From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,rec.music.misc,alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Scores for the First Summer Lyrics Quiz
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:03:37 GMT
Followup-To: rec.games.trivia
Organization: Enea Data AB

(It seems everything I posted last weekend went nowhere, so
I'm reposting the lot. Pardon if you see this twice.)             

The answers are in the next article.

I received 21 entries which is not bad, given that the quiz was
generally considered as difficult. And, yes, it was not easy,
but now you know how I feel it when I enter a quiz and know a 
3-4 quotes - if I'm lucky. But I can't see the difficulty being
a bad thing itself - it's equal for all. I'll admit that a
few lyrics were a bit too obscure, but not all.

Several participants had understood some fo the gist, 7 of 19
non-Dutch competitors spotted Het Goede Doel without, I suppose,
never heard of them. But only The Collective, The Dispossessed and
Firecracker went all the way and made more or less random guesses 
on all entries they didn't know which also was rewarded. The chances
that you will get one or two right are quite fair. And, oh, New Wave
Dave was into this game too, but he played the safe game and had Pink
Floyd on everything except three quotes. Bad choice, choosing for
instance The Golden Palominos instead would have rewarded him the 
bonus too.

Now, who won this? Here it is:


                                    Normal    Bonus     Total        Code
 1. The Dutch Officials                106       37.5     143.5         R
 2. The Dispossessed                    49        9        58           S
 3. Firecracker                         46        3        49           U
 4. NCR Nomads                          43                 43           O
 5. Francois Ouellet                    33        6        39           K

 6. James Smith                         31        3        34           C
 7. Xian The Drive                      29        1.5      30.5         L
 8. Zahid Ali                           30                 30           D
 9. The First Easterners                26        2.5      28.5         Q
10. The Collective                      24        3        27           M

11. Kenneth Lang                        23                 23           J
    Mike Bixenman                       23                 23           N
13. The Atlantic Connection             21        1        22           T
14. John Hiatt                          19        2.5      21.5         F
15. Christopher Strom                   20                 20           A

16. Matt Getz                           14                 14           G
17. Laurie 8                            11                 11           P
18. music@foster.actrix.gen.nz (muso)    9                  9           I
19. John D Hopkins                       8                  8           B
20. Mitch Pravatiner                     7                  7           H
21. New Wave Dave                        6                  6           E

What a victory! The Dutch Officials blew everyone else way by
miles. 106 ordinary points (of 176 possible) and 37.5 in bonus
for being alone or one of two on an item. Impressive? Certainly
to some extent, but...

As I gather The Dutch Officials is formed by the participants
in the Adri Verhoef's Dutch quizzes and according to the most
recent Golden Olden Quiz, they are around 20 in the team. With
that number they should make a sweeping victory, everything else
would be a fiasco.

I for one happen to think team playing in a way is cheating.
OK, for small teams of friends but 20 persons? Come on, this
is bizarre! Of course, anyone may do as they like, but then why
stay with The Netherlands? Why not make the whole net a team? 
Then I would only have had one very good entry to score. Would
have saved me a lot of work, but also deprived us all of the fun.
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
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