What Were You Thinking XV! (Question 15; co-mod chosen)

[Cheery Dog]

I usually do not wake up for the morning already.

[StrangerCoug]

Wow, why do you all love it getting dark at 4:30pm in early November? Do you like going home from work in the dark? DST is awesome and going back to standard time and having it suddenly getting dark an hour earlier SUCKS. The only thing worse would be it getting dark that early even MORE of the year because DST didn't exist at all.

About how far north are you? The sun wouldn't set that early in San Antonio even without DST; 5:37 PM is the earliest sunset I can find on timeanddate.com for 2024 here.

My big concern is children going to school in the dark, but I can be talked into supporting having DST all year long if school starts later to compensate (no earlier than 8:00 AM without DST or 9:00 AM with). The sun can rise as late as about 7:30 AM in the winter here.

[Aureal]

Latitude 47

[DeasVail]

thanks for jumping on that grenade DV

no worries!

[N]

Latitude 47



:evil:

Sorry for your loss

[racefan12]

I'd still rather have a 4:30 PM sunset than an 8:30 AM sunrise.

And yeah, Texas is just about ideal for DST... no sunrise earlier than 6:30 or later than 7:30-ish.

[imaginality]

I read that Romans used to have their day and nights both 12 hours long year-round. In other words, in summer, daytime hours were longer than night-time ones and vice versa in winter.

[StrangerCoug]

Q10: Name five countries that often experience earthquakes.

Japan (13):

Aureal, biancospino, Cheery Dog, Datisi, DeasVail, imaginality, Ircher, JerryArr, mallowgeno, N, racefan12, Searl, tris

United States (11):

Aureal, biancospino, Cheery Dog, DeasVail, imaginality, Jake The Wolfie, JerryArr, mallowgeno, racefan12, Searl, tris

Indonesia (5):

Aureal, biancospino, mallowgeno, N, tris

Mexico (5):

Aureal, DeasVail, JerryArr, racefan12, tris

New Zealand (5):

Cheery Dog, DeasVail, imaginality, Ircher, N

Chile (4):

Cheery Dog, Datisi, racefan12, tris

Haiti (4):

Datisi, Ircher, Jake The Wolfie, N

China (3):

Aureal, mallowgeno, racefan12

Philippines (2):

N, Searl

South Korea (2):

JerryArr, Searl

Turkey (2):

imaginality, Searl

Non-scoring answers

Australia: JerryArr
Canada: DeasVail
Croatia: Datisi
Cuba: Jake The Wolfie
Djibouti: Ircher
Ecuador: Ircher
Egypt: Cheery Dog
Greece: Datisi
Greenland: Jake The Wolfie
Iceland: Jake The Wolfie
India: mallowgeno
Iran: imaginality
Italy: biancospino
Peru: biancospino

Irrelevant players

Charles510 (26): United States, Japan, Canada, Russia, South Korea
StrangerCoug (32): United States, Japan, China, Greece, Indonesia

tris got the best score this question with one away from a perfect: 38.
Jake The Wolfie was the only player who failed to get the top answer and who had three goose eggs. With only 15 points, he is shaken off the top and drops to level 1.


Only Ircher and tris remain at the top. Will one of them win?

[StrangerCoug]

Q11: Name three famous landmarks of religious significance.

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Submission due in: (expired on 2024-05-16 21:34:20)

[tris]

hell yeah

[imaginality]

That one was close to home - I live in Christchurch, NZ, and my current house, job, and relationship status are all directly a result of the earthquakes we had here in 2010-2011.

[Datisi]

mfw nobody else said croatia

[StrangerCoug]

Results before the end of today.

[StrangerCoug]

Q11: Name three famous landmarks of religious significance.

Mecca/Kaaba (8):

Aureal, biancospino, Datisi, DeasVail, Jake The Wolfie, JerryArr, N, tris

Christ the Redeemer (6):

Aureal, imaginality, JerryArr, mallowgeno, racefan12, Searl

Notre Dame (6):

Aureal, Cheery Dog, imaginality, JerryArr, racefan12, tris

St. Peter's Basilica (3):

biancospino, imaginality, mallowgeno

Vatican City/Holy See (3):

Cheery Dog, Jake The Wolfie, N

Great Pyramids of Giza (2):

Cheery Dog, Searl

Hagia Sophia (2):

Ircher, Jake The Wolfie

Taj Mahal (2):

DeasVail, N

Non-scoring answers

Angkor Wat: racefan12
Auschwitz: Datisi
Dome of the Rock: mallowgeno
Mont-Saint-Michel: Ircher
Mt. Sinai: biancospino
Parthenon: tris
Sistine Chapel: DeasVail
St. John's Cathedral: Searl
Stonehenge: Ircher
Wailing Wall: Datisi

Irrelevant players

DragonEater70 (10): Hagia Sophia, Mecca, Western Wall
StrangerCoug (9): Notre Dame, Dome of the Rock, St. Peter's Basilica

I thought Charles510 submitted answers for this question, but if he did, I accidentally deleted them. If he still has them, I will add them here.

Aureal and JerryArr tie for the top score this question with 20, a perfect score!
With only one scoring answer, and just barely, Ircher has the lowest score with 2 and drops to level 1. That leaves only tris on level 0—can she hold on to her position until someone officially drops to level 7?

Edit:

Corrected the scores in the spreadsheet; they were correct above.

[StrangerCoug]

Q12: Choose two days of the week.

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Submission due in: (expired on 2024-05-20 21:57:02)

[Aureal]

Q11: Name three famous landmarks of religious significance.

Mecca/Kaaba (8):

Aureal, biancospino, Datisi, DeasVail, Jake The Wolfie, JerryArr, N, tris

Christ the Redeemer (6):

Aureal, imaginality, JerryArr, mallowgeno, racefan12, Searl

Notre Dame (6):

Aureal, Cheery Dog, imaginality, JerryArr, racefan12, tris


Aureal and JerryArr tie for the top score this question with 17, three points short of a perfect score.

8+6+6=20 or 17?

[StrangerCoug]

Q11: Name three famous landmarks of religious significance.

Mecca/Kaaba (8):

Aureal, biancospino, Datisi, DeasVail, Jake The Wolfie, JerryArr, N, tris

Christ the Redeemer (6):

Aureal, imaginality, JerryArr, mallowgeno, racefan12, Searl

Notre Dame (6):

Aureal, Cheery Dog, imaginality, JerryArr, racefan12, tris


Aureal and JerryArr tie for the top score this question with 17, three points short of a perfect score.

8+6+6=20 or 17?

It looks like there's an error in the spreadsheet; I will hunt it down in the morning.

I found it; it's erroneously scoring as if you didn't submit at all. Will restore in the morning.

[tris]

I almost went with St Peter's Basilica instead of the Parthenon. I thought of Christ the Redeemer, but couldn't remember what it was called.

I'm curious why Mecca and the Kaaba where grouped together, but St. Peter's Basilica and Vatican City weren't.

[Datisi]

I'm curious why Mecca and the Kaaba where grouped together, but St. Peter's Basilica and Vatican City weren't.

is this because of me? i couldn't remember the actual name so i specified it's in mecca.

[DragonEater70]

Auschwitz: Datisi

???

Wailing Wall: Datisi

!!!!

The duality of the Datisi

[Datisi]

i couldn't remember any of them churches!!

[DragonEater70]

I mean the wailing wall is a true and real religious site and I appreciate you for remembering it. But why Auschwitz???

[Datisi]

it's the "i cannot remember the correct answer but i refuse to leave this question blank" mentality

[Cheery Dog]

it's the "i cannot remember the correct answer but i refuse to leave this question blank" mentality

I almost joined Ircher on Stonehenge using that reasoning.
(In the end I just declared Vatican City as a whole a landmark, although that same thought I refused to allow myself to submit Mecca)

[StrangerCoug]

I'm curious why Mecca and the Kaaba where grouped together, but St. Peter's Basilica and Vatican City weren't.

Primarily because the Sistine Chapel is also in the Vatican and is not the same thing as St. Peter's Basilica. I'm open to discussion as to whether all three should be grouped together, but it won't affect the lowest score.