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Quote: a plate @ 16th October 2024, 1:43 AM

Quiz 328 by Hercules, look!

The only reason I knew the author of the book in question 3 was that I remembered you (Herc) mentioning it on the forum a while back!

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DOH!!

Nonetheless, well done! 😊

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 16th October 2024, 6:53 AM

Just 4/10 and 2/5 for me, Herc's definitely cranked up the hardness, as I used to score well on his quizzes. ☹️

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You can't have it easy every time, Alf - I like to test the grey matter 😁

Quote: Chris Hallam @ 16th October 2024, 7:02 AM

Good stuff!
7 out of 10, 3 out of 5

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Well done Chris!😊 Tick Gold Star

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 16th October 2024, 8:04 AM

6/10. Numbers 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 & 10 correct.

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Bunter, Bunter - you could do better, boy! I'll be writing in your end of term report "Must try harder" 🤔

Quote: Niki Walton @ 16th October 2024, 8:53 AM

7/10 and 2/5 for me today, a few comedy areas I've not really ventured into before in the quiz this time. Thanks Herc 🙂

Got 1-2, 4-5, 7, 9-10, 12, 14 correct.

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Thank you Niki, and well done! 😁

Quote: Michael Monkhouse @ 16th October 2024, 9:34 AM

3 and 1 but all guesses except the first and last one. Still, I suppose that knowing about Alan Partridge and George Harrison's chum and not knowing about Last of the Summer Wine is pretty cool.
I wish you'd stop encouraging me like that.

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Dirty boy! And I think you are a lost cause Michael 😏

There's still hope.

Quiz 329 from Alfred! I would describe it as "on the tricky side".
As in - I didn't know any of them! All guesses! F**ken 1/10! (got question 4).
Good luck peeps...

Yeah, that was hard (cue joke about my mother). Three and One and the only one I knew was 2 - hadn't even seen the show but I remember the controversy.
See you next wank.

Very tricky indeed! Just 5 out of 10 for me.
I found the bonus questions easier. 4 out of 5 there.

3/10. Numbers 1, 3 & 7.

And none of the alternatives in question 5 were actually acronyms. Just indecipherable initial letters. Just saying...

Fair point that, and I did at first try it with 'Which of these well used first letter abbreviations of...' but it looked clunky. Initialism is the correct term but there's no noun for it, so I hooked in acronym, but should have stuck with abbreviation. And doing all the other Qs took my mind off it. Oh well...

I thought you'd get a higher score, being around when most of these were on but I see you did get one few others did (using Mark's tool) Q7, the 2nd lowest scoring Q so well done. 👍

Good quiz this week AJK but I agree it was on the fiendish side! A few guesses in there but I managed 8/10 and 2/5.

Got 1-4, 6-9, 11 & 13 correct. The scoring thing on the webpage doesn't credit me as getting Q11 right, but scrolling down it's showing my correctly chosen answer in green, albeit with out the usual tick next to it.

And I knew Q3 because I have the same question (framed slightly differently) in my question bank! There's a lesson for me in that it's not always good to save these things to oneself.

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 23rd October 2024, 10:06 AM

Just indecipherable initial letters.

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No I think they're all recognisable shortenings of the titles you see a lot of in TV articles or forums, which is sort of why I (WRONGLY - slap, slap) thought acronym would do.

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 16th October 2024, 6:53 AM

Just 4/10 and 2/5 for me, Herc's definitely cranked up the hardness, as I used to score well on his quizzes. ☹️

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Oh, the effin' irony with 2/10 and 2/5 - that was bloody hard and I question a couple of the questions, which I am very surprised Mark let pass..........

10/. Postcode for Hounslow? Really? I thought this was a comedy quiz not a test your knowledge on geography or London postcodes and .......................

5/. the initials - I'm sayin' nothin', as Billy seems to have nailed it on the head 😕🤔🤪

And to quote you back - Morning

Quote: Niki Walton @ 23rd October 2024, 10:58 AM

Good quiz this week AJK but I agree it was on the fiendish side! A few guesses in there but I managed 8/10 and 2/5.

Got 1-4, 6-9, 11 & 13 correct. The scoring thing on the webpage doesn't credit me as getting Q11 right, but scrolling down it's showing my correctly chosen answer in green, albeit with out the usual tick next to it.

And I knew Q3 because I have the same question (framed slightly differently) in my question bank! There's a lesson for me in that it's not always good to save these things to oneself.

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But not too fiendish if you got 8/10. 😠 Bah. Funny, because I told Mark this was an easy one for the regulars here, with just a couple of head scratchers, which I thought would be 9&10, and maybe 7&8.

And yes that same thing with a similar Q appearing happens to me most weeks now, but I think they're still usable, with the passage of time. Hope people liked it, cheers.

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 23rd October 2024, 11:15 AM

5/. the initials - I'm sayin' nothin', as Billy seems to have nailed it on the head 😕🤔🤪

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How? Only in the sense the wrong term was used, not in the sense it's not a valid Q, I repeat that these shows' first letter abbreviations are used a lot instead of the full title, and are very recognisable to comedy consumers. I'm sure you're familiar with LOTSW being used?

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 23rd October 2024, 11:15 AM

Oh, the effin' irony with 2/10 and 2/5 - that was bloody hard

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Not for Niki.

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 23rd October 2024, 11:15 AM

10/. Postcode for Hounslow? Really? I thought this was a comedy quiz not a test your knowledge on geography or London postcodes and .......................

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Possibly belonged in the harder Bonus 5 but I thought it was too good to leave out of the ten. Tricky yes, but just needs working out, and most South Londoners would know Hounslow's a TW postcode and the answer's another very well used acr...1st letter abbreviation for the prog, so not everyone was excluded as you felt.

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 23rd October 2024, 10:49 AM

using Mark's tool

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Stop it.

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 23rd October 2024, 11:41 AM

Not for Niki.

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Just hit the right notes for Niki **, so that proves nothing as the 5 other regulars including me thought it was very hard

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 23rd October 2024, 11:41 AM

Possibly belonged in the harder Bonus 5 but I thought it was too good to leave out of the ten. Tricky yes, but just needs working out, and most South Londoners would know Hounslow's a TW postcode and the answer's another very well used acr...1st letter abbreviation for the prog, so not everyone was excluded as you felt.

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Yes, certainly should have been in the harder 5, which I'm surprised Mark didn't do, and cannot agree with you that it was "too good to leave out of the ten", and I didn't realise you could include regional questions - I'll bear that in mind when give some of mine with East Anglian references 😁

**So presumably Niki comes from Sarf London, then 🤪

Wouldn't surprise me, a lot of people do. And like with BB a lot of these Qs were from your era, so I can't think why you struggled with it. And didn't you work in London in the 60s? maybe you should've looked up at the street signs and you'd have been more familiar with the post codes. 👍

How did you do on Q14 btw? as I thought the only one on here who might know that one was you. And Billy but he doesn't do the Bonus 5. About 30% of quizzers have got that one right so far, which is more than I thought would.