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  • Looking forward to "Jamie's Trivia Questions" ?

    From James Dow Allen@user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid to rec.games.trivia on Mon Aug 3 09:10:40 2026
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    I was a good sport, posting in the Final Round even though I'll get Zero
    on some categories. But I had an ulterior motive for embarrassing myself.

    Will some of you guys be good sports and respond if I try to operate my own trivia contest? Please respond to this and pretend to be enthusiastic about it!

    The basic format and rules will be similar to Mark Brader's. Post if
    you have ideas for different rules. i guess Mark's 4/3/2 approach when
    a 2nd answer is submitted is good, but maybe I'll go with 4/3/3.
    No penalty for minor spelling error; subtract 1 if only surname is correct; subtract 1 or 2 if the answer is partially or approximately correct.

    I've got some categories (incl. Astronomy and Who_Wrote_This?) and
    questions prepared.

    I notice that Mark's latest Round is "Final." Does that mean I should wait while players take a break?
    Or does it mean I should hurry up and launch "Jamie's Trivia Questions" soon?

    Cheers,
    Jamie



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  • From Erland Sommarskog@esquel@sommarskog.se to rec.games.trivia on Mon Aug 3 22:41:27 2026
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    James Dow Allen (user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid) writes:
    Will some of you guys be good sports and respond if I try to operate my
    own trivia contest? Please respond to this and pretend to be
    enthusiastic about it!

    I guess we will if we know some answers.

    I notice that Mark's latest Round is "Final." Does that mean I should
    wait while players take a break?

    That "final" has nothing to do with rec.games.triva. Mark is reposting questions from his pub quiz league in Toronto where each time is responsible for a season (by some definition), and the last round works a little
    different from the rest, and therefore are marked final.

    So just go ahead.
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  • From msb@msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) to rec.games.trivia on Tue Aug 4 06:50:00 2026
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    James Dow Allen:
    Will some of you guys be good sports and respond if I try to operate my
    own trivia contest? Please respond to this and pretend to be
    enthusiastic about it!

    I notice that Mark's latest Round is "Final." Does that mean I should
    wait while players take a break?

    Erland Sommarskog:
    That "final" has nothing to do with rec.games.triva. Mark is reposting questions from his pub quiz league...

    Or as I said: For further information please see my 2026-03-10
    companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
    (QFTCI*)".
    --
    Mark Brader | Caution
    msb@vex.net | Do not run on the stairs
    Toronto | Use the hand rail
    -- notice at British train station

    My text in this article is in the public domain.

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  • From Dan Tilque@dtilque@frontier.com to rec.games.trivia on Tue Aug 4 09:24:15 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.games.trivia

    I tried to followup Jamie's message, but it was rejected somewhere along
    the way. Something about an empty dns record. If that continues, I'll
    have problems participating in his quizzes. Don't get me wrong, I'd like
    to join in.

    On 8/3/26 13:41, Erland Sommarskog wrote:
    James Dow Allen (user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid) writes:
    Will some of you guys be good sports and respond if I try to operate my
    own trivia contest? Please respond to this and pretend to be
    enthusiastic about it!

    I guess we will if we know some answers.

    That is a potential issue. If we don't know any answers, we don't
    participate. Low participation has happened a few times in Mark's
    quizzes because of that.


    So just go ahead.

    Yes, don't worry about Mark's contests. They're based on pub quizzes
    from months ago. He posts them every 3 days. Yours will be orthogonal to
    them.
    --
    Dan Tilque
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  • From Dan Tilque@dtilque@frontier.com to rec.games.trivia on Tue Aug 4 15:50:03 2026
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    A test to see if I can reply.
    --
    Dan Tilque
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  • From Dan Tilque@dtilque@frontier.com to rec.games.trivia on Tue Aug 4 15:53:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.games.trivia

    On 8/4/26 15:50, Dan Tilque wrote:
    A test to see if I can reply.


    OK, it looks like I did a Reply rather than a Followup the previous time
    I responded. The followup works, but you have an invalid email address
    in the From: line, so the Reply didn't work.
    --
    Dan Tilque
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  • From James Dow Allen@user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid to rec.games.trivia on Wed Aug 5 17:00:03 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.games.trivia


    Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com> posted:

    On 8/4/26 15:50, Dan Tilque wrote:
    A test to see if I can reply.

    OK, it looks like I did a Reply rather than a Followup the previous time
    I responded. The followup works, but you have an invalid email address
    in the From: line, so the Reply didn't work.


    Yeah, I'm using Newsgrouper. It works fine for me. Advise if there's a better SIMPLE option. One complaint I have about Newsgrouper: It seems not to handle Unicode/UTF-8. If one of my trivia questions needs an umlaut in the answer I'll
    just try to work it out. :-)

    Anyway, my e-mail address is similar to my name:
    jamesdowallen at Gmail.

    I've pruned my contest down to 45 questions in 4 categories. I notice
    Mark's rounds typically have 20 questions. Should I break mine into 2 rounds, or post 45 in a single swoop?

    I think many of my questions are hard. But I find many of Mark's to be hard. Anyway, I remember that 35 out of 100 was good enough for an "A" in Freshman Physics.

    I hope people try my contest. I've set an example by posting my dreadful results in a recent Brader contest.

    Cheers,
    Jamie
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  • From Erland Sommarskog@esquel@sommarskog.se to rec.games.trivia on Wed Aug 5 20:50:27 2026
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    James Dow Allen (user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid) writes:
    I've pruned my contest down to 45 questions in 4 categories. I notice Mark's rounds typically have 20 questions. Should I break mine into 2 rounds, or post 45 in a single swoop?

    45 at once is too many.

    Again, Mark's format is comes from his pub league.

    Myself, I post quizzes irregularly, and I go for 12 questions at a time. If
    you have 45, 15 at a time may be a sufficient dosage. Then again, if you
    have four categories, you may want to run one quiz per category, possibly
    two at a time.
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