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If any others do enter.

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!

A Challenge wrote:will run until 06:59 (at least, until I lost the scores) on Wednesday 3rd June.

The next Wednesday 3rd June isn't until 2026, so we've got a while.

Can you just enter anyway, and I will change that, so don't be late entering!

Any chance the scores will be up soon?

Tube Geek wrote:Any chance the scores will be up soon?

Here they are: I was working on them at 08:00 but didn't finish them!


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!

I KNEW I should have gone for Kennington for question 6....

Oh well, I still won!

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!

Yeah, I realised after the PM sent that I'd screwed up the formatting - sorry about that!

jamesthegill wrote:

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!

Yeah, I realised after the PM sent that I'd screwed up the formatting - sorry about that!

The formatting doesn't matter - though it looks like the URL tags are a bit confusing how its gone that wrong!

I've got away without complaints yet!

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.

I will let you be withdrawn then, but why did you say that I was incapable?

Because you can't mark correctly and are telling people they can change their answers after they'd been submitted.

I can't mark with all incorrect answers, and I do know that three is prime!

A Challenge wrote:I can't mark with all incorrect answers, and I do know that three is prime!

No one put 1, did they?

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.