Terrible twos

[taize]

46. resembling a squirrel, when mixed, could be said to be cygnets?

is the answer Castor and Pollux (Leda and Jupiter who disguised himself as a swan)

what is the 'squirrel' wordplay?

[Aquagility]

Sciuroid=squirrel-like
Anag=Dioscuri
The Disocuri were Castor and Polydeuces (or Pollux), the twin sons of Leda and Zeus and the brothers of Helen of Troy.
OK?

[QuizmasterG]

Nice one taize / aquagility !

I can hear the thunder of a hundred feet as a hundred desperate people dash to the post office to send off their quizzes (which has now become a lottery) now the "tie-break" question has been revealed.

Talk about blowing the whistle

[smouse]

Well I feel better (posted mine last week) with this answer as a guess but didnt know why

[Aquagility]

QuizmasterG - was this one of those which must never show its face?
How could I know? Surely it's up to the one who is doing the puzzle to abide by the rules/convention. The poor old answerer is only trying to help, and has no idea where the question came from.
In fact this has been answered before (by me and others).
And, just in passing, I guess a hundred desperate people would have two hundred thundering feet, would they not?

[QuizmasterG]

Toche aquagility

[QuizmasterG]

Touche aquagility - I can't spell either!

[DaiFawkes]

I agree with you Quizmaster. I worked that one out the first night it was asked on this site, and it looked as if it was going to be a winner, but now the world has seen it and another poor quizsetter is faced with a lottery. If people CAN'T do a quiz, why do they bother sending for them??

[taize]

no intention to get you into trouble Aquagility .... you put a lot into AB

but this thread does show up that some Abers have the answer, are not going to 'let on', and were not going to answer other Abers who were asking for help with this clue ....

kind of a 'sicko' approach from the 'don't tell brigade.

I just wonder if they 'took' other answers from AB .....

I simply don't agree with your approach QuizmasterG .... this is an 'answer site' .... nor with your petty opening sarcasm .....

[taize]

and the irony is that I am not even doing this puzzle .... just found the continual asking for help with this clue a challenge, and decided that I would try to work it out .....

:-)

[QuizmasterG]

Taize

It was a cry of anguish, not sarcasm.
To say you are not even doing this quiz is even worse.

There have been several posts in the last week or so from charity quizsetters who are thinking of giving up altogether because of lazy people posting stacks of questions from quizzes on AB hoping to benefit from good intentioned people like yourself.

If you like a challenge, why not send off for a quiz and give it a go - there are stacks to choose from - spend hours looking for / working out answers and then realise entrants are sitting back and gathering all they need from Answerbank.

If you like giving people answers that's fine, but spare a thought for others - this question has been bouncing around for weeks so it should have been fairly obvious that it was a potentially quiz-winning one!

Try going to your local pub quiz, stand at the back and shout all the answers out for all to hear and then see what kind of reaction you get - don't encourage the lazy!

[taize]

whatever it was .... some Abers are against giving SOME answers, but happy to give others ..... just so long as a 'tie-breaker' is held back to the satisfaction of large egos ................

as I say, I don't buy into egos using the site to fit their purpose, but then 'sitting on high' by not giving an answer to a harder question ....... if you are an ABer, then you join the site to give answers and help others to gain knowledge.

who was it that said - information is power ..... being a QuizMASTER makes a statement .....

to pick and chose and deliberately hold back is hypocrisy ..... to go on, as some do, to 'bully' other ABers by intimidating with 'high-brow' comment doesnt cut the mustard with me and I shall continue to give answers where I can.

'to say you are not even doing this quiz is even worse' these words speak volumes ....... I joined AB to give answers, to improve my own knowledge and learning - this will never be limited only to quizzes that I am doing.

[taize]

oh and the pub analogy doesnt work .....

that is a quiz without the ability to reseach and look for answers - you and your teammates

that is not the case with quizzes where answers are googled for, posted onto AB, asked around for in such places as libraries etc, friends and workmates asked,, relatives, neighbours etc etc

[QuizmasterG]

You missed the point about the CHARITY quizsetters giving up in despair !

[Aquagility]

I wish it were possible to get half a dozen AB greybeards together to draw up a Code of Practice.

But without teeth, it would be meaningless.

[QuizmasterG]

T- The pub quiz analogy was about the reaction to shouting out answers not researching them.

A - Codes of practice only work if people stick to them. They never seemed to work in the banking industry so they are unlikely to be adhered to on a question and answer site !

[taize]

the way that the Rainbow Charity does it is to charge people when a 'completed' puzzle is sent in .... perhaps, that should be taken a look at by other charities?

set your quiz/puzzle up for electronic downloading ..... why do other charities keep sending out their quizzes --- all that administration, printing, paper, postage, etc cost?

AB is not the only forum where puzzlers ask for help ..... there are so many now and, if you pay, there are organisations now that will 'guarantee' finding an answer for you ..... the world has changed (and do not assume that I mean for the better)