Well apparently the quiz is slightly more unfair than I thought, that's regarding Q1 and Q3. It kind of depends on the sources you use and I didn't double check. The people who solved it without complaining maybe found the same sources as I used.
Soooo anyway you may want to search bit deeper if an answer doesn't work. Specifically, Q1 looks actually misspelled slightly than it should be. This is pretty common misspelling so don't blame me that much :( Q3 on the other hand has a component that is never really spelled and you may find 2 versions, but again only one works.
I'm not going to change the quiz since there are solvers who managed this even without my clarification above. But generally, once you are pass the stage that you know what is the question I'm asking, digging around the answer should reveal the one I used.
I only think that Q1 is bit of a messup on my part following the mess up in my source, so sorry about that. I'm not sorry about other stuff tho and again, ppl solved Q1 anyway :]
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at least if i don't win it i can go away with being happy i solved it first :D
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I think I have to give up on this - I just don't get #5 and #6.
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Shocking revelation is shocking, indeed. Thank you for the puzzle, Award.
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First thing first: thanks for the quiz and the giveaway, Award!
Something is wrong with ITH for me. I solved the quiz, 10 answers were right, I wrote Duke Nukem for Q10 and it was wrong. Obviously nothing else was right. :) Now that the solution is up I've retried and now it's OK. I chose the previous answer from the drop down menu, so it could not have been a typo. And this is not the first time. Did anyone else meet this problem?
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The quiz.
The timer.
Read the description.
Got questions?! Reread the description.
Still got questions?! Sorry, I suggest you give it a pass.
I am fully aware this may be considered unfair, mind reading guessing game yadayadayada. Again, just give it a pass.
No sharing of answers/hints/giveaway URL! Do it yourself, on your own, or - you've guessed it! - give it a pass.
EDIT: Okay so earlier I didn't really hint the game I'm giving out but let's just say it is relevant to the quiz. That was something you should've expected/guessed, but there, I confirmed it.
Solvers: (at least) 17 solvers and 11 entries
NOTICE: Apparently the soundboard site I'm linking to doesn't work for everybody (doesn't play sounds I link). I'm getting mixed reports that works on Chrome but not on Firefox or quite the opposite. Probably it has more to do with your settings blocking the scripts, then. What can I say as much as it may be annoying to you, I am unfortunately unprofessionally washing my hands. If you can't run a browser with settings that makes it work, I think you can still figure out the track via trackid. Granted, it's not convenient. I'm too lazy and unwilling to host those tracks myself >.>
CLARIFICATION: Q1 seems more unfair than I thought, there's a common misspelling that my source has made and I sadly followed suit. Q3 on the other hand has a component that is never really spelled out and you may find 2 versions. Generally, once you are past the stage that you know what I am asking about, digging around it should prove fruitful and you eventually get the answer I used. Some folks have solved it without this clarification though, probably followed the same sources as I did.
Solution
Foreword
Wall of text with creator's commentary, because this is how I roll.
This time I explored the concept of an unfair itstoohard quiz. This could have been a simple trivia, but I introduced puzzling elements (otherwise I wouldn't have called it "a puzzle" at all).
I linked some sound clips from Duke Nukem 3D and you had to first actually figure out what am I asking. Then it would still be rather easy if I accepted some alternative answers, or even the most popular ones, but I went even more evil on that.
The soundboard apparently wasn't working for every browser or its settings, but to me stuff like that is always like a meta-puzzle, having the smarts to overcome real life adversities is a good thing.
I asked to read, and reread description, because it had important things. Generally if you could read between the lines, even the fact it could have been a simple trivia is important, because it meant that my question is a rather logical one, fitting a trivia, not something pulled out completely out of thin air.
But there were other important things, most notably that I asked to finish every answer (yes, that includes the last one as well!) with "?!" (question mark and exclamation mark). I'm following more or less suit / paying a homeage to Zlia's quizzes with that and his OCD to end every answer with a period. This is very good filter for people who can't read the details.
Another important thing was that I didn't ask for aliases (nicknames!), nor for titles (stuff like military titles.. although it was also double meaning, that I didn't ask for movie titles for instance).
The actual question
The quotes of Duke Nukem are actually, for the most part, rip offs from bad asses from many movies. Often taken quite verbatim, sometimes just referencing something more vaguely.
This is quite shocking revelation! Isn't it?! To those unaware.
So yes, what I was actually asking about was to provide the name of the person that spoken a quote that given Duke Nukem's quote is based on.
But, I was asking for no aliases or titles, basically for the full name.
Also I guess the question had a provision "using the same sources as I did". My main source was Wikiquote. Whoever used that to their advantage really had an upper hand. I didn't really double check what is written there, but if I didn't find something there, I was doing a quick web search, so could you.
One typo carried over from that source wasn't really intentional, so that was the evil people are doing on itstoohard I commited as well while not planning for it. My apologies for that one particular typo on Q1.
I do not apologize for the rest though, still completely intended :D I never pretended this was easy or fair, on the contrary!
The answers
Marcellus Wallace
John McClane
George Nada
Harry Callahan
Ashley James Williams
Ashley James Williams
Antonio MOntana
Hartman
Arnaud Amalric
Duke Nukem
Duke Nukem Forever
?!
Conclusion
Well I guess I explored the concept of evil itstoohard quiz pretty well, with some puzzling elements introduced to keep this out of the trivialities.
Congratulations to all my solvers, fun how some completed it just for kicks even knowing the game (or did they not start with the last answer to realize it?). Or maybe they expected some follow up puzzles well sorry, not this time.
Special congratulations of course go to the winner!
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