LetsSingIt's Pointless Quiz #25 [Ended]

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Joeyy | 13-12-2014 18:50

*Introductory theme tune*

Happy almost Christmas!

(That's the closest we have to something related - Rudolph's red nose...a white, dead Rudolph.) Round #1 can be my Christmas present to our American players.

Rules of the quiz:
- One answer per person (per round)
- Always give the answer you think the fewest amount of people would know
- If two people give the same answer in a short space of time, the first person's answer will be accepted (but the second can answer again)
- When applicable, a player may pick the same subject as another contestant and provide a different answer if they believe the other to be incorrect
- If you play the first round, please check back in case you make it through to Round #2
- Resist cheating (i.e. searching online for answers)

And of course, respect your fellow contestants and have fun!

Round #1 will be posted shortly and will remain open until Monday (or, when applicable, until each answer is taken) to give everyone a chance of replying.

* offtopic :
The records of previous winners and pointless answers can be found here.

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WINNER: indiechick_, aka Bruna
RUNNER-UP: Captain_Keeta, aka Jeff

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Joeyy | 16-12-2014 01:22

For the record, an explanation isn't needed.

But I suppose Brownie Points could be given for them.

Joeyy | 16-12-2014 01:24

Thought we were going to have a draw, but nope.

Jeremy: X 100 (TOPEKA, KANSAS)
Lisa: 23 (SEATTLE, WASHINGTON)
Practice: 16 (NEW ORLEANS)
Sierra: 6 (HONOLULU, HAWAII)

Bruna: 1 (BALTIMORE, MARYLAND)
Jeff: 1 (BOISE, IDAHO)
Joe: 1 (PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND)
Sarah: 1 (MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN)

Carl: 0 POINTLESS!!

(MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE)
Jen: 0 POINTLESS!!

(SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA)
Kaleb: 0 POINTLESS!!

(BILLINGS, MONTANA)

Sorry, Jeremy, apparently Wichita is the largest city by population in Kansas. A particular big commiserations to Sierra; 6 being a great score in a very low-scoring round. But congratulations to those who made it through to Round #2, and particularly well done to the three who found pointless answers!

Joeyy | 16-12-2014 01:24

ROUND TWO

Jeremy's assured me you should be OK with these. So, our category for Round #2 is...

SCALES OF MEASUREMENT

Simply, what do these measure? Give me the most obscure and you'll go through to the Head-to-Head. Good luck!

JOULE
YARD
CELSIUS
MOHS
TROY OUNCE
BEAUFORT SCALE
DECIBEL
CURIE
AMPERE
KNOT
MERCALLI
ACRE

We've had

AMPERE – ELECTRICITY (Sarah)
MOHS – (MINERAL) HARDNESS (Jeff)
JOULE – ENERGY (Jen)

CarlJ | 16-12-2014 13:57

sorry gang....been working too much...lol here's mine...and woohooo, made it to round two.
troy ounce is used for measuring precious metals. learned that a long time ago.....esp for GOLD....lol had to do a report on Fort Knox one year.

kalsonberry | 16-12-2014 14:20

I'm going to say curie is a measurement of radioactivity? All the other ones I know are going to be high scorers, so I'll go with that.

indiechick_ | 16-12-2014 14:50

mercalli for earthquake intensity. everyone just remembers richter

i remember the 1755 earthquake in lisbon was classified as the 2nd most disastrous type in the mercalli scale. it basically wrecked shit up, just a few buildings were left standing. a couple minutes after this massive earthquake, a tsunami hit the city and the buildings that didn't fall, were now underwater. everything else caught on fire and there was no one to put it out since the survivors ran away. fire lasted like 5 days, there were landslides, it was truly a fascinating mess.

here's a drawing from back then for those who are interested.

CaptainStabbin | 16-12-2014 19:04

Beaufort scale, measures wind speed on the ocean.

Thank you Deadliest Catch and the shitty Alaskan weather.

Joeyy | 16-12-2014 19:05

i remember the 1755 earthquake in lisbon was classified as the 2nd most disastrous type in the mercalli scale.

Someone looks good for her age.

Awesome drawing. You know, in a tragic way. :p

Joeyy | 16-12-2014 19:26

ROUND #2 RESULTS

Now she's just being greedy.

Joe: 44 (BEAUFORT SCALE – WIND)
Sarah: 38 (AMPERE – ELECTRICITY)
Jen: 28 (JOULE – ENERGY)
Carl: 31 (TROY OUNCE – WEIGHT)
Kaleb: 18 (CURIE – RADIATION)

Jeff: 7 (MOHS – MINERAL HARDNESS)
Bruna: 2 (MERCALLI – EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY)

Sorry, Joe, I don't know why that scored so much. Good answers there - you all avoided the really big scorers. Commiserations Joe, Sarah, Jen, Carl, and Kaleb (good educated guess!)...

Congratulations Jeff and B, the Head-to-Head it is!

Joeyy | 16-12-2014 19:36

In case anyone wonders, I was a little confused by the troy ounce one - normally I wouldn't consider measuring and weight to be the same, but since it didn't matter to who made it through, I figured Carl was likely right and I was lacking in measurement terminology knowledge. :p

Captain_Keeta | 16-12-2014 19:42

Woo!

Let's go B!

Good luck!

CarlJ | 16-12-2014 20:06

congrats b and jeff. yeah, we learned about precious metals awhile back...did a report on it and you always here the ads for gold buyers talk in troy ounces. didn't really know the others that were left. buy hey....it's fun

Joeyy | 16-12-2014 20:09

The others were very high-scoring.

CELSIUS – TEMPERATURE 92
DECIBEL – VOLUME/NOISE 88
ACRE – AREA 86
YARD – DISTANCE 80
KNOT – SPEED 74

PracticePractic | 16-12-2014 20:39

That was a good scientific question they asked and not only did everyone here do so well guessing these hard items, but Congratulations to Jeff and Bruna considering how high scoring everything else was. That 100 people in the Studio Audience at Pointless were really good in their knowledge too makes it so difficult to find a Pointless one among those!

Captain_Keeta | 16-12-2014 20:50

I'd like to thank my Earth Science teacher from last year for telling me to save my ESRT.

Joeyy | 16-12-2014 20:51

You see? School pays off.

Captain_Keeta | 16-12-2014 20:52

I guess so!

Captain_Keeta | 16-12-2014 20:52

Plus, I know just about everything when it comes to minerals and rocks. One of my favourite units. Other than astronomy of course.

Joeyy | 16-12-2014 21:08

Ah, yes, so it is.

Next round coming up shortly (probably

Joeyy | 16-12-2014 22:09

HEAD-TO-HEAD, PART 1

Here comes your first question in this best-of-three round, and it concerns...

THREE-LETTER ANIMALS

I'm going to show you five pictures of animals commonly known by a three-letter name. Can you identify the most obscure of these animals? Good luck!

A
B
C
D
E (Awww)

indiechick_ | 17-12-2014 10:26

i'm pretty sure that b is an elk

goretski | 17-12-2014 16:08

A is a "Kea" and this is the moist obscure of all of the pictures/animals.

"B" is a Elk, then "C" is a Fox; then "D" is a Yak

Captain_Keeta | 17-12-2014 16:10

are you kidding! Seriously dude?!

JDolla | 17-12-2014 16:11

Kinda dicked it up for the two playing there, bud.

Captain_Keeta | 17-12-2014 16:12

I guess that's what I get for taking so long. No cool dude.

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