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William Gladstone co- founded public school
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Which well known actor, a star of a long running film series, went to a public school which was co-founded by William Gladstone and is situated on the river that partially gives it its name?
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Well I'm glad I decided not to do this quiz. Surely if you have looked everywhere and googled till you are cross eyed you are entitled to ask on this site. It is just the same as asking friends or at least that is what I always thought, that the people on here were friends to each other and willing to help.
Margaretrae - if you believe that people who ask question on here have all 'looked everywhere and googled till they are cross eyed' then I guess you probably also believe in the tooth fairy and that pigs really can fly. People doing the Great Brain Quiz should not ask questions about it here because that is what the quiz setter has requested.
I'm sorry but the terms of use of AB are totally irrelevant to the point. If anyone decides to enter a quiz and the quiz setter has asked/requested/demanded/directed that answers are not asked on AB (or anywhere else on the net) then the person entering the quiz should respect those wishes. The wishes of the quiz setter override any AB terms of use.
pulse - it appears you are over-reacting somewhat. No quiz compiler can or would demand that competitors refrain from using the Internet to determine answers.
A competition is similar to an examination inasmuch the task is to give correct answers. Thus studying various sources of information ie media, Internet, books etc is the norm and the expected course to take.
Or are you suggesting that every competitor should rely solely on their own stored knowledge to succeed?
Rather like tooth fairies and pius flying eh!
A competition is similar to an examination inasmuch the task is to give correct answers. Thus studying various sources of information ie media, Internet, books etc is the norm and the expected course to take.
Or are you suggesting that every competitor should rely solely on their own stored knowledge to succeed?
Rather like tooth fairies and pius flying eh!
Daily-Editor - the compiler of GBQ has asked that his questions/answers are not "given away" on here or any other Q&A site. Fortunately, more respectable sites have agreed to this and monitor these questions and remove them. Unfortunately, the administrators of AB refused to co-operate with this request. Contrary to what you say below, the request (from pulse) makes no mention of not using the internet, just that people do not post questions on here and the like and wait for them to be spoon fed with the answers by other people.
There is a considerable difference between using the internet to find the answer to a question by yourself and posting the question on a Q&A site and waiting for someone else to give you the answer (and that answer then being available to all the lazy people whoo can't be bothered to do the research themselves). It is this latter method that is turning quizzes into lotteries and also penalises those who have done the hard work themselves.
Yes, the object of a competition is to find all the answers, but there is nothing to say you have to cheat to get them. Where is the satisfaction in getting someone else to give you the answer? How does that help when it's a charirty quiz - the charity doesn't get any more money if there are 100 answers on your entry or 75?
There is a considerable difference between using the internet to find the answer to a question by yourself and posting the question on a Q&A site and waiting for someone else to give you the answer (and that answer then being available to all the lazy people whoo can't be bothered to do the research themselves). It is this latter method that is turning quizzes into lotteries and also penalises those who have done the hard work themselves.
Yes, the object of a competition is to find all the answers, but there is nothing to say you have to cheat to get them. Where is the satisfaction in getting someone else to give you the answer? How does that help when it's a charirty quiz - the charity doesn't get any more money if there are 100 answers on your entry or 75?
"the charity doesn't get any more money if there are 100 answers on your entry or 75?", so why do you constantly complain?
If you don't like it here, why not go join these other "reputable" sites instead of subjecting us to your constant stream of cr@p. Have you ever actually answered a question here, or did you join just to be a troll?
If you don't like it here, why not go join these other "reputable" sites instead of subjecting us to your constant stream of cr@p. Have you ever actually answered a question here, or did you join just to be a troll?
squarebear - you know the answer to that don't you as I've told you before. The only people who benefit from asking a question and getting a "free" answer are those asking the question. They are not going to give the charity any more money just because they have 100 answers - they'll just pay the standard entry fee. So why do they need to cheat and use other peoples answers?
As for the rest of your post - same old same old, abuse, name calling. Why can't you post without the need to be rude or abusive?
As for the rest of your post - same old same old, abuse, name calling. Why can't you post without the need to be rude or abusive?
Helping the charity is commendable. But they don't need to cheat to help the charity. Blank spaces and guesses are free, easy, completely painless and most of all, honest. As has been said before by many people, turning quizzes into lotteries is one of the reasons why quizsetters give up and then the charities suffer.
Daily-Editor – can you please tell me exactly where in my previous posts I said that people should not use the internet to do quizzes? Because I can’t find any such statement. I only talked about asking on here to be spoonfed the answers to a quiz where the quiz setter has specifically asked for that not to happen. I have no problem about using the internet to research the answer yourself. I’m afraid it’s your last answer that is in the realm of the tooth fairies and pious flying.
Boysinblue68 – thanks for the support and actually taking the time to read what I wrote which is more than can be said of the other responders.
Squarebear – I might have known you would stick your nose in where it’s not wanted. Where in my reply does it say I disapprove of this site? I was simply complaining about questions being asked from a quiz where the quiz setter has specifically asked that should not happen. But then like you usually do in your posts on this subject matter you put words into people’s mouths based on what you wish they had said rather than what they actually said.
Daily-Editor and Squarebear – will you please answer the following question. Suppose a quiz setter says that a condition of entering his/her quiz is that you may use any books, internet sites or ask friends privately in order to complete the quiz but that you must not ask the questions on a site like this where any answers hence become public knowledge. And that anyone entering the quiz must agree to abide by these rules. Do you think that in spite of such a statement from the quiz setter anyone is nevertheless entitled to ask any or all of the questions on AB? And if so why do you believe it is right to override the wishes of the quiz setter?
Boysinblue68 – thanks for the support and actually taking the time to read what I wrote which is more than can be said of the other responders.
Squarebear – I might have known you would stick your nose in where it’s not wanted. Where in my reply does it say I disapprove of this site? I was simply complaining about questions being asked from a quiz where the quiz setter has specifically asked that should not happen. But then like you usually do in your posts on this subject matter you put words into people’s mouths based on what you wish they had said rather than what they actually said.
Daily-Editor and Squarebear – will you please answer the following question. Suppose a quiz setter says that a condition of entering his/her quiz is that you may use any books, internet sites or ask friends privately in order to complete the quiz but that you must not ask the questions on a site like this where any answers hence become public knowledge. And that anyone entering the quiz must agree to abide by these rules. Do you think that in spite of such a statement from the quiz setter anyone is nevertheless entitled to ask any or all of the questions on AB? And if so why do you believe it is right to override the wishes of the quiz setter?
Because this is a question and answer site. Any question that complies with the Site Rules is welcome here and I for one will go out of my way to answer it, especially if I know it winds up the trolls here.
Part 1. boysinblue68 – it is not my desire nor my intention to be other than honest and helpful when using AnswerBank; neither do I spend my life on here waiting to ‘feel someone’s’ collar for an alleged misdemeanour.
However, your comment needs response. Firstly, you state. . . ‘more respectable sites . . .’ It would be interesting to know your inference here.
The Great Brain Quiz is devised as a challenge – with a degree of difficulty far more reaching that run of the mill quizzes. It is not a general knowledge quiz, with questions that can be answered by stored knowledge. Invariably the answers may only be achieved with much research – presumably by whatever means available to the competitor. (continued)
However, your comment needs response. Firstly, you state. . . ‘more respectable sites . . .’ It would be interesting to know your inference here.
The Great Brain Quiz is devised as a challenge – with a degree of difficulty far more reaching that run of the mill quizzes. It is not a general knowledge quiz, with questions that can be answered by stored knowledge. Invariably the answers may only be achieved with much research – presumably by whatever means available to the competitor. (continued)
Part 2. Bill Maclagan, compiler, established the Great Brain Quiz over 15 years, and is commended for his charitable work. However, it is my belief that nowhere on his sites does he stipulate in term and conditions of entry that answers should not be sought from AnswerBank or elsewhere on the Internet.
Interestingly, Frank23 who posted this topic did not ask for the answer, but merely copied and pasted the question from the quiz site. No doubt a responsive clue would have been suffice.
As pointed out elsewhere, you appear to relish peppering AnswerBank – particularly Q&P category with your caustic and reprimanding comments. For many longstanding users your username has become synonymous with ‘internet police’ as you have often deservedly been called.
For as long as AnswerBank is a question and answer site, despite your repetitive moans and those of pulse876, I am sure people will continue to use this site while also contributing to the wellbeing of the charities supported by Great Brain Quiz.
pulse876 – the foregoing answers your question.
Interestingly, Frank23 who posted this topic did not ask for the answer, but merely copied and pasted the question from the quiz site. No doubt a responsive clue would have been suffice.
As pointed out elsewhere, you appear to relish peppering AnswerBank – particularly Q&P category with your caustic and reprimanding comments. For many longstanding users your username has become synonymous with ‘internet police’ as you have often deservedly been called.
For as long as AnswerBank is a question and answer site, despite your repetitive moans and those of pulse876, I am sure people will continue to use this site while also contributing to the wellbeing of the charities supported by Great Brain Quiz.
pulse876 – the foregoing answers your question.
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