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Rob Houghton wrote:I see T F Carthick has appeared again...and scored 28 in only 1 minute 28 seconds. :(
He has been around as I noticed his name several times in the latter part of last year, but I doubt if anyone else noticed it as he was always well down the list normally scoring about 14!
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Which proves he's completely bogus, whoever 'he' is.
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16 again this month, the same as January. And I thought I'd started so well. :(
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24 this month. Some of the questions seemed the same as last month...well, I thought so, lol! :lol:
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If some of the questions were the same as last month, that explains my score being the same. :D
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John Pickup wrote:If some of the questions were the same as last month, that explains my score being the same. :D
Funny - I also had 24 last time! Maybe we've both done this quiz before! :D

Looking at the answers for January, I can see that two questions are definitely the same! :-)
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I'd say this is DEFINITELY the same quiz as last month — I recognise nearly every question. :? Unfortunately, I didn't take note of which ones I got wrong and what the correct answers are, or I might have had a fighting chance of getting the top score... :mrgreen:

Tony, if this really is the same quiz we've done before, could you please clear my name from it (I closed it halfway through when I realised it was too familiar) so I can do the new one when it comes?
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If you look at the answers to January - it definitely isn't the same quiz - but I did find two questions that had been used in both Jan and Feb. 8)
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Hmmm... in that case, most of the other questions must be ones we've had fairly recently, as I do recognise more than two of them.

Unfortunately I still don't know the answers to most of them, or I'd be getting far higher scores than I do! :lol: :wink:
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Rob is right that it's not the same quiz as the January one. It's just that Eddie, Tony and I have all compiled quizzes over a number of years and it's not always easy to remember what questions have been asked before. And quizzes often get reused so there may well be a feeling of déjà vu.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that most of the questions were familiar.
I scored 24 which is good for me.
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21 for me. Better than usual. As Anita said the questions do tend to be rotated so we may occasionally notice some similarity. But it's just a bit of fun really. :D
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I definitely felt this month had a lot of questions I have seen before. Saying that... I still wasn't completely sure of the answers! I got 24 right though, so baby-brain hasn't slowed me down yet!
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Got 18 this month!!!! I am so very proud :oops: :lol:!!!
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Well done. :D
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