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General Knowledge Sheesh - reveal Sunday, April 2nd General Knowledge Sheesh - reveal Sunday, April 2nd

03-26-2017 , 07:32 AM
Welcome to Sheesh, where you choose which questions to play as sheep or peehs.

For reference, you may want to see the last game of this I ran, to get an idea of how it plays out.

The basics:
  • In sheep, you try to guess the same answer as everyone else. Your score is the number of people with the same answer as you. Note that your answer doesn't necessarily have to be correct.
  • In peehs (reverse sheep), you try to guess the least popular answer, with the caveat that your answer must be a correct answer to the question.

To enter:

Send me your 10 answers in a PM with "sheep" or "peehs" before each answer, like this:

Quote:
sheep Answer 1
peehs Answer 2
sheep Answer 3
...etc...

Rules:
  • NO RESEARCH
  • You must sheep 5 questions and peehs 5 questions

Scoring:
  • Sheep answers score the same as in regular sheep.
  • Peehs scores are reversed so that if your peehs answers sheeps, you get 1, while if your peehs answer aces, you get the sheep score on that question.
  • Any answers marked INVALID score 0 in sheep, and count as incorrect for peehs.
  • Incorrects don't matter in sheep. Peehs incorrects score 1 - half the sheep score.

The questions:
  • A year in which Tiger Woods won a major (9 correct answers)
  • A metropolitan area in France with a population of at least 1,000,000 (7 correct answers) (+2 bonus points if you peehs this question)
  • A Shakespeare play whose title does NOT contain the name of a character in the play (15 correct answers)
  • One of the ten events in a standard men's decathlon (10 correct answers)
  • A World Series of Poker Main Event runner-up (i.e. they came 2nd) (42 correct answers)
  • One of the ten largest organs in the male human body (by weight) (10 correct answers)
  • A game in the Grand Theft Auto franchise (INVALID: Grand Theft Auto) (14 correct answers)
  • One of the ten biggest lakes in the world (by surface area) (10 correct answers)
  • One of the nine main types of saxophone (9 correct answers)
  • A human character from "The Simpsons" who appeared in at least 200 episodes, but isn't from the main family (INVALID: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie) (14 correct answers)

Please ask any questions you have about the format, no matter how silly, in the thread.

Reveal Sunday, April 2nd.

And don't forget: NO RESEARCH

Good luck!
03-26-2017 , 01:14 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkMagus
[*]A metropolitan area in France with a population of at least 1,000,000 (7 correct answers) (+2 bonus points if you peehs this question)
Is this +2 if we try to peehs this question, or if we successfully choose the peehs response?
03-26-2017 , 01:52 PM
in, if I'm the first entry, it may be the only time I'm winning.
03-26-2017 , 02:22 PM
Good questions

will have to think a little bit about some of them

will definitely in, but not right now...
03-26-2017 , 03:13 PM
Will in shortly
03-26-2017 , 03:32 PM
I think I can win this one. Will in.
03-26-2017 , 03:56 PM
Those are great questions, and I will definitely in this. Quickly too, because I'm dying to find out all of the answers to #10
03-26-2017 , 06:17 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by e_holle
Is this +2 if we try to peehs this question, or if we successfully choose the peehs response?
Just if you try.
03-26-2017 , 06:36 PM
In, probably with sheep and peehs reversed.
03-27-2017 , 01:00 AM
*** CLARIFICATION ***

I just realized the list I used for the Simpsons question is 2 years old. Since I can't find a newer list, I extrapolated based on # of episodes. This adds 2 characters to the list.

That means there are now 16 correct answers for question 10.
03-27-2017 , 11:46 AM
in
03-27-2017 , 11:58 AM
in with 2 guesses
03-27-2017 , 12:43 PM
So I didn't notice housenuts also had a decathlon event question on his PEEH game.

For those of you who researched for that question, or read that reveal before entering this, please try to forget any new answers you learned before answering that question
03-28-2017 , 03:43 AM
I might in. My mind is currently too blown by the concept to consider it atm.
03-28-2017 , 06:22 AM
What do you mean by metropolitan area? Do you mean a region of France or a city?
03-28-2017 , 12:14 PM
in with suboptimal life decisions
03-28-2017 , 06:36 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Colin_Piddle
What do you mean by metropolitan area? Do you mean a region of France or a city?
I mean an Urban Area as officially defined by the statistics bureau of France:

Quote:
Urban area: an urban area or a " big urban area " is a group of touching municipalities, without pockets of clear land, encompassing an urban centre (urban unit) providing at least 10 000 jobs, and by rural districts or an urban units (urban periphery) among which at least 40 % of employed resident population works in the centre or in the municipalities attracted by this centre.
Basically it means city.
03-28-2017 , 09:24 PM
in and ready for a general lack of knowledge sheesh.
03-29-2017 , 06:44 PM
bump. 8 in so far
03-30-2017 , 03:51 AM
In. Sheesh.
03-30-2017 , 11:01 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkMagus
A Shakespeare play whose title does NOT contain the name of a character in the play (15 correct answers)
Just tried to come up with all of these from memory and am currently stuck on 14. Presumably the one I'm missing is the best peehs answer! (But I bet it isn't and that I'm just forgetting something reasonably obvious.)
03-30-2017 , 11:12 AM
Ended up going with a peehs on the first Shakespeare play that came to mind, which may or may not have been a wise decision.

The one I couldn't think of would probably have been a good answer, too.
03-30-2017 , 11:19 AM
Spewwwww
03-30-2017 , 03:38 PM
gonna enter this so hard with answers that are so bad
03-31-2017 , 12:38 PM
2 days left. at 11 in, could use a few more!
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