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I'm With Stupid 2014/2015: Attempt #2
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 27-02-2015 07:57
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The Hobbit wrote:
trekbmc wrote:
jandal7 wrote:
trekbmc wrote:
Jandal, you do realise that you could have said plasma.
I did it as an extra means of precaution. Note SSE, 47 UMd and Dogecoin. Ofc North, Mars and Euro would win, but th at doesn't exclude brain farts and other things that could lead to them saying plasma, a very viable option. I took the extra means of getting the 5 and I cocked up. Better safe (  ) than sorry 
Yeah, fair enough.
Isn't it utterly pointless going for obscure answers if you have to use google to get them. I thought the whole point of going for 5 points is seeing what answers you know that others wouldn't go for. It is no achievement to be able to google a planet from another solar system, but it (sort of) is if you can name one yourself no one else would have got.
The only answers I have used Google for was QHS State because I didn't know others, and a couple of others in other rounds. You are cortex about it being pointless though, I'm not using Google next round
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."
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| lakebeach |
Posted on 27-02-2015 16:17
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Well, I guess I could do it, just let me think of some questions. First set will most likely come later tonight.
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| lakebeach |
Posted on 27-02-2015 18:19
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Round 1 - Chemistry
1. Name a chemical element
2. Name a chemical compound (a pure chemical substance consisting of at least two different chemical elements)
3. Name a famous chemist (dead or alive)
4. Name an elementary particle
5. Name a group in the periodic table
Send answers via PM to me. Deadline is 18:00 GMT Tuesday 3rd. Good luck!
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| lakebeach |
Posted on 02-03-2015 17:51
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Just over 24 hours left to send your answers in.
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| lakebeach |
Posted on 03-03-2015 18:44
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Only 9 participants 
1. Name a chemical element
Five different answers here, but only element number one was mentioned multiple times. If you didn't say hydrogen, you can stop dreaming of a good round.
Spoiler Hydrogen x5
Californium x1
Gold x1
Oxygen x1
Potassium x1
2. Name a chemical compound
Only one answer was mentioned multiple times here as well. Water gets seven out of nine mentions. Californium iodide and "The acid in jandal7's stomach" was the other answers.
Spoiler Water x7
Californium iodide x1
The acid in jandal7's stomach x1
3. Name a famous chemist
Many different suggestions here. Dmitri Mendeleev and Marie Curie were both mentioned two times. Gabriël Metsu was as far as I know a painter and not a chemist.
Spoiler Dmitri Mendeleev x2
Marie Curie x2
Alfred Nobel x1
Kenneth Street Jr. x1
My science teacher x1
Niels Bohr x1
Gabriël Metsu x1
4. Name an elementary particle
The answer is electron. Quarks and tau were also correct mentioned answers. I haven't heard of "My dear Watson" on the chemistry lessons though.
Spoiler Electron x6
Tau x1
Quarks x1
My dear Watson x1
5. Name a group in the periodic table
The first and the last group, the alkali metals and the noble gases, were mentioned multiple times. The alkali metals comes away on top picking up 3 points. Once again, we have an incorrect answer. "Metals" is not one of the 18 groups in the periodic table.
Spoiler Group 1 (alkali metals) x3
Group 18 (noble gases) x2
Group 3 (rare earth metals) x1
Group 10 x1
Group 17 (halogens) x1
Metals x1
No perfect round, but four people scores 22 points. Cycleman123, The Hobbit, matt17br and SSJ2Luigi are all in the lead! Both jandal7 and TheManxMissile manages to score five points. 
Spoiler | USER | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 | Total | | matt17br | Hydrogen | Water | Alfred Nobel | Electron | Group 1 (alkali metals) | 5 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 22 | | SSJ2Luigi | Hydrogen | Water | Gabriël Metsu | Electron | Group 1 (alkali metals) | 5 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 22 | | Cycleman123 | Hydrogen | Water | Dmitri Mendeleev | Electron | Group 18 (noble gases) | 5 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 22 | | The Hobbit | Hydrogen | Water | Marie Curie | Electron | Group 18 (noble gases) | 5 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 22 | | Marcovdw | Gold | Water | Marie Curie | Electron | Group 1 (alkali metals) | 1 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 19 | | fjhoekie | Oxygen | Water | Dmitri Mendeleev | Electron | Group 17 (halogens) | 1 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 17 | | knockout | Hydrogen | Water | Niels Bohr | Quarks | Metals | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 | | TheManxMissile | Californium | Californium iodide | Kenneth Street Jr. | Tau | Group 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | | jandal7 | Potassium | The acid in jandal7's stomach | My science teacher | My dear Watson | Group 3 (rare earth metals) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 03-03-2015 18:46
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Nice to back to my usual 5'er style of play, certainly better at it than jandal
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| matt17br |
Posted on 03-03-2015 18:53
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Damn, my first answer was Madam Curie, but then I changed it because I thought that naming a woman wouldnt have paid off
But still, good to score the most this time too 
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| The Hobbit |
Posted on 03-03-2015 18:59
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I am happy to have done well, a bit disappointed with the final question answers, I went for the most commonly known group, instead of the first one. Interesting way yiu numbered the groups, I was wondering why you treat the Rare Earth Metals as G3, but Halogens as 17, not 7 as it would be using the same system. I understand both systems are acceptable, but it is strange they were switched between, unless I am missing something. |
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 03-03-2015 19:01
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The Hobbit wrote:
I am happy to have done well, a bit disappointed with the final question answers, I went for the most commonly known group, instead of the first one. Interesting way yiu numbered the groups, I was wondering why you treat the Rare Earth Metals as G3, but Halogens as 17, not 7 as it would be using the same system. I understand both systems are acceptable, but it is strange they were switched between, unless I am missing something.
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| lakebeach |
Posted on 03-03-2015 19:09
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The Hobbit wrote:
I am happy to have done well, a bit disappointed with the final question answers, I went for the most commonly known group, instead of the first one. Interesting way yiu numbered the groups, I was wondering why you treat the Rare Earth Metals as G3, but Halogens as 17, not 7 as it would be using the same system. I understand both systems are acceptable, but it is strange they were switched between, unless I am missing something.
The rare earth metals contain scandium, yttrium etc. The rare earth metals belong to group 3 and halogens to group 17 using the same system, or am I missing something? 
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| The Hobbit |
Posted on 03-03-2015 19:17
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lakebeach wrote:
The Hobbit wrote:
I am happy to have done well, a bit disappointed with the final question answers, I went for the most commonly known group, instead of the first one. Interesting way yiu numbered the groups, I was wondering why you treat the Rare Earth Metals as G3, but Halogens as 17, not 7 as it would be using the same system. I understand both systems are acceptable, but it is strange they were switched between, unless I am missing something.
The rare earth metals contain scandium, yttrium etc. The rare earth metals belong to group 3 and halogens to group 17 using the same system, or am I missing something?
Ah no, I got them confused with the boron group, which is group 3 in the system where the group numbers skip the transition metals. I often make that mistake, thank you for clearing things up. |
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 03-03-2015 19:44
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Wait, what, I didn't have time yesterday so I was going to do it tonight, you need to leave more time in between giving the questions and putting up the answers. .
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 03-03-2015 19:46
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3 days is roughly what i gave
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| lakebeach |
Posted on 03-03-2015 20:47
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trekbmc wrote:
Wait, what, I didn't have time yesterday so I was going to do it tonight, you need to leave more time in between giving the questions and putting up the answers. .
Three days should be enough, especially considering that I wrote out when the deadline was.
Don't worry, you can participate in the remaining four rounds.
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| lakebeach |
Posted on 03-03-2015 21:29
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Round 2 - Paris-Roubaix
1. Name a multiple winner of Paris-Roubaix
2. Name a cobbled sector of Paris-Roubaix
3. Name a rider that has finished top 3 in Paris-Roubaix, but never won the race
4. Name a nationality, that no winner of Paris-Roubaix has had
5. Name a pre-2000 winner of Paris-Roubaix
Deadline is 18:00 GMT Saturday 7th. Good luck!
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| rogvi97 |
Posted on 06-03-2015 09:54
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| lakebeach |
Posted on 06-03-2015 17:03
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You still have one more day to send in your answers.
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| lakebeach |
Posted on 07-03-2015 18:54
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Round 2 - Paris-Roubaix
1. Name a multiple winner of Paris-Roubaix
As expected, it all came down to a fight between four-time winner Tom Boonen and three-time winner Fabian Cancellara. Check the spoiler to see who got the most mentions.
Spoiler Tom Boonen x5
Fabian Cancellara x3
Octave Lapize x1
Johan Museeuw x1
2. Name a cobbled sector of Paris-Roubaix
No doubt about which is the most popular sector, eight mentions for Trouée d'Arenberg!
Spoiler Trouée d'Arenberg x8
Capelle-sur-Ecaillon - Le Buat x1
Mérignies to Pont à Marcq x1
3. Name a rider that has finished top 3 in Paris-Roubaix, but never won the race
Only two riders were mentioned multiple times: 2014 runner-up John Degenkolb scores 3 points and 2013 runner-up Sep Vanmarcke scores 2 points. Interestingly, both Bradley Wiggins and Alexander Kristoff were mentioned.
Spoiler John Degenkolb x3
Sep Vanmarcke x2
Andre Dierickx x1
Maarten Tjallingi x1
Steffen Wesemann x1
Alexander Kristoff x1
Bradley Wiggins x1
4. Name a nationality, that no winner of Paris-Roubaix has had
Many different answers here. British, German and Spanish scores two points each.
Spoiler British x2
German x2
Spanish x2
American x1
Burundian x1
Colombian x1
Nigerian x1
5. Name a pre-2000 winner of Paris-Roubaix
Only two riders were mentioned multiple times here as well. Four-time winner Roger De Vlaeminck gets four points as Eddy Merckx gets three points.
Spoiler Roger De Vlaeminck x4
Eddy Merckx x3
Octave Lapize x1
Johan Museeuw x1
Andrei Tchmil x1
SSJ2Luigi scores a perfect round of 22! matt17br scores only one point less and fjhoekie and trekbmc aren't far behind either, scoring 20 points. jandal7 and TheManxMissile once again manage to score five points.
Spoiler | USER | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 | Total | | SSJ2Luigi | Tom Boonen | Trouée d'Arenberg | John Degenkolb | German | Roger De Vlaeminck | 5 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 22 | | matt17br | Tom Boonen | Trouée d'Arenberg | Sep Vanmarcke | British | Roger De Vlaeminck | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 21 | | fjhoekie | Tom Boonen | Trouée d'Arenberg | John Degenkolb | Colombian | Eddy Merckx | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 20 | | trekbmc | Fabian Cancellara | Trouée d'Arenberg | John Degenkolb | Spanish | Roger De Vlaeminck | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 20 | | Vali | Tom Boonen | Trouée d'Arenberg | Steffen Wesemann | German | Eddy Merckx | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 19 | | rogvi97 | Tom Boonen | Trouée d'Arenberg | Bradley Wiggins | American | Roger De Vlaeminck | 5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 19 | | The Hobbit | Fabian Cancellara | Trouée d'Arenberg | Alexander Kristoff | British | Eddy Merckx | 3 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 17 | | Marcovdw | Fabian Cancellara | Trouée d'Arenberg | Sep Vanmarcke | Spanish | Johan Museeuw | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 16 | | jandal7 | Johan Museeuw | Capelle-sur-Ecaillon - Le Buat | Maarten Tjallingi | Nigerian | Andrei Tchmil | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | | TheManxMissile | Octave Lapize | Mérignies to Pont à Marcq | Andre Dierickx | Burundian | Octave Lapize | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
In the overall SSJ2Luigi takes the lead, one point ahead of matt17br. The Hobbit is third and fjhoekie and Marcovdw is fourth and fifth with a score of 37 and 35 respectively.
Spoiler | | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | Total | | 1 | SSJ2Luigi | 22 | 22 | | | | 44 | | 2 | matt17br | 22 | 21 | | | | 43 | | 3 | The Hobbit | 22 | 17 | | | | 39 | | 4 | fjhoekie | 17 | 20 | | | | 37 | | 5 | Marcovdw | 19 | 16 | | | | 35 | | 6 | Cycleman123 | 22 | 0 | | | | 22 | | 7 | trekbmc | 0 | 20 | | | | 20 | | 8 | Vali | 0 | 19 | | | | 19 | | 9 | rogvi97 | 0 | 19 | | | | 19 | | 10 | knockout | 15 | 0 | | | | 15 | | 11 | TheManxMissile | 5 | 5 | | | | 10 | | 12 | jandal7 | 5 | 5 | | | | 10 |
The next set of questions will most likely come later tonight.
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 07-03-2015 19:00
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Perfect round? Really? With German as answer I wouldn't consider it to be perfect despite having the maximum amount of points...
From Wikipedia (The most trustful site on the internet):
Josef Fischer (20 January 1865 - 3 March 1953) was a German road bicycle racer. He is best known for winning the first edition of Paris–Roubaix in 1896 and Bordeaux–Paris in 1900.
So yeah...
Quite happy with my score tho
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| lakebeach |
Posted on 07-03-2015 19:03
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fjhoekie wrote:
Perfect round? Really? With German as answer I wouldn't consider it to be perfect despite having the maximum amount of points...
From Wikipedia (The most trustful site on the internet):
Josef Fischer (20 January 1865 - 3 March 1953) was a German road bicycle racer. He is best known for winning the first edition of Paris–Roubaix in 1896 and Bordeaux–Paris in 1900.
So yeah...
Quite happy with my score tho
You are right, I actually thought about it but forgot it as a created the last post!  Anyways, it doen't have any impact on the result.
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