November 8, 20231 yr Author Kill Bill is also my favourite Tarantino film! :D Pulp Fiction is a close second though!
November 8, 20231 yr Author So, what percentage of participants solved all the clues? Well I can tell you that the average score amongst all participants was 41/45. But how many solved all 45? It was 11 out of the 21 who entered, which works out as 52.38%. The nearest to that figure were DalekTurret32 and JulianT, who both went for 60% and for that they bag themselves 5 bonus points! Next, what was the least correctly guessed Top 10 hit from the clues given? Aptly enough, it was... Rocket Science :D And 3 people correctly identified Rocket Science as the least correctly guessed - chrissmith276, Jade & DalekTurret32 - so for that, they also bag themselves 5 bonus points! Well done to DalekTurret32 for picking up both sets of bonus points, nicely done! But will it be enough to put him at the top of the table? We shall find out shortly!
November 8, 20231 yr Author And the winner is.... 1 DalekTurret32 (98 points) 2= chrissmith276 (95 points) 2= Jade (95 points) 2= JulianT (95 points) 5= Dobbo (90 points) 5= Bjork (90 points) 5= Y'all Starlight (90 points) 5= LewisGT (90 points) 5= Ansel (90 points) 5= ~1^∞ (90 points) 5= dandy* (90 points) 5= jimwatts (90 points) 13 rio309 (88 points) 14 PeteFromLeeds (86 points) 15= PedroNL25 (84 points) 15= paulgilb (84 points) 15= Rush (84 points) 18 Cow P (70 points) 19 !!! (60 points) 20 Riser (50 points) 21 Sarah (40 points) And that's why I had the bonus questions - I knew there would be multiple people who would solve all the clues! Well done to Dalek but a great effort from everyone :D Hope you enjoyed taking part in something a little different! Edited November 8, 20231 yr by Mangø
November 8, 20231 yr Yay, had a fairly mediocre start to the quiz season in the first couple I entered so nice to turn it around with podium positions for the album cover quiz and this one :wub: I absolutely loved all of the effort that went into putting this together, stellar job Mango :clap: and congrats Dalek!
November 8, 20231 yr Congrats Dalek! I found the crossword a lot more difficult than it might have appeared, but when I got one another one or two usually followed. Thanks for this Mango, great idea and the completed grid is a thing of beauty *.*
November 8, 20231 yr Author Thanks Jade and Jim, yeah this was hard work ngl, but I quite enjoyed putting it together! It's nice that it was appreciated :) Edited November 8, 20231 yr by Mangø
November 8, 20231 yr "Painting the town red means to party wildly" - ...I honestly didn't know that Still, it was one of the most obvious ones to me; not surprised to see it with 100% correct! I liked the 'Firebabe' pun; I hadn't thought of the song in a while and did think when JulianT mentioned it in another thread the other day that if I hadn't worked it out by then, that might've gotten me it :P I got 'Seven' easily from the number part but couldn't think what river had a similar name... you'd think I'd know "the longest river in Great Britain" but apparently not. I got 'Desire' but really couldn't work out what Spain had to do with it! Clever :') "love means a zero score in many sports" - Never heard of this :o 'Pointless' was one I couldn't work out - I led myself on the wrong track because I thought 'it futile' might be an anagram of it, missing one letter (the 'missing part'), since the letters in it I had (I, L) were contained in that, but I couldn't come up with anything that fit. I like that I scored a pointless answer by being the only one to pick it for the least guessed song though :basil: I didn't realise the 'applicable' meaning in Green Day; I thought it just meant a selection of some of the letters! I couldn't think of 'Rocket Science', despite having the letters R***E* ***E**E! Not surprised (and glad) it's a song I had forgotten about. Also couldn't think of how rupees fit with 'Strangers' and was wondering if there was another currency I wasn't aware of - didn't think of the abbreviation! Didn't work out 'Cupid'... I thought the 'solving crimes' might be 'cop' but couldn't think of any 5-letter titles starting with that, even though it was coincidentally only one letter off! I knew that had to be 'Celestial', but I had forgotten that it was a top 10 hit! I liked the 'get him back!' double meaning, especially since it's already a double meaning in the song so now with your Finnish band interpretation it can be a triple :basil: I also really liked the 'young lady with unusual surname' for 'Miss You'; I'll be thinking of that when I see the title from now :') My first thought for the young lady with those letters was Mary Lou but unfortunately Ricky Nelson is about 6 decades too old for this. I worked out the words 'Hide And Seek' pretty easily but I couldn't remember if that actually was an existing (eligible) song title until I got 'Firebabe' (maybe partly because it's technically 'Hide & Seek') I will always think of 'Caroline' by Aminé when I see the words 'Tarantino movie'. 'Making an ass wait' was an amusing anagram :lol: Interesting that despite 52% of participants getting all the songs, the winner is actually someone who missed one of them ('Celestial' it appears)! Well done to Dalek for your success with the bonuses and to all the others with 90+ points. Great work on this quiz Mango! :D
November 8, 20231 yr Congrats to the top few folk! Coming in the bottom half of the leaderboard having only got 1 question wrong out of 45 pretty much sums up how my quiz season is going 😅. I was only 2% away from getting the "how many full marks" bonus points, which would have made a big difference. Thank you Mango, a great quiz which I'm sure took a lot of effort to put together.
November 9, 20231 yr Very happy with joint 2nd after a very dismal quiz run so far! Congrats to Dalek, and huge round of applause to Mango for all the effort that went into this, was a lot of fun (and procrastination at work!)
November 9, 20231 yr Looks like I'm responsible for preventing several 20/21s from becoming 21/21s :arrr: I did have fun with this one though, just proved to be a bit too much of a challenge for me. Congrats Dalek on the win and to everyone who got all the clues!
November 9, 20231 yr it's funny how sometimes we get the right answer but with our own wrong interpretations like for Padam Padam, I thought the greek goddess part referred to Kylie's Aphrodite :D and the thing about Spain, I thought Spain = passionate people = Desire :D great game Mango
November 9, 20231 yr it's funny how sometimes we get the right answer but with our own wrong interpretations like for Padam Padam, I thought the greek goddess part referred to Kylie's Aphrodite :D and the thing about Spain, I thought Spain = passionate people = Desire :D great game Mango Me too!! :D
November 10, 20231 yr Thanks for hosting Mango, great quiz! Let's see what that does to the scoreboard: :winner: 1 - Mango - 185.5pts 2 - LewisGT - 177pts 3 - jimwatts - 176pts 4 - Ansel - 171pts 5 - JulianT - 163pts 6 - Bjork - 137pts 7 - chrissmith276 - 136pts 8 - Y'all Starlight - 134.16pts 9 - ~1^∞ - 134pts 10 - PeteFromLeeds - 121.8pts 11 - Riser - 120pts =11 - Dobbo - 120pts 13 - Jade - 108pts 14 - !!! - 107pts 15 - dandy* - 98pts 16 - King Rollo - 97pts 17 - baddaDan - 77pts 18 - paulgilb - 72pts 19 - rio309 - 71pts 20 - I Am Kenough - 68pts 21 - Sarah - 62pts 22 - Chez Wombat - 49pts 23 - Rush - 41pts =23 - DalekTurret32 - 41pts 25 - Cow P - 38pts 26 - Roba - 34pts 27 - LiamSime - 29pts 28 - uhsting - 26pts 29 - RyanFM - 24pts 30 - conorw - 23pts 31 - Dan1781 - 22pts 32 - Math! - 20pts 33 - PedroNL25 - 18pts 34 - RabbitFurCoat - 17pts 35 - Maestro - 16pts 36 - xajnipi - 14pts 37 - Mack - 13pts 38 - Hadji - 11pts 39 - Jahq - 10pts =39 - Klaus - 10pts 41 - ConArtistTim - 9pts 42 - EliKillz - 7pts 43 - roboplop - 6pts =43 - Brett-Butler - 6pts 45 - Anita Hanjaab - 4pts 46 - Addy! - 3pts 47 - elliotsmith - 1pts
November 10, 20231 yr Author Thanks Pete, need to make sure I keep my eye on the ball if I'm going to hold on to that lead! Does that include the host compensation points?
November 10, 20231 yr Nice one Dalek getting points for both of those! Thanks! Also was not expecting to come 1st! :o Thanks for hosting this, Mango! It was a lot of fun!
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