Olympics PEEHS Finals (The Reveal)

Necro

31 Players warming up



Ready for the last gap dash to finish line




But only 3 can take home the medals



Who will struggle to get out of the blocks?




Or, possibly worse - fall at the final hurdles?





See you all at 8pm!!

Necro

A reminder of the questions:


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)


And indeed, our 31 entrants:

31 players:

aaronjennings
Also Starring LeVar Burton
Barney92
cj maxx
Collie D
davetherave
Declan A Walsh
DJIMI TRAORE
Electric Nitwit
GreenAndRed
HeidiHeidi
Bryce Straight City
Homer J. Fong
Irish Aris
JohnGreenFan
KathleenGrant
Kolido
Montageofhell
Neowise
quickbeam
rainbowtrout
Reberetta
Sawduck
ShaneU
Sheridan81
Strawberry Milkshake
the purple tin
Trigger
wrestlemaniac
yozico
Zaph

ShaneU

If I don't finish bottom ten I'll be shocked

quickbeam

ShaneU wrote: »

If I don't finish bottom ten I'll be shocked

Race you to the wooden spoon!

Electric Nitwit

I just hope my dad's around to carry me over the finish line when I fall badly at Q10

I’ve just climbed Croagh Patrick and pitched a tent. Now I’ve realised the restaurant we’re eating in is 3 km away and I don’t know any taxi service so I gotta drive and not drink

Electric Nitwit

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I’ve just climbed Croagh Patrick and pitched a tent. Now I’ve realised the restaurant we’re eating in is 3 km away and I don’t know any taxi service so I gotta drive and not drink

Worst. Triathlon. Ever.

Necro

Nearly ready to go folks...

Necro

Ok, let's get this show on the road shall we?

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

Reminder that I posted a clarification in relation to this:


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

NB: Sailing is not one of the 9 sports

6 of 9 possible answers identified here.

Necro

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)

Wrestling is our clear popular answer. Quite a few incorrects here, and people are rather unfortunate in my view.

Whilst the incorrects are events that took place at the 1896 Olympics (in the most part, golf was not played there), the wider classification of 'sport' was what I was looking for.

Great answers from HeidiHeidi and Reberetta to start with some lovely ace work.


Wrestling - 8
Also Starring LeVar Burton
Collie D
Electric Nitwit
Sawduck
Sheridan81
Strawberry Milkshake
the purple tin
yozico

Fencing - 4
GreenAndRed
rainbowtrout
Trigger
Zaph

Swimming - 3
davetherave
Bryce Straight City
wrestlemaniac

Gymnastics - 2
JohnGreenFan
KathleenGrant

ACES - 1:

Tennis - HeidiHeidi
Shooting - Reberetta

INCORRECTS - 12:

Discus - aaronjennings
discus - Neowise
Discuss - quickbeam
Golf - DJIMI TRAORE
Hammer throw - cj maxx
Javelin - Barney92
Javelin - Montageofhell
long jump - ShaneU
Marathon - Declan A Walsh
Marathon - Homer J. Fong
Marathon - Kolido
Shotput - Irish Aris

Necro

The answers NOT selected were

Athletics
Cycling
Weightlifting

Necro

Scores after question 1:

Player Score
HeidiHeidi 1
Reberetta 1
KathleenGrant 2
JohnGreenFan 2
davetherave 3
wrestlemaniac 3
Bryce Straight City 3
rainbowtrout 4
Zaph 4
Trigger 4
GreenAndRed 4
Also Starring LeVar Burton 8
Strawberry Milkshake 8
Electric Nitwit 8
Sawduck 8
the purple tin 8
Collie D 8
Sheridan81 8
yozico 8
aaronjennings 12
Declan A Walsh 12
Homer J. Fong 12
quickbeam 12
Kolido 12
Irish Aris 12
Barney92 12
Montageofhell 12
DJIMI TRAORE 12
cj maxx 12
ShaneU 12
Neowise 12

Necro

2. Name a gold medal winner in the 100 metres mens category. (25 correct answers)

Well done to everyone here, no incorrect answers and 11 different 100m gold medalists identified!

aaronjennings

I'm happy with joint-last

At least it's not dead-last :pac:

HeidiHeidi

Ah yes, my usual form showing - start off in a blaze of glory, and then slowly sink towards the wooden spoon


I thought athletics would be an absolute runaway SHEEP!!!

Necro

Question 2: Name a gold medal winner in the 100 metres mens category. (25 correct answers)

6 aces here, well done to all 6 players. Usain Bolt and Linford Christie our most popular answers here

Usain Bolt - 7
aaronjennings
Also Starring LeVar Burton
Barney92
Homer J. Fong
JohnGreenFan
Kolido
Sawduck

Linford Christie - 6
davetherave
Electric Nitwit
GreenAndRed
quickbeam
ShaneU
the purple tin

Jesse Owens - 5
Irish Aris
Montageofhell
Strawberry Milkshake
Trigger
wrestlemaniac

Carl Lewis - 4
cj maxx
Collie D
Declan A Walsh
Neowise

Allan Wells - 3
DJIMI TRAORE
KathleenGrant
Zaph

ACES - 1:

Harold Abrahams - rainbowtrout
Justin Gatlin - HeidiHeidi
Eddie Tolan - Reberetta
Maurice Greene - Sheridan81
Donovan Bailey - yozico
Charlie Paddock - Bryce Straight City

Necro

Scores after question 2:

It's a 2 way tie at the top with Reberetta and Heidi acing both of the first two questions. The chasing pack is not too far behind though

Player Score
HeidiHeidi 2
Reberetta 2
Bryce Straight City 4
rainbowtrout 5
KathleenGrant 5
Zaph 7
wrestlemaniac 8
Trigger 9
JohnGreenFan 9
davetherave 9
Sheridan81 9
yozico 9
GreenAndRed 10
Collie D 12
Strawberry Milkshake 13
Electric Nitwit 14
the purple tin 14
Also Starring LeVar Burton 15
Sawduck 15
DJIMI TRAORE 15
Declan A Walsh 16
cj maxx 16
Neowise 16
Irish Aris 17
Montageofhell 17
quickbeam 18
ShaneU 18
aaronjennings 19
Homer J. Fong 19
Kolido 19
Barney92 19

aaronjennings

Necro wrote: »

Allan Wells - 3
DJIMI TRAORE
KathleenGrant
Zaph

The Flash and the Reverse Flash taking part in a 100m race isn't very fair now, is it?

Necro

3. Name a weight class in men’s Olympic boxing competition.

Again well done to all 31 players here, no incorrects!!

9 different weight classes identified here so the answers are interesting...

Necro

Question 3: Name a weight class in men’s Olympic boxing competition.

2 Aces this time out, Reberetta making it a hat-trick and EN picking up his first one with some fine answers.

Joint sheep between Bantamweight and Welterweight too.

Bantamweight - 7
aaronjennings
davetherave
DJIMI TRAORE
Kolido
Sheridan81
Trigger
Zaph

Welterweight - 7
GreenAndRed
HeidiHeidi
JohnGreenFan
KathleenGrant
Montageofhell
Sawduck
wrestlemaniac

Featherweight - 4
Also Starring LeVar Burton
cj maxx
quickbeam
Strawberry Milkshake

Flyweight - 4
Declan A Walsh
rainbowtrout
the purple tin
yozico

Lightweight - 3
Barney92
Homer J. Fong
Irish Aris

Super Heavyweight - 2
Collie D
Bryce Straight City

Middleweight - 2
Neowise
ShaneU

ACES - 1:

Heavyweight - Electric Nitwit
Light-Flyweight - Reberetta

Necro

Scores after question 3:

A slip from Heidi sees Reberetta take the lead, long way to go yet though and just three points in it.

Player Score
Reberetta 3
Bryce Straight City 6
rainbowtrout 9
HeidiHeidi 9
KathleenGrant 12
yozico 13
Zaph 14
Collie D 14
Electric Nitwit 15
wrestlemaniac 15
Trigger 16
JohnGreenFan 16
davetherave 16
Sheridan81 16
Strawberry Milkshake 17
GreenAndRed 17
the purple tin 18
Neowise 18
Also Starring LeVar Burton 19
Declan A Walsh 20
Irish Aris 20
cj maxx 20
ShaneU 20
Homer J. Fong 22
Sawduck 22
quickbeam 22
Barney92 22
DJIMI TRAORE 22
Montageofhell 24
aaronjennings 26
Kolido 26

aaronjennings

I knew it was a bad idea to enter this game

Necro

4. Name a country that has won an Olympic Gold medal in long distance running. (1500, 5000 or 10000 metres)

Few incorrects here unfortunately, and some great answers too.

ShaneU

aaronjennings wrote: »

I knew it was a bad idea to enter this game

Us Olympic casuals never stood a chance let's be honest :pac:

Necro

Question 4: Name a country that has won an Olympic Gold medal in long distance running. (1500, 5000 or 10000 metres)

Unfortunately for both quickbeam and yozico, Russia have never won a gold medal at any of the three distances.

Fortunately however for Electric Nitwit - The Soviet Union has. (They are classed differently for Olympics, like some other nations as you may see later)

JohnGreenFan picks the home nation and scores nicely with a fab ace, Reberetta picks up their 4th in a row... can they be stopped :eek:

GB/United Kingdom - 5
aaronjennings
Barney92
Collie D
davetherave
Strawberry Milkshake

Ethiopia - 5
Homer J. Fong
Irish Aris
KathleenGrant
Kolido
Neowise

Kenya - 4
cj maxx
Declan A Walsh
HeidiHeidi
the purple tin

Finland - 2
DJIMI TRAORE
Zaph

ACES - 1:

Soviet Union - Electric Nitwit
Australia - Also Starring LeVar Burton
Algeria - rainbowtrout
Burundi - Reberetta
USA - Trigger
Ireland - JohnGreenFan
Portugal - GreenAndRed
Italy - Sheridan81
Luxembourg - Bryce Straight City

INCORRECTS - 7.5:

Bahrain - Montageofhell
Netherlands - wrestlemaniac
Nigeria - ShaneU
Russia - quickbeam
Russia - yozico
Uganda - Sawduck

Necro

5. Name an Irish Olympian (they do not have to have won a medal)

2 incorrects here. One... erm... I think it may have been a joke answer? :pac:

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

Question 4: Name a country that has won an Olympic Gold medal in long distance running. (1500, 5000 or 10000 metres)

Unfortunately for both quickbeam and yozico, Russia have never won a gold medal at any of the three distances.

Fortunately however for Electric Nitwit - The Soviet Union has. (They are classed differently for Olympics, like some other nations as you may see later)

Mwah-ha-ha! :pac:

Necro

Question 5: Name an Irish Olympian (they do not have to have won a medal)

It's ace city, I have verified all the below athletes and they competed at various Olympics, some not necessarily for Ireland but they are Irish.

I'm not sure if EN was having a laugh but yeah, English isn't correct.

Unless he meant Mark English....

Question 5: Name an Irish Olympian (they do not have to have won a medal)

Annalise Murphy - 3
Homer J. Fong
Trigger
wrestlemaniac

Katie Taylor - 2
aaronjennings
Also Starring LeVar Burton

Sonia O'Sullivan - 2
Kolido
quickbeam

John Treacy - 2
cj maxx
KathleenGrant

ACES - 1:

Michael Caruth - Strawberry Milkshake
Eamonn Coghlan - Declan A Walsh
Sam Lynch (Rowing 1996 Olympics) - rainbowtrout
Sean Drea - Zaph
Darren Sutherland - Sawduck
Paddy Ryan - the purple tin
Jack B. Yeats - Collie D
Tony Byrne - Irish Aris
Kenny Egan - Barney92
Cathy MacAleavey - HeidiHeidi
Ross Killian - Reberetta
Mark Carroll - Montageofhell
Catherina McKiernan - DJIMI TRAORE
Gary O'Donovan - JohnGreenFan
David Gillick - davetherave
Martin Sheridan - GreenAndRed
Grainne Murphy - Sheridan81
Paddy Barnes - ShaneU
Gary O'Toole - yozico
padraig harrington - Neowise
Jessie Barr - Bryce Straight City

INCORRECTS - 4.5:

English - Electric Nitwit

Necro

Scores after question 5:

The gap is still 3 points as Reberetta's streak continues.

Player Score
Reberetta 5
Bryce Straight City 8
rainbowtrout 11
HeidiHeidi 14
Zaph 17
JohnGreenFan 18
Sheridan81 18
KathleenGrant 19
GreenAndRed 19
Collie D 20
Trigger 20
Electric Nitwit 20.5
yozico 21.5
Also Starring LeVar Burton 22
davetherave 22
Strawberry Milkshake 23
the purple tin 23
Neowise 24
Declan A Walsh 25
DJIMI TRAORE 25
wrestlemaniac 25.5
Irish Aris 26
cj maxx 26
Barney92 28
ShaneU 28.5
Homer J. Fong 30
Sawduck 30.5
quickbeam 31.5
Montageofhell 32.5
aaronjennings 33
Kolido 33

davetherave

I was off to such a good start, (One question where it wasn't the top or second top answer counts as a good start right )

Barney92

Necro wrote: »

Annalise Murphy - 3
Homer J. Fong
Trigger
wrestlemaniac

I had her in, then took her out for one of the O'Donovans but couldn't decide which of them to go with so switched to good old Kenny. The game has been a nightmare thus far but I'm happy with one ace anyway.

Necro

6. Name a country that currently has a representative on the International Olympic Committee Executive Board (16 correct answers)

This was a tricky one without Google. Some of the answers will surprise you..

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

I'm not sure if EN was having a laugh but yeah, English isn't correct.

Unless he meant Mark English....

Oh, I genuinely did mean him. Sorry it wasn't clear

the purple tin

Necro wrote: »

6. Name a country that currently has a representative on the International Olympic Committee Executive Board (16 correct answers)

This was a tricky one without Google. Some of the answers will surprise you..

This sounds like a clickbait ad

Necro

Question 6: Name a country that currently has a representative on the International Olympic Committee Executive Board (16 correct answers)


Dick Pound is indeed one of the greatest names ever devised Zaph but sadly it is not correct. He is no longer on the executive board I am sad to say.

Switzerland - 3
davetherave
Electric Nitwit
HeidiHeidi

USA - 3
cj maxx
GreenAndRed
Irish Aris

China - 3
Neowise
Sheridan81
Trigger

ACES - 1:

Germany - rainbowtrout
Italy - KathleenGrant
Zimbabwe - Reberetta
Australia - wrestlemaniac
Aruba - Bryce Straight City

INCORRECTS - 4.5:

Brazil - Declan A Walsh
Brazil - yozico
Canada - Also Starring LeVar Burton
Canada - quickbeam
Canada (Dick Pound, what a name! ) - Zaph
England - JohnGreenFan
France - Strawberry Milkshake
Greece - Collie D
Greece - Homer J. Fong
Greece - the purple tin
Japan - Barney92
Japan - DJIMI TRAORE
Japan - Kolido
Netherlands - Sawduck
Norway - Montageofhell
Republic of Ireland - aaronjennings
Spain - ShaneU

Necro

I'll take your word for it EN and amend the scores:

Scores after question 5:

Player Score
Reberetta 5
Bryce Straight City 8
rainbowtrout 11
HeidiHeidi 14
Electric Nitwit 17
Zaph 17
JohnGreenFan 18
Sheridan81 18
KathleenGrant 19
GreenAndRed 19
Collie D 20
Trigger 20
yozico 21.5
Also Starring LeVar Burton 22
davetherave 22
Strawberry Milkshake 23
the purple tin 23
Neowise 24
Declan A Walsh 25
DJIMI TRAORE 25
wrestlemaniac 25.5
Irish Aris 26
cj maxx 26
Barney92 28
ShaneU 28.5
Homer J. Fong 30
Sawduck 30.5
quickbeam 31.5
Montageofhell 32.5
aaronjennings 33
Kolido 33


And then we add in the IOC question:


Scores after question 6:

Player Score
Reberetta 6
Bryce Straight City 9
rainbowtrout 12
HeidiHeidi 17
Electric Nitwit 20
KathleenGrant 20
Sheridan81 21
Zaph 21.5
GreenAndRed 22
JohnGreenFan 22.5
Trigger 23
Collie D 24.5
davetherave 25
yozico 26
Also Starring LeVar Burton 26.5
wrestlemaniac 26.5
Neowise 27
Strawberry Milkshake 27.5
the purple tin 27.5
Irish Aris 29
cj maxx 29
Declan A Walsh 29.5
DJIMI TRAORE 29.5
Barney92 32.5
ShaneU 33
Homer J. Fong 34.5
Sawduck 35
quickbeam 36
Montageofhell 37
aaronjennings 37.5
Kolido 37.5

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

I'll take your word for it EN and amend the scores

Phew!
I'll admit I left his first name out because I wasn't 100% I was right with it!

Ah how the hell does Greece not have a permanent seat there? They invented the damn thing!

HeidiHeidi

I'm calling for in-competition drug-testing to be introduced immediately!

aaronjennings

I'm not doing as badly as I thought I would so far. At least I'm not alone at the bottom of the table

HeidiHeidi

What a time for the site to start having yet another of its hissy fits :rolleyes:

aaronjennings

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

What a time for the site to start having yet another of its hissy fits :rolleyes:

It would be typical of 2020 to suspend play due to Boards having a computer virus

Necro

Technical issues folks. In other words this site is bloody borked. So sick of it now.

the purple tin

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I'm calling for in-competition drug-testing to be introduced immediately!

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

What a time for the site to start having yet another of its hissy fits :rolleyes:

I think we should test Boards.ie for drugs :rolleyes:

Necro

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah how the hell does Greece not have a permanent seat there? They invented the damn thing!

They don't even have one on the extended committee bizarrely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Olympic_Committee

Necro

Right let's soldier through if we can.

7. Name a U.S. or Canadian city that has hosted an Olympic Games (9 correct answers)

A big Canadian city caught a few people out here.

HeidiHeidi

the purple tin wrote: »

I think we should test Boards.ie for drugs :rolleyes:

Put it on an intraveneous drip, more like :pac:

Necro

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Put it on an intraveneous drip, more like :pac:

I'd prefer a shotgun and put it out of it's misery

ShaneU

Every single Sunday Boards does this I've a serious pain in the arse with it now.

Irish Aris

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah how the hell does Greece not have a permanent seat there? They invented the damn thing!

yes, I didn't know that we didn't. I was very tempted to give Greece as an answer, but decided to play it safe.

Electric Nitwit

Irish Aris wrote: »

yes, I didn't know that we didn't. I was very tempted to give Greece as an answer, but decided to play it safe.

Maybe no one's volunteered, there's an opportunity there for you Aris!