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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: alfonzos on November 02, 2011, 06:41:05 PM
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A quiz about quiz shows of the eighties and nineties. (http://"http://www.mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=1339") I scored ninety percent by missing question six. I have never seen GUTS so I had to guess.
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Also, Question 4 is flat broken, seeing as there are two right answers.
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Nine's picture needs to be cropped a lot better.
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Question 5 is wrong as well. Without giving it away, the right answer didn't officially get that title until season 2.
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Chris, how are there two right answers on Question 4? If it's due to the name of the show, remember the specific category of the quiz.
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Chris, how are there two right answers on Question 4? If it's due to the name of the show, remember the specific category of the [color="#FFFFFF"]quiz.
This is why. (http://"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_%28announcer%29")[/color] (spoiler attached).
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Chris, how are there two right answers on Question 4? If it's due to the name of the show, remember the specific category of the [color="#FFFFFF"]quiz.
This is why. (http://"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_%28announcer%29")[/color] (spoiler attached).
Precisely so. And I'm willing to bet that the writer didn't even have the first clue that said announcer was in fact using his last name on the air.
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The first question has a trick to it!! be careful .
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The first question has a trick to it!! be careful .
It does? I got it right with no trickery.
This quiz shows that it is easy to come up with questions, but without the spice of the proper wrong answers, the flavor just isn't there. But we're all clicking on it, so I suppose that's what counts. (Hint: when you have a rather large mountain face in the photo, that's a clue as to what the answer will be.)
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It does? I got it right with no trickery.
I actually got caught in exactly the trap I believe William is alluding to. But, hey, there's no trickery, so I must just be a moron.
This quiz shows that it is easy to come up with questions, but without the spice of the proper wrong answers, the flavor just isn't there.
Actually, this quiz shows that any jagoff can write some questions, but it takes a special kind of jagoff to write interesting, engaging, well-researched questions.
But we're all clicking on it, so I suppose that's what counts.
Meh. They're not really trolling for page-views, I don't think, they're trying to interest me in their magazine. The quality of the content certainly did not do that, and if they *are* trolling for page-views, they're doing it wrong, because while you might get a nice little burst of them with "hai guys go look at the crappy quiz they posted!", you get a whole damn lot more in the long run by providing quality content that makes me want to look around the site for other quizzes and come back in the future to find their new stuff.
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so I must just be a moron.
I said nothing of the sort.
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It's your typical game show quiz for the average game show fan who says, "Oh! I remember that version of Hollywood Squares! Umm, it was Joan Rivers wasn't it? Whoopi came later..."
They got it mostly right but it's always easier for us to nitpick for obvious reasons. Honestly, I never knew the final round on Supermarket Sweep had a name, but I could've sworn I heard David refer to it as The Big Sweep?
ETA: spoilage removed
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The Big Sweep
(No point in spoiling since we're talking about it.)
Nope, that was the actual sweep that determined the day's champions. "The Bonus Sweep" was the endgame. The question is horribly written (shocker) and suggests that the "accumulating time" part of the game was done in one segment without a commercial break.
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Replying to Brandon upthread: Well, wait; there's both the reason we're tuning in to a show that is called Supermarket Sweep, and the scavenger hunt for the bonus money. Looking back on it, that first question was rather vague.
/"The Main Sweep." Ugh.
//was the bonus round ever referred to as anything other than 'finding the $5,000' or similar language?
///Now I'm cheesed because I've devoted neural output to a mental_floss quiz, instead of something interesting.
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//was the bonus round ever referred to as anything other than 'finding the $5,000' or similar language?
Not that I remember. Most of the pricing games in the front game had official names, as did the Big Sweep, but the bonus game was always referred to in a similar fashion to what you said. I wonder if that's just how the official rules refer to it, but it's an simple enough name that it could have come from anywhere, really.
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I wonder if that's just how the official rules refer to it
Official rules? Do you really think this person did any research beyond Wikipedia and Off The Top Of My Head?
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Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only person wondering about the "Supermarket Sweep" question. I couldn't remember the bonus round ever being given an official name either -- the only evidence I could find was the always-reliable Wikipedia.
Also, a ten-question quiz about game shows of the 80s and 90s, and more than half of the questions are about kids' shows? I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, so thanks for playing to my sense of nostalgia, but there were other game shows during that time.
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Also, a ten-question quiz about game shows of the 80s and 90s, and more than half of the questions are about kids' shows? I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, so thanks for playing to my sense of nostalgia, but there were other game shows during that time.
Providing more credence to the Off The Top Of My Head research theory.
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I wonder if that's just how the official rules refer to it
Official rules? Do you really think this person did any research beyond Wikipedia and Off The Top Of My Head?
Absolutely not. But who's to say that the name isn't there?
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Absolutely not. But who's to say that the name isn't there?
So you're suggesting she might have lucked into the right answer, and if she did, that's ok?