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Ian Volante

Allan, here are a couple of themed rounds for you. I'll post answers tomorrow. Stuck in the middle 1) In curling, what is the name of the three concentric circles that the player is trying to land their shot in the middle of? 2) Who wrote the novel Middlemarch? George Eliot 3) Which country contain...

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Bob De Caux wrote: 5) Who is the odd one out - Albert Einstein, Alfred Nobel, Niels Bohr, Isaac Newton, Glenn Seaborg?

This was the only one I got immediately, I thought it was too easy to bother answering, but obviously not. Newton is the only one not to have a chemical element named after him.

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Here are some questions from a bar quiz I set about five years ago with the same format as Allan's - i.e. themed rounds, 10 questions per round. I think these are mostly fairly easy, but then I set them so I would. I've updated a couple of the topical questions - starting with Round 1, Question 1!....

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Allan, I've been setting quizzes for years, and have a large stock of quizzes that you might find useful. Swaps would be appreciated as it'll save me work next time I'm on duty! EDIT: My rough scores off the cuff are 6, 7, 9, 5, 9. My quizzes aren't themed by the way, is that okay? Well done Ian - ...

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Okay then, since we're all chucking out full quizzes, here's one I did earlier (this is my standard format, you'll be pleased to know I've been doing the conundrum question since about 1997): 21st Feb 2008 Round 1 1. Which decimal coin replaced the shilling? 2. What's a fox's tail called? 3. Which p...

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Derek Hazell wrote:
Ian Volante, Allan Harmer, Sue Sanders and Phil Reynolds wrote:Kashmir
Today's Countdown discussed:
Kashmir

Someone should start collating all these weird coincidences . . .

http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic. ... &sk=t&sd=a

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24, 36, 1. Who'd have thought Diana Ross would be so easy?

Damned Osmonds though, I only got Crazy Horses. Sue, that's more your vintage isn't it?

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Alec Rivers wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:
Alec Rivers wrote:studying age

Yeah, you know, 15-30. That was years ago. Brain too mushed to do A-Levels and Degrees now.

Eek, into my thirties now, and I'm actually starting to feel like I could study properly!

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Allan, I've been setting quizzes for years, and have a large stock of quizzes that you might find useful. Swaps would be appreciated as it'll save me work next time I'm on duty!

EDIT: My rough scores off the cuff are 6, 7, 9, 5, 9.

My quizzes aren't themed by the way, is that okay?

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I can hardly bring myself to post today. I didn't say Kashmir. Kashmir is in my TOP THREE favourite songs and I said 'In My Time of Dying'. I was in the bath at the time and considered simply sinking under the water and not resurfacing. 3 in 10 - useless. I pretty much can't differentiate between S...

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33, 18, 1. Damn you, Michael Zager Band!

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Oliver Garner wrote:
Alec Rivers wrote:
Douglas Wilson wrote:Any update on this Jason?
What other Jason is there?
Cullen

Witcher

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What utter bastards they were today. I got 30 first time up, but only because I somehow guessed all of the bonus questions right. Second time I was on 12 with two questions to go, my mojo obviously shot, and someone interceded and saved me from more misery by making me think about my job. One on Dio...

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Jason Larsen wrote:Thank you for the clarification, Sue.

Nice one.

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Ben Wilson wrote:'Hyper Unlimited flat 9' on the drop-down doesn't relate to the hyper unlimited flat 9 on the records page- namely, the former gives 45s rounds and the latter has 30s rounds.

Shush! It's the only record I can see myself getting any time soon!

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Sue Sanders wrote:I disagree - there a huge nostalgia for white dogshit and I think it's the right time for a relaunch.

I saw some earlier this year. I think it's mainly that people don't feed their dogs bones any more.

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Following recent events, how about a facility enabling players to boot a troublemaker? Say, three or four people's 'boot' required within a minute or two, only available to paid-up players. Sounds interesting, have I missed some controversy? Not really, just some 15 year old kid trying to "be&...

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Alec Rivers wrote:Following recent events, how about a facility enabling players to boot a troublemaker? Say, three or four people's 'boot' required within a minute or two, only available to paid-up players.

Sounds interesting, have I missed some controversy?

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Allan Harmer wrote:
Bob De Caux wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:That's my moral victory then today eh Sue?
It's a fair cop, especially if you got Pseudo Echo!
Never heard of them either, so I too bend a knee in awe

It was the first version of Funky Town that I knew

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Bob De Caux wrote:36, 27 and 2/3 today. I don't think I've ever heard of Yvonne Elliman.

That's my moral victory then today eh Sue?

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Derek Hazell wrote:Since I never have any good games, can I submit things such as Venison a la jus de cassis as my Game of the Week?

*dies*

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Matt Morrison wrote:I sixthed someone once, and that definitely wasn't conducted under a proper election process.

I did that once too. We were both very drunk and regretted it later.

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33, 30, 2/3. Annoyed at not getting XTC and the Yvonne Elliman song from Saturday Night Fever!

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Jon Corby wrote:Our newest member would be useful in a dark crypt.

Not if potatoes were kept there though.

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Chris Corby wrote:Kirk should be dumped if he has used the "I would like two from the top and one from the bottom" line on you

Surely that's better than "I would like two from the top and two from the bottom"?

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Sue Sanders wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:24, 27, lots. Awful bonus questions today, only got three out of six!
Bentley and De Caux are snapping at your heels, Volante!!

They may be, but I get the impression we cover three different eras, so there should beating mutual beating rather often with luck

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24, 27, lots. Awful bonus questions today, only got three out of six!

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Jon O'Neill wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=124629

Jon O'Neill 184-110 Ian Volante.

It's also worth checking out the only points I dropped in this game.

Ouch in every sense!

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Not bad today, 30, 22, lots in ten.

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Due to my Monday scores being too dreadful to mention, I shall instead ask....has anyone else managed to get a suggestion on Radcliffe & Maconi's 'The Chain'? Mine was in the first 200 and I linked Bowie's 'Life on Mars' to my suggestion of Ian Dury's 'Sweet Gene Vincent'. Anyone care to have a...

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Edwin Mead wrote:I can't see the new tournament page, the link above isn't working.

Am I being stupid or is there a problem?

It worked fine for me, although it's not clickable. Have you tried copying it into the address bar?

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Sue Sanders wrote:Ian, do you see what Bob's doing here?
You're gonna have to reassert your authority.

I wasn't far off those scores on Friday, but I didn't record them as I was out of the office. Shall return later in the week when I get access to a radio again in the morning, probably Thursday

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A thought that's just occurred to me: how come arses are smart, but dicks are merely clever? Indeed. Some arses are even persuaded to permit wrong-way traffic, but you wouldn't see a dick doing that. ;) Well, other than those that have had things surgically removed, such as flower stems - which go ...

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Had to create this thread given that I trounced everyone yesterday! Clearly my best duel ever, and probably one of the best games I've ever played at all. Maybe desperately charging through the rounds because I was late to set off for England helped me unclutter my mind! As for today's, well it's no...

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Works on mine, and I'm on Windoze. I want those five seconds of my life back.

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Allan Harmer wrote:Today was much much harder, the same as for you guys - 12 and 15 with zero on the Blue songs. Luckily I can remember the 50's and Guy Mitchell got me out of trouble in Round 2

I might have got Guy Mitchell if they'd have mentioned his number ones!

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Sue Sanders wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:Rubbish today, 18, 24, 0.

Rubbisher than you (though you have set yourself a higher standard for defining 'rubbish')
9, 15 and an 'oh for fuck sake' at the reveal of Blue.

Glad it's not just me with a great dislike of naming songs by bands of the last ten years or so...

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Rubbish today, 18, 24, 0.

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Phil Makepeace wrote:On another day, this game was Ian's. As it was, I scraped through 160 - 144.

Well played - I think we both deserve to be kicking ourselves!

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30 and 36, 2.5 on Miss Quatro - a bit before my time! 74 Crash might have been a follow-up to '48 Crash... Not too bad, but I thought the requests were pretty easy, easier than I expected anyway.

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I was in a meeting. Boo!

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Jason Larsen wrote:Derek, Rick Wakeman is nice too!

That's only because he's blond and is having all the fun.

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Dinos, in Scots Gaelic, "mh" is pronounced like a V, so Mhairi is effectively anglicised as "Varry".

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EDIT: I've always been interested in the concept of MMA, but in practice it seems disappointing. My bro was into it for a while and I thought it was absolutely disgusting, I'm a completely non-violent person, and still am. Random street violence sends shivers down my spine, and I've never been in a...

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I think boxing really, really sucks (for excitement and health reasons), but I'm really into MMA. Which some people think is contradictory, but it isn't. From what I've seen of that stuff, it either ends with someone getting sparked in ten seconds flat or with a cuddling match for ten minutes... ED...

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Derek Hazell wrote:
The result would probably be similar though, as surprisingly there are some people who don't like dogs. . . even ones who have sadly died.

Some dead people don't like dogs? Are they worried about being gnawed?

As for the vote, I've never met the chap.

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I do like the weird variants. How about a month where every day is different? Maybe fifteen different formats at default time, and then the same formats repeated with 5s rounds. Something like that anyway. Having just checked the high scores page, there are eleven basic variants without changing the...

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24 and 27 today, so I lost to both contestants, which is rare!

As for three in ten, I'd have got two straight off and probably the obvious one later...

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Sue Sanders wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:As for my scoring, I got 30 when I was on there, should have been 36, and I'll make sure I record my scores each morning now. Got a full house last Tuesday too

Ooh Ian, that's given me the horn

That's quite disturbing, on at least two levels...

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Hazell's Hazardous Highlighting sounded like some sort of trick question Derek? Anyway, I really don't know the answer. Shock horror. I'm not sure what Phil's answer is either, but he so rigidly sticks to the titles of threads I fear he won't share it :cry: Anyway, the issue here is that the highli...

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Occasionally I get the idea someone is doing that as they go a bit vague and mutter bits of the question to themselves - but Ken sticks the 5 second timer on them pretty quick and, anyway, the question aren't phrased for an open discography to necessarily be the right page to be on. Also they play ...

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Hard to make a stand Edit ; Pants - last one was after the 10 seconds. I'd need it to be older stuff - Glam Rock probably best for me I got two quick as well, spent the next eight seconds trying to think of the obvious first hit, then remembered the Bond theme she did and guessed the correct one......

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Self employed. Start work after listening to 'Pop Master' on radio 2 at 10.30 a.m. Finish again for 'Countdown'. Quite a chilled lifestyle. No, that's unfair to myself - work any day of the week, and week ends, sometimes still at my drawing board at midnight, most of clients are in the Midlands but...

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Sue Sanders wrote:

This probably won't help - other than indicate there isn't a God, but there is a fallible Mother Nature (and put you off thinking of kittens when you masturbate)

Call me cynical, but that has to be photoshopped.

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nigelbrown wrote:I thought Charlie Reams was good at first, then decided he was a cunt. Ho hum.

With that sort of wit it's a shame we don't see more of you here!

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Matt Morrison wrote:Who thinks of kittens when they masturbate? That's weird.

Nowt like a ginger pussy to help me along.

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Colinearity is just in the dictionary by itself as a noun, "colinear" isn't listed. It's something to do with DNA apparently. There's collinear/collinearity but that's unrelated. Also a statistical concept where two variables may appear to be be related but aren't. Or is that confounding?...

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Ah, stupid poll. I need two options! Full and part time.

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Self employed. Start work after listening to 'Pop Master' on radio 2 at 10.30 a.m. Finish again for 'Countdown'. Quite a chilled lifestyle. No, that's unfair to myself - work any day of the week, and week ends, sometimes still at my drawing board at midnight, most of clients are in the Midlands but...

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