Drinks to the winner for March

These questions will be fast and fun for a few days. Don't be afraid. F's are good.

In spite of Matt's best efforts, and thanks to Dylan's speed and panache, February brought us a tie.

Had he played every day (Bobby do you have the excel results?) it would have been his. M-F is easy. SS is harder.

Buena Suerte.

February is over!

Well done Matt.

I will do a better job of changing the question pool every week or more often. If they aren't working well or whatever, it's easy to change them, just speak up!

I almost forgot to take the quiz yesterday, it wasn't until 8:50pm that I remembered. The best way to get the most points is to play every day. I think funnyclock Matt even missed a day!

March starts in a few hours, will there be strong performances from Dr. Knowledge, Mr. 1600, and Three Degrees by 22? Or will it just be the usual suspects?

In honor of Ascorbic Acid

***Chemistry*** is the theme for the next few days...

Chemistry :: Specific Elements :: Mixed Elements :: Periodic Table :: Chemistry Mix :: Chemical Names and Formulas :: Organic Chemistry :: Specific Chemicals and Compounds :: Acids and Bases :: Metals :: Biochemistry ::

Good luck.

Sorry, Movies it is

We'll do something else next Friday...

Statistics

Bobby is tracking in Excel points, times, # correct, etc., and at the end of the month we can perform analyses to confirm that Brett is dumb for Googling, and Brian is fastest in spite of being a moral policeman.

We have everyone's email but '88'. Who the hell is that?

btw, changing question pool to Movies or something tonight.

It's hot in this kitchen

If it cost 10 points for each second lost in researching an answer, and you took 70 seconds using your brain and Google to get all ten answers right, you'd get:

Number right	Time elapsed	Points awarded
10	70	300

The above table follows the 100 points/correct answer that in the current (-1 point/second) system would yield:

Number right	Time elapsed	Points awarded
10	70	930

Clearly, the current scoring system yields an advantage to researchers who can improve the number of correct answers by researching each answer in under 80-95 seconds.

When I set up this tournament in response to Matt's email containing 20 trivia questions, I had two goals:

1) Have fun
2) Learn stuff

FunTrivia.com's competition *system* is a nice bonus, and perhaps an incentive to be consistent with 1) and 2) above.

There will be at least two people drinking a beer or two in early March. Only the strong survive.

Who's gonna play Saturday & Sunday?

Everyone has more time during the week; what's happening to productivity of the world's workforce?!?

Brian's scoring system of #pts^2/#gms will help the fast players who don't play the weekends.

Today was pretty damn fast - 6 of 8 got all 10 right.

That will almost certainly change tomorrow. I think General Trivia: More Difficult will be our question pool, changing in three hours. Let's see what happens...

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Get on it!!!

Questions change...

I think the question pool should be changed Friday night - the 4th.

I will wait until 7:45pm, after everyone has had a chance to play Friday.

Or should it stay the same for a couple of weeks, or maybe the whole month?