Introduction
With Christmas, New Year and the Holiday Season, it’s a fun time of year and to go with these fun times, we’ve had a number of challenges like the recent Community Challenge on Google Maps and if you haven’t yet seen it, there’s the Play Guiding Stars Trivia that’s on now until January 31. Well I thought I’d jump in with a trivia/challenge of my own
Background
I’ve always admired some of the gifs included in the signatures of a number of Local Guides here on Connect and, as I’ve mentioned several times now, the one that I’ve always thought as being the best is that by fellow Connect Moderator @OmerAli . I think it’s clever, well executed and with very few words, tells you a lot about him being a Local Guide. Well done Omer!
Your Challenge, should you accept it!
Well Omer’s brilliant gif gave me the inspiration to add an animated gif of my own to my signature which I added just today to dovetail in with the posting earlier today of the Top 100 Local Guides in each Country post, which is the very first Top100 leaderboards post for 2023! You’ll see the gif in my signature below and as you can see it has pictures of 9 different people. They are all Local Guides like you and me here on Connect! So back to the trivia. Your challenge is to name these Local Guides in a list numbered 1 to 9.
Now realizing that the gif is animated and so the faces are whizzing past, and not wanting anyone to be disadvantaged, I’ve added the faces in the cover image of this post. Yes I know there’s 180 faces in the cover image but they are only of 9 different people and yes, not meaning to confuse you, sometimes the duplicates are facing right and at other times they are facing left…yes and some are not so right and not so left…come on I just wanted to throw in a few curve balls, add some extra difficulty and make this a little more fun and interesting
The Rules & Conditions of Entry
Well it’s all very simple really. As shown in rules #1 and #2 below, it’s a two-part trivia. The first part is compulsory and the second is optional for the brightest ones to work out and thereby earn extra kudos
- Add a list numbered 1 to 9 with your guesses for each person’s name in a comment here. To avoid annoying Local Guides with repeated pings, do not tag them, just add the names of your guesses.
- As well as your guesses as to the names of the Local Guides, what double entendre have I deliberately added in my new signature! You must send this answer to me privately using this link and not add this here in your comment together with your answers of your face guesses to part #1!
- If you’re one of the Local Guides whose picture is on the gif then your entry must be by private
treatymessage; use this link. - Entries close midnight January 31 (AESDT)
- No badges, just kudos for correct entries and extra kudos for correct answers to part #2, But get both right and if you’re a leaderboard participant you get 2 months bonus VIP Lounge access
- Only one entry and no editing of your entry is allowed after posting [ screenshots will be taken
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- Entries of anyone caught cheating, like copying someone else’s answers or colluding will not be counted and lead to your instant disqualification
- These rules can change at any time!
- The judge’s (moi’s) decision is final.
Note:
(a) If you want to be one of the “face” participants in The Name Game, you must by a participant on the Top 100 Leaderboards (hint, hint). Here is the pre-requisite entry form link that may get your face on the next Name Game
(b) This was all done to give me a break from the tedious mind breaking work in preparing the Top 100 leaderboards involving lots of numbers, complex spreadsheets and thousands of lines of HTML coding (you can read about this here)
Enjoy!
A Summary of the Winners and Losers
Firstly, please make sure that you have read the slightly modified rules and conditions of entry, highlighted in color but do let me know if you’re color blind
As well as in the comments of this post, a summary of running commentary will be shown in the table below and will be finalized and locked in when this month’s winners and losers are announced soon after midnight on January 31 (AESDT).
Local Guide | Comment | Answered #2 |
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@OmerAli | It’s 9 man not 8 | - |
@JustJake | Haha you’re to funny Jake. | - |
@Cecilita | Too funny you say Ceilita! You should see it from my side of the fence lol. | - |
@Mikeinthefalls | I can see that you like to give things a lot of thought before jumping in Mike. A good strategy ![]() ![]() |
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@SholaIB | It’s nice to see that you’re always in for a bit a fun Shola | ![]() |
@TerryPG | A calculated guess or was there some collusion here…Make sure you understand the consequences of breaking rule #7 Terry… ![]() |
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@SoniaK | Nice try Sonia you… ![]() |
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@HUMVILA | Oh have a go Humberto just do not copy anyone else’s answers… ![]() |
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@Trail_blazer | So you think most of the LGs are very familiar and popular. Well take note, this is the first round of The Name Game, kept simple just to suck you all in…stay tuned for next month’s… | - |
@AZ_2021 | Nice digging AZ_2021 and really great you had a shot at the double entendre, a great one too… | ![]() |
@Stephanie_OWL | A very nice presentation of your answer to part 1 Steph and I must add, like AZ_2001, it’s fantastic that you had a go at the double entendre, and a great one too… | ![]() |
@EvaBar | Yes the faces should be familiar. I don’t understand why the order required would be confusing lol… | . |
@you | ? | - |