Groups of Nine Quiz

The Fellowship off the Ring is the group of creatures in Lord of the Rings that tries to take The One Ring to mount doom to be destroyed. It has nothing to do whatsoever with Harry Potter.

I'm not good with the LOTRs stuff. Can you please accept, "the elf" and "the other hobbit" ;)

Unfortunately, there was a total of four nasty little hobbitses.

I love that it spells out "Samwise" for Sam, but doesn't bother to put "Peregrin" for Pippin or "Meriadoc" for Merry.

^ Sam was referred to as Samwise a lot more than Merry and Pippin were called by their full names.

if you're not good with the LOTR stuff, then I guess you won't ace this quiz

I aced this quiz! Loved it, thanks. Just a few of the Brady Bunch I missed.

I know it's rare but isn't Royal Flush a thing?

I think a Royal Flush is just a Straight Flush between the ten and the ace. Being 10, J, Q, K, A.

I would have done fantastic on this except for the stupid Brady Bunch... also, I know pretty much nothing about sports most of the time, but isn't a center fielder also known as a mid-fielder? I eventually got it but that tripped me up for a minute.

Mid-fielders are in soccer.

and my ignorance of "sport" is confirmed. :)

And lacrosse!

got all of them...but failed on lord of the rings crap

I got ruled by the lord of the rings and smacked by a bunch of Brady's.

Love the Lord of the Rings. Not so much the Brady Bunch...

For the baseball positions I tried "Who" "What" "I Don't Know"... it's the only thing I know about baseball.

Who's on first?

Yes

I don't know....

What?

Larry, I don't know's on third.

nice quiz but how about accepting "High" And "Run" "Running Flush" for us Brits?

I tried single high and ace-high, but no high card. Somehow missed Sweden, too. :(

When the question says "since 1066" it means after William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings and became King. The reason for this is that the modern kings' names and numberings begin from then, and not before then, even if the year was 1066. (So that Edward the Confessor, for example, is not one of the numbered Edwards I-VI, who began two centuries later).

I tried Harold and I think there is a fair argument on his behalf in this quiz.

easily swept the first four and got most of the last 2, but somehow missed George and charles

God, let this one be. At least there's no problem with this one like when you're asked "Who came before Queen Elizabeth" and it accepts George. There were several of them!! It matters!

Doesn't it go, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Flixton, Urmston...?

You must be a fellow Lankie!

Followed by Wigan, Oldham, Bury and Preston!

When the answers are filled in, the Fellowship of the Ring have their baseball positions to their left.

Gimli is SHORTstop, how fitting

He would probably be the catcher though. Legolas would surely be SS or CF. But the pun is nice.

My lineup - Gandalf as Pitcher. (Nasty curve ball). Gimli as Catcher. Frodo 1B. Merry 2B. Pippin SS. Aragorn 3B (Can handle the hot corner). Boromir RF (Great arm). Legolas CF (He's everywhere). Samwise LF (Best place to hide him).

I find it difficult to believe that 100% of the test takers did not get "earth" as one of the planets.

2 pairs accepted for Two Pairs

iran should be under for nuclear weapons or whatever. Did they just cut it out so they'd have nine instead of the accurate ten in that group? That's just wrong.

Missed: 2 reindeer, 1 king and the whole Brady Bunch.

That is nothing to be ashamed of.

Tom Brady?

Henry, Ed, Ed, Ed, Rich 2, then three more Henrys join our song.

Bothers me that all reindeer are in song order except for the first two.

I must admit, that threw me a bit!

No, for the same reason it doesn't accept "three sevens" for "three of a kind." It's just one of the possible values of that hand. If no one has an ace, then the high card might be, say, a king.

I tried Michael a bunch of times before finally typing Mike.

I completely forgot about Rudolph! I'd just done the quiz of the song and tried to name all of the other reindeer.

Baseball!? A sport barely played outside of North America and one that most Europeans know absolutely nothing about and never hear even a passing mention of in the news. Fantastic.

Barely played outside North America????
Did you know that it's the most played sport in Japan? That there's a lot of baseball fever in South Korea and Taiwan? That Venezuela (a country that by no means is on North America) is perhaps the country that provides the most foreign players to the MLB?

Well, that's most of the people doing this quiz then.

Not American so had nothing for Baseball positions, or had ever heard of Brady Bunch.

We play softball here in New Zealand, and the positions are the same as baseball, so all good. Brady Bunch was on TV here many years ago - you need to be pretty old to have heard of it!

I am seriously concerned for the three percent that missed Earth.

Thank you, Horrible Histories! William, Henry, Henry, Stephen, Henry, Richard, John: HEY!

I always thought it was Arrogant, Boringmir, Fraudo, Gandoffacliff, Grimly, Lego-less, Marry, Pipsqueak, and Samunwise.

Went through seven categories with no problems. Then, I got 2 of the Brady Bunch while trying to guess Kings of England (all of which I eventually got, thank goodness).

Was hoping against all hope that simply typing in "that one weird guy", all of the answers for the LOTRs section would be filled in. Sadly, not the case. Only 9 that I missed. :-(

How do more people get Mars than Earth...

Maybe they, like me for some reason, use Holst's Planet Suite to remember the planets.

So by that logic you missed Pluto as well? And you also don't know the Earth is a planet?

My brain went weird while I was trying to remember the reindeer, it said something like "Dasher, Dancer, Donner, Blitzen, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta".

Why wouldn't there be overlap? People can like both high fantasy and silly sitcoms at the same time. And LotR has been around for more than 60 years, so it's certainly not any sort of an age issue.