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Old 11-08-2006, 09:50 PM   #1
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Trivia Challenge 2006

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The questions get progressively harder
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Old 11-08-2006, 10:07 PM   #2
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Yeah, no kidding they get harder! I got 1033 points.
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Old 11-08-2006, 10:22 PM   #3
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Your Score is : 1016
Total time taken : 428 seconds

Eep... got close to getting 3 wrong in a row, only to be saved by a lucky guess
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Old 11-08-2006, 10:37 PM   #4
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Total time taken : 365 seconds
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Old 11-09-2006, 01:43 AM   #5
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You have completed the contest
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Old 11-09-2006, 06:33 AM   #6
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2nd attempt (and strangely, other than the 1st dozen or so I got minimal repeats from the 1st time):

Your Score is : 1815
Total time taken : 445 seconds
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Old 11-09-2006, 06:58 AM   #7
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Old 11-09-2006, 08:41 AM   #8
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Old 11-09-2006, 10:23 AM   #9
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Old 11-09-2006, 12:18 PM   #10
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Played again and got ~700

Some of the high scores are amazingly high... the top player played for 75 minutes!

I'd like to think I have better things to do with my afternoons.
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Old 11-09-2006, 12:48 PM   #11
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Old 11-09-2006, 01:05 PM   #12
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Old 11-09-2006, 03:44 PM   #13
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I didn't look at the time... 1812 pts
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Old 11-09-2006, 10:15 PM   #14
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1248 the first time around. I felt like I was playing a round of Trivial Pursuit the whole time.

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Old 11-09-2006, 10:54 PM   #15
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After several tries,
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