OrbiQuiz 2.0!

Kaito

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Hello everyone!
Now that school has started, I have free time once again! Scary thought, I know. Anyway, I'm on the Orbiter IRC for an incredible amount of hours each day, and I sat there one day thinking "Hm, we haven't had an OrbiQuiz in a while...I should prepare one!".

So here I am, the preparations for OrbiQuiz 2.0. For those of you unfamiliar with OrbiQuiz, here are the rules:
1) OrbiQuiz is played in the Orbiter IRC
2) I will ask a question, and the first one to answer gets 2 points. The 2nd person to answer gets 1 point. The reason for this is so that, if you are ninja'd, you dont completely lose out.
3) Once I run out of questions, the quiz ends
4) The person who supplied the question cannot answer.
5) If the question is not answered in a 15 second hard limit, the person who supplied that question gets a point.
6) The person with the most amount of points at the end wins bragging rights, and possibly a 2-point head-start for the next quiz.
That's it. The deadline for this quiz is 23:59 on October 31st (I made a bet with Gary). So, if everyone could please PM me (don't post them in here...questions posted in here will not be used) questions, I would be happy to organize and collect them.

I am setting the tentative time for this quiz:

WHEN:Saturday, October 22nd at 20:00 UTC.

If this conflicts with anyone, please make a post here, and I will try to adjust the time to allow the most people on at once. Please note that this date and time will adjust regularly, and I will keep an updated notice on this first post. I will also attempt to get the IRC ops to "reserve the channel", so to speak, just for the OrbiQuiz.

Acceptable question content:
-Anything pertaining to Space(Astronomy, physics, the like) or Orbiter
-Things the common person COULD know, but may not necessarily know right now
-Nothing requiring advanced mathematical knowledge

Acceptable questions: Who is the creator of Orbiter? What does Delta-V mean? Name the rocket that carried Explorer 1, the first US satellite. Name the Orbital Period of Jupiter.
Unacceptable question: If Jupiter and Earth are on opposite sides of the sun, and the sun just ejected a solar flare at 30 degrees relative to Earth, give the force, in newtons, that Jupiter exerts on the earth
Thank you,
~Kaito
 
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Can someone give me a link to the IRC
 
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UPDATE!

I don't have that many questions, so please send me some! I can gather a few from text books, but those aren't as interesting!

Also, it has been suggested to me to push forward the time by several hours, just for inclusion. So, I am pushing the start time 20:00 UTC. I hope this works out better for some.

Hurry and send in those questions, there's only 12 days left!
 
QUIZ RESULTS!
My apologies for the delay, I've had an unusually busy weekend. The quiz went well for my first run, even though I only had about 30 questions. Thank you to all who submitted questions, as this would not have been as exciting without them.

First place goes to Lunar_Lander, with 28 points
Second place goes to garyw, with 27 points
Third place goes to T.Neo, with 20 points

Thank you to all who participated, and we hope to see more of you at the next quiz!
 
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