The Forum Games Sheepish Advent Calendar 2020!

Well... first thoughts are that that picture is very Disney-esque looking..... so I'm going to base my answer on that premise (and hope that I'm not about a century out). And this time I'm NOT going to google the answer straight away (whether I last till the reveal tonight, well, let's see!)

Whoever wrote this. I had the same thought. Looked old school disney and I know mickey mouse was conceived at the end of the 20s so I went 30s.

Electric Nitwit

OK so the median was pretty close - 1932
davetherave lands maximum points alone.
khalessi and hurlingman knew the answer and do OK with it.
If you went for the 1800s it's bad news I'm afraid...

Player | Guess | Score
Purgative | 1841 | -6.5
Neowise | 1850 | -4.9
Declan A Walsh | 1851 | -4.7
the purple tin | 1852 | -4.5
Also Starring LeVar Burton | 1875 | -0.4
kitten_k | 1875 | -0.4
Kolido | 1900 | 4.2
Collie D | 1912 | 6.4
cee_jay | 1919 | 7.6
Mam of 4 | 1919 | 7.6
Green&Red | 1920 | 7.8
Hyblaeus | 1920 | 7.8
ShaneU | 1920 | 7.8
Trigger | 1920 | 7.8
Ted_YNWA | 1923 | 8.4
Barney92 | 1925 | 8.7
Posy | 1925 | 8.7
Zaph | 1927 | 9.1
duffman13 | 1930 | 9.6
DvB | 1930 | 9.6
Homer J. Fong | 1930 | 9.6
Toto Wolfcastle | 1930 | 9.6
TRS30 | 1930 | 9.6
davetherave | 1932 | 10.0
Reberetta | 1933 | 9.8
Strawberry Milkshake | 1933 | 9.8
Irish Aris | 1935 | 9.5
looksee | 1935 | 9.5
Spook_ie | 1935 | 9.5
tscul32 | 1935 | 9.5
Builebeag | 1936 | 9.3
bubblypop | 1937 | 9.1
Ectoplasm | 1937 | 9.1
mustang shelly | 1937 | 9.1
Siobh73 | 1937 | 9.1
hurlingman97 | 1939 | 8.7
khalessi | 1939 | 8.7
HeidiHeidi | 1940 | 8.5
Skyler Scarce Frown | 1940 | 8.5
JohnGreenFan | 1940 | 8.5
Mollyb60 | 1940 | 8.5
rainbowtrout | 1942 | 8.2
Loughc | 1945 | 7.6
Sephiroth_dude | 1945 | 7.6
aaronjennings | 1950 | 6.7
mirrorwall14 | 1950 | 6.7
Necro | 1950 | 6.7

Electric Nitwit

Which sees Siobh maintain the lead and duffman leap into second!
At the bottom, it's looking very spoony for LeVar

Place | Player | Old total | Today's score | Total
1 (1) | Siobh73 | 119.5 | 9.1 | 128.6
2 (4) | duffman13 | 117.6 | 9.6 | 127.3
3 (2) | JohnGreenFan | 118.7 | 8.5 | 127.2
4 (3) | Green&Red | 118.7 | 7.8 | 126.5
5 (5) | rainbowtrout | 117.4 | 8.2 | 125.6
6 (6) | Loughc | 116.7 | 7.6 | 124.4
7 (7) | Toto Wolfcastle | 114.5 | 9.6 | 124.1
8 (9) | hurlingman97 | 113.3 | 8.7 | 122.0
9 (10) | DvB | 111.6 | 9.6 | 121.3
10 (11) | davetherave | 111.2 | 10.0 | 121.2
11 (8) | Necro | 114.1 | 6.7 | 120.8
12 (13) | bubblypop | 109.3 | 9.1 | 118.4
13 (15) | Reberetta | 107.6 | 9.8 | 117.5
14 (12) | mirrorwall14 | 110.6 | 6.7 | 117.4
15 (14) | Posy | 108.5 | 8.7 | 117.2
16 (17) | Zaph | 107.3 | 9.1 | 116.4
17 (18) | Irish Aris | 106.9 | 9.5 | 116.3
18 (16) | Trigger | 107.6 | 7.8 | 115.5
19 (19) | cee_jay | 106.5 | 7.6 | 114.2
20 (20) | khalessi | 104.5 | 8.7 | 113.2
21 (21) | Homer J. Fong | 102.7 | 9.6 | 112.4
22 (23) | Builebeag | 100.3 | 9.3 | 109.6
23 (24) | Collie D | 100.1 | 6.4 | 106.5
24 (25) | ShaneU | 98.0 | 7.8 | 105.9
25 (26) | Ectoplasm | 96.1 | 9.1 | 105.2
26 (27) | TRS30 | 93.9 | 9.6 | 103.5
27 (28) | Spook_ie | 93.5 | 9.5 | 102.9
28 (29) | HeidiHeidi | 93.0 | 8.5 | 101.6
29 (31) | tscul32 | 90.3 | 9.5 | 99.8
30 (22) | Neowise | 102.5 | -4.9 | 97.6
31 (32) | Kolido | 89.6 | 4.2 | 93.8
32 (35) | Mam of 4 | 81.2 | 7.6 | 88.9
33 (36) | Sephiroth_dude | 79.9 | 7.6 | 87.6
34 (37) | Hyblaeus | 78.8 | 7.8 | 86.6
35 (39) | Mollyb60 | 77.0 | 8.5 | 85.6
36 (40) | Barney92 | 76.6 | 8.7 | 85.3
37 (30) | Purgative | 91.3 | -6.5 | 84.7
38 (38) | aaronjennings | 77.6 | 6.7 | 84.3
39 (33) | Declan A Walsh | 86.4 | -4.7 | 81.7
40 (34) | kitten_k | 81.7 | -0.4 | 81.3
41 (42) | mustang shelly | 70.3 | 9.1 | 79.4
42 (41) | the purple tin | 72.9 | -4.5 | 68.4
43 (43) | Ted_YNWA | 58.8 | 8.4 | 67.2
44 (44) | Skyler Scarce Frown | 57.5 | 8.5 | 66.1
45 (45) | Strawberry Milkshake | 54.4 | 9.8 | 64.2
46 (46) | looksee | 52.5 | 9.5 | 61.9
47 (47) | Also Starring LeVar Burton | 47.5 | -0.4 | 47.2

Necro

Well bollocks

Purgative

Necro wrote: »

Well bollocks

You can say that again

Mollyb60

Aww Necro. Mr Molly said 1930, I thought same as you 1950. Going by his success in previous days I decided to split the difference and went with 1940. Glad I did too. (Won't be telling him that his 1930 answer would've gotten me 9.6 points though)

khalessi

20!!!!!
!!

I don’t care that I’m still 3rd from bottom. I just scored BIG POINTS!!!!!!

Necro

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Aww Necro. Mr Molly said 1930, I thought same as you 1950. Going by his success in previous days I decided to split the difference and went with 1940. Glad I did too. (Won't be telling him that his 1930 answer would've gotten me 9.6 points though)

I figured it was around WW2 but then added a couple of years to try and account for median.

Apparently I've forgotten subtracting might also work :pac::pac:

Ted_YNWA

Necro wrote: »

Well bollocks

Haha

Suck it Neccers.

Necro

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Haha

Suck it Neccers.

*Looks at table*

Ted_YNWA

Necro wrote: »

*Looks at table*

I asked Santa to give you negative points for Christmas

tscul32

Yay, my first time in the 20s (29, but still).

ShaneU

Thought I had a good answer and then 19 people manage to guess the correct decade :rolleyes:

One year away and 8.4 points.

I'll take the points, the goals'll come.

I knew it was during WWII but the year was a stab in the dark.

the purple tin

Slid down two slots.
I'm a victim of circumstance

Neowise

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Which sees Siobh maintain the lead and duffman leap into second!
At the bottom, it's looking very spoony for LeVar

Place | Player | Old total | Today's score | Total
1 (1) | Siobh73 | 119.5 | 9.1 | 128.6
28 (29) | HeidiHeidi | 93.0 | 8.5 | 101.6
29 (31) | tscul32 | 90.3 | 9.5 | 99.8
30 (22) | Neowise | 102.5 | -4.9 | 97.6
31 (32) | Kolido | 89.6 | 4.2 | 93.8
32 (35) | Mam of 4 | 81.2 | 7.6 | 88.9
47 (47) | Also Starring LeVar Burton | 47.5 | -0.4 | 47.2

Balls. There i was celebrating to myself about breaking into the 3 digits and now i'm back to double digits!

Mam of 4

I moved up three places , Woohoo :pac:

Siobh73

Suffering a bit of vertigo this evening... I'm too high up it makes me nervous

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

At the bottom, it's looking very spoony for LeVar

Electric Nitwit

Siobh73 wrote: »

Suffering a bit of vertigo this evening... I'm too high up it makes me nervous

Yeah yeah...

Siobh73 wrote: »

I'm just happy to be back where I belong, looking down on all you squabbling losers

Declan A Walsh

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

OK, we're all in

The correct answer today is 1939


Source

But where will that all important median be?
I need to sort the results but it won't be long...

I'm going to try and put that disaster behind me (:mad:) by dwelling on the quotation! :rolleyes: Rolo, Reginald or Rodney the Red-Nose Reindeer? Doesn't quite have the same ring about it, while Romeo the Red-Nose Reindeer gives it a whole new meaning!

Siobh73

Vertigo and dual personality disorder

looksee

Boo I'm still second last (but thank you LeVar)

Declan A Walsh

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

I'm going to try and put that disaster behind me (:mad:) by dwelling on the quotation! :rolleyes: Rolo, Reginald or Rodney the Red-Nose Reindeer? Doesn't quite have the same ring about it, while Romeo the Red-Nose Reindeer gives it a whole new meaning!

Still another few furlongs to run, Declan.

davetherave

And I was actually giving out to EN about not liking these questions because you couldn't logic or maths an answer to them.

Sephiroth_dude

Moved up 3 places

Sephiroth_dude

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

I'm gonna screenshot my posterior.

Good god man! don't do it ! :eek:











:pac:

Electric Nitwit

Good morning elves, welcome to day 16 of the Forum Games Sheepish Advent Calendar!


We had geography and history, now on to biology...


Q16: How many babies were born in Ireland on Christmas Day last year?

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

looksee

Answer in...I think my very unscientific 'go with the number you first think of' has failed me badly this time I could end up back on the bottom row