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I'm with stupid 2021 - Game 8 (Fin)
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| knockout |
Posted on 03-02-2021 15:05
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I prefer more open questions but mixing in some closed question where its hard to predict which answer will be the top answer can be good too. Also i'd suggest to keep the topics of the questions quite broad so that everyone has some ideas about most of the questions instead of going too specific. But your questions so far have been good  |
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Posted on 23-11-2024 13:35
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| Shonak |
Posted on 03-02-2021 18:58
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Also prefer more open questins. Also people not knowing Taylor Swift lol there is a life outside of cycling you know 
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| jseadog1 |
Posted on 03-02-2021 19:36
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One of the most interesting aspects of the game is the country/regional differences. Many questions will have dramatically different answers based on where you are from.
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 03-02-2021 20:30
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Thanks for the feedback, guys Glad that the questions generally work for you. I'll try to keep it in a similar way, maybe with some more limited Qs along the way. Only one set of answers is still pending for round 3, pretty happy with how things turned out again.
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Posted on 04-02-2021 12:59
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I'm with stupid 2021 - Game 1, Round 3
I feared that two answers would dwarf every other this round and they were indeed the most named for their respective question, but in the end, this was the round where the top answer was for the fewest points compared to the others.
1. Name an invention that changed the world.
The first of those two answers was the top answer for Q1: The Internet. I was on the verge of excluding that as a possible answer, but in the end, it "only" got you 8 points. 4 went for the wheel, 2 for Light Bulb and the Computer - shockingly, only 1 for the steam engine, which I thought would be the internet's biggest competitor.
Spoiler | Internet | 8 | | Wheel | 4 | | Computer | 2 | | Light Bulb | 2 | | Horseback riding | 1 | | Machine Gun | 1 | | Smartphone | 1 | | Steam Engine | 1 | | Telephone | 1 |
2. Name an event that changed the world.
The second answer I was afraid of was the biggest of this round, but compared to the maximum of 12 points in the two previous rounds, this still was modest with 9 points awarded for 9/11. Covid-19 was worth 5 points, World War II 3.
Spoiler | 9/11 | 9 | | Covid-19 Pandemic | 5 | | World War II | 3 | | Assassination of F. Ferdinand | 1 | | Fall of the Berlin Wall | 1 | | Miracle on the Vistula | 1 | | Silk Road Expansion | 1 |
3. Name a war other than World War I and II.
Two main answers here: Vietnam (6) and the Cold War (5). Only 2 specifically European wars were mentioned, each for 2 points: The 30 Years' War and the 100 Years' War. Another 2 points for the Gulf War. Special mention for the Emu War, which jandal7 introduced me to on his quest for 5 points.
Spoiler | Vietnam | 6 | | Cold War | 5 | | 30 Years' War | 2 | | 100 Years' War | 2 | | Gulf War | 2 | | Emu War | 1 | | War of 1812 | 1 | | War on Terror | 1 |
4. Name a woman that is considered to be of historic importance.
Another two major answers: Taking the top spot is Jeanne d'Arc with 6 points, which I found particularly amusing after one contestant predicted just that before declaring her unimportant and going with someone else. Marie Curie got you 5 points, Rosa Parks 2, then an array of 1 pointers including no less than 3 British Queens.
Spoiler | Jeanne d'Arc | 6 | | Marie Curie | 5 | | Rosa Parks | 2 | | Ada Lovelace | 1 | | Angela Merkel | 1 | | Cleopatra | 1 | | Margeret Thatcher | 1 | | Mother Teresa | 1 | | Queen Elizabeth I | 1 | | Queen Elizabeth II | 1 | | Queen Victoria | 1 |
5. Name a man that is considered to be of historic importance.
You went the villainous route, with Adolf Hitler being the runaway winner for 6 points, although more than one of you noted that they weren't too comfortable with that answer. No one else with more than 2, those 2 points were for Donald Trump, Napoleon Bonaparte, Martin Luther King and Julius Cesar. The most convincing answer, in my opinion at least, came from quadsas though, who entirely accurately named matt17br.
Spoiler | Adolf Hitler | 6 | | Donald Trump | 2 | | Julius Cesar | 2 | | Napoleon Bonaparte | 2 | | Martin Luther King | 2 | | Abraham Lincoln | 1 | | Christopher Columbus | 1 | | George Washington | 1 | | Ho Chi Min | 1 | | matt17br | 1 | | Sun Tzu | 1 | | Winston Churchill | 1 |
Standings
Missing a perfect round by just a single point, Croatia14 secures his second round victory and it's the most dominant one yet: 6 points ahead of alexkr00, who scored 28, and 8 points ahead of Shonak, who's in third place with 26 points. Marcovdw was close behind with 25.
Only five points seperate ranks 5 and 17, so a very stacked midfield, but a few people were at the bottom with some distance. LLDS unfortunately didn't send his answers in, jandal7 succeeded in getting 5 points. bbl on the other hand had his worst fears confirmed and didn't hit the taste of this (presumably) mostly European crowd, scoring more than 2 points on only one answer. The same is true for Ripley and SS2Luigi as well, although the latter also gave some voluntarily "risky" answers.
After a mediocre round, knockout cedes the overall lead to Marcovdw who now leads by 2, but the two of them seperate even more from the rest of the contestants. It's six points to round 1 winner Nemolito, who shares his third place with kandesbunzler26. Close behind are FreitasPCM, alexkr00, Bikex and now also Croatia14.
All six of them are within three points of each other and also likely the only ones still in position to challenge for the overall win, as Vali already has a 15 point deficit on Marcovdw and Kiserlovski01 follows another 4 points behind. TMM has left the last spot, where his spiritual successor jandal7 now sits. Of the three newcomers who didn't play round 1, Shonak is the closest to catching up with the rest of the group.
I'm with stupid 2021: cunego59's Round 4
Geography
1. Name a country with a generally warm climate.
2. Name a country with a generally cold climate other than Russia.
3. Name a country with a high population density.
4. Name a country with a low population density other than Russia.
5. Name a country with a colorful flag.
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Posted on 04-02-2021 13:04
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Wheel was a good one, I should've thought of that. Steam Engine naturally being the other obvious choice. Also very impressive that two other people went for queens, but for those that are completely irrelevant compared the ma gurl Vicky.
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Posted on 04-02-2021 13:16
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That was a pretty terrible round by me, at least the two answers that i felt the most confident about ended up saving me. I didnt even think about the Internet, it was so obvious to me that the wheel would be the best answer to give. |
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Posted on 04-02-2021 13:26
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if only I knew something about cycling...
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Posted on 04-02-2021 13:29
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Luckily I'm a cycling expert... |
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Posted on 04-02-2021 13:29
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Man I thought about Hitler but decided to go against ultra villainous people.  |
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Posted on 04-02-2021 13:41
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There was definitely a reason i wrote Berlin Wall and not 9/11, but i cannot remember what it was
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Posted on 04-02-2021 13:46
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I'm disappointed by the other players. The Cold War technically wasn't a war, other events were more world changing than 9/11 and choosing Hitler as the man of historic importance... fuck that guy.
The wheel might be a bit overrated, cultures in the Americas did pretty well without inventing it (or at least using it).
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Posted on 04-02-2021 14:01
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Tying to help Americans by picking American answers for the last two, but the Americans gave European answers
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Posted on 04-02-2021 14:28
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Ripley wrote:
The wheel might be a bit overrated, cultures in the Americas did pretty well without inventing it (or at least using it).
Their exctintion certianly is a testament to the contrary.
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Posted on 04-02-2021 15:02
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Sorry cunego59, I had a few full days at work, I missed daily forum visits.
cunego59 wrote:
I'm with stupid 2021 - Game 1, Round 3
I feared that two answers would dwarf every other this round and they were indeed the most named for their respective question, but in the end, this was the round where the top answer was for the fewest points compared to the others.
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Posted on 04-02-2021 15:16
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Absolutely horrendous round for me. Every single answer sucked. I went with computer because it seemed easiest to conceive of as a physical invention, but Internet won the day. I avoided Vietnam specifically thinking Europeans wouldn't care and got burned. Thought recency bias would give Covid-19 the edge, but 9/11 was the obvious choice. And I definitely was not expecting Joan of Arc to win for women, I thought my audience would mean Elizabeth would be the easy answer. Choosing Caesar over Hitler is pure stupidity on my part, no question.
At least my prediction that I would be bad was correct.
Well, now that I've been embarrassed in my field of study, I guess human geography is the next subject to be terrible at.
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Posted on 04-02-2021 15:31
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LLDS wrote:
Sorry cunego59, I had a few full days at work, I missed daily forum visits.
Don't worry about it Feel free to continue in Round 4, you're not the only one missing one.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 04-02-2021 16:39
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9/11? Come on guys. The World's most important event was mentioned in the very next question
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 04-02-2021 18:13
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A philosophical side-question raised by question 1 (round 3):
Which invention was more important for an online-forum of a cycling-game: The internet or the wheel?
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| quadsas |
Posted on 04-02-2021 18:19
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kandesbunzler26 wrote:
A philosophical side-question raised by question 1 (round 3):
Which invention was more important for an online-forum of a cycling-game: The internet or the wheel?
Only one could exist without the other, so it's hardly a tough question.
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