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From:  jiggery_pokery |
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November 29th, 2003 10:45 am (UTC)
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I used to have a "Whittle" icon, you know
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Mmm - I certainly know what you're getting at. I'm happy not to be particularly good at most games, but when it comes to quizzes, it somehow feels more irritating and almost more shameful not to be particularly good at them. To date, I've taken part in two challengequiz quizzes, came last in one of them and probably about last in the other. On almost all of the ones I haven't entered, I've only been able to get a very small number (sometimes less than 2) of questions right. However, the community userinfo does mention that most of the quizzes are expected to have winning scores of about half, and considering the calibre of the regular winners, I'm happy to be a very small fish in... well, in a small pond filled with fish of considerable magnitude. I'm also planning a Thoroughly Evil Game Show Quiz which will have just enough accessible-looking questions to hook the punters in and on which nobody will be able to actually score one-third marks. There will always be a place for you on my University-Challenge-like game Buzzer Quiz team (probably titled " We got one!") if you're interested and if there are ever enough people in the same place at the same time as one of the tournaments. Which could have been this weekend for their "trash bowl" pop culture quiz, but wasn't.
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From: j4 |
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November 30th, 2003 06:23 am (UTC)
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Re: I used to have a "Whittle" icon, you know
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when it comes to quizzes, it somehow feels more irritating and almost more shameful not to be particularly good at them
Hmmm, personally I'm so used to being crap at everything that I don't notice much qualitative difference in the types of crapness...
The annoying thing with the quizzes is that often I can half-remember the answer, or I can narrow it down to a couple of possible answers, and I could either guess or sit and worry about it for days and try to remember; but there doesn't seem to be much point when everybody else knows all the answers and will score higher without having to stress about it. Also, frankly, I can't be bothered to waste my life worrying about trivia which I could answer quite easily given 2 seconds of googling. I'd rather know how to find the answer than have my head full of garbage.
However, the community userinfo does mention that most of the quizzes are expected to have winning scores of about half
Yes, and it's a big fat lie, isn't it?
I'm also planning a Thoroughly Evil Game Show Quiz which will have just enough accessible-looking questions to hook the punters in and on which nobody will be able to actually score one-third marks.
Ughh. That sounds horrible to me, I'm afraid. I don't like participating in things where I'm expected to go through the whole thing with that sick feeling of "I can't even begin to do this." Maybe that's why I've never achieved anything worthwhile in my life, though; maybe I should want to do things that I'm guaranteed to fail miserably at. I believe it's supposed to be character-building.
There will always be a place for you on my University-Challenge-like game Buzzer Quiz team
Um, I'm sorry, but I would run a mile from that. I think this season I've been able to answer a sum total of about four questions on University Challenge. Most of the time I don't even understand the questions; they often leave me completely baffled as to even what type of answer is required. Being the token thicko for people to laugh at in a quiz full of intelligent people like you and your friends sounds like my idea of a living hell. :-(
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If I'd left school at age 16 and got a job, by now I'd probably be a really good checkout girl. Maybe I'd have even managed 'employee of the week'. And I'd quite probably be married with kids by now. ... I often wonder if I'd have been happier. I suspect I would have been. As it is, mostly I just wish I'd never been born.
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From: j4 |
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November 30th, 2003 06:47 am (UTC)
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Re: I used to have a "Whittle" icon, you know
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when it comes to quizzes, it somehow feels more irritating and almost more shameful not to be particularly good at them
Hmmm, personally I'm so used to being crap at everything that I don't notice much qualitative difference in the types of crapness...
The annoying thing with the quizzes is that often I can half-remember the answer, or I can narrow it down to a couple of possible answers, and I could either guess or sit and worry about it for days and try to remember; but there doesn't seem to be much point when everybody else knows all the answers and will score higher without having to stress about it. Also, frankly, I can't be bothered to waste my life worrying about trivia which I could answer quite easily given 2 seconds of googling. I'd rather know how to find the answer than have my head full of garbage.
However, the community userinfo does mention that most of the quizzes are expected to have winning scores of about half
Yes, and it's a big fat lie, isn't it?
I'm also planning a Thoroughly Evil Game Show Quiz which will have just enough accessible-looking questions to hook the punters in and on which nobody will be able to actually score one-third marks.
Ughh. That sounds horrible to me, I'm afraid. I don't like participating in things where I'm expected to go through the whole thing with that sick feeling of "I can't even begin to do this." Maybe that's why I've never achieved anything worthwhile in my life, though; maybe I should want to do things that I'm guaranteed to fail miserably at. I believe it's supposed to be character-building.
There will always be a place for you on my University-Challenge-like game Buzzer Quiz team
Um, I'm sorry, but I would run a mile from that. I think this season I've been able to answer a sum total of about four questions on University Challenge. Most of the time I don't even understand the questions; they often leave me completely baffled as to even what type of answer is required. Being the token thicko for people to laugh at in a quiz full of intelligent people like you and your friends sounds like my idea of a living hell. :-(
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If I'd left school at age 16 and got a job, by now I'd probably be a really good checkout girl. Maybe I'd have even managed 'employee of the week'. And I'd quite probably be married with kids by now. ... I often wonder if I'd have been happier. I suspect I would have been. As it is, mostly I just wish I'd never been born.
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