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Which is your favourite color?

Blue 0.23362166761202 23.4% [ 3295 ]
Green 0.15031196823596 15.0% [ 2120 ]
Red 0.10904707884288 10.9% [ 1538 ]
Yellow 0.024035734543392 2.4% [ 339 ]
Black 0.19228587634714 19.2% [ 2712 ]
Pink 0.095150311968236 9.5% [ 1342 ]
Orange 0.045589903573454 4.6% [ 643 ]
Violet 0.1076999432785 10.8% [ 1519 ]
Brown 0.042257515598412 4.2% [ 596 ]
Total Votes:[ 14104 ]
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The New Colorbump: HERE!

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The Official Colorbump Guild: Here

1. Table of contents and important news
2. Co-hosts, helpers and banners
3. Rules & Guidelines
4. The Dice Game - stopped
5. TekTek The_Colorbump - stopped
6. the 140 colors available to bump
7. Top Bumpers top 100
8. Former nr. 1's and former top 3's
9. Topics of friends
10. Dice and Quiz Rankings
11. The Weekly Quiz - stopped
12. Answers and winners of the previous weekly quiz

2nd page:
1. Hex codes for the 130 colors
2. Donators and Donations
3. Topbumpers nr. 101-300
4. Topbumpers nr. 301-500
5. Halloween topbumpers
6. Christmas topbumpers
7. Valentine topbumpers
8. Anniversary topbumpers

3rd page:
1. Blacklist
We have a colorbump guild. If I didn't send you a request to join myself yet, you can always send one yourself. If you are not a regular in this thread, please give a good reason.

co-hosts
Fem_chan
Gemene_Koala
ignis6669 (dice game)
TaiFengshin (weekly quiz)

The colorbump mule
The_Colorbump (The_Colorbump)
Visit his journal!

appreciated helpers
Narconasis
Mommette
Pacifica san
G Eye Joe
VLs Slave

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arrow Which is your favourite color? Tell me! But, don't just tell. Bump in that color, as much as you can.

arrow You can use the option "subscribe to thread" (at the bottom of the page, left) and return later. It doesn't matter when you bump, every bump counts.

arrow You can use Ctrl + F to search in the first page, for example for your name or a color. That way you know immediately on which spot you are in the topbumpers or you can find easily other colors: (green -> darkgreen, lawngreen, limegreen, yellowgreen, ...)

exclaim Not allowed:
1. Pagestretching in any way (long plain posts of a hundredthousand bumps or too wide posts)
2. Spam ("donate me", "my quest", "vote for me in the Avatar arena", "Christ lives", ...) Religious, political or other propaganda is not allowed.
3. Hi ! Don't do that, just say "hi bump" instead OK?
exclaim Multiple times not following rules will get you on the blacklist.

Deleted posts: 500+

biggrin Allowed and pleased:
all kind of conversation with other bumpers (PG13), as long as there is at least 1 Bump in the post. If you're a regular and you're chatting with someone on the colorbump, sometimes forgetting the bump in the post is OK. If you have fun, it doesn't matter that much.
These posts will all count.

Thanks for reading this! heart
The Dice Game
(stopped)

hosted by ignis6669 feat. The_Bartner

Rules
* Now you don't only bump at the colorbump, you also roll the dice. With bumping your money is guaranteed, with the dice game you can get a lot more of it!
* The rules are very easy:
* With every post you make, you can roll 1 100-sided dice.
* You only win when you roll a 100.
* Every roll with more dice or not a 100-sided dice can not win.
* Everyone can join.

Periods and Prices
* We work in periods of 2 weeks.
* Everyone who rolled at least once a 100 in a period, gets 100g.
* The person who rolled the most 100's in a period, gets a donation letter given out by ignis6669
* If there is a tie, persons that didn't win earlier, goes first. Then we look at the highest amount of 100 rolls in the past, if that's a tie too, the one with the most 100's in the previous period wins, if that's a tie too, the previous one and so on. If they always had the same amount, the one with most bumps wins.
* At the end of the period we also choose a bit random someone that rolled a lot, but never had 100, that person gets something small, for example: 100 crumpled newspaper.

Important !
* If you roll a 100, you HAVE to sent a PM to The_Colorbump (The_Colorbump), our colorbump mule, with the number of the page. If you don't send a PM, your 100 doesn't count. Once the winners are known, nothing will change at that result.
* You can check the official colorbump guild for the top dicers. (click here: last post of this topic)
* A dice rolled without bump in the post doesn't count!
* It's a DICE game, random numbers do not count!
* Every decision about the dice game is taken by ignis6669 and The_Bartner and therefore definite.
* We want two different winners every month: therefore, the winner of the previous period can't win the first period after his win.

Period 1 ended, greenjam won.
Period 2 ended, Blackwing Rose won.
Period 3 ended, Narconasis won.
Period 4 ended, Blackwing Rose won.
Period 5 ended, Merokoyuichan won.
Period 6 ended, greenjam won.
Period 7 ended, Mommette won.
Period 8 ended, Narconasis won.
Period 9 ended, Mommette won.
Period 10 ended, awergy won.
Period 11 ended, greenjam won.
Period 12 ended, Mommette won.
Period 13 ended, Johvalo won.
Period 14 ended, Hippo For Ella won.
Period 15 ended, Mommette won.
Period 16 ended, kairi77 won.
All the final results are in the journal of The_Colorbump or in the guild.
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Results

Normal
1. Entry 9 (~~BumpingQueen~~)
2. Entry 2 (Sweetest Tear)
3. Entry 8 (Koy White Light)
4. Entry 10 (~~BumpingQueen~~)
5. Entry 3 (Mommette)
6. Entry 5 (greenjam)
7. Entry 13 ([Cherry Flavored Antacid])
8. Entry 7 (VLs Slave)
9. Entry 1 (ducky2_2003)
10. Entry 6 (Johvalo)
11. Entry 12 (Rekkusu_Lynn)
12. Entry 4 (ducky2_2003)
13. Entry 11 (delightfuldragon101)


Super-cheap
1. Entry 10 (~~BumpingQueen~~)
2. Entry 4 (ducky2_2003)


Description
1. Entry 3 (Mommette)
2. Entry 8 (Koy White Light)
3. Entry 9 (~~BumpingQueen~~)
4. Entry 5 (greenjam)
5. Entry 10 (~~BumpingQueen~~)
6. Entry 6 (Johvalo)
7. Entry 13 ([Cherry Flavored Antacid])
8. Entry 2 (Sweetest Tear)
9. Entry 1 (ducky2_2003)
10. Entry 7 (VLs Slave)
11. Entry 4 (ducky2_2003)

Descriptions can be read here
Here are all the colors for bumping!
Thanks to Gemene_Koala for searching them for me and helping me putting them in this post. heart heart heart
Thanks to TaiFengShin to post some colors not yet in the list in the thread.

Suggestions about missing colors welcome, just post or PM me.
The Hex-codes of the colors and some sites with more colors and their hex-codes on the first page of the 2nd page!


Bump aliceblue
Bump antiquewhite
Bump aqua
Bump aquamarine
Bump azure
Bump beige
Bump bisque
Bump black
Bump blanchedalmond
Bump blue
Bump blueviolet
Bump brown
Bump burlywood
Bump cadetblue
Bump chartreuse
Bump chocolate
Bump coral
Bump cornflowerblue
Bump cornsilk
Bump crimson
Bump cyan
Bump darkblue
Bump darkcyan
Bump darkgoldenrod
Bump darkgray
Bump darkgreen
Bump darkkhaki
Bump darkmagenta
Bump darkolivegreen
Bump darkorange
Bump darkorchid
Bump darkred
Bump darksalmon
Bump darkseagreen
Bump darkslateblue
Bump darkslategray
Bump darksteel
Bump darkturquoise
Bump darkviolet
Bump deeppink
Bump deepskyblue
Bump dimgray
Bump dodgerblue
Bump firebrick
Bump floralwhite
Bump forestgreen
Bump fuchsia
Bump gainsboro
Bump ghostwhite
Bump gold
Bump goldenrod
Bump gray
Bump green
Bump greenyellow
Bump honeydew
Bump hotpink
Bump indianred
Bump indigo
Bump ivory
Bump khaki
Bump lavender
Bump lavenderblush
Bump lawngreen
Bump lemonchiffon
Bump lightblue
Bump lightcoral
Bump lightcyan
Bump lightgoldenrodyellow
Bump lightgreen
Bump lightgrey
Bump lightpink
Bump lightsalmon
Bump lightseagreen
Bump lightskyblue
Bump lightslategray
Bump lightsteelblue
Bump lightyellow
Bump lime
Bump limegreen
Bump linen
Bump magenta
Bump maroon
Bump mediumaquamarine
Bump mediumblue
Bump mediumorchid
Bump mediumpurple
Bump mediumseagreen
Bump mediumslateblue
Bump mediumspringgreen
Bump mediumturquoise
Bump mediumvioletred
Bump midnightblue
Bump mintcream
Bump mistyrose
Bump moccasin
Bump navajowhite
Bump navy
Bump oldface
Bump olive
Bump olivedrab
Bump orange
Bump orangered
Bump orchid
Bump palegoldenrod
Bump palegreen
Bump paleturquoise
Bump palevioletred
Bump papayawhip
Bump peachpuff
Bump peru
Bump pink
Bump plum
Bump powderblue
Bump purple
Bump red
Bump rosybrown
Bump royalblue
Bump saddlebrown
Bump salmon
Bump sandybrown
Bump seagreen
Bump seashell
Bump sienna
Bump silver
Bump skyblue
Bump slateblue
Bump slategray
Bump snow
Bump springgreen
Bump steelblue
Bump tan
Bump teal
Bump thistle
Bump tomato
Bump turquoise
Bump violet
Bump wheat
Bump white
Bump whitesmoke
Bump yellow
Bump yellowgreen
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arrow What happens at the colorbump?
Last Update: 04/06/2007

At 8000 pages and 119999 replies here
(and 613 pages and 9182 replies in the Halloween

colorbump)
(and 631 pages and 9456 replies in the Christmas Colorbump)
(and 162 pages and 2428 replies in the Valentine Colorbump)
(and 118 pages and 1769 replies in the Anniversary Colorbump)

we have:
13000 votes
932 Halloween votes
4623 Christmas votes
702 Valentine votes
496 Anniversary votes
1136 multibumpers

exclaim The top bumpers are:

1. greenjam 15192
2. Narconasis 10734
3. Johvalo 8882
4. Blackwing Rose 5612
5. Mommette 5379 (+1)
6. Aqua_Pheonix 5073
7. ignis6669 4262
8. Merokoyuichan 4141 (+2)
9. Candledark 4019
10. Fraxous 3798
11. TaiFengShin 3445
12. Sweetest Tear 3140
13. awergy 2963 (+1)
14. Ayu_Candystep 2915
15. Fem_chan 2146
16. G Eye Joe 1798 (+9)
17. The Fiery One 1788
18. jalynne 1746
19. The_Bartner (me) 1681
20. Kairiri 1662 (+20)
21. LeAnn18 1407
22. Numerica 1348
22. Gemene_Koala 1348
24. n u m n u m 1303 (+13)
25. Kohana33 1255
26. kairi77 1230
27. banana_float 1153
28. EbonBat 1150
29. ducky2_2003 867
30. elfnprincess 866
31. Pacifica san 865
32. llcooljoe 782
33. Rina_Nara 764
34. aznskoolgyrl86 724 (NEW)
35. Jyrrl 661
36. Secret_Moon_Light 658
37. ZOMBONE 651
38. Quiet Lady 646
39. Shironami Reikon 627
40. Conolatamer 589
41. HappyFaceQueen 585
42. pat_riedacher 519
43. insanerainbow 512
44. deluded_freak 473
45. [Comfortably_Numb] 470
46. Liefste... 433
47. Belial_Dragonfly 421
48. Stout_Wolfje 416
49. clapXyourXhands 401
50. [the.fanatic.toothbrush] 400
51. KouYi 389
52. Ookochi 383
53. pumkinprincess 332
54. notforyousweetE 309
55. Loretta_17 302
56. VLs Slave 294 (+8 )
57. Sweet_Starfish 272
58. marthidos 267
59. Vestque 260
60. Squeex3 239
61. paul123456789 236
62. psyrien 234
63. storms_damage 232
64. 'Divine 211 (+10)
65. magna_angelus 207
66. Sharp Santini 191
67. hassenpfeffer13 173
68. Gladys90 172
69. The Febreze Fairy 148 (+3)
70. lauvizh82 165
70. Petite_Poupee 165
72. reita_chan 153
73. zaikolmas 150
73. yoleichang 150
75. azndragongurl16 148
76. sharon_skye22 143
77. 'Le Gasp! 140 (NEW)
78. Rauvellana 136
78. Jetaralay 136
80. nefarious.kitty 133
81. She_Bartner 132 (+10)
82. xoxogirl 130
82. Tollie 130
84. Serenity_Moon1 129
85. sunmoonstarlight 124 (+39)
86. Nepthys669 118
87. w_inds 117 (+36)
87. Rai Sasaki 117 (+25)
89. Midnight Rose16 115
90. SemperEadem 112
91. Ichijo 109
92. The_Colorbump 108 (+25)
92. Nioko Nycci 108
94. Against Temptation 106
95. Maxsmille 104
96. Tanaii 103
97. rosesylace 102
97. Kasumi Kamigawa 102
99. Jade.Zap 101


* The top bumpers will only contain the top 100 bumpers.

* The rest of the top 500 (everyone with 6 or more at the moment) is on the 2nd page
Former Number 1's:
ignis6669
Candledark
jalynne
Quiet Lady
Conolatamer
The_Bartner


Former top 3
greenjam - Narconasis - Blackwing Rose
greenjam - Narconasis - Johvalo
greenjam - Johvalo - Narconasis
greenjam - Johvalo - Candledark
greenjam - Johvalo - ignis6669
greenjam - ignis6669 - Johvalo
greenjam - ignis6669 - Candledark
greenjam - ignis6669 - Johvalo
greenjam - ignis6669 - Candledark
ignis6669 - greenjam - Candledark
ignis6669 - Candledark - greenjam
ignis6669 - Candledark - jalynne
Candledark - ignis6669 - jalynne
ignis6669 - Candledark - jalynne
Candledark - ignis6669 - jalynne
Candledark - jalynne - ignis6669
jalynne - Candledark - ignis6669
Candledark - jalynne - ignis6669
Candledark - ignis6669 - jalynne
ignis6669 - Candledark - jalynne
ignis6669 - jalynne - Candledark
jalynne - ignis6669 - Candledark
ignis6669 - jalynne - Candledark
jalynne - ignis6669 - Candledark
ignis6669 - jalynne - Candledark
ignis6669 - Candledark - jalynne
ignis6669 - Candledark - Quiet Lady
ignis6669 - Quiet Lady - Candledark
Quiet Lady - ignis6669 - Candledark
Quiet Lady - ignis6669 - Conolatamer
Quiet Lady - Conolatamer - ignis6669
Quiet Lady - Conolatamer - Stout Wolfje
Quiet Lady - Stout Wolfje - Conolatamer
Quiet Lady - Conolatamer - Stout Wolfje
Quiet Lady - Conolatamer - The Bartner
Conolatamer - Quiet Lady - The Bartner
Conolatamer - The Bartner - Quiet Lady
The Bartner - Conolatamer - Quiet Lady
The Bartner - Conolatamer - Stout Wolfje
The Bartner - Conolatamer - infinite inferno
The Bartner - Conolatamer - Fem_chan
Dice Rankings: total score after 13th period

1. Narconasis 97 (winner 3rd, 8th period)
2. greenjam 88 (winner 1st, 6th, 11th period)
3. Johvalo 72 (winner 13th period)
4. Blackwing Rose 41 (winner 2nd, 4th period)
5. Mommette 32 (winner 7th, 9th, 12th period)
6. awergy 29 (winner 10th period)
7. Merokoyuichan 26 (winner 5th period)
8. Fraxous 25
9. Numerica 15
10. kairi77 11
11. LeAnn 11
12. Candledark 11
13. TaiFengShin 11
14. The Fiery One 10
15. Fem_chan 10
16. aznskoolgyrl86 9
17. Karairi 7
18. Sweetest tear 7
19. Liefste... 7
20. The_Bartner 5
21. ~Dominica77~ 6
22. VLs Slave 5
23. HappyFaceQueen 4
24. Pacifica san 4
25. banana_float 4
26. Kohana33 4
27. pat_riedacher 3
28. ducky2_2003 3
29. lauvizh82 3
30. Gladys90 3
30. deluded_freak 3
32. Squeex3 3
33. Ayu_Candystep 2
34. ignis6669 2
35. Belial_Dragonfly 2
36. Ookochi 2
37. Shironami Reikon 2
38. Aqua_Pheonix 2
39. clapXyourXhands 2
40. [Comfortably_Numb] 1
40. The_Colorbump 1
42. Crimson_Storm001 1
42. Math Wolf 1
42. The Febreze Fairy 1
42. GoodLilCatholicGirl 1
42. supernenah 1
47. pink_and_green_rainbow 1
48. Freak Lunchbox 1
48. Lovely Kodama 1
48. marthidos 1
51. Against Temptation 1
51. Square Melon 1
51. xxGaara-Loverxx 1
54. JenL.P. 1
55. SemperEadem 1
56. Lisetta 1
56. hasenpfeffer13 1
58. Nioko Nycci 1
58. SpamJamming 1
58. psyrien 1
58. Embyr of Pern 1
62. Yoleichang 1
62. Gemene_Koala 1
62. bitterjane 1



Quiz Rankings: average score after 3rd period
1. Belial_Dragonfly - 100% (1)
2. Ayu_Candystep - 91.7% (1)
3. Fraxous - 90.9% (3)
4. SemperEadem - 90% (1)
4. Storme - 90% (1)
6. Blackwing Rose - 85.5% (2)
6. Narconasis - 85.5% (2)
8. banana_float - 82% (1)
9. greenjam - 80.25% (2)
10. The Fiery One - 80% (1)
11. Sweetest Tear - 75% (1)
12. Aqua_Phoenix - 60.5% (1)
The Quiz

(thanks to TaiFengShin for making this post)
THE COLORBUMP QUIZ!
(NOT AVAILABLE AT THE MOMENT)

hosted by TaiFengshin feat. The_Bartner

Rules
* Anyone who has a Gaia Online account can join, except for the quiz organizers (TaiFengShin, The_Bartner, The_Colorbump)
* Ten (10) questions/items will be given every week. Answer the questions and send them (the answers) to The_Colorbump.
* The format of a legitimate entry will be as the following example:

Subject: Colorbump Quiz.
Message Body:

<week number>

Answers:
1. true
2. true
3. false
4. true
5. false
6. true
7. false
8. false
9. true
10. true


NOTE: the answers above do not represent the answers to any of the weekly quizzes; they are merely examples

* All unnecessary portions of the message will be ignored.
* The ten (10) questions will be posted on Sunday-Monday midnight GMT.
This is:
Monday 11AM timezone Sydney
Monday 9AM timezone Tokyo
Monday 8AM timezone China/Singapore
Monday 6AM timezone India
Monday 3AM timezone Moscow
Monday 1AM timezone Paris (western Europe)
Monday 12AM timezone London (GMT/UTC)
Sunday 9PM timezone Sao Paolo
Sunday 7PM timezone New York (East coast)
Sunday 6PM timezone Chicago/Mexico (PST)
Sunday 5PM timezone Calgary
Sunday 4PM timezone Los Angeles (West coast)
(for checking the timezones, you can take a look at: http://www.worldtimezone.com/ )

* They will appear on the first page of the colorbump, 11th post
* The questions will be pulled out and all succeeding submissions will be considered void at the moment the next quiz starts.
* Only the last entry per contestant will be accepted, but you are only allowed to change your answers once!
* The use of mules for having more entries is forbidden: 1 person = 1 entry! If we discover the use of a mule, all your known accounts will get banned both for the quiz and the dice game for 3 months + 1 month for every 100g won. A second try will gives you a permaban for the quiz and the dicegame and a temporary ban (bumps not counted, nor paid) for the colorbump itself.
Very suspicious entries, but unprovable to be a mule, will be ignored.
(Remark: in the dice game and the colorbump itself mules ARE allowed)

PRIZES AND WINNINGS:
* WEEKLY WINNER: The contestant who got the most correct answers/points wins the weekly quiz. If there is/are a tie/ties, the person with the highest average score in the previous quizzes wins. If that's a tie too, the earliest submitter will win. The weekly winner will get 100 gold plus 500 times the percentage of his/her correct answers.
* CONSOLATION PRIZES: first runner up: (2nd) 100 plus 200 times his percentage, 2nd runner up: (3rd) 100 plus 100 times his percentage, 4th and 5th: 100

NOTEWORTHY STUFF:
* Spelling and capitalization is important. Wrong spelling implies a wrong answer!
* In the case of questions involving enumeration (e.g., name the seven dwarves from Disney's Snow White) you will get partial points if you name a few correctly but make mistakes in others.
* In the case that the questions are not yet available when they should be, look at the last entry in the journal of The_Colorbump or at TaiFengShin`s thread. They will appear there at most 6 hours after the time they should have been posted.




Quote:
Answers should be send to The_Colorbump
Quote:
This quiz will be on until December 17, midnight UTC.

We have only 2 entries at the moment of deadline. This quiz will be on a week more, until: December 31, midnight UTC. If we don't have at least 5 entries or more at that moment, this will have been the last quiz for now.


There were only 4 entries in 4 weeks. The quiz is temporary unavailable due to a lack of interest.
results week 3
Top Finishers

1: Fraxous - 29/30 - 96.7%
2: Ayu_Candystep - 27.5/30 - 91.7%
3: Storme - 27/30 - 90%

Honorable Mention

Sweetest Tear - 22.5/30 - 75%

Corresponding prizes
1st place: 584 gold (100+500*0.967)
2nd place: 283 gold (100+200*0.917)
3rd place: 190 gold (100+100*0.9)
Honorable Mention: 100 gold


questions week 3
New concept
There are 15 countries and 30 words: search for every country the 2 words fitting.
BUT: every word can be used only once!


The Countries:
Belgium
Brazil
Denmark
Egypt
Finland
Ireland
Japan
Mexico
New Zealand
Philippines
Portugal
Qatar
Russia
South Africa
The Netherlands

The words:
apartheid
Asian Games
Ayumi Hamasaki
(one of the) biggest European harbour(s)
Delta project
dollar
Dutch
German
Hibernia
Iberia
lakes
Lars Von Trier
Lego
lupig
Madeira
Muscovy
Nihon
Nile Delta
Pacific Ocean
PAN
Pelé
Persian Gulf
peso
Portuguese
ruble
Sahara
Spanish
St. Patrick
Sweden
The_Bartner


Answers Week 3
Belgium - The_Bartner - German
The Netherlands - Delta project - (one of the) biggest European harbour(s)
Denmark - Lego - Lars Von Trier
Japan - Ayumi Hamasaki - Nihon
Philippines - lupig - peso
Ireland - St. Patrick - Hibernia
Finland - Sweden - lakes
Brazil - Portuguese - Pelé
Portugal - Iberia - Madeira
South Africa - Dutch - apartheid
Egypt - Nile Delta - Sahara
Mexico - Spanish - PAN
Russia - Muscovy - ruble
New Zealand - Pacific Ocean - dollar
Qatar - Persian Gulf - Asian Games

There were only 2 possible combinations that give 30/30, the one above and the solution where Spanish and peso are switched.

Why is this combination correct?
The_Bartner is from Belgium
German is one of the official Belgian languages
Delta project is a famous Dutch project.
Rotterdam is the biggest European harbour (not Antwerp in Belgium)
Lego and Lars Von Trier are both Danish
Ayumi Hamasaki and Nihon are both Japanese
lupig is a Filipino
peso is used to pay in the Philippines and Mexico
Spanish is spoken in the Philippines and Mexico
PAN is one of the biggest political parties in Mexico
St. Patrick is from Ireland
Hibernia is an old Roman name for Ireland
Finland is known for its lakes
A lot of inhabitants from Finland are Swedish from origin
Portuguese is the official language spoken in Brazil
Pelé, a famous soccer player, is from Brazil
Portugal is part of Iberia (= mainland of Spain+Portugal)
Madeira is a Portuguese isle.
The most important official language in South Africa is based on Dutch
apartheid is a term used for the laws that gave the white people more rights than the black people in South Africa
Nile Delta and (part of the) Sahara dessert are both situated in Egypt
Muscovy is the capital of Russia, the ruble is the currency.
New Zealand is an isle in the Pacific Ocean where the dollar is currency.
Qatar is situated at the Persian Gulf, the Asian Games 2006 are in Qatar

Why the other ones not?
Some other combinations where possible, or had a small, but insufficient link, for example (there are more examples than this ones)
The Netherlands - Dutch (1pt)
Portugal - Portuguese (1pt)
Belgium - (one of the) biggest European harbour(s) (Antwerp) (0.5pt)
South Africa - German (it's an unofficial, very minorly spoken language) (0.5pt)
But if you want to have all links undoubtly correct, you had to use one of the earlier combinations.


Result Week 2

Top Finishers

1: Fraxous - 90%
2: Blackwing Rose - 90%
3: SemperEadem - 90%

Honorable Mention

Narconasis - 80%
The Fiery One - 80%
greenjam - 70%

Corresponding prizes
1st place: 550 gold (100+500*0.9)
2nd place: 280 gold (100+200*0.9)
3rd place: 190 gold (100+100*0.9)
Honorable Mention: 100 gold each


questions week 2

Topic: inventors and inventions

1. He was an expert plant breeder and horticulturist. He developed a potato which was then exported to Ireland, to help it recover from a recent potato blight infestation in the mid 1800's.

2. He was mechanical engineer who invented the lubricating cup, making it possible to lubricate moving parts of a machine even while running.

3. She invented the folding cabinet bed in 1885.

4. He developed the seismograph, which is widely used to evaluate activities in the earth's crust.

5. She invented the ironing board in 1892.

6. He was the first person to ever build a reflecting telescope.

7. He invented the first bifocal glasses, in an attempt to combine his lenses and reading glasses.

8. He was a slave in Alabama who invented a machine that cleans cotton sometime in 1825.

9. Who doesn't fit in this row and why (0,5 point for a correct guess without an explanation)
Anders Celsius
Thomas (Alva) Edison
James (Prescott) Joule
Isaac Newton
Blaise Pascal
Nikola Tesla
James Watt

10. Who doesn't fit in this row and why (0,5 point for a correct guess without an explanation)
Niels Bohr
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
Richard Feynman
Robert Oppenheimer
Max Planck


Answers week 2

1. Luther Burbank
2. Elijah McCoy
3. Sarah Goode
4. Zhang Heng
5. Sarah Boone
6. Niccolo Zucchi
7. Benjamin Franklin
8. Hezekiah
9. Thomas (Alva) Edison, no (form of) measure named after him
10. 2 possible correct answers:
Max Planck: didn't work on the Manhattanproject (building of the atomic bomb)
Robert Oppenheimer: didn't get a Nobel Prize


Result Week 1
Results for Week 1

Top Finishers

1: Belial_Dragonfly - 100%
2: Narconasis - 91%
3: greenjam - 90.5%

Honorable Mention

Fraxous - 86%
banana_float - 82%
Blackwing Rose - 81%
Aqua_Phoenix - 60.5%

Corresponding prizes
1st place: 600 gold (100+500*1)
2nd place: 282 gold (100+200*0.91)
3rd place: 191 gold (100+100*0.905, rounded up)
Honorable Mention: 100 gold each

Yes! We were supposed to give the Honorable Mention prizes only for the fourth and fifth placers, but we decided to give gold to everyone who went out of their way to try out this first quiz!

Congratulations to the winners. Good luck in the next quiz!


questions week 1

Topic: Halloween

1. Name the four significant people who are thought to be responsible for the development of All Saint's day, changing the date of All Saints' Day to November 1 and making it a Holy Day. According to Sicard of Cremona, someone else was responsible for the change of date. Name this fifth person too. (0,2 point/correct name)
2. Name ten (10) traditional Halloween creatures or characters. They must be distinct and dissimilar. (0,1 point/correct answer)
3. All Souls' Day originally commemorated what?
4. There are four main feasts of the ancient Celtics, name them. Of those four, one of them is equivalent to the Celtic New Year's Day. Which one is it? (0,2 point/correct answer)
5. Fredric March won the Academy Award for best Actor in what movie?
6. In this thriller movie, a character known as Buffalo Bill is a serial killer who kidnaps women to skin them. The poster of this movie also depicts a woman with an insect resting atop her mouth. The title of the movie is ______.
7. This mummy was once a great pharaoh who founded Ancient Egypt's nineteenth dynasty.
8. How does Jack call Santa Claus in a well-known Halloween movie by Tim Burton and what kind of animal does he think Santa Claus is? (0,5 point/correct answer)
9. On the World Championship Soccer in 2006, there were 2 teams who played with outfits in the colors of a pumpkin. From which 2 countries were they? (0,5 point/correct country)
10. How many subforums were there in the Halloween Forum in Gaia and how many of them had a name starting with "the"? (0,5 point/correct number)


answers week 1
1. Pope Boniface IV, Pope Gregory III, Pope Gregory IV, Pope Sixtus IV, Pope Gregory VII
Also correct: Louis le Pieux/Louis the Pious
Average score: 70%

2. Witches, Black Cats, Ghosts, Skeletons/The Grim Reaper, Mummies, Vampires, Frankensteins, Zombies, Werewolves, Scarecrows, Bats, Demons/Gouls, Beetlejuice, and Freddy Krueger were correct.
Goul and demon are too similar, so only 1 point for the both
same for the Grim Reaper and skeleton, since he is most of the time a skeleton
Average score: 90%

3. had to contain the following words or a description of the words: "souls" - "Purgatory" - "all"/"faithfull"- "dead"/"death"/"departed"
Originally they prayed for: all faithful departed as well as the souls in Purgatory.
Belial_Dragonfly
an occasion to mass-pray for the lost souls that are not fully “free” of their sins (so that they are freed) along with all deceased themselves.

Average score: 64%

4. Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh, Samhain
Samhain (1 november) is Celtic New Year
All different spellings given were correct.
Average score: 91%

5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (He got it twice, also for another movie (The Best Years of Our Lives) but everyone answered at least Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
Average score: 100%

6. The Silence of the Lambs
Average score: 100%

7. Ramesses I (or Ramses I or Rameses I, also correct)
Ramesses 1 is NOT correct
Average score: 93%

8. Sandy Claws - a lobster
Average score: 100%

9. The Netherlands/Nederland and Côte d'Ivoire
Average score: 64%

10. 8 subforums, 6 of them started with "The"
Average score: 71%

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