Okay, this is all getting too silly now. I've just taken today's quiz, and found the questions were an even mixture of Philippines and Dundee United, and the problem I thought I'd cured seems to now be worse. I was about to change it all back to the old set of questions when I noticed Diane has now also taken the quiz, and so that wouldn't be fair on her, so they stay the way they are for today at least.
Sorry, Malky, but if you think that firing off the answers quicker than any better a test of the player's skill than the past few days, I have to disagree. As you yourself have pointed out in your occasional in-depth analysis of our little fun quiz, even if you know the answer to every question in an instant, your time can be affected by the equipment you're using, the vagaries of the Internet itself, or even distractions from within your own environment.
It is also quite possible to 'learn' almost every answer to a particular category, by spending inordinate amounts of time 'practising' the quiz on the quiz site - as we all know (those who do the quiz regularly) questions are finite, and often repeated. Eventually, you could get to the stage where speed is the only real issue, and I suspect that may be the case with Angela's parakeet since it has almost certainly joined the quiz having looked for 'similar quizzes' on the site, and knows absolutely zip about Beau Peep. In such cases, it ceases to become a lottery and instead becomes a certainty that one player will win every time. For me, a lottery is more fun than that any day (I don't expect a ManU/Celtic fan to necessarily understand that point of view, of course). It's not cheating, but it is a little frustrating, not to say boring, for those who like to play as a fun extension of our happy little club, albeit a competitive one. Varying the questions so that it isn't the same category each time appears to combat that scenario quite well.
Anyway, as I said - I'm happy to have done my stint now. Who wants the reins? Malc?
