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poirot
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Topic: Total Quiz XIV Posted: 27-Jan-2007 at 17:46 |
I think Decebal means the Eastern Jin Dynasty - he has been reading a lot in this area.
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Posted: 27-Jan-2007 at 18:00 |
Ohh never mind. I completely misread what he wrote...
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Posted: 27-Jan-2007 at 18:03 |
Good job everyone, participants and moderators! That was a much harder quiz than the previous one; last time I got 14 right, this time I'd be happy if I could reach double digits. I want to thank the person who scored my first submission and counted my answer to question 6 as correct! You have to give it to me, I was very close Q 1-4: easy as usually Q5: I answered Paris (from the Parisii tribe), which apparently is not close enough, but I couldn't come closer. Initially I was looking for China and India... Q7: Sometimes, in order to answer a question, you just have to read the clues and let your imagination free to see the broader picture. I should get this one. Q8: For some reason guillotine is the first thing that came to my mind. Q9: I was looking at Africa but not so south. Q10: Relatively easy, Marx and Engels were my first candidates, finding the writer took me just a few minutes given the more-than-enough clues. Q 11-14: Too hard for me... Q15: Actually I found the answer to this one, but sth went wrong with the submission. What to say, it was around 4 a.m. Q16: IMO it was much easier than #16 suggests. Then again I learned about heretics such as Nestorius and Arius at school. Q 17-20: The joy of the moderators lol
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Posted: 27-Jan-2007 at 22:09 |
Scoretable updated again but no change in scores.
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Posted: 27-Jan-2007 at 22:24 |
Wow that was my first TQ I decieded to enter and it was much harder than I thought....guess I shouldn't attempt it late at night next time. lol
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Posted: 27-Jan-2007 at 23:27 |
Originally posted by Timotheus
Let me know how many of you are smacking your heads over Lady Hamilton.
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that one wasn't so tough once I got marlene deitrich out of my head. simple search - affair with war hero - second page 11 reply
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Posted: 28-Jan-2007 at 00:20 |
I't appears I wasn't the only one to think about the Gokturks for question 19 (great minds think alike) and I even looked up the founder of the Seljuk empire! as for question 11............I spent hours looking up every cortesan from the 19th century and all I managed to learn was that Edward VII of england and Louis XV of France were sleeping with half the country!
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Posted: 28-Jan-2007 at 02:10 |
Well done, Dawn, on question 17.
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Posted: 28-Jan-2007 at 02:13 |
Thank you fine sir
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Posted: 28-Jan-2007 at 02:28 |
Well done, Dawn!
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Posted: 28-Jan-2007 at 05:35 |
I have reached an important part in my search for the answer; after reading through most of the ever existed English writers, I believe I can narrow the search down. Those who are yet searching however don't let yourself be distracted, I might be wrong...
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
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Posted: 28-Jan-2007 at 06:07 |
The Great Sherlock...
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Posted: 28-Jan-2007 at 06:14 |
Great disappointment among the Icelandic supporters of Ulrich von Hutten.
Once again he couldn't approve that he is a promissing Historian but a total fool by answering Question No 11 with Marlene Dietrich!!!
Edited by ulrich von hutten - 28-Jan-2007 at 06:15
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Posted: 28-Jan-2007 at 06:55 |
Scores are updated - no change from last time though...
Please remember...
The TQ will end at 2:08 PM EST / 19:08 GMT / 20:08 CET
Edited by Northman - 28-Jan-2007 at 07:04
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Posted: 28-Jan-2007 at 10:35 |
Updated - no changes
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Posted: 28-Jan-2007 at 13:09 |
I believe that I should have searched a little bit more yesterday.. Starting to find the correct answer 20 minutes before deadline isn't wise...
But I reached an important conclusion and then I crashed FF with all the necessary tabs open... doomed. Yet I submitted one answer, most probably a wrong one but still a guess.. I think that the correct answer is tied to condotierri?
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Posted: 28-Jan-2007 at 13:17 |
As soon as they officially close it I will give you a push in the right direction and it will take less than 5min for you to find the answer
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Posted: 28-Jan-2007 at 13:20 |
So it wasn't a condotierri? Then my guess was totally idiotic (even if he wasn't a condotierri). But he would fit 3/4 of the conditions...
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Posted: 28-Jan-2007 at 13:35 |
Dared try 17,
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Posted: 28-Jan-2007 at 14:12 |
That's the end of the Total Quiz! Official awards will be given later tonight.
Edited by Imperator Invictus - 28-Jan-2007 at 14:12
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