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Shaun · 10-06-2019, 02:22 PM

Round Five: Kieron 'Science' Harvey throwing a bin

Question One: Name a planet in our solar system that isn't Earth
I think this is one of my hints that survived the editing purge but it still tripped some up. The amount of time taken between rounds meant I could advise people that Pluto is not a planet so there are no red scores... yet

Also nobody cared to opt for Jupiter or Uranus, so this was a bit of a calamity.

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Question Two: Name a famous scientist, other than Albert Einstein
A perfect opportunity to just google "Nobel Prize for Chemistry winner, 1934" or something but a couple of you still shared pretty huge names!

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Question Three: Name a starsign
I think this was the hardest question for Niamh's game, and it looked like everyone was picking unique answers until we reached more than 12 PMs

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Question Four: Name a film about aliens
This is definitely the type of question to avoid the most obvious answer (and can we talk about how annoying it was that Alien beat Aliens in Top Answers? The question says ALIENS

goddamnit)

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Question Five: Name a deciduous tree
It was cute that a handful of you sent me their latin names. I have done the legwork and translated them.

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Question Six: Name a marsupial
These next two questions were something of an eye-opener (literally, see how big some marsupials' eyes are) because I didn't know there were that many breeds... the sensible option for both questions was to add on a variety of a bigger class (eg. potoroo ---> long-footed potoroo = two unique answers, very well played)

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Question Seven: Name a type of ape
I am not nearly well-versed enough in zoology or classification so I had some questions about "human" and "neanderthal" being allowed, but I think they are??? Again, shout-out (to me) for making sure you name a specific TYPE of gibbon and escape 4 points

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Question Eight: Name a disease that children are commonly vaccinated against (if their parents aren't insane)
This was very much a case of "name the most obscure one of the MMR vaccine" with some special exotic guests.

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Question Nine: Name an animal that is often used for dissection in science education
This was a sad question so let's move on quickly

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Question Ten: Name a utensil often used in science classes
Pretty limitless opportunities here, no one seized the chance to be a pedant and say something like "20mm pyrex test tube with a slight chink in it".

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Question Eleven: Name a breed of shark that isn't the 'Great White'
Greatest joke of all time:

Youtube video

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Question Twelve: Name an animal that lives (wildly) in the North Pole
I am actually LIVID that someone else managed to come up with my answer

Shout-out to Matthew. for initially trying to get me to allow "Santa" as an answer.

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Question Thirteen: Name a large breed of dog
Woof

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Question Fourteen: Name a branch of science that is studied in school, college or university.
Technically I *did* ask for a one-word answer but some of these two-word answers are so commonly-studied that I'd feel like a dick to disallow them.

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Question Fifteen: Name a film where time travel is a prominent plot device
Again: don't go obvious, people!!!

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Therefore, the scores for Round 5 are...

Adam. - 6
Shaun - 8
Twosugars - 8
Cherie - 9
thisisdanny - 10
Tony Montana - 10
Ammi - 11
Matthew. - 11
montblanc - 11
Owen19 - 11
RileyH - 12
Calderyon - 14
Mitchell - 14
Blurryface - 16
Liam- - 17
Smithy - 17
Barry. - 18
Amy Jade - no answers - 18
JerseyWins - no answers - 18
Kate! - no answers - 18

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