Total Quiz X, parte 3

My vote goes for #8. Loved it obscure interesting reading, well worded all the good things.

Total Quiz X Part 3 Awards

Moderator awards


Dedication and Gratitude Awards to Dawn and Mixcoatl, for quickly submitting questions after the database had been deleted, thus effectively making it possible to held the quiz as planned instead of postponing it again.




Rookie Awards to cavalry4ever, Komenos and sahaliyan, for dominating the field even though it is their first attempt at the Quiz!



The S. Holmes Award for Deductive Reasoning to Komnenos, for his thinking behind the only correct of 45 submitted answers on question 13:

Well,Celsius, was the first person I thought of, but I couldn't find any mentioning of him haven written a SF novel, but I thought it must be him, cause you are Swedish and he is Swedish and only the Swedes have probably heard of it!

Score based awards

Best Question Award goes to Question 9, about Jeanne d'Anjou. Thus no points will be awarded for best question this time. I'll add gold star in my CV though.

 

Main Award - Winner of Total Quiz X part 3 to... Komnenos (Result in front page)

Congratulations to all winners!

 

Lots of players this time, and many new one. Hope you had fun, at least I had

Edited by Styrbiorn

It took a lot of dedication to make this as interesting and fun as it was.
Thanks to all organizers of this quiz.


Edited by cavalry4ever

Definately not my quiz. I wrote 'cloud people' in the first round, then just before I posted added 'Zapotec' as a point of clarity, (who were also known as cloud people by the Aztecs, were conquered by them and the Spanish). Or the second round I came up with Rainbow people conquered by the Inka and Spanish. (Rainbow people, pretty modern hippy, huh?).

And the General Wolfe (my town's local statue) answer, he was my first thought, then I changed my mind....

 

Thought the Celsius question was a bit misleading, it implied in the reference to Jules Verne that he answer was the first person ever to write a sci fi novel that happened on another planet. And there were several people before Celsius.

 

Edited by Paul

Just to ensure you won't feel cheated.

Originally posted by Paul Definately not my quiz. I wrote 'cloud people' in the first round, then just before I posted added�'Zapotec' as a point of clarity, (who were also known as cloud people�by the Aztecs, were conquered by them and the Spanish). Or the second round I came up with Rainbow people conquered by the Inka and Spanish. (Rainbow people, pretty modern hippy, huh?).

Cloud People weren't accepted - Chachapoya was. The Mixtecs were indeed called Cloud People by the Aztecs, but they didn't fit in since they were neither known to be pale-faced or are extinct - there are still a half a million of them around, whereas the Chachapoya only left us ruins.

Originally posted by Paul Thought the Celsius question was a bit misleading, it implied in the reference to Jules Verne that he answer was the first person ever to write a sci fi novel that happened on another planet. And there were several people before Celsius.

Some questions are designed to be misleading, but in this case I simply do not agree with you.

Edited by Styrbiorn

Yeah, it's an evolution to counter the too-easily found "Where did king X die?". With a "riddle" approach you can at least try to ensure that you need a bit of historical knowledge to know where to start looking.

Originally posted by Dawn Paul that bit with not�guessing an answer that came to you right off. It happens to all of us once or twice then you learn to drive Stryboirn crazy with a million�of them. It's our revenge for all those tough questions he makes up. � My first time I didn't realize that I could answer more than once and did not guess at one question because I wasn't sure but my guess would have been correct - that question about william the conqueror� still hate that I got it wrong

Yes, an art you have perfected since then, my dear Norwego-Canadien.




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I'll see if we can held the next part within 1-2 months, to compensate for the almost half a years' wait since the last.


Edited by Styrbiorn

I'm really happy to see the come back of our Total Quiz .

Although I have not enough time for the full-scale participation  I have found the questions really difficult.

Good idea. I'll do it as soon the site allows me to start a new topic (slooow).