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Test the nation

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  • 05-06-2006 9:36pm
    #1
    ricey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,348 ✭✭✭


    Anyone watch test the nation? And txt in for it.
    Post your scores if you did, I know im after doin crap...lol


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    #2
    crosstownk
    Registered Users Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Damn - I forgot all about it due to the effects of good weather and beer.
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    #3
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Aye forgot about it myself...switched on to catch the news and was presented with an audience of screaming clapping people of various work professions covered by shaky camera work and some typical Ray D'arcy banter....the few questions I caught seemed pretty easy...couldn't bring myself to keep watching though.

    Wonder can ye do this on the web after the fact? I know you could with the BBC one...
    [edit] Apparently not.


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    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,102 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    http://www.rte.ie/tv/testthenation/play.html

    Working atm.


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    #5
    robo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,792 ✭✭✭robo


    I got 51 out of 70...I did it online.
    Memories...:rolleyes:


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    Brian017
    Registered Users Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭Brian017


    36:o


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    #7
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    41

    A lot of those questions wouldn't be known by young people


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    robo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,792 ✭✭✭robo


    micmclo wrote:
    41

    A lot of those questions wouldn't be known by young people

    Well I ain't that young!


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    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,284 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    47


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    #10
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    36. There was a lot of stuff there that would have occured when I was only a toddler, so that's where I fell down most.


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    #11
    dajaffa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭dajaffa


    43 but I wasn't even alive to know the answers to some of those questions


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    radioman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 385 ✭✭radioman


    44/70

    Jesus though Miriam O Callaghan is making a complete b0llox of things. She can't read her autocue properly and everything she says seems so very scripted


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    ricey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,348 ✭✭✭ricey


    micmclo wrote:
    41

    A lot of those questions wouldn't be known by young people


    Me2 i got 41 :o


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    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    42


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    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,835 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    29.. gah, i stink!

    Always been poor at keeping up with current (or past, for that matter) events!


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    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    No way I'm going to have anything to do with Miriam O' Callaghan.... frozen face..... learn to pronounce your "t's" and don't depend on yr tits...... other than that..... hey....


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    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    byte wrote:
    http://www.rte.ie/tv/testthenation/play.html

    Working atm.


    Ah nice one.

    48/70


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    J.R.HARTLEY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭J.R.HARTLEY


    only got 65, was sure i had them all right, was sickened when my brother beat me, thought it went ok, miriam had a few problems with the autocue, the camera near the end was constantly focused on the sets pipe structures and you could here the stage staff introing after the ads, but all excusable as it's the first time.


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    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,656 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    41/70

    It seems more a test of how many great things RTE have given us over the years, rather than anything else. Load of pants tbh.


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    #20
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    53.. Not bad for a 25 year old! :p


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    Rollo Tamasi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭Rollo Tamasi


    72


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    eirebhoy
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    J.R.HARTLEY wrote:
    only got 65, was sure i had them all right, was sickened when my brother beat me
    :eek: I'd say you 2 did well in the leaving cert anyway with memories like that.


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    #23
    daveirl
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    #24
    europerson
    Registered Users Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭europerson


    I got 56.


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    J.R.HARTLEY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭J.R.HARTLEY


    eirebhoy wrote:
    :eek: I'd say you 2 did well in the leaving cert anyway with memories like that.
    don't be silly i cogged an answer or 2 from my brother (3 in all honesty).
    to be honest some questions i found tough, i got the mobile phone question wrong and i guessed the microwave question. i found the guess the years very easy thanks to such big news stories and the fact that i love music.


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    #26
    Baggly
    Registered Users Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    32....well, ya see.....yeah....yeah, that sucks


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    #27
    Mossy Monk
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    70/70 it told me

    i am in the top 1%


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    #28
    delly
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    Mossy Monk wrote:
    70/70 it told me

    i am in the top 1%
    Pfft, hAx0rd the gibson more like....


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    #29
    Hermione*
    Registered Users Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭Hermione*


    I got 48 doing it online, didn't think about some of my answesr fully as one eye was watching the timer all the time. I'm a bit annoyed with myself, but it's more than 50% anyway.


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    BenjyS
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    Texted in the answers during the show and got 54/70 in the top 5%. Got most of the questions in round 1 wrong.


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    #31
    ifconfig
    Registered Users Posts: 880 ✭✭✭ifconfig


    Such original programming RTE (not!)

    Carbon copy more or less of those UK test the nation (or whatever
    they called it over there - with Anne Robinson master of ceremonies
    for the evening a few years back)

    Miriam O'C : Morticia Old Callous One ....

    (pseudo-D4 vowel substitution cipher algorithm can be used to
    convert the following ciphertext into normal written English)

    "Lats sallabrate thass baink holliday with a bralliant quezz show complate
    with aur own salaction of salabritays from tha hallowed walls of Montrowse.
    I'll be intarmangling the quazz answers to the quastions with some assarbic
    liberal anacdoubts whach cleeerly damonstrait my Dablin fower soudoo labaral
    Dannybrawk intallajantsia opanions on currant afarrs"

    sallabraties team ancludes:

    Daz Kahal
    Addie Hawbs
    Sharlay Bard


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