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Quiz #20 - New York City

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  • 26-11-2012 8:06pm
    #1
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,911 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Seeing as I've just moved from Paris to New York I thought about having a Gotham-themed round :)


    Object of the game:

    The point of the game is pretty simple. In a PM to me, answer each of the 10 questions below. There are no wrong answers.

    The point is to give the most popular, correct answer that you think the majority of the people will give.

    So give each question some thought and try to figure out what you think the others will answer and not just the first answer that comes into your head.



    Formatting:

    To make my life easier, make your post look exactly like this:

    1. answer
    2. answer
    3. answer
    4. answer
    ...



    Questions:

    1. Name a movie associated with NYC
    2. Name a band/musician associated with NYC
    3. Name a river which flows through NYC
    4. Name a famous native New Yorker
    5. Name a sports team based in NYC
    6. Name one of the 5 NYC boroughs
    7. Name a TV show set in or associated with NYC.
    8. Name a group of immigrants associated with NYC
    9. Name a song associated with NYC
    10. Name a famous district of Manhattan

    Send me a PM with your answers!


    Keep up to date with new quiz postings @ptegan


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    aido76
    Registered Users Posts: 614 ✭✭✭aido76


    PM sent.


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    LiamMc
    Registered Users Posts: 906 ✭✭✭LiamMc


    PM sent


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    Scorpion Sting
    Registered Users Posts: 42,079 ✭✭✭✭Scorpion Sting


    Cheers for the quiz, Ponster. :) PM sent.


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    Edser
    Registered Users Posts: 361 ✭✭Edser


    PM sent, thanks. Tough one!


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    #6
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,911 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Edser wrote: »
    Tough one!

    yep! I tried to make it a little more harder than usual.


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    TommieBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,273 ✭✭✭✭TommieBoy


    thanks ponster :) pm sent


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    annascott
    Registered Users Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭annascott


    PM Sent!


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    p to the e
    Registered Users Posts: 2,303 ✭✭✭p to the e


    Done. Thanks


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    davetherave
    Registered Users Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭davetherave


    Answers sent in there. Some of those were real noodle scratchers :/


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    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,911 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    9 replies... a lot less than usual...was it too difficult?


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    Scorpion Sting
    Registered Users Posts: 42,079 ✭✭✭✭Scorpion Sting


    It was challenging but I wouldn't say it was too difficult. It makes you think anyway which is good. :)


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    #13
    davetherave
    Registered Users Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭davetherave


    Bump, and possibly a reminder for ponster to tally up the scores.


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    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,911 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    davetherave wrote: »
    Bump, and possibly a reminder for ponster to tally up the scores.

    :)

    Thanks for the bump! I got entry number 10 which I kinda needed to make it easier to work out the scoring.


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    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,911 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    And the winner of the NYC quiz is LiamMc with 480 points !

    Well done to all who entered :)


    1. Name a movie associated with NYC Taxi driver
    2. Name a band/musician associated with NYC The Velvet Underground
    3. Name a river which flows through NYC Hudson
    4. Name a famous native New Yorker Woody Allen
    5. Name a sports team based in NYC New York Yankees
    6. Name one of the 5 NYC boroughs Brooklyn
    7. Name a TV show set in or associated with NYC. Friends
    8. Name a group of immigrants associated with NYC Irish
    9. Name a song associated with NYC New York, New York
    10. Name a famous district of Manhattan Harlem


    The rest...


    Tommieboy 460
    jebforever 440
    aido76 410

    davetherave 400
    edser 380
    paulbock 340

    ihatecuddles 320
    p to the e 300
    anniescott 250


    This one was much trickier than the most recent ones. Some of the questions had a lot of possible answers even if none came to mind right away. Yet there were a couple that if you didn't get the most obvious answer then you lost all chances of winning.


    Top answers in italics

    Name a movie associated with NYC

    Taxi driver 2
    Home alone 2
    Annie Hall 1
    BIG 1
    King Kong 1
    Mean Streets 1
    The Godfather 1
    Wall Street 1



    Name a band/musician associated with NYC


    The Velvet Underground 2
    Alicia Keys 1
    Beastie Boys 1
    billy joel 1
    Blondie 1
    Frank Sinatra 1
    The Ramones 1
    The Strokes 1
    Tony Bennett 1


    Name a river which flows through NYC

    Hudson 10

    The East river was the other option that no one went for.


    Name a famous native New Yorker

    Woody Allen 2
    Donald Trump 2
    Adam Sandler 1
    Al Pacino 1
    Barbra streisand 1
    Martin Scorcese 1
    Michael Jordan 1
    Robert De Niro 1


    Name a sports team based in NYC

    New York Yankees 7
    Knicks 2
    New York Giants 1

    Name one of the 5 NYC boroughs

    Manhattan 4
    bronx 2
    Brooklyn 1
    Queens 3

    Name a TV show set in or associated with NYC

    Friends 7
    King of Queens 1
    Letterman 1
    Sex and the City 1


    Name a group of immigrants associated with NYC

    Irish 6
    Italian 3
    Jews  1


    Name a song associated with NYC

    New York, New York 7
    Bleecker Street 1
    Fairy Tale of New York 2


    Name a famous district of Manhattan

    Harlem 5
    Chinatown 1
    Downtown 1
    Greenwich Village 1
    Little Italy 2


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    LiamMc
    Registered Users Posts: 906 ✭✭✭LiamMc


    I have never felt so connected to total strangers in my entire life.... I must tell my Shrink about it.

    I want to thank Ponser for organising the quiz.
    This was the first of these 'reliant on fellow contributor' quizzes I've done, interesting thought process. Including hedging answers by choosing Taxi Driver as Film but not Martin Scorsese as a Famous Person.


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    TommieBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,273 ✭✭✭✭TommieBoy


    Congratz Liam Mc :) - great job!
    :) Ponster, thanks for the fun, challenging quiz - hope your move to NYC is a good one!
    ...Hey Jeb - we got second and third :D yay - I can't believe I wasn't at the bottom of the list


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    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,911 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    LiamMc wrote: »
    This was the first of these 'reliant on fellow contributor' quizzes I've done, interesting thought process. Including hedging answers by choosing Taxi Driver as Film but not Martin Scorsese as a Famous Person.

    It was a pretty close one this time. You got no points for Q6 "Brooklyn" but you got the 4 big scoring questions where 7 or more people gave the same answer.

    The really tricky one is when I ask to give an answer that is correct but that you believe the fewest amount of other people will answer. :)


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