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ddeubel

Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 5:10 am Post subject: World Cup - Beat my score! |
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Ok, I'm starting to get World Cup fever! Supervisor asked me if I was traveling this summer - I only could look clueless - I thought the whole world knew I was staying home and watching the big screen.....
In preparation I took the World Cup Quiz I got 8/20. Tough as hell. Can you beat me???? (the questions are randomly chosen from a database of 200).
DD
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morrisonhotel
Joined: 18 Jul 2009 Location: Gyeonggi-do
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 6:09 am Post subject: |
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13/20. There were a couple that I was very surprised at (Hungary having scored more goals on average than Brazil - who knew?). |
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Depths of My Soul
Joined: 04 Apr 2010 Location: In The Sun
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 8:52 am Post subject: Re: World Cup - Beat my score! |
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ddeubel wrote: |
Ok, I'm starting to get World Cup fever! |
I've already got it.
I'm getting nervous about Thursdays semi-final. |
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sesyeux
Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Location: king 'arrys
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 9:54 am Post subject: |
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10/20.
my brain isn't filled with useless knowledge of finals decades before i was born, unfortunately.
something like 30 days to go?
INGERLUND |
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bobbyhanlon
Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Location: 서울
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 10:40 am Post subject: |
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10/20 - its difficult! |
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Horangi Munshin

Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Location: Busan
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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That was very difficult for me. I have almost no interest in soccer, hence my dismal score of 5. |
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dumpring
Joined: 06 Apr 2010 Location: Auckland, NZ
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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10/20 too, hard questions! |
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goniff
Joined: 31 Dec 2007
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 3:19 am Post subject: |
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17/20
should've /could've done better!
not so hard for the afficianado...
ddeubel...aren't you some sort of yank or canuck or something?
in that case not such a bad score! |
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ddeubel

Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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ddeubel...aren't you some sort of yank or canuck or something?
in that case not such a bad score! |
Oh, anything under 50% is always bad in my book - no excuses allowed!
I'm a Canuck but also quite Europeanized with family in Europe. So since the get go, was more into "football" than hockey / baseball.
hats off on your score though - you'd clean up if it were a Jeopardy category...
DD
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JMO

Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Location: Daegu
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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16/20
In my defense I don't know anything about world cup mascots and I 'misclicked' on the 1958 runner up one.
My dad would endlessly talk about the great world cup teams down the years and i never lost interest. Funnily enough his 2 of his 3 fave teams were losers. Brazil 82, Holland 74 and Germany 74. He was a massive beckenbauer fan and thought that they could have given Brazil a better run for their money in 1970. |
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VanIslander

Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 3:00 am Post subject: |
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Guess Brazil! I got FIVE questions wrong in which Brazil was in the answer!
7/20 |
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goniff
Joined: 31 Dec 2007
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 5:37 am Post subject: |
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JMO
your dad was probably right!
Unfortunately Franz Beckanbauer dislocated his shoulder vs Italy in the semis so he probably wouldn't have been available for the final had West Germany won. He played a good part of the game and extra time with his shoulder strapped!
On the other hand, had Gordon Banks the greatest goalkeeper of all time been available when England lost to West Germany in extra time then we probably would have seen an England v Brazil final and that would have been a classic!
I think Banks was 'nobbled' by the CIA! |
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goniff
Joined: 31 Dec 2007
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 6:42 am Post subject: |
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OK
Here's an interesting one boys and girls!
1994 World Cup Group D
Nigeria
Argentina
Greece
Bulgaria
2010 World Cup Group B
Nigeria
Argentina
Greece
South Korea
Odds anyone?
3 out of 4 ain't bad! |
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t1m1ty
Joined: 24 May 2009 Location: Bundang
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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I just got a 16/20. That was HARD and I guessed on like 10 of them haha |
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canale226
Joined: 23 Jan 2010
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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That is SUPER difficult I think - I got 8/20 first round, and 12/20 second round. 17/20? Big props!! |
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