October Quiz Results
Saturday October 28th
The October quiz competitive scoring period is now over. If you haven't yet attempted the quiz, you can still do the quiz and get a score but your score won't be included in this monthly result summary. The November quiz is completed and will be released on Wednesday November 1.
This months easy quiz resulted in a bag of high scores. Nobody scored less than 60% and the midpoint for the group was 80%.
Our two equal winners are BobHarmony(Bob) and GFamily.
Both scored 100% and both in two minutes.
The forum timer only measures to the nearest minute so I can't separate them. Bob, I hope you don't retire, otherwise we may need to pass this off as a fluke!
Contentious Questions
1. Some of you will note that your scores are 10% higher than your original scores. That is because I broadened the number of allowable correct answers on one contentious question during the month.
KT4HX(Alan) & GFamily both queried the question about the most common galaxy type. I had based my answer upon a NASA reference but it seems NASA are not a reliable source of information and I won't rely upon them as an authoritative single source in future. A survey of different sources variously quoted Dwarf, Elliptical and Spiral as the most common types. So I changed the answer key to make all three correct and I manually corrected the scores of those who did the quiz before I changed the answer key because the recorded scoring doesn't apply corrections to scores retrospectively.
2. Sparweb pointed out that Sagittarius was also a hunter with weapons. He did this in a post on this thread early in the month potentially spoiling the quiz for others, so I hid his post. His post is now visible again. Again, I ask that if you have a comment that potentially acts as a spoiler do not post it publicly during the quiz period(the current month), rather send me a PM or else wait until the end of the month when the quiz is closed then you can post whatever you want.
However, in this case, I think it's pretty common knowledge that Orion is a hunter with multiple weapons. Sparweb's interpretation shows an excellent knowledge of Greek mythology but Sagittarius is a centaur who hunts and only has one weapon. Everybody else answered Orion and I decided it was unreasonable to change the answer marking everybody else wrong when the answer was reasonably obvious. You can read Sparweb's post here:
viewtopic.php?t=32130&p=255075#p255075
We had:-
2 on 100%..........BobHarmony(Bob) and GFamily
6 on 90%............MikeQ, KT4HX, SDBODIN, KATHYNS, JAYTEE, THEFATKITTY,
4 on 80%............
Messier 111, BIGZMEY, PIXELSAURUS, HELICON
6 on 70%............JSBACH1801, SPARWEB, ANTENNAGUY, GRAEME1858, MICHAEL131313, JUNO16
Average score, excluding the people who didn't answer anything was 80%.
% #
0 ..............4....Persons who started the quiz but didn't answer anything
10..............1....Persons who started the quiz but only answered 1 Q
20..............1....Persons who started the quiz but only answered 2 Q's
30..............0
40..............0
50..............0
60..............2....SKYHIKER, CARASTRO
70..............6....JSBACH1801, SPARWEB, ANTENNAGGUY, GRAEME1858, MICHAEL131313, JUNO16
80..............4....
Messier 111, BIGZMEY, PIXELSAURUS, HELICON
90..............6....Mike Q, KT4HX(Alan), SDBODIN, KATHYNS, JAYTEE, THE FAT KITTY
100 ...........2....BOBHARMONY. GFAMILY. both 2 minutes
Monthly Poll Question:
We had a clear winner indicating variety is the spice of life.
Q: What object class is your favourite type of observing target?
Sun
Ha or White light.....................................0
Moon.............................................................0
Planets...........................................................2
Double Stars..................................................1
Deep Sky Objects...........................................7
Stupid question - all of them, and more ......14
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