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I just read the rules. If you get any part of the QoD wrong (or don't answer any part) you get a big fat zero.

Just so ya know.

That is correct.

I can't tell you how many time I spent 45 minutes to 2 hours working through a TR QoD, only to wind up with zero points because I got one part wrong.

It was frustrating, but it made me (and I believe all who played) better Googlers.

Good reminder. All or nothing.

OK, so my first foray into the QoD turns out to be for naught, as I failed to answer one part of the question. C'est la vie.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:That is correct.

I can't tell you how many time I spent 45 minutes to 2 hours working through a TR QoD, only to wind up with zero points because I got one part wrong.

It was frustrating, but it made me (and I believe all who played) better Googlers.

Or it made some of us not play at all.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

TheCalvinator24 wrote:That is correct.

I can't tell you how many time I spent 45 minutes to 2 hours working through a TR QoD, only to wind up with zero points because I got one part wrong.

It was frustrating, but it made me (and I believe all who played) better Googlers.

Or it made some of us not play at all.

I can't make people play, but I am trying to keep my QoDs not so complicated. That way, even though they are all or nothing, there should be no reluctance to playing.

Partial credit is a scoring nightmare.

I like it.

I also have an opinion (surprise, surprise!)

Anyone who wants to get into the hotseat would be better off playing, even if just for knowledge and not for winning the game.

peacock2121 wrote:I also have an opinion (surprise, surprise!)

Anyone who wants to get into the hotseat would be better off playing, even if just for knowledge and not for winning the game.

I also agree with that. There have been a number of QoD questions that later showed up on the show. As I mentioned last week, that specifically included Rod Martin's $500K question.

My thoughts exactly, and that's why I'm going to be a diehard player.

QoD points are nice and all, but I'd rather have the million.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:I also have an opinion (surprise, surprise!)

Anyone who wants to get into the hotseat would be better off playing, even if just for knowledge and not for winning the game.

I also agree with that. There have been a number of QoD questions that later showed up on the show. As I mentioned last week, that specifically included Rod Martin's $500K question.

TheCalvinator24 wrote: I can't tell you how many time I spent 45 minutes to 2 hours working through a TR QoD, only to wind up with zero points because I got one part wrong.

Those were the days in which I developed a standard answer for all QoD questions:

Screw it.

Hey SC, is that picture really you?

Odyssey wrote:Hey SC, is that picture really you?

I'm pretty sure it is.

Not sure who the chick in the pants suit is, though....

TheCalvinator24 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:I also have an opinion (surprise, surprise!)

Anyone who wants to get into the hotseat would be better off playing, even if just for knowledge and not for winning the game.

I also agree with that. There have been a number of QoD questions that later showed up on the show. As I mentioned last week, that specifically included Rod Martin's $500K question.

And my $125K question back in December 2000 - asked on the very day I taped, IIRC. I do read through the questions and answers even if I don't play, because I want to keep up with things. J! is still out there as a goal for me and the more I know the better off I'll be.

Odyssey wrote:Hey SC, is that picture really you?

Do I seem like the kind of person who hangs out with enormous tubers? I mean, a giant yam, maybe, or a husky rutabaga, but....

Maybe you were just passing by?
You're obviously the type of person that posts pictures of enormous tubers...so what's the connection?

silvercamaro wrote:

Odyssey wrote:Hey SC, is that picture really you?

Do I seem like the kind of person who hangs out with enormous tubers? I mean, a giant yam, maybe, or a husky rutabaga, but....

silvercamaro wrote:

Odyssey wrote:Hey SC, is that picture really you?

Do I seem like the kind of person who hangs out with enormous tubers? I mean, a giant yam, maybe, or a husky rutabaga, but....

Well, you hang around here with a bunch of goobers, so who knows?

silvercamaro wrote:
Those were the days in which I developed a standard answer for all QoD questions

In the event my flip answer should be misinterpreted, I was not suggesting that the current QoD is not a most excellent game, nor that the current QoD meister has issues similar to those once seemingly apparent within the game construction, etc., etc. Like Earendel, I read the questions and answers every day. I simply play silently.

I was around for some of those TR games. My head hurt just trying to figure out what was being asked most of the time.

These are different times.

I like it.

silvercamaro wrote:

silvercamaro wrote:
Those were the days in which I developed a standard answer for all QoD questions

In the event my flip answer should be misinterpreted, I was not suggesting that the current QoD is not a most excellent game, nor that the current QoD meister has issues similar to those once seemingly apparent within the game construction, etc., etc. Like Earendel, I read the questions and answers every day. I simply play silently.

I did not take offense.

I don't think I'm trying to show how much I know when I run the QoD. In fact, I've had to research these questions myself.

I will, however, admit that so far, the questions have been directly influenced by recent events in my life. I watched schindler's List last week (for the first time), I played Poker at the Winstar casino on Saturday (and won $46), and my Macintosh bit the dust yesterday.

Odyssey wrote:Maybe you were just passing by?

Not only was I passing by, but I demanded that we stop. After all, that very spud was once featured in National Geographic!

If I were going to use somebody else's photo, I would have found somebody much taller with better hair.

silvercamaro wrote:

Odyssey wrote:Maybe you were just passing by?

Not only was I passing by, but I demanded that we stop. After all, that very spud was once featured in National Geographic!

If I were going to use somebody else's photo, I would have found somebody much taller with better hair.

Come on, you look very lovely and ultra-fashionable! Neat to see you! I sure wouldn't look that put together for a stop on the roadside.

Odyssey wrote: Come on, you look very lovely and ultra-fashionable! Neat to see you! I sure wouldn't look that put together for a stop on the roadside.

I have spent hot and humid days with Uday. When I was dripping sweat and looking like and feeling like a wet washcloth, Uday was always sharp and put together.

As BDM puts it "She's a lady."

Odyssey wrote: I sure wouldn't look that put together for a stop on the roadside.

I was dressed rather more properly than I might normally have been for spud-seeing. We were driving back to my son's house, following his badge-pinning ceremony as a firefighter last spring. (This is the son known as Adventure Boy, or sometimes Fire Boy.)

peacock2121 wrote:
As BDM puts it "She's a lady."

I believe he used exactly the same words about Janet the Duck.