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notageek
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 Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 6:32 pm Post subject: News Quiz - Real one. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20904390
1/7.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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7/7
Though I guessed 1,2 & 4.
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1/7
wow, Nestle paying judges, Mauritania doing i-don't-care-what and that tv series are news&quiz worthy? would never had guessed.
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| 5. not a great quiz. who the hell knows that shit? |
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| juniper wrote: | | 5. not a great quiz. who the hell knows that shit? |
I just got lucky with three of the questions. I suppose avid readers of UK tabloids and zines would probably know all of the answers... assuming that they had a decent memory.
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patrix_neo
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I had 3/7 just making the 'right' choice...the first one.
[edit] I do like that author, mystic river one.... |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:49 pm Post subject: Re: News Quiz - Real one. |
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| notageek wrote: | | News Quiz - Real one. |
Just as stupid, but at least it was shorter.
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| Muso wrote: | | juniper wrote: | | 5. not a great quiz. who the hell knows that shit? |
I just got lucky with three of the questions. I suppose avid readers of UK tabloids and zines would probably know all of the answers... assuming that they had a decent memory. |
who cares about some guy's dog? |
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5
I think we had different questions.
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notageek
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 5:57 am Post subject: Re: News Quiz - Real one. |
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| pjp wrote: | | notageek wrote: | | News Quiz - Real one. |
Just as stupid, but at least it was shorter. |
Exactly. If you're going to spend time on a stupid test, it might as well be shorter one.
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| BoneKracker wrote: | 5
I think we had different questions. |
question 2. answer was the guy's dog. |
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I went back to look at it again, and this time I got a different set of questions (and this time, the 2nd question has an option pertaining to a dog, and another pertains to Nestle, etc.).
On the one linked to here, I got 6 (would have got 5 but I knew to pick "find his lost dog"). 
Edit: okay I see why; the link given here is to an old version of the quiz, which is created weekly. The first time I had manually navigated to the current one, rather than following the link. You can see the various quizzes in the drop-down panel under "Magazine Quizzes - All in One Place".
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