tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post5910507018680498062..comments2024-02-20T12:42:49.383+05:30Comments on Ugly, but Bearable: How would you connect Flamingoes to Maths via sport?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-9438293223160703242009-05-19T00:23:00.000+05:302009-05-19T00:23:00.000+05:30Tawakley! How's it going? Is this the first time y...Tawakley! How's it going? Is this the first time you've landed up here on my blog?<br />Yeah I know it's a crappy question, but that was partly the point - illustrating the fact that a crappy question like that can only be worked out by knowing something about the QM.Must you admit that you went for quizzes with Tirthanker? My favourite memory of him is of single-handedly beating him and Omkar as a team in a quiz that was sponsored, for some weird reason, by him...<br />So were you taking about Port-au-Prince, btw?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-80094646085039352262009-05-18T23:56:00.000+05:302009-05-18T23:56:00.000+05:30loved the post.. the question was a bit shady thou...loved the post.. the question was a bit shady though... I almost tore of a fistful of hair out of my head thinking I would be kicking myself if i didn't get it... this K Omkar character doesn't sound like my type of QM.<br /><br />The "workability" thing is the main factor in making a quiz worthwhile... I had gone for a quiz to KMC with Tirthankar (I think) where we managed to work out the name of some Latin American capital by virtue of knowing the names ok Columbus's sponsors... then the QM went on to two rounds on "Elections in India".<br /><br />Knowing that the self-satisfied prick was studying for the IAS exams did not help me in working out the number of constituencies in the 1961 election...<br /><br /><br />T@w@kleyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-5532567500971310192009-05-12T12:29:00.000+05:302009-05-12T12:29:00.000+05:30Hi Bastet welcome to the blog and thanks for the f...Hi Bastet welcome to the blog and thanks for the feedback!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-20101058327736308592009-05-12T08:09:00.000+05:302009-05-12T08:09:00.000+05:30hey great post and great thinking! :)hey great post and great thinking! :)Bastethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13905121027229547801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-85132287828138551372009-05-05T02:28:00.000+05:302009-05-05T02:28:00.000+05:30Omkar it is! Well done. Must give him credit - it'...Omkar it is! Well done. Must give him credit - it's the most convoluted question I've ever answered in a quiz.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-43284192581561876842009-05-04T15:50:00.000+05:302009-05-04T15:50:00.000+05:30Krishna Omkar?Krishna Omkar?Salilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-48487459581554037912009-05-04T13:59:00.000+05:302009-05-04T13:59:00.000+05:30Come, come - I did say English Hons. Your batch. F...Come, come - I did say English Hons. Your batch. FWIW, I like to think of him as 'Oinker'...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-44874105317589240662009-05-04T12:50:00.000+05:302009-05-04T12:50:00.000+05:30ChandraChandraSalilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-90655239041931792772009-05-02T16:13:00.000+05:302009-05-02T16:13:00.000+05:30Salil!Good to see you in the comments. And even be...Salil!Good to see you in the comments. And even better to see that you're still quizzing.Well done!<br />BTW, 1. was When the Levee breaks by Memphis Minnie, not by Kansas Joe. I don't remember no.3 either.<br />And eating chocolate on an empty stomach for the sugar and caffeine rush was my secret technique which I wasn't planning on sharing...<br />As for the quizmaster, any guesses on who came up with the flamingo question?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-78169003948010753352009-05-02T12:15:00.000+05:302009-05-02T12:15:00.000+05:30Yo,
I am a firm follower of the JC way. Nailed th...Yo,<br /><br />I am a firm follower of the JC way. Nailed the Gujarat National Law University Quiz, a first for anybody from NID. <br /><br />The other part of the story is that it is the first quiz I have ever won. Ever. I have a string of seconds and thirds, but never won anything. <br /><br />Eat your choclate. <br /><br />Love,<br /><br />Salil<br /><br />Nice work with the flamingos. The quizmaster knowing bit is very true. I got all your audio questions at the last quiz you ever did in Stephens because I had been to your room to borrow some tapes the previous week. <br /><br />The answers were 1.When the Levee Breaks by Kansas Joe <br />2. Noel Gallagher is playing the guitar for Cornershop <br />3. Damn! I forgot.Salilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-66338903975355937462009-05-01T10:48:00.000+05:302009-05-01T10:48:00.000+05:30I don't always factor in the quiz-master, but it d...I don't always factor in the quiz-master, but it does help to know about his/her biases when you're a little short of other information. This was especially true of college quizzing, though Of course, for larger events where there's a team of people coming up with the questions, you may not know about all the biases.<br />Overall, however, it's worthwhile to remember that most decent QMs are usually looking for the sort of effect that Dhruv's comment above refers to. That helps in choosing between alternative options.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-89130577153021082532009-05-01T07:07:00.000+05:302009-05-01T07:07:00.000+05:30Nice! Your approach to quizzing is very different ...Nice! Your approach to quizzing is very different from my (admittedly far less successful) way. I never thought about quizmasters or anything, but you're right about free-associating around the available facts. That's the only kind of quiz I like. Sadly, in the US trivia quizzes (in pubs) are totally non-workable. (I do well in the Hollywood and music rounds, but all of us suck at sports.)Yohanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14326253996680580793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-83751387175213451252009-04-27T10:10:00.000+05:302009-04-27T10:10:00.000+05:30Alright, so here's the answer. The main thing to r...Alright, so here's the answer. The main thing to remember here, is that the QM is an English Hons student trying to conduct a sports quiz.<br />What that tells me, or told me then, is that this could be linked through literature. But that's got to be a reasonably strong link. If you think of it that way, the first thought of flamingoes in sport that comes to mind is 'Alice in Wonderland': They're used instead of mallets in a game of croquet. Which fits in rather well with the link to Maths, because old Lewis Carroll, was a mathematician as well, and he even wrote a book on Euclidean geometry.<br />And that's the answer.<br /><br />Now I know that's actually a pretty shady question. I put it up because it really brings up something that very few quizzers consciously think about when it comes to quizzing: figuring out answers based on who the QM is. It's a little like one of those games of incomplete information in game theory: I guess based on what I think the QM knows, but the QM will also set questions based on what he/she thinks the level of the audience's knowledge is. <br />Thanks for commenting, you guys!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-11521678338968360202009-04-26T23:54:00.000+05:302009-04-26T23:54:00.000+05:30ah ha ha ha
well you could always say that there'...ah ha ha ha<br /><br />well you could always say that there's a phonetic connection<br /><br />kanishka<br /><br />(I hope now you know why I never considered membership to any quizzing society)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-58619544212175619632009-04-26T23:29:00.000+05:302009-04-26T23:29:00.000+05:30Good comment, Dhruv. I didn't actually figure out ...Good comment, Dhruv. I didn't actually figure out Dhaka immediately. <br />As for Flamingoes and Rugby, well, that isn't the answer either.Once I tell you the answer you're probably going to think it's a really sucky question. However, the whole point was to illustrate how to work out the answer based on what oyu know about the QM as well...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-72567793335968759582009-04-26T22:54:00.000+05:302009-04-26T22:54:00.000+05:30And I will say this....quizzing is also about disc...And I will say this....quizzing is also about discerning which answers will be beautiful and which pointless...u give benefit of doubt to QMs that they'd ask questions whose answers would be, in a subjective way, nice answers for quizzers. For e.g take the following question:<br /><br />Which city hosted Pakistan's first home Test match?<br /><br />Asked in a quiz, If the answer were Lahore, Rawalpindi, Karachi etc. it would be greeted universally in the quizzing fraternity with a "Really? So? Big deal....shit question!"<br /><br />The answer, as it turns out and as Joe has already cracked by now, is Dhaka....To which quizzers will almost certainly give a round of applause.<br /><br />Similarly, asking opening lines of poems or stuff like that only makes for meaningful quiz questions if the answer is the name of a film or book that's famous or in the news....so quizzing has most certainly got it's subjective valuation. <br />Dhruv.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-38451857934923087072009-04-26T22:46:00.000+05:302009-04-26T22:46:00.000+05:30Flamingoes to sport is Rugby....is University of R...Flamingoes to sport is Rugby....is University of Rugby renowned for Maths department? Dhruv.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-16486751520527116962009-04-26T20:00:00.000+05:302009-04-26T20:00:00.000+05:30Dude!
Flamingo= birdFlamenco=danceAren't figure 8'...Dude!<br />Flamingo= <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo" REL="nofollow">bird</A>Flamenco=<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamenco" REL="nofollow">dance</A>Aren't figure 8's what you make on ice with skates?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-64396257797821212742009-04-26T18:35:00.000+05:302009-04-26T18:35:00.000+05:30Flamingo is a sort of dance, ballet is a sort of d...Flamingo is a sort of dance, ballet is a sort of dance.<br /><br />There are competitions in ballet, I know this because there's a girl in our program who once was in the San Francisco Ballet which is apparently one of the best ballet society's in the world, and she's been to Russia to perform.<br /><br />So therefore sport.<br /><br />Figure 8's...well...presumably you spin around a bit...<br /><br />-kanishkaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-19503319988060873642009-04-26T13:29:00.000+05:302009-04-26T13:29:00.000+05:30intriguing answer, on many levels. How do you conn...intriguing answer, on many levels. How do you connect flamingoes to ballet? Since when was ballet a sport. and how do you do figure 8's in ballet?<br />I'll explain the funda in a day. Let's see if anyone else reads my posts or will bother to comment.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-74067224086051213272009-04-26T09:51:00.000+05:302009-04-26T09:51:00.000+05:30finally a post on quizzing!
i dont get the flamin...finally a post on quizzing!<br /><br />i dont get the flamingo-maths-sport connection<br /><br />figure 8's in a ballet? too obvious i think..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com