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Each quiz takes me many hours to compose each month, coming up with new questions, researching answers, composing tempting alternative answers. Next, I use the quiz creation tool to do the the mark up. If you disagree with a question or answer, you are welcome to raise anything with me at any time discretely via PM.
However, I ask that, during the month the quiz is actively being played, that members please: - ______a) don't post spoilers indicating the nature or content of questions or answers ______b) don't post claims that answers are wrong.
The answers are checked and such claims are usually wrong usually because the entrant misinterprets the question or is recalling out of date information. Any such messages will be deleted as soon as I see them. To post spoilers for others because you've finished playing is just selfish. I am more than happy for you to post those very same comments on the forum and discuss them openly after everyone has played and the quiz has closed at the end of the month at which time I'll also post my comments explaining all the answers.
The quiz software records all quiz attempts. For the purpose of the fun competition, only your first attempt counts as your score.
The indication that the quiz has closed is when I post the results histogram usually early the next month.
7 out of 10 over here. So I get a "C". Thanks Joe for the fun quiz!
-Michael Refractors: ES AR152 f/6.5 Achromat on Twilight II, Celestron 102mm XLT f/9.8 on Celestron Heavy Duty Alt Az mount, KOWA 90mm spotting scope Binoculars: Celestron SkyMaster 15x70, Bushnell 10x50 Eyepieces: Various, GSO Superview, 9mm Plossl, Celestron 25mm Plossl Camera: ZWO ASI 120 Naked Eye: Two Eyeballs Latitude: 37.5446° N
Oh yeah! 90%, admittedly with a little help from my grandson.
* Meade 323 refractor on a manual equatorial mount.
* Celestron C6 SCT on a Twilight 1 Alt-Az mount
Prof. Barnhardt to Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still: "There are several thousand questions I'd like to ask you.”
Oh man i am writing this down.... I aced it. That will never happen again. When it came to question five instantly i remembered Carl Sagan's explaination in the Cosmos series.
AstroShed wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 1:35 pm
Hmmm, did really well today, that seemed a tad easier to me, I only had to guess 2 of them…
Hi Astroshed,
Looks like I made this one much too easy.
Average score so far from 8 people is 92.5, median is 100. 5/8 people have scored 100%, 4 others scored 90,90, 80,70. So, everyone's a winner this month.
I usually try to aim for more of a challenge and a better spread of scores. If I get the degree of difficulty right, maybe one or two get the highest scores, a few more get a level down from that and an average score somewhere between 50-70%.
Cheers
Joe
Joe Cali (OzEclipse)
34 South - The Hilltops Observatory
Hilltops region, Young, New South Wales, Australia. [148E, 34S]
Amateur astronomer since 1978.....Web site :http://joe-cali.com/.....Total & Annular Eclipses Observed:18 Scopes: ATM 18" Dob, Vixen VC200L, Hand Made 6"f7, Stellarvue 102ED, Saxon ED80, WO M70 ED, Orion 102 Maksutov, Coronado PST Binoculars: Celestron Skymaster Pro 15x70, SV Bony SV202 10x42ED Mounts: Takahashi EM-200, iOptron iEQ45, Push Dobsonian with Nexus DSC, 3 ATM EQ mounts. ..............Losmandy Starlapse, Vixen Polarie and Skywatcher Star Adventurer compact trackers. Eyepieces: TV Naglers 31, 17, 12, 7; Denkmeier D21 & D14; Pentax XW10, XW5. Cameras : ZWO ASI2600MC, Pentax K1, K5, K01, K10D / VIDEO CAMS : TacosBD, Lihmsec. Cam/guider/controllers: Lacerta MGEN 3, SW Synguider, Simulation Curriculum SkyFi 3+Sky safari Memberships The Sky Searchers (moderator); Astronomical Association of Queensland; RASNZ Occultations Section.
AstroShed wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 1:35 pm
Hmmm, did really well today, that seemed a tad easier to me, I only had to guess 2 of them…
Hi Astroshed,
Looks like I made this one much too easy.
Average score so far from 8 people is 92.5. 5/8 people have scored 100%, 3 others scored 90,80,70. So, everyone's a winner this month.
I usually try to aim for more of a challenge and a better spread of scores. If I get the degree of difficulty right, maybe one or two get the highest scores, a few more get a level down from that and an average score somewhere between 50-70%.
Thanks Joe. Got 90%, missing one I shouldn't have! Such is the life of an aging brain!
Alan
Scopes: Astro Sky 17.5 f/4.5 Dob || Apertura AD12 f/5 Dob || Zhumell Z10 f/4.9 Dob ||
ES AR127 f/6.5 || ES ED80 f/6 || Apertura 6" f/5 Newtonian
Mounts: ES Twilight-II and Twilight-I
EPs: AT 82° 28mm UWA || TV Ethos 100° 21mm and 13mm || Vixen LVW 65° 22mm ||
ES 82° 18mm || Pentax XW 70° 10mm, 7mm and 5mm || barlows
Filters (2 inch): DGM NPB || Orion Ultra Block, O-III and Sky Glow || Baader HaB
Primary Field Atlases: Uranometria All-Sky Edition and Interstellarum Deep Sky Atlas
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"Astronomers, we look into the past to see our future." (me)
"Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt." (William Herschel)
"What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean." (Sir Isaac Newton)
"No good deed goes unpunished." (various)
“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?” (Scarecrow, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
kt4hx wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 1:24 am
Thanks Joe. Got 90%, missing one I shouldn't have! Such is the life of an aging brain!
Hey, I got the same score as you, and my brain isn't aging! Nosiree. In fact, according to my wife, I have always been just as scatter-brained, confused, absent-minded, etc., as I am now.
* Meade 323 refractor on a manual equatorial mount.
* Celestron C6 SCT on a Twilight 1 Alt-Az mount
Prof. Barnhardt to Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still: "There are several thousand questions I'd like to ask you.”
Mike Q wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 11:23 am
Hey i recognize you from my SGL days.
Which Mike are you, were you a different name on SGL> I am still on there, are you not on it any more? Did you know that Gina had died about 2 1/2 years ago?