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New Year’s F1 quiz against the clock

Started by mariner , Dec 31 2019 17:38

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#1 mariner

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Posted 31 December 2019 - 17:38

First, the usual apologies if this is a repeat but my wife is big "Sporckle" quiz fan , it is where you have to answer against the clock on line ( so no cheating on time!!)

Here is the F1 circuits quiz, 71 circuits to name in 15 minutes - I am a failure , I only got to 48 and missed some easy ones.

https://www.sporcle....lex18/f1_tracks

Good luck

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#2 nexfast

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Posted 31 December 2019 - 20:02

I went to 62 . How could I forget Ceasar's Palace? Perhaps the worst circuit F1 ever was at least in its WDC guise.

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#3 MargaretM37

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Posted 31 December 2019 - 21:43

47- but there was another 7 that I could kick myself for not getting.

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#4 Ray Bell

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Posted 31 December 2019 - 23:15

Just 40!

Mind blanks, of course, especially for the two Canadian ones I couldn't think of. But I wasted a lot of time trying to get the Ostereichring in there and it simply wouldn't go.

A lot of modern circuits, too, have been named after drivers, while not following F1 closely enough to be reading about it all the time deprives me of the names of so many circuits added to the list in the last few years.

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#5 MCS

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Posted 31 December 2019 - 23:41

Great fun! 54, but none of the new ones. I didn't even know there was a Grand Prix in Azerbaijan.

Circuit of the Americas and Fair Park in the US are new to me - I will look into those.

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#6 2F-001

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Posted 01 January 2020 - 12:33

Fair Park would be the venue for the Grand Prix held in Dallas - though I had forgotten all about Dallas so I didn't get that one anyway...

I haven't been there, but I gather Circuit of the Americas is one of the better of the new circuits.

I wasted about a minute and a half trying work out how the quiz worked... I was expecting, in vain, for track diagrams to appear on screen... then couldn't be bothered to try to start again once I'd fathomed what to do... then struggled to think of the local names (and spellings) of circuits, though that didn't seem to matter in most cases as a popular name seemed to work.

Eventually got 58... a few others I ought to have remembered... some of the more recent ones I simply didn't know where they were held geographically (or was too far off in spelling for it to be recognized!). Not my finest hour! I could blame my slow typing, but really I'm just not that sharp when there's a clock running!

Edited by 2F-001, 01 January 2020 - 12:37.

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#7 LittleChris

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Posted 01 January 2020 - 13:16

65. Would've preferred circuit diagrams though

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#8 Michael Ferner

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Posted 01 January 2020 - 18:17

62, forty-five of which I had in the first five minutes (aren't there bonus points for speed?????). Most of the last ten minutes I tried to remember the name of the Malaysia track, but failed :mad:

- the others i wouldn't have guessed in a million years. Well, maybe I could have guessed Shanghai and Korean International Circuit, or Istanbul! :rolleyes:

Maybe I should have guessed "Marina" for two more hits… :stoned:

It was really easy to play, and even though I'd never heard of "Red Bull Ring" before, it lit up after I typed in "A1" - it wouldn't accept "Spielberg" or "Österreichring"/"Osterreichring", though. Several of the other names I didn't match exactly, either, but Anderstorp, Montmelo or Montreal did the trick, too. Saint Jovite, however, did not work, and I had to dig deep to recall that other name.

What really took me aback was that the Hungaroring is ninth on the all-time list of classic F 1 tracks by now. Hungaroring!!

Edited by Michael Ferner, 01 January 2020 - 18:19.

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#9 jtremlett

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Posted 02 January 2020 - 00:03

62, forty-five of which I had in the first five minutes (aren't there bonus points for speed?????). Most of the last ten minutes I tried to remember the name of the Malaysia track, but failed - the others i wouldn't have guessed in a million years. Well, maybe I could have guessed Shanghai and Korean International Circuit, or Istanbul! Maybe I should have guessed "Marina" for two more hits… It was really easy to play, and even though I'd never heard of "Red Bull Ring" before, it lit up after I typed in "A1" - it wouldn't accept "Spielberg" or "Österreichring"/"Osterreichring", though. Several of the other names I didn't match exactly, either, but Anderstorp, Montmelo or Montreal did the trick, too. Saint Jovite, however, did not work, and I had to dig deep to recall that other name.

What really took me aback was that the Hungaroring is ninth on the all-time list of classic F 1 tracks by now. Hungaroring!!

63 for me. Strangely Osterreichring did work for me. It is quite forgiving on the names except that it didn't seem to take Oporto (and I couldn't spell Pedralbes). Failed on China, South Korea and India! All forgettable Tilke-drones and I couldn't remember what any of them were called or where they were.

A fun little diversion for a few minutes. Thanks to Mariner for suggesting it.