The Forum Games Sheepish Advent Calendar 2020!

DvB

I actually know this one, it comes up in Pub quizzes every now & again.... but what will the neighbours say!?!?

Necro

HeidiHeidi wrote:

Thought I'd get in early so I would not be worrying all day about this...... now I have aaalllll day to contemplate just how wrong my answer was

Whatever you do don't look it up, let that fear and self-loathing cripple you all day

:pac:

Declan A Walsh

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Good morning elves, welcome to day 14 of the Forum Games Sheepish Advent Calendar!
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It's our first double header! (there may or may not be others, I don't really know!)
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Q13: .............................................................

As always, PM me your answer before 7pm
Reveal around 8ish

Does this mean that you will be squeezing in another question today?

By the way - should that not have been Q14?

HeidiHeidi

Necro wrote: »

Whatever you do don't look it up, let that fear and self-loathing cripple you all day

:pac:

I did! That's the problem :mad::rolleyes:

Necro

Declan A Walsh wrote:

Does this mean that you will be squeezing in another question today?

I'm hugely confused now Ted.

I mean... Declan.

Poor old Ted getting an awful going over so far

looksee

Trivia...the 'Star of Bethlehem' will be visible (weather permitting) on the longest night this year. First time since 12something. Though this crowd https://earthsky.org/human-world/was-the-christmas-star-real are being a bit wet blanket about it.

the purple tin

Most of these will be in America again I am guessing.

looksee

The median helped my Christmas-town guess, I will just have to hope for the same again with Bethlehem. Rubbish guess.

Electric Nitwit

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Does this mean that you will be squeezing in another question today?

By the way - should that not have been Q14?

No - it's a double header with yesterday's question. Just a glorified way of saying I'm using the same idea twice!

And yes, Q14, I've edited that

Declan A Walsh

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

No - it's a double header with yesterday's question. Just a glorified way of saying I'm using the same idea twice!

And yes, Q14, I've edited that

Well, it beats all those tree questions!

the purple tin

The yanks were crap at placenames. They are either old native american words or tribes, placename from somewhere else like Europe or taken from religion-the bible.

the purple tin

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Well, it beats all those tree questions!

The Mathletes hate questions like these. It is their kryptonite and renders their powers useless :D

Electric Nitwit

the purple tin wrote: »

The Mathletes hate questions like these. It is their kryptonite and renders their powers useless :D

Their day will come again

looksee

the purple tin wrote: »

The Mathletes hate questions like these. It is their kryptonite and renders their powers useless :D

I like (and liked) that post, nice phrasing

Electric Nitwit

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Q14: How many places are there in the world called Bethlehem?

Lunchtime bump

Don't know how many have entered because Google drive is down and has taken my beautiful spreadsheet with it :eek:

khalessi

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Lunchtime bump

Don't know how many have entered because Google drive is down and has taken my beautiful spreadsheet with it :eek:

Purgative

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Lunchtime bump

Don't know how many have entered because Google drive is down and has taken my beautiful spreadsheet with it :eek:

So we can all start again level?:pac:

Necro

Seems to be a general Google thing alright EN. You'll have to do it all by hand so :P

Trigger

Necro wrote: »

Seems to be a general Google thing alright EN. You'll have to do it all by hand so :P

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

Seems to be a general Google thing alright EN. You'll have to do it all by hand so :P

Luckily it's back, phew

Electric Nitwit

Hour-ish klaxon for bubblypop, Builebeag, mirrorwall14 and Sephiroth_dude!

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Q14: How many places are there in the world called Bethlehem?

Sephiroth_dude

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Final call for that lovely fella Sephiroth_dude! to get his answer in

Too kind EN!










:pac:

Electric Nitwit

Everyone's in

So, today's answer is 28
Linky-link

geotargit wrote:

There are 18 places named Bethlehem in America.
There are 3 places named Bethlehem in South Africa.
There is one place named Bethlehem in Sweden.
There is one place named Bethlehem in Palestine.
There is one place named Bethlehem in New Zealand.
There is one place named Bethlehem in Netherlands.
There is one place named Bethlehem in Namibia.
There is one place named Bethlehem in Jamaica.
There is one place named Bethlehem in Germany.

So a good bit higher than yesterday. But did yesterday scare everyone into going low?

It definitely did!

That website is quite cool, for example there are 28 places called Santa, but I won't milk this question any more!

Electric Nitwit

Making up for yesterday and get my answer in early! However, I am absolutely no idea. Yesterday I would have gone for 50 because Americans are weird, and I thought most states would have had a place called Christmas... would many of them have a place called Bethlehem? Either way, I can see now my answer was completely wrong... and will people moderate themselves based on yesterday?

Ah FFS :pac: I'm not good with these questions! I know of three (I think) Cue someone putting 900 or something crazy again

In early, so I don't have time to talk myself out of my first thought. I think some might have been surprised by the low number of Christmases out there (I know I was!), so I'm assuming the median will be a bit lower for this one.....

Hey EN, I'm not falling for this again!

I know there's one in America plus the real one. Probably another I don't know about.

The east coast of US is bloody littered with Bethlehems

After yesterday's disaster I'm going got take a lesson and go low....bit too low as I think Bethlehem would be a more popular name than Christmas...sounds very New Englandish...I'll go with my birthday....

.......probably be treble digits this time around :rolleyes:

I'd say there are more Bethlehems than Christmasasses.....

After the very unsuccessful guess yesterday, I will go for a lower number.
I think though that there will be more towns than Christmas...

There's a fair few of them I think, a handful in Yankee Land, potentially a couple across Europe and the Middle East, and think there might even be one Down Under too, it'll be higher than yesterday, but people will probably skew a bit lower than yesterday, despite the actual answer likely being higher...

I know there's one in Pennsylvania, and the Americans hate to see a good name go unused, so there's bound to be more there

I'm not even thinking about this one. I'm just using the same answer as I did yesterday. If you can reuse ideas, so can I!

Definitely more than yesterday. Could be 400, who knows

Christmas place name result. Hopefully my bethlehem answer doesn't undo the good work. Should be comfortably more popular than christmas.

I'd guess there's a small number like 3 or something. I'm guessing people will guess higher tho

I can only assume it's going to be similar to yesterday. The question is, do I copy yesterday's ACTUAL answer, or copy yesterday's median answer?

There is only one Bethlehem, the others are fake imitations

My OH has been to two of them, so it's at least 2. But I haven't a clue.

Probably more religious nuts naming towns as Bethlehem rather than Christmas. So I'm doubling my miss's Christmas answer as my answer yesterday would have been way out

Ok here is my reasoning so far. I think there will be more Bethlehem's than Christmases as Bethlehem was a real life place. Yesterday I was actually close to the right answer but the median was double my guess.. Therefore, I would guess there are more than double the amount of Bethlehem's so I'd think the answer is about 12 but based on yesterday's median, I should doubling that again. Or maybe everyone else will look at yesterday's median and go lower??

I wish I wasn't doing so well as I am really feeling the pressure to stay near the top!! It's exhausting!

I am tempted to go double or nothing with my strategy today but I think that might be too high and last time I doubled I dropped...

I was way off with the yesterdays guess, so to be more conservative this time

I feel stressed over this one. I saw other people asking their husbands so I asked my brother who has a good head. He said there'd be way more than Christmas because Bethlehem is more of a real placename. So I decided to multiple the 4 for christmas by...

mirrorwall14

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Everyone's in

So, today's answer is 28
Linky-link


So a good bit higher than yesterday. But did yesterday scare everyone into going low?

It definitely did!

That website is quite cool, for example there are 28 places called Santa, but I won't milk this question any more!

Well now lol. I expected more but not that much more!

Sephiroth_dude

Ahhhhh for fupp sake! minus points for sephers anyway , that's a certainty anyway!

Just like my “lost in the post” beauty advent calendar this game is on a par with that disappointment

Strawberry Milkshake

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Just like my “lost in the post” beauty advent calendar this game is on a par with that disappointment

Ah jaysus, that right there is devastating!!

ShaneU

This will not end well

Ted_YNWA

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Ahhhhh for fupp sake! minus points for sephers anyway , that's a certainty anyway!