October Sploofus Standings

[JBillyGirl]

As I predicted would happen eventually, Sports Soup did me in today. How should I know anything about NASCAR?

[TheCalvinator24]

As I predicted would happen eventually, Sports Soup did me in today. How should I know anything about NASCAR?

As a trivia maven, you should (and my guess is you do) know at least a little about a wide variety of topics that otherwise do not interest you.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

Sploofus was very good to me this morning!

[ulysses5019]

Sploofus was very good to me this morning!

I hope you and Jeff kept the door closed.

[SportsFan68]

How come you get all the Alice Cooper questions and they foist off all the geography stuff on me?

I would gladly trade, Ms. Fanny. I actually can't recall a recent geography question (he said, tempting the Sploofus gods).

It would not be exaggerating to say that, in an average week, 5 of my questions are Geography or World Events. I think they have some sort of algorithm to give you the categories in which you have the lowest percentage of correct answers in your history.

I should test this by changing my exemption from Science to Geography, since I got my one and only Physical Science question correct (my very first QOD ever and a completely blind stab that, if I recall, less than 10% got right).

I think it's random. In a five-day spread, I got four Vocabulary Qs, which I almost always get right.

[gsabc]

I knew I'd jinx myself. Got a geography question for Saturday. Got it right, though, then answered Sunday's question correctly by remembering that Douglas Adams's initials were DNA. So I've vaulted into 9th place overall.

This computer is definitely faster. Both questions in well under five seconds. At work, I'm usually in the 5-7 second range due to the processing lag. I'll be Sploofusing from home from now on.

[OCDer]

as of 2:30pm edt 10-27-08

only those in the overall top 500 shown

34130 Plasticene
33907 Gobobbygo
33577 Juliannars
33258 Ritterskoop
31725 Mrkelley23
31452 Jbillygirl
31377 Nitrah55
31079 Tmitsss
31043 Gsabc
31007 Frogman042
30720 Weyoun
30334 Trevormcphee
29309 Killertomato
28648 Vadame
28518 Foosesb
28498 Estonut
28318 Ggossage
28013 Ne1410s
27978 Silvercamaro
27539 1000aire
27149 Andrewjackson
27141 Peter5858
27055 Nellunatic1980
26784 Thecalvinator
26764 Rexer25
25226 Panicindetroit
25087 Backintex
24825 Theconfessor
24709 Clem21
24443 Mikehardware
24428 Kayrharris
24194 Njwizard
24092 Barbotte
23916 Eyegor
23840 Gotribego26
23650 Winegreg
23470 Ulysses5019

[kayrharris]

Woo hoo! My best showing ever! Let's see if I can blow it the last
few days left in October.

[gsabc]

Real slow last night because it was "Music & Musicians" and an album title/artist matchup. Managed to guess it correctly, though. Why can't they ask anything about the soft rock groups? In the top 10 at that point, but last among the other BBs in that group. There are still about a dozen of us on the first page of the leaderboard. We are good.

[OCDer]

as of 2:50pm edt 10-28-08

35388 Plasticene
35169 Gobobbygo
34665 Ritterskoop
33577 Juliannars
32670 Nitrah55
32217 Gsabc
32010 Killertomato
31725 Mrkelley23
31674 Trevormcphee
31452 Jbillygirl
31079 Tmitsss
31007 Frogman042
30720 Weyoun
29932 Estonut
29872 Foosesb
29418 Silvercamaro
28880 1000aire
28648 Vadame
28480 Andrewjackson
28404 Peter5858
28318 Ggossage
28039 Rexer25
28013 Ne1410s
27055 Nellunatic1980
26784 Thecalvinator
26199 Clem21
26139 Theconfessor
25506 Kayrharris
25485 Eyegor
25226 Panicindetroit
25203 Gotribego26
25087 Backintex
24839 Ulysses5019
24767 Winegreg
24443 Mikehardware
24316 Jarnon
24293 Bumpa
24194 Njwizard

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

My computer connection has been wonky, so I haven't been Sploofusing.

[gsabc]

My computer connection has been wonky, so I haven't been Sploofusing.

Looks like you got it fixed, Ms. #1. Congrats.

BBs make up four of the top five, as of 9:15 AM ET today.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

My computer connection has been wonky, so I haven't been Sploofusing.

Looks like you got it fixed, Ms. #1. Congrats.

BBs make up four of the top five, as of 9:15 AM ET today.

I've been lucky with my questions. I got asked the lead singer of Led Zeppelin and got a lot of points answering that question.

[frogman042]

Like last month, sinking like a stone on the endgame - missed the last 2 - but on the brightside I'm still in double digits, much higher then I ever expected to be.

---Jay

[OCDer]

as of 2:00pm edt on 10-29-08

No rankings tomorrow, and no promises for Friday.

37318 Juliannars
36758 Plasticene
36595 Gobobbygo
36000 Mrkelley23
35818 Ritterskoop
33860 Nitrah55
33582 Gsabc
32969 Trevormcphee
32010 Killertomato
31452 Jbillygirl
31358 Foosesb
31079 Tmitsss
31007 Frogman042
30755 Silvercamaro
30720 Weyoun
30063 1000aire
29980 Vadame
29971 Andrewjackson
29932 Estonut
29619 Peter5858
29167 Rexer25
28318 Ggossage
28013 Ne1410s
27924 Thecalvinator
27786 Panicindetroit
27692 Clem21
27496 Theconfessor
27055 Nellunatic1980
26191 Backintex
26150 Ulysses5019
25960 Winegreg
25506 Kayrharris
25485 Eyegor
25467 Bumpa
25383 Njwizard
25341 Barbotte
25203 Gotribego26

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

I answered my question for Thursday and got it correct. I have one more question to go for the month and if I get it right, I will have had a perfect month with no missed questions.

I was hoping to break 40,000 for the month, but I will have to get 1.377 points on my last question to do it. Today I got 1,305 points, which is about average for me, so I am not sure if I will be able to do it.

[ToLiveIsToFly]

I answered my question for Thursday and got it correct. I have one more question to go for the month and if I get it right, I will have had a perfect month with no missed questions.

I was hoping to break 40,000 for the month, but I will have to get 1.377 points on my last question to do it. Today I got 1,305 points, which is about average for me, so I am not sure if I will be able to do it.

What happens if you don't get around to answering the question on the last day of the month until a couple days later?

I got lucky AGAIN. I am defying the laws of probability. 4th or 5th time in a row I was able to rule out one or two choices and the one I ended up picking turned out to the right one.

I have missed at least 2-3 questions.

Congrats to all of y'all who will beat me, and to the couple dozen more who deserve to beat me and will beat me most months.

[Ritterskoop]

I overthought an easy geography question just now, and probably will not get to answer Friday's question. I think I may be able to stay in the top 20 for the month regardless.

Congrats to the leader - I hope she stays one of us!

[gsabc]

I have missed at least 2-3 questions.

I have missed three. I think I'll stay on the first page of the leaderboard, which is my main goal. Getting a top 10 is possible, though, and so I will pray to the Sploofus gods that I don't get "Which one of these is not the title of a Mott the Hoople album?" in the next two days.

Go PSM Go!

[Rexer25]

I just punted a baseball question about the disappointed guest in the Congrats, Phillies thread. I couldn't remember who he played for when he hit 2 grand slams in one game. I knew he played for the Rangers, Expos and Phillies, but I forgot who the Rangers traded him to.

I was hoping to break the Hot 100 for the month. I'm gonna hafta score big tomorrow to make it, I think.

Good luck to the other BBs sploofusing.

[Fernando Tatis]

I just punted a baseball question about the disappointed guest in the Congrats, Phillies thread. I couldn't remember who he played for when he hit 2 grand slams in one game. I knew he played for the Rangers, Expos and Phillies, but I forgot who the Rangers traded him to.

I had the best years of my career with the Cardinals! And that's despite the fact that I had to endure Paquette as a teammate while I was there!

I don't remember playing for the Phillies, but then again, I was getting drunk most of the time after I left the Expos, so I may have been playing for the Coors Light Silver Bullets for all I know....

[plasticene]

I answered my question for Thursday and got it correct. I have one more question to go for the month and if I get it right, I will have had a perfect month with no missed questions.

I was hoping to break 40,000 for the month, but I will have to get 1.377 points on my last question to do it. Today I got 1,305 points, which is about average for me, so I am not sure if I will be able to do it.

What happens if you don't get around to answering the question on the last day of the month until a couple days later?

I got lucky AGAIN. I am defying the laws of probability. 4th or 5th time in a row I was able to rule out one or two choices and the one I ended up picking turned out to the right one.

I have missed at least 2-3 questions.

Congrats to all of y'all who will beat me, and to the couple dozen more who deserve to beat me and will beat me most months.

Bravo to both of you. I've missed two so far, with one to go. On both of the ones I missed, I was able to rule out two choices, and in both cases the right answer was one of the two I ruled out! Good luck to everyone tomorrow!

[Bob Juch]

I missed five the first week and three in the last week so I'm in the cellar.

[littlebeast13]

I missed five the first week and three in the last week so I'm in the cellar.

I'll bet you're beating me.....

lb13

[ToLiveIsToFly]

I have missed at least 2-3 questions.

I have missed three. I think I'll stay on the first page of the leaderboard, which is my main goal. Getting a top 10 is possible, though, and so I will pray to the Sploofus gods that I don't get "Which one of these is not the title of a Mott the Hoople album?" in the next two days.

Go PSM Go!

Well, cheese and crackers, why don't you just take ten minutes and study up on the Mott the Hoople albums?