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Its a bad question that's terribly worded. One of us actually thought it might be a snake ( I thought it was a bug of sorts personally)! But with the wording we couldn't tell if that would be correct.
If it was "required" then it should of been asked in a way that made that clear is our point.

Meh.

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07-29-2014 , 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by killa

This is when you ask the mod for clarification. You can't ask for it to be thrown out because it was confusing if you didn't do that.

If you knew the answer I don't see how you could think to put anything but 'snake'. Maybe you might put 'reptile' but 'vertebrate', really?

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07-29-2014 , 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by kokiri

Oh, a sighting of the classic 'anyone doing better than me must be cheating' argument. I figured it'd be a couple of days before that came up.

I'd call an accusation

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07-29-2014 , 01:17 PM

#105

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Originally Posted by Alrighty Roo

If you knew the doctor how could you put anything else!

Other people just guessing the show.

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07-29-2014 , 01:19 PM

#106

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i said thought no one was really sure, we answered Vertebrae ....

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07-29-2014 , 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by pwnsall

If you knew the doctor how could you put anything else!

I don't think the two situations are analogous (although after thinking about it I don't think I could complain if Dr Who was marked wrongly, but I don't think it's terrible to mark it correctly either because everyone calls him Dr Who (not on the show, granted, but IRL)).

Vertebrate is just not an answer to any question except 'is X a vertebrate or invertebrate?' or 'what is the group of animals that have backbones called?'.

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07-29-2014 , 01:29 PM

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Atleast asking "animal" might of given something better then "creature"

again poor question in its wording

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07-29-2014 , 01:36 PM

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trivia is fun and all but complaining about rulings is the soul of pog

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07-29-2014 , 01:36 PM

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lol whats the difference between a creature and an animal

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07-29-2014 , 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Aksdal

lol whats the difference between a creature and an animal

creature is much more general. taking killa's POV (always an enlightening perspective), the kind of creature it is could be carbon-based, breathing, earthling, motile, anything really. the kind of animal it is is a snake.

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07-29-2014 , 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by amplify

Things it isn't:
Pet rock
Prion
Amoeba
Single celled plantimal
Silicon based alternative life form

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07-29-2014 , 01:56 PM

#113

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Originally Posted by amplify

It could of been a an ewok, a grumpkin, a troll...

Creature is just stupidly vague ioho's

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07-29-2014 , 01:58 PM

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it can't be any of those though because it's a snake

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07-29-2014 , 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by killa

It could of been a an ewok, a grumpkin, a troll...

Creature is just stupidly vague ioho's

Rigged, it's almost like the game is testing who knows what a dugite is

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07-29-2014 , 02:22 PM

#116

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Originally Posted by killa

Question 8 our team is calling BS on, the way it was asked was to ambiguous to answer,technically speaking vertebrate is a correct answer. It should be tossed for the vague way it was worded.

X-nerd you had me until you said La Guardia is NYC, its has like 2 airports ( JFK) which is by far the bigger airport and a major hub.

But I will say she is correct no one call's the Rome airport by Da Vinci , it similar to how no one calls John Wayne Airport anything but Orange County...

Im not going to be bullied by every team because of phrasing, you had 2 days to get the question clarified you didnt im sticking to my guns

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07-29-2014 , 02:24 PM

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Good job necro. The ruling on 8 is correct.

Is our team going to have points revealed?

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07-29-2014 , 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by younguns87

The role is The Doctor. The show is Doctor Who.

I don't understand how that is a nitty ruling.

Exactly, our team put Doctor Who and I would have been fine with it not being counted.

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07-29-2014 , 02:27 PM

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I replied i believe in pm i made a mistake and believe you have 10 but im phone posting so its difficult atm

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07-29-2014 , 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ShipItUp

Exactly, our team put Doctor Who and I would have been fine with it not being counted.

Its been discussed to death and its definitely not going be changed again.

I will discuss it once this comp is finished

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07-29-2014 , 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by necro

I replied i believe in pm i made a mistake and believe you have 10 but im phone posting so its difficult atm

No worries, thanks

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07-29-2014 , 02:37 PM

#122

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Your ruling is your ruling , the team just asks for more clarity in future questions

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07-29-2014 , 02:40 PM

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Official petition to replace team lolpog with team lolwhiners

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07-29-2014 , 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by killa

Your ruling is your ruling , the team just asks for more clarity in future questions

If the question is unclear then pm me ive made myself very open in this regard

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07-29-2014 , 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Crossnerd

fwiw, I knew rome's airport was leonardo da vinci- xxxxxxx and couldn't think of the xxxxxxx. I've traveled extensively in Europe and nobody calls the rome airport by leonardo da vinci; they call it fiumicino, and I thought that was obv the part of the name we needed for the airport..

Like amsterdam is schipol, nyc is la guardia, rome is fiumicino etc.

I definitely think Leonardo da Vinci should be marked correct because it's a correct answer and I'm opposed to nittery of all kinds, but I've traveled a ton in Europe as well and Crassnerd is correct. If you take an airport that everyone actually does refer to by its eponym, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, the airport code is CDG. Similarly with JFK in NYC. Examples of airports referred to with place names are London Heathrow, coded LHR, and Reykjavik-Keflavik, KEF. Rome is not LDV or RLV or something, but FCO, for Fiumicino.

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