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Welcome to the August 2024 Quiz.

This month we're staying closer to home.

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: -
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______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are checked and such claims are usually wrong usually because the entrant misinterprets the question or is recalling out of date information.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.

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7 out of 10 over here. So I get a "C". Thanks Joe for the fun quiz!
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Re: August 2024 Quiz

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Thank you for that. I enjoyed it.
Of course, I enjoy all of them, and thank you for all of them.
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Hmmm, did really well today, that seemed a tad easier to me, I only had to guess 2 of them…👍🏻
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Re: August 2024 Quiz

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Oh yeah! 90%, admittedly with a little help from my grandson.
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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.
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Fun quiz, thanks Joe!
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Re: August 2024 Quiz

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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
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Re: August 2024 Quiz

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OzEclipse wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 11:36 pm
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%.

Cheers
Joe

If i can ace it, it is definitely too easy lol
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Thanks Joe. Got 90%, missing one I shouldn't have! Such is the life of an aging brain! :icon-smile:
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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! :icon-smile:
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.
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Thanks Joe. 100%. I guessed much betterer.
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Thanks Joe
I managed to get 7 out of ten for a change as normally only get 3 right.
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Cheers Joe. Good one.

I did what Alan did!
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OK,100% in 2 min, probably too easy, my avg lately has been 70%.

Or maybe just luck?
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fun quiz Joe thx .
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Now that's my sort of quiz:
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carastro wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 11:13 am Now that's my sort of quiz:
carastro (80.00%, Completed in 3 minutes)
Hey i recognize you from my SGL days.
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Yay, 100%. It's nice to have an easy one once in a while. :)
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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?
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