Welcome to the Trivia Contest Forum [Archive]

solemn sistah

18 Nov 2008, 01:14 AM

"The study or collection of trivia is known as spermology, which literally means collection of seeds."
That's a wikipedia quote there.
Is there an ulterior motive? Subliminal messaging? Is the INTP male/female harem getting off the ground?
Nevermind..

Whats the colour of David Bowie's left eye?

rhinosaur

18 Nov 2008, 01:17 AM

:huh: For a second there I thought I was still talking to that God-bot.

MacGuffin

18 Nov 2008, 01:18 AM

The eye is blue, same as the right one, but it is injured.

LastRailway

2 Dec 2009, 10:16 PM

Any plans for a November contest?

PenguinHunter

3 Dec 2009, 09:50 AM

C.J. Woolf is cooking something up.

LastRailway

9 Sep 2010, 11:41 PM

Anyone wants to resurrect this? I think some of us lately have quite enough free time and quite not enough casino cash.

EDIT:
First one to answer is making questions.

rhinosaur

10 Sep 2010, 12:33 AM

I was actually thinking about that earlier today.

rhinosaur

10 Sep 2010, 12:35 AM

Although I hope you don't think I'm volunteering to make questions. :)

Fuck no edit!

LastRailway

10 Sep 2010, 01:29 AM

EDIT:
First one to answer is making questions.

Although I hope you don't think I'm volunteering to make questions. :)

Sorry!

(What you mean "no edit"? :happpy:)

MoneyJungle

10 Sep 2010, 01:30 AM

I'd be willing to run a game in the next couple of weeks, if no one else wants to.

Randall

10 Sep 2010, 01:38 AM

I'd be willing to run a game in the next couple of weeks, if no one else wants to.

Hooray! Trivia whores unite!

MoneyJungle

10 Sep 2010, 01:45 AM

Hooray! Trivia whores unite!

Don't you have enough casino cash, fat cat/goat. I'm not going to put anything together until I get some approval from the ivory mod tower to award casino skrilla for correct answers.

LastRailway

10 Sep 2010, 01:54 AM

I'd be willing to run a game in the next couple of weeks, if no one else wants to.

Great! We have our volunteer and a promise it'll be up before the end of September.

Don't you have enough casino cash, fat cat/goat. I'm not going to put anything together until I get some approval from the ivory mod tower to award casino skrilla for correct answers.

The idea was: $25 K to award to the participants and $25 K to me for remembering the existence of the trivia contest.

MoneyJungle

10 Sep 2010, 01:57 AM

Great! We have our volunteer and a promise it'll be up before the end of September.

Guaranteed. I can't guarantee much notice of when it weill appear.

The idea was: $25 K to award to the participants and $25 K to me for remembering the existence of the trivia contest.

The rich get richer. So can I just use the cc values from previous tournies (once you've greased your palm, of course, on this the day of my daughter's wedding).

MoneyJungle

10 Sep 2010, 01:57 AM

Two questions punctuated as statements today due to my inablity to edit my posts in this sub-forum.

LastRailway

10 Sep 2010, 02:27 AM

Not sure what you mean by cc values, but, sure, as long as I have my $25K, we got a deal.

Andantino

10 Sep 2010, 02:58 AM

I'm definitely in a trivia-tastic mood lately. I'm game.

C.J.Woolf

10 Sep 2010, 03:10 AM

The idea was: $25 K to award to the participants and $25 K to me for remembering the existence of the trivia contest.
You're shameless.

MoneyJungle

17 Sep 2010, 09:30 PM

I was wondering if any of you hard science types could send my a four or five ungoogleable (there must be a better word) math, physics or chemistry questions. I'm thinking either the evening of the 24th or all day (the day starts at noon, people) on the 25th PST for the game. Most likely the 25th.

MoneyJungle

18 Sep 2010, 06:18 AM

I'll take the lack of response to my previous post as an admission that none of you are qualified to talk about science on the 'net.

MoneyJungle

20 Sep 2010, 08:58 PM

(monster truck rally voice)
Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Noon PST.

Hermione

20 Sep 2010, 09:01 PM

Hot damn. Or something.

Ferrus

20 Sep 2010, 09:26 PM

Yippee. Et al.

It's been too long.

aelan

21 Sep 2010, 04:57 AM

I missed thissss!!!!

Will try be around for it :grin: Need more casino cashhhh!

aelan

22 Sep 2010, 08:37 AM

Just checked the world time converter, this is sunday morning 3am my time :cry:

jyng1

22 Sep 2010, 08:54 AM

Just checked the world time converter, this is sunday morning 3am my time :cry:

Wut? How does that work? It's 6.57 pm WEDNESDAY here.

MoneyJungle

22 Sep 2010, 09:25 AM

Just checked the world time converter, this is sunday morning 3am my time :cry:

I'll save some questions for later.

aelan

22 Sep 2010, 10:57 AM

Wut? How does that work? It's 6.57 pm WEDNESDAY here.

isn't pacific standard time 15 hours behind HK time, i.e. 25th saturday noon PST = 3am HK time? :huh:

anyway, :yay: moneyjungle!

MoneyJungle

25 Sep 2010, 07:33 PM

Could someone be so kind as to give me permission to edit in this subforum. Trivia starts in 90 minutes.

Hermione

25 Sep 2010, 07:37 PM

Could someone be so kind as to give me permission to edit in this subforum. Trivia starts in 90 minutes.
Srsly? Shit, I will prolly be late as usual then. Fail at points and competition. Well, hell. Always a participant never a scorer. fuck. I should rule though. lol [i suck at trivia, still]

Randall

25 Sep 2010, 08:06 PM

Could someone be so kind as to give me permission to edit in this subforum. Trivia starts in 90 minutes.

You should probably ask a madmin directly.

C.J.Woolf

25 Sep 2010, 09:06 PM

Hi, all. Sorry I'm late. I'm trying to remember how to set MJ's permissions. Hang in there.

MoneyJungle

25 Sep 2010, 09:09 PM

Hi, all. Sorry I'm late. I'm trying to remember how to set MJ's permissions. Hang in there.

And I thank you, sir. I'm trying to hastily assemble a trivia game, so it's all gravy.

C.J.Woolf

25 Sep 2010, 09:10 PM

MJ, I made you a moderator of the Trivia Contest subforum. See if that works for you.

MoneyJungle

25 Sep 2010, 09:12 PM

MJ, I made you a moderator of the Trivia Contest subforum. See if that works for you.

Yeah. That works. I'll have some questions up in a couple minutes. Thanks!

teleforce

25 Sep 2010, 09:34 PM

so tempting, ugh i shouldn't

is editing turned off? that's how it used to go.

LastRailway

6 Jan 2011, 12:01 AM

Anyone would be interested on a 2011 trivia?

I will even offer to host it. Though I don't really want to, so if someone else wants to, be my guest and thanks.

PenguinHunter

6 Jan 2011, 01:16 AM

Is there still casino cash or will we be playing for honor?

Ferrus

6 Jan 2011, 01:23 AM

Anyone would be interested on a 2011 trivia?

I will even offer to host it. Though I don't really want to, so if someone else wants to, be my guest and thanks.
I will be up for it. Not the hosting... feeling too depressed of late. Maybe if I win I would though.

LastRailway

6 Jan 2011, 01:26 AM

Is there still casino cash or will we be playing for honor?

$50K, as always.

I will be up for it. I'll also be extremely happy to host it.

Great! We got our host!

Ferrus

6 Jan 2011, 01:29 AM

Don't make me vilely abuse my powers and edit your post LastRailway to avoid any whiff of work. I will. Even if it costs me my modship and my life.

LastRailway

6 Jan 2011, 01:31 AM

Well, seeing as I can always edit it back... :P

PenguinHunter

6 Jan 2011, 01:32 AM

$50K, as always.

Is there still a casino? Or a place where we can see how much cash we have? I can't find either.

LastRailway

6 Jan 2011, 01:36 AM

There is a casino, but it sucks a bit right now:
http://forums.intpcentral.com/gameroom.php

Not that you can't lose some money to BlackJack if you want to.

OrionzRevenge

6 Jan 2011, 01:38 AM

The User Name Font-Color choice is still a cute perk.

PenguinHunter

6 Jan 2011, 01:39 AM

There is a casino, but it sucks a bit right now:
http://forums.intpcentral.com/gameroom.php

Not that you can't lose some money to BlackJack if you want to.

"You are either not logged in or do not have permissions to use this feature."

:(

How do I get there from the main forum page?

LastRailway

6 Jan 2011, 01:44 AM

"You are either not logged in or do not have permissions to use this feature."

:(

How do I get there from the main forum page?

Oh. Well, actually the casino cash field is gone from the profile too, so it should get fixed somehow to be able to give out casino cash.

There's no link either. I can use it no problem, however.

LastRailway

6 Jan 2011, 09:00 PM

Ok, so how about a trivia contest without casino cash? Only the purple username for the winner?

C.J.Woolf

6 Jan 2011, 10:54 PM

Ok, so how about a trivia contest without casino cash? Only the purple username for the winner?

We can always award cash but update it later when people can use it. In fact, I forgot to update the cash from the last game (:whistle:), but the posts are still there so I can do it any time (:whistle: again).

LastRailway

6 Jan 2011, 11:13 PM

We can always award cash but update it later when people can use it. In fact, I forgot to update the cash from the last game (:whistle:), but the posts are still there so I can do it any time (:whistle: again).

That'll work too.

Also, thanks for admitting that you won the last one and you'll be our host :p

C.J.Woolf

7 Jan 2011, 01:05 AM

That'll work too.

Also, thanks for admitting that you won the last one and you'll be our host :p

I thought I lost the tiebreaker. :P

LastRailway

17 Jun 2011, 07:18 PM

Okay, what if we nominate a volunteer and we get them to host a contest in July?

EDIT:
I'll nominate the first person I catch lurking in this thread.

PenguinHunter

17 Jun 2011, 08:42 PM

The problem is that we have nothing to award now that the Casino is closed.

I dunno if honor is enough to bring back the tradition.

LastRailway

17 Jun 2011, 09:02 PM

Ughh. Enabling the casino seems easy, but I'm sure it's not really that easy and I'm not sure I want to try.

rhinosaur

17 Jun 2011, 09:07 PM

It's probably easier than installing Win XP from a USB copy.

LastRailway

17 Jun 2011, 09:18 PM

Yeah, I've sort of given up on this, for now at least.

PenguinHunter

27 Jun 2011, 06:02 AM

Ok, I'm working on something now. Maybe there will be a July Trivia contest. I'm thinking a Saturday or Sunday afternoon somewhere towards the middle/end of the month will be most likely.

At the moment, the grand prize will be a hearty "Congratulations!" from me and a chance to wrangle up something for August.

LastRailway

28 Jun 2011, 10:16 PM

Great! I'll try to think of some sort of prize too (in case the fancy green username is not enough for the winner).

outmywindow

26 Oct 2011, 06:51 AM

I find myself hankering to proctor a trivia contest; I keep mentally storing tidbits of information in case the chance should arise. I see that Ferrus hasn't made any public mention of taking up the mantle, so...

What say you out in trivialand?

aelan

26 Oct 2011, 08:35 AM

WOOOT!

aelan

26 Oct 2011, 08:37 AM

dammit i cannot edit. I wanted to say, let's make the prizes more interesting. we used to have casino cash. but that's no longer working.

so what say you we get to haggle what we'd want if we win, out of the proctoress (is there such a word?) or any willing participant?

If so, I want a pair of acorn earrings from you. hehehe.

C.J.Woolf

26 Oct 2011, 04:07 PM

aelan

26 Oct 2011, 05:08 PM

DO IT

Please.

pfft. such a sub.

outmywindow

28 Oct 2011, 02:51 AM

PenguinHunter

28 Oct 2011, 02:56 AM

Yeah, I think Ferrus was hoping he could hog all the fuchsia to himself. What a jerk!

PenguinHunter

28 Oct 2011, 03:01 AM

Yay! I'll start writing it up and in a week or two will start a thread announcing the new contest. I liked PenguinHunter's plan of spreading the quiz out over several days -- it seemed to make things easier for him, and to give more people the opportunity to participate. I proctored a quiz once in one long go and it was way too much.

It worked ok, but mine was way too long. The first night was super active, but for the subsequent nights people already seemed a little trivia fatigued. You have to avoid a first night burnout somehow because there's just so much enthusiasm in that first round that it's unsustainable (or go for broke and blast trivia through the ceiling for an epic single day). . . 10-20 questions a day for a two or three days might be better. I'm not sure.

outmywindow

28 Oct 2011, 03:18 AM

It worked ok, but mine was way too long. The first night was super active, but for the subsequent nights people already seemed a little trivia fatigued. You have to avoid a first night burnout somehow because there's just so much enthusiasm in that first round that it's unsustainable (or go for broke and blast trivia through the ceiling for an epic single day). . . 10-20 questions a day for a two or three days might be better. I'm not sure.

I did the one-day thing once and it was exhausting, as much as something like that can be. I'll aim for 25 questions a day for three days, but it could be more depending on how much material I can gather.

PenguinHunter

28 Oct 2011, 03:49 AM

Oh, btw, just in case you hadn't heard. . . make sure you check any pictures you want to use against google image search. I had to redo some of my questions last time, because crafty ol' Google can conduct searches from images now.

aelan

28 Oct 2011, 04:07 AM

* OMW, i circumvented that problem by re-creating the pictures in some of the previous quizzes i proctored.

(i love that word)

LastRailway

3 Nov 2011, 05:17 PM

What? When? Who?

outmywindow

3 Nov 2011, 05:30 PM

Yeah, I'm a little behind in my question gathering. If I get my act together it might be the 13th, 14th, and 15th, unless I end up with jury duty on the 14th.

Or, I might flake out on this like everything else.

LastRailway

3 Nov 2011, 05:35 PM

Ask Ferrus to do half of the questions - it's his obligation, as the winner of past contest.

Oso Mocoso

3 Nov 2011, 05:39 PM

... unless I end up with jury duty on the 14th.

If you do end up with jury duty, I hope it's on a celebrity murder trial. I would love to read your account of that experience.

C.J.Woolf

3 Nov 2011, 06:33 PM

If you do end up with jury duty, I hope it's on a celebrity murder trial. I would love to read your account of that experience.

That's a sadistic wish. Celebrity murder trial jurors in California are virtual prisoners for months.

I'd love to read omw's account too.

outmywindow

3 Nov 2011, 07:00 PM

"And the Academy Award goes to DEATH: The Renee Zellweger Story -- How One Woman Won the Hearts of a Nation, and then Used those Hearts in Ritual Sacrifices to the Large Oscar Statue at the Kodak Theater."

I hereby preemptively sell the movie rights to either the Lifetime Channel or the Oprah Channel depending on where on the scale of salacious-to-sentimental the story is.