First of all a very big thank you to Trek for organising the second round of this edition. Some interesting questions on all kind of subjects And of course to winner cunego a big congratulations as well. Will try to work on R1 asap
Umm, so I kind of forgot about this. I don't have time to do the round recap today, so if anyone still wants to join, you have until tomorrow sometime around noon!
1. Name a rider who has won a Grand Tour in the 90s.
2. Name a rider who has won at least two monument titles in the 2000s (can be the same monument twice).
3. Name a rider who has won either the Men's Elite Road Race or the Men's Elite Time Trial of the World Championships at least twice in the 21st century.
4. Name a (non-NC) race held on the African continent that had at least one European PCT or CT team competing in 2023.
5. Name one of the European PCT or CT teams that have competed in those races.
Not a huge turnout, and quite a few only going for the high round, so not a ringing endorsement of going for a at least partly google-heavy set of questions Still, here are the results:
1. Name a rider who has won a Grand Tour in the 90s.
Some variation in the high round with Miguel Indurain as the best answer, taking 3 of a maximum of 7 points. Just 4 participants in the low round, but all managed to give a different answer.
High
Low
Miguel Indurain
3
Ivan Gotti
1
Lance Armstrong
2
Tony Rominger
1
Jan Ulrich
1
Abraham Olano
1
Marco Pantani
1
Pavel Tonkov
1
2. Name a rider who has won at least two monument titles in the 2000s (can be the same monument twice).
Perhaps I should have seen this coming: There was only a single answer in the high round: Tom Boonen. On the contrary, again all different answers for the low round.
High
Low
Tom Boonen
7
Oscar Freire
1
Erik Zabel
1
Peter Van Petegem
1
Fabian Cancellara
1
3. Name a rider who has won either the Men's Elite Road Race or the Men's Elite Time Trial of the World Championships at least twice in the 21st century.
The second overwhelming top answer of the round: Peter Sagan is mentioned 6 out of 7 times. Bad luck for TMM, who went with Oscar Freire instead. Oscar Freire was also the suboptimal answer in the low round, giving us the first (and only) double of this round. jandal's answer of Remco Evenepoel didn't really meet what the question was going for (winning one of the two twice), but I guess there's some ambiguity left in the question so it's fine in my book.
High
Low
Peter Sagan
6
Oscar Freire
2
Oscar Freire
1
Remco Evenepoel
1
Michael Rogers
1
4. Name a (non-NC) race held on the African continent that had at least one European PCT or CT team competing in 2023.
Two main answers in the high round, both giving 3 points: La Tropicale Amissa Bongo and the Tour du Rwanda. Unfortunately, I can't accept kandesbunzler's answer of Tour du Faso in the low round, since this race hasn't been held yet in 2023, either in real life or the MG, and the question is specifically looking for a race already held this year.
High
Low
Tour du Rwanda
3
Tour du Faso
5
Tropicale Amissa Bongo
3
Grand Prix du Trone
1
Tour du Maroc
1
Tour du Rwanda
1
Grand Prix de la Famille Royal
1
5. Name one of the European PCT or CT teams that have competed in those races.
One answer gives good points here, and that's TotalEnergies for 4. Good guess by knockout with Xero, though. 1 point for everyone in the low round again.
High
Low
TotalEnergies
4
Bike Aid
1
Israel Premiertech
1
Dukla Banska Bystrica
1
Xero
1
Direct Energie
1
Nice Metropole
1
Universe Cycling Team
Full Score - High Round
jandal takes an early lead with a perfect round, but it's still very close. Only TMM is a bit behind due to missing out on Peter Sagan.
Full Score - Low Round
kandesbunzler is hit hard by the invalid answer of the Tour du Faso, otherwise not much to distinguish the other players here.
A combined score doesn't make much sense in these circumstances, so we'll just have these two competitions running simultaneously.
cunego's Round 2
Geography
1. Name a non-European country bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
2. Name a European, non-Russian city with more than a million inhabitants that is not its country's capital.
3. Name a Northern European capital city.
4. Name a country that the Equator passes through.
5. Name a city that was important at some point in history but does not exist anymore.
This one should be more easily doable without any google assists. Northern Europe is somewhat open to interpretation, but I won't be too pedantic there. Q5 is even broader, I encourage you to think of things like capital cities, major trading centers, sites of major battles etc., and don't get too obscure for the low round.
The restriction of Russian cities is simply because there are too many Russian cities just above the 1M threshold, so a bit trickier for the low round. I encourage those who haven't submitted questions for the low round to join if they want to, I'd give them 10 points for the missed round 1 so you'd still have a shot there. Also, anyone else who wants to join for this round, there's still at least a Top 10 spot to play for
Deadline is saturday evening (2.9.), 8 PM daily time.
I'm flattered by the shout-out, but knockout you know Xero is not a European team right?
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
Everyone got their answers in, we even have a new contestant in Nemolito, most went for the low round as well this time, which I'm glad to see.
1. Name a non-European country bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
A tough start to the game for Nemolito as he's the only one who did not go for Egypt, choosing Morocco instead for 1 point, compared to 7 for everyone else. We also have the highest (non-invalid) points in the low round so far here, Lebanon was mentioned three times. We have an edge case with Turkey, which in part is European but also in part not, so I'll allow it.
High
Low
Egypt
7
Lebanon
3
Morocco
1
Algeria
1
Egypt
1
Tunisia
1
Turkey
1
2. Name a European, non-Russian city with more than a million inhabitants that is not its country's capital.
To me, this was a slightly surprising top answer with 4 points going to Barcelona and just 2 to Istanbul, the biggest city on the continent. Just 1 point to Milan and Hamburg. In the low round, we have an invalid answer with Glasgow (under a million inhabitants at around 635k) and one answer that gives 2 points, which is Milan.
High
Low
Barcelona
4
Milan
2
Istanbul
2
Birmingham
1
Hamburg
1
Hamburg
1
Milan
1
Istanbul
1
Munich
1
Glasgow
5
3. Name a Northern European capital city.
One top answer here, Copenhagen for 4 points. Stockholm at least gives 2, just 1 for Oslo and Berlin, the latter of which arguably isn't really northern. Helsinki and Oslo are both mentioned twice in the low round, while knockout delivers the second edge case with Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland - not a sovereign country per se, but given I said I wouldn't be pedantic, I'll allow it again.
High
Low
Copenhagen
4
Helsinki
2
Stockholm
2
Oslo
2
Berlin
1
Nuuk
1
Oslo
1
Stockholm
1
Talinn
1
4. Name a country that the Equator passes through.
Only two answers in the high round, both with a decent amount of points: 5 go to Brazil, the biggest of the eligible countries, while 3 go to Ecuador, the country literally named for the equator. Both are also named in the low round, but Ecuador is the one country there named twice.
High
Low
Brazil
5
Ecuador
2
Ecuador
3
Brazil
1
Kenya
1
Kiribati
1
Republic of the Congo
1
Somalia
1
5. Name a city that was important at some point in history but does not exist anymore.
This was a fun one. Despite a vast number of possibilities, we got two cities named more than once in the high round: Carthage for 3 points, Troy for 2. A bit unfortunate for df_Trek, who changed his answer to Carthage, but then changed it again and went for Sparta instead. His original answer was Alexandria, which he then correctly identified as still existing, something that Nemolito didn't realize.
The last answer in the high round, Babylon, is also the only one that was mentioned twice. Here is where I finally had to invalidate an answer for knockout, who went with a running joke in Germany that Bielefeld actually doesn't exist, which even if I would go along with that unfortunately doesn't meet the criterium to have previously been important - sorry to be a buzzkill there Memphis, Pryptjat (the city built for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant), Pompeii and Carthage are other interesting answers here.
High
Low
Carthage
3
Babylon
2
Troy
2
Carthage
1
Alexandria
1
Memphis
1
Babylon
1
Pompeii
1
Sparta
1
Pryptjat
1
Bielefeld
5
Full Score - High Round
No perfect round this time, but knockout wins it, only missing out on Brazil. kandesbunzler and jandal are just one point behind, df_Trek one more. Nemolito is at the bottom simply because of his Morocco pick.
Full Score - Low Round
No perfect score here either, which I like to see. Even further, only knockout gets 1 points four times, but his invalid Bielefeld answer knocks him out (ha!) of the race for the round win. Instead, Nemolito can enjoy a sense of achievement here, topping the list alongside df_Trek with 7 points.
General Classifications
After two rounds, jandal leads the high round GC by a mere 2 points over kandesbunzler, with knockout, bbl and df_Trek all just 1 point further behind. Then there's a slight dropoff to SN and TMM.
df_Trek leads the low round GC 2 points ahead of jandal, who is another 2 points ahead of SN in third. Nemolito is best of the players who joined this round, all still well in contention for the top spot.
cunego's Round 3
Sciences
1. Name one of the main branches of Natural Sciences.
Again, hopefully doable without much googling (perhaps just clicking one link). For the branches of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, I'll be fairly strict for the low round. If there's a higher-order category your answer can fit into, it could well be invalid. Think subjects you can major in at university for Q1, or branches that fill a semester or even a year at school for Q2, for example.
The difference between counting just the council area or the entire metro area :/ I went with the more narrow definition, but I should have been more specific.
Round 3 Recap
1. Name one of the main branches of Natural Sciences.
Just two different answers in the high round, one being the clear top one: Physics beats Biology 5-2. In the low round, there are two 2 pointers: once again they are Physics and Biology, the latter because df_Trek's Botany answer got bumped up to the overarching main branch (this might have been the case for Oceanography -> Earth Sciences, but there wasn't another answer in that category anyway).
High
Low
Physics
5
Biology
2
Biology
2
Physics
2
Chemistry
1
Oceonography
1
2. Name one of the main branches of Mathematics.
This was the question with the most varied answers - probably the vaguest of the questions, with fewer fixed definitions of what those main branches actually are. Only two answers got 2 points in the high round: Geometry and Algebra. Statistics and Geometry gave 2 points in the low round because, like Botany in Q1, TMM's Trigonometry is arguably a subset of Geometry.
High
Low
Algebra
2
Geometry
2
Geometry
2
Statistics
2
Arithmetics
1
Discrete Maths
1
Calculus
1
Stochastics
1
Statistics
1
3. Name one of the base units of measurement of the International System of Units (SI).
Less room for interpretation in this one, but still some variety in answers. Two big ones in the high round: Second and Metre both get 3 points, only Nemolito misses out with Kilogram. In the low round, we have one of the highest low round scores so far with 3 people mentioning Second.
High
Low
Metre
3
Second
3
Second
3
Ampere
1
Kilogram
1
Kilogram
1
Metre
1
4. Name a chemical element.
Like in Q1, there were only two different answers, and they were even distributed the same: 5-2 for Oxygen over Hydrogen. As was to be expected, it was all 1-pointers in the low round, with some nice creative answers.
High
Low
Oxygen
5
Copper
1
Hydrogen
2
Darmstadtium
1
Mercury
1
Polonium
1
Rutherfordium
1
Vanadium
1
5. Name one of the "classic" five human senses.
The most narrow question we've had so far, and probably a bit too narrow to be honest. Sight was the highest scorer of the entire round with 6 points, once again Nemolito unfortunately misses out by going for Smell. Sight was also the top answer in the low round, but in a negative way, giving 2 points. TMM took a deliberate 5 points by, fittingly, going with arguably the best of human sense, the sense of humor.
High
Low
Sight
6
Sight
2
Smell
1
Hearing
1
Smell
1
Touch
1
Humor
5
Full Score - High Round
kandesbunzler gets a perfect round, SportingNonsense and df_Trek barely miss out by one point due to the Maths question. bbl and Nemolito are at the bottom, the former missing on both Physics and Oxygen, the latter for the miss of Sight.
Full Score - Low Round
jandal gets an almost perfect score, one point ahead of kandesbunzler, who had a very good overall round here. SN misses 1 points on 4 out of the 5 questions, while TMM takes a hit for Humor.
General Classifications
With two rounds to go, it looks like a three person race for the win in the high round. kandesbunzler jumps ahead of previous leader jandal, but only a single point separates them, and df_Trek is just one further point down in third place. Then there's a 5 point gap to SN in fourth. knockout drops to 7th after deciding to sit this round out.
In the low round, jandal jumps into the lead a point ahead of df_Trek. Those two are already 4 points clear of Nemolito in third place, so it might already be down to the two of them to win it.
cunego's Round 4
Noble Nobels
1. Name one of the areas in which Nobel Prizes are awarded.
2. Name an organisation or person that has received a Nobel Prize.
3. Name a fictional noble (as in: aristocratic, ruling class) character.
4. Name a rank within British nobility.
5. Name a European monarchy other than Great Britain.
I don't know, I just found the connection of Nobel and Noble funny
Deadline is on Sunday, September 10th, 8 PM daily time.
Have to say, going for Hydrogen was a stupid move that took me 0.1 seconds to do and gave no second thought
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
Trig was always borderline, but going to Humor meant it was worth it.
Wasn't familiar with Earth Sciences being a recognised branch, i just assumed it was American's being weird and lazy in naming subjects at school, so thanks for letting Oceanography slide.
And of course to winner cunego a big congratulations as well. Will try to work on R1 asap 
Still, here are the results: 
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