Quiz Page Quazy Quirky Quiz 2 1) Q) What is 'backgammon' in Portuguese? A) tabuleiros de gamão Tric-trac Portugbackgammonese gammonback? 2) Q) Describe a 'Raccoon' A) An immediate redouble by the player who just accepted a beaver. A Raccoon is an early warning signal that either you or your opponent willsoon wish that you hadn't offered the cube in the first place. Bacelarao I think?? 3) Q) There are two faces on the Sofa photo on the Home Page.1 belongs to Diabolicus the cat. Describe the other. A) On the front of the drinks table I bet I saw the man in the moon there, but I'm not sure..! Two faces ???  I must be blind..I see a grey something.a bottle and a glass.and of course the BBB. Wow, thats freaky, your stool looks just like Ronnie Wood, or is it the ghost of Ronnie Lane? 4) Q) What does 'BIBA' stand for? A) British Isles Backgammon Association Benefits In Bar Absence? 60's Store on Kensington High St run by Barbara Hullanicki. Remember? Fair play, and affordable entry fees for all. Its simply not cricket having to pay exhorbitant entry fees to play in other world class tournaments. Three cheers to Michael Crane. Backgammoners in Bars Annoymous. Bear in bear off ... I think that's supposed to be  "o" right?? lol 5) Q) If you have lost over 60 points in the last week, do you? a) Suck at backgammon,  b) Have enemies where you play,  c) Should play checkers instead,  d) All of the above. A) You decide None of the above, its obviously down to those fixed dice on the servers. Stop playing for days on end and get a life. Score will improve significantly. Deffinatly A.. I know, I've been there many times :) 6) Q) What are 'B.C.D.s'? A) Backpacker Cricket Dice Back Cammon Dorks' Ohhh.MMM u have to learn the alphabet it start with  A B C  not B C D Board - Cubes - Dice Buoyancy Compensation Devices. Essential for use by SCUBA divers when playing underwater backgammon. As long as it isn't transmittable over the internet I'm not worried. Backgammon Cheating Demons! 7) Q) When was the Launch of the Backpacker Backgammon Boards Web Site? A) 1st June 2000 Close to recently. One evening when Mike came back from the Pub and thought. Yeah, ok, let's do this thing. Thursday the 3rd of July at the Mc Donalds on Oxford street. Oh sorry I thought it said 'lunch'. Dec 18th 1999 Six months and you're still around - not bad for a Dot Com I can't find it, its funny I found it before but I can't find it again lol 8) Q) A 'Calcutta Auction' - what is it please? A) A lottery of entrants in a backgammon tournament. At the start of the tournament, players are auctioned off and the proceeds go into a pool to be distributed later to the buyers of the successful players. Sometimes players are grouped into fields, with each field sold as a package. The rules usually allow a player to buy back a portion of himself if he wants to increase his stake in the tournament. It's an auction where you can buy Calcuttans cheap. Any change to win a trip to Calcutta? When Mike comes into the Funcom Lobby after the Pub on a weekend and tries to sell his Chicken Korma to the highest bidder. Note; Sometimes it has been a Jalfrezie - but the Bombay Duck has been eaten. (Shouldn't that be a Mumbai Duck these days - MMM) I don't know what that Kit Woolsey is talking about on the rgb archives, he's obviously never been to India. Auction Off bits of a guy (or girl) called Cal...... 9) Q) Who went into the Funcom Lobby on Easter Day as 'TheEasterBunny'? A) GunslingerUS aka.. Here is his reply: <I must have had a few names in my time on there, these are the ones that I can remember and I am sure some other people may be able to tell me more. There are 70 names here. I would say the total number of names has been around 150-160. 9752, Afterburn, Always, AWhiteKnight, BananaNose, BitFlip, BlueMoon, BoardSurf, Boardwalk, Centrefold, Chippie, CoasttoCoast, Counterplay, CoyoteMoon, Cybernaut, DiceRoller, DoubleBarrel, Easter-Bunny, ElectricBlue, ElvisPresley, FadetoBlack, FrogPrince, FRW, FWR, Galahad, GetReal, Get-Real, Gunslinger, GunslingerCA, GunslingerUS, HappyDays, HarlanDaniels, Harley, HeyYou, InyourDreams, JudgeDredd, Kelli Collier, Lauren Mason, LaurenDaniels, Litmus, LitmusChipOne Chip Cop, LS2SB = LockStock and 2 Smoking Barrels, Ludie, LudieG, LudieG-USA, Makingapoint, MD7934, MonacoMonica, OneHit, PacificBlue, Palladine, Palladium, PlatinumDice, PlayboyBunny, PointtoPoint, Ribbit, RockyRaccoon, RoyOrbison, Sir Galahad, StoneFree, Templar, TheHitman, Tirpe, TomCruise, TopGun, TreyWalker, TumblinDice, Tyler, XADC22, YEAHYEAHYEAH.> 10) Q) What is 'good luck' in Latin? A) Res secundae What ever it is, they didn't have any, or else Latin would not be a dead language. Bonus Fortuna. Smilus Fortu Bene chance I don't know, but hope it sounds neat lol Oodgay ucklay in pig latin 11) Q) There is a bottle of port in the photo on the Home Page. Whose make is it? N.B. Ask Fodas in Funcom. A) W Dow (est. 1798) (And it was very nice too thanx) Have not seen Fodas for a looong time. wild guess..home made in Fodas cellar. 12) Q) Who is the Editor of GammonVillage? A) Michael Strato To be honest: Does it matter as long as it exists? Michael Strato writes all the stuff there. Only an Editor would do that.   13) Q) What is a 'Kibitzer'? A) A spectator who often offers unwanted advice or comment someone with OP .. A freshly circumcised kosher dill pickle from Harry's Salt Bar in St Johns Wood. Somebody who gets paid a pittance to play backgammon at a thinly disguised slave labour camp in Israel. A conversationalist masquerading as a backgammon player. Country of origin: FIBS, Also found on Netgammon and Funcom. It also sounds like a cool drink! 14) Q) Where are the Backgammon World Championships being held? A) The Monte Carlo Gaming Club, Monte Carlo, Monaco In Glouchester, I think. I may be rong, but at least I fried! They are currently being held at a variety of locations around the world inside the heads of the unsuccessful entrants to the Monte Carlo event. If you listen carefully you can almost hear them, "I should have broke the anchor; oh why didn't I play on for the gammon?" The Fox Reformed Frankfurt or the Isle of White Katie Scalamandre of the U.S.A. won 25-20 over Thomas Holm of Denmark. 15) Q) Who recently created the funcompics Web Site? A) 4-buns 4-buns and he did a great job ! :o)) Somebody with lots of time on their hands. To be honest: Does it matter as long as it exists? 16) Q) Explain 'Hara-Kiri Play.' A) A play which exposes blots for the purpose ofrecirculating the player's checkers.  When Kamikazee lets his cat loose in the Funcom Lobby. You are behind 40 points on your pip count and the only stones in your Home Quarter are on your 6 point and you have 7 open blots. Me playing u. Its a ritual disembowlment practiced by chouette players who lost their cash, their house and the shirt off their back whilst playing in side action with the pro's at Monte Carlo. I have no clue, but it sounds pretty kinky! Kidding, it is a dangerous suicidal play that usually never works. 17) Q) Where on Geert's backgammon is the doubling cube? A) On the centre bar Who is Geert ? In the center of the bar in the middle of the board, OR I am a Dutchman - lol 18) Q) If you are behind 40 points on your pip count and the only stones in your Home Quarter are on your 6 point and you have 7 open blots. Should you double? A) No (probably) If you are masochistic, yes! Only if its post crawford and you forgot to offer the initial double. Sure. Why not. Says the uncurable optimist :) Hell, no, are you crazy?!! Yes! Yes! Yes! Hmmmm I'm confused I think, No! No! No! Never that is evil! (Evil laughter comes from within) Yes I will.the game is early and all can happen. You can have 1 stone left and the opponent all.ask Gerardo how it feels to lose with only 1 stone JJ 19) Q) What does 'GWC' stand for? A) Game winning chances God will come.. Or.OMG  ???? Great Western Camping, a popular Camping shop near me 20) Q) What term should be used when you play: Only 5 stones may be placed on any one point? A) Max 5 up Rule (not English Rule - BIBA don't like it) U will kill me now : English rule ! ohhh.laughing! "Take it or leave it, those are my terms. If you don't want to play like that, go and play at a BIBA event". 21) Q) Explain 'Forced Play.' A) A roll of the dice for which there is only one legal play Definitively not stripgammon Some friends come round to our house for a nice social evening chatting and drinking. Much to their chagrin (and my girlfriend's) I get out a backgammon board and demand that we will play a Swiss format best out of 5 twenty-one point matches mini-tourney. The end of an opponent. When you've been told, "play, or else!!" 22) Q) What is Diabolicus called when she is a bad cat? A) The last part of her name - Bolicus "You skinny good for nothing animal too bad to be called a cat!" If it was Kamikazees cat it can basically do whatever it feels like It is bigger than me and most of us. 23) Q) What is a 'Prime'? A) Six consecutive blocks, which together effectively prevent passage of the opponent's checkers or several consecutive blocks, such as a 4-prime or 5-prime. Fuse for a bomb. Someone who is not quite a Minister like Tony before he became Tony Blair. 24) Q) What does 'MWC' stand for? A) Match winning chances Mike's lavatory Must Weigh Cat !!!!!! Its a quirky little question that can be asked again and again when the quiz master has run out of new questions. More Wacky Cube handling. Mikes Weaving Class 25) Q) What are the nicknames of the 4-M's two backgammon-playing kittens? A) 4-Paws and 4-Purrs 4-miss and 4-midabel Cute Canute the Dane and Fluffy Floridan Four Miss 26) Q) Explain a 'Fly Shot.' A) A long indirect shot with few combinations When I am drinking to many shots..and feel like flying, before I hit the ground. Its the prelude to the relaliatory 'Fly Swatter Shot' which your opponent (especially if it is Jellyfish) will inevitably make. When you take a shot at a fly with the fly swatter?? 27) Q) Where is there a protruding foot on the BBB Web Site? A) The photo behind the 2 photos on the Home Page. Down Left behave or I kick u out ? In the future, please put all protruding feet in visible places. 28) Q) What is 'Fevga'? A) A Greek variation of backgammon Federation Exterminating Various Gunslinger Type Antics Its an annagram of 'vegaf' a word known only to inveterate scrabble cheaters. An Italian Football Team. Hey that's some kind of Festival right with lots of drinking?? Right?? 29) Q) What are the chances of 4 double sixes being rolled consecutively? A) (1/36)**4 = 1/1,679,616 for any particular string of four rolls, assuming each die has a 1/6 chance of landing 6 rather small, unless you are a Jellyfish. it's bigger change for gruppesex .lol Very high if your playing against Jellyfish, or on the Zone. 30) Q) On the funcompics Web Site Kamikazee is holding a cat. Is the cat for real? A) Here is Kamikazees reply: Mike it ain't me, it ain't my cat, I sent it in with the caption that he (the cat) likes rabbits, but that it is not really me, and there  it isposted as me. I been telling any one who cares it ain't me, but if I had to guess, and I don't know the man, I would say he is real and so's his cat. Does this help or hurt?? Kamikazee No! Sure ! nice cat ! nice man :-) Cat ? Is THAT a cat ? Judging by it's posture I would say it is not a real live cat. No lol, well I hope that its not any way.. Lol . I would be to scared to go to his place because the cat would eat me ..LOL! The winners were: Lord-Mad, Alden, angel1 and Mark Driver. Congratulations! You all win a BBB Set. If you would like to joint the quiz mailing list,  please click on this link: Contact Us Move to Quazy Quirky Quiz 1 Home | Top MikeMadMonk@backpacker-backgammon.com