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I missed a religion question.

If I had gotten it right, I would have catapulted to #1 on the leader board (or at least a very close #2).

A religion question!

Actually, it was Roman Catholic Church question, but I still should have gotten it. In fact, I talked myself out of the right answer.

I feel your pain. I've been struggling my way up this month after a bad start.

Congrats on having the opportunity to catapult yourself.

I am doing the happy dance that I am in triple digits.

Or, I was the last time I played.

I'm 24th for now.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:I missed a religion question.

If I had gotten it right, I would have catapulted to #1 on the leader board (or at least a very close #2).

A religion question!

Actually, it was Roman Catholic Church question, but I still should have gotten it. In fact, I talked myself out of the right answer.

So, are you "losing your religion"? I'm just happy to be in the top 100 with my two misses so far this month.

ulysses5019 wrote: I'm just happy to be in the top 100 with my two misses so far this month.

Ditto for me!

This is my best month yet.

I just answered two that I had not done yet and I am up to 257!

How cools is that?

Very cool, I tell you.

I have 2 misses as well. But I've had some excellent times on a few, and the time bonus is really good if you can answer in around 3 seconds.

Today's I got in 2.77 seconds. And it was geography.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:I missed a religion question.

Maybe it was just bad karma.

I've missed at least three this month -- when I've remembered to log in and get my question, since they don't seem to send daily e-mails anymore.

I'm never faster than 5 seconds, using the TrackPoint on my ThinkPad. Usually more like 7 seconds.

The questions stay viable for ten days, so even if you don't log in every day you can still answer them.

since they don't seem to send daily e-mails anymore.

Me, too, neither.

I can't read a question in 2.77 seconds, much less read it and answer it.

Color me impressed.

I don't feel much shame in missing the following question

In which United Kingdom county will you find the 'Alton Towers' theme park?

The correct answer was:

Spoiler

"Staffordshire"

THIS QUESTION HAS BEEN ANSWERED
CORRECTLY 24.8% OF THE TIME

Question ID: 9222258

Correct 24.8% of the time tells me I wasn't the only person with a WAG

Today's question about Lemony Snickets' "real name".

It wouldn't take my answer for several seconds. I clicked on Daniel Handler---it said "Sorry, the correct answer is Daniel Handler--I am outraged!!

ne1410s wrote:Today's question about Lemony Snickets' "real name".

It wouldn't take my answer for several seconds. I clicked on Daniel Handler---it said "Sorry, the correct answer is Daniel Handler--I am outraged!!

Oh, they meant the other Daniel Handler.

I missed another today.

Geography. The bane of my trivia existence.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:I missed another today.

Geography. The bane of my trivia existence.

I will join this series of unfortunate answers......

Who knew that Eddie Rochester, besides being the valet to Jack Benny, was also Jane Eyre's husband.

ulysses5019 wrote:

TheCalvinator24 wrote:I missed another today.

Geography. The bane of my trivia existence.

I will join this series of unfortunate answers......

Who knew that Eddie Rochester, besides being the valet to Jack Benny, was also Jane Eyre's husband.

Ok, it is Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (Edmund Lincoln Rochester). That hussy's hubby is Edward Fairfax Rochester.....still..... I thought they were trying to fool me.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:I missed another today.

Geography. The bane of my trivia existence.

You're still ahead of me by 237.

Which of these is not among the top four elements in the human body:

hydrogen
carbon
calcium
oxygen
nitrogen

I reasoned since we are muchly water, hydrogen and oxygen are up there. Also we are carbon-based so not that, leaving calcium and nitrogen.

I was tempted by the potential prevalence of calcium in our bones, but chose that as the outlier, believing there is nitrogen gases in our blood and elsewhere.

Which was correct.

Having seen a version of this in the past few months (what is the 4th most prevalent element?) helped get the initial reasoning out of the way.

I can't shake ggossage (again)!

Ritterskoop wrote:Which of these is not among the top four elements in the human body:

hydrogen
carbon
calcium
oxygen
nitrogen

I reasoned since we are muchly water, hydrogen and oxygen are up there. Also we are carbon-based so not that, leaving calcium and nitrogen.

I was tempted by the potential prevalence of calcium in our bones, but chose that as the outlier, believing there is nitrogen gases in our blood and elsewhere.

Which was correct.

Having seen a version of this in the past few months (what is the 4th most prevalent element?) helped get the initial reasoning out of the way.

Much as with the question I PAFed for Barbarella, SF author Fred Pohl can be of help here. Nearly every organic molecule is made primarily of just four elements: Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen. In one of his novels (I don't remember which one) Pohl referred to CHON food. If you look at the four bases of DNA, they are also primarily these four elements. All the others (metals like calcium, etc.) they are important, but present only in trace amounts.

I am on fire this month!

I am still in triple digits and for the first time ever, that digit begins with a 1!

The bar is a bit low for me.

OK, here's a stupid question.

I had been getting the e-mail reminders for several weeks and played daily. When they stopped coming, I figured that for some reason there was a glitch in the system, and I continually forgot to play. Now, I see that others no longer get the e-mails.

My question is: How do I get to the Question of the Day now? I used to just cut and paste the web link they provided. I can't find it on the front page of Sploofus, only leaderboards and the like. I'm sure I'm just missing it.

starfish1113 wrote:My question is: How do I get to the Question of the Day now? I used to just cut and paste the web link they provided. I can't find it on the front page of Sploofus, only leaderboards and the like. I'm sure I'm just missing it.

http://www.sploofus.com/account.sp?msg=exp

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