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Quiz #11 - Professions

Ponster · 2008-09-18 16:25:03

The first quiz not to be made by me (and the first I'm gonna enter!). Well done to Blisterman for the questions. 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.…

18-09-2008 5:25pm

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The first quiz not to be made by me (and the first I'm gonna enter!).
Well done to Blisterman for the questions.

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

Those who don't reply like this will be ignored.

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

Please, no full-stops after the answers and put a space in between the 1. and the answer ok?

1. Name a well known Fashion Designer
2. Name a well known Baseball Player
3. Name a well known Doctor
4. Name a well known Architect
5. Name a well known Physicist
6. Name a well known Cartoonist
7. Name a well known Astronaut
8. Name a well known Lawyer
9. Name a well known Priest
10. Name a well known Philosopher

PM HERE

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

3

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#2 18-09-2008 5:55pm

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om sent first one in yay

easiest one so far though i did have to google on number 8

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#3 18-09-2008 6:23pm

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Sent

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#4 18-09-2008 7:30pm

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MP PM Sent

I love these!

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#5 18-09-2008 9:27pm

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PM sent.

Had to look up baseball player.

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#6 18-09-2008 9:38pm

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Please, please, please....

Reply like this :

JUST LIKE THIS:

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

NOT LIKE THIS :

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

Please ... ?

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#7 18-09-2008 10:03pm

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Pm sent.

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#8 18-09-2008 11:28pm

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PM Sent...

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#9 19-09-2008 11:12am

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PM sent.

Ponster, I sent you two with the same answers but the second one is in the correct format. Sorry!

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#10 19-09-2008 12:02pm

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PM Sent - thanks

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#11 19-09-2008 12:19pm

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PM sent, thanks Ponster!

I needed Google for Q.4 - I could not name a single architect!

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#12 19-09-2008 12:41pm

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I'm in - googled a lot tho!

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#13 19-09-2008 1:12pm

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sent

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#14 19-09-2008 3:02pm

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pm sent thanks

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#15 19-09-2008 3:10pm

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#16 19-09-2008 3:11pm

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pm'd - that was hard! some of mine are even fictional so I hope they count!!

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#17 19-09-2008 3:19pm

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Ponster wrote: »

Please, please, please....

Reply like this :

JUST LIKE THIS:

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

NOT LIKE THIS :

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

Please ... ?

Then why was the format 1 - etc in the question??

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#18 19-09-2008 4:00pm

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genie_us wrote: »

pm'd - that was hard! some of mine are even fictional so I hope they count!!

I don't think Dr. Who will count.

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#19 19-09-2008 5:13pm

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Hey quick question, does it matter if they're dead?

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#20 19-09-2008 10:34pm

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Creature wrote: »

Hey quick question, does it matter if they're dead?

Jesus, i hope not...

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#21 20-09-2008 9:01am

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pm sent
thanks Ponster and Blisterman

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#22 20-09-2008 3:28pm

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Creature wrote: »

Hey quick question, does it matter if they're dead?

I sure hope not. Otherwise I only have two correct answers!

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#23 21-09-2008 1:46pm

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pm sent!

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#24 21-09-2008 2:38pm

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Sent.

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#25 22-09-2008 8:01am

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When is it closing?

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#26 22-09-2008 1:11pm

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smashey wrote: »

I don't think Dr. Who will count.

well then Dr Dolittle is probably out the door too

ah well

dammit I just thought of a real famous doctor

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#27 22-09-2008 1:33pm

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PM sent

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#28 22-09-2008 1:40pm

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PM sent, although I think I did spectacularly badly!

Does it matter if my physicist is really an astrophysicist???

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#29 22-09-2008 4:32pm

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I'm in like Jim
Thanks!

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#30 22-09-2008 5:18pm

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Elliana Brave Vacation wrote: »

Then why was the format 1 - etc in the question??

Because Blisterman made the questions and didn't know that the tool used to correct the answers doesn't accept "1 - xxx" format answers.

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#31 22-09-2008 5:21pm

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Dead...fictional...a made-up person who only exists in your head, I don't care really

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#32 22-09-2008 9:29pm

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PM sent.

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#33 22-09-2008 10:56pm

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When is the quiz closing?

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#34 23-09-2008 10:10am

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Just stumbled across this forum. Is this open to anyone??

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#35 23-09-2008 10:31am

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Yeah but you have about 8 hours before I get home and compile the results

Remember, guess what you think others will give and there are usually no wrong answers

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#36 23-09-2008 1:40pm

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PM sent

Like the idea

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#37 23-09-2008 6:30pm

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Sent.
Hope it's alright entering my own quiz. I honestly had no answers in mind, when I came up with the questions. I even had to google a couple.

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#38 23-09-2008 9:46pm

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Haha.... Now that Blisterman has entered I can post the results

1. Ralph Lauren 4
1. Calvin Klein 4
1. Coco Chanel 3
1. Giorgio Armani 3
1. French Connection UK 1
1. Alexander McQueen 1
1. Gianni Versace 1
1. Jean Paul Gaultier 1
1. John Rocha 2
1. Stella McCarthney 1
1. Vera Wang 1
1. Versace 4
1. Vivien Westwood 1
1. Yves St laurent 2

A LOT of answers here....

2. Babe Ruth 21
2. Alex Rodriguez 2
2. Barry Bonds 1
2. EDWARD COLLINS 1
2. Goose Gossage 1
2. Joe DiMaggio 1
2. Michael Jordan 2

One of only 2 questions where you had to get the top answer to have a chance of winning.

3. Dr. Phil 6
3. Doctor Who 5
3. Sigmund Freud 3
3. Christian Barnard 2
3. Doctor bob 1
3. Dr Jerry Crowley 1
3. Dr. Hibbert 1
3. Dr. Michael Neary 1
3. Dr. Zhivago 1
3. Edward Jenner 1
3. Harold Shipman 3
3. Josef Mengele 2
3. Mark Hamilton 1
3. Maurice Neligan 1
3. Michael Neery 1

I loved the Dr. Who answers but it was Phil who won in the end.

4. Frank Lloyd Wright 6
4. Gaudi 6
4. Alvar Alto 1
4. Christopher Wren 1
4. Duncan Stewart 2
4. Frank Gehry 1
4. james gandon 2
4. Johnathan Swift 1
4. Le Corbusier 1
4. Michael Scott 1
4. Michelangelo 2
4. No idea! 1
4. Norman Foster 2
4. Sam Stephenson 1
4. Walter Gropius 1

I had to Google this one (and I said 'Foster')

5. Albert Einstein 15
5. Stephen Hawking 7
5. Archimedes 1
5. Brian Cox 1
5. Enrico Fermi 1
5. Galileo Galilei 1
5. Isaac Newton 2
5. Marie Curie 1

6. Matt Groening 11

6. Gary Larson 5
6. Walt Disney 5
6. Charles Griffin 1
6. Charles M. Schluz 3
6. Jim Davis 2
6. Scott Adams 1
6. Stan Lee 1

7. Neil Armstrong 25
7. Buzz Aldrin 3
7. Tom Higgins 1

Hmm, Tom Higgins?

8. Johnnie Cochran 9
8. Gerald Keane 8
8. Ally McBeal 2
8. Gareth Pearce 1
8. Giovanni Di Stefano 1
8. Hans Frank 1
8. John Grisham 2
8. Lionel Hutz 1
8. Matlock 1
8. Michael Lynn 1
8. Paul Sreenan S.C. 1
8. robert Shaporp 1

If you don't know who Johnnie is then you're probably younger then I am

9. Father Ted 8
9. Fr Brian D'Arcy 7
9. Brendan Smyth 1
9. Desmond Tutu 1
9. Diarmuid Martin 1
9. Eamonn Casey 3
9. Father Flanagan 1
9. Father Michael Cleary 2
9. Fr. Denis Faul 1
9. Fr. Michael Kennedy 1
9. Francis of assise 1
9. Neil Horan 1
9. Pope Benedict XVI 1

Ahhh, all you people who didn't put Ted or Brian must be kicking yourselves now

10. Aristotle 10
10. Plato 8
10. Socrates 5
10. Confucius 2
10. Galileo 1
10. Nietsche 1
10. Nostradamus 1

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#39 23-09-2008 9:49pm

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Ponster wrote: »

4. Frank Lloyd Wright 6
4. Gaudi 6
4. Alvar Alto 1
4. Christopher Wren 1
4. Duncan Stewart 2
4. Frank Gehry 1
4. james gandon 2
4. Johnathan Swift 1
4. Le Corbusier 1
4. Michael Scott 1
4. Michelangelo 2
4. No idea! 1
4. Norman Foster 2
4. Sam Stephenson 1
4. Walter Gropius 1

I'm the only one who picked Gehry.

You architectural heretics.

Guggenheim ftw.

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#40 23-09-2008 9:54pm

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So...this weeks winner is gabigeist with 362.07 points

1. Vivien Westwood
2. Babe Ruth
3. Dr. Phil
4. Gaudi
5. Albert Einstein
6. Matt Groening
7. Neil Armstrong
8. Johnnie Cochran
9. Father Michael Cleary
10. Aristotle

Ponster 351,72

Gramlab 341,38

eliza64 327,59
dulpit 320,69
ecaf 313,79
spike440 313,79
ianmc38 306,90
Larainne 306,90

Blisterman 303,45
Sean_K 303,45
Creature 300,00
Aisling 296,55
Slimygoose 282,76
baby4 268,97

lorweld 265,52
$hifty 262,07
smashey 258,62
shrapnel222 255,17
square_igloo 251,72
Edser 234,48

jobucks 213,79
barnicles 206,90
EOB32 203,45
Ivytheterrible 175,86
suziewong 172,41
Peadar06 158,62
shoelaceface 148,28

Well done to Gramlab who finished 3nd in their first quiz.

I must admit that I'm chuffed with finishing 2nd in my first quiz also

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#41 23-09-2008 10:05pm

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Whens the next?

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#42 23-09-2008 10:08pm

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barnicles wrote: »

Whens the next?

haha....Tomorrow before 10am ok?

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#43 23-09-2008 10:10pm

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happy with 4th thanks

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#44 23-09-2008 10:40pm

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Will try to do better in next one. Thanks ponster

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#45 24-09-2008 10:02am

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Gah I thought I was a shoe-in with the Pope. He's the most famous priest you heretics! Kicking myself that I didn't say Ted.

But... Doctor Who ftw!

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#46 24-09-2008 10:11am

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What does ftw mean? Slow brains here.

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#47 24-09-2008 10:12am

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beertons wrote: »

What does ftw mean? Slow brains here.

One of those internet expressions, it means for the win.

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#48 24-09-2008 10:19am

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Thanks smashey

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#49 24-09-2008 10:58am

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Ah, I sent my PM before I knew fictional characters could be used. I definitely would have said Fr. Ted otherwise

Oh well, hopefully will do better at next one.

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#50 24-09-2008 1:19pm

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I must have been crap if I didn't even make the results list!!

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#51 24-09-2008 1:21pm

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genie_us wrote: »

I must have been crap if I didn't even make the results list!!

I'll check when I get home later but it may be because the program rejected your answers which weren't in the correct format and I didn't spot the error message...

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