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| Slapshot 3 |
The Cycling Revealed Trivia Quiz 2011-2012Got the email......it's back!!http://www.cyclingrevealed.com/trivia/triviaindex.htm However, technical issues mean that we won't see the first two quizzes until next Monday, 14th of November (another week to study..  ). For any noobs, this is what keeps our minds ticking over between Lombardia and Het Volk (okay Het Neuiwsblad) and is a good bit of fun, I would encourage everyone to join in.
(I'll leave this as a sticky for the period of the quiz then let it drift come March) |
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| Bartali |
Bring it on .... | ||||||
| MAILLOT JAUNE |
What a brilliant surprise to see the Quiz back - I'd forgotten all about it but am sooooooooooooo snowed under at work that I might not have enough time to do it, but have fun and thanks again to Barry Boyce for organising it! Keep up the good work. | ||||||
| Bartali |
Wow you must be snowed MJ. It only takes 3 mins max per week. | ||||||
| Slapshot 3 |
They are there....anyone?? | ||||||
| Fontfroide |
6.
I think I have begun as I will be carrying on. Doubt if I will post until I get a decent score, or at least feel a little less than ignorant. I just don't know those facts. |
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| Fontfroide |
mistake | ||||||
| Slapshot 3 |
15 and 15, second one was easy, Q5 on the first made me think! | ||||||
| SlowRower |
13 last week. 14 this week. | ||||||
| kathy |
9 1st week, 14 second week. Apart from the fact that I'd never heard of Q3 weej 2, the rest of it was really easy! Week 2that is! | ||||||
| Nolte |
15 and 15 | ||||||
| nicedommie |
8 and 11 | ||||||
| Slapshot 3 |
See Nolte gets a special mention in Barry's email.... Ill have a crack in a wee while
------------------- EDIT - couple of tricky ones, one huge guess that made me sweat, worked out okay though, 15. |
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| kathy |
Yeah, a couple of 'educated' guesses, but scored 15! | ||||||
| Nolte |
yes I just got lucky with the first two batches of questions 11 this week. |
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| SlowRower |
15 for me. Educated guess on Q4. | ||||||
| Slapshot 3 |
Yeah....lucky one for me as well! |
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| kathy |
And me!  Quite frankly, I hadn't a clue! But usually when I guess it's wrong, so I ought to get lucky sometimes 
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| nicedommie |
i confess to scoring 1 on the latest quiz. so noone else should ever be embarrassed!
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| SlowRower |
15 for me. The "Guessing Gods" are on my side this year so far. They usually are pre-Christmas, after which things go badly wrong. 
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| Slapshot 3 |
Look at it this evening.... | ||||||
| Slapshot 3 |
Four was a guess.........but 15 | ||||||
| Nolte |
i got 10 which is a surprise. I was expecting 11. | ||||||
| bbnaz |
well I am bumping along at the bottom as usual however did do well on Week 2.
Anybody want to loan me their guessing cube? |
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| Slapshot 3 |
Ive decided to do a Bart and be enigmatic....not telling scores... That is tough, you either know them or crash and burn, be interesting to see some of the scores this week! | ||||||
| SlowRower |
15 for me. Educated guesses on #1 and #3. | ||||||
| Nolte |
ouch, 5 and happy to have got it 
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| kathy |
I got 7 - knew one of them and guessed the rest, so must have guessed one right!
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| kathy |
I take it that means you didn't score 15 this week 
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| Slapshot 3 |
Well, just wait and see when the scores come out next week....
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| nicedommie |
i've given up, they are too hard for me | ||||||
| gerry12ie |
Great week for me - a distinction in my fourth year of an Art History Degree and my first 15 in the quiz 
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| Bartali |
Good work Gerry! | ||||||
| Slapshot 3 |
Congrats.. |
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| Bartali |
I'm definitely being enigmatic this week .... | ||||||
| SlowRower |
Come on guys. Spill the beans. Enigma is one thing, but depriving spectators of the result until a month after the event is just not cricket.
Unintentional irony there. It might not be cricket, but it is cycling, as we still don't know for sure who will ultimately end up as the winner of the Tour in 1999-2005 and 2010... |
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| SlowRower |
Indeed. But did you get the order of importance right in your post?
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| Slapshot 3 |
Oh awwwww right then....... 15 | ||||||
| SlowRower |
Not if we appeal to CAS...
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| Bartali |
I'm not sure how one could possibly 'know' No.3 despite the clues ... though I can see how one could be elimnated and an educated guess taken on the other three. 
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| gerry12ie |
Alas no. I felt that if I mentioned that I put up the Ikea curtain track system on my own this week (level, parallel and even) that it would be a bridge to far for belief
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| kathy |
Just done this week's.
Anyone who doesn't get 15 this week should be ashamed of his/herself. (I did get 15 )
Who is SrPedro in the JC standings? |
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| nicedommie |
i was pleased to get 13. SirPedro is my son. |
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| Nolte |
15
some trickyish ones but most were obvious |
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| Bartali |
No need to be enigmatic this week. 15 + 5 for the bonus question!
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| gerry12ie |
Bonus question??? | ||||||
| Bartali |
Just my little joke Gerry!
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| gerry12ie |
15
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| fede40 |
I got 14
wonder which one I got wrong... I thought I knew all of them... and hi all... I know I haven't been posting in a long long time, but still follow the forum, for some reason i've been busier actually being on my bike rather than writing about it... I like to think it's a good thing
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| Slapshot 3 |
Good to hear from you Fede, hope you are well. |
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| fede40 |
Hi slapshot, yep all good thanks! and finally using my bike for more than just commute, in june I'm taking part to a London to Paris charity ride! and for my cycling standards that's basically a TdF!
but don't want to hijack this thread
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| SlowRower |
15 for me. My only disappointment was that none of MJM's nicknames for riders featured. That would have livened things up.
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| Nolte |
i got 3 today. fiddlesticks. | ||||||
| kathy |
I got the first 3 right, and guessed the other two - wrongly! So 6 only
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| SlowRower |
11. 50% hit rate on guesses on the final 2 questions. | ||||||
| Slapshot 3 |
Lucky educated guess on 5 otherwise okay | ||||||
| gerry12ie |
Unlucky miseducated guess on 5  11
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| Bartali |
Hard one to finish December!!! | ||||||
| gerry12ie |
A disastrous 3 which I am blaming my christmas present new trackpad for as I am sure I had 4 answers right at least
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| kathy |
The season, as usual, goes downhill! 3 for me as well 
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| Nolte |
i got 8 on this one. i guess my guess on question 5 was a lucky guess. | ||||||
| kathy |
I loved the first quiz of the New Year
(PS - I scored 15) |
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| Nolte |
i got 12 this one,. | ||||||
| gerry12ie |
A traditional mouse yielded 11
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| SlowRower |
3 and 15 for the festive period quizzes. Surprised I got as many as three for the first one! | ||||||
| Nolte |
i got 10 today
I don't know whether that's ok or bad |
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| Bartali |
I had to think long and hard about some of those ...
Anyway 10 is 67% Nolte ... that's a pass in my book!
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| kathy |
I got 9 on this one. | ||||||
| Bartali |
Still a pass Kathy
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| kathy |
How do you think long and hard? You only get 2 minutes! That's what bugs me - the time limit. I tend to answer without thinking sometimes, and say I'll go back to the ones I'm not sure about - but I never do! |
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| Slapshot 3 |
I think Bart's playing some of his mind games again...
With those quickies we get I think you either know or don't know and if you don't it's a guess, two minutes is not a long time!! |
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| Bartali |
Eight seconds a question can be a very long time if you are answering some of them in one or two seconds. But I take your point ... maybe think hard, but not for too long!
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| gerry12ie |
I got a malicious software warning on the quiz page today (in work on a PC with Firefox) and again tonight on the Mac with Safari. Anyone try it? | ||||||
| Slapshot 3 |
No technical probs for me this afternoon when I did the quiz | ||||||
| Nolte |
i got the same. i use firefox |
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| kathy |
I use Firefox and didn't have any problems - didn't help me with the quiz though 
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| Nolte |
got 6 now. | ||||||
| SlowRower |
12 last week. 7 this week. Ran out of time just as I was about to answer q5 this week. | ||||||
| Nolte |
i scored 8 today. could have been 6 though.
i also don't like the look of next week's. barry usually does a very hard one on the fifth week of a month |
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| kathy |
I got 9 today - but I'm a bit confused, because I knew Q5, so by my reckoning I must have got Q2 wrong! | ||||||
| Nolte |
i do think Q5 was easier than usual for a question 5. |
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| kathy |
Don't be mean, Nolte  I'm just pleased to get a Q5 correct occasionally.
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| Nolte |
so am I
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| Nolte |
got 10 this week | ||||||
| Nolte |
Boonen takes the final stage in San Luis ahead of Andrea Guardini and Maximilliano Richeze (contrary to what i said previously, he's riding this race for the argentinian national squad)
Leipheimer took the overall ahead of contador. In 3rd, Daniel Diaz, 4th Schumacher and 5th was Vincenzo Nibali |
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| Bartali |
All these drug busts are playing havoc with the weekly quiz - difficult to keep track of who won what and when ..... | ||||||
| Nolte |
Q8 was really difficult
got 15 though. |
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| Nolte |
i got 7 points this week, the 3rd question and the super secret bonus question. | ||||||
| SlowRower |
19 for me.
The "Force" was with me on a couple of guesses. |
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| kathy |
I got 9, which included the bonus question which was easy. | ||||||
| Nolte |
7 today.
ouch, i thought they were tough. |
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| Slapshot 3 |
BUGGER!!!!!! 13...Okay Bart...all yours | ||||||
| Fontfroide |
Damn, I thought you guys were going to have a draw, and then we could do some kind of Skype conference with live questions. Still, I have no idea how you could know all those answers. I suspect use of performance enhancing substances of some kind, legal or not. I don't think an ordinary person can know that much, with all those dates.
But, although some might mock it, I felt a tiny bit of pride when I saw your names at the top. Respect. |
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| gerry12ie |
Yes indeed +1 
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| Slapshot 3 |
Look boys....being a complete Geek isn't all its cracked up to be..
Trust me it's all books, I read voraciously, in fact adorning the downstairs bookcase right now (wifes wicker thingy in the bog) are three book ..... on is the memoirs of Dick Winters (Band of Brothers) Fallen Angel, Will Fotheringhams bio of Fausto Coppi (2nd copy, worn the first one out) and Sex Lies and Handlebar tape, the recent bio of Maitre Jacques. When I get something in my head, like this quiz, I can't let go until I've won it...problem is though that if i now can't win it this year it wont be next year. Thing is if Bart can hold on and take it, I'll be as ecstatic about Bart winning and JC being at the top of the table. |
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| maffy |
dunno about that. vaguely looked at winter-quiz a couple of years back and anyfolks wot do consistently well are super excellent. read all those books too, but it didn't make me timed-quiz-good.
no pressure, bart
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| SlowRower |
A feeble 6 this week. That's barely a GCSE pass standard.
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| kathy |
Damn! Couldn't remember the last one, so only got 10!! I was worried, because Barry said March would be tough, but I thought today was quite easy. | ||||||
| Slapshot 3 |
I'll see it tonight....was thouroughly hacked off when I read the email...
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| SlowRower |
15 for me.
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