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On 5ch’s Newsspeed VIP board, a quiz thread that ran for five consecutive nights during Japan’s Silver Week holiday reached its final night on Tuesday evening. The quizmaster fired off buzzer-style questions spanning genres from horse racing history to voice actors, geography, anime, and weather records, with posters racing to answer first. Late in the session, a bonus event called the “Autumn Equinox Special” — 27 additional buzzer questions — was added, run as a separate ranked-scoring competition apart from the regular rounds. Exchanges about record-breaking rainfall and “combined kanji” trivia kept the trivia buffs buzzing throughout.
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◯ One answer attempt per person, 30-second time limit
◯ Silent symbols can be omitted
Extra characters count as a wrong answer ("×")
※ For now, when answering with half-width numbers, adding one unread symbol is allowed
◯ Names: full name required for people from kanji-culture-sphere countries,
surname only is generally fine for everyone else
◯ Unless stated otherwise, answering in hiragana is fine
Kana OK for: "What is it in kanji?" / "What's the English word?"
"Answer in 3 kanji characters" etc.
Kana NOT OK for: "《 Specify: kanji 》"
"Please answer in 3 kanji characters." etc.
She's herself a fan of the Hanshin Tigers, and
is scheduled to hold her first-ever solo-artist concert
at Hanshin Koshien Stadium
on September 22 this year.
Who is this female voice actress/singer?
Nana Mizuki
(Mizuki Nana)
No correct answer (pass)
◎【 Names 】
《Kanji-culture-sphere》: full name required
(Exception) the "given name" part of a sumo ring name may be omitted
《Everyone else》: family name only is fine
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Fukushima Racecourse marked its 100th anniversary this year.
Back in the Taisho era, the
Fujieda Racing Club sold it its
officially sanctioned racing rights —
which 【 prefecture 】 was it located in?
Shizuoka Prefecture
※ Fujieda Town, Shida District, Shizuoka Prefecture → present-day Fujieda City, Shizuoka
Re: #8 Correct
◎【 Place Names 】
《Country names》: the proper-noun part (common name) is fine
(e.g.) Japan, China, Korea, USA, UK, etc.
《Prefecture names》: the "-to," "-fu," and "-ken" suffixes may be omitted
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This is a 【 Wikipedia fill-in-the-blank quiz 】.
Which South American country goes in the blank?
Horse racing is usually run by bodies like jockey clubs, and
state-run racing is almost unheard of in world racing history.
Examples of state-run racing include Japan from the late 1940s
through the mid-1950s, and 【 blank 】 under the Juan Perón government.
Argentina
Re: #8 Correct
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In 2018, a horse that had transferred to regional racing
won the Summer Champion (JpnIII).
Part of that horse's name comes from an
English word for a person or thing that maintains balance —
what is that 【 word 】?
Balancer
(balancer)
※ Eishin Balancer
No correct answer (pass)
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A horse that won the 2018 UAE Derby by a dominant
18-and-a-half lengths also carries the name of this composer —
who left behind works like
"A Midsummer Night's Dream," "The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave),"
and "Songs Without Words,"
and is 【 who 】, a musician of the German Romantic era?
Felix Mendelssohn
(Felix Mendelssohn)
05/17/15, "Petit ☆ Maniacs" ◆A2MBAb77Sc — heavily reworked
No correct answer (pass)
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This is a 【 headline quiz 】.
What (part of a) religion's name goes in the blank, as "【 blank 】-kyo"?
[07/06/18 – Gambling Journal]
JRA trainer Katsuhiko Kakui arrested — "retirement" looming? "Set to take over 【 blank 】-kyo"
Group due to dissolve in 2021, but the indefensible scandal has tarnished the twilight of his career
Tenrikyo
(Tenrikyō)
Re: #20 Correct
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A race once titled the "All-Japan Arabian Derby"
is set to be revived for the first time in six years.
This race's name includes a plant that, besides being
the official "prefectural tree" of Hyogo Prefecture
(home to Sonoda Racecourse), is also designated
the prefectural tree in Saga, Kumamoto, and Kagoshima.
What 【 plant 】 is it?
Enix Corporation
No correct answer (pass)
Hudson's popular too, but yeah, impressive
Re: #32 Gives me "The Convenience Store" vibes
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371.9mm
※ Way ahead of 2nd place, 278.3mm from 1938
※ Even the 9th-highest all-time, from the 2019 Typhoon Hagibis (No. 19), was only 209.5mm
Re: #47 Correct
Re: #49
I mostly remember it from the
Music Fighter days
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Shūbun (the Autumnal Equinox)
Re: #53 Correct
Re: #54 Thanks for being so polite about it lol
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The Ryuo's Work Is Never Done!
Re: #59-60 Since it's a free-for-all
Re: #58 A deliberate pick lol
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Akasaka
Re: #69 Correct
Re: #71 Wouldn't that count too though lol
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Volleyball
Re: #80 Correct
Here it comes!
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【 Quizmaster 】: Rx ◆IRC1/LAAAk
【 Rules 】
◎ Buzzer quiz: 27 questions (9 questions × 3 sets)
◎ Scoring: 1st place: 3pt, 2nd place: 2pt, 3rd-4th place: 1pt
Rules: Re: #134
【 Answer 】
115 years old
※ From the Wikipedia article on "centenarians"
【 Ruling 】
No correct answer (pass)
Re: #142 You got that far — so close!
Rules: Re: #134
【 Answer 】
Aiko Sato
(Satō Aiko)
【 Ruling 】
3pt: Re: #147
2pt: Re: #149
Re: #150
Odd thing to say as the one who wrote the question, but I totally get the feeling
Rules: Re: #134
【 Answer 】
Tango
(Tango)
【 Ruling 】
3pt: Re: #157
Isn't Kyotanabe more in the southern part of Kyoto Prefecture than the north?
Well, I guess that's what makes it valuable
(haven't looked into it in detail though)
My sense is low food additives and low salt are good. Also vegetables
Exactly right, combine it! (sora-mimi — a sound-alike pun)
Background and Key Points
Buzzer-style play is a tradition in VIP’s quiz threads, and rules like “one answer attempt per person, 30-second time limit” get posted at the top of every session. Questions are often pulled from a database of past rounds the quizmasters have compiled, and this time was no exception — several, like ones from the “09/22/18 Horse Racing Grand Prix,” were repeat appearances. This particular run was held over five consecutive nights to coincide with Silver Week, with Tuesday marking the final night. Added late in the session, the “Autumn Equinox Special” split 27 buzzer questions into three sets and awarded points to the top four finishers, running as a separate event independent of the regular quiz portion. This two-track structure can be confusing to first-time readers, but the thread itself saw no conflict or controversy — it stayed a relaxed, friendly exchange of trivia from start to finish.
※ This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Newsspeed VIP) thread “[Final Night of a 5-Night Run] Tuesday Night Quiz Thread [Silver Week Special].”
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