Down Under

After the all too short weekend (which was still long enough to put 5 past Cardiff, paint my kitchen and watch 2 seasons of Spooks :) here the points of last week's InQuizition.

And this is what the tentative plans for InQuizition #22 look like:
Yogi: Far away in Australia... thanks to Two Short Planks we'll travel to the antipodes and take a closer look at OZ. Anything from kangaroos to kokaburras, from OZ-tralian Olympics to Hugh Jackman!!! (and maybe Nicole Kidman), Ulury, Men at Work, Crocodile Dundee to Kylie, boomerangs to ..blimey, there's only so much one can cram into 9 questions. And did you know that there is a city named Newcastle in Australia?!?!
Round 1: Connect 9. It's been a while but I think I've found a nice connection and I hope you'll find it too :)
Round 2: no idea yet really... we haven't done literature in a while but it might as well turn out to be film... or all that's black & white or THE 80s!!!! :)
Music: All the pretty flowers. 9 songs with tulips, roses, carnations, forget-me-nots, and other flowers in the title.. nicely chopped & shopped into one.
Pictures.. most likely the usual BS.

And since it's Englische Woche, here's your chance to get 2 points (apart from the Loyalty Points you find somewhere on the right)
Prediction of the Week #22
Derby County - Newcastle Utd. (Tuesday 9 February 8.45)
Send me your half-time and full-time predictions the usual way by Tuesday 8.45 at the very latest (if you don't know how check the right-hand bar:)

Discovery Channel & Hot Dawgs

So - wie immer nach Newcastle-Spielt-Sch...on-Wieder-Unentschieden-Wochenden die Punkte mit einiger Verspätung.


Und die Themen für Inquizition #21 stehen auch endlich fest.

Yogi-Runde: Dank den Wilmerdorfer Witwen für den Vorschlag uns mal mit Endeckern & Entdeckungen zu befassen. Ich wollte schon immer mal was zum Rosetta Stone loswerden :) :)
Also - von Troja bis America, Robert Koch bis Marie Curie, seltene Frösche, LSD und neuen Saurierarten.... was immer Mann (oder Frau) so entdecken kann oder schon hat... (und ja, wir machen kleine aber feien Unterschieden zwischen Entdeckungen und Erfindungen.. mit denen wir uns ein anderes Mal befassen :)
1. Fragerunde ist SportsWorld - ja, da hilft kein Klagen, hatten wir lange nicht und es ist Super Bowl und Six Nations fangen an, und Roger Federer hat mal wieder die Australian Open gewonnen....
2. Fragerunde - That's HOT. Alles was heiß ist, von Chilischoten bis Geysire, von Richard Armitage bis Jessica Alba, heiße Schlitten, hot dogs und Schmelzpunkte... Big Mix, like. Sicherlich auch was zum Anstarren dabei :)
Musikrunde ist Stadt, Land, Fluß - Songs mit geographischen ... Dingern im Titel. Mexico, Is This the Way to Amarillo, Yellow River, Big in Japan... schaun wir mal...
Bilderrunde natürlich der übliche BS, mit neuen genetischen Experiments (natürlich) und vielleicht einem neuen 5-in-1 Logo.
Also, immer schon mal schön üben, man kann ja nie wissen was dran kommt.
Oh, und Cannonballs fangen mit 1 Punkt an, zumindest der Halbzeitstand stimmte ja :)

Oh (?), und die LoyaltyPoints (s. Tabelle rechts) könnt ihr jederzeit in Anspruch nehmen (werden am Ende des Quizzes dazugezählt oder können gegen Tips eingetauscht werden).

Und das (bzw. der) ist HOT!

See Kirry, I told you I'd find a totally legit reason to put him here. UOMe :)

POW #21

Erst mal allen gestrigen Teams nochmals Dank für einen super lustigen Abend, der Punktestand und die versprochenen Infos und Links folgen.
Für diejenigen die nächste Woche mit 2 Punkten anfangen wollen - Vorhersage der Woche ist (wie so häufig)

Leicester City - Newcastle United
Samstag 30.1. 18:20... Halbzeit- und Endergebnis.
Einzureichen bis spätestens Samstag 18:00 auf dem üblichen Wege (s. Box rechts)

Prediction of the Week #21
Leicester City - Newcastle United
Saturday 30/01 6.20pm half time and full time scores.
Predictions must be sent in (the usual way) by Saturday 6pm at the latest (that's CET :)

Howay the lads!

The game's Bond, James Bond

As usual a day or two late but here they are, Thursday's points. Pretty close affair.

And thanks again to all teams for a fun night, and for a great test run of Darts Round. I'll work out the kinks and try to get them darts straightened (while you might want to practice at home or in the Harp :)

This is the plan for InQuizition #20 on 28 January. Wilmersdorfer Witwen kindly went with the pre-planned James Bond theme for the Yogi Round, so we'll have tons of questions (or at least 9) on 007. The man, the books, the author, the films, the cars, the gadgets, baddies, Bond girls, and the odd tune too. Way too many questions to choose from so we might try determination by darts again (maybe I'll get a chance to chuck one too :)

The remaining two question rounds are Red Round (mix from anything Tomatina to Torino, red hair to Red Square, red bloodcells and red books, and maybe Liverpool FC .. that would be in the "fun" section tho :)
The other one is the Royal Round. Kings & Queens (NO King of Queens tho), princesses & princes (real and fictional), gossip & genealogy, castles & crowns (but no cards).
Music is The Name Game - songs with names in the title. And Pictures are the usual BS mix, with more new genetix.

LPL (loyalty points list) so far
Pinkies & The Brain 2
Freiburschers 2
Äh-Häh, Craggy Islanders, Ole & Inga, Cannonballs, de Guude, TTFKA Muttis and FeidClub 1 each.
And - change of plans - you can use them for your weekly points tally (added to total points at the end) or trade them for tips (0.5 point per clue).

Since no one had the desire or money to play for the jackpot, it's still 15€. And from Thursday on you'll only have to answer 1 (!) question correctly. A rather tough one, of course, and no clues :)

So, that's that for now, see you Thursday or ...

Dorogie druzya..

Or friends, Russians, countrymen... Now that the initial shock has worn off I'm actually looking forward to researching Soviet/Russian history for tomorrow's Yogi round.. It's quite a trip down memory lane, from Peter the Great to Lenin, and from Ivan the Terrible to Boris the Tipsy. And there even is a "Russiapedia"...
In case you still remember, they've had mad monks, tons of revolutions, wars, tsars and bars.. and if you feel like giving us your rendition of Katyusha, or Kalinka. you'tre more than welcome. I'll prepare the lyrics just in case :)

And darts round goes as follows: teams take turn in throwing darts, thus trying to pick their preferred topics.
numbers 1-5 are history & geography
numbers 6-10 are sports & music
numbers 11-15 are tv & movie
numbers 16-20 are arts & literature

I'm still thinking about additional points for hitting bullseye or a way of doubling your points... if you have any suggestions do let me know the usual way.

Darts, гласность and 2009 tunes

Alreet, here's what we're gonna do on Thursday 21 January, should anyone brave the winter and turn up.

Question Round 1 - Animal Kingdom (it's science, namely biology, innit?!)
Question Round 2 - Darts round (you can pick your category and question by throwing darts, mixed topics from history, geography, sports, music, tv/movie, arts & lit, bullshit)
Yogi Round - James Bond will have to wait another day... Freiburschers asked for Soviet/Russian history .. any old Easties up to the challenge? :)
Music Round - Hits & Misses 2009 (because I don't want to waste all the preparation I did on that one.. I had to listen to some pretty horrible tunes, you know.. all 9 titles nicely rolled into one)
Picture Round - the usual BS :)

That's the plan anyway. We shall see, as Stevie Wonder once famously (could have) said.

Oh, and the jackpot is at 15€.

IOU

I know I have been a bit behind on promised posts, and updates, and new rules, and stuff but.. I'm not gonna whip out that old John Lennon one about life and being busy making other plans.. enough of excuses already, here are last week's points, and the Christmas pictures.. Christmas points and new rules next.

and since I haven't had too much time for photoshopping other than work-related, here are the Christmas pics, largely unadulterated. Yep folks, that's the way we look in real life, red eyes 'n all :)
If you recognize your "oeuvre" leave a comment, I couldn't identify all of them.