Ironworks Trivia Contest

[Aelia Jusa]

Huh? Are the questions different for everyone? How is the comparison meaningful then?

Anyway I got all the sports questions that weren't about NASCAR (of which there were 3!!!) and where some guy was traded from Philly to correct

[Sir Goulum]

Well, I think it does that to stop people from cheating.
Wow, um, ok. [img]tongue.gif[/img] Maybe I'll give you Aussies a break tomorrow and change it to AustraliaGeneral Knowledge.

[Illumina Drathiran'ar]

The sports questions were brutal...

[Grojlach]

Originally posted by Sir Goulum: Well, I think it does that to stop people from cheating. Wow, um, ok. [img]tongue.gif[/img] Maybe I'll give you Aussies a break tomorrow and change it to AustraliaGeneral Knowledge.

Ouch - you changed it to sports? I may know a bit about popular West-European sports (like cycling, soccer, tennis), but I somehow doubt that's going to make any difference in an American-focused quiz.
They should somehow have the random nature of the questions adapt to the country you're in (or at least the continent you're on), I guess that would be the fairest way to compare any scores between people of different cultures. An Aussie-quiz isn't going to do any good unless you're going to do one for every nationality on this board, even though I reckon most people would lose interest in only a few days time anyway if you start taking that particular road.

Here's to hoping you'll change it back to general knowledge for the time being, I suppose.

[ 09-04-2005, 04:49 PM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]

[Aelia Jusa]

Yeah, maybe general knowledge would be best. Seems a shame that you would have to have a specific Australiana quiz to avoid complete America-centricness huh.

[Sir Goulum]

I could make up a custom quiz with general questions on canada, us, britain, australia, etc. Would that be better?

And I just changed it to General Knowledge: Easier

[ 09-04-2005, 05:13 PM: Message edited by: Sir Goulum ]

[Hivetyrant]

Mmmmm General knowledge...
Ahh crap, I almost beat Attalus [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Grojlach]

Originally posted by Hivetyrant: Mmmmm General knowledge... Ahh crap, I almost beat Attalus [img]tongue.gif[/img]

If you keep in mind that your questions are a lot easier than the ones we had, it's kind of sad you couldn't even beat him.
Lots of respect to Attalus if he can actually hold onto his #1 position for today under these circumstances, by the way. [img]smile.gif[/img]

And I'd keep it on General Knowledge: Intermediate, in any case - but what do I know, right?

edit: someone already kicked Attalus out of first place - 10/10 in 41 seconds?

[ 09-04-2005, 05:35 PM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]

[Sir Goulum]

Yeah, sorry for the flip-flopping around. I'll set up this other idea tonight and see how it goes.

Ok, set it up now. THere's questions about the US and Canada(700) the UK(700) Australia( about 500) and the rest of europe (about 2000). I found as many as I could about australia to balance it, but there isn't that many in there that I could find. There's a lot of football(soccer) questions, I believe, and most of the european countries are in the quiz. Hope this is better for you. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 09-04-2005, 05:56 PM: Message edited by: Sir Goulum ]

[Lord]

Originally posted by Sir Goulum: You ought to thank me, I'm the only thing keeping you out of last place again. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Thanks...I guess [img]tongue.gif[/img] .

When I saw that it was a sports trivia, I got all excited and expected to get 100%, only to realize that it was full of questions about sports that I didn't know .