Provably, inaccessibly wrong . . .
Twice today, I gave the Country Badge a danged good shot. And, twice, today, I was defeated by what was called an incorrect answer but was in fact correct.
The problem is that I can't go back and send a correction request or advisement to the author of the quiz.
In both cases, I found direct evidence on the web indicating a particular answer. When submitting that answer, I was confronted with "Incorrect" and another answer which was not what I had just found in an independent source.
It's really frustrating to find the exact answer to a question you had no clue to, only to be told something else. It makes you wonder if the website for Colorguard Floors actually knows what the count for catching a rifle double-toss is (Two, according to them, but three according to whoever wrote the quiz). Why would a color guard website know anything about tossing rifles?
I'm really peeved about losing the badge on the 7th question of the 4th quiz to an undeniably wrong answer. The Wars of the Roses were definitively over when Henry, Earl of Richmond, was crowned Henry VII on Bosworth Field in 1485 after defeating Richard III. It was the end of the Plantagenet line and the beginning of Renaissance England (or at least the end of the Medieval feudal period) under the House of Tudor.
WRONG. It was Henry VI according to somebody out there whose quiz foiled my plans to answer rightly. Things must have been different back in the 15th Century. Henry VI died in prison in 1471. Yet he was still able to win a major battle 14 years later.
Golly, those guys were tough. But not as tough as this badge. Who knew you had to not only have the right answers, but the occasionaly well-timed wrong ones?
Huh.

1 Comment:
You're right of course on Henry VII and I totally hear your frustration. We need to have more quality control on old quizzes. Some quiz writers are no longer active on the site and so don't respond to correction requests.
Also a quiz that has been archived needs editors to input the corrections which complicates and slows the procedure. If we can't contact the writers it isn't going to happen unless the editors themselves receive the corrections, are willing to do the checking and then make the necessary corrections, a lot of extra work for those volunteers!
By Yaarbiriah, Mar 10 08 8:37 PM