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Post by Redvers Ganderpoke » Mon, 22. May 17, 12:14

11/20 - not so easy this time.
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Post by mrbadger » Fri, 26. May 17, 20:33

Being slightly more careful, hopefully something I won't suck at, but still with a time based element. I will attempt it later. Eating tea now

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Post by Morkonan » Fri, 26. May 17, 20:39

11/20 :/

I have no idea which of those satellites orbit what... Some questions don't seem to be entirely legitimate, but I have no idea which one's I got wrong, so I can't say which ones were illegitimate. :) (Being on a laptop doesn't help, either.)

By the way, how does one "eat tea?" I guess it's a British thing. :)

Added: My time was "6 s" but I don't know what that really means, as I didn't read the rest of it. Avg six seconds each? Six minutes? Doesn't sound right.
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Post by Nanook » Fri, 26. May 17, 20:46

15/20 in 00:59. :)
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Post by pjknibbs » Fri, 26. May 17, 20:49

17/20 in 00:13. I selected the wrong date for the discovery of Pluto because I was just reading down the list and selected the first one I ran across that was close, before realising that the correct answer was further down--the perils of trying to answer rapidly!
Morkonan wrote: By the way, how does one "eat tea?"
Tea is the name usually given to the evening meal in the UK, as well as being the drink you're probably thinking of. What do Americans call it?

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Post by mrbadger » Fri, 26. May 17, 21:19

sausage and egg sandwich, and a coffee, accompanied by lots of email from students about their grades not being high enough.

Never release assignment grades on a friday night is the thing.

12/20 in 22 seconds

I didn't suck too badly, but I wish I knew which ones I'd got wrong. I was a bit uncertain on a few moon ones, but the gas giants have a lot of moons. I've added so many to my dataset it's hard to recall which planet I attached them too under time pressure.

Still, it was interesting.
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Post by red assassin » Fri, 26. May 17, 22:35

pjknibbs wrote:17/20 in 00:13.
Snap. I can't be bothered to register to find out which ones I got wrong, but it's probably because I've never been able to remember which gas giant has which naming convention for its moons.
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Post by X2-Illuminatus » Fri, 26. May 17, 22:43

14/20 (No idea about the time, as it was displayed as 00:00. I'm certain that it took me longer...)

I couldn't assign most of the moons to the right planet, and noticed that I've had the wrong answer for the circumference of the earth question, just a split second after I clicked on it. :rant:
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Post by brucewarren » Fri, 26. May 17, 23:05

Only scored 13/20

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Post by berth » Fri, 26. May 17, 23:30

13/20 in 00:11. Probably satellites were my downfall, but I cba'd to register to find out.

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Post by brucewarren » Fri, 26. May 17, 23:38

I also am wary of signing into things these days so my guess would be that I probably got most of the moons questions wrong.

In my defence I will offer this excuse - Jupiter alone has 63 moons. There's no way I'm going to remember all of them.

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Post by red assassin » Sat, 27. May 17, 00:05

brucewarren wrote:In my defence I will offer this excuse - Jupiter alone has 63 moons. There's no way I'm going to remember all of them.
The alternative method to memorising all the moons is remembering:

Neptune's moons are named after Greek sea deities
Uranus' moons are largely named after Shakespeare characters (there's also a few from The Rape of the Lock, including the one that shows up in the quiz)
Saturn's moons are named after mythological giants (Greek, Roman, Norse, Gallic and Inuit)
Jupiter's moons are named for lovers and descendants of Zeus

...and then making some educated guesses about which category a given name falls into. But I'm not sure that's any better.
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Post by CBJ » Sat, 27. May 17, 00:28

14/20 in 36s. I too blame the moons.

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Post by Redvers Ganderpoke » Sat, 27. May 17, 05:48

12/20 in 0.09 I'm blaming the heat and dodgy fingers.
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Post by UnknownObject » Sat, 27. May 17, 13:46

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Post by greypanther » Mon, 29. May 17, 14:23

I am shocked that I only got 15/20, I though I would have got them all right too. :(
17 seconds seems odd too, it seemed much longer than that...
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Post by linolafett » Mon, 29. May 17, 16:11

15/20 in 41s. i am a slowpoke.
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Post by Morkonan » Mon, 29. May 17, 18:45

pjknibbs wrote:...Tea is the name usually given to the evening meal in the UK, as well as being the drink you're probably thinking of. What do Americans call it?
I figured it was something like that, but I thought it was an afternoon sort of thing, like around 4pm or whatever. /noclue I never considered that it might be a full meal.

In the US, depending upon region, the evening meal is colloquially called "dinner" or "supper."

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Post by CBJ » Mon, 29. May 17, 18:58

Those terms are also used in the UK, but "tea" is an alternative in some households. It may be partly a regional variation, but I think there may also historically be a link to social class, where working-class people came home from work hungry, and tended to both have a cup of tea and eat a full meal relatively early in the evening, at 5 or 6pm. More genteel types might have had "afternoon tea" (that's the thing you're thinking of Morkonan) around 3 or 4pm and then eaten their "supper" somewhat later. "Dinner" is somewhat of a, um, movable feast. It can mean lunch or supper, again depending on your background, and sometimes it can be used interchangeably (most kids will refer to the mealtime assistants at school who oversee their lunch as "dinner ladies", and then those from families who call the evening meal dinner will go home and ask if it's dinner time yet).

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Post by mrbadger » Mon, 29. May 17, 19:53

My nan, who we lived with when I first came to the UK from the land of Oz, came from Liverpool, and she always called the evening meal Tea.

I assume that's where I got it from, My mum did too. It only seems fairly recently that people have started to question my use of Tea to describe the evening meal. But that could just be since I started to use the term online or at work.

Dinner is apparently supposed to be the evening meal, but then why were the ladies who served meals at school called Dinnerladies?

Surely that was Mid-day, so Lunch?

It's all very confusing.
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