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Old 12-14-2004, 01:51 PM
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And please post here if you take the quiz...how many questions did you manage the first time?
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I was able to get ten right, but they were mostly just educated guesses.
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i went through the first three questions and thought... Forget it. had to go all over the place to get info for just three questions. can't bother with it. unlike the winter quiz which was mostly directly from wikipedia.
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My guess is Bo or Alpesh will be the first to finish it. As always.
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only 9 rights......... they were mostly plain guessing.
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i went through the first three questions and thought... Forget it. had to go all over the place to get info for just three questions. can't bother with it. unlike the winter quiz which was mostly directly from wikipedia.
So now you make sure the Malaysia quiz is the best ever, okay?
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18 out of 20 on the first try... more than I expected.
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17 out of 20
those were some hard core questions though...
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you serious or not? the topic is to broad.
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