IW Trivia Contest Results for November

[Bungleau]

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 come on over and compete... it's free, and a new contest just started today!

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

First time in the top 10 for me!

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

[VulcanRider]

Originally Posted by Variol (Farseer) Elmwood Pretty good, considering I'm the only one who doesn't cheat!

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

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

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

[Olorin]

Originally Posted by Variol (Farseer) Elmwood I don't know how some of you read those questions so fast though.. crazy stuff,

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.

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

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

[Bungleau]

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.

[machinehead]

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