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POST SCORES 2009
McKay The Disorganised Posted Jan 21, 2009
I was going to sit on the fence, but whilst writing my answer I've changed my mind.
I'll go with Clive's suggestion.
POST SCORES 2009
kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? Posted Jan 22, 2009
QI -WRITING VETS
correct answeres
bob +3
miss cherry +3
quite interestiong
icy +6
oops +6
POST SCORES 2009
Icy North Posted Jan 23, 2009
QI - Left or Right:
Mu Beta +3 (post 5) "correct" answer
Lil +1 (post 10) link to urban myth
Miss Cherry13 +6 (post 15) the most inventive solution - driving around corners
Clive +1 (post 29) myth debunked - photographic proof
Icy
POST SCORES 2009
HonestIago Posted Jan 23, 2009
QI - I do avow and affirm:
Deakie: +1 - 22nd Amendment near miss
Miss Cherry: +3 Correct
Stealth: +3 Correct
HonestIago +1
Miss Cherry: 
- FDR's 12 years
Stealth: - No official term limits
Total scores:
Deakie - +1
HonestIago - +1
Miss Cherry -2
Stealth -2
POST SCORES 2009
bobstafford Posted Jan 23, 2009
QI -WRITING VETS
correct answeres
bob +3
miss cherry +3
quite interestiong
icy +6
oops +6
Kipper +2
Posted 6 Hours Ago by Icy North
QI - Left or Right:
Mu Beta +3 (post 5) "correct" answer
Lil +1 (post 10) link to urban myth
Miss Cherry13 +6 (post 15) the most inventive solution - driving around corners
Clive +1 (post 29) myth debunked - photographic proof
Icy +2
SCORES POSTED 23/01 
POST SCORES 2009
bobstafford Posted Jan 23, 2009
QI - I do avow and affirm:
Deakie: +1 - 22nd Amendment near miss...
Miss Cherry: +3 Correct...
Stealth: +3 Correct...
elf HonestIago +1...
Miss Cherry: bluelight - FDR's 12 years....
Stealth: bluelight - No official term limits...
Total scores:
Deakie - +1
HonestIago - +1
Miss Cherry -2
Stealth -2
SCORE UPDATED 23/01
POST SCORES 2009
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jan 25, 2009
QI - In place of life.
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Correct 
+3
Feisor - Axolotls (post 8)
Klaxon. -5
None Awarded.
Decreasing General Ignorance 
+1
2 Legs: (Xolotl shape-shifts.)
2 Legs: (Xolotl, the dog-headed god)
Miss Cherry (Axolotl habitat)
Miss Cherry (Axolotl etymology)
QI 
+6
None awarded.
Elf. +2
Clive.
Aggregate Totals:
Clive +2
Miss Cherry +2
2 Legs +2
Feisor +3
POST SCORES 2009
bobstafford Posted Jan 26, 2009
QI - In place of life.
---------------------
Correct diva +3
Feisor - Axolotls (post 8)
Klaxon. bluelight -5
None Awarded.
Decreasing General Ignorance doh +1
2 Legs: (Xolotl shape-shifts.)
2 Legs: (Xolotl, the dog-headed god)
Miss Cherry (Axolotl habitat)
Miss Cherry (Axolotl etymology)
QI eureka +6
None awarded.
Elf. elf +2
Clive.
SCORE POSTED 25/01
POST SCORES 2009
bobstafford Posted Jan 26, 2009
QI - nom de guerre or just politic
Pedro +3
Ben +1
SWL +6 QI
Bob +2
SCORE POSTED 25/01
POST SCORES 2009
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jan 27, 2009
QI - "Die Sloley!" (The Coins of The Anarchy 1135–1154)
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Decreasing General Ignorance +1
Ben (Coins)
Mal (Coin Faces)
Ben (Regime Change)
Ben (False Pretenders to The Throne)
Thranjax (Pretenders to The Throne)
QI +6
Ben (Tokens / Cranford)
Correct +3
Ben (King Stephen & Matilia / Maud + Civil War)
Thranjax (Bristol Coins were Matilda's)
Elf +2
Clive.
Klaxons - 5
None awarded.
POST SCORES 2009
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jan 27, 2009
Ooops! 
QI - "Die Sloley!" (The Coins of The Anarchy 1135–1154)
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Aggregate Scores.
=========
Mal +1
Clive +2
Thranjax +4
Ben +12 !
POST SCORES 2009
Mrs Zen Posted Jan 28, 2009
*looks smugly at previous post*
QI - Here be dragons
+1 Reducing General Ignorance
Bagpus - U152404 - Naturalists and write-ups
Malabarista - U1528154 - Something strange about how the offspring are produced
Malabarista - U1528154 - Only male offspring
+3 Right Answer
Malabarista - U1528154 - parthenogenesis in komodos
Miss Cherry - U13775760 - island colonisiation
+6 - QI
Mu Beta - U190397 - Unfair questions in GCSEs
Pedro - U624130 - island pygmyism, gigantism and the mini-mammoths
So Mal gets 5,
Mu Beta and Pedro get 6,
Miss Cherry 3 a
nd Bagpus gets 1
Oh, and 2 for mysElf.
POST SCORES 2009
Icy North Posted Jan 28, 2009
QI - Not one of ours:
Thranjax -5 (post 4) Turkey
Mala +1 (post 6) french/german onions
Toy Box +1 (post 11) french/english leave
Thranjax +3 (post 13) correct - North America
Toy Box +1 (post 15) french/english letters
2legs +1 (post 17) Iceland 
Icy
POST SCORES 2009
bobstafford Posted Jan 30, 2009
QI - "Die Sloley!" (The Coins of The Anarchy 1135–1154)
----------------------------------
Decreasing General Ignorance doh +1
Ben (Coins)...
Mal (Coin Faces)...
Ben (Regime Change)...
Ben (False Pretenders to The Throne)...
Thranjax (Pretenders to The Throne)...
QI eureka +6
Ben (Tokens / Cranford)...
Correct +3
Ben (King Stephen & Matilia / Maud + Civil War)...
Thranjax (Bristol Coins were Matilda's)...
Elf elf +2...
SCORE POSTED 29/01
Clive.
POST SCORES 2009
bobstafford Posted Jan 30, 2009
QI - Here be dragons
+1 Reducing General Ignorance
Bagpus - U152404 - Naturalists and write-ups
Malabarista - U1528154 - Something strange about how the offspring are produced...
Malabarista - U1528154 - Only male offspring...
+3 Right Answer
Malabarista - U1528154 - parthenogenesis in komodos...
Miss Cherry - U13775760 - island colonisiation...
+6 - QI
Mu Beta - U190397 - Unfair questions in GCSEs...
Pedro - U624130 - island pygmyism, gigantism and the mini-mammoths...
So Mal gets 5,
Mu Beta and Pedro get 6,
Miss Cherry 3 a
nd Bagpus gets 1
Oh, and 2 for mysElf.
SCORE POSTED 29/01
POST SCORES 2009
bobstafford Posted Jan 30, 2009
QI - Not one of ours:
Thranjax -5 (post 4) bluelight Turkey...
Mala +1 (post 6) french/german onions...
Toy Box +1 (post 11) french/english leave...
Thranjax +3 (post 13) correct - North America...
Toy Box +1 (post 15) french/english letters...
2legs +1 (post 17) Iceland groan...
cheers Icy ...
SCORE POSTED 29/01
POST SCORES 2009
InfiniteImp Posted Jan 30, 2009
QI – Unique and unique and unique
QI (+6)
Feisor (Sir Richard Cholmondeley)
Icy North (blues lyric)
Otto Fisch (WH Smith)
Klaxons (-5)
None awarded
Correct. (+3)
thranjax (pop hit)
Malabarista (major and minor)
ekky99 (I Have a Song to Sing-O)
ekky99 (existing melody)
Elf (+1)
Infiniteimp.
POST SCORES 2009
bobstafford Posted Jan 31, 2009
QI – Unique and unique and unique
QI eureka (+6)
Feisor (Sir Richard Cholmondeley)...
Icy North (blues lyric)...
Otto Fisch (WH Smith)...
Correct. diva (+3)
thranjax (pop hit)..
Malabarista (major and minor)...
ekky99 (I Have a Song to Sing-O)...
ekky99 (existing melody)..
Elf elf (+2)...
Infiniteimp.
SCORE POSTED 30/01
POST SCORES 2009
InfiniteImp Posted Feb 2, 2009
QI – Not Sandi Toksvig
QI (+6)
Taff Agent of Kaos (For managing to bring Dane Bowers into this)
Feisor (Knighted penguin)
Clive the Flying Ostrich (HRH the Duke of Edinburgh's dubious origins)
Malabarista (the Great Dane's dubious origins)
Bob Stafford. ACE (David Niven's wartime dog escapades)
Ben (joke about Danish women)
Bob Stafford. ACE (even better joke in reply)
Klaxons (-5)
None awarded
Correct. (+3)
Feisor
Elf (+1)
Infiniteimp
POST SCORES 2009
bobstafford Posted Feb 2, 2009
QI – Not Sandi Toksvig
QI eureka (+6)
Taff Agent of Kaos (For managing to bring Dane Bowers into this)...
Feisor (Knighted penguin)...
Clive the Flying Ostrich (HRH the Duke of Edinburgh's dubious origins)...
Malabarista (the Great Dane's dubious origins)...
Bob Stafford. ACE (David Niven's wartime dog escapades)...
Ben (joke about Danish women)...
Bob Stafford. ACE (even better joke in reply)...
Klaxons bluelight (-5)
None awarded
Correct. diva (+3)
Feisor...
Infiniteimp elf (+1)...
SCORE POSTED 2/2/09
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POST SCORES 2009
- 321: McKay The Disorganised (Jan 21, 2009)
- 322: kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? (Jan 22, 2009)
- 323: Icy North (Jan 23, 2009)
- 324: HonestIago (Jan 23, 2009)
- 325: bobstafford (Jan 23, 2009)
- 326: bobstafford (Jan 23, 2009)
- 327: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jan 25, 2009)
- 328: bobstafford (Jan 26, 2009)
- 329: bobstafford (Jan 26, 2009)
- 330: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jan 27, 2009)
- 331: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jan 27, 2009)
- 332: Mrs Zen (Jan 28, 2009)
- 333: Icy North (Jan 28, 2009)
- 334: bobstafford (Jan 30, 2009)
- 335: bobstafford (Jan 30, 2009)
- 336: bobstafford (Jan 30, 2009)
- 337: InfiniteImp (Jan 30, 2009)
- 338: bobstafford (Jan 31, 2009)
- 339: InfiniteImp (Feb 2, 2009)
- 340: bobstafford (Feb 2, 2009)
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