Can you name the 21st century events shown in these pictures? by lupin

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21st Century Picture Quiz

by lupin

Created Jan 6, 2010 in History
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	imclala:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 19:02 GMT	11 points
	Agreed, it should accept Human Genome, as well as "Hudson plane crash" or any number of other answers.

	trivial:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 19:31 GMT	7 points
	How about accept "Hussein captured?"

	lupin:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 19:46 GMT	3 points
	I discovered that there's only so many alternate answers that Sporcle will accept. Tried to put the most obvious keywords in. So it accepts Human Genome Project and Hudson River Plane Crash, etc. Any additions will require something to be dropped. We can't have an infinite number of alternates, unfortunately. Thanks for playing/commenting though.

	lupin:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 19:49 GMT	1 point
	@iceman1731: Definitely Colombia.

	lupin:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 19:54 GMT	1 point
	@trivial: It accepts both Saddam Hussein Captured and Saddam Captured. Saddam was his family name so that's more appropriate than Hussein Captured I think. As I say, there's a limit on alternate answers, so not everything can make the cut.

	tigerschick:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 21:40 GMT	0 points
	Good spread of questions. I can't believe I missed foot and mouth - it nearly scuppered my wedding!! I know that you can't put every possible answer but I tried every combination I could think of for the concord crash in Paris and none were accepted :o(

	Golden:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 21:43 GMT	-2 points
	I was saying 'mad cow disease' for foot and mouth. Were they different? Gosh - shows how much I know.

	lupin:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 21:46 GMT	2 points
	tigerschick: Maybe you were missing the 'e' from the end of concorde

	dan144556:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 21:48 GMT	-1 points
	Accept just "Columbia" and "Concorde".

	lupin:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 21:54 GMT	6 points
	@dan144556: Only if you say "please".

	tigerschick:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 21:57 GMT	2 points
	lupin - I deliberately tried it both ways, sorry. I also tried many, many combinations for the Columbia shuttle one.

	ctbrainiacs:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 22:02 GMT	2 points
	For some clues, it accepts an almost laughable one-word clue (Obama, for instance), so why not accept pared-down answers for all the others? 'Plane lands safely on Hudson' or 'Sullenberger lands plane on Hudson' should prove that I know what I'm talking about. Same for 'human genome mapped' and 'chinese earthquake' and 'shuttle columbia explodes'. This was fun but soooooooo frustrating!

	lupin:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 22:08 GMT	1 point
	@ctbrainiacs: Here's what it accepts for the Hudson event: "US Airways Flight 1549 ditched in the Hudson River, 2009/US Airways Flight 1549/Hudson Plane Crash/Hudson River Crash/Hudson River Plane Crash/Hudson River Landing/Hudson River ditching" - that's about the limit for what Sporcle will accept. What should be chaged? Bear in mind, if you put something new in, an existing answer will have to come out... It's pretty much the same situation with the others you mention. If I put your keywords in, others will come out and I'll be in a perpetual loop changing words depending on what recent users are saying.

	Anonymous42:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 22:28 GMT	2 points
	For the Hudson River Crash, I would suggest accepting "Miracle on the Hudson," as it has been repeatedly referred to as that in the media. If you must take out another alternative, I would recommend eliminating either "Hudson River ditching," since I haven't heard it referred to as a "ditching" at all, or "Hudson Plane Crash," because, despite imclala's wishes, I think it's reasonable to expect the user to type in "River" also. If you decide to keep your original answers, that's fine; it's just a suggestion.

	jimmyrickards:	Jan 7th, 2010 at 00:47 GMT	6 points
	@lupin: I realize there is only a certain amount of space for accepted answers, so perhaps you could utilize bonus answers. Just make a "bonus" answer that's activated by any of the other variations people have tried, and make the bonus say what to type in to get credit for the answer. Not ideal, but probably better than having people get frustrated because they added or forgot one word.

	lupin:	Jan 7th, 2010 at 01:07 GMT	1 point
	@Anonymous42: Thank you for your well reasoned suggestion. I have added 'Miracle..' @jimmyrickards: Hmmm not a bad idea... I'll have a think about that.

	Anonymous42:	Jan 7th, 2010 at 01:38 GMT	3 points
	@jimmyrickards: You know, I was actually thinking about suggesting a similar idea; since you beat me to the punch, I'll go ahead and second your suggestion.

	huey782:	Jan 7th, 2010 at 12:21 GMT	3 points
	LHC, please.

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Jan 7th, 2010 at 12:49 GMT

8 points

Whoops I thought #7 was the end of Santa Claus! :( Then I realised that he wasn't real(ly dead) and he din't have a staff. Or lived in the Vatican.

	moog:	Jan 7th, 2010 at 14:18 GMT	2 points
	Another great quiz - didn't get them all though :(

	lupin:	Jan 7th, 2010 at 17:37 GMT	0 points
	@jimmyrickards, @Anonymous42: I tested your bonus answer suggestion but I don't think it's workable. For example, if someone was intending to type 'Concorde crash', which would give them the answer we're looking for, if I accepted just 'Concorde' as a bonus answer, they wouldn't get the answer correct, as the bonus would appear and they'd lose what they were entering. Am I missing something?

	jimmyrickards:	Jan 7th, 2010 at 22:58 GMT	2 points
	@lupin: Well, you'll have to decide how lenient you want to be with the answers. Obviously if you accept 'Concorde' then there's no point having 'Concorde crash' as an acceptable answer (unless you want to satisfy those extremely fast typists). What I had in mind is say someone enters 'plane lands on Hudson River', then a bonus will pop up that reads "Please enter: 'Hudson River Crash'". So the quiz taker enters that and gets credit for the answer. Like I said, definitely not ideal, but it's the only solution I can think of.

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	wolfe35:	Jan 8th, 2010 at 17:12 GMT	1 point
	the answers need to be more accepting, i said Chinese earthquakes but it didn't work

	Anonymous42:	Jan 8th, 2010 at 18:44 GMT	8 points
	@all of the above 4 comments: Please read the other comments before commenting. Or at least put your own comments in context.

	jayrodss7:	Jan 15th, 2010 at 16:10 GMT	-2 points
	good quiz, i would say to accept "hudson river" or "plane lands in hudson river" and "super collider" the rest are good

	Fidelio:	Jan 20th, 2010 at 12:02 GMT	-4 points
	Just the word "Hudson" should be enough for the Hudson River plane crash - problem solved.

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	jefe_:	Apr 21st, 2010 at 01:02 GMT	-1 points
	I tried about a dozen versions of "Sully lands in Hudson" and "geese bring down plane." How about Hudson/geese/Sully/Sullenberger?

	random_cloud:	Apr 27th, 2010 at 12:29 GMT	1 point
	i tried lots of combinations for concorde and also hudson river crashes/landings and they didn't work. but just typing in euro, dna and obama worked.

	sabresfan:	May 2nd, 2010 at 20:25 GMT	5 points
	CERN for Large Hadron Collider?

	disseminator:	May 4th, 2010 at 14:08 GMT	1 point
	Green Revolution in Iran would make a lot of sense here, great quiz though.

	msteele13:	May 5th, 2010 at 21:43 GMT	3 points
	TOO U.S CENTRIC!!!!!! no, good quiz, RIP victims of all these bad events, especially 9/11