ESOC history quiz

[tabben]

@tabben wtf?

hah ya bit yikes ngl, was lil' tired taking the quiz - felt like 5am or smth tho some big forum lurkers scoring shit as well so that makes me feel better

[Dolan]

I'm firmly plugged in the centre of it

[Goodspeed]

@iNcog 17/24

[rsy]

@GKShaman lol

[Challenger_Marco]

GkShaman is the real Gigachad

[Le Hussard sur le toit]

I'll have to do better next time I guess. Got the goodspeed question right though.

[callentournies]

Anyone scoring under 9 points is reassigned to ESOC education camp. Anyone scoring above 19 is figuratively guillotined for cheating.

[GKShaman]

Super happy I don't know all this past drama. @Squamiger is 100% right.

Less ESOC Forums -> Better Life.

[fightinfrenchman]

Super happy I don't know all this past drama. @Squamiger is 100% right.

Less ESOC Forums -> Better Life.

Low scoring cope

[Mr_Bramboy]

This confirms the leading passi theory

[iNcog]

When do we get to discuss answers to the quiz because I had doubts in the answers to a few questions that I'm curious about

[evilcheadar]

Based Cringe. Grilled Cheese tbh ngl

[InsectPoison]

wtf i scored shit. this is a conspiracy!! still #modtheear

[fightinfrenchman]

wtf i scored shit. this is a conspiracy!! still #modtheear

Let's get that going tbh

[callentournies]

need ear to become mod so I can start parodying some trump speeches w/ESOC lingo

[Goodspeed]

@MCJim 11/24
@pasr 8/24
@robo 8/24
@SongOfStorm 3/24
@p0cA 10/24
@jesus3 9/24
@dicktator_ 19/24
@gibson 18/24

[robo]

Huzzah aoe2 pleb isnt the lowest score

[Goodspeed]

Since there hasn't been a submission for >24 hours, the quiz is closed! Congrats to n0el and duck, getting 20/24 points which is impressive, I didn't expect scores to get that high.

Answers and stats

Who initially created the eso-community.net forum, in what year, and for what purpose? (3p) (1 point for each subquestion)
Who: Stanley_Winston/Amhaye/Ward
Year: 2015
Purpose: 2 acceptable answers: To host (a) tournament(s), and/or for the mac community

17/44 got the full 3 points for this one.

Which ESOC member was often painted as a dictator of the site by certain members? (1p)
H2O

27/44 got this one right. Other answers submitted more than once were Mr_Bramboy (4), Zoi (3), n0el (2) and Garja (2)

Fill in the blank: The [blank] crew had frequent altercations with moderators in ESOC's earlier years (1p)
basement

31/44 got this right

What is the single demand of the #modtheear movement? (1p)
To make fightinfrenchman a moderator

Amazingly, 6 people managed to get this one wrong. With 38/44 getting it right, it's tied with the Bernie Sanders fan question for easiest question on the quiz.

Which forum member holds the record of most AoE3 betting event victories? (1p)
Zoi/zoom

19/44 got this right

Which of these members were at some point moderating ESOC? (3p) (one point subtracted from the 3 for each missing selection and for each wrong one)
Garja
fightinfrenchman
Kaiserklein
Dolan
gibson
RefluxSemantic
princeofcarthage

(princeofcarthage and Dolan weren't official moderators, but did moderate the forums when they were on staff)



Between which two players was the final of the AoE3 LAN tournament in Manchester? (1p)
LordRaphael and diarouga

36/44 got this right

What is the second largest thread on ESOC as of June 2022? (1p)
The COVID thread (~350 pages)

Only 5/44 got this right, making it the hardest question on the quiz. Other common guesses included the US politics megathread (which is the largest at ~1200 pages), the memes thread (~150 pages), freetalk friday (~150 pages), and the european politics thread (~220 pages).

What is the highest member rank on ESOC, unlocked upon reaching 10000 posts? (1p)
Ninja

23/44 got this right

In what city was the first ESOC meetup? (1p)
Chicago

20/44 got this right. 6 guessed Amsterdam, which was the second meetup, and 5 guessed Manchester

Which Norwegian forum member is an outspoken fan of Bernie Sanders? (1p)
iwillspankyou

38/44 got this right. Tied with the #modtheear question for easiest question on the quiz.

Under what username did iNcog create a new identity on ESOC? (1p)
kami_ryu

23/44 got this right

What game has Goodspeed been trying to convince everyone to play since ESOC's inception? (1p)
Go

34/44 got this right. Embarrassingly for me, 10 of you apparently didn't know this. I should double my efforts. 5 answered Chess which is blasphemy

The first ESOC couple was a romance between people of which two nationalities? (1p)
French and German

20/44 got this right. Many seem to have forgotten or never knew about Kaiserklein and QueenOfDestiny. The most common answer, barely edging out the correct answer, was American and Dutch (21/44).

Which forum member started the "ESOC crypto corner" thread? (1p)
Snuden

14/44 got this right

Which one of these members has NOT posted an apology thread as of June 14 2022? (1p)
SomppuKunkku
Hazza54321
SirCallen
fightinfrenchman
gibson



Who is the messiah of ESOC's unofficial religion? (1p)
Garja

Only 26/44 got this right. Spread the gospel!

Which ESOC member was alleged to be the founder of ISIS? (1p)
Jerom/momuu/RefluxSemantic

21/44 got this right

Describe in ~50 words what happened during the infamous "liebe" (2p) (below is duck's answer, which I thought was most concise)

Doctor dee one cee kay, boobs brigade, Gustav, cheddar, and the ear went to wildwood. The latter three were (allegedly) too loud at night, so doctor dee one cee Kay and boobs brigade left the hotel in the morning before the trip ended and demanded that the core basement posters pay for the hotel costs (they are thus commonly referred to as "the extortionists"

I think somewhere around 15-20 got the full points for this one, but I can't be bothered to read all of the answers again to verify. Interestingly though, both basement members who took the quiz got it wrong:
fightinfrenchman answered: I don't think I could even condense it to 500 words
evilcheadar answered: 4 friends had two shots and walked the boardwalk, what happened after would change history

[dicktator_]

I didn't know one of the easiest questions haha (the Bernie Sanders one). To be fair, I never followed any of the politics threads.

[somp]

Did Zoi really have 3 betting victories or its fake news?

[Goodspeed]

He won 3 for sure, maybe even 4 I don't remember

[Challenger_Marco]

"kami_ryu" I couldn't remember his alt name while filling but i lost 6 points how did i end up with 17? did you cut points for giving more than 1 ans? I would have given first ans right followed by the second best answer.
My score needs to be re-evaluated i should get 18/24 and if i remembered kami_ryu ez 19

[Goodspeed]

You missed:
- Betting victories (1p)
- Dolan in the mod question (1p)
- 2nd largest thread (1p)
- kami_ryu (1p)
- Founder of ISIS (1p)
- Liebe question (2p)

I think you're forgetting the liebe question was for 2 points.

[EAGLEMUT]

Wait princeofcarthage moderated the forums? I don't remember this.

LordRaphael and diarouga

36/44 got this right

Embarrassingly got this wrong, despite being there in person

[Goodspeed]

@princeofcarthage