SRL88 Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Or not . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Did I not get 3 correct? (1, 5 & 10) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Yeah you did. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Makes it a good solid round for me then Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lower Leagues Rule Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Very happy with 4 in that one, a huge improvement...now for some Hockey Knowledge... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 I can sense people getting their own back in the coming weeks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 This is going to be a long quiz season... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancer890 Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Got my highest total of the season, and I made SRL go HA. Now for a more familiar sport in hockey... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deisler26 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 1. Why is the 'Kontinental' in the Kontinental Hockey League spelled such? 2. Who won the 'Rocket' Richard Award last year? 3. Where was the Stanley Cup made? 4. Name two teams that Ken Hitchcock has coached? 5. What jersey number was Wayne Gretzky? 6. Name the only team not to have made the playoffs between the 2004/05 and 2012/13 lockouts? 7. The Peoria Rivermen is the American Hockey League affiliate of which NHL club? 8. What club is Nashville winger Sergei Kostitsyn playing for during this lockout? 9. What players did the New York Rangers send to the Columbus Blue Jackets in the recent Rick Nash trade? 10. What remarkable feat did Pittsburgh Penguins center Mario Lemieux accomplish in his first NHL game? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancer890 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Sent. 7 I know for sure. Not sure bout 2,3,8 #2 - I remember who won the Hart/Lindsay award, Vezina, Calder, Jennings, Jack Adams, and Norris, but somehow don't exactly remember the Rocket Richard one...it's only an educated guess #3 - Had a feeling there was going to be some historical question about the Cup. I know the history but no idea where it was made though... #8 - Total guesswork and I probably got it wrong. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deisler26 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 God I love seeing hockey related stuff in my inbox. Eff the lockout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri916 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Didn't realise they'd all be about Ice Hockey, I'll just have a few guesses then aslong as some of the answers are numbers then I've at least got a chance Be certain that I'll get my own back though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Yeah Deisler, **** off . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeXe Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Well I think I got 1. Because I've read Wayne Gretzky's wikipedia page. I know enough about hockey to guess some team names but beyond that I haven't got a clue! Think it was a little unfair to put all 10 questions about hockey to be honest. I could ask 10 questions about the minutiae of finite element analysis and make everyone get 0 but what would be the point? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Oh for F's Sake! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrbfcrule Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Well I got a solid 0. Unless I somehow got the number question right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I reckon I have scored two. I think I know where the Stanley Cup was made, and I know where Peoria is so I had an educated guess. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deisler26 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I gave everyone fair warning about being about ice hockey and it's not a secret that I'm a rabid fan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeXe Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Well everyone anticipated a few ice hockey questions but not one person has done 10 questions on the same subject yet. It's your round so you do what you like, but I just think it's a bit off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri916 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Well everyone anticipated a few ice hockey questions but not one person has done 10 questions on the same subject yet. It's your round so you do what you like, but I just think it's a bit off. I'm glad someone else thinks the same. I expected 2 or 3 questions on Ice Hockey but getting 10 questions which you have no hope of answering just because you don't follow a sport that isn't widely known or played in your country isn't very fun. Not sure some people would enjoy it if I came out with 10 cricket or golf questions when I'm the quiz ****. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrbfcrule Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 It's obviously up to whoever is quiz **** but I would have thought 5 or 6 questions on a specialised subject and then the remainder on general knowledge would be a good way to go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I couldnt care less. Its not as though we win anything. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri916 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I couldnt care less. Its not as though we win anything. It's for fun though, and it's not fun answering 10 questions without a clue on any of them and not even being able to make an educated guess because you know nothing about the subject. (for instance I didn't know any ice hockey teams) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Which is why you come up with funny answers instead . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri916 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Which is why you come up with funny answers instead . I'm almost as bad at that as I am at answering Ice Hockey questions though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancer890 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 It's for fun though, and it's not fun answering 10 questions without a clue on any of them and not even being able to make an educated guess because you know nothing about the subject. (for instance I didn't know any ice hockey teams) It's only a forum quiz. I'm the only person participating on the other side of the Atlantic and the questions have never catered to me in season 1 with HC doing them till Deisler's quiz. I didn't care. My goal this year is actually make up as many funny answers as I can. Altho if I actually know the answers, it's actually quite hard to come up with good funny ones. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeXe Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Well yes, it is only a forum quiz. Which has been between mildly and fairly amusing so far. So why make it dull by making all 10 questions about something the vast majority of participants won't have the first clue about? See what reaction you get if you go to a pub quiz and set a round on Russian folk music. I don't care about doing well, but I'd like to have a shot at answering or making an educated guess at a decent proportion of the questions rather than being completely stymied by the fact that ice hockey gets no coverage in the UK. It's just boring (the questions, not the sport, before anyone tries to rip my face off for that one ). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManUTactician247 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I don't mean to be rude that this swings the game so much in your favour. By picking a subject the majority of us know nothing about and basing the whole quiz on it, you put yourself in a much more advantageous position. I know it's just for fun and your intentions weren't to gain an advantage but that's pretty much what this round has done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Well yes, it is only a forum quiz. Which has been between mildly and fairly amusing so far. So why make it dull by making all 10 questions about something the vast majority of participants won't have the first clue about? See what reaction you get if you go to a pub quiz and set a round on Russian folk music. I don't care about doing well, but I'd like to have a shot at answering or making an educated guess at a decent proportion of the questions rather than being completely stymied by the fact that ice hockey gets no coverage in the UK. It's just boring (the questions, not the sport, before anyone tries to rip my face off for that one ). Seconded. Striking a good balance of difficulty isn't easy, especially on topics we're interested in, but there should be a variety so people have a chance of knowing something about a couple of the questions at least. While Ice hockey isn't obscure for everyone, even something better known generally would have been annoying to have a whole round on as there would be people in a similar situation to non-ice hockey followers. I don't care about difficult rounds (I've certainly faced a load of those in both quiz's), as long as they reflect the fact that we all have widely different interests, football (mostly) aside as HC's '5 football, 5 general' format worked well. I only had one 'British' question (and kept the football ones European/global), and didn't do a railway one as that would have been another, so as hard as people found it I at least tried to make it managable. Same for SRL88 but this is something else entirely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deisler26 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I understand your points, but there was nothing to say that I should have gone for the 5/5 category. Put it this way, if someone did a London 2012 Olympics question, I would have 0, but I wouldn't complain about it. In hindsight, maybe the questions should have been easier and I apologise for that, but I'm not sorry for putting in questions on a sport I love. It's for fun. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deisler26 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 However, in the interests of fairness, I will redo the questions to a 5/5 split? Yes? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Not a good comparision, generally people are much more likely to know something about the Olympics than Ice Hockey, and that itself probably wouldn't have gone down well. I don't mind whether you redo the round or not, and I don't mind having a non-serious go and accepting 0 for this round, (in fact as people have probably answered, it's best you don't suddenly change as that would be unfair on them) as long as people don't do anything near the same thing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deisler26 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I don't want any bad feeling to come out of this, as we've all said it's a fun quiz, so I'll happily redo the round as a 5/5 split and perhaps we should make that the marker? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrbfcrule Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I am not too fussed about it, definitely not enough to redo the round. I was just saying maybe a 50:50 split (or there abouts) would be a good idea for future rounds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I used to play ice hockey and I followed the NHL in the mid-late nineties but I would only have got one of those correct Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancer890 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I think we should just stick with a general rule that there should be a good balance with questions and not overloaded to one topic. No specific 5/5 splits or whatever (I already did my questions and I don't even have a 5/5 split. There's literally 8 different topics on mine). But I don't think we should restrict what type of questions the Quiz **** should post. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 My god...get over it everyone. For **** sake!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I must admit, I was planning a round that was all on one topic, but it was a topic that I would expect everyone to have a decent chance of getting quite a few right on. I was thinking that a decent set of questions should give an average of around 5/10 when the results are in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeXe Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Definitely don't worry about redoing the questions Deisler - especially as many people will have already sent their answers in I imagine. I was just making the point because I enjoy this and if it ended up like that every week it'd lose the enjoyment for me. A prescribed question split would be too formal as well, just generally aim to have a decent selection I think. Even 10 questions on obscure stuff would be fun so long as they were on different obscure things Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Decided to have a little fun with my 'answers'. Didn't even try and put things that would get me mentioned under 'funny answers' or that would make sense to anyone, just thought I'd be a little silly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK22 Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Meh, 10 questions on Ice Hockey! I'm not sure that's completely in the spirit of things... I don't mind the tricky questions if they're over a number of different subject areas- there's a possibility I might have an inkling, at least. Anyway, it's all been discussed already, so I'll just have to suck it up and get on with it. Although, if every week turns out to be a fest of specialised questions, the enjoyment factor for me will severely wane. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotChocolate Posted October 13, 2012 Author Share Posted October 13, 2012 As already mentioned, 10 questions on a topic that most won't know about isn't right (mainly because for us it's not fun knowing you are going to get 0) so in future please try and keep your round enjoyable. I won't stop people doing questions on one round but I will ask that you ask weeks in advance if that is okay. (note to Deisler you warned us about a few questions not a whole round of questions). But no hard feelings, it's not about the winning (I know I can easily say that having picked up 1 point in what will be 4 rounds ) so let's draw a line under it and move on, just try and keep it enjoyable, or at least ask us before hand if the topic you are wanting to do is okay. And on the back of this, I will host a party but Deisler and anyone who actually scores a point in this round aren't invited Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeXe Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Crap, I should have taken a dive on the Gretzky question Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby_McDonald Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 When are the week's actual questions being posted? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby_McDonald Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 I've sent some answers in. The combined efforts of my girlfriend and I have given her a right good giggle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotChocolate Posted October 16, 2012 Author Share Posted October 16, 2012 Pos. Name R1 R2 R3 Total -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. DBurns 8 8 5 21 2. Deisler26 9 7 4 20 3. SnakeXe 7 5 6 18 4. SRL88 8 4 QC 12 5. AK22 7 3 4 14 6. hrbfcrule 7 4 3 14 7. Nobby_McDonald 5 3 4 12 8. dafuge 5 1 3 9 9. deltablue 5 QC 2 7 10. Lower League Rules 2 1 4 7 11. Ri916 5 0 2 7 12. iHeadHunta 5 -- -- 5 13. ManUTactician247 4 0 1 5 14. hursty2 3 0 1 4 15. ssestig 3 -- -- 3 16. rancer890 1 0 2 3 17. HotChocolate QC 0 1 1 I picked up a point, but focusing on more important people Deisler had a great start but has quickly fallen off and behind him is Snake, playing a very good consistent game Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeXe Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 [video=youtube;Q7aOWIFgIZQ] Steady as she goes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deisler26 Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 So sorry guys! Work has got on top of me! I'll post the scores and answers later Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 There best be....or we riot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri916 Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 So firstly we get 10 questions that only a handful of people have a clue about, and then you can't even post the results so we can have a decent set of questions?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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