Quote: Viridel - 2010.06.03. 18:41:03

You're assuming they are still running Quiz Olympics.

Quote: ImLittleJon - 2010.06.03. 18:52:05

I'm assuming that under any circumstances, I would rather not look up 3 answers to find one

Who plays Bass for Them Crooked Vultures?
Robert Grubb
John Paul Jones
Billy Gould
Tom Hamilton


WHAT!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?

What is the atomic weight (sometimes called atomic mass) of iron?
55.847
56.638
55.000
55.2

Answers are too close together.

What is happening when loss of water from parts of plants, especially leaves but also stems, flowers and roots?
transpiration
pollination
osmosis
xylem

I had to read the question several times before I realised what was being asked, and that happened only after reading the possible answers. The sentence is simply bad English.
The question should be something like:
What is the process whereby water is lost to the atmosphere from parts of plants, especially leaves but also stems, flowers and roots?

She wields the broken sword, and separates true kings from tyrants.
Wrath
Mercy
Greed
Envy


This is a very specialized question. First off it is a riddle used in a video game add on. That while I am sure it is a good game I have not played. It took me nearly the whole 5 mins to find an answer for it. There is no mention as to where this is from at all. I am sure that many different legends have something close to this, so even if the video game used it from something the question is very very very vague. I reccomend deletion, which is not something I usually suggest, but this question is in no terms even close to complying with the rules for the quiz system.

Who does Napoleon refer to in the novel 'animal farm', written by George Orwell?
Leon Trotski
Jozef Stalin
Karl Marx
Vladimir Lenin

Way too specific...

How many star wars movies are there?
answer says 6 however there have been 7; Episodes I-V! and Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Bats can fly in complete darkness without crushing, Why?


A answer correctly is bats fly while using sonar......



The error is crushing,,,,,should be crashing

Who was the Black Adder?
Hugh Laurie
Peter Sellers
Rowan Atkinson <- marked as correct
John Cleese

Wrong! Black Adder was Prince Edmund, he was however played by Rowan Atkinson.


In what year was Aristotle born ?
322 B.C
826
1245
384 B.C

Answers are to close


When was the first oil crisis?
1973
1975
1972
1971

again answers to close.

When was the 9/11 terror attack?
2003
2002
2000
2001

and again answers are to close.


What is the main atmosphere of Venus?
Greenhouse gas and Carbon Monoxide
Carbon and Oxygen
Sulfuric Acid and Hydrogen
Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen <- marked as correct.

How did this pass? Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen are gasses not atmospheres, and a a planet only has one atmosphere.
The answers indicate that the question should be what the main components of the atmosphere of Venus is.


What is the term to ask the computer to put information in order numerically or alphabetically?
Record
Report
Sort
Crop

Nonsense! This question has nothing to do with computers. Sorting is when you organise something by some criteria, for information this could for instance be alphabetically, chronological, or numerical

Quote: MartinBV - 2010.06.04. 19:30:51

If you're going to complain, at least be right:
Blackadder: Prince Edmund Plantagenet, Duke of Edinburgh (yes, he was a Prince as well, but second in line to the throne)
Blackadder II: Edmund Blackadder, Lord Blackadder (Lord, not Prince)
Blackadder the Third: Edmund Blackadder, Esq (Butler to the Prince, played by Hugh Laurie)
Blackadder Goes Forth: Captain Edmund Blackadder

So I'll give you a pass on the first Blackadder... But then:
FAIL!
FAIL!
FAIL!




Only two answers are close, and now you're just being fussy. Would you rather have answers of 1000, 500, 0, 384BC





No, they are not. This was a globally-changing event that triggered a war, and happened within the last decade. What answers do you want: 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001???




Fuck you're an idiot.




Borderline. Whether it meets your absurd standards or not, the question is correct. It could be more specific though, mention Excel or another common program that actively uses the Sort command... [u]But hardly worth whining about.

Martin: Please post a list of your accepted questions so that we can take a few minutes to review them and complain about insignificant details that have no real impact on the actual question.

Oh, and you spelled organize wrong "...when you organise something..." So, all-perfect one, how about getting that stick out of your ass?

How many sides are on a pyramid


Come on Admins - Please kick this already. The answer can be anywhere from 3 to 5 depending if you're counting the bottom or not, and if the bottom is a square or triangle.

How is it called the journal in the trilogy of Stieg Larsson?
Times
Millennium <- marked as correct
The future
The weather

What is it that is being asked, from the answer it seems the question is what the title of the trilogy is, but from the wording of the question it should be the name of some journal in the trilogy, which is special knowledge.

Martin, about all the justified too close answers you keep posting, they were submitted much earlier than the spacing of the dates rule. So they will not be deleted now from the quiz. As for the rest of your complains, you have a valid point on the trilogy question, the rest are ok, no confusion or mistake exists in the answers or question, at least not important enough to justify a removal.

How many tentacles does an octopus have?
7
6
9
8


your answer is 8, but the right answer is "Zero, they have eight arms, not tentacles"

Just look at this.

A Samurai's 'Soul' is said to be inside his.. ?

Aren't there too many apostrophes?

Who is the last head of state USSR?
Stalin
Gorbachev
Lenin
Yeltsin

Only a minor issue with the question, should be "Who was the last head of state of the USSR?"
btw. are these types of errors easily corrected? if not please disregard it.

Which of these is both an insect and a game?
Spider
Weevil
Ant
Cricket <- marked as correct.

Not sure about this one. Both Cricket and Spider are games, but as spider is not technically an insect but an arachnid, I'm not sure if this is an error.

What color do you get when you mix black and red?
green
brown <- marked as correct.
purple
blue

This has been posted before, but the correct answer is still "a darker shade of red"

Approx. how many stars can you see in the sky with bare eyes on a ordinary, clear night?
Around 250
Around half a million
Around 5000
Around 50 000

As corect answer is -" around 5000" but on NASA stars page I found: ...But if you look at the night sky far from city lights, you can see only about 3,000 of them without using binoculars or a telescope.
It is biiiig difference between 3000 and 5000

This is not a complaint as such, more a question of whether or not this question is in fact correct.

What is the smallest mammal in the world?
insect bat
hummingbird bat
bumblebee bat
termite bat

This is a good question, but the scientists don't all quite agree on the answer. By one definition it is the bumblebee bat (smallest head and shortest length), but by another it's the Etruscan Shrew (lightest mass of fully mature adult).

As long as the Etruscan Shrew is not among the possible answers it's not a problem, and I think it's to interesting a question to remove.

Preemptive error - hasn't gone thru the Mods yet, but if it can be changed before it does, then awesome:

That is the distance of an Olympic Marathon?
50.0 kilometers
26.2 kilometers
38.6 kilometers
21.9 kilometers

These should read Miles, not kilometers.