User:Thryduulf/Quizes/Birmingham20060121

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

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)
 * Featured articles director (answer)
 * 1) Admin General of Esperanza (answer)
 * 2) Developer Liason to the Wikimedia Foundation board (answer*)
 * 3) Author and maintainer of navigation popups (answer)

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

Round 2 - Features
Q1: Which article(s) do these featured pictures illustrate?

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
 * answer

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
 * answer

Round 3 – Lame nonsense, Humour and Fun
Q1: Put these titles of 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
 * answer

Q2: Which of these articles is not listed at Lamest edit wars ever (WP:LAME)?
 * 1) Guinea pig
 * 2) Cat
 * 3) Dog
 * 4) Sonic the Hedgehog
 * 5) Invisible Pink Unicorn
 * answer

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?
 * answer

Q4: Which of these are linked to from 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
 * answer

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 &rarr; Shakespeare
 * 2) University of Wales, Swansea &rarr; Linux
 * 3) Thomas the Tank Engine &rarr; Xenu
 * 4) Are You Being Served? &rarr; Ponte di Cerreto
 * 5) Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch &rarr; Venezuala
 * answer

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.
 * answer