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#1 User is offline   Cause 

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Posted 18 May 2018 - 10:14 AM

Update: Round 2 has begun https://forum.malaza...ost__p__1331771

Round 1 Victor = Tattersail!


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Welcome to the Forum Winter Games (they are the summer games in the northern hemisphere, the world is tricky like that). Compete for fun and bragging rights. I’ll try put up new entries on Tuesdays and Fridays, so please try submit answers by 00h00 on Monday and Thursday GMT time.

Please post your answers in spoilers. Please try not to look up the answers, it’s just for fun.

Search Fu:

Choose three words that I will enter between ‘ ‘ in google, the combination with the most hits wins.

Wiki Walk:


Starting on the Wikipedia page for pineapples (https://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Pineapple) reach the Wikipedia page for Adolf Hitler (https://en.wikipedia...ki/Adolf_Hitler) in as few hotlinks as possible.

Trivia:

1) How many movies are their currently in the Marvel cinematic universe? (1)
2) What is the name of the spell in Harry Potter that obliterates people’s memories? (1)
3) In which year did George Lucas change it so Han Solo shot second? (2)
4) What is the longest river in the world? (1)
5) Which is the fifth planet in the solar system? (1)
6) Which Countries do forum members Apt and Mentalist come from? (2)
7) How long does it take for light to reach the earth from the sun?
8) Steven Erickson is not his real name, what is that name?
9) What does Laser stand for?
10) The titan Prometheus whose name means forethought had a brother, what is his brother’s name and what does it mean? (2)

Riddle:
There's 100 dwarfs and their king. every day, the 100 dwarfs bring their king 100 bars of gold each, that each weigh 1kg each. One day, the king hears a rumor that one of his minions is actually only giving him bars of 999g, and keeping 1g from himself. The king prays to Odin for a way to catch the thief. Odin provides the king with a magic scale that will tell the king the exact weight of anything it weighs but as a challenge to the King Odin says the scale will work exactly once. How can he tell who is only giving him 999g? (3)

Quanting:

You are presented with three identical boxes. You are made aware that one of the boxes contains two gold coins, another contains two silver coins, and the third contains one gold coin and one silver coin. You do not know which box contains which.
Now, choose a box at random. Reach without looking under the cloth covering the coins and take out one of the coins. Now you can look. It is gold.
What is the probability the second coin is also gold? (3)

Bonus: In a fight between Rake, Dassem Ultor, Karsa and Brys Benedict who would Abyss say would win? (1)

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Round 1

Tattersail
- 18
Macros - 12
Luv2bSassy - 11
Gorefest - 9

This post has been edited by Cause: 24 May 2018 - 09:05 AM

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#2 User is offline   Tattersail_ 

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Posted 18 May 2018 - 12:20 PM

All answers in spoiler
Spoiler

This post has been edited by Tattersail_: 18 May 2018 - 12:21 PM

Apt is the only one who reads this. Apt is nice.
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Posted 18 May 2018 - 12:28 PM

Spoiler


edit to fix tags

ETA ETA - ARGH

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Posted 18 May 2018 - 08:35 PM

Spoiler

They came with white hands and left with red hands.
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Posted 18 May 2018 - 11:51 PM

Too tired to try but I cannot believe you all got the bonus question wrong.
Yesterday, upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish he'd go away.
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Posted 20 May 2018 - 06:31 AM

View PostGorefest, on 18 May 2018 - 11:51 PM, said:

Too tired to try but I cannot believe you all got the bonus question wrong.

Yeah I'm fairly sure the answer to the bonus question is
Spoiler

A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
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Posted 20 May 2018 - 11:45 AM

Goredest and Tiste! The rules say you have to play now
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Posted 20 May 2018 - 11:56 AM

the rules say they cant if they've checked our answers surely
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Posted 20 May 2018 - 12:03 PM

That is true! In gorefests case. Good point. Not sure about tiste.

Also if you haven't peaked and think of new answers feel free to change untill Monday
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Posted 20 May 2018 - 12:20 PM

I checked Tatts answers already :)
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Posted 20 May 2018 - 12:23 PM

View PostMacros, on 20 May 2018 - 11:56 AM, said:

the rules say they cant if they've checked our answers surely



You are just scared of the awesomeness that is my brain power and also I saw your answers and you should be scared. It helps avoid predators too.
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Posted 20 May 2018 - 12:56 PM

I've been reading it all and have no time to research it - I'm at work and sound be doing stuff now! :) I'm enjoying reading though, may attempt the next round...
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
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Posted 21 May 2018 - 12:59 PM

Spoiler

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#14 User is offline   Gorefest 

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Posted 21 May 2018 - 04:21 PM

Actually, I genuinely cannot remember any answers so I'm just going to give it a go. If I win you can disqualify me. But I think we can safely disregard that eventuality because my smarts are too niche to be applicable to quizes.

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Posted 21 May 2018 - 07:23 PM

You forgot to do the Search Fu thing.
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Posted 21 May 2018 - 07:44 PM

Ooh, good call. Fixed.
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Posted 21 May 2018 - 07:50 PM

Damnit. I think my wife just figured out the answer to the dwarf riddle. In my defense, she is a mathematician. But I am still annoyed because it is actually a sensible solution.

My wife’s solution in spoiler tags.
Spoiler

This post has been edited by Gorefest: 21 May 2018 - 07:56 PM

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Posted 22 May 2018 - 05:47 AM

Oh that makes sense.
Damnit
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Posted 22 May 2018 - 06:12 AM

Yah I showed my sister and she got it in a couple minutes. Posted Image
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Posted 22 May 2018 - 06:30 AM

That's what I said but backwards
Apt is the only one who reads this. Apt is nice.
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