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dubdobdeeMORE OR LESS UNCHANGING RUBRIC: welcome for the somethingth year running to the LJ wing of a quiz** sat by by some lucky schoolkids*** somewhere and etc blah blah: viz 18 themed sets of 10 questions each -- a new one every day (probably)!!
*= latin for: "real actual knowledge is knowin how to google**** stuff" <-- haha i always say this
**as published every year in the guardian just before xmas (answers some time in the new year)
***all the boys of king williams school on the isle of man sit it sight unseen then take the paper home during holidays and look stuff up to increase their score and retake it (or this used to happen in the Olden Days, for all I know Ofsted has now shut the school)
****the setters used to claim they've checked nothing is INSTANTLY googleable...
1:
1: What are diamonded with panes of quaint device?
2: What tale began with serious problems for a scorpion?
3: What made Diamond's eyes lustrous with desire in the Lodi Gardens?
4: What stolen Crown diamond was retrieved during a rendering of the Hoffman Barcarolle?
5: Who, in a way emulated Gibbon, but substituted a Third Chimpanzee for the Roman Empire?
6: What title embraced studies, amongst others, of a walking talking killing machine, a hell fighter, the time-warp tough guy and an honourable man?
7: What was queried as an alternative to suffocation with cassia or a fatal shooting with pearls?
8: What diamond was kept by the knight to the disadvantage of the rogue?
9: What blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalolopolis?
10: What was the eye in Aurangzeb's peacock throne?
the rules:
a: nice full answers (and anecdotes!) if/where poss
b: plz to say whether googled or no, and always leave reasonable time for non-googlers to get their guesses in (ie at least till next question goes up)
c: obviously you can look ahead at future questions if you want (ie elsewhere on internet) since how can we stop you?
d: plz to not bring in confirming and/or dissenting answers from other fora until next question is up and running
*= latin for: "real actual knowledge is knowin how to google**** stuff" <-- haha i always say this
**as published every year in the guardian just before xmas (answers some time in the new year)
***all the boys of king williams school on the isle of man sit it sight unseen then take the paper home during holidays and look stuff up to increase their score and retake it (or this used to happen in the Olden Days, for all I know Ofsted has now shut the school)
****the setters used to claim they've checked nothing is INSTANTLY googleable...
1:
1: What are diamonded with panes of quaint device?
2: What tale began with serious problems for a scorpion?
3: What made Diamond's eyes lustrous with desire in the Lodi Gardens?
4: What stolen Crown diamond was retrieved during a rendering of the Hoffman Barcarolle?
5: Who, in a way emulated Gibbon, but substituted a Third Chimpanzee for the Roman Empire?
6: What title embraced studies, amongst others, of a walking talking killing machine, a hell fighter, the time-warp tough guy and an honourable man?
7: What was queried as an alternative to suffocation with cassia or a fatal shooting with pearls?
8: What diamond was kept by the knight to the disadvantage of the rogue?
9: What blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalolopolis?
10: What was the eye in Aurangzeb's peacock throne?
the rules:
a: nice full answers (and anecdotes!) if/where poss
b: plz to say whether googled or no, and always leave reasonable time for non-googlers to get their guesses in (ie at least till next question goes up)
c: obviously you can look ahead at future questions if you want (ie elsewhere on internet) since how can we stop you?
d: plz to not bring in confirming and/or dissenting answers from other fora until next question is up and running
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Date: 2012-12-30 01:25 pm (UTC)