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4/6 here. Should have done better!

How'd you do?


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:40 am
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5/6 for me


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:43 am
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5/6


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:46 am
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5/6 only missed on 'Nomocracy'. Never heard of that before.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:46 am
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same as jojoA1


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:56 am
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5/6 - didn't know nomocracy


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:56 am
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5/6. Didn't know what 'scut' was (although most of it was educated guessing)


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:57 am
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6/6, top marks for me! 🙂
OK so I did Classics at school which probably helped with the Latin/Greek content in that lot. Doesn't explain why I ended up doing Chemistry though...


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:57 am
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never heard the Mauri word before but got the rest correct


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:06 am
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5/6

I've never seen the word 'pikau' before. Every day is a schoolday.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:07 am
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Swotty swotty Crazylegs!!! 😛


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:08 am
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4/6- first two wrong!


 
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another 5 out of 6


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:10 am
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5/6 too, never heard of Pikau either.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:12 am
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4/6, I'll live with it.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:15 am
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I was annoyed that I didn't get 'Nomocracy' as I have often seen 'Nomos Chania' or 'Nomos ...' in Greece and knew that they refer to administrative areas!

Last one stumped me though.

And 'pikau' was a quess - just sounded a bit New Zealand-esque.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:21 am
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Also 5/6, also got nomocracy wrong. Shame it wasn't longer - much better than all those stupid quizzes on facebook everyone is doing at the moment.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:27 am
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6/6 for me!


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:29 am
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6/6 Have to omit the Mauri one was a guess between NZ & India


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:32 am
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5/6. Got the last one wrong (spine).


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:33 am
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[i]6/6 Have to [b]omit[/b] the Mauri one was a guess between NZ & India [/i]

Oh, the irony 😉


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:34 am
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5/6 too, never heard of Pikau either


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:35 am
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6/6 Have to

[list]omit [/list]
the Mauri one was a guess between NZ & India

?


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:36 am
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5/6. Should have been 6 but I started to doubt myself on oscillating. Also never heard of Pikau but from the spelling it was obvious.


 
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6/6 Have to

omit
the Mauri one was a guess between NZ & India

?

admit


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:39 am
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4 out of 6.. with a bit of luck.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:40 am
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So we're all agreed that we all know far too much crap then?

It worries me that stuff like that takes space in my brain that could be used by more useful information. I don't need to know what country a pikau is from or what it is. But I do now. And a useful piece of knowledge has dropped out of the other side of my brain, like how much charge I've got left on my lights, or where I put my keys this morning.

(5/6, stupidly guessed the 1st question)


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:41 am
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Cleaned it!

and with guessing like that I'm off to put the pay cheque on a horse


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:49 am
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3/6 - sorry only went to a comprehensive school


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:58 am
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If you liked that then play http://www.freerice.com/ and help feed starving folk with every question you get right.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 12:35 pm
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[b]6/6[/b] ! But as with Crazy-Legs I attended a Grammar School that tought Latin & the classics.

And I also think that in this context Richie_B is perfectly fine with his use of [b]omit[/b] as what he is saying is that he wants to omit that result from his score?


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 1:42 pm
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2/6 what a thicko!


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 1:47 pm
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5/6, with a few educated guesses. Had no idea about 'pikau' though.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 1:50 pm
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If you liked that then play http://www.freerice.com/ and help feed starving folk with every question you get right.

Or alternatively starve them if you get the answers wrong.

Trivia quiz guilt.

(I think that there is something fundamentally wrong with the freerice quiz.)


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 1:54 pm
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'5-6: Gift of the gab'

First one wrong.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 5:29 pm