Squid Game - Boards Edition

Gru · 31-07-2025 02:49PM

Things will be fine... totally fine!

Necro · 31-07-2025 08:28PM

Not long now. Who will survive Tug of Wits?

Those who survive will go on to face the most deadly challenge yet…

Game 4: The Glass Bridge

More on that to follow later this evening…

Necro · 31-07-2025 08:33PM

A reminder of the teams…

Team 1 consisted of:

They will go FIRST tonight, meaning it could be a stressful wait for them..

Necro · 31-07-2025 08:34PM

Team 2 is comprised of:

Their set of questions and answers will be revealed second.

Necro · 31-07-2025 08:35PM

And finally our remaining contestants are on Team 3:

@davetherave

@Irish Aris

@Nothing surprises me now

@Kolido

@rainbowtrout

Their answer set will be the LAST to be revealed.

StrawbsM · 31-07-2025 08:44PM

I can’t remember what we had to do for this round 🙊

Leg End Reject · 31-07-2025 08:46PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123687361#Comment_123687361

University Challenge. 😂

lorcand1990 · 31-07-2025 08:46PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123687361#Comment_123687361

Ive blocked it from my memory

It's a team average score and lowest are eliminated from what I remember

Necro · 31-07-2025 08:46PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123687361#Comment_123687361

A reminder:

Tug of Wits is another team game, but you still play it solo.

Those on the same team will answer a set of ten multiple choice questions again. This time however, your answers go towards the team average.

The team with the lowest average will be ELIMINATED.

Necro · 31-07-2025 08:47PM

I'll get underway now in a few minutes save holding up the Pointless Reveal in perpetuity. Thanks also to @extra-ordinary_ and @appledrop who submitted some audience answers.

Ok Team 1, let's see those questions and answers…. 5 minute warning.

lorcand1990 · 31-07-2025 08:50PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123687378#Comment_123687378

Lovely use of the word perpetuity

Now can you let our team survive please?

Necro · 31-07-2025 08:52PM

Set 1, Team 1:

1. What is the only known human pathogen that uses a double-stranded RNA genome?

A) Norovirus

B) Rotavirus

C) Influenza

D) Adenovirus

Answer: B) Rotavirus

2. Which ancient city, now in modern-day Iraq, was known as the intellectual center of the Islamic Golden Age?

A) Damascus

B) Basra

C) Baghdad

D) Nineveh

Answer: C) Baghdad

3. Who was the first female Nobel laureate in Economics?

A) Esther Duflo

B) Janet Yellen

C) Elinor Ostrom

D) Joan Robinson

Answer: C) Elinor Ostrom

4. Which of the below is a long-running scientific experiment still active today, started in 1927?

A) The Millikan Oil Drop Experiment

B) The Pitch Drop Experiment

C) The LIGO Observations

D) The Foucault Pendulum

Answer: B) The Pitch Drop Experiment

5. What is the real full name of the rapper known as Ice-T?

A) Terrence Jackson

B) Tracy Lauren Marrow

C) Tyrone Thomas

D) Trevor Lamar Tate

Answer: B) Tracy Lauren Marrow

6. What element is named after the Greek word for "hidden"?

A) Xenon

B) Argon

C) Krypton

D) Helium

Answer: C) Krypton

7. Who holds the record for the most career Grand Slam singles titles in men's tennis (as of 2024)?

A) Roger Federer

B) Rafael Nadal

C) Pete Sampras

D) Novak Djokovic

Answer: D) Novak Djokovic

8. What is the SI unit for luminous intensity?

A) Lux

B) Lumen

C) Candela

D) Watt

Answer: C) Candela

9. Which 20th-century mathematician proved Fermat’s Last Theorem?

A) Paul Erdős

B) Grigori Perelman

C) Terence Tao

D) Andrew Wiles

Answer: D) Andrew Wiles

10. Which of the below African languages is NOT written in the Ge'ez script?

A) Tigre

B) Amharic

C) Tigrinya

D) Swahili

Answer: D) Swahili

So Team 1, how did you fare… and more importantly, what is your team average? Fear not if you can't remember, it will all be revealed very very shortly.

cee_jay · 31-07-2025 08:55PM

I can't remember fully, but fear this is going to be very, very bad.

Apologies Team!

lorcand1990 · 31-07-2025 08:56PM

Oh nice I got 2 lucky guesses on q2 and q10 🤣

Necro · 31-07-2025 08:58PM

So let's look at each player from Team 1

@StrawbsM stepped up to the plate and managed 4 out of 10 correct answers.

@Electric Nitwit proved he's actually no nitwit at all, scoring 6 out of 10.

@Gru equalled StrawbsM's score with 4 out of 10.

@lorcand1990 kept pace with EN though and scored 6 out of 10.

@cee_jay takes top marks for this team however - 7 out of 10 correct answers.

A great effort from everybody, these questions were not easy.

As for their team average? Well, that's what we are all here for.

Team 1 go out first and set the score to beat with an average of 5.4.

Can both other teams beat that? Well, let's find out shortly…

StrawbsM · 31-07-2025 09:01PM

well done everyone. Sorry I was 💩

Necro · 31-07-2025 09:03PM

Next up, Team 2 and their set of questions. 5.4 is a strong average, can they best it and become the first team to safely qualify for Game 4? 5 minute warning

lorcand1990 · 31-07-2025 09:04PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123687419#Comment_123687419

you definitely wernt! I got 2 blind luck guesses and pretty sure I had 1 or 2 half guesses in there

Kolido · 31-07-2025 09:05PM

Teams 1 and 2 had very easy questions compared to team 3, thats my story anyway and I'm sticking to it

jluv · 31-07-2025 09:07PM

OMG well done team 1..I wouldn't have even got 1 👏👏👏

Leg End Reject · 31-07-2025 09:09PM

I thought I knew 4 of Team one's questions, I was wrong on one. Not sure I'd have had any lucky guesses either.

Necro · 31-07-2025 09:09PM

Set 2, Team 2

What is the rarest blood type in the ABO and Rh systems?

A) O negative

B) AB positive

C) AB negative

D) A negative

Answer: C) AB negative

2. What civilization created the Phaistos Disc?

A) Mycenaean

B) Minoan

C) Phoenician

D) Hittite

Answer: B) Minoan

3. Which singer won an Academy Award before releasing a debut solo album?

A) Lady Gaga

B) Jennifer Hudson

C) Barbra Streisand

D) Cher

Answer: B) Jennifer Hudson

4. Which English monarch was excommunicated by the Pope in 1209?

A) Richard I

B) Henry III

C) Edward I

D) John

Answer: D) John

5. Which country won the first ever FIFA World Cup in 1930?

A) Argentina

B) Brazil

C) Uruguay

D) Italy

Answer: C) Uruguay

6. What 19th-century German philosopher developed the concept of “eternal recurrence”?

A) Georg Hegel

B) Karl Marx

C) Friedrich Nietzsche

D) Arthur Schopenhauer

Answer: C) Friedrich Nietzsche

7. Which rare isotope of hydrogen contains two neutrons?

A) Deuterium

B) Tritium

C) Protium

D) Helion

Answer: B) Tritium

8. Which chemical element has the highest melting point?

A) Osmium

B) Carbon

C) Tungsten

D) Rhenium

Answer: C) Tungsten

9. Which opera by Alban Berg was banned by the Nazis for being “degenerate art”?

A) Wozzeck

B) Parsifal

C) Lulu

D) Elektra

Answer: C) Lulu

In literature, who wrote the novel Nightwood?

A) Radclyffe Hall

B) Jeanette Winterson

C) Djuna Barnes

D) Gertrude Stein

Answer: C) Djuna Barnes

Let's find out how Team 2 did, both individually and collectively…

cee_jay · 31-07-2025 09:09PM

Are you sure? I don't remember answering half those correctly! All I have to say is phew! A couple of those were eenie meenie after ruling out one or so!

cee_jay · 31-07-2025 09:10PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123687419#Comment_123687419

No you weren't !!

Go team! We definitely had the hardest questions.

Necro · 31-07-2025 09:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123687457#Comment_123687457

All answers were checked and verified, yep! You got questions 1, 2 and 9 incorrect, but all the others were right!

Necro · 31-07-2025 09:15PM

Our Team 2 players and their individual scores first.

@wrestlemaniac is up first with a strong start, scoring 6 out of 10 correct answers.

@miamee did not fare as well unfortunately, only 2 out of 10 right here.

@JP Liz V1 managed to match wrestlemaniac's score with 6 out of 10

@Trigger got one more right than he declared on thread, scoring 4 out of 10.

@Mollyb60 managed to beat that and she got 50% correct, 5 out of 10.

As for their team average - well it looks like Team 1 are safely through to Game 4, well done to them.

Team 2's average is 4.6 so they will now have to sweat a bit until the final team's results are revealed.

StrawbsM · 31-07-2025 09:16PM

woooooooohoooooooo

Necro · 31-07-2025 09:18PM

Team 3 now need to better Team 2's average of 4.6 in order to qualify or they will be ELIMINATED.

5 minute warning for reveal

Necro · 31-07-2025 09:23PM

Set 3, Team 3

Which ancient mathematician approximated π as 22/7 and was also a polymath from Syracuse?

A) Eratosthenes

B) Pythagoras

C) Archimedes

D) Euclid

Answer: C) Archimedes

2. In which sport is the Ryder Cup contested?

A) Cricket

B) Golf

C) Rugby

D) Polo

Answer: B) Golf

3. Which famous actor was originally cast as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings but was replaced after a few days of filming?

A) Christian Bale

B) Russell Crowe

C) Stuart Townsend

D) Sean Bean

Answer: C) Stuart Townsend

4. Which protein is affected in people with cystic fibrosis?

A) Hemoglobin

B) CFTR

C) Myosin

D) Collagen

Answer: B) CFTR

5. Which economist developed the idea of “creative destruction”?

A) John Maynard Keynes

B) Friedrich Hayek

C) Joseph Schumpeter

D) Milton Friedman

Answer: C) Joseph Schumpeter

6. Which artist is known for Black Square and founded the Suprematism movement?

A) Wassily Kandinsky

B) Kazimir Malevich

C) El Lissitzky

D) Piet Mondrian

Answer: B) Kazimir Malevich

7. Which of the following directors made a cameo appearance as a DJ in the music video for Fatboy Slim’s 1999 hit "Praise You"?

A) David Fincher

B) Michel Gondry

C) Spike Jonze

D) Sofia Coppola

Answer: C) Spike Jonze

8. Which 17th-century Dutch philosopher was excommunicated from the Jewish community for his radical ideas?

A) Spinoza

B) Descartes

C) Locke

D) Leibniz

Answer: A) Spinoza

9. What is the term for a word or phrase that reads the same backward and forward?

A) Tautogram

B) Isogram

C) Palindrome

D) Anagram

Answer: C) Palindrome

10. Which branch of mathematics studies shapes and spaces under continuous transformations?

A) Geometry

B) Algebra

C) Topology

D) Trigonometry

Answer: C) Topology

And that concludes the question sets and their answers for Game 3.

All that's left - is to reveal Team 3's scores.

Necro · 31-07-2025 09:28PM

So let's start from the top with Team 3:

@davetherave - 5 out of 10, a decent start but not quite as strong as wrestlemaniac's 6.

@Irish Aris comes in with 4 out of 10 which is enough to beat miamee's 2.

@Nothing surprises me now only manages 3 out of 10 which is bested by Liz's 6 out of 10.

Quizmaster @Kolido also only manages 3 out of 10, meaning Team 3 need a miracle here to pull this one back…

Leaving… @rainbowtrout who would need a minimum of 8 out of 10 to level the proceedings and have Necro dig down deep into the decimal points…

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