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Quite addictive quiz website based on knowledge and memory. A bit like the bbc quiz show 'who dares wins'. Take a look at this link http://www.sporcle.com/

Oliver Garner wrote:Quite addictive quiz website based on knowledge and memory. A bit like the bbc quiz show 'who dares wins'. Take a look at this link http://www.sporcle.com/

This was mentioned in The Times the other day but I thought it was a joke... Will check it out sometime, even if it does look a bit 1990s.

It looks really good Oliver. I'm not into quizzing but a lot of the things are really interesting and perhaps i should really know.

Charlie Reams wrote:

Oliver Garner wrote:Quite addictive quiz website based on knowledge and memory. A bit like the bbc quiz show 'who dares wins'. Take a look at this link http://www.sporcle.com/

This was mentioned in The Times the other day but I thought it was a joke... Will check it out sometime, even if it does look a bit 1990s.

Yep, i found it in the Times as well about six months ago

I don't know about anyone else, but my relative performances on the periodic table and the police academy films was pretty depressing...

Thanks I love this site Managed 90 elements on the periodic table and all the Bond films which I can name by year as well

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Thanks I love this site Managed 90 elements on the periodic table

Ah, but can you sing them to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivan's I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General a la Tom Lehrer? I can. Had to learn it once for a production of Tomfoolery (the Tom Lehrer revue) that I was in. Toughest thing I've ever had to learn and now it's in there for good.

Thats on my to do list!

Looks a fascinating site. Probably next week for me, or more likely the week after, when my wife is away.

Well done with 90 elements, Dinos. That's probably three times as many as I could manage. My old party trick at school was to name all 92 teams in the Football League in alphabetical order, followed by the 37 in the Scottish League, but I bet I'd fall way short now. FA Cup winners seems to be the only related category on that site. Maybe that's where I'll start.

Thanks Oliver.

I set a few quizzes for my Kids' school Fund Raising so this will be a new source of possible questions.

Cheers!

Allan

Phil Reynolds wrote:

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Thanks I love this site Managed 90 elements on the periodic table

Ah, but can you sing them to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivan's I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General a la Tom Lehrer? I can. Had to learn it once for a production of Tomfoolery (the Tom Lehrer revue) that I was in. Toughest thing I've ever had to learn and now it's in there for good.

Speaking of Tom Lehrer reminds me of this brilliant video.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=a81YvrV7Vv8

Very interesting!

Kai Laddiman wrote:Speaking of Tom Lehrer reminds me of this brilliant video.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=a81YvrV7Vv8

Hah, yeah I had to learn that one too. Actually the hardest bit about performing that one was keeping in sync with the pianist. (Lehrer of course doesn't have that problem because he accompanies himself, smartass polymath that he is.)

There's a maths version here, but it's not going to mean too much if you haven't done university level maths.

I also want to know what else is in the CUYHA songbook.

Great site - I can see hours of fun coming up. I only managed 104 elements on Saturday, and even missed zinc and holmium, which I've recently dealt with.... so I'm going to have another go. Most people will struggle on 104 - 118, where I have an unfair advantage, as the committee emails me to ask my opinion of proposed element names.

I met Tom Lehrer after the premiere of Tomfoolery in Brighton, and he's a great guy. I really recommend the New Math song, and "I hold your hand in mine"....

Kevin

Paul Howe wrote:There's a maths version here, but it's not going to mean too much if you haven't done university level maths.

I wonder if I'll still remember much from a 1959-62 course. Or even, will it still be relevant?
I'll give it a go, though

Kevin Thurlow wrote:I met Tom Lehrer after the premiere of Tomfoolery in Brighton

Wow - lucky you. The man is a living legend. Such a shame he doesn't perform or write satirical songs any more. Apparently he was only interested in performing them for as long as it took to perfect the comic timing, at which point he recorded them and sees no point in continuing to flog the same material. He stopped writing political satire in the 1970s because, as he says, satire became obsolete the day that Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.