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Quiz #9 - Numbers

  • 08-09-2008 10:41am
    #1
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    The point of the game is pretty simple. In a PM to me, answer each of the 10 questions below.


    Try to think of the most popular answer



    If you need to comment or clarify a question then do it in thread please. And if you could reply once you've sent a PM it'd keep the thread alive Thanks!



    Write your answers like this...

    Do not repeat the questions, no full-stops at the end of answers, no spaces between lines, no comments, no fancy list coding. Thanks.


    JUST LIKE THIS:

    1. Dr Maria O' Brien
    2. Kathy Wells
    3. XXXX


    The game will end when we have 40 entrants or after 5 days, whichever comes first.


    I'm looking for a phrase or a title with the number ___ in it:

    1. one
    2. two
    3. three
    4. four
    5. five
    6. six
    7. seven
    8. eight
    9. nine
    10. ten




    As this one may not seem all that clear to some I'll give you a few examples (that you can't submit as your own answers) :)

    1. One step beyond (a song from the group 'Madness')
    2. Two of a kind (expression also title of a movie)
    ...
    9. Nine ladies dancing (line from a Xmas carol)

    There will be no need to explain the answers like I have done in the example.


    So there you go. It can be a song title, name of a movie, an expression, line from a song.... What I won't accept though is movie titles such as "Police Acadmey 7" or "Mad Max 3".

    I'm leaving this open for about a week to give people time to think about it. I don't expect anyone to be able to come up with 10 answers without a little bit of thought :)


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 527 ✭✭✭Spike440


    Ponster wrote: »

    So there you go. It can be a song title, name of a movie, an expression, line from a song.... What I won't accept though is movie titles such as "Police Acadmey 7" or "Mad Max 3".

    Entered.

    So much for, Star Trek 1, Star Trek 2, Star Trek 3, etc.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    I had to edit my original post once I realised that nothing was stopping people from saying "Star Trek 1, Star Trek 2...." :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 527 ✭✭✭Spike440


    Dead right! This one is going to be interesting. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭junior_apollo


    Well that helped me waste another 5 mins in work... ta... ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭RubyXI


    will there be a prize for the best one?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    Is there any way that you could make your "puzzles/quizzes" even remotely difficult, so that every person with even half of a brain doesn't always get every single answer?
    That would be cool :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 527 ✭✭✭Spike440


    FuzzyLogic wrote: »
    Is there any way that you could make your "puzzles/quizzes" even remotely difficult, so that every person with even half of a brain doesn't always get every single answer?
    That would be cool :)

    Do you understand the purpose of the quiz? The aim is not to give the right answer, but to give the most popular answer answer. Of course the questions are easy, the challenge is trying to predict what answer most people will give!


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Yeah, the point is that the answers are easy to find but thinking of the one that most people will answer isn't.

    If people give wrong answers then it's my fault for not asking the right question.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Fuzzy I used to post quizzes here where you actually had to work at the answers but as you can judge by the amount of replies to this post I gave up pretty quickly...


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055085435


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭ecaf


    In! :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    pm sent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    Ok cool, gottit.
    I'm in if theres a really tricky one sometime, I love those :)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    I tend not to bother too much with 'traditional' questions that can be answered with a quick Google search as it's impossible to ask people not to use the 'net.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    pm sent
    i thought that was really hard


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭cacio


    sent and failed lol!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭Baby4


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Quality


    that was difficult.

    Pm sent...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 801 ✭✭✭jobucks


    PM Sent . had fun with that one :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    sent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mathew


    Sent


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭gabigeist


    sent


  • Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭SuzieWong


    sent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭rgiller


    sent but had trouble with 5 and 10 for some reason


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,459 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Really? I came up with about a million ones for five. Eight was difficult.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭See Ye


    Sent - hard call for my two number sevens ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭patrickc


    submitted thanks ponster


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭Sulukie


    Help... How do I send a pm. I miss Ponsters usual PM here :)
    I know what am I doing entering quizzes when I can't even PM without someone holding my hand but someone please help I've spent all morning trying to think of answers for this one...


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Don't worry, you're not the first person to ask me this. I already got told off by my wife for not including the PM link :)

    To send a PM to someone just click on their blue name to the left of their post and choose the second option on the drop-down menu to send a PM.

    The other method is to click on the "Private Messages" link on the top right of this page and then "Send New Message" on the left menu.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    I plan on scoring this one tonight as the entries have dropped off a lot since the first day.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 527 ✭✭✭Spike440


    When I read your previous post Ponster, I though it said this:
    Ponster wrote: »
    I plan on scoring tonight as the entries have dropped off a lot since the first day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭Sulukie


    PM sent Ponster - double thanks :)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    1. one flew over the cuckoo's nest 4
    1. One Foot In the Grave 3
    1. one for sorrow 3
    1. one 1
    1. one in a million 3
    1. One day at a time 2
    1. One size fits all 2
    1. One small step for man 2
    1. one good turn 1
    1. One of a Kind 1




    2. It takes two to tango 4
    2. two of a kind 4
    2. two's company 3
    2. a bird in the hand 1
    2. a game of two halves 1
    2. my two cents 1
    2. tea for two 1
    2. two birds with one stone 1
    2. two for joy 1
    2. Two heads are better than one 1
    2. Two Little boys 1
    2. two little dickie birds sitting on a wall 1
    2. Two Turtle Doves 2






    3. Three blind mice 6
    3. three's a crowd 6
    3. Three men and a baby 2
    3. the three musketeers 2
    3. three for a girl 1
    3. Three French Hens 1
    3. Three is the magic number 1
    3. three times a lady 1
    3. threes company 1
    3. Threesome 1







    4. Four weddings and a funeral 5
    4. after eights 1
    4. Fantastic four 2
    4. Four Calling Birds 1
    4. four colly birds 1
    4. four corners of the world 2
    4. four for a boy 1
    4. Four horsemen of the apolcalypse 2
    4. Four Non Blondes 1
    4. four score and seven years ago 2
    4. Four Star Pizza 1
    4. Four weeks holidays a year 1
    4. the fantastic four 1
    4. vivaldi’s four season 1









    5. Famous five 6
    5. High Five 3
    5. Babylon five* 1
    5. five by five 1
    5. five for silver 1
    5. five golden rings 2
    5. Five working days a week 1
    5. give me five 2
    5. Hawaii Five-O 1
    5. MI5 1
    5. Nine to five 1
    5. Take five 2











    6. Six Feet Under 5
    6. Channel Six 1
    6. six appeal 1
    6. six degrees of kevin bacon 1
    6. Six degrees of separation 2
    6. Six foot under 1
    6. six for gold 1
    6. Six geese a laying 2
    6. Six million dollar man 2
    6. six nations rugby 1
    6. six of one 1
    6. six pence none the richer 1
    6. six six six 2
    6. Tom's Tricks, Number Six 1













    7. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 4
    7. Seven wonders of the world 4
    7. seven deadly sins 3
    7. 7th heaven 1
    7. Lucky Seven 1
    7. se7en 1
    7. seven dwarves 1
    7. seven for a secret never to be told 1
    7. seven of nine 1
    7. Seven seas 1
    7. Seven Swans a Swimming 1
    7. seventh heaven 1
    7. snow white and seven dwarfs 1
    7. the seven year itch 1












    8. after eights 4
    8. eight maids a milking 3
    8. 8 mile 3
    8. 8 leaping lords 1
    8. 8 Track 1
    8. eight ball 1
    8. eight days a week 2
    8. Eight Legged Freaks 2
    8. Eight legs on a spider 1
    8. eight out of ten 1
    8. Garden Gate, Number Eight 1
    8. Henry the Eighth 2










    9. on cloud nine 5
    9. A stitch in time saves nine 4
    9. cat o' nine tales 1
    9. A cat has nine lives 1
    9. Nine and a half weeks 1
    9. Nine Eleven 1
    9. nine ladies dancing 1
    9. nine lives 2
    9. nine o'clock news 1
    9. nine to five 1
    9. Not the Nine o Clock News 1
    9. The Whole Nine Yards 2
    9. working nine to five 1








    10. ten commandments 4
    10. Ten Lords a leaping 3
    10. The ten commandments 3
    10. News at ten 1
    10. perfect ten 2
    10. Ten 1
    10. ten green bottles 2
    10. ten most wanted 1
    10. ten out of ten 1
    10. ten pin bowling 1
    10. Tony's Den, Number Ten 1
    10. Top ten 2


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    I think that this 'special' quiz was extra tough to win so well done to...

    mathew 177,27


    1. One size fits all
    2. It takes two to tango
    3. Three blind mice
    4. Four weddings and a funeral
    5. Take five
    6. Six feet under
    7. seven wonders of the world
    8. After eights
    9. On cloud nine
    10. Top ten

    ecaf 168,18

    Jane_LS_88 163,64

    gabigiest 136,36
    rgiller 122,73
    spike440 122,73
    See Ye 113,64
    Sean K 113,64

    Sulukie 109,09
    patrickc 109,09
    Macros42 109,09
    Aisling 95,45
    cacio 90,91

    phi3 90,91
    $hifty 86,36
    Quality 86,36
    Baby4 81,82
    junior apollo 81,82

    Suziewong 72,73
    TheBigFella 63,64
    Blisterman 40,91
    jobucks 40,91




    Just a note: ecaf who came second would have won had I counted their answer 'six foot answer' the same as 'six feet under'. This may seem like cutting things a little too fine but I felt that one refers to the TV show and the other is the grammatically correct to say "buried....six foot under".

    Sorry ecaf....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mathew


    Success :D
    First time in in the Puzzles and Quizzes forum too :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭patrickc


    god wonder if i was sober when i answered that one and didnt muddle up my answers how would i have done:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭ecaf


    :( (2nd)
    Ah well, when I was reading down through the answers, I thought I was doing really badly!
    So it's a surprise to come 2nd!

    Thanks Ponster, I really like these quizzes!!! :p

    Edit: Just a question - not that it matters to my score, but why didn't you group "Ten Commandments" and "The Ten Commandments"? (I answered the 1st one anyway, but just curious)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    lol

    Because I didn't spot it until now :)

    I'll redo the scores when I get back this evening, grouping those 7 answers together and see if you manage to steal the top spot from mathew.

    EDIT: actually seeing as mathew said "Top ten" there's a good chance that I'll end up reversing 1st and 2nd place...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭rgiller


    5th! Alright, I'm moving up the ladder...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭RubyXI


    Ponster wrote: »
    lol

    Because I didn't spot it until now :)

    I'll redo the scores when I get back this evening, grouping those 7 answers together and see if you manage to steal the top spot from mathew.

    EDIT: actually seeing as mathew said "Top ten" there's a good chance that I'll end up reversing 1st and 2nd place...

    And what about "fantastic four" and "the fantastic four"??


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Ahhh, now you see what it's like to correct these things :)

    I had changed all the "fantastic 4"s to fantastic four but forgot the 'the'.

    This quiz was a bollox to do :)


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Ok.... I redid the scoring taking into account the two errors and now we get this....


    ecaf 181,82

    mathew 177,27

    Jane_LS_88 163,64

    gabigiest 154,55
    spike440 140,91
    See Ye 127,27
    Macros42 127,27
    rgiller 122,73

    Sean K 113,64
    Sulukie 109,09
    patrickc 109,09
    cacio 109,09
    phi3 104,55
    Aisling 95,45

    $hifty 90,91
    Quality 86,36
    Baby4 81,82
    junior apollo 81,82
    TheBigFella 77,27
    Suziewong 72,73

    Blisterman 40,91
    jobucks 40,91




    So well done ecaf :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 527 ✭✭✭Spike440


    Hey I gained a place! Nice one Ponster!


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