macmillan new year quiz

[doogied]

I'm having great difficulty with the pictures and would appreciate some help,CLUES only please.
106,112,116,117,119(have noticed some hints on this one already but I've had no luck!)120,124,126,128.

[Icntoan]

Hi Edward D. Only 2. Not at all sure about this one!

[woofer]

No it's not cheating - it's using a modern means of getting the answer. As for pride I've done enough on my own not to feel guilty. Whatever I say you are going to disagree with me. My conscience is clear, a worthy charity has had my donation and I've had fun answering the vast majority of questions on own. My friends haven't helped that much and I've helped them. ( over the phone not on this site. ) I've only ever won two charity quizzes and in both cases I returned the prize money as a further donation.
Now you can gloat - one of my answers is wrong so I shall be leaving a blank. It's the taking part not the winning that gives me pleasure.
Thanks Icntoan for the clue. I shall have to work on that and see if I can solve it.

[boysinblue68]

woofer - I agree it's using a modern means to get an answer, but that hardly stops it from being cheating. You are still using an answer given to you by someone else on here (in the public domain). If you're going to leave one blank space, why not two or three. As you say, the charity has already had the donation, so there's no harm in leaving blank spaces if you can't find an answer yourself. I agree it's the taking part (by testing yourself against the quiz setter) that brigns the most satisfaction, so there is clearly no need to use other people's answers.

[woofer]

boysinblue68. We're going to disagree on the definition of cheating. If we were locked in a room under exam conditions and I looked at and copied your answers - that's cheating. Using the Answerbank is opportunism and gives my brain a break from all the questions I have answered under my own steam . Nothing wrong with leaving two or three blanks but it ruins the symmetry of the answer sheet. I normally put in educated guesses!
So we'll agree to differ and you do it your way and I'll do it mine.

[doogied]

Smouse, I noticed that you said that I gave easy clues to 4 of the harder questions in the quiz, well 3 of these had already been ANSWERED on the internet ie the answers were given,not clues like I gave, so I didn't think I was giving away too much. Sorry,anyway.

[smouse]

I didnt know that - sorry
I just felt that a couple of those could well be the questions that most people were stumped on and having spent about 6 hours on one of them I was feeling that way inclined - just ignore me

[sir.prize]

Woofer - I agree with your comments. earlier in this thread I made my feelings known. I cannot understand why people say it is 'cheating' to put in answer you found by asking. On AnswerBank there are many categories, but in the Quizzes and Puzzles there have been over 90,000 questions. No other category comes anywhere near that total. After all, AnswerBank was set up originally, as its name indicates, to answer questions. It is coincidence that this site was partially created to TEACH, now someone has found an anagram which changes it to CHEAT.

Also ironic that people who object to answers being given to quizzes, seem to be sitting in Quizzes and Puzzles. Now I have a question . . . .WHY?

Ah well, everyone to their own.

[boysinblue68]

Call it cheating, call it something else if that makes you feel better. The bottom line is that someone else has GIVEN you the answer, you have NOT worked out the answer for YOURSELF. If people want to call it opportunism - then why not just post every question on here - the number of questions asked does not affect the principle? Quizzes are being ruined by people posting the answers in the public domain - and yes, I don't have to look (and no I don't), but when you google certain words from certain questions, the Answerbank nearly always appears at the top of the hit list - hence the frustration. Some of us work long and hard to find the answers for ourselves-it is then very frustrating when some lazy person simply asks the question on here and receives the answer.

What is more amazing is the number of people who, having received answers on here, then openly boast that they have won a prize. This is NOT envy, it is sheer amazement at the pride, ethics and standards by which some people live their lives nowadays!!!

woofer - oh and as for your comment about symmetry on your answersheet, well, words fail me - I'll take it as the joke that I presume it is intended to be.

[woofer]

boysinblue68 - yes it was!! And Ishall say no more on the matter.

[Jammydodgem]

I feel very strongly about this site.

It is ruining quizzes. I have kept quiet for a while, because I have actually given up the quizzes that are most often asked on here.

Macmillan and Rainbow have lost my support.

Quizmail has also lost my support, but it's not a charity, so slightly different.

In all cases the quiz itself is not to blame. I wanted a challenge and not a place where people give away valuable answers.
There is no use competing when we all have the same answers...........that's just silly. SO, I gave up.

I now compete on Scrabulous, where no prizes can be won and put my money in the hat of whichever charity is asking.

Shame on those that have spoilt a good "duel of minds" and totally ruined every quiz.. I'm not the only one that is giving these a miss either, not by a long shot.

JD

[salandamy]

I thought I would enter the fray on this subject as I agree with both sides. I have been doing the Macmilan quiz for many years, even winning it once, and I manage to find 80% of the answers within the first week of the quiz coming out. These answers are all readily available on the internet. The remaining answers I research more thoroughly and I am quite happy to accept from anybody that wants to freely post them on this site or any other, thats up to them but it helps me rather than them. I have never posted an answer to help anybody else, what is the benefit to me? I completed the latest quiz in January but did not let anyone know the answers to the questions that most people were after, notably number 7 which was a book by a famous referee. What annoys me is people that ask questions which, with a bit of common sense and a basic understanding of Google , could easily be found with no trouble whatsoever. Maybe I am a taker rather than a giver but thats the competitive nature of quizzing, I've paid my money to a good cause so can participate in any way I see fit just like the people who need all the help to the easy questions because they can't figure it out for themselves.