Posted September 28, 2024Sep 28 Hey everyone, Thanks for all your entries into this weeks quiz - I really enjoyed making it and I hope you enjoyed partaking in it. Altogether there are 32 participants: Scene Goddelta Mango HarryBorelli Iz Roba. chrissmith276 conorw rio309 spiceboy paulgilb CowTzy Bjork Dobbo Chez Wombat PeteFromLeeds awardinary ~1^∞ Jordanlee1402 Mack. N4yr JulianT donnahjaneymack danG Ansel jimwatts vibe No Sleep King Rollo Riser Jade dandy* Please bear with me as we go through the results. As this is my first time hosting a quiz I can't guarantee that they will be particularly quick (but hopefully they will be accurate!) The scoring: This will work in that the person closest to the answer gets 10 points, then 9 and so on down to nothing (so only the top 10 answerers on a given question will get any points). Hopefully this makes sense. There are a few questions where more than 10 people have got the answer completely spot on so they will all get 10 points and everyone else will get nothing, I think this is the fairest way of doing it. A couple of stats before I start revealing the answers: - Every single answer has been guessed correctly by at least 1 person! - There is one question that over half of all entries have been guessed correctly, I wonder if anyone can guess which one? Results will start in a few minutes!
September 28, 2024Sep 28 This will work in that the person closest to the answer gets 10 points, then 9 and so on down to nothing (so only the top 10 answerers on a given question will get any points). Hopefully this makes sense. There are a few questions where more than 10 people have got the answer completely spot on so they will all get 10 points and everyone else will get nothing, I think this is the fairest way of doing it. That seems fair. What about, for example, if 4 people got it spot on? Will they all get 10 points, and then the next nearest will get 6 points, and so on? - There is one question that over half of all entries have been guessed correctly, I wonder if anyone can guess which one? I think it will be the Abba one. Excited for the results!
September 28, 2024Sep 28 Author Q1) According to the OCC, how many top 40 singles does Ed Sheeran have to his name? 62 I wanted to begin with a relatively difficult question that I thought a lot of people may struggle with, but congratulations to Jordanlee1402 who got it absolutely bang on. I think some people may have been caught out by the fact that the question is according to the OCC so includes any features that Ed has charted with too. Results: Jordanlee1402 - 62 (10 points) Mack. - 63 (9 points) Bjork - 65 (8 points) goodelta - 60 (8 points) JulianT - 58 (6 points) conorw - 67 (5 points) CowTzy - 57 (5 points) chrissmith276 - 68 (3 points) danG - 56 (3 points) Mango - 70 (1 point) rio309 - 54 (1 point) Dobbo - 70 (1 point) No points: Scene - 43 HarryBorelli - 30 Iz - 28 Roba. - 81 spiceboy - 47 paulgilb - 40 ChezWombat - 45 PeteFromLeeds - 48 awardinary - 38 ~1^∞ - 71 n4yr - 41 donnahjaneymack - 41 Ansel - 92 jimwatts - 78 vibe - 52 No Sleeep - 90 King Rollo - 36 Riser - 50 Jade - 52 dandy* - 48
September 28, 2024Sep 28 Author That seems fair. What about, for example, if 4 people got it spot on? Will they all get 10 points, and then the next nearest will get 6 points, and so on? I think it will be the Abba one. Excited for the results! Yes, that is correct. There have been a few ties in Q1 so there are a few points scores that have been skipped.
September 28, 2024Sep 28 Happy with my 1 point for Q1, which I thought was one of the more difficult questions!
September 28, 2024Sep 28 Welp I didn’t take the 3 track rule into consideration for this question obviously!
September 28, 2024Sep 28 Author Q2: Including spaces, how many characters does The 1975's newest album have in its title? 33 So, The 1975's newest album is called 'Being Funny In a Foreign Language' which has 33 characters in it. Well done to the 6 of you who got it spot on and the other 4 of you who were just one character away. Results: goodelta - 33 (10 points) spiceboy - 33 (10 points) Bjork - 33 (10 points) ~1^∞ - 33 (10 points) danG - 33 (10 points) dandy* - 33 (10 points) jimwatts - 34 (4 points) Jordanlee1402 - 34 (4 points) conorw - 32 (4 points) chrissmith276 - 32 (4 points) No points: Scene - 14 Mango - 47 HarryBorelli - 45 Iz - 45 Roba. - 14 rio309 - 38 paulgilb - 73 CowTzy - 31 Dobbo - 30 Chez Wombat - 134 PeteFromLeeds - 49 awardinary - 59 Mack. - 35 n4yr - 23 JulianT - 30 donnahjaneymack - 7 Ansel - 17 vibe - 10 No Sleeep - 49 King Rollo - 47 Riser - 29 Jade - 30
September 28, 2024Sep 28 Ah 62 it was. Well tbf it feels like he had many more top 40 hits than that lol.
September 28, 2024Sep 28 Nice start, Ed's I did try to count up but lost track when I got to the collabs, thankfully not too far out. I did know The 1975 one as I remember the name of the album.
September 28, 2024Sep 28 Yeah wouldn't have known whether it was very long or very little on the 1975 one so not too bothered there. 134 though :rofl:
September 28, 2024Sep 28 Author Q3) If the ages of Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga and Beyonce were added together, how old would they be? 137 I thought quite a few of you may know the answer to this one and it turns out you do! Kylie is 56 years old, Lady Gaga is 38 and Beyonce is 43 which makes them 137 years old altogether! Congrats to Goodelta who got the correct answer once again and has taken an early lead! Results: goodelta - 137 (10 points) HarryBorelli - 137 (10 points) Roba. - 137 (10 points) paulgilb - 137 (10 points) Mack. - 137 (10 points) donnahjaneymack - 137 (10 points) spiceboy - 138 (4 points) Dobbo - 138 (4 points) ~1^∞ - 138 (4 points) Mango - 135 (1 point) Iz - 135 (1 point) JulianT - 135 (1 point) dandy* - 135 (1 point) No points: Scene - 142 chrissmith276 - 107 conorw - 130 rio309 - 140 CowTzy - 154 Bjork - 150 Chez Wombat - 140 PeteFromLeeds - 134 awardinary - 127 Jordanlee1402 - 94 n4yr - 142 danG - 132 Ansel - 120 jimwatts - 140 vibe - 144 No Sleeep - 127 King Rollo - 142 Riser - 140 Jade - 134
September 28, 2024Sep 28 Yeah I am fuming at myself and my maths skills for this one because I do know all of their ages I just added them up incorrectly and somehow got 127 instead of 137 :lol:
September 28, 2024Sep 28 I wasn't 100% confident with Kylie, whether she was 55 or 56, but I knew the other two for sure. Yay at picking the right one.
September 28, 2024Sep 28 34 was a complete guess for Q2, happy to get some points for it! Ah, I had 137 as my original answer for Q3 but revised it upwards! 20 seconds wasn't quite long enough for me to do the maths on how old Lady Gaga is now once I recalled she was 23 in 2009.
September 28, 2024Sep 28 Author Q4) To the nearest million, how many copies has the album ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits sold in the UK? 6 million As of July this year ABBA: Gold has sold 6.4 million copies in the UK, making it the second biggest album of all time (only behind Queen). There were a few of you who gave me exact figures but as I asked to the nearest million I rounded them for you. As you can probably guess, lots of people got this spot on! I'm afraid that if you didn't get it spot on then there were no spare points available. Results: Scene - 6 (10 points) Mango - 6 (10 points) chrissmith276 - 6 (10 points) rio309 - 6 (10 points) spiceboy - 6 (10 points) paulgilb - 6 (10 points) Bjork - 6 (10 points) Mack. - 6 (10 points) n4yr - 6 (10 points) JulianT - 6 (10 points) Jade - 6 (10 points) dandy* - 6 (10 points) No points: goodelta - 5 HarryBorelli - 200 Iz - 10 Roba. - No idea conorw- 30 CowTzy - 12 Dobbo - 25 ChezWombat - 3 PeteFromLeeds - 124 awardinary - 280 ~1^∞ - 12 donnahjaneymack - 3 Jordanlee1402 - 5 danG - 5 Ansel - 5 jimwatts - 5 vibe - 3 No Sleeep - 7 King Rollo - 7 Riser - 4
September 28, 2024Sep 28 LOL I can't believe I got the Ed Sheeran one wrong. Is my answer based on stand alone singles then? It was a question in a pub quiz and I put 90 in that one as some wild guess and they said it was 47 :lol: I was SO convinced I had got it correct based off of that :lol:
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