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| Thread ID: 59294 | 2005-06-27 11:39:00 | Test the Nation - A gift for the oldies among us? | Laura (43) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 367378 | 2005-06-28 00:21:00 | I got 0, before starting I decided I was to damn intelligent to be doing a lame quiz so went and read the days headlines instead. Muhahahaha. I'm sure I would score higher if I wrote the questions :D But then, everybody else would look stupid(er) :eek: :xmouth: :xmouth: :D |
Metla (12) | ||
| 367379 | 2005-06-28 00:41:00 | I just rushed through the online test and got 63% (sal.neoburn.net). | sal (67) | ||
| 367380 | 2005-06-28 00:45:00 | Just did it and got..... 53 Join the crowd Greg ;) |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 367381 | 2005-06-28 01:00:00 | So, what was your score, Laura? :) The top-scoring online result was 100% by a 27 year-old computer programmer. :eek: The top score for the studio panel was 93% by a librarian, surprise surprise. I wonder if he generally got that result though. The first test the nation I had all the questions before the test, would've been possible to google all the answers and get a perfect score. |
Jeremy (1197) | ||
| 367382 | 2005-06-28 01:02:00 | The suprising aspect was the low scores nationally which seemed to average around 67. That means 33 wrong and if these were bad guesses then a further 11 right answers were the result of good guesses making only 56 that were right answers based on actual knowledge. Rather pathetic knowledge of ones own country. | Dally (6292) | ||
| 367383 | 2005-06-28 01:38:00 | 51, but that was luckie as I answered every question even if I didnt know the answer, my score should have been 20-25. | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 367384 | 2005-06-28 03:19:00 | I wonder if he generally got that result though . The first test the nation I had all the questions before the test, would've been possible to google all the answers and get a perfect score . You are a cynic after my own heart as I was thinking that as well . :p It could be done I guess but searching for all of the answers to the questions not known would have taken some time if there were more than, say, ten or so to look up . Also, I haven't tried it but I can't see anything to stop people doing the quiz multiple times and registering different names/emails, etc until one got 100% but you don't get the answers after the online quiz, just your score . You would have had to have got the answers after the show and once they were given the results were broadcast very soon afterwards . BTW, I think you mean "genuine" rather than "generally" . ;) |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 367385 | 2005-06-28 06:06:00 | I wonder if he generally got that result though . The first test the nation I had all the questions before the test, would've been possible to google all the answers and get a perfect score . You remember the radio announcer "genius" ask us a question we can't answer in 60 sec or less and win a prize competitions? Well I heard a legend of a computer tech doing work for a radio station that was doing this . Waiting till they were playing a song, then ringing the announcer on his cellphone . The conversation went somthing like this: Tech: "I am currently standing beside your router, I'm betting that when this song finishes, if it were to have a sudden and catastrophic power failure, I would definately be able to ask you a question that you can't answer in 60 sec or less . " Announcer: "Oh . . . . . . . . " He quitely got a prize, and they stopped running that competition after that -Qyiet |
qyiet (6730) | ||
| 367386 | 2005-06-28 06:51:00 | Yes, Foxy, I realised after I'd posted that I should've included my score - and I knew I wouldn't get away with that for long . . . I got 85 . Lost many points in the sports section (As I expected . Have little memory for sports statistics) but did well in things like the old TV stuff - also as expected . ( Guess my time as a TV news journalist in a previous existence gave me an unfair advantage there) I thought it was a good mix of question categories, though - with my initial proviso that it certainly helped to be older rather than younger . Mind you, their information about contestants' backgrounds would be skewed towards studio/texting/online people . Those of us who did it at home live in front of the TV like me were totally anonymous . I doubt that anyone would have the questions early (Jeremy's suggestion) and this quiz was a different kind from previous versions, which were supposed to test intelligence rather than general knowledge . The result I found an eye-opener was the top-scoring group . My money was on the librarians, who not only looked like winners early, but would be expected to know lots about lots . However, although they had the top scoring individual in the studio, it was the farmers who edged them out by one percentage point finally . Guess that should put paid to any lingering perceptions about "country hicks," eh? They say you've got to have brains to be a farmer nowadays - and it seems they have . (I'll bet my rural friends are chuckling) |
Laura (43) | ||
| 367387 | 2005-06-28 21:11:00 | Well I'm 31, and got 86 right doing it the TV way, don't know if that puts me in the oldies category or what, should have been higher but well had a brainfart on 2 of them (kicking myself) and simply didn't know the others, although I do think the question were slightly biased to the baby boomer generation, I have only vague recollections of selwyn toogood and pete siclair on TV (got them right though) and as for the question from 1964 with the blue beat and hogsnort rupert well if anyone under 40 got it right I would be amazed well thats just my opinion anyhow |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
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