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by **Don WW** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:44 pm

I got 111 points. I am filled with shame. :oops:

by **econgator** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 1:32 pm

Don WW wrote:I got 111 points. I am filled with shame.

I squeaked by you on the last question to end with a 129. All but one of my guesses was just that -- a guess.

by **TheConfessor** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 7:30 pm

I was disappointed with my 351. I missed three and made a few lucky guesses. I took it as soon as it was posted on Friday. If I had waited a few days, I think I would have heard some of the answers while watching the Olympics, like where the medals are kept. Of course, that wasn't an option for the editor who agreed to take it first and provided the benchmark score.

The scores reported above, 111 and 129, average 120, which is about what you'd expect with twelve random guesses, and getting three right.

by **Ken Jennings** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:04 am

This week's quiz is admittedly a lot different. Slate wanted an Olympics quiz and, for better or for worse, that means lots of NBC-ready anecdotes and trivia, and much less Actual Important Affairs Of The Day. I'm not surprised that scores are much lower...there are lots of those stories that I wasn't following either.

Next week: back to the news.

by **ElGuapo** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:59 pm

Ken wrote:

Not a Special Olympic-themed contest though. One capital letter can make all the difference.

Not quite all the difference, you'd also want to make that hyphen an n-dash in that case. Just one of those obscure typesetting rules that you can't help watching for once it's pointed out to you.

by **braggtastic** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:21 am

357! I smoked the Slate dude this week. I had at least one lucky guess, but the questions go by so fast it's hard to remember which ones I got wrong. I think I got two wrong.

by **koozbane** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:51 pm

307. Missed 5. Looks like I must have been pretty quick on the others.

by **Muskrat** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 4:39 am

Barely broke 200. Luckily, NBC didn't air the tape of my performance for six hours, giving me time to flee to another state and change my name.

by **Russ** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:23 am

378...missed 4 and 8.

by **Bill** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:26 am

My score fell below the threshold of random guessing, and so the exact number is not statistically significant.

But I suppose the author deserves a hat tip for coming up with plausible distractors, and/or finding implausible facts.

by **Ponch** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:08 am

282 points with a lot of lucky guesses. Missed 5, 8, 9 & 11

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