Capital Cities of the World - PEEHS REVEAL

nothing

Congrats rainbow, homer and zaph, commiserations strawberry.

And quickbeam, bravo, a fab reveal!

Goddamn you, Sawduck, pipped me at the last round!

Purgative

Strawbs thanks for saving my blushes. I'm thinking geography is not really one of my strong suits.


Rainbow well done.


Thanks Quickbeam that was interesting, entertaining and embarrassing all in one go.

God damn Asuncion, that was the one that killed me off. *strikes Paraguay off the bucket list*

Congratulations rainbowtrout, well deserved victory. Enjoy the wooden spoon Stawbs.
And many thanks quickbeam for running.

If anyone wants to test out what they learned today, can heartily recommend Sporcle:
https://www.sporcle.com/games/g/worldcapitals

Spent many hours in college on this site, and this was one of the quizzes I played repeatedly until I could complete it!

Electric Nitwit

I'm happy with fourth but trouty and Homer were in a different league! Well played guys

Great game QB, loved the bonus fun facts

ShaneU

How on Earth did I finish mid table. The lesson for today kids, never try

Declan A Walsh

nothing wrote: »

Congrats rainbow, homer and zaph, commiserations strawberry.

And quickbeam, bravo, a fab reveal!

As Nothing says!

ari101

That was a great reveal, I've been googling so many of those random facts to learn more Thank you!

Congrats rainbowtrout and others on their heels
Even if I had remembered the more obscure ones I know or picked less sheepie choices, I still would not have had the knowledge to be anywhere close to the top of the table! Ye are a fine bunch of nerds :pac:

Happy spooning Strawberry Milkshake - an essential for the kitchen!

alchemist33

Well done to the trout and commiserations to Homer.

But I made top half, joint 18th, woohoo!

Big thanks to quickbeam for an excellent competition.

quickbeam

Heidi, here's the results if you'd submitted your alternative list. Strawbs also wouldn't have had the wooden spoon if you'd submitted those answers:

Player Points Heidi Points
rainbowtrout 48 45
Homer J. Fong 53 53
Zaph 81 80
Electric Nitwit 85 86
Barna77 87 83
cdeb 89.5 88.5
Necro 92 91
beakerjoe 94 98
Rikand 94 92
Omackeral 94.5 90
Irish Iris 100.5 101.5
Collie D 104 109
Sawduck 105 106
BuileBeag 105 102
Kolido 107 106
bubblypop 107 107
nothing 107 115
aaronjennings 113 114
Reberetta 113 122
alchemist33 113 110
ShaneU 113 120
DJIMI TRARORE 113.5 111
Neowise 114 118
Pawwed Rig 114 115
Noo 115 112
davetherave 116 117
wrestlemaniac 116.5 117
ari101 117 121
miamee 119 117
Trigger 120.5 119
Declan A Walsh 121 119
HeidiHeidi 122 111
Spook_ie 123.5 120
cj maxx 124 124
cee_jay 125 123
dobman88 127 123
Sheridan81 129 125
Sephiroth_dude 130 123.5
Purgative 133.5 136
Strawberry Milkshake 134 135.5

Sawduck

Deleted User wrote: »

God damn Asuncion, that was the one that killed me off. *strikes Paraguay off the bucket list*

Congratulations rainbowtrout, well deserved victory. Enjoy the wooden spoon Stawbs.
And many thanks quickbeam for running.

If anyone wants to test out what they learned today, can heartily recommend Sporcle:
https://www.sporcle.com/games/g/worldcapitals

Spent many hours in college on this site, and this was one of the quizzes I played repeatedly until I could complete it!

I used to love that site, haven't used it in ages though.

Cheers quickbeam for a very enjoyable game and congrats to rainbowtrout on your victory

HeidiHeidi

Well that was good fun, if not a good result for me


The mortifying thing is - when I decided to do the two-entry thing - that was my honest-to-God attempt at the most obscure answers I thought I knew (my knowledge of obscurity, and in some cases actual facts, leaves a lot to be desired, it seems).


My second entry was a list of the Bleeding Obvious. It'll be very interesting to see if that does any better!


(I bet it does, even though I think I got at least one wrong )

Zaph

Thoroughly enjoyed that, great game and reveal qb.

And congrats rainbowtrout and Homer, really impressive displays from both of you. I may be on the podium, but I never really got close to you guys.

Sephiroth_dude

Thanks qb for a great game

Congrat rainbow trout

ari101

quickbeam wrote: »

Heidi, here's the results if you'd submitted your alternative list. Strawbs also wouldn't have had the wooden spoon if you'd submitted those answers:

Player Points Heidi Points
ari101 117 121

I think we can stick we the original ones - I did bad enough on those

HeidiHeidi

ari101 wrote: »

I think we can stick we the original ones - I did bad enough on those

See my explanation post above - I did better listing the Bleeding Obvious answer than I did trying to be clever

Sawduck

Sawduck wrote: »

I used to love that site, haven't used it in ages though.

Nowadays I mainly use it to try and name all the Pokémon. Far more difficult as there's "only" 197 countries/capitals but 800+ Pokémon!

aaronjennings

Congrats on the victory Rainbowtrout, and very well played as well Homer, ye were playing at a whole different level to the rest of us

Thanks for the game, QB

ari101

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

See my explanation post above - I did better listing the Bleeding Obvious answer than I did trying to be clever

I saw your post and will admit I had a little giggle - PEEHS is it's own beast!

HeidiHeidi

Thanks for running, QB - great reveal, loved the factsheets.


Well done the winners, and nice one S Milkshake on hanging on in at the bottom - I'll get my grubby paws on one of those wooden spoons yet!! (I've all but given up on a podium place at this stage!)

quickbeam

As I said in the OP, I ranked the capitals in to 8 different tiers depending on how difficult I thought they were. If I give a weight to how everyone answered depending on whether they went for more or less difficult ones you can see that the results corrolate very closely, showing that going for obscure answers was the way to win here:

Barna77

Congrats rainbow trout
Great game and random facts qb

HeidiHeidi

quickbeam wrote: »

As I said in the OP, I ranked the capitals in to 8 different tiers depending on how difficult I thought they were. If I give a weight to how everyone answered depending on whether they went for more or less difficult ones you can see that the results corrolate very closely, showing that going for obscure answers was the way to win here:

I've read that about four times, I'm none the wiser, and now my head hurts


That all depends on what your idea of obscure is (mine clearly aligns with that of most other boards posters!)

quickbeam

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

That all depends on what your idea of obscure is (mine clearly aligns with that of most other boards posters!)

Very true. The tiers I placed them in were all arbitory based on my perceived thoughts on how difficult they were going to be.

cdeb

That's a great graph. So the obvious ones not the way to go interestingly. I had thought there might be three tiers - obvious (low score), middling (high scores because everyone wanted to avoid the obvious), hard (low scores because not many people knew them)

Thanks QB! That was a great reveal. Worth the travel sickness! I really enjoyed the Did You Know portions.

Well done rainbowtrout on beating Homer!!!
Oh yeah and on winning too!

KathleenGrant

Well done Rainbowtrout. Sorry I missed this Quickbeam. Your information posts are fascinating. I have taken screenshots of them.

quickbeam

cdeb wrote: »

That's a great graph. So the obvious ones not the way to go interestingly. I had thought there might be three tiers - obvious (low score), middling (high scores because everyone wanted to avoid the obvious), hard (low scores because not many people knew them)

I'd expected the same to be honest. The distribution was a surprise. I don't know if it's always like that. But there were no "Homer Simpson" type answers this game (ref the TV characters reveal) w here the super-duper obvious one ended up being picked by no-one. The closest to that was Jerusalem. The other three that were never picked were (IMO) genuinely difficult answers.

Irish Aris

Thank you for organising Quickbeam, great opportunity to check how much Geography I remember.

quickbeam

Deleted User wrote: »

I really enjoyed the Did You Know portions.

Thanks. They were fun to find too. I started because it looked like the actuatl winner was going to be a forgone conclusion from about Round 5, so tried to make it a bit more interesting by adding other stuff in :P

Reberetta

Gratz to the victor, fab reveal quickbeam, danke.

P.S. rainbowtrout is a woman.:)

quickbeam

Reberetta wrote: »

Gratz to the victor, fab reveal quickbeam, danke.

P.S. rainbowtrout is a woman.:)

Oh! Thanks. Soz rainbowtrout!

cee_jay

Jeez... If I tried to sheep I wouldn't have gotten so many! Thanks QB really enjoyed reading that reveal and the facts! Congrats rainbow trout!

Kolido

Well played rbt and thanks for a great game qb.

davetherave

Very enjoyable reveal. Thanks QB and well done RT.

Omackeral

Fantastic reveal, really loves the trivia between rounds. Was occupied watching my team throwing away a sure victory tonight. Can’t believe I scored incorrectly by saying Monte Carlo for Monaco.... cost me my destiny of 6th place.

Rikand

Necro wrote: »

AH FCUK IT ANYWAYS

That'll learn me going with my wife's country of birth

Thinly veiled brag about having a foreign wifey




Thanks for running QB. I loved the trivia in between rounds! Scenery for tallest mountain is just such a brilliant name for a mountain

Grats to Trouty on yet another Sheep/Peehs victory! Happy enough with my top 10

cj maxx

Yeah . 34/5th so good result:)
Great reveal QB ,and congrats to rainbowtrout 🙂

Collie D

Well done, Rainbow.

Thanks, QB