Rare Entries XVII - Miscellaneous (history)
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Re: Rare Entries XVII - Miscellaneous (history)
If any others do enter.
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They have to, or I can't do the scores. I will send a PM round to you saying which ones you got wrong, and you can argue your points if you want!
Tumbleweed and former Nimbleweed Scorekeeper
Winner of Gumbleweeds V, VI + XI, Nimbleweeds I, III - IX + XIV and (joint with GuyBarry) winner of Timesnap
And most importantly, Former leader of Tumbleweed, and first person to 250,000
Winner of Gumbleweeds V, VI + XI, Nimbleweeds I, III - IX + XIV and (joint with GuyBarry) winner of Timesnap
And most importantly, Former leader of Tumbleweed, and first person to 250,000
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The next Wednesday 3rd June isn't until 2026, so we've got a while.A Challenge wrote:will run until 06:59 (at least, until I lost the scores) on Wednesday 3rd June.
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Can you just enter anyway, and I will change that, so don't be late entering!
Tumbleweed and former Nimbleweed Scorekeeper
Winner of Gumbleweeds V, VI + XI, Nimbleweeds I, III - IX + XIV and (joint with GuyBarry) winner of Timesnap
And most importantly, Former leader of Tumbleweed, and first person to 250,000
Winner of Gumbleweeds V, VI + XI, Nimbleweeds I, III - IX + XIV and (joint with GuyBarry) winner of Timesnap
And most importantly, Former leader of Tumbleweed, and first person to 250,000
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Any chance the scores will be up soon?
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Here they are: I was working on them at 08:00 but didn't finish them!Tube Geek wrote:Any chance the scores will be up soon?
I tasked you with ten questions that were, as the title suggests, slightly random:
Name:
1. A real King documented by Shakespeare in the title of a play
The Orange One: Henry VIII
Tube Geek: Richard II
jamesthegill: Macbeth
2. A London Overground terminus not served at by another through TfL service that is in London
The Orange One: Enfield Town
Tube Geek: New Cross
jamesthegill: Crystal Palace
3. A London Borough beginning with the letter B
The Orange One: Barking and Dagenham
Tube Geek: Brent
jamesthegill: Bromley
4. A song in Les Miserables with a character’s name in it
The Orange One: Fantine's Arrest
Tube Geek: Valjean Arrested, Valjean Forgiven
jamesthegill: Jarvet's Arrival
5. A (now) London Underground line running in 1890 under its name at the time
The Orange One: Great Eastern Railway (Leyton to Epping)
Tube Geek: Metropolitan Railway
jamesthegill: Metropolitan and District Railway
6. A station on the Northern line that isn’t a terminus that has more than two platforms served by the Northern line
The Orange One: East Finchley
Tube Geek: Finchley Central
jamesthegill: Finchley Central
7. A deep level London Underground line that was in operation by London Undergound in 1990
The Orange One: Bakerloo
Tube Geek: Jubilee
jamesthegill: Bakerloo
8. A English-speaking country that has a parkrun
The Orange One: New Zealand
Tube Geek: Australia
jamesthegill: Wales
9. A subforum in the ‘Good Service’ section of the forum
The Orange One: Zone 4: Non-LU Challenges
Tube Geek: Zone 4: Non LU Challenges
jamesthegill: Zone 2: Tube Challenge Chat
10. A positive prime number under 10
The Orange One: 5
Tube Geek: 7
jamesthegill: 3
Scores:
Tube Geek: 4 (1*1*1*1*1*2*1*1*2*1)
jamesthegill 8 (1*1*1*1*1*2*2*1*1*2)
The Orange One: 8 (1*1*1*1*2*1*2*1*2*1)
I suppose, I have to say let the ranting about the results begin, but first, a few points on the results first:
- The Metropolitan Railway and the the Metropolitan District Railways were two different companies (in 1890).
- I meant only the play for number 4, though I did realise the problem with the question before the initial post and didn't change it. This left the pool of available answers very big!
- I decided not to disallow Macbeth, as I discovered thanks to the (broken) URL in the PM, it showed that he existed!
- The song Valjean's Death doesn't exist, but it is Epilogue - Valjean's Death
Who wants to do the next one?
Let the ranting begin!
Last edited by A Challenge on 05 Jun 2016, 07:07, edited 2 times in total.
Tumbleweed and former Nimbleweed Scorekeeper
Winner of Gumbleweeds V, VI + XI, Nimbleweeds I, III - IX + XIV and (joint with GuyBarry) winner of Timesnap
And most importantly, Former leader of Tumbleweed, and first person to 250,000
Winner of Gumbleweeds V, VI + XI, Nimbleweeds I, III - IX + XIV and (joint with GuyBarry) winner of Timesnap
And most importantly, Former leader of Tumbleweed, and first person to 250,000
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I KNEW I should have gone for Kennington for question 6....
Oh well, I still won!
Oh well, I still won!
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Yeah, I realised after the PM sent that I'd screwed up the formatting - sorry about that!A Challenge wrote: [*]I decided not to disallow Macbeth, as I discovered thanks to the (broken) URL in the PM, it showed that he existed!
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The formatting doesn't matter - though it looks like the URL tags are a bit confusing how its gone that wrong!jamesthegill wrote:Yeah, I realised after the PM sent that I'd screwed up the formatting - sorry about that!A Challenge wrote: [*]I decided not to disallow Macbeth, as I discovered thanks to the (broken) URL in the PM, it showed that he existed!
I've got away without complaints yet!
Tumbleweed and former Nimbleweed Scorekeeper
Winner of Gumbleweeds V, VI + XI, Nimbleweeds I, III - IX + XIV and (joint with GuyBarry) winner of Timesnap
And most importantly, Former leader of Tumbleweed, and first person to 250,000
Winner of Gumbleweeds V, VI + XI, Nimbleweeds I, III - IX + XIV and (joint with GuyBarry) winner of Timesnap
And most importantly, Former leader of Tumbleweed, and first person to 250,000
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Did I not make it ABUNDANTLY CLEAR that I had withdrawn? You're fast making an enemy. Respect is a reciprocal thing. If you don't respect me I will be unable to respect you.
Please sort this out immediately and an apology would be hugely appreciated.
Please sort this out immediately and an apology would be hugely appreciated.
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I will let you be withdrawn then, but why did you say that I was incapable?
Tumbleweed and former Nimbleweed Scorekeeper
Winner of Gumbleweeds V, VI + XI, Nimbleweeds I, III - IX + XIV and (joint with GuyBarry) winner of Timesnap
And most importantly, Former leader of Tumbleweed, and first person to 250,000
Winner of Gumbleweeds V, VI + XI, Nimbleweeds I, III - IX + XIV and (joint with GuyBarry) winner of Timesnap
And most importantly, Former leader of Tumbleweed, and first person to 250,000
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Because you can't mark correctly and are telling people they can change their answers after they'd been submitted.
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Re: Rare Entries XVII - Miscellaneous (history)
I can't mark with all incorrect answers, and I do know that three is prime!
Tumbleweed and former Nimbleweed Scorekeeper
Winner of Gumbleweeds V, VI + XI, Nimbleweeds I, III - IX + XIV and (joint with GuyBarry) winner of Timesnap
And most importantly, Former leader of Tumbleweed, and first person to 250,000
Winner of Gumbleweeds V, VI + XI, Nimbleweeds I, III - IX + XIV and (joint with GuyBarry) winner of Timesnap
And most importantly, Former leader of Tumbleweed, and first person to 250,000
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No one put 1, did they?A Challenge wrote:I can't mark with all incorrect answers, and I do know that three is prime!
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Re: Rare Entries XVII - Miscellaneous (history)
I don't know the full context of the current discussion, but at various periods in the history of mathematics the number one has indeed been considered to be prime.
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