TSR Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2023!

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And now for the final results of TSR's Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2023, drum roll please...

1st place: @Andrew97

2nd place: @manu08manu

3rd place: @Muttley79

You can see your individual result in the results spreadsheet linked here.

Thank you all for playing! If you're not aware already, we run a weekly TSR news quiz at the weekend. If you're not already signed up to be notified when these quizzes are released, please reply and let me know, and I can add you to the list.

@Pwca, could you please award 300 rep to our winner, 150 rep to our runner-up and 100 rep to our third-place?

All done! Congrats to the winners!

Happy with 3rd but the scores haven't been adjusted for the wrong answers in the quiz. Shouldn't the proper answer get a mark rather than the wrong one?

Answers to News in Emojis:
1) Coronoation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla
2) Implosion of the Titan submersible
3) Arrest of Nicola Sturgeon
4) Finland joins NATO
5) Barbenheimer
6) Spain win FIFA Women's World Cup and Rubiales kiss scandal
7) Yevgeny Prigozhin rebels against Putin and later dies in a plane crash
8) New Beatles song
9) South Africa win Rugby World Cup 2023
10) Wham's Last Christmas is Christmas number 1

Some observations on News in Emojis:
5) Half a point was allowed for identifying each of Barbie and Oppenheimer
6) Half a point was awarded if only the world cup win was identified, or the Luis Rubiales kiss was identified but not linked to the world cup in some way. Leeway was given with identifying Rubiales's position as president of the federation.
7) Some reference to Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin or mutiny was required for the point

For all questions it was decided that the answer needed to refer to the news story intended by the quiz author.

Q3. I interpreted it to be, the first Female police chief of Scotland.. Handcuffs would have helped here

I thought the issue here was what you believed to be the correct answer not being listed, rather than the correct answer being flagged to be incorrect?

Dr Who question was incorrect, % grade 7 chose the number nearest the correct one so should be credited and Politics - no correct answer was feedback to two of the questions when I completed it.

I am not complaining just think questions need better checking in future.

Dr Who question was incorrect, % grade 7 chose the number nearest the correct one so should be credited and Politics - no correct answer was feedback to two of the questions when I completed it.

I am not complaining just think questions need better checking in future.

The Doctor Who question was clarified very quickly. At the time the note was added into the question I checked the results sheet to assess and the majority of participants had selected the correct answer for the question anyway. None of the people who chose an incorrect answer would have made it onto the podium if they had received that one extra mark. The impact was therefore negligible and the results stand as they are.

(What is '% grade 7'?)

As I said, I'm pleased to get on the podium at all but questions need better checking.

No, a set of volunteers have given up some of their time over Christmas to put together a quiz for the community to enjoy – nobody 'needs' to do any of this.