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Challenges: Year Long Main 2021
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2020 Twisted Trivia TEST
Am i supposed to mark my own questions - honestly i don't understand the spoilerMy cards
Janice wrote: "Rusalka wrote: "Makes me miss the Australian edition of Trivial Pursuit. .."I tried to get an edition that would be more global. I was disappointed when I saw how geared it was to the US."
I think it would be very hard not to. And also, there wasn't *that* much US centric stuff, it just seems that way to me as I am staring at those questions blankly. Just will have to do more reading ;)
But sounds like we all are, so yay!
And we don't want the Aussie version. Every sports question is usually about cricket, and none of us need that in our lives :P
Lol sounds like you had quite the party, Janenne. A tippler without all of us!
Lol, Rus. We’re staring at those questions blankly too! And some of them I really should know or even used to know.
Marie (UK) wrote: "Am i supposed to mark my own questions - honestly i don't understand the spoilerMy cards"
Marie, I took a peek at your personal created thread and it looks to me as if you are on the right track.
Now we wait until Janice tells us what to do next.☻
Margo wrote: "Well I was always hopeless at Trivial Pursuits and nothing has changed! On the first 10 cards I got 43% "yays" LOL"That is pretty good, Margo. I only got 30%.
Marie (UK) wrote: "i think this my challenge threadhttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."
Wow - You must be an expert, Marie! I did not get one card with 6/6 Yays, and you have several. I am in awe.
Marie (UK) wrote: "Am i supposed to mark my own questions - honestly i don't understand the spoilerMy cards"
Hi Marie - The spoilers are the answers to the questions. It is a test. You were supposed to copy all of the questions. Answer them, then look at the spoilers to see if you answered correctly. You are supposed to keep track of your Yay and Nay answers for the next part of the challenge.
Sandra wrote: "Janice wrote: "Yes, you'll be gophering for 180 books. And yes, I wrote 360 tasks. There may be duplicates but I tried really hard to make each one different."It is amazing how you overcome yours..."
Merci, mon amie! Hmm... I think I'll have mercy on myself next year and not get too ambitious.
Marie (UK) wrote: "i think this my challenge threadhttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."
Looks good!
Marie (UK) wrote: "Am i supposed to mark my own questions - honestly i don't understand the spoilerMy cards"
The spoiler is the answer. After you read the question and answer it (you don't need to write that down anywhere), then peek at the spoiler to see if you were right. If so, Yay! If not, then Nay!
Cherie wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "Am i supposed to mark my own questions - honestly i don't understand the spoilerMy cards"
Hi Marie - The spoilers are the answers to the questions. It is a test. You were supp..."
You don't need to copy the questions over. You just need to keep track of your Yah's and Nay's. You can come back to this thread to review the questions.
When I post the tasks, it will be identical to these except there will be a Yay task and a Nay task after each question and its spoiler.
I checked all my answers and did a quick count. I got 42.2% yay's (76 correct). I surprised myself a few times! My best topic was geography, with 19/30 correct. That's usually one of my better topics in the real game too. I think all my travelling pays off! The worst were sports and arts/literature, both 10/30. The others were 12 or 13.
Almeta wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "Am i supposed to mark my own questions - honestly i don't understand the spoilerMy cards"
Marie, I took a peek at your personal created thread and it looks to me as if you are..."
Thanks Almeta I was very tired last night and kept getting confused
Well living in Ireland was no help for anything! If we are getting nasty reads for the "nay" answers I'm in trouble 😨 I will have to join Jannenne for a truckload of aduld beverages! Maybe we could keep each other company over Skyp LOL
I did a little math and ended up with 48% correct 87/180 Yays.I think that will be a good balance for the challenge?!?
Best category was history at 70% - I'm glad that was my highest category since I am a retired history teacher - I didn't want to give back my degree :)
Jayme wrote: "Best category was history at 70% - I'm glad that was my highest category since I am a retired history teacher - I didn't want to give back my degree :)"lol, Jayme! I think that would be a little extreme. Made me giggle though.
Imagine if we all had to answer random trivia in our field in order to keep our degrees/jobs every year? That would be weird and super stressful, but we'd all know a lot of interesting stuff.
I'm happy we will know the tasks this weekend, but I am trying not to get distracted. In previous years I was so far from getting another badge in the current challenge that I just started gophering for the next and forget everything. This year I am actually close to get the second badge for the MM Challenge, so I promised myself that I will read the tasks to kill my curiosity, but I will not start gophering. We'll see if I can fulfill the promise...
Kristie wrote: "Imagine if we all had to answer random trivia in our field in order to keep our degrees/jobs every year?"One of my colleagues at work, who is a good friend, has this as her stress dream. She dreams she has to go back to high school and sit the HSC (the high school cert in her state), and fails, and they take away her degree, and her experience, and her job, as she is deemed a fraud.
I'm doing better than I expected, but also feel like a dummy for missing or skipping ones I should know! I'm terrible at Geography!
I'm not good at trivia at all - except literature and nature - but I'll give it a try.
Margo wrote: "Well living in Ireland was no help for anything! If we are getting nasty reads for the "nay" answers I'm in trouble 😨 I will have to join Jannenne for a truckload of aduld beverages! Maybe we could..."I am totally down on the adult beverages and Skype. I have Zoom to and that would be free. I wonder why I never thought about talking to Dom that way. Dom, how come we aren’t smarter??
I missed this year's challenge, but I want to give it another try next year...https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Jannene wrote: "I wonder why I never thought about talking to Dom that way."That is unforgivable!
I am going to finish answering mine tomorrow . I.asked Rob rhe questions I'd answered already .he got some i didn't and vice versa. Looking forward to the tasks.
I need to spend some time with it, but that probably won’t happen until the weekend for me. It’s our Thanksgiving tomorrow, so I’m cooking and cleaning today. That works for me though because I won’t have to wait long, if at all, after I’m done before I can gopher. :)
Jannene wrote: "Margo wrote: "Well living in Ireland was no help for anything! If we are getting nasty reads for the "nay" answers I'm in trouble 😨 I will have to join Jannenne for a truckload of aduld beverages! ..."Jannene, to much time reading, too little time thinking 😂
Jannene wrote: "Margo wrote: "Well living in Ireland was no help for anything! If we are getting nasty reads for the "nay" answers I'm in trouble 😨 I will have to join Jannenne for a truckload of aduld beverages! ..."I don't know, but I was thinking about that last week. How come we never faced time.. we're dummies or maybe too much beverages??!!
Kristie wrote: "I need to spend some time with it, but that probably won’t happen until the weekend for me. It’s our Thanksgiving tomorrow, so I’m cooking and cleaning today. That works for me though because I won..."Happy Thanksgiving to all in US!
I have 10 cards left to go. I think I'm getting less than 50% on most. My highest are probably science and literature. Makes sense as I was a scientist who read a lot!
I've started asking questions I think I know the answer to but can't remember to Lexx, who hates trivia, who just sits there and glares at me, which seems to make me remember.I think I am enjoying this process much more than him lol
Happy thanksgiving all who are celebrating!!
Whose idea was this trivia game, anyway? I only have 39% correct.
Ignorance is bliss...I refuse to figure out my percentage.
Janice wrote: "Whose idea was this trivia game, anyway? I only have 39% correct."lol
Jannene wrote: "Ignorance is bliss...I refuse to figure out my percentage."I don't plan to do mine either. Yikes...
I did it, but I don't plan to share it. :D
Janice wrote: "Whose idea was this trivia game, anyway? I only have 39% correct."*snort* I hate it when our challenges bite us!
Janice wrote: "Whose idea was this trivia game, anyway? I only have 39% correct."I got 38.33%. I felt I was doing much better when I was answering them...
I’m with Sandra. I know my percentage but it’s to sad to share :D
Rusalka wrote: "I've started asking questions I think I know the answer to but can't remember to Lexx, who hates trivia, who just sits there and glares at me, which seems to make me remember.I think I am enjoyin..."
Same! As soon as I started asking a question out loud, I was not even finished and the answer just came to me.
Sandra wrote: "I'm happy we will know the tasks this weekend, but I am trying not to get distracted. In previous years I was so far from getting another badge in the current challenge that I just started gopherin..."I already lost a whole evening of reading to answering the questions, so I see your point ;-) Part of me is hoping the challenge will be posted when I wake up on Saturday so that I can gopher all weekend. Another part of me thinks it might be better posted on Sunday evening so that my reading won't suffer. But then if it's Sunday evening I'd have to wait until Friday before I can start, which is a very long time... Sunday morning Dutch time would be perfect!
Peggy wrote: "Sunday morning Dutch time would be perfect!"I'd prefer Saturday evening Finnish time. That way I could have a glass (or two) of wine while gophering, it helps immensely.
Oh my, poor Janice. We are a picky bunch. :D
Yikes! I'm thinking Saturday morning my time (MST). Do you think that's too early to start drinking? I might need a bottle of wine. I just had a flash back to a dream I had last night. I was drinking Jim Beam Black Cherry Bourbon Whiskey. Hmm... wonder why I was dreaming that. There is a bottle in my fridge staying nice and cold. I could sip while I post?
Lol! Should be fine for the Europeans among us ;-)
ha ha, nothing like starting early Janice :-DLove the new user pick!
Margo wrote: "ha ha, nothing like starting early Janice :-DLove the new user pick!"
Thanks! I realized I had to say goodbye to Marilyn and find an avatar to match the theme.
As my sailor father would say, if the sun is over the yard mast!Never been on a proper boat for more than a few hours, but I know that means about 11am ;)
It might be a wee bit earlier than 11:00.
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Lol!