Olympics PEEHS

Necro

Howdy peeps! I'm baaaaaaackkkkk:D

Another edition of Peehs for y'all. Now I know some of you (well me anyways) missed the Olympics a lot this year, so I thought it would be a great topic for a Peehs game...

What is Peehs?

If you've ever watched the show 'Pointless' then this is exactly that. You are trying to give me the least popular answer.

Google is not permitted for this game

Without further adieu, the questions, some of which I have put the number of correct answers possible beside:

1. Name a sport contested at the 1896 Summer Olympic Games in Athens (9 correct answers, all of which are still Summer Olympic sports)
2. Name a gold medal winner in the 100 metres mens category. (25 correct answers)
3. Name a weight class in men’s Olympic boxing competition.
4. Name a country that has won an Olympic Gold medal in long distance running. (1500, 5000 or 10000 metres)
5. Name an Irish Olympian (they do not have to have won a medal)
6. Name a country that currently has a representative on the International Olympic Committee Executive Board (16 correct answers)
7. Name a U.S. or Canadian city that has hosted an Olympic Games (9 correct answers)
8. Name a European city that has hosted a Summer Olympic Games (12 correct answers)
9. Name an athlete who has won at least 8 gold medals across one or more Olympic Games (14 correct answers)
10. Name a country (excluding the Russian Empire and the Independent Olympic Athletes) that has won exactly one gold medal in Olympic competition (21 correct answers)
11. Name a country that has won an Olympic gold medal in the Shot Put or Javelin events (13 correct answers)
12. Name a country that has won a gold medal for the Mens OR Womens Football Event at the Olympics (22 correct answers)


I will keep sign ups open until an hour before the reveal. Reveal will take place on Sunday 9th August, 2020.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I'm in, but I've never followed the Olympics so pure guesswork and I'm merely chancing my arm...

Electric Nitwit

I'm in

I love the Olympics so thought I'd be alright, then I read the questions
One wild guess and a good few half-educated guesses, fingers crossed!

rainbowtrout

Excellent idea for a PEEHS!

Necro

Had a look at the first few sets of answers coming in.

I'm going to clarify this question:

1. Name a sport contested at the 1896 Summer Olympic Games in Athens (9 correct answers, all of which are still Summer Olympic sports)

I've received some answers that are disciplines/events under a wider umbrella of the sport.

Example: Kayaking would not be a correct answer - Sailing is classed as the sport.

NB: Sailing is not one of the 9 sports (there's a freebie)

Zaph

I'm a bit of a nerd when it comes to the Olympics but still needed to take a flyer on a couple of the answers. Some great questions Necro.

Necro

Nice healthy start to sign ups folks


8 players:

aaronjennings
Also Starring LeVar Burton
Declan A Walsh
Electric Nitwit
Homer J. Fong
rainbowtrout
Strawberry Milkshake
Zaph

HeidiHeidi

That's a good half-hour tomorrow sorted so!

Sawduck

In! Some of those were pure guesses, actually most were guesses

Necro

Up to 10 players overnight. Some fabulous answers provided, some...erm... Interesting ones too

davetherave

Will have a bash at this today.
You'd miss the sheep and peehs all the same with all of the "best x" knockout tournies that have gone on recently.

KathleenGrant

Enlisted help from my daughter who is an Olympic addict and could give me multiple answers for most questions. I actually had to ask her to shut up for people with 8 golds or more.

Necro

davetherave wrote:

Will have a bash at this today. You'd miss the sheep and peehs all the same with all of the "best x" knockout tournies that have gone on recently.

We have a couple of dedicated tournament specialists here at Forum Games HQ so I have been redeployed to reinvigorate the Sheep/Peehs market

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

We have a couple of dedicated tournament specialists here at Forum Games HQ so I have been redeployed to reinvigorate the Sheep/Peehs market

Good to have you back where you belong, the sheep have missed you!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Enlisted help from my daughter who is an Olympic addict and could give me multiple answers for most questions. I actually had to ask her to shut up for people with 8 golds or more.

Admitting upfront that you cheated... Bold move...

If you win we shall consider it a victory for your daughter so.

davetherave

davetherave wrote: »

Will have a bash at this today.
You'd miss the sheep and peehs all the same with all of the "best x" knockout tournies that have gone on recently.

Why not both? :pac:

Boardsies Decide - The Best Sheep/Peehs/Heeps game EVER!

KathleenGrant

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Admitting upfront that you cheated... Bold move...

If you win we shall consider it a victory for your daughter so.

I am sure people used Google. I had my daughter and didn't need it.

I'll withdraw if it causes a diplomatic incident....:)

Necro

KathleenGrant wrote:

I'll withdraw if it causes a diplomatic incident....

Not at all twill be grand

Electric Nitwit

KathleenGrant wrote: »

I am sure people used Google

I hope not...!

Necro wrote: »

Google is not permitted for this game

I think LeVar was just joking with you
We'll say no more about it... unless you win, when we'll all say you cheated and should be disqualified

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I was only joking of course.

Really hope no one uses Google in these though. Defeats the purpose of the game.

Irish Aris

In.
A few educated guesses but I don't expect that I will have many wrong answers.
Now, whether they will be PEEHS or SHEEP is a whole different matter :pac:

Kolido

In

Zaph

I used Google to check the spelling of one of my answers, but I knew the answer already. Stupid foreigners with their hard to spell names.

Irish Aris

Irish Aris wrote: »

In.
A few educated guesses but I don't expect that I will have many wrong answers.
Now, whether they will be PEEHS or SHEEP is a whole different matter :pac:

I should hope you know the answers what with you being from the birthplace of the Olympics!

Did you have to learn Olympic history in school?

Irish Aris

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I should hope you know the answers what with you being from the birthplace of the Olympics!

Did you have to learn Olympic history in school?

Well, it's been 30 years since I finished school so only vague recollections of it
As part of the history courses there were references to the Olympic games in ancient Greek. I don't recall anything related to the modern Olympics.

For many years the only real interest was the lighting of the Olympic flame in the Temple of Hera in Olympia. Greece didn't have a great presence in the Olympic Games so there was never a big interest for the event itself.
This changed in the nineties when we started winning the odd medal and in the build up of 2004, were everyone became an Olympic Games fan, but the interest went down after that.

Plus as I'm getting older I find it more difficult to remember such trivia. I got lucky with one question because in the town I live in we have a statue of an Irish Olympian so knew that and this could actually be the only peehs I get.
For some others (especially the ones with the medals) I only had 1 or 2 very obvious answers and went with them to avoid getting penalty points.

HeidiHeidi

I'm in!

KathleenGrant

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I hope not...!



I think LeVar was just joking with you
We'll say no more about it... unless you win, when we'll all say you cheated and should be disqualified

Would I have to hand back the million euro first prize then?

KathleenGrant

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Would I have to hand back the million euro first prize then?

Less your admin fee of 999,999 so send back a euro. But postage is over a euro so necro owes you money now.

I love the Olympics. Watched the entire opening ceremony from London 2012 last Friday night.

BBC and Eurosport have been doing reruns of the sports too.

KathleenGrant

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Less your admin fee of 999,999 so send back a euro. But postage is over a euro so necro owes you money now.

Green&Red

The Irish Olympian - do they have to run under the tricolour or could they have represented another country?

KathleenGrant

Green&Red wrote: »

The Irish Olympian - do they have to run under the tricolour or could they have represented another country?

I was actually going to ask that too but I said I better not chance it.

Necro

Green&Red wrote:

The Irish Olympian - do they have to run under the tricolour or could they have represented another country?

They need to be Irish

Electric Nitwit

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I love the Olympics. Watched the entire opening ceremony from London 2012 last Friday night.

BBC and Eurosport have been doing reruns of the sports too.

If we're talking about 2012, I have to show off. My tickets hanging on my wall...

Declan A Walsh

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I love the Olympics. Watched the entire opening ceremony from London 2012 last Friday night.

BBC and Eurosport have been doing reruns of the sports too.

It's not like you are giving away a possible answer there or anything.

Declan A Walsh

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

It's not like you are giving away a possible answer there or anything.

Oops

EN! How did you manage to get tickets for all those events?

Irish Aris

That's awesome EN!! I think I have kept my tickets from 2004!!

quickbeam

Never been to the Olympics, but I've kept every concert ticket I ever went to. Should probably do something nice to present them like those Olympic tickets.

Electric Nitwit

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Oops

EN! How did you manage to get tickets for all those events?

Administrative error

I got a couple in the UK ballot but not much. I then read that every EU country has to sell to any other and bought loads from Holland. Thing is, their website crashed when I paid so I bought a load more from them, only to find out both went through! I was so broke but it was completely worth it in the end, I had an amazing couple of weeks

Necro

Big jump in entrants today folks, now up to:

18 players:

aaronjennings
Also Starring LeVar Burton
Barney92
Collie D
Declan A Walsh
Electric Nitwit
HeidiHeidi
Homer J. Fong
Irish Aris
KathleenGrant
Kolido
quickbeam
rainbowtrout
Reberetta
Sawduck
Strawberry Milkshake
the purple tin
Zaph

Montageofhell

Hello. Is anyone allowed to play this game and how do you enter? Thanks.

Necro

Montageofhell wrote:

Hello. Is anyone allowed to play this game and how do you enter? Thanks.

Hi Montage

Simply PM myself a list of your answers to the questions in the OP (un numbered, preferably but it doesn't really matter)

Montageofhell

Necro wrote: »

Hi Montage

Simply PM myself a list of your answers to the questions in the OP (un numbered, preferably but it doesn't really matter)

Hi Necro. Do you mean numbered?

Thanks for letting me know. Now that I know how to enter, I'm going to win this. No point anyone else entering.

Necro

Montageofhell wrote: »

Hi Necro. Do you mean numbered?

Thanks for letting me know. Now that I know how to enter, I'm going to win this. No point anyone else entering.

Nah I have the questions set up so no need to number them if you don't mind

And that is the spirit

Montageofhell

Necro wrote: »

Nah I have the questions set up so no need to number them if you don't mind

And that is the spirit

Oh ok, I won't number them.

False confidence. I'll probably come last. Expect answers in the next few minutes.

Electric Nitwit

Montageofhell wrote: »

Now that I know how to enter, I'm going to win this. No point anyone else entering.

Ah, I remember when I had hopes and dreams like this :pac:

It's the most infuriating game. You'll avoid obvious answers because they're, well, obvious. But then everyone will and they'll score nothing. But then you'll think that so go for them, but then so will everyone else so it'll score high that time. Everyone that plays this game is the worst

Irish Aris

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Ah, I remember when I had hopes and dreams like this :pac:

It's the most infuriating game. You'll avoid obvious answers because they're, well, obvious. But then everyone will and they'll score nothing. But then you'll think that so go for them, but then so will everyone else so it'll score high that time. Everyone that plays this game is the worst

so you're telling me that since I picked the obvious answers I have a chance? :pac:

Montageofhell

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Ah, I remember when I had hopes and dreams like this :pac:

It's the most infuriating game. You'll avoid obvious answers because they're, well, obvious. But then everyone will and they'll score nothing. But then you'll think that so go for them, but then so will everyone else so it'll score high that time. Everyone that plays this game is the worst

That will probably happen but some of these questions I got wrong I think. Had to guess.

Electric Nitwit

Irish Aris wrote: »

so you're telling me that since I picked the obvious answers I have a chance? :pac:

Your chances are like Schrodinger's cat - they're simultaneously great and dead, until Necro opens the box!

Montageofhell wrote: »

That will probably happen but some of these questions I got wrong I think. Had to guess.

Wrong answers score 1.5x the top answer so it varies how much they hurt. I don't think you'll be alone in this one, few tough questions!

Montageofhell

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Your chances are like Schrodinger's cat - they're simultaneously great and dead, until Necro opens the box!


Wrong answers score 1.5x the top answer so it varies how much they hurt. I don't think you'll be alone in this one, few tough questions!

Oh right! And does the winner get a pointless trophy?

Necro

Even better, they get a virtual Gold, Silver or Bronze medal

I just picked them up today