Oh dear!

[Big Jenny]

Got the Rhodes Minnis Pairs quiz back this morning. Did anyone else do as spectacularly badly as me? 38 out of 60. I don't think I've ever done so badly in a quiz before. Feel like jumping off the nearest tall building. Perhaps we'd better have a competition for the lowest score - I might win then!

The new quiz looks good, however, and at least there can only be one right answer to each question.

BJ

[Pebbles]

Hi BJ

Got my quiz back this morning, only got 47/60 but was the winner !!!!!!

I have never won a quiz with such a small amount of right answers.

Agree about the new quiz, looks good but Geography was never a strong subject of mine !

[Big Jenny]

Well done, Pebbles. Don't feel quite such a twit now, knowing you won on 47.

Good luck with the new one.

BJ

[pollyanna3]

Congratulations Pebbles, I came second with 46, bit of a poor score, I know.... I agree the new quiz looks good.

[Headley]

Hi everyone well done I thought I had done really bad with 41 , but having seen what everyone else had ,not too bad. Glad it was an aber that won and was second.

[earthakitten]

Congratulations Pebbles ...You deserve the win. All I will say is it was a good job it was for charity else I would be even more vexed ... I got 43
Actually that's not all ... With no clue as to the subject of each pair I object to getting an answer that fits but not the one they wanted !!!
Pinky and Perky Dandelion and Burdock Cheese and Crackers ... how more 'well known' do they want.
I can take getting them wrong if I had spelt them wrong or if it just was the wrong answer but this scoring just gets my hackles up !

I spend many hours re-researching 'unexpected' answers on the Cransley returns. Why do I bother ? Because people expect fair and acurate marking and quite rightly to.
Agree totally with BJ's last comment.
Sorry to sound angry everyone ... there, it's off my chest now and I am going away to lick my wounds !!! xx

[smouse]

I got 42 and they did write a very good effort and I thought it wasnt but looks as if we all did badly.
Guess they didnt reaslise we could come up with so many combinations and I did like most of mine - bet they've learned a lesson. I agree with you though Earthkitten I had rock and roll, sooty and sweep etc
I hate geography so watch out for me needing major help with new one
Well done Pebbles

[Icntoan]

Hi Big Jenny
I only got 43. Very disappointed. It would have helped if we had been told the number of letters in each answer.
At least I wasn't alone. Couldn't help feeling that any correct answer should have been accepted.
Never mind it was for charity I suppose... on to the next one now which as you say does look better.
Well done to the winner!

[oxburgh]

Glad to read your comments, I got 44 which I thought wasn't very good.

[Big Jenny]

Looks like I'm still the "winner" - with 38.

BJ

[Ternigapp]

Well done Pebbles.
Glad I'm not the only one with a poor score, I got 42/60.
Where there was more than one possible answer I tried to pick what I thought was the most well known - just goes to show what I know!! (some of my wrong answers were Bill & Ben, Sugar & Spice, Steptoe & Son).

[Magyar]

Congratulations Pebbles, glad to see an ABer won. I got mine back this morning too and got 44. Like Earthaktten and Smouse, I had many wrong which seemed just as good an answer as the 'correct' ones (Steptoe and Son, Sweet and Sour, Sooty and Sweep, Sugar and Spice, Rock and Roll, to name but a few). It would have been better if they'd accepted answers that were obviously 'well known' pairs but weren't necessarily their first answers, then again you do have to draw the line somewhere.
Hopefully the new one won't be such a hit and miss quiz, but as I'm absolutely rubbish at Geography I probably won't be able to get ANY right !!

[Pebbles]

Thanks for the congrats, it was a hard quiz to do not knowing what answers the setter wanted as there were so many choices.

[juliefer]

Congratulations on winning Pebbles, and well done pollyanna3 for coming second.

Before sending my entry in, I'd worked out that the chances of picking an all-correct combination from the possible answers I had was over seventy thousand to one against ( so I wasn't expecting to do all that well). Allowing that there must have been a lot of possible answers I hadn't thought of, the odds of getting an all-correct set of answers must have been one in well over a hundred thousand - possibly one in two hundred thousand plus. (I'm not trying to show off, just trying to make people feel a bit better.)

Getting nearly eighty per cent right against those odds is pretty impressive so congratulations again Pebbles.

Like other people on this thread, I wrongly went for what seemed the obvious answers in most cases and - the really good news for you, BJ - I was given 38 as well. The even better news for you is that I'd put 'Kath and Kim' for No 19 but the marker must have thought that I meant the answer she intended so kindly changed 'Kath' to 'Kith' for me so and marked it correct. As it wasn't , that means I really only got 37 so it looks like the wooden spoon is mine.

So don't jump off any buildings just yet. Lol.

[rbind]

Oh No you are not big jenny.I only got 37!
I didnt realise we had to attempt to get the answer the setter had decided on and as previous people have said it was a fair nigh impossible task.So I think the wooden spoon is mine

[Trussell]

I totally agree with the comments that any well-known "pair" should have been accepted, otherwise it is just a guessing game. In a way, it was badly thought out not to do so, IMHO.
We are all aware that usually winning is a lottery from all-correct answers, but winning is not what most of us complete these quizzes for, but get a tremendous amount of fun (and often knowledge) from completing them.
The fact that they are for Charity should not lower the standard of the compilation and produce ambiguity of possible answers that are not accepted.
Well, I've got that off my chest. I think the general low scores should indicate something to the organisers (I got 39 incidentally), and hopefully this will be heeded in any future quiz.