User:Thryduulf/Quizes/Birmingham20060121

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This was the quiz that those Wikipedians attending the Birmingham meetup in January 2006 attempted.

Contents 1 Round 1 - Users 2 Round 2 - Features 3 Round 3 – Lame nonsense, Humour and Fun

[edit] Round 1 - Users

Q1: Which users have these statements on thier user page?

1. I live in unincorporated Orange County, Florida with an Orlando address. I'm mainly into transportation, mostly roads and railroads. I've gotten Pulaski Skyway to featured article status. (answer)
2. My name is Ben. I'm interested in nearly everything and have participated in the project since May 2004. My primary interests are in the liberal arts, social sciences, and humanities (answer)
3. Occasionally I like to blather on about Wikipedia rather than do anything constructive... (answer)
4. I have legitimately added the word "masterbated" into several articles not discussing sexuality. I have also legitimately added the phrase "magic penis" (answer)
5. In the real world, I am a resident physician currently living in Minnesota, which leaves me with little time. (answer)

Q2: Identify the user by the first article they contributed to:

1. Christian views of women (answer)
2. Racial Holy War (answer)
3. 1960 (answer)
4. Cerritos, California (answer)
5. Charles Taylor (answer)

Q3: Which user nominated these articles for featured status?

1. 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens (answer)
2. Shrimp farm (answer)
3. Swastika (answer)
4. Piccadilly Circus (answer)
5. George III of the United Kingdom (answer)

Q4: Identify the user based on their role on Wikipedia

1. First editor of the Wikipedia Signpost (answer)
2. Featured articles director (answer)
3. Admin General of Wikipedia:Esperanza (answer)
4. Developer Liason to the Wikimedia Foundation board (answer*)
5. Author and maintainer of navigation popups (answer)

Q5: Which of the 21 following users is not the answer to one of the previous questions?

AllyUnion	Angela	Celestianpower	David Gerard	Everyking	Juntung	Kelly Martin
Knowledge Seeker	Lord Emsworth	Lupin	Lupo	maveric149	Michael Snow	Mindspillage
Neutrality	Raul654	-Ril-	Smoddy	SPUI	Ta bu shi da yu	Tim Starling

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[edit] Round 2 - Features

Q1: Which article(s) do these featured pictures illustrate?

answer	answer 1, answer 2, answer 3, answer 4	answer 1, answer 2, answer 3	answer 1, answer 2
answer 1, answer 2, answer 3	answer

Q2: Which of these lists is featured?

1. List of snakes of Trinidad and Tobago
2. List of television stations in Albania
3. List of HTML decimal character references
4. List of British rail accidents by death toll
5. List of Utah rivers

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Q3:Which of these articles is featured?

1. Roman Britain
2. Sweet potato
3. Greek sea gods
4. London Congestion Charge
5. Subdivisions of England

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[edit] Round 3 – Lame nonsense, Humour and Fun

Q1: Put these titles of Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense archives in chronoligcal order, from eariest to latest:

1. All Your Bad Joke And Other Deleted Nonsense Are Belong To Us
2. We hold these Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense to be self-evident
3. Colorless green Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense sleep furiously
4. More Bad Jokes than you can shake a stick at
5. You are in a maze of twisty little Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense, all alike

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Q2: Which of these articles is not listed at Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars ever (WP:LAME)?

1. Guinea pig
2. Cat
3. Dog
4. Sonic the Hedgehog
5. Invisible Pink Unicorn

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Q3: Which of these important debates did not spark an edit war worthy of WP:LAME?

1. Is Europe commonly considered a continent?
2. Should there be commas in 1000 and 10000?
3. Is Birmingham unarguably England's second city?
4. Was Nancy Regan born in 1921 or 1923?
5. Should potato chips be flavored or flavoured?

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Q4: Which of these are linked to from Wikipedia:Department of Fun?

1. A chess championship
2. The Really Reformed Church of Wikipedia
3. Six Degrees of Wikipedia
4. Wikipedia:Untagged images
5. A one-word-at-a-time story

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Q5: Put these pairs of articles in order of the length of the chain between them (according to Kate's Six degrees tool), starting with the smallest?

1. LSD → Shakespeare
2. University of Wales, Swansea → Linux
3. Thomas the Tank Engine → Xenu
4. Are You Being Served? → Ponte di Cerreto
5. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch → Venezuala

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Q6: Which of these is not a sentence from Wikipedia's one-word-at-a-time story?

1. Autumn warriors manage breakfast Ful Medames without bacon!
2. Angelic dinosaurs migrated upwards with rocket-powered ice dancers’ Liverpudlian donkey editing behemoths.
3. In conclusion, Goethe lives most of his miserable days alone in the Dordogne (Bless).
4. "Enough!", wailed a Bonobo, while paramedics carried Jimbo's evil homie into Singapore.
5. Whenever Saturday rugby is cancelled because of monkeys fanatically fleeing flooding, a lighthouse beams serenity across the beautiful nonsense-generating wikipedians' lawns.

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