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Unfreakable

2011-12-16 04:54:32 PM

Bonus: absolutely no scores above yours right at the moment

markie_farkie

2011-12-16 04:54:57 PM

I WIN!!!11!!

walkerhound

2011-12-16 04:57:43 PM

How much later are we talking about here?

GreatGlavinsGhost

2011-12-16 04:57:47 PM

Damn, I never do well at these things ...

rebelyell2006

2011-12-16 04:58:35 PM

I would have gotten 10 out of 11, but only because I realized a millisecond after clicking an answer I knew I clicked the wrong ones. Although the last one was tricky.

Unfreakable

2011-12-16 05:00:31 PM

And before I forget, here are last week's winners:

scrumpox 994
RaceDTruck 991
picard_r 957
Uncle Ottos Truck 943
orca 938
Bear151556 933
mkultra4013 926
Quirk 914
Keyser_Soze_Death 904
sonorangal 903

Nunpoo

2011-12-16 05:00:59 PM

That's a personal best for me.

Where's the easy version?

jjwars1

2011-12-16 05:01:58 PM

I do better by randomly clicking over taking the time to read the Q&A's

Unfreakable

2011-12-16 05:02:06 PM

Nunpoo: That's a personal best for me.

Where's the easy version?

No easy version this week, I only had one of the two usual writers for the quiz, and I was out of town on a business trip, and then came back to catch up and had to get today's Headline of the Year contest up.

Nunpoo

2011-12-16 05:03:05 PM

and it seems like most of the questions were about headlines from the last two days

I normally miss at least one or two because I have poor medium term memory

markie_farkie

2011-12-16 05:03:44 PM

Unfreakable: No easy version this week, I only had one of the two usual writers for the quiz, and I was out of town on a business trip, and then came back to catch up and had to get today's Headline of the Year contest up.

So, Drew made you stop drinking for a couple hours to knock this out??

TYRANT!

Nunpoo

2011-12-16 05:05:59 PM

Unfreakable: Nunpoo: That's a personal best for me.

Where's the easy version?

No easy version this week, I only had one of the two usual writers for the quiz, and I was out of town on a business trip, and then came back to catch up and had to get today's Headline of the Year contest up.

Oh, ok, I was worried that the easy quiz was accidentally left in one of those server things you guys are selling on ebay.

RocketRod

2011-12-16 05:07:14 PM

Unfreakable: Bonus: absolutely no scores above yours right at the moment

That's true!

Final Score:

11 out of 11 correct, total points = 1008
Total time elapsed:

1 minute (92 seconds)

Personal Best! (Until about 30 seconds from the time I post this.)

unyon

2011-12-16 05:08:24 PM

I suck at these. Which frankly is surprising, considering the amount of time I spend on this site.

Cormee

2011-12-16 05:13:29 PM

7 out of 11 correct, total points = 602
Total time elapsed:

2 minutes (163 seconds)

I've said it before, Drew, please shorten the quiz to ideally one question, maybe two. Or, failing that, please have an alternative quiz for people with my needs.

Unfreakable

2011-12-16 05:14:01 PM

markie_farkie: So, Drew made you stop drinking for a couple hours to knock this out??

TYRANT!

Are you kidding? Drew said he would fire me if my BAC dropped below 0.08. I have a breathalyzer on my computer that keeps it from turning on if I'm sober and Mike changed my admin login so that it only works if I drunkenly mash down 22 keys at once with my face

Nunpoo: Oh, ok, I was worried that the easy quiz was accidentally left in one of those server things you guys are selling on ebay.

Nah, it's just time consuming to review about 1000 greenlit links, find the weirdest ones, read the stories, and then find alternate answers that are as weird as the article to write the questions. Then it has to be manually uploaded to the Quiz thingy. Not crazy difficult, just slow, especially when I'm working on other stuff.

Goatspunk

2011-12-16 05:22:48 PM

Better Nate than lever.

SpinStopper

2011-12-16 05:25:25 PM

Final Score:
9 out of 11 correct, total points = 792
Total time elapsed:
2 minutes (145 seconds)

About average for me ;)

texdent

2011-12-16 05:25:33 PM

Final Score:

8 out of 11 correct, total points = 741
Total time elapsed:

1 minute (87 seconds)

Unfreakable

2011-12-16 05:25:54 PM

Goatspunk: Better Nate than lever.

Dammit, you just made me remember that entire damn three-hour joke.

Outtaphase

2011-12-16 05:26:26 PM

1012. The week before vacation starts was unusually unproductive this year.

sleepygrl

2011-12-16 05:31:34 PM

9 out of 11 correct, total points-809
115 seconds

Holy crap, I actually made the top ten!

baronvonflapjack

2011-12-16 05:39:17 PM

1028 and top of the list, MFers!

dumbandilikeit

2011-12-16 06:00:52 PM

924 - 90 seconds - 10 out of 11

Personal best!

vudutek

2011-12-16 07:01:31 PM

Final Score:
11 out of 11 correct, total points = 952

Total time elapsed:
2 minutes (148 seconds)

Best evar, and first time showing (however briefly) in the top 10! Yay me!

jaylectricity

2011-12-16 07:15:29 PM

5 out of 11 correct, total points = 445
Total time elapsed:
2 minutes (151 seconds)

I started out with a bang, guessing 3 of the first few.

The ones I knew for sure were the goldfish one and the buttered toast one.

Outtaphase

2011-12-16 07:17:49 PM

baronvonflapjack: 1028 and top of the list, MFers!

Congrats! hope it sticks, heading back to Skyrim in a way that will hopefully give me a score of "you suck" next week.

Hollyfeld

2011-12-16 07:32:44 PM

Final Score:
11 out of 11 correct, total points = 961
Total time elapsed:
2 minutes (139 seconds)

Currently 7th

I think that is the best I've ever done, but I was lucky on a couple and one I knew from NPR rather than Fark.

sleepygrl

2011-12-16 08:45:21 PM

Unfreakable

Thanks for the Total Fark!

Cybernetic

2011-12-16 11:11:06 PM

9 out of 11 correct, total points = 799

Better than I usually do.

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