king of research - season 2

Goldfrapp - Tales of Us

Moodles, that counts.

yessssss

Microdisney-Crooked Mile

There are a lot of entrants this time around.

Deadline is end of Wednesday!

*bump for any late entrants*

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Nanda Collection

Round is closed! Thank you emil.y for kind bump at the end.

Good that so many want to be king!

Ailsa
Noodle Vague
Johnny Crunch
Conrad
Lex
Trayce
Blandford
Mordy
Emil.y
Fizzles
Eyeball Kicks
Moodles
JBN
Oystein
Merdeyeux
Neil S
Abanana
Anatol_M
eephus
Sunny Successor
Milo
Z S
bends
ShariVari

Did I miss anyone? New round, divisions tomorrow morning.

God, I've just read through the first king of research thread (I'd only looked at the first couple of questions on it before now), and I wasn't exactly confident about my chances to begin with, but I would like it put on the record that I am not expecting to do very well at this, just in case I look hubristic when I got knocked out in the first round.

Still want to take part though, to be clear.

wait how is wednesday ended?

http://www.musicstack.com/item/75480191

I have no confidence in my abilities either but I think I'll go hard with the hubris anyway. I'm gonna walk this thing.

wait how is wednesday ended?

― zvookster, Thursday, September 12, 2013 3:08 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait how is wednesday ended?

― zvookster, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 21:08 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think the quiz-runner gets to set what time zone the quiz is in, imperialist schweinhund.

http://elasticwitch.bigcartel.com/product/chelsea-wolfe-pain-is-beauty-lp
http://elasticwitch.bigcartel.com/product/belle-and-sebastian-the-third-eye-centre-lp

but i have bonus beats!

Oh, have you not been enrolled? For some reason I thought you were just being a US pedant. Maybe Maps will let you in if he (?) sees yr entry before sorting the divisions?

everybody knows that the World Research Clock is set to GMT, jeez.

o i thought u were getting started early on being competitive. "that's the spirit", i wuz thinkin xp

I don't mind more people joining in, I'll take all comers.

I'm ready to rumble (out of the first round thru lack of research skills/forgetting to chek thred)

Zvookster, you are in, as riderless horse.

Round 1
Next round is picture round! Last time this was a big squabble, so I will try to be precise.

In this round you must find a picture of a man. He has a beard (deliberate hair below lips) and he is wearing glasses. He is not head of any state!

Also in the photo, there is a head of state.

Head of state can be repeat used by other poster, but bearded man must be original.

If every contestant finds a photo, beard with least hair - out!

Please post link to image, not image itself! Thread must load quickly. Deadline is end Friday!

C. Everett Koop and Ronald Reagan

http://www.traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/Images/089_RabbiLecturing.jpg

poles apart is the hilarious caption i have for this - Pope John Paul II (head of state of the vatican city) and Pinchas Menachem Joskowicz, one time chief rabbi of the polish.

beard with least hair - out!

i foresee contention

(there's already contention with me, feeling slightly insane peering at GISed bearded men and trying to decided whose is bigger)

metropolitan filaret of minsk and president alexander lukashenko of belarus

gah I am getting some effed up GIS searches for shit like "queen with bearded man"and "tony blair moustache championships" and so on. GOod god.

yeah me too xpost.

squinting at rabbis saying NO, you're out, your beard is not long enough.

Ahshit, forgot the glasses rule!

Oliver Sacks and the Queen:

http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/PA-6593662.jpg
http://www.anorak.co.uk/362129/news/oliver-sacks-old-age-is-a-time-of-freedom-and-exploration.html/

(its ok her back is to camera right? I mean its obvious its the queen)

ah fuck so did I. King Fizzles the Shit of Research.

That Koop beard'll be hard to beat :/

Shit sorry about posting the img, didnt see that bit.

Koop beard's already been beaten imo

Sorry scratch that here's a better one:

Obama and Rabbi Israel Mier
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/03/22/lebanon-hezbollah-idINDEE92L05P20130322

So tempted to post a picture of the President of Finland with a man dressed as Father Christmas but am choosing to interpret the requirement as real beards.

I think lex's beardyman is a touch longer than mine. THis *is* going to be contentious I reckon!

Former head of state (Vatican) Joseph Ratzinger with Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople

OK thats 2 pics now with hands over the end of the beard. Heh.

Does the head of state have to have been head of state at the time the photo was taken, or can it be someone who later became head of state/former head of state?

Sardar Swaran Singh, Minster for External Affairs, and take your pick from Zulfiqur Ali Bhutto or Indira Ghandi.

Disappointingly trimmed.

I think I've found one anyway, ayatollah khomeini with hussein ali montazeri

http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/assets_c/2009/12/montazeri+khomeini-thumb-160xauto-1239.jpg

took me ages to find out who the Sardar was, he's always pictured standing behind Benazir, so I thought he was a man-in-waiting or something. xpost

Rules:

1) Head of state must be current at time of photo. So far, I think all are good, but helpful to give citation if head for a short time.
2) Candidate must identify man with beard (so far all have, no problem)

Oh, I've found a better one: Barack Obama and Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_Greek_Orthodox_Ecumenical_Patriarch_Bartholomew_I_crop.jpg

Sorry, meant to ask: if we've already submitted an entry, but find another dude with MOAR BEARD are we allowed to post that as well, to shore up our position?
(Sorry for all the questions)

bendis, beard claimed already!

yes, subsequent posting allowed up to deadline, if improves the entry.

Well done lex. This was all great fun.

Sneaking Lex from the shadows was a great drama, because in previous competition semi-final he had winning entry, and held it for the last second, only for JayMC to steal it away! Great to see redemption for map of Arabia.

Once again, thank you to all competitors, and see you for Season 3!

(If any - watchers or candidates - have any final feedback/suggestions for questions etc, please let me know, so I can do better next time!)

i didn't intend to hold it for the last minute - just hadn't found any winning entry by fri afternoon and had no research time til sun evening!

do any research kingz think they could find out how many people have been killed in branches of mcdonalds or as the result of violence inflicted in mcdonalds restaurants, or as the result of culpable negligence by mcdonalds employees or fellow customers?

enjoyed this a lot maps - thanks v much. impressed to the point of fear by lex's ability despite time to come up with the goods, but all the finalists made me go "ffs you BASTARD" at some point.

xpost

no.

Oh man, definitely not.

For those who were stymied by the initial encoding on the second-to-last round: the reason I recognized it so readily was because it was used a great deal on usenet/newsgroups.
Its primary function there was for hiding spoilers etc. It was common enough that most clients for reading news had a shortcut built in to rotate highlighted text. (e.g. in Forte Agent you could press ctrl+3)

What makes rot-13 so useful is that it's cyclical over the 26 letters of the English alphabet. To encode/decode, you just swap each letter with the one 13 places after it in the alphabet -- starting at A again after Z. So ABBA becomes NOON becomes ABBA. For the challenge I used rot13.com.
Any symbol not in the English alphabet simply gets ignored, so my name becomes Ølfgrva.
Uh, so that's today little history lesson for those who didn't feel like looking it up after it was revealed.

it's also used to drop answers on the xword thread so I was a little surprised lex wasn't aware of it.

i've never encountered it in a crossword...

no, just used in the thread when giving an answer so it doesn't spoil it for people still solving (but might not have been used recently)

oh, i don't think it's been used recently but if it was i wouldn't have known what was going on anyway

i was genuinely surprised to find out that these codes were well-known to the point of being obvious for so many people - it does feel good that this raised my awareness of them though!

> i've never encountered it in a crossword...

then you've not been on the receiving end of one of ledge's tiny rot13 crosswords...

I... have no recollection of those!

^ old age

Damn was this great. Maps isn't on ILX anymore, right? I crave a new season of King of Research.

Yes, I often think of King of Research. Might be the most fun I've ever had on the internet.

^same

I was under the impression 'Maps' was only a King of Research persona for another ilx0r - were they a regular under that name? I bloody loved these threads.

This was loads of fun, yeah.

Amazing! This thread just obliterated my afternoon in the best way.