QoD July 18, 2008

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#26 Post by **littlebeast13** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:42 am

Here's Fanny! wrote:
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After reading all the yellow with white stripe, white with yellow stripe answers, I'm glad I went with the all-encompassing "yellow and white striped".

I have played pool since I was a kid (I even have my own cue with a case and everything!) and, closing my eyes and thinking about it, if my life depended on getting the right answer, I'd be in trouble. I'm almost absolutely certain I know the correct combination, but not million dollar question sure.

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I learned them all off one of the best Nintendo games I was ever given as a gift..... Side Pocket. Well, actually, Balls 11-15 never existed in that game, but I knew the color pattern was the same for the stripes as it was for the solids (yellow, blue, red, purple, orange, green, magenta).

And given that me and my Dad used to play the hell out of 9-ball on that game, I wouldn't even have to think of what color it was......

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Here's Fanny! · #27 Post by **Here's Fanny!** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:59 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
Here's Fanny! wrote:
Spoiler
After reading all the yellow with white stripe, white with yellow stripe answers, I'm glad I went with the all-encompassing "yellow and white striped".

I have played pool since I was a kid (I even have my own cue with a case and everything!) and, closing my eyes and thinking about it, if my life depended on getting the right answer, I'd be in trouble. I'm almost absolutely certain I know the correct combination, but not million dollar question sure.

Spoiler
I learned them all off one of the best Nintendo games I was ever given as a gift..... Side Pocket. Well, actually, Balls 11-15 never existed in that game, but I knew the color pattern was the same for the stripes as it was for the solids (yellow, blue, red, purple, orange, green, magenta).

And given that me and my Dad used to play the hell out of 9-ball on that game, I wouldn't even have to think of what color it was......
lb13

Spoiler

It's easy to know that it's yellow, but is it white with a yellow stripe or yellow with a white stripe? Just being asked casually, I'd immediately say for certain white with a yellow stripe. But, if somebody said 'are you sure?' or 'I think it's yellow with a white stripe', and I had to really think about it, I wouldn't be sure.

Or, as I said, I'd be almost absolutely positively dead certain, but I wouldn't be bet your life or million dollar question certain. Maybe I'm just not decisive the more I think about things.

#28 Post by **littlebeast13** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:03 am

Here's Fanny! wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
Here's Fanny! wrote:
Spoiler
After reading all the yellow with white stripe, white with yellow stripe answers, I'm glad I went with the all-encompassing "yellow and white striped".

I have played pool since I was a kid (I even have my own cue with a case and everything!) and, closing my eyes and thinking about it, if my life depended on getting the right answer, I'd be in trouble. I'm almost absolutely certain I know the correct combination, but not million dollar question sure.

Spoiler
I learned them all off one of the best Nintendo games I was ever given as a gift..... Side Pocket. Well, actually, Balls 11-15 never existed in that game, but I knew the color pattern was the same for the stripes as it was for the solids (yellow, blue, red, purple, orange, green, magenta).

And given that me and my Dad used to play the hell out of 9-ball on that game, I wouldn't even have to think of what color it was......
lb13

Spoiler
It's easy to know that it's yellow, but is it white with a yellow stripe or yellow with a white stripe? Just being asked casually, I'd immediately say for certain white with a yellow stripe. But, if somebody said 'are you sure?' or 'I think it's yellow with a white stripe', and I had to really think about it, I wouldn't be sure.

Or, as I said, I'd be almost absolutely positively dead certain, but I wouldn't be bet your life or million dollar question certain. Maybe I'm just not decisive the more I think about things.

Spoiler

Interesting. My first instinct was to say yellow with a white stripe, but the more I thought about it, I remembered that it's the stripes that are colored, not the ball itself...

So I'd say it's white with a yellow stripe....

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Here's Fanny! · #29 Post by **Here's Fanny!** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:14 am

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Oh, and funny that you say you learned the colours from your Nintendo game and that the 7/15 is magenta. Because I've ever only seen it as maroon. Either Nintendo's colour scheme is off or your screen is. Or my eyes are off. Ha!

#30 Post by **littlebeast13** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:20 am

Here's Fanny! wrote:
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Oh, and funny that you say you learned the colours from your Nintendo game and that the 7/15 is magenta. Because I've ever only seen it as maroon. Either Nintendo's colour scheme is off or your screen is. Or my eyes are off. Ha!

Spoiler

I'm not good with pinpointing colors past the basic old 8 count Crayola colors. I was going for something between red and brown, and all I could think of was magenta. But you are right, maroon it is....

So why aren't they called Maroon 7 then.....? Ha!

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tanstaafl2 · #31 Post by **tanstaafl2** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:43 am

andrewjackson wrote:QoD July 18, 2008

2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon CDT on Monday, July 21.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

Spoiler

2. Ben Nevis is the highest mountain on what island?
Great Britain. At least I guess that is the official name of the island, had never really thought about it before!

2. What Roman emperor was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus?
Based almost entirely on the "letter of the day" I will guess Nero.

2. Let’s try a picture again. What is the common name of this marsupial, Myrmecobius fasciatus?
Can't think of a single marsupial that starts with an "N"! Howza about a Nangaroo...

2. What color is the Nine ball in a standard U.S. set of billiard balls?
White with a yellow stripe.

Not entirely sure why all the questions are numbered with a 2. No doubt I missed something.

Again.

Seems like in retrospect some past QODs have also been numbered rather at random. Damn, now I am going to have to check and see...

SportsFan68 · #32 Post by **SportsFan68** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:15 pm

andrewjackson wrote:QoD July 18, 2008

2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon CDT on Monday, July 21.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

2. Ben Nevis is the highest mountain on what island?

I'll guess New Zealand.

2. What Roman emperor was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus?

I'll guess Nero.

2. Let’s try a picture again. What is the common name of this marsupial, Myrmecobius fasciatus?

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia ... 28228A.jpg

or

http://www.das-tierlexikon.de/data/medi ... ciatus.jpg

I'll guess Nambian Giant Rat.

2. What color is the Nine ball in a standard U.S. set of billiard balls?

Yellow.

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ulysses5019 · #33 Post by **ulysses5019** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:58 am

andrewjackson wrote:QoD July 18, 2008

2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon CDT on Monday, July 21.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

2. Ben Nevis is the highest mountain on what island?

2. What Roman emperor was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus?

2. Let’s try a picture again. What is the common name of this marsupial, Myrmecobius fasciatus?

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia ... 28228A.jpg

or

http://www.das-tierlexikon.de/data/medi ... ciatus.jpg

2. What color is the Nine ball in a standard U.S. set of billiard balls?

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Scotland/Great Britain

Nero

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Yellow and white

#34 Post by **littlebeast13** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:26 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
Here's Fanny! wrote:
Spoiler
Oh, and funny that you say you learned the colours from your Nintendo game and that the 7/15 is magenta. Because I've ever only seen it as maroon. Either Nintendo's colour scheme is off or your screen is. Or my eyes are off. Ha!

Spoiler
I'm not good with pinpointing colors past the basic old 8 count Crayola colors. I was going for something between red and brown, and all I could think of was magenta. But you are right, maroon it is....

So why aren't they called Maroon 7 then.....? Ha!
lb13

Spoiler

It just occured to me last night when I saw something at work that showed the color magenta that the 3 Ball on that Side Pocket game was most definitely magenta. I remember thinking that the 3 used to be some red-violet color until the first time I ever saw real pool balls and noticed it was actually red. And come to think of it, the 5 ball always looked reddish....

So the Nintendo was bad at colorizing the balls.... just not the 7.....

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Here's Fanny! · #35 Post by **Here's Fanny!** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:45 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
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It just occured to me last night when I saw something at work that showed the color magenta that the 3 Ball on that Side Pocket game was most definitely magenta. I remember thinking that the 3 used to be some red-violet color until the first time I ever saw real pool balls and noticed it was actually red. And come to think of it, the 5 ball always looked reddish....

So the Nintendo was bad at colorizing the balls.... just not the 7.....
lb13

Spoiler

I just happen to be at my mom's house this morning and the computer is in the pool room. So I sauntered on over and checked out the colour situation. The 3 is tomato red and the 7 is definitely maroon. The 5 is bright Halloween orange, not a trace of red. Stick to colourizing Koopas, Nintendo!

#36 Post by **littlebeast13** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:50 am

Here's Fanny! wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
Spoiler
It just occured to me last night when I saw something at work that showed the color magenta that the 3 Ball on that Side Pocket game was most definitely magenta. I remember thinking that the 3 used to be some red-violet color until the first time I ever saw real pool balls and noticed it was actually red. And come to think of it, the 5 ball always looked reddish....

So the Nintendo was bad at colorizing the balls.... just not the 7.....
lb13

Spoiler
I just happen to be at my mom's house this morning and the computer is in the pool room. So I sauntered on over and checked out the colour situation. The 3 is tomato red and the 7 is definitely maroon. The 5 is bright Halloween orange, not a trace of red. Stick to colourizing Koopas, Nintendo!

Spoiler

The poor green ones. They were too stupid to stop at the edge of the cliff.....

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Here's Fanny! · #37 Post by **Here's Fanny!** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:54 am

How sad am I that I think I can still name all of Bowser's kids from Mario 3?

Ha, now everybody who's wondering HTF the Koopa Kids got involved in this QOD are going to have to read all the spoilers.

#38 Post by **littlebeast13** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:56 am

Here's Fanny! wrote:How sad am I that I think I can still name all of Bowser's kids from Mario 3?

Ha, now everybody who's wondering HTF the Koopa Kids got involved in this QOD are going to have to read all the spoilers.

It's not sad at all!

Let's see....

Larry, Morton, Jr., Wendy O., Iggy, Roy, Lemmy, and Ludwig Von Koopa.... and I believe in that order.....

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Here's Fanny! · #39 Post by **Here's Fanny!** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:01 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
Here's Fanny! wrote:How sad am I that I think I can still name all of Bowser's kids from Mario 3?

Ha, now everybody who's wondering HTF the Koopa Kids got involved in this QOD are going to have to read all the spoilers.

It's not sad at all!

Let's see....

Larry, Morton, Jr., Wendy O., Iggy, Roy, Lemmy, and Ludwig Von Koopa.... and I believe in that order.....

lb13

Okay, I'm still sad, just not as sad as you! I couldn't have given the order, although I do remember that bitch Wendy was in Water Land, because those damned hoops she threw were tougher than anything her brothers could throw at me.

#40 Post by **littlebeast13** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:04 am

Here's Fanny! wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
Here's Fanny! wrote:How sad am I that I think I can still name all of Bowser's kids from Mario 3?

Ha, now everybody who's wondering HTF the Koopa Kids got involved in this QOD are going to have to read all the spoilers.

It's not sad at all!

Let's see....

Larry, Morton, Jr., Wendy O., Iggy, Roy, Lemmy, and Ludwig Von Koopa.... and I believe in that order.....

lb13
Okay, I'm still sad, just not as sad as you! I couldn't have given the order, although I do remember that bitch Wendy was in Water Land, because those damned hoops she threw were tougher than anything her brothers could throw at me.

The different lands I'd have to think of....

The first was just plain, the second was the desert, third was water, fourth was the giant land (Always a cool one to play!), fifth was the sky kingdom, sixth was ice, seven was the one with all the damn piranah plants, then there was Bowser's level 8.....

Hey, not bad for not having played the thing in over 10 years!

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Here's Fanny! · #41 Post by **Here's Fanny!** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:55 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
Here's Fanny! wrote:Okay, I'm still sad, just not as sad as you! I couldn't have given the order, although I do remember that bitch Wendy was in Water Land, because those damned hoops she threw were tougher than anything her brothers could throw at me.
The different lands I'd have to think of....

The first was just plain, the second was the desert, third was water, fourth was the giant land (Always a cool one to play!), fifth was the sky kingdom, sixth was ice, seven was the one with all the damn piranah plants, then there was Bowser's level 8.....

Hey, not bad for not having played the thing in over 10 years!

lb13

World 1 was Grass Land and World 8 was Dark Land. I think the official name for World 7 was Tube Land, but we always called it Pipe Land. I think it was objectively the toughest (nothing so frustrating as getting stuck in a pipe with nothing but dead ends and all you can do is wait for the time to run out and die), but Sky Land was always treacherous for me as I have a fear of falling. I'd yank my controller up like I was an airplane pilot. Ha!

Desgeega · #42 Post by **Desgeega** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:00 am

Here's Fanny! wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
Here's Fanny! wrote:Okay, I'm still sad, just not as sad as you! I couldn't have given the order, although I do remember that bitch Wendy was in Water Land, because those damned hoops she threw were tougher than anything her brothers could throw at me.
The different lands I'd have to think of....

The first was just plain, the second was the desert, third was water, fourth was the giant land (Always a cool one to play!), fifth was the sky kingdom, sixth was ice, seven was the one with all the damn piranah plants, then there was Bowser's level 8.....

Hey, not bad for not having played the thing in over 10 years!

lb13
World 1 was Grass Land and World 8 was Dark Land. I think the official name for World 7 was Tube Land, but we always called it Pipe Land. I think it was objectively the toughest (nothing so frustrating as getting stuck in a pipe with nothing but dead ends and all you can do is wait for the time to run out and die), but Sky Land was always treacherous for me as I have a fear of falling. I'd yank my controller up like I was an airplane pilot. Ha!

Gotta love Tanooki Mario.

But the game would've been cooler with Screw Attack!

mcd1400de · #43 Post by **mcd1400de** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:07 am

Spoiler

andrewjackson wrote:QoD July 18, 2008

2. Ben Nevis is the highest mountain on what island?
Ireland

2. What Roman emperor was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus?
Nero

2. Let’s try a picture again. What is the common name of this marsupial, Myrmecobius fasciatus?
I don't know.... North American something... pygmy marmoset? Crap.

2. What color is the Nine ball in a standard U.S. set of billiard balls?
White with a yellow stripe

andrewjackson · #44 Post by **andrewjackson** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:14 am

QoD July 18, 2008

ANSWERS

2. Ben Nevis is the highest mountain on what island?

Great Britain. I accepted "Britain" but I probably shouldn't have.

2. What Roman emperor was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus?

Nero

2. Let’s try a picture again. What is the common name of this marsupial, Myrmecobius fasciatus?

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia ... 28228A.jpg

or

http://www.das-tierlexikon.de/data/medi ... ciatus.jpg

Numbat It doesn't look like what you would expect a numbat to look like does it?

2. What color is the Nine ball in a standard U.S. set of billiard balls?

Usually white with a yellow stripe. I gave credit if you had yellow in there somewhere.

POINTS

Tough day with a few 6s and lots of 4s and 2s. I'll update the Standings thread eventually.

jsuchard - 6
Nelly - 6
Confessor - 6
mrk - 6
KT - 6
tanstaafl - 6
Uly - 6
wintergreen - 4
AnnieC - 4
Marley - 4
pea - 4
Fanny - 4
VAdame - 4
TBone - 4
sprots - 4
mcd - 4
sunflower - 2
gsabc - 2
Rexer - 2
catfish - 2
LFHP - 2
kroxquo - 2
Hambone - 2

tanstaafl2 · #45 Post by **tanstaafl2** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:48 am

So, is there a reason for the question all being numbered with a 2? Or is that some sort of secret game within a game?

andrewjackson · #46 Post by **andrewjackson** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:12 am

tanstaafl2 wrote:So, is there a reason for the question all being numbered with a 2? Or is that some sort of secret game within a game?

On one day last week I mistakenly had two question #2s. This was pointed out by a couple of people so I made this quiz have all #2s.

We may soon have a quiz with all #4s. Or even (gasp)no numbers at all.

It will be pandelirium.

andrewjackson · #47 Post by **andrewjackson** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:13 am

Oh, BTW, also coming soon: the all soccer QoD!

Look for it!

Rexer25 · #48 Post by **Rexer25** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:19 am

andrewjackson wrote:Oh, BTW, also coming soon: the all soccer QoD!

Look for it!

This is all your fault, Elwood!!?!

Here's Fanny! · #49 Post by **Here's Fanny!** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:44 pm

andrewjackson wrote:Oh, BTW, also coming soon: the all soccer QoD!

Look for it!

Great! Because I know four things about soccer!

Except one of them is from A day. Rats. Oh well, 6 points will be 2 more points than I usually get. Ha!

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