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Koli 
"Striving lackadaisically for perfection."
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 Posted - 03/30/2007 : 18:44:42
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Channel4 have a film quiz. The idea is that you identify the film title from one still. You have three lives; if you keep winning the sky's the limit (currently the highest score is 3622). I am languishing far below in 700th place. 
Enjoy.
http://www.channel4.com/film/
PS Still in about 700th place.  |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 03/30/2007 : 19:55:35
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| Do the questions get harder as you move along? It's not much of a challenge so far. |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/30/2007 : 20:06:03
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Originally posted by Downtown
Do the questions get harder as you move along? It's not much of a challenge so far.
They're only easy if you know them! 
PS I hate you Koli ... doncha know I have WORK to do!!!! 
I'm only ranking at 323203 but I'm determined to do better. Work? What's work?!
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 03/30/2007 : 20:22:50
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Anyone get the answer to that big monkey on top of the Empire State building one?
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demonic 
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 03/30/2007 : 20:43:25
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| Ugh. Life's too short! Can't believe some people have had the patience to reach 3000+. They must be doing it in shifts. I gave up at 20 after I was asked two of the same questions twice. |
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 03/30/2007 : 20:59:38
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I just got to 92 (for the loss of one life) when a "technical error" page came up and I was booted out.
Still can't get that monkey one though...
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MisterBadIdea 
"PLZ GET MILK, KTHXBYE"
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Posted - 03/30/2007 : 21:01:04
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
Still can't get that monkey one though...
I like that your other options were "Godzilla," "Alligator" and most puzzingly, "Bambi." |
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 03/30/2007 : 23:27:49
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Yeah, I discounted Bambi because there was no good grazing on top of that skyscraper.
I am now languishing at no.35.
I estimate it will take me about 8hrs 34mins at full pace to get to no.1. Maybe tomorrow?!
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GHcool 
"Forever a curious character."
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Posted - 03/31/2007 : 04:02:56
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| I don't know how you guys did it. I ended up with only 9 points! I lost my third life on "What food marks the arrival of the grim reaper in Monty Python's Meaning of Life?" I probably haven't seen the film in at least 5 years (its my least favorite of the Python features, but still funny). |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 03/31/2007 : 09:28:04
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My score was horrid. Thank goodness I don't want a Wii.
(But excuse me for a moment, I need to pii!)
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/31/2007 : 10:01:06
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Originally posted by GHcool
I don't know how you guys did it. I ended up with only 9 points! I lost my third life on "What food marks the arrival of the grim reaper in Monty Python's Meaning of Life?" I probably haven't seen the film in at least 5 years (its my least favorite of the Python features, but still funny).
Are you doing the same quiz?  The one we're doing - I assume it's all of doing it - is the one where they show you a still from the film and you have to id it from a choice of 3 titles.
Your question above, however, has a sweet ending - explosive though it may be
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/31/2007 : 13:02:30
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Ooo... I'm really furious with Channel 4!! I just wasted 1� hours zipping through question after question and racking up 510 points with 3 lives still intact ... at which point I had to go feed my mewling cat and have a pee.
When I returned, the expletive deleted quiz had locked me out due to "a technical error or you took too long with no activity" ... I've filed a complaint with them, but hah! NB: there's no way to "pause" or "save" your game. So that means the top scorers either are a group of people - which discriminates against the single player ... or they're even more obsessive than I am, and play while sitting on the loo with a fridge in easy reach, and they've killed all their pets.
I certainly never wanted their measly TMNT gear, but I'd have loved to be somewhere further up the leaderboard. Bastards!
The quiz is even more of a swizz because after a while the same films recur time after time. I know there are others in the random loop because some of the ones that came up last night weren't there at all - while some today re-appeared 5 or 6 times.
Grrrrrrr!!!!!!!!
PS - if anyone STILL wants to participate in this STUPID quiz, it certainly helps if you've had a night's sleep
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 03/31/2007 : 18:02:30
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You're complaining! I got to 1088, got the next question right and it reset my score to 0.
Actually today the questions are no longer random (or pseudo-random) but rotate in a sequence of 204. I kid you not.
I wonder if they answer the complaints in strict rotation too? |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/31/2007 : 18:41:00
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
You're complaining! I got to 1088, got the next question right and it reset my score to 0.
Actually today the questions are no longer random (or pseudo-random) but rotate in a sequence of 204. I kid you not.
I wonder if they answer the complaints in strict rotation too?
This is getting serious ... especially in light of the recent Parliamentary hoo-hah about Rich and Judy and the so-called Play channels. Hmmm ... do you think we should contact the media ... Channel 4 shouldn't be immune!!! 
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 03/31/2007 : 19:55:16
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I'm seeing my solicitor about it on Monday.  |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 04/01/2007 : 01:46:33
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insert really cursiest curse of your choice:
I just got up to 1289 when the cursiest curse quiz re-set my score to zero.
That's it! I give up.
Bah! Humbug!
And do NOT remind me it's April 1
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Film Quiz
