check it it was already gone

For what it's worth, this was the link: List of adaptations of works by Stephen King - Wikipedia

After having edited my post to include it, I took a second look at the screenshot I took of the question and saw that Dollar Babies wasn't even relevant.

 

[SkeetSurfer]

Though if we are talking about #3 - Frank Darabont also directed The Woman in the Room in 1983, one of "Dollar Babies".

Almost got them all, but I spent too much time looking for "The Boogeyman", then "The Woman in the Room" among the answers, and had to panic-click something.

 

[TTRM]

For the sake of honesty, I'm using the term Mini-Series a bit loosely, since I'm following Wikipedia's list of Stephen King's Tv adaptations (and considering all of them as Mini-Series). Including the 8 upcoming Series. List here.

If you click on each of those titles for closer inspection, you'll find that not all of them are series, and of those that are series, not all of them are miniseries.
Some of the titles on that list (under Television) are films, others are season-spanning series.

 

[FreaKill]

For the sake of honesty, I'm using the term Mini-Series a bit loosely, since I'm following Wikipedia's list of Stephen King's Tv adaptations (and considering all of them as Mini-Series). Including the 8 upcoming Series. List here.

Oh yeah I used that list too, though I went through it with a fine comb to make somewhat more usable notes.

Almost got them all, but I spent too much time looking for "The Boogeyman"

"The Boogeyman", huh? I guess we checked the same page on Stephen King wiki. Only, guess what? The Boogeyman is not a Darabont film, it was made by Jeff C. Schiro! I was quite miffed when I figured it out, while trying to find info about a film that doesn't exist.

Just for the record the main hint was Stephen King Adaptations, meaning, who made it, directed it, when was it made or after wich work it was adapted from. The actors part on who played it were a complete BS, just to throw people to guess. either write in the hints actor or don't put such crap in, cause from some hints you could litteraly copy paste the whole wiki in from it.

I gotta disagree with you, when hint for quiz about adaptations mentions a specific character, it seems quite reasonable to me to check who plays that character in an adaptation.

I don't mind a bit tricky hints, but a hint like Stephen King Mini-Series, that could litterally be any out of 27 miniseries

On one hand, I kind of agree with you there. Even after going through TV adaptations and culling anything extraneous, I ended up with a list of 13 shows, and though I considered three of them very unlikely to come up that still left me with a bit too much info for a 10-second question.
On the other hand, the sheer amount of info from a broad hint usually indicates a rather simple question like "which is the biggest/earliest/latest" so I didn't worry about any info beyond a list of mini-series with their dates and maybe directors.

 

[BlueLuckyConjure]

Empty hints?

 

[Keeper Of Monsters]

Empty hints?

no? Worked for me as of 5 min ago...

 

[Hobbes]

Q10 was rendered wrong with right answer. But points are full and I'm on the list, so fine by me

 

[TTRM]

No issues detected today. The quiz ran smoothly.

I'd like to call into attention the phrasing of Q9 and Q10 though, "What is the last play that William Shakespeare wrote all by himself?" and "What’s the first play that Shakespeare wrote all by himself?" respectively.

As far as I could find, there is no conclusive answer to either of these. There is a consensus on the matter, but a definitive, single correct answer does not exist for either of them.

9/10
Screwed up on Q8.
By the time I had mentally registered the options, there wasn't enough time left to read the question to figure out what I was looking for.

 

[SkeetSurfer]

Q10 was rendered wrong with right answer. But points are full and I'm on the list, so fine by me

Did it have the wrong answer? I got the question right, but was expecting it to be "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" instead, not any of the Henry VIs.

Christopher Marlowe credited as one of Shakespeare's co-writers

Dramatists to appear jointly on title pages of Henry VI, Parts One, Two and Three in the New Oxford Shakespeare after analysis by team of 23 academics

www.theguardian.com

 

[AquaKettleCompare]

Visual bug on #1, personal failure on #10.

I'm bombing this season like it was Vietnam in the late 60's.

 

[Sarahful]

Not sure if it's just my browser (Firefox 76.0.1), but I got three questions right on that last quiz that were marked as wrong. Doesn't matter, though, because I got some others wrong. Ah. Mad at myself. I know Shakespeare better than anyone.

 

[Keeper Of Monsters]

I'm questioning answers to Q9 and 10 too - even professionals on the matter can'f get a definitive answers to those, between dating and authorship!

 

[TTRM]

Not sure if it's just my browser (Firefox 76.0.1), but I got three questions right on that last quiz that were marked as wrong. Doesn't matter, though, because I got some others wrong. Ah. Mad at myself. I know Shakespeare better than anyone.

If you chose correct, but the quiz highlighted all the others in red, then you were victim of the notorious bug that plagues the quiz.
It comes and goes as it pleases.
It has nothing to do with your browser version.

 

[TTRM]

I'm questioning answers to Q9 and 10 too - even professionals on the matter can'f get a definitive answers to those, between dating and authorship!

The most tangible info I could find on them were...

"The Tempest" is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone

and

The Two Gentlemen of Verona..........is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play,

Uncertainty all the way.
Most likely the correct info though, based on the hints alone. Thus, they made it into my notes.
The hints and answers were fine, but the questions themselves could do with a slight rephrasing.

Edit: Actually got Q10 correct by luck.... (flawed notes)

Edit 2:
Looking even deeper.... Q10 might have had the wrong answers provided. Googling "shakespeare's first solo play" yields "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" as an immediate search result.
I know I spent quite some time looking at H10. H9 didn't take all that long to find viable notes for, but H10....
In the end, my notes were as follows:

The Two Gentlemen of Verona..........is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play,
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1589–1591)

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592.
Henry VI, Part 2 (often written as 2 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591

A clear indication that the answer would be more likely to be the former than the latter.

 

[PurpleOverwhelmProtection]

320 points. Not bad considering I'm in an online meeting, and I hardly read the questions xD

 

[Reiten]

The most tangible info I could find on them were...


and

Uncertainty all the way.
Most likely the correct info though, based on the hints alone. Thus, they made it into my notes.
The hints and answers were fine, but the questions themselves could do with a slight rephrasing.

Edit: Actually got Q10 correct by luck.... (flawed notes)

Edit 2:
Looking even deeper.... Q10 might have had the wrong answers provided. Googling "shakespeare's first solo play" yields "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" as an immediate search result.
I know I spent quite some time looking at H10. H9 didn't take all that long to find viable notes for, but H10....
In the end, my notes were as follows:

A clear indication that the answer would be more likely to be the former than the latter.

I can agree that Q10 was really ambiguous, I was also expecting that "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" would be the answer, luckily it was not an option, so defaulted to Henry VI Part 2. Wasn't fully certain, as Part 1 had co-authors.
As far as Q9 goes, if you check for plays with known co-authors and look at a chronological list of plays, you'll see that the 3 plays that come after "The Tempest" all have known co-authors. Takes some research, but is not quite as ambiguous.

 

[Keeper Of Monsters]

Hint 5 - seriously? There's 24(!) of them!!!
I hope it narrows it down in the question....