The Sporcle thread

[welshben23]

Here's a Sporcle game for you, jr, if you haven't already played it.

100 most commonly used words by the Beatles in their lyrics

I think he's played it, there's a link to it on his Facebook page.

[Moon-Crane]

hehe, I thought he would have already done it. i don't use Facebook, though, so i was never going to see that.

[barnaclelapse]

This thread scares me like a little girl, and I'm not quite sure why.

[jrsightes]

I had NO IDEA there was a Sporcle thread on here! YES! I LOVE Sporcle!

Thanks for the tip, M-C. I did play it this morning. Got 70/100, which was at the 90th percentile. A respectable score, to be sure, but some of the words I missed made me slap my forehead when I saw them (like "yeah," and "oh").

[Moon-Crane]

:shock:

I had NO IDEA there was a Sporcle thread on here! YES! I LOVE Sporcle!

Thanks for the tip, M-C. I did play it this morning. Got 70/100, which was at the 90th percentile. A respectable score, to be sure, but some of the words I missed made me slap my forehead when I saw them (like "yeah," and "oh").

I hit 65. Like you, when i saw what i'd missed I could only wonder how the flip i'd missed them!

[welshben23]

http://www.sporcle.com/games/winterolympichosts.php

I got 9/10. I missed one, I just can't believe I missed that country!

[Moon-Crane]

i got 9/10, too, along with a bonus answer. I missed the bottom one, even though i know fine well which city it was held in

[welshben23]

http://www.sporcle.com/games/psubball1/United_States - Can you name the facts about the United States of America?

I got 40/50.

[jrsightes]

http://www.sporcle.com/games/psubball1/United_States - Can you name the facts about the United States of America?

I got 40/50.

I got 50, but I admit I had to guess on a couple. I never knew we had a national flower or tree. I'm quite certain we were never taught those in school---only our state flower and state tree. Luckily, I had about 3 minutes left so I just rattled off all the flowers and trees I could think of.

[Hans the German Butler]

48/50

I missed the Chief Justice and the oldest commissioned naval vessel.

[welshben23]

http://www.sporcle.com/games/leicslad/world_by_capital - Can you name the Capital of every Country in the World? 123/195 for me. I missed most of the African Countries.

[CatNamedRudy]

http://www.sporcle.com/games/leicslad/world_by_capital - Can you name the Capital of every Country in the World? 123/195 for me. I missed most of the African Countries.

ummmm, yeah. I didn't do so good. I missed Sarajevo because I couldn't remember the name of the country that used to be Yugoslavia. By the time I remembered it was too late. The rest of those I didn't get (which was a lot) was mostly because I'm just stupid!

[welshben23]

http://www.sporcle.com/games/leicslad/world_by_capital - Can you name the Capital of every Country in the World? 123/195 for me. I missed most of the African Countries.

ummmm, yeah. I didn't do so good. I missed Sarajevo because I couldn't remember the name of the country that used to be Yugoslavia. By the time I remembered it was too late. The rest of those I didn't get (which was a lot) was mostly because I'm just stupid!

The game actually told me that I got 122 as I couldn't think of the Country that Minsk is the Capital of! I remembered it with a few seconds left, Bela..Damn it!!

[CatNamedRudy]

I remembered Bosnia-Herzogovina almost as soon as I went on to the next city but then I couldn't find Sarajevo on the board! And I couldn't think of any of the names of those countries that used to be part of Soviet Union.

[Dorset Girl]

Haven't played Sporcle games for ages... found the site again last night.

Try this one: US to UK translations. I got 42 out of 46. There's a UK to US one too.

[kat]

Haven't played Sporcle games for ages... found the site again last night.

Try this one: US to UK translations. I got 42 out of 46. There's a UK to US one too.

40/46

[CatNamedRudy]

Haven't played Sporcle games for ages... found the site again last night.

Try this one: US to UK translations. I got 42 out of 46. There's a UK to US one too.

40/46

Apparently you guys aren't very good teachers! I only got 10 of them! I've never heard one of you refer to rummage sale as a "jumble" sale. I kept trying to answer boot sale and it was pissing me off that it wouldn't let me put that in there!

[Dorset Girl]

Haven't played Sporcle games for ages... found the site again last night.

Try this one: US to UK translations. I got 42 out of 46. There's a UK to US one too.

40/46

Apparently you guys aren't very good teachers! I only got 10 of them! I've never heard one of you refer to rummage sale as a "jumble" sale. I kept trying to answer boot sale and it was pissing me off that it wouldn't let me put that in there!

Sporcle's incredibly addictive. I'd forgotten all about it until last night. Now I've been playing on and off all day! I've just done a quiz entitled 'The UK's most dangerous biscuits', ffs! I'm never eating custard creams again.

[Dorset Girl]

Cat - try this one if you have a moment: UK to US translations. I'm just about to do it.

EDIT: Oh no, hang on, that's the same quiz... confused.

[Dorset Girl]

Try this one instead: http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/usuk_words

I got 39. I imagine most of us watch more US TV than you watch UK TV, Cat, hence the reason most of these are familiar. If that makes any sense.

[insaneasperger]

I tried the US to UK we did quite well but trying to do it on my phone made it really difficult as did having to stop to serve people!

Need to do it on a computer.

[CatNamedRudy]

I got 31 (really 32 because I missed one because I didn't know how to spell galoshes) on the US to UK.

[Dorset Girl]

I got 31 (really 32 because I missed one because I didn't know how to spell galoshes) on the US to UK.

I'd never even heard 'galoshes' - I put 'gumboots' and it seemed to work!

[CatNamedRudy]

I got 31 (really 32 because I missed one because I didn't know how to spell galoshes) on the US to UK.

I'd never even heard 'galoshes' - I put 'gumboots' and it seemed to work!

I never heard of gumboots. Truly we pretty much just call them boots! Galoshes is a term from somewhere around the 1950s! Nobody calls them that anymore.

[Dorset Girl]

I never heard of gumboots. Truly we pretty much just call them boots! Galoshes is a term from somewhere around the 1950s! Nobody calls them that anymore.

Reminds me of Daphne and her 'bumbershoot' - I'd never even heard that term before she said it! Makes for good comedy though.