TheSkySearchers

Congratulations to our high scorers for June:

100% Score @JayTee

90% Score @Gfamily @pixelsaurus

80% Score @scribbly @SparWeb

After spending a couple of hours putting together the June quiz, it was very disappointing to have three people post spoilers about the content of a question and post suggestions that cast false doubt upon the correctness of the answer. I felt like I wasted my time. So this month, I set myself a time limit of just 10 mins to write the questions and answers, all plucked out of my head. No hard questions. Nothing requiring current up to date knowledge.

https://theskysearchers.com/app.php/quiz/play/5

Joe

I got 9 of 11.

Edit: 2 minutes.

Also, note that everyone's scores are visible when you click on results! Kind of cool.
Thanks @OzEclipse

10 out of 11
thx for the quiz .

Pluto, we hardly knew ye.

heh heh, another 100% (I thought I'd got the same in June, but may have misremembered).

I for one certainly appreciate these quizzes, and thank you very much for them.

Enjoyed the quiz. Thank you! Only missed 1. Got the wrong century !

Of course I miss what was arguably the easiest one!

10/11 but my stylus slipped, wrong century. Honest! That was fun. Cheers.

JSBach1801 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 1:49 am Of course I miss what was arguably the easiest one!

I missed that one too. And one more that I didn't know so 9 out of 11.

GRAEME1858 (90.91%, COMPLETED IN 3 MINUTES) - 06 JUL 2023 18:32

Yeah, I missed that one too!

Good quiz Joe.

Graeme

82%. All I can say is RTFQ!

Thanks Joe, fun quiz! 8/11; makes me realise I should pay more attention...

I guess most of us did not get that one by not paying attention. Well played Joe!

Thanks. 9 of 11 in 2 min.

I got a 100% in six minutes. I try to slow myself down to prevent bad guesses. Nice little quiz in my book!

Anyway Joe, don't fret over those that want to spoil things by posting clues or casting doubt on answers. They are not worth the time taken to be aggravated with, as there are always going to be such folks in any group. You do a fine job, and don't let anyone tell you differently. Your efforts are appreciated.

Wow, 100% in 3 minutes!!, Nice tricky questions, I re-selected a couple 3 times to avoid the traps.

Fun, keep up the good work.
Steve

P.S. Mickey's dog should still count

Congratulations to the July quiz high scorers.

The July quiz is still open for new tries but I have tallied the scores. Because this quiz was so easy, I have taken both completion time and accuracy into account.

I have corrected all the scores below so that anybody who answered either Sol or Proxima Centauri got a point. This was because I realised that Sol is not as widely a known name for the Sun as I thought it was when I set the question.

The first question of each quiz is more of a poll. Every answer is marked correct.

So everyone gets at least one point and I'm more interested in the spread of answers.


This months poll:
Is astrophotography fun?

Yes.........................................14
No..........................................3
Who cares, I like to watch!......8

It seems that while the biggest group are photographers, we have a few voyeurs amongst us.

11/11 CORRECT
Equal First Place

SDBODIN [STEVE] (100.00%, COMPLETED IN 3 MINUTES)

GRAEME1858 [GRAEME] (100%, COMPLETED IN 3 MINUTES)

Second Place

KT4HX [Alan] (100.00%, COMPLETED IN 6 MINUTES)

3rd Place

10538 [ED] (100.00%, COMPLETED IN 7 MINUTES)


10/11 CORRECT
MICHAEL131313 [MICHAEL] (90.91%, COMPLETED IN 2 MINUTES)
PIXELSAURUS. (90.91%, COMPLETED IN 2 MINUTES)
HELICON [MICHAEL] (90.91 %, COMPLETED IN 2 MINUTES)
JSBACH1801 (90.91%, COMPLETED IN 2 MINUTES)
JUNO16 [JIM] (90.91%, COMPLETED IN 2 MINUTES)
CARASTRO [CAROLE] (90.91%, COMPLETED IN 2 MINUTES)

JAYTEE (90.91%, COMPLETED IN 3 MINUTES)
BIGZMEY [ANDREY] (90.91%, COMPLETED IN 3 MINUTES)

MAKUSER [MARSHALL]. (90.91%, COMPLETED IN 4 MINUTES)

9/11 CORRECT
KATHYNS [KATHY] (81.82%, COMPLETED IN 2 MINUTES)
BOBHARMONY [BOB] (81.82%, COMPLETED IN 2 MINUTES)

THEFATKITTY [MARK] (80.81%, COMPLETED IN 3 MINUTES)
SCRIBBLY [PHIL] (81.82%, COMPLETED IN 3 MINUTES)

SKYHIKER [HENK] (81.82%, COMPLETED IN 5 MINUTES)

August quiz will be released on August 1st.

I will post a new August Quiz thread with link in this forum when it's open.

Joe

Think I am too late for this one, but just got the following:

CARASTRO (90.91%, COMPLETED IN 2 MINUTES) - MON JUL 31, 2023 10:05 AM

As far as I can see I only got one wrong, but didn;t see a Marks out of 11 (or 10) scoring.

Carole

carastro wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 10:08 am Think I am too late for this one, but just got the following:

CARASTRO (90.91%, COMPLETED IN 2 MINUTES) - MON JUL 31, 2023 10:05 AM

As far as I can see I only got one wrong, but didn;t see a Marks out of 11 (or 10) scoring.

Carole

Hi Carole,
There were 11 questions so 90.91% is 10/11. Eleven Q's was a miscount on my part. When editing, you just see. along stream of dialogue boxes. Next quiz has 10 Q's.

My post was still open for editing. I've added you into the 10/11 2 min group.

Cheers
Joe