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PlacentiaSoccerMom · #26 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:24 am

I am #83 right now. I got a question about a Pharaoh tonight.

TheConfessor · #27 Post by **TheConfessor** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 2:15 am

As of now, I am #3. I got a question about a movie pirate. The answer was Jack Sparrow.

ulysses5019 · #28 Post by **ulysses5019** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 6:00 am

I never got my email so I went into my account to get the question.....I missed a question about Gogothlay.....good luck finding out who this was.....

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #29 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:01 am

ulysses5019 wrote:I never got my email so I went into my account to get the question.....I missed a question about Gogothlay.....good luck finding out who this was.....

I've never heard of Gogothlay. Are they making stuff up now?

SportsFan68 · #30 Post by **SportsFan68** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:04 am

ulysses5019 wrote:This game has me wondering......how many different questions do they ask each day? I wonder if people sign up with several different accounts, see the questions during the day and then use their main account to answer a question they have already seen. This is just speculation. I know that I am slow and I am taking extra care to answer correctly since I missed at least two questions last month rushing to answer.

I missed the 1936 Berlin Olympics because I saw 1936 and hit that answer, but unfortunately the second 1936 was a different site. So when I took the survey on how to improve, I told him to make sure the first word on all choices was different. So far, it hasn't come up again.

ulysses5019 · #31 Post by **ulysses5019** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:23 am

I've never heard of Gogothlay. Are they making stuff up now?

It wasn't made up but if you tried to google that name you would come up with nothing. The question asked which real person was born Gogothlay. I truly had no idea and guessed Spartacus. They gave me the answer and I tried googling Gogothlay and got nothing. So I went and looked up the answer and found what I assume to be the correct spelling. The sploofus answer was close. Anyway, this was my first miss this month and as of 9am I am back in the 300's. I'll give the correct answer later for those who care.

ulysses5019 · #32 Post by **ulysses5019** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:27 am

Oh yes, psm, I saw your handle on the board last night, but you had already slipped to #87. I will be in the 400's by noon.

SportsFan68 · #33 Post by **SportsFan68** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:47 am

Mine was easy today, about the order of the state quarters.

I'm very interested in the correct answer, Uly.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #34 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:01 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:Mine was easy today, about the order of the state quarters.

I'm very interested in the correct answer, Uly.

Me too!

themanintheseersuckersuit · #35 Post by **themanintheseersuckersuit** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:01 pm

I've had 2 sports questions so far this month and both have been easy so I'm moving up.

ulysses5019 · #36 Post by **ulysses5019** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:57 pm

They must have a zillion questions in their database. I don't think I've had any sports q's this month. I can't remember my choices for Gogothly other than the one I answered and the correct answer.......Geronimo. Wiki says it's either Goyathlay or Goyahkla. But I can't find the sploofus spelling anywhere. And congrats to tmitsss and the others who are perfect so far this month. My miss has me nearing the 500 mark.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #37 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 5:25 pm

ulysses5019 wrote:Oh yes, psm, I saw your handle on the board last night, but you had already slipped to #87. I will be in the 400's by noon.

I am already out of the top 100.

ulysses5019 · #38 Post by **ulysses5019** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:24 am

So, I get today's (tomorrow's I guess) q correct and I'm back in the hot 100 for a few minutes.

TheConfessor · #39 Post by **TheConfessor** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:52 am

I just got my question about Venezuelan geography. I went from #44 to #2. I think it's easier to move up on the weekend, when cubicle dwellers are away from the office. Then they come back to work(?) on Mondays and answer a backlog of three questions.

ulysses5019 · #40 Post by **ulysses5019** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:37 am

I just got my question about Venezuelan geography. I went from #44 to #2. I think it's easier to move up on the weekend, when cubicle dwellers are away from the office. Then they come back to work(?) on Mondays and answer a backlog of three questions.

That makes sense. Oh, and my q was about ancient Greece.

kayrharris · #41 Post by **kayrharris** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:34 pm

I'm hurt ya'll don't consider me competition. I'm currently at Level 11, whatever that means, and I'm 4857 of 44042, which means Im' about in the top 11%. Not quite the top 100. Oh well....

My question today was a vocabulary question...which one of these words doesn't belong. I answered correctly in 9.13 seconds.

ne1410s · #42 Post by **ne1410s** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:38 pm

Am now #64. Will be in the hundreds by tomorrow morn.

Question was name of country formerly Ceylon.

ulysses5019 · #43 Post by **ulysses5019** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:44 am

It pays to stay up late and be one of the first to answer.....I'm #49...and then everyone wakes up and bumps me out.

ulysses5019 · #44 Post by **ulysses5019** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:27 am

I'm awake and falling faster than Bear Stearns stock to #104.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #45 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:28 am

Despite my correct answer today, I am ranked #348. I missed my question yesterday.

themanintheseersuckersuit · #46 Post by **themanintheseersuckersuit** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:30 am

Before answering this morning I was 50, I got it right and jumped to 5, now down to 8.

ulysses5019 · #47 Post by **ulysses5019** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:53 am

Not related to sploofus, but I played my Monday night bar trivia. We sucked and missed the final question on population.......which one syllable city in the United States has the largest population?
But who cares about that? We had the best team name of the night, "You can have my answers when you pry them from my cold dead fingers". Ok, not so pc but other teams include Gaydolf Titler, Church of the Latter Day Skanks and the Tullamore Jews.

Spoiler

Flint

TheConfessor · #48 Post by **TheConfessor** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:29 am

My question never arrived today. Until I read this somewhere in this thread, I didn't know that you can sign on and take your daily question on demand, so that's what I did just now.

I've been registered with Sploofus for about 11 months and have accumulated 333,638 total points. I am at level 25.4. I am ranked #6536 out of 44,037. That all sounded reasonable, until I saw the point totals some other people have. There are several people who have somehow accumulated in the neighborhood of 40 billion points. I don't know how that happens. I guess I'm going to have to live a long time to pass them.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #49 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:49 am

TheConfessor wrote:My question never arrived today. Until I read this somewhere in this thread, I didn't know that you can sign on and take your daily question on demand, so that's what I did just now.

I've been registered with Sploofus for about 11 months and have accumulated 333,638 total points. I am at level 25.4. I am ranked #6536 out of 44,037. That all sounded reasonable, until I saw the point totals some other people have. There are several people who have somehow accumulated in the neighborhood of 40 billion points. I don't know how that happens. I guess I'm going to have to live a long time to pass them.

I think that you can get more points if you take additional trivia quizzes.

themanintheseersuckersuit · #50 Post by **themanintheseersuckersuit** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:01 pm

TheConfessor wrote:My question never arrived today. Until I read this somewhere in this thread, I didn't know that you can sign on and take your daily question on demand, so that's what I did just now.

I've been registered with Sploofus for about 11 months and have accumulated 333,638 total points. I am at level 25.4. I am ranked #6536 out of 44,037. That all sounded reasonable, until I saw the point totals some other people have. There are several people who have somehow accumulated in the neighborhood of 40 billion points. I don't know how that happens. I guess I'm going to have to live a long time to pass them.

I think if you are a paying subscriber you can make bets with accumulated points to raise your totals.