here are the rules:
one person is the asker of questions (further AQ).
every one else is question answerers (furthe QA).
AQs reponsoblity is to ask questions, and provide hints.
failture to provide hints in 36 hours mens he loses his AQ status and becomes a QA with 0 points (and whoever has the most points is the new AQ), except weekends, which don't count
QAs try to guess the answer.
everyone starts with 0 points.
when one of the QAs get the answer right he gets 5 points, and the AQ asks another question.
when a QA gives a completely wrong answer he loses 1 point (but she can't go bellow zero)
if the asnwer is partialy right (this is entirely up to AQ) the QA will not have a point substarcted from him.
the first one to get 20 points becomes the new AQ!
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since I started this, I shall be the first AQ.

which author wrote a book about:
1)a black soviet spy
2)accidentaly going to space using a cheese powered device.
3)and (with his new american friends) saves the universe from a certain aquatic villain.

Any particular reason for opening a duplicate thread? The other one's still on the first page of the forum...

There goes my old topic... Curse them airplanes.
This game is probably more playable and we are relieved from that Messerschmidt-burden.

Anyway, I don't know a lot of books. So I skip this question.

I have NO idae what you are talking about. :max:

hint(s):
27.03.06:even though it wasn't the thing that got them into sapce, the main charecters travel inside an ordinary plane.
28.03.06: the author allso wrote a series of books about a diminutive mamal made out of a condutive material.
29.03.06: as well as a dystopia about overpopulated earth.
30.03.06: born in 1925, does that help?

P.S. though I will supply hints as reuired, I strongly encourge you all to participate in the thread I'm not affialiated with (allthough am is some way ripping off :whistle: ) in addition to this one or even isntead.

well anyways, that was Hary Harrison. should I post another question? (or will noone reply again?)

another question but make it easy for a nubie like me very easy make it game related FIRE AWAY! :cheers:

fine.
just tell me which game Pietro Conti is from and you'll get a point.
...s , 5 points you will get. (damn, I should read the rules more often...)

Pizza Tycoon :(

no, but he is from Italy. and the vents of the game definetly take place before Pizza tycoon. way before.

Uncharted Waters (2)

right!

kajjj 5
everyone else 0.

(the folloing question is dedicated to the smoking thread)
what sickness is caused by lack of Nicotine acid?

Pellagra

correct.

kajjj 10

this should probably be a bit harder, name this car.

ok, hint time!
this car was commonly used as base for abluances and Gas Control cars in European part of SU.

not only do they no longer produce this car, but the place where they were is out of buisiness too.

Please make a new and easiest question?
:blink:

sure. what color was Napoleons white horse?

Brown.

Seems your claim is still to high for the participants... :bleh: :D

I'm sorry. that was my easyest question (as has been requested). :D

BTW, for those more intelectual among you here is a question:
In many states (in USA) there is a special law that dictates, that for every 5 miles on a highway there must be at least one mile long piece that is completely straight for emergency situations. why? (i.e. How are these pieces to be used in an emergency?)

Landing (or taking off) aircraft would seem to be the most obvious answer to that one.

landing naturaly.

beef 5
kajjjj 10

how about this:
in the end of XIX century Europe one issue was very hotly debated:
Cany you watch people do IT? should you slap smeone if he offers you to do IT together? is IT obscene? ineed by XIX century behavorial norms a man would be slaped for inviting someone to do it.
so what were they disscussing?

Playing tennis? Pipe smoking?

Although I wouldn't dream of taking Beef's points away from him (and could get my hand bitten off if I were to actually try), this is a myth.

You know, I wanted to sart that question with "Rumor has it that...", but I figured that's not a very good way to ask single answer questions. :whistle:
no and no.

In my defence, I'd never heard that before, just guessed from the question :)

Bathing probably? Or kissing?

what? no! :eeeeeh:
<!--QuoteBegin-Icewolf@May 10 2006, 10:12 AM
Or kissing?[/quote]
nope.


by todays norms IT's perfectly decent and okay to watch.

If it is not sex, than the only thing I could think of is slowdance, like lambada "the forbidden dance"... or something like that... or like tango... :huh:

Morris Dancing? Probably fails the "normal by today's standards" test though :)

tango it is! :ok:

'nosh 5
beef 4
kajjjj 10


another gaming question: which game faetures a chrecter called Hoffman?

How did I get down to 4?

I only know that there's an ad in MadTV (game) that's for "Hoffmann" but I always expected it to be just a joke... :blink:

good guess, but that's not a charecter is it?
the IP log shows you have not read the rules. that is punishable by substruction of one point. :D

seriously though, read the rules.
besides if I won't be substrcuting points someone is bound to win soon. :evil:


P.S. as allways I am open to suggestions as to how the rules should be modified.
I have one right now by the way: if a guess matches all the creteria, but isn't *the* answer the guesser should get an additional point. any objections/comments/improvements?

Ah-HA! I knew Beef was a girl!

EDIT: As for the most recent question, I'm going with Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX. If that's not right, I'm going with Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2.

no...
the guy I'm looking for is actualy doctor (not of medicine) Hoffman.

(you will get a point though).

OK, how about Trauma Center: Under the Knife, or as it's known in Japan, Super Robot Vampire Hello Kitty Underground*?

Oh, wait, you said "not of medicine." Rats! Back to Google...



* Not the game's actual Japanese title. The actual Japanese title is Super Robot Vampire Hello Kitty Underground 2048.

you are trying too hard. the gane is right here on our site. :D

oh come on, he's our bloody protagonist in the game.

Hmm... then it must be Unreal Question II: The Mistery of Dr. Hoffman or as in Japan, Super Robot Vampire Hello Kitty Underground II...


BTW, the real japanese title is Dattebayo: Mega Cyber Warewolf in the Deep Forrest Games 3, but that title only came out in South Hyuangen...

okay, now you're just making fun of me. :max:

would it help if I said the guy was not a nazi.

Well, considering more than 90% of game characters are in fact NOT nazi... hmmm... I don't know B)

hope is wasted on the hopeless.

it's an adventure game, apprenty not liked by our visitors very much.

Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis?
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade?
Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom?

I am going to ask this only once (after that my opinion of you will be ruined):
what is the name of Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr. ?
a) Jones.
B) Sakharov
c) Murakami
d) Hoffman

Is this a new question or have my answers been ignored...?

the events of the game take place in present day (well allmost).

Dude... and advice: Leave tha hell this question and ask something that we could possibly know ;)

allright. last try. if you don't get it until 2000 GMT, I will post the next question.

even though Hoffmann isn't dead, one could say he lives in a red hell.

You don't give up do you? ^_^

Russians never give up! (luckily for you I'm quarter latvian).
the game in question was "Kronolog - The Nazi Paradox" a.k.a "Red Hell".

Now s,ince you want a new question, who can name at least 3 species on which a Zebranky preys?

The Zoq, the Fot, and the Pik, if memory serves.

I have no idea what you talkin about :huh:

the memory does serve you.

'nosh 5
beef 4
kajjjj 10
FPJ 6

in the beggining of the XX century every traveler who would travel through the jungle on a boat had a box of sand in the back of the boat. why?

P.S.]
just follow this link :D
(seriously Zebranky even have a Wikipedia article about them, whcih I didn't know when I posted the question.)

In case they wanted to made a sand castle :P

No, this one has me coloured confused...

Maybe they believed in sand as a defence against something?

To use as a toilet?

This came to me when I remembered that you can't wee in the Amazon, due to small spikey things that like nothing better than to crawl up small holes (ouch).

not defence, no.

ah, R, that was the anwer that I was expecting. it's wrong mind you, but it comes up every time.
truth is- you can't pee inside amazon, but you can do that while standing on the boat. and as long as there are no crocs around you can poo too.

It could be a gift for a saint /godlike thing or a tribe that wanted sand in exchange to their lifes? (Exaggregation, but you get the point I hope)

no and I'd really like to se a tribe that gives their lives for a box of sand. unles ofcourse it was gold sand, in which case there are many such "tribes"in europe.

A box of sand you say? Could it be so that they could make a fire ON BOARD without setting the whole vessel ablaze?

it could. and incidenatly that is exactly why they had it (except for those wierd natives from wolf answer, who just caried it around for good luck.)

kajjjj 10
FPJ 6
'nosh 5
MM 5
beef 4

let's try a mystery question:
a man comes into a restaurant and orders a Pinguin stew. after he eats it he dies. why?

P.S. points will not be substracted in this round. It's pretty much here as a test (the 5 point will sill be awarded to the winner offcourse).

I was afraid it would be like this.

I should probably tell you he died of heart attack.

Is a pinguin anything like a penguin? :tomato:

yes, but they would never admit it. :angel:

Because, years earilier, he'd been stranded on an island (or something), and tow of his friends went exploring, only one came back, with some meat which he claimed was penguin meat. As they were straving, he ate the meat which meant he stayed alive to be rescued. After eating the soup in the restaurant, he realised that the meat he's eaten on the island wasn't penguin, and he'd eaten his friend, which he couldn't stand to live with the thought of. So he killed himself.

Maybe he realized that the penguin in question was, in fact, his only true love in life. When he learned that his loved one had gone cooking at the wrong end, he just couldn't take it. This goes to prove: Never, I say NEVER, marry a penguin unless you're one yourself.

Oh, was the penguin de-fat/diet?

EDIT: Are we talking bird or missile :w00t: ?

his wife actualy.

kajjjj 10
FPJ 6
'nosh 5
MM 5
Havell 5
beef 4

let's try another picture.
name the yellow buliding closest to the viewer.
http://www.abandonia.com/forum/uploa...1146149436.jpg

Well....? :whistle: I must say I was awfully close. :blink: :sneaky:

I don't know...
tell you what- you get this question right and I'll give you 10 points.

But...he died of a heart attack! You said so, a1s! What, did he kill himself by cramming down McDonald's hamburgers until his heart couldn't take it anymore?

Please forgive the double post. That's Riga Castle in Riga, Latvia, and that was hard to find! I thought the flag on top was the Austrian flag, so I spent a long time going in the wrong direction. Finally I decided to search for really tall towers because of that huge honking one in the background (it's the Riga Radio and TV Tower, incidentally), and that finally paid off.

good job! :ok:
except for some reason** we call it presidential castle* (prezidentu pils ) :blink:

FPJ 11
kajjjj 10
'nosh 5
MM 5
Havell 5
beef 4

Rumour has it ( I will still only accept one answer) that the ancient chineese claimed that a dog has 7 virtues, you'll probably agree with six of them:
friendliness, loyalty, bravery, inteligence, potential, and [welfare?] ("Tzi", if someone knows a better translation thay are welcome to sahre it). howver like I said the chineese allso progamticaly regconised one more of dogs virtues. name it.


as for the Pengiun incident, I will not dissuss it anymore. R' gets to keep the 5 points and the test is offcialy cosidered a failure. case closed.
_________________________________
*I've actualy dig out a bochure and it turns out it's offcialy called "Castle of Riga" like you said. (you learn something every day)
** ok, I do know the reason- all of our presients worked in that buliding, but still...

Their self-reliance? What else could you call the ability to lick your privates clean?

no, thay didn't regocnise that trait as beneficial.

actualy dogs would probably diagree that they have the quality in question (but who asks dogs, eh?) :D

Probably that they are obedient?

why would they deny that?
no, this quality leads to quite dirrect harm to the dogs.

They're easily kicked? You can stand on their tails?

you can not! :ranting:

added: anyways no. the quality in question is benfiocial to [some] humans, but not to dogs.

They can lead the blind?

no.

come on, ancient chineese.

They taste nice?

theyre furry, and end up as chinese fur coats? :blink: i dunno i do japanese at school, if this is still on tomorrow i can ask the people up at the all girls school to ask their teachers, they do chinese.

They're remarkably good at fashioning teracotta soldiers?

not necesarily. but they can be eaten.

FPJ 11
kajjjj 10
Havell 10
'nosh 5
MM 5
beef 4

the patent for this was given to IBMs engeneer Gordon Finley in 1926, however the fisrt time it was actualy used was in USSR in 1928. Still most people consider itš pioneering to be the nurenberg trials.
so what is it?

Simultaneous interpretation

how did you...? :blink: I sepnt more time just trying to find out how that is worded in english (my first guess was "syncronic transaltion").

Havell 15
FPJ 11
kajjjj 10
'nosh 5
MM 5
beef 4

rumour has it...
that quite recently a well know intrenational company has sued a small pub in england over it's name. however they had to withdarw their lawsuit when it turend out the pub had it first.
name the participants.

The small black moustache?

the what, now?
we allready did that question and no the SBM was not used during the 6th Commintern Congress.

I have no idea... an hour of Googling turned out nothing... :huh:

the what, now?
we allready did that question and no the SBM was not used during the 6th Commintern Congress. [/b][/quote]
Cross-posted with you :P

Cross-posted with you :P [/b][/quote]
you mean like this? :sneaky:

the organisation was founded in late 19th century.
the pub on the opther hand goes way bat to the middle ages.

both of them had the same name.
which consists of two words by the way.

the asnwer was "red cross".

moving on to our next question.
which game has a playable race with the following anagram:
fadrelk

P.S. please post some (even silly) guess, quarduple posting is allready a personal record for me.

fardelk? :huh:

I dunno...

it could be more than one word, you know...

Well, the Dark Elf is a playable race in Morrowind and Daggerfall, and probably Arena and Oblivion as well.

Yep, Dark Elf is playable in almost all fantasy RPG games... I wont list them all... but the point goes to Mighty Midget this time I guess :ok:

Er, next one please? :)

Edit: BTW: The Red Cross question. That's not a company, it's an organization. Enough nitpicking :D

well yes and no. you only get one point.
the game allso features a race with an angaram:
gurthlihn

(which was my original question but I figured noone would answer again).

P.S. not much of a hint, but: this race is unique to the game.

Hurtling? :huh:

I object, your honour. The question was clearly ambiguous.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Playbahnosh @ Jun 3 2006, 05:20 PM) [snapback]234037[/snapback]</div>you only used one "h".
ambi what? :huh:
talk simple, me no understanding.
EDIT:okay, sorry, I got it, but would it hurt you to say "I belive there is more than one way to skin a cat (or answer this question, as the case maybe)" :) .
yes that is true, do you want to trade your blood earned point for the ability to get 10 points if you get the question right? thought so.

I suspect you're thinking of ADoM there.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(a1s @ Jun 3 2006, 02:33 PM) [snapback]234044[/snapback]</div>Since you allowed for options, I'd say: No Chance In Hell :bleh: ^_^

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BeefontheBone @ Jun 3 2006, 05:41 PM) [snapback]234047[/snapback]</div>indeed I am.
and Mighty Midget, aren't you happy you didn't trade that point in? :sneaky:

Havell 15
FPJ 11
kajjjj 10
beef 9
MM 6
'nosh 5

let's continue with games. which game has the charecter pinky, but not charecter brain?

P.S.by the way, if you can point me tawards a pinky and brain game, that would be very nice of you

it's funny that the charecter would be named pinky, because he is somewhat pinkish in color... allthough so is pretty much everyone else.

Could it be Pac-Man?

One of the ghosts is called Pinky.

no. the cahrecter is human in apearance.

Hmm, maybe the demon from Doom?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...oom_Demons.gif

Also, Bust-a-move and Bust-a-move 2 have a character called Pinky, I think.

do I have to point out how many thing are wrong with the demon answer?
1)not called pinky.
2)not human shaped.
3)most of the things in doom are not pink.

unfortunatly you don't have any points to substaract... <_<

It's not any of the bust a moves though.

you will never belive it, but the person named pinky is actualy a successeful mobster (gangster?) in Chicago.
edit: oh come off it, the reviewer gave this game a 5, and you're telling me noone played it?! :huh:

uh.. remember when I said many people in the game were as pink as pinky? well I was writing from memory, now that I looked at it again, turn out the color is more violet (I think) then pink. here is a sample:

Pinky (who as you rember is a successeful gangster) in fact has the potential to, in a maner of speaking, become the monarch of this megapolis.

and this is the last hint, tommorow I'll post a different question.

The game is

King of Chicago

I didn't know that this question was still in progress, I thought you'd given up on this question with your post a couple of posts back.

might I ask you which post was it that confused you?


P.S. Havell has won this game! :brain: he is your new QA. edit: sorry, I meant AQ.

OK, First question:

WTF is this?:

This is definitely an image and no photography. Hmm... Maybe a scheme of a surface?

Nope, it's a photograph.

Is this the floor of a fountain or a swimming pool. Sometimes they have these round little flagstones that are shiny.

Nope; and I'll give you another clue (since I'm in a really good mood).

The picture is, in fact, on its side.

I was temporarily thinking of a female torso.... :D

The surface of an LCD-display? :huh:

a piece of artistic potery.

OK, you're completely up the wrong tree.

The object pictured is quite large, the area pictured is about 5 metres long. It is also three dimensional, not just a photo of a flat piece of art.

Is it a cooling blanket/covers? A friend of mine said they have such thing in the hot countries. :unsure:

Nope, it's fairly solid.

I find the lack of propper background (except for what sems to be a white filed... :huh: ) rather odd.
anyways I think that might be a small building.

The background is sky.

And it is a building, but which one?

I can guarantee that there's only one building in the world that looks like this one.

pass.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Havell @ Jun 15 2006, 07:29 AM) [snapback]236874[/snapback]</div>i suspected it mighta have been the roof of a building, but i just cant figure out what one... :huh:

It must be some kind of modernesque Guggenheim-like mambo-jambo. Just doesn't have a clue about which one. Maybe those round thingies do actually serve some purpose?

hint! :wallbash: hint! :titan: hint! :wallbash:

It's a building in the UK

Enough?

not for me (like I said this is completely out of my field of competence), but maybe for someone else... <_<

OK, clearly special help is needed:

OK, I call myself an at least average educated person, but I've never seen or heard of that building!!! :titan:

The first picture looked interesting. But now that I know what the whole thing looks like, it's hideous! It looks like the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man squeezed out a colossal turd, and someone decided it would be easier to make a building out of it than move it.

I still have no idea what it is, though.

Bullring Shopping Center, Birmingham.

God, you guys dont know it?!

Great!

Danny252 5

It's Selfridges at The Bullring in Birmingham.

I was going to post that first pic first, but I thought that would make it too easy.

ANyway, onwards with a question that should prove to be more easily researchable:


How many cathedrals does Coventry, in England, have?

"Hideous" is the word. LOL

2, I think:
St. Mary's Priory and St. Michael's (which was rebuilt after WWII).

Nope, though both of those are cathedrals

(I do want the names of the cathedrals as well, so don't bother just guessing numbers)

you son of a three headed monkey!
Coventry only has cathedrals of St. Mary and St, Micheals cathedrals! that is right it has exaclty 3 (three)! it allso seems to lack a good mathematics colledge ( LOL ).

If any of you are wondering (well solar ecalipses are allso improbable, but it happens), those are:
The Old Cathedral (circa 1350s)
Cathedral of St. Mary's (1539)
The New Coventry Cathedral (1951)
of thos one is actulay working today (guess whcih! :sneaky: )

EDIT: and please with L of S and C on T, don't ask us any more more stuff about your homeland at least for a few turns.

Precisely.

Three Cathedrals.

One of them very old and buried, one of them in ruins and a shiny new one.

OK, I'll lay off the England-related questions (though you seemed to do fine at it).

a1s 5
Danny 252 5

so, are going to have a new question?
I can PM you one, if you want (I will offcourse not participate in that round).

OK, with special thanks to a1s, I bring you your next question:

In the 1899 edition of "Who's Who", this person had 18 lines. By 1965 they had an enormous 211 lines (largest article in the book). Name the individual.

(there will be hints later)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Havell @ Jun 28 2006, 07:15 PM) [snapback]240241[/snapback]</div>You shouldn't say that in advance. :P

Sir Winston Churchill? :unsure:

Got it in one.

Winston Churchill

a1s 5
Danny252 5
Japofran [b]5/b]

*Goes off and racks brains for another question.*

OK, hopefully this one shouldn't be too hard:

What is this the flag of?

some sort of anarchist movement? :huh:

Yep, but which one?

what do you mean which one?! that is the anarchist flag. am I supposed to guess the concrete organistaion from proportions of the picture? :blink:
very well, my [random] guess is: Syndicalists (Anarchists with a strong comunist/socialist vein).

Yep, Anarcho-Syndicalism.

(And that is specifically the anarcho-syndicalist flag, it's just been used by a few other movements and is now seen by many to be the flag of all anarchism)

a1s 10
Danny252 5
Japofran 5

What does the registration plate on the blue Ford Anglia in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets read?

clue: It is six characters long.

7990 TD.

Nope, not even close.

just to be sure, do you mean the book or the movie? (In case those are different)

The book, though not within the book.

say what now? :blink:

That was a hint in cunning disguise.

that's... interesting. but I got three letters so far.


P.S. out of curiosity, what is the scehme for making license plates in the UK?

anyways, the letters I got were "HOW***" , and I guess maybe it says howard.

The HOW is right.

It doesn't spell anything out.

I jsut realised that this may actually be very hard, I'm not even sure if the answer is on the internet. Oh well.

I don't think anyone will be able to figure it out... offcourse, unless they have the book or they look at it at the library. unfortunatly, I can only see the american *thingy where you can find an answer* in real life, not the brittish one where the answer obviously is.

Well i checked the Australian cover and all it showed was the H. Sorry im out :(

Well, some images on Google show HOW but that's as far as you can go. Maybe the book is wraped in the way you see the rest on the INSIDE of the cover?

note: I think everyone has figured where to look for solution by now so I don't think I compromise the game in this way, I think you should ask another question, and feel free to give me a -1 point if you think I went out of line.

The image that appears on the covers is cropped, I'm not even sure that the full image appears on any cover. I have the full picture of the car (with the full licence plate). Like I said, I'm not even sure if the answer is on the internet at all. Seems like it'll take some effort to get this one, so, with a1s's permission (it's his game), I'd like to offer 10 points to the first person to get this one.

AAAAAAHHHH!!!

HOW 777

:titan: :brain: :monkey_dance:

:beer: :drunk: :band:

Image

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Havell @ Jul 4 2006, 11:07 PM) [snapback]241549[/snapback]</div>um... sure. you're the AQ, I'm just a QA now like veryone else(but that will change soon :devil: ).

Allso, since Rowling never mentions the plate in her book, I would find the plate from the movie to be more precise than cover art (but then this question would lose it's twist).
and Congrats Onyx. you have just become one of the main candidates for vctory. :ok: and if you find a strange envelope with white powder in your mail, please do open it. :sneaky:

Wow, major props to Onyx for that one, must have taken a lot of looking.

a1s 10
Danny252 5
Japofran 5
Onyx 10

You helped me acctualy, Havell. You said the image was cropped. I combined "cropping" with other keywords and Google allmighty did the rest of the job :whistling:

white powder? what *sniff* white powder?

So, when can we expect the next question?

*opening Google* :sneaky:

OK, I'll go for another flag question. Why? Because flags are fun and can't be easily googled.

What is this the flag of?

That would be "Libertarian National Socialist Green Party"

Wikipedia

man, I'm good :tomato:

neeext! :P

and now, I'm off to bed!

Damn, I knew that one, there has recently been some fuss about their webpage here in Spain.

He's good, this new guy.

a1s 10
Danny252 5
Japofran 5
Onyx 15

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Havell @ Jul 5 2006, 01:42 AM) [snapback]241571[/snapback]</div>whover told you that? :blink:
flags (and other stuff like coats of arms) are made to be easily described and as such are quite easily googled. check this (allthough it wasn't in the first page as I expected, but it leads direcly to the LNSG homepage), and the previous one (the first pic too).

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(a1s @ Jul 5 2006, 12:25 AM) [snapback]241577[/snapback]</div>whover told you that? :blink:
flags (and other stuff like coats of arms) are made to be easily described and as such are quite easily googled. check this (allthough it wasn't in the first page as I expected, but it leads direcly to the LNSG homepage), and the previous one (the first pic too).
[/b][/quote]

Good point, I'll bear that in mind in future.

Normally picture questions are regarded as good for that reason, and i presumed that the same can be applied to flags. Obviously not.

Havell? Next question?

He's on fire... ^_^

Moon Sickle.

Yup.

a1s 10
Danny252 5
Japofran 5
Onyx 15

OK, it's getting tense, if either of our 15 point-ers get this one, they'll be the winner:


Where (specifically) might you find this fun-loving little fellow?

In Germany, traffic light that tells pedestrians to walk. :brain:

And once again i prove that a picture CAN be Googled :P

I found answer at this page after clicking the image on 11. page of Google image search using keywords "green man hat"

argh, too late! :titan:

Ah, but where in Germany specifically? (it's not that easy, you know)

(actually, it's fairly easy, but it's an important part of the question)

east germany?
EDIT:yups. all across the former GDR.

This article isn't exactly about the man, but the info is there.

Hmm, difficult situation (you each got a part of the question).

However, I'd say that Onyx did most of the work (finding out that it's Germany), so he can have 4 points and a1s 2. Fair? Good.

a1s 17
Danny252 5
Japofran 5
Onyx 19

I've broken two fingers on my right hand and so are unable to continue as questionmaster. I therefore declare Onyx to be the winner and pass the questions crown onto him. Congrats Onyx, with great power comes great responsibility, etc.

:brain:

Thank you, this is an honor. a1s, great fight out there, it turned out a bit weird at the end but hey, you might win this time as I won't be your competition :P :tomato:

So, my first question. I think it will be an easy one but hay, we have to start with something.

When this game appeared 1987 on MSX (later ported to NES) it was a huge step: it introduced a game in which you need to use your brains as well as your skills, oposed to all other shoot-em-up games that were poping around at that time. The sequel was released 1990. on MSX but only in US and Japan. The series got it's huge popularity in 1998 when third sequel showed up on PS. From then two more sequels were made for PS2, one more is in the making and not to mention that existant games were ported to allmost all gaming systems of today, from GBC to PC.

Let the battle BEGIN! :titan:

My matching guess is the Metal Gear Series. The 98er was released as Metal Gear solid, I think. :sneaky:

Ding ding ding!

Well done Icewolf!

I told it will be easy :P

Icewolf - 5
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For less informed, first two games are called Metal Gear and Metal Gear: Snake's Revenge

Ok, moving on to the picture questions.

This is a screenshot from a movie. Name the movie.

"Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"

Classic!

"Mein Führer! I can walk!"

"Gentlemen! There's no fighting in here! This is the war room!"

Darn, my "classics" list is getting slimmer. First MGS, now Strangelove ... They are gettin shot down like flies!

GJ Reamus

Icewolf - 5
ReamusLQ - 5
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Uh, geeze, c'mon, Onyx...

Very sorry guys, been awfully busy last few days...

This one should be fairly easy, it will do for time being...

WHO is this?

Sam from Serious Sam.

curses! He got it first.

Yaaah, I knew this will be to easy! Gotta think of something better for tommorow.

Well atleast we have more names in the list :P

Icewolf - 5
ReamusLQ - 5
crossover - 5
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Awwww the one question i knew and stupid time zones screwed me around. When your putting the new question up im asleep :wallbash:

Sir Winston Churchill?

FAKE EDIT: Ah, sorry, answered already

:P :bleh: :P

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Japofran @ Jul 20 2006, 01:26 PM) [snapback]244124[/snapback]</div>by the way, I never asked you how you managed to get that so fast?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(a1s @ Jul 21 2006, 08:10 PM) [snapback]244343[/snapback]</div>In the question by Havell I got right, you mean?

In the question by Havell you got right, yes.

Well, I thought "Who's Who" was a British book, Havell is British as well and had done several questions about his home country, so I thought about the most famous (serious) British celebrity, and Churchill came to my mind. Havell had mentioned two years (1898 and 1965) and both made sense with Churchill for me, so I tried with that lucky shot.

Just after answering I checked Churchill's bio and those dates were when he entered politics (joined the Tory Party), and when he died, which I had guessed myself. So after checking this I was already pretty sure of having got it right, although not certain.

onyx seems to be living beyond the arctic circle... :whistling:

So I guess Icewolf, ReamusLQ and crossover should decide who will be the next AQ. (or if none of them want it, I suppose someone else could take it...)

I don't think I'm up for the task.