Quote: Dakaan - 2011.01.11. 10:58:19 The trouble here is that the film is based on a novella by Stephen King, named "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" but since the question is about "The Shawshank Redemption" and not "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" the correct answer is Frank Darabont.

In what state can you find Motown?
Kentucky
Ohio
Michigan
New York

And also in Arizona!

How many types of Puffins exist?

1
2
3
4

The question is valued as "Bad, incorrect question"!
According to evaluators the answer is an uninteresting lexical knowledge.

Quote: MartinBV - 2011.01.11. 13:39:50

and that answer would actually make the question alot more interesting. i never even bothered to google cos like most i prob thought stephen king:)

Which composer was born first?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Johann Sebastian Bach
Franz Josef Haydn

nothing wrong with question other than what is the point of having a question where all 4 answers have to be googles and compared, have i wasted 10 second sof my life? yes, has my life been enhanced? no

where is TCS headquarters?
USA
India
UK
China


what on earth is TCS?

google gives me 50 different companies and thats just page 1

Who is "Stellar Romanian Poetry" ?
Vasile Alecsandri
Nichita Stanescu
Mihai Eminescu (Mihail Eminivici)
Emil Palade

couldnt find an answer that included any of these names

i found other names associated with this but not these.

How many alphabets are in Gurmukhi ?
Thirty Six (36)
Twenty Six (26)
Thirty Seven (37
Thirty Five (35)

Do I need to say more, there still is only one alphabet, with 35 characters.


acording to legend medussa can turn you into _______ if you look at her?
a banana
stone <- marked as correct
rock <- isn't this also a possible answer?
mitheral

Rock and stone are synonymous, so it's just a matter of translation from Greek or Latin to English

How many wise men gave presents to baby Jesus?
2
3
1
4

There is no mention of how many 'wise men' there were. The only record is the Bible which merely states that there 'wise men' who brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. There may have been 5000 of tham and a stable full of gifts!

Insert the word 'traditionally' or some other qualifier please.

Quote: MartinBV - 2011.01.12. 08:57:10

posted this one a week or 3 ago:(

How many medals did China win at 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney?

correct answer is supposedly 58

china won 51 GOLD medals and 100 MEDALS


please correct or delete for gross miswriting

um...

where do you get the facts for this?

Everywhere I have looked they got 28 gold and a total of 58 (except one source which said 59!)

Quote: etinixa - 2011.01.13. 15:42:57

thats the medal tally for china at the 2008 Beijing games.

Exactly! The question was asking about the 2000 Sydney Olympics and NOT the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Nice spot!

what creature on Earth has the biggest eye?
whale
octopus
horse
cow


And somehow the answer is "Octopus". A creature with some species as small as my hand. A question that does not include Giant Squid in the answers...

BAD Evaluator!

Which former republic of Yugoslavia is the only member of EU?
Croatia
Macedonia
Serbia
Slovenia

Of the former Yugoslav republics which is the member of European Union?
Croatia
Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbia

One of these needs to be removed, and the other needs a date. Croatia is expected to join the EU in 2012, and Bosnia and Herzegovina is trying to meet the requirements for an application. And Macedonia is a candidate for joining the EU as well.

Today the temperature is 0 degrees Celsius. Tomorrow will be twice as cold. How many degrees will be tomorrow?
1
same temperature as today 0
4
6

What is this? twice as cold as 0 degree Celsius would be -20 relative to the recommended living room temperature in Denmark, or around -15 relative to the global mean temperature. My point is that this question is meaningless.

When were bar code scanners invented?
1860s
1950s
1970s <---- given as correct
1940s

The first patent for a bar code type product (US Patent #2,612,994) was issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver on October 7, 1952.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbar_code.htm

Saw a question about Jeffrey Dahmer a cannibalistic mass murderer rejected as inappropriate to this audience, so now I'm wondering how this one came through:

What is "Ius Primae Noctis"?
phenomenon of nightly blooming
primary circuits
primary blooming
right of the first night

This question needs a country as other countries have a medal with the same name. It's not only in the US.

This match lasted 11 hours 5 minutes, over 3 days, but was suspended after 3 and 10 hours both times due to darkness.