HQ Trivia

[SteelBlue]

Winner winner chicken dinner! 59 cents richer!

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[falafel]

BYU Broadcasting crew gets a shoutout (along with Delta Dental?) on HQ today.

[Pelado]

BYU Broadcasting crew gets a shoutout (along with Delta Dental?) on HQ today.

In what way?

[falafel]

In what way?

"Shoutout to the crews at BYU Broadcasting and Delta Dental."

[Pelado]

"Shoutout to the crews at BYU Broadcasting and Delta Dental."

Amazing!

[All-American]

Made it to q12 tonight. Seconds after clicking on the wrong answer I remembered the ancient ties between Italy and the bull. Yep, the name "Italy" is thought to have been derived from the word for "cow."

$161 dollar payout tonight.

Grr.

[All-American]

Made it to q12 tonight. Seconds after clicking on the wrong answer I remembered the ancient ties between Italy and the bull. Yep, the name "Italy" is thought to have been derived from the word for "cow."

$161 dollar payout tonight.

Grr.

And then I made it to Q12 on the HQ sports. Turns out that the condor, not the albatross, is the name associated with the rarest score on a hole in golf.

I am having a bad bad day.

[SteelBlue]

Won in the 8 question game tonight. $0.12

[creekster]

Won in the 8 question game tonight. $0.12

Woo Hoo!

[DrumNFeather]

Won in the 8 question game tonight. $0.12

My wife did as well. I got out on the Owls question, and helped her on the hall of fame question.

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[creekster]

After having not played for some weeks I gave it a go just now and won $5.43.

I may retire.

[PaloAltoCougar]

After having not played for some weeks I gave it a go just now and won $5.43.

I may retire.

Congrats. I recommend filling out a separate tithing slip for this windfall.

[SteelBlue]

After having not played for some weeks I gave it a go just now and won $5.43.

I may retire.

I've won a total of 4 times now and my combined winnings do not exceed $5. Is anyone still playing? Numbers are way down. I'm curious to see if they survive another year.

[creekster]

I've won a total of 4 times now and my combined winnings do not exceed $5. Is anyone still playing? Numbers are way down. I'm curious to see if they survive another year.

I haven't played since my big win,.

[falafel]

I've won a total of 4 times now and my combined winnings do not exceed $5. Is anyone still playing? Numbers are way down. I'm curious to see if they survive another year.

Haven't played in at least a month.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I've won a total of 4 times now and my combined winnings do not exceed $5. Is anyone still playing? Numbers are way down. I'm curious to see if they survive another year.

Played it once and deleted it.

[Pelado]

I've won a total of 4 times now and my combined winnings do not exceed $5. Is anyone still playing? Numbers are way down. I'm curious to see if they survive another year.

I played today for the first time in months. It was pretty glitchy.

[All-American]

I play if I'm not doing anything. I missed Q12 on a day where the payout was over $100. Still fuming over it.

[Green Monstah]

The pop culture questions always get me.

[Pelado]

The pop culture questions always get me.

Same here. The real spice in the Spice Girls got me today.

[All-American]

I recently had a very lengthy discussion at work where I explained in detail the correct plural form of the word "octopus." It's a bit of a trick question because it depends on what rule you want to follow to get the answer, begging the question somewhat, but at least some answers are unequivocally wrong.

If you start with the premise that you should use Greek declensions for Greek words, then the plural of octopus (οκτοπος) is octopodes (οκτοποδες). If you don't care about following the original language, you are a terrible human being, but once you accept the word "octopus" as an English word you could just use English rules for pluralization: "octopuses." Where people often go wrong is assuming octopus is a Latin word, and that a Latin masculine plural ends in -i, so the plural should be octopi. That is doubly wrong. "Octopus" is Greek, not Latin, and even if you were to use the Latin version of a Greek word, you would use the fourth declension, not the second, and so the plural of "octopus" as a Latin word is, in fact, "octopus." (Same thing goes for "syllabus," by the way. You can have two syllabuses, or you can have two syllabus, but you cannot have two syllabi. There is no such word.)

Useless knowledge, you say? Not tonight. Thanks to this little tidbit of knowledge, the subject of tonight's Q12, I am now seven dollars and twenty-two cents richer. My education in classics is finally starting to pay off.

[frank ryan]

I recently had a very lengthy discussion at work where I explained in detail the correct plural form of the word "octopus." It's a bit of a trick question because it depends on what rule you want to follow to get the answer, begging the question somewhat, but at least some answers are unequivocally wrong.

If you start with the premise that you should use Greek declensions for Greek words, then the plural of octopus (οκτοπος) is octopodes (οκτοποδες). If you don't care about following the original language, you are a terrible human being, but once you accept the word "octopus" as an English word you could just use English rules for pluralization: "octopuses." Where people often go wrong is assuming octopus is a Latin word, and that a Latin masculine plural ends in -i, so the plural should be octopi. That is doubly wrong. "Octopus" is Greek, not Latin, and even if you were to use the Latin version of a Greek word, you would use the fourth declension, not the second, and so the plural of "octopus" as a Latin word is, in fact, "octopus." (Same thing goes for "syllabus," by the way. You can have two syllabuses, or you can have two syllabus, but you cannot have two syllabi. There is no such word.)

Useless knowledge, you say? Not tonight. Thanks to this little tidbit of knowledge, the subject of tonight's Q12, I am now seven dollars and twenty-two cents richer. My education in classics is finally starting to pay off.

That's an awesome piece of trivia I did not know. Thank you.

[Applejack]

I recently had a very lengthy discussion at work where I explained in detail the correct plural form of the word "octopus." It's a bit of a trick question because it depends on what rule you want to follow to get the answer, begging the question somewhat, but at least some answers are unequivocally wrong.

If you start with the premise that you should use Greek declensions for Greek words, then the plural of octopus (οκτοπος) is octopodes (οκτοποδες). If you don't care about following the original language, you are a terrible human being, but once you accept the word "octopus" as an English word you could just use English rules for pluralization: "octopuses." Where people often go wrong is assuming octopus is a Latin word, and that a Latin masculine plural ends in -i, so the plural should be octopi. That is doubly wrong. "Octopus" is Greek, not Latin, and even if you were to use the Latin version of a Greek word, you would use the fourth declension, not the second, and so the plural of "octopus" as a Latin word is, in fact, "octopus." (Same thing goes for "syllabus," by the way. You can have two syllabuses, or you can have two syllabus, but you cannot have two syllabi. There is no such word.)

Useless knowledge, you say? Not tonight. Thanks to this little tidbit of knowledge, the subject of tonight's Q12, I am now seven dollars and twenty-two cents richer. My education in classics is finally starting to pay off.

[SCcoug]