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Re: Lego Trivia Game Show Online!
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 8 Oct 2004 22:59:13 GMT
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I forgot to thank you, BTW, for the Train Shed I won at BF.  I haven't bought one
yet, so your show made me pretty happy, especially since I showed up 30min late,
and had NO idea what the rules were ;-)

And I didn't have access to the web to research, nor did anyone else at BF.  I'm
sure our scores would have been higher taking them online ;-)

David Eaton wrote:

> In lugnet.announce, David Eaton wrote:
> > http://www.suave.net/~dave/trivia2004.cgi
> 
> So, after a week, the votes are in:
> 
> Out of 329 people tallied[1]:
> 
> Level Stats
> -----------------------
> Level 1 - 70.0% Correct
> Level 2 - 48.7% Correct
> Level 3 - 39.2% Correct
> Level 4 - 34.1% Correct
> Level 5 - 25.3% Correct
> Level 6 - 21.8% Correct
> 
> Category Stats
> ---------------------------------
> Company Trivia    - 50.5% Correct
> Set Trivia        - 47.6% Correct
> Product Trivia    - 47.5% Correct
> Piece Trivia      - 47.2% Correct
> Software Trivia   - 42.6% Correct
> Community Trivia  - 41.8% Correct
> Company History   - 39.6% Correct
> Fan Site Trivia   - 39.0% Correct
> CAD Trivia        - 33.3% Correct
> Community History - 29.8% Correct
> 
> Easiest Question: (96.1% accurate)
> - What does "LUG" stand for in most Lego clubs?
> 
> Hardest Questions: (Tied at 5% accurate)
> - Name either co-creator that came up with the ORIGINAL version of BrikWars
>   entitled 'LegoWars'.
> - How many studs are on a rectangular BURP?
> 
> And if you haven't had enough Lego Trivia, I also came across another quickie
> Lego quiz online (with a couple mistakes in it):
> 
> http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?quiz=94291
> 
> Mistakes being:
>  - The year they give as the founding of the company is actually the year Lego
> made its first *toys*. The "company" was actually established in 1895, and
> bought by Ole Kirk in 1916 (I think those dates are right, I'm remembering
> offhand). And it was first called "Lego" two years after they made their first
> toys.
>  - The toy for children under 5 that they mention wasn't actually started in
> 1967, but in 1969
>  - They misspelled one of the Lego themes, I'm sure you can tell which :)
> 
> DaveE
> 
> [1] 105 scores weren't counted because:
>  - 85 didn't answer enough questions (less than 10)
>  - 20 answered questions 100% correctly
> 
> (actually, the logic used to determine both those stats is a little more
> complex-- it was more of a test to see who was being honest and who was just
> answering "Correct" for everything regardless of their answer. In reality it's
> more like '85 people may have been cheating, but not enough data to be sure',
> and '20 people really do look like they're cheating')

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Tom Stangl
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  Re: Lego Trivia Game Show Online!
 
(...) Out of 329 people tallied[1]: Level Stats ---...--- Level 1 - 70.0% Correct Level 2 - 48.7% Correct Level 3 - 39.2% Correct Level 4 - 34.1% Correct Level 5 - 25.3% Correct Level 6 - 21.8% Correct Category Stats ---...--- Company Trivia - 50.5% (...) (22 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)  

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