IW Trivia Contest Results for November
 

Congratulations to Bungleau, the winner of the November IW Trivia contest! With skill, cunning, and luck, he managed to keep the tinfoil crown for a second month in a row!

1. bungleau (258 points, 6 wins)
2. machinehead (236 points, 2 wins)
3. VulcanRider (233 points, 5 wins)
4. Javan (225 points, 3 wins)
5. Olorin (223 points, 7 wins)
6. Variol (176 points, 0 wins)
7. dplax (165 points, 3 wins)
8. thecarrotdude (150 points, 0 wins)
9. Sir G (142 points, 0 wins)
10. sageridder (118 points, 1 wins)

Think you know lots about nothing? A little about a lot? Then <a href="http://my.funtrivia.com/private/main.cfm?tid=34184">come on over</a> and compete... it's free, and a new contest just started today!

Re: IW Trivia Contest Results for November
 

First time in the top 10 for me!

Pretty good, considering I'm the only one who doesn't cheat! ;)

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You're not the only one -- good, bad, or just lucky, it's all me...

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I don't know how some of you read those questions so fast though.. crazy stuff,

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It takes a lot of practice. It took me months to get my times down into the 45-60s range, and I was able to slowly bring it down after that. Now I can sometimes turn in a time in the mid 30s, but only on easy categories where I skim questions and spot answers quickly.

On many days, I couldn't tell you what the full questions actually were--I saw a few key words and matched it to an answer choice (or I saw 'all of the above' and skipped the question entirely!). For example, if I see Isaac Newton in the question, and apple, pear, grapefruit, and orange are the answers, I pick apple and move on. No need to read the whole question.

And of course, I'll never start a quiz unless I have a stable net connection and a scroll-wheel mouse attached.

When the category is like sports or music and I know I'll be guessing alot, I usually just go with the choice that sounds more famous. Those days my times aren't so low, as I have to read the whole question and decide what to guess.

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The reading is the killer for me. And in trying to read fast, it just makes it worse.

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I'm with Olorin. A few key words make a big difference, and many times I'll go with "the one answer I've ever heard of". Sometimes that fails... cricket results, Australian musicians (except that one good singer ;) ), UK geography...

In excess of 95% of the time, "All of the above" is the correct answer ;)

And a wheel mouse makes a lot of difference. I usually keep a thumb on the space bar, too... sometimes the mouse clicks don't take, but a space bar will cover it.

About two years ago (man, has it been that long?) I used to cheat... I'd open nine or ten google windows before starting the quiz, and I'd copy/paste the questions in as best I could. I'd get 'em all right (usually), but it would usually take well over 100 seconds... and I could do *that* on my own.

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I've never cheated, I'm just not very fast because I read the whole question - sometimes twice.