h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Glad you enjoyed it MMF.

you seemed to have omitted me.
Post 172 you awarded me +1 for saying it was an ore.
did I forfeit this point when during the bonus round I broke the rules?

Yes - all points forfeited.

I also made one other correction which affect GT's score, I had awarded him a DGI bonus - but it was replicating Rod an answer had given on the first page.

I did score your contribution I just starred them on my notes as void. Your total points score if you had not been disqualified would have been

Shagbark +3 for


"a specialist job" (126)

"a change in spelling" (127)

"some kind of oxide" (169)

Which would have put you level with Mr Dreadful.

I appreciate the transgression may have been unintentional but I wish to be consistent and fair both in how I award points and where I take them away.

I can only say I am sorry but when I put in the original post "don't google or use wikipedia" - I mean it and I will disqualify anyone from my forums if on a particular round I suspect this.

On the other hand if you have any good general knowledge books, a dictionary or an encyclopaedia sitting around the house be my guest.
I don't mind people looking stuff up (you can even use The Guide!)
I'm after striking a balance between looking stuff up, and guessing. I figure keyword searches would just make it too easy, the joy of the game I figure is in the guessing and avoiding the klaxons.

I'm working on some more QIs so there'll be other chances to win back some points but for this your score was reduced to zero.

All clear?

Clive.

But if you get too many klaxons, wouldn't you be tempted to claim you googled in order to increase your score to zero?

(Me, deliberately obtuse? No way )

No system is foolproof.

Besides if you were googling you probably wouldn't be tripping the klaxons.

Ah, what I mean is: after you trip all klaxons, you go googling and disclose it loudly to reset your score to 0

Whatever.

There has to be trust else why bother?

Keep going, Mr de Vious.
(I know thee, thy name is Clive)

I hope you spelt vile, vial at your interview.

Great QI, Clive and thanku for explaining the red lead/cinnabar issue; I feel that I should have having raised it.

The reason I mentioned vermillion as the probable 'English' word is that English has borrowed the word to describe anything used as a bright-red pigment and the colour created by using whichsoever pigment.

Sorry, had to check back, but rubric in an academic (non-biblical)sense is the instruction or given rules, ie what the pupil/candidate is instructed in relation to the questions asked. For example, the parts of Post 1 of this thread that aren't the question are rubric. A marking scheme can be explained in rubric but it is not per se rubric.

I'm not looking for points; I just hope to add to the accuracy and interestingness of the thread.

Was it an interview for a job, Clive?

I think rubric in the academic sense can be sort-of both.

It's 'essentially' a structure to help you understand something - that could be I suppose a certain way of leading a student through a series of ideas or also a schematic for allowing someone to grade a series of ideas - it's the idea of the 'scaffolded bridge' that in play in both.



It was an interview for a job - but I don't think I got it - but phone resolutely refused to ring all yesterday, in spite of (or possibly directly due to) my watching it like a hawk.

On the plus side this means I won't now have to quit college and can complete my qualification. So it's not *totally* bad news.

I've not got the job before, I just have to be lucky once. Will be interested to get some feedback though.

And thanks for the encouragement Van.

I do enjoy doing QI. I'll have a rummage around in my files of interesting things and see if I can come up with some more.

I have a dyslexic keyboard.

Here's hoping no news is good news