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[cheerie132]

does someone have the screenshot of FIRST question please? I thought it was wrong, but I'm not sure

 

[Twigalucie]

smooth sailing - good to see that the problems of saturday were fixed

 

[Keeper Of Monsters]

No technical issues, but slip up on 3 questions... bye-bye top-100...

 

[Twigalucie]

Aaaaaaaaaand I froze on Q10 >_>
9/10

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the point of a redux-quiz that the answers should be the same as when it first was around?
Sure, the correct answer is painfully obvious, but when your mind is fixed on an expected selection of options, the lack the expected one can mess you up badly...

theoretically yes, but there was much discussion about question 10 last time. people stating it ambiguous - I guess that is why it was changed

 

[DarkPoisonousGrotesque]

Aaaaaaaaaand I froze on Q10 >_>
9/10

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the point of a redux-quiz that the answers should be the same as when it first was around?
Sure, the correct answer is painfully obvious, but when your mind is fixed on an expected selection of options, the lack the expected one can mess you up badly...

last time the answer for Q10 was wrong, so you can presume that the mistake from last time won't be the same

 

[Hobbes]

does someone have the screenshot of FIRST question please? I thought it was wrong, but I'm not sure

 

[TTRM]

theoretically yes, but there was much discussion about question 10 last time. people stating it ambiguous - I guess that is why it was changed

There was no ambiguity last time though. It was simply an error on the admin's side, where the wrong option was selected as the correct one.

 

[Keeper Of Monsters]

BTW, call-out on #3: Kidnapped (short story) - Wikipedia
Book or no book (just a short story) - but it was written by Kipling, so that was a really tricky question...

 

[Twigalucie]

There was no ambiguity last time though. It was simply an error on the admin's side, where the wrong option was selected as the correct one.

ah, ok. I only remembered something about the Biberology that people discussed. My mistake

 

[SkeetSurfer]

does someone have the screenshot of FIRST question please? I thought it was wrong, but I'm not sure

No screenshot, but Bishop was the correct answer. It's the only one that can't threaten 8 different enemy pieces at once. Although, technically, the King would probably never get to be in that position.

 

[cheerie132]

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thanks, it's correct, I read it wrong

EDIT: I thing hint 7 said "gum" but question said "oak" but otherwise no issues of technical kind. This was one of the hardes quizzes, the hinted items had more incommon than I imagined - like the states were all republics but Bhutan is kingdom, all are landlocked but Bangladesh is not and so on. I reasearched a lot, but failed at chess which I can actually play lol

 

[Twigalucie]

thanks, it's correct, I read it wrong

EDIT: I thing hint 7 said "gum" but question said "oak" but otherwise no issues of technical kind

yeah, the hint was a bit different. but since it makes no difference for the answer I don't see a problem.

 

[Jer7cho]

I was very lazy with this quiz so I did not wrote any new notes since saturday , so 8 out of 10 from me
gg to all winners

 

[cheerie132]

yeah, the hint was a bit different. but since it makes no difference for the answer I don't see a problem.

well I tried to reasearch "gum tree" but found nothing but yeah, out of the 3 items left Bamboo was odd one out

 

[Keeper Of Monsters]

well I tried to reasearch "gum tree" but found nothing but yeah, out of the 3 items left Bamboo was odd one out

here - Gum tree - Wikipedia
I had a thing that would put each of plants as different from others, this was - the only one that originally from Australia.
Fir - the only one "evergreen", Rowan - only edible fruit.
And yes - bamboo... which turned out was one.

 

[AquaKettleCompare]

No screenshot, but Bishop was the correct answer. It's the only one that can't threaten 8 different enemy pieces at once. Although, technically, the King would probably never get to be in that position.

It would had been an interesting game.
Edit: here's a better one:

Edit2: well, my queen is just as good king as any.

 

[RA2lover]

theoretically yes, but there was much discussion about question 10 last time. people stating it ambiguous - I guess that is why it was changed

Then again, there were still other ambiguous questions.

Q1 could mean something completely different, like "In chess, which piece can a pawn NOT promote to?", while Q3 could ask "which of these stories was NOT set in India?", Q5 could ask "what country is NOT landlocked?", Q7 could ask "Which of these plants is NOT an angiosperm?" Q9 could ask "What song is NOT on David Guetta's 'Nothing but the Beat' album?" - all of which have single answers that are different from the correct answers for this quiz.

I'm not exactly sure of the texts used in Q2(which could be potentially(ambiguously) reinterpreted as San Jose, CA if it only asked which of these is NOT a capital) or Q3(which could potentially not have a valid answer if Rudyard Kipling's "Kidnapped" short story counted).

 

[Keeper Of Monsters]

Then again, there were still other ambiguous questions.

Q1 could mean something completely different, like "In chess, which piece can a pawn NOT promote to?", while Q3 could ask "which of these stories was NOT set in India?", Q5 could ask "what country is NOT landlocked?", Q7 could ask "Which of these plants is NOT an angiosperm?" Q9 could ask "What song is NOT on David Guetta's 'Nothing but the Beat' album?" - all of which have single answers that are different from the correct answers for this quiz.

I'm not exactly sure of the texts used in Q2(which could be potentially reinterpreted as San Jose, CA if it only asked which of these is NOT a capital) or Q3(which could potentially not have a valid answer if Rudyard Kipling's "Kidnapped" short story counted).

Since I don't know much about chess Q1 was a real bummer for me - I couldn't find the possible answer myself.
Q2 - I had variations for each of the cities, research was time consuming tbh, and yes - there are more than one city called San Jose...
Q9 - I was mistaken exactly because ONE of the songs is from different author.
And I've pointed the same about Q3.
Redux or no redux (I might have missed it first time since I was on jury duty around that particular time frame) - hopefully such vague hints will be avoided in the future.

 

[cheerie132]

here - Gum tree - Wikipedia
I had a thing that would put each of plants as different from others, this was - the only one that originally from Australia.
Fir - the only one "evergreen", Rowan - only edible fruit.
And yes - bamboo... which turned out was one.

once again capitalism stood in the way of education - all I found while searching for "gum tree" was an advertising agency, 2 marketplaces, a gift shop, and something about a car seller website. well, next time I'm gonna tell google "XYZ wikipedia page" because that never fails

 

[Keeper Of Monsters]

once again capitalism stood in the way of education - all I found while searching for "gum tree" was an advertising agency, 2 marketplaces, a gift shop, and something about a car seller website. well, next time I'm gonna tell google "XYZ wikipedia page" because that never fails

I guess I just go to wiki so much that first result google gives to me always a wiki page (if there is one of cource).
Second (or first - depends) - youtube if there's a video that can be related to the search term.
I guess that says something about me... I just don't know what exactly.