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Slate Quiz 2.6.2015

9/12
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9 / 12
1 min 59 sec
375 points

My source for news is this place. Post more, Gob!
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8/12
1 min 6 sec
359 points.
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10/12
1 min. 56 sec.
410 points
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1min 30sec

10/12

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10/12, a minute 16, 442...
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Slate Quiz 2.13.15

9/12
1:01
407 coins/points
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Slate Quiz 2.20.15

7/12
1:00
313 coins/points

Didn't hear much news this week . . .
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A lot better than the BBC Quiz...

11/12 41 seconds, 516 points :ok
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Obsessive news watcher! :nana ;)
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11/12 in 2 min. 18 sec....424 points.

For some reason, on some of the questions the site seemed to hang up for about 5 seconds after I answered (before it told me whether I was correct and went on to the next question). Or maybe it was my computer rather than the Slate site.
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I don't really care all that much for the speed component of that quiz - it pressures me to rush and get things wrong that I would have puzzeled out if I'd spent a few more seconds.

So, no worries - you almost got a perfect score!
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8/12
1 min 2s
360 points

I like the speed thing.
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9/12 One minute 37 secs. 373 points

I like the speed thing too. Let's have more Leonard Cohen questions though....
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Slate Quiz 2.27.15

5/12
1:01
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Pretty pathetic...

5/12 in a minute 29, 212 points...
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7/12 in 2 minutes 33 seconds, with 286 potato chips.
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Lord Jim wrote:Pretty pathetic...

5/12 in a minute 29, 212 points...
That is pathetic... I beat you by 3 points!

( :oops: the rest was the same but how does that happen? :oops: )
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You were faster at being pathetic, Meade. ;)


I didn't hear a lot of news last week, but obviously the questions were quirky given the commonality of the low correct score.
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But if we both took 1 min 29 seconds, how can I have been any faster than LJ? (He remains patheticer).
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