I got 64/97! A lot of the quote questions got me actually haha - I've focused so much on the lore that I definitely need to scrub up on the actual text in the stories. A few silly mistakes and misremembering of things in there too haha. However, why out of 97? There are three questions that are wrong in-themselves so I will not be counting them in the total: Question 2 is misleading in it's wording - Suddery is a City, not a Town as the question specifies. Question 15 - There is no "Official" open date for the NWR in any writings from Wilbert or Christopher - the Company was formed in 1914 and the line was completed in 1916. Operations seemingly begin in 1915, but you could argue that they started the moment the Company was formed if you follow that logic - I am being pedantic with this one, but only because there is never once a sentence that reads something like "The NWR officially opened in 1915, with the double tracking being completed in 1916". Being a government strategic Railway first - it does beg the question would it not officially "open" straight away upon amalgamation of the companies in 1914? I can't see passenger services being withdrawn along the TK&E or W&S lines for 2 years as the line was being double tracked. Question 83 is also a bit of an interesting one - I'd be very interested as to where you sourced the answer of 87 from? There is no written total mainline mileage of the NWR by Wilbert or Christopher - measuring the line with a piece of string on a map isn't a reliable source either, as when you measure the Mid-Sodor it comes out wrong compared to the 25 mile length stated by Wilbert meaning that the scaling is not 1:1. Question 6's answer is also wrong, it's 7 in total: 1. Toby, Trucks and Trouble 2. Thomas and the Twins 3. Thomas and the Great Railway Show 4. Thomas Comes Home 5. Henry and the Express 6. Thomas and Victoria 7. Thomas and His Friends Thoroughly enjoyable quiz!
I must say Luke, out all the people who commented, yours was the one I was most interested in. You are pretty much the Sodor Historian, I mean you are the one who looks after the creators Study and has had a hand in updating some of Wilbert’s Lecture notes. so seeing this score is impressive. Glad to know we are on the same level of knowledge on this island too.
Appreciate this Luke! Here were my reasonings for those ones: 2) Yes, Suddery claims to be a city - but I'm pretty sure it is only a claim (due to it being the former HQ of the Bishops of Suddery) - I don't know if it officially has been granted city-status by the monarchy within the canon. At least in the early 1900s, I think a settlement needed a population of 300,000 minimum to be classed as a city, which I doubt Suddery would have at the time of the RWS - there were some exceptions made based on cathedrals or heritage though, so I'm not gonna push that too hard. Also, there isn't really any other settlement at the mouth of the Maura, so I think that was the only possible answer even with the slightly ambiguous wording. 6) Yep, that was a genuine mistake. A couple of other people have picked up on that, my bad. 15) Very interesting. I compiled these questions a while ago (and over about a month) so I can't remember where I sourced that, but I do remember I was specifically trying to trick people into saying 1914, rather than 1915. If I have time later I might have a look at that one and get back to you, but you're almost certainly right as historian-in-chief. 83) Aight I admit I pulled that one straight from the wiki and fan estimates. Probably not the best sources on my part, forgive me :) Really glad you enjoyed it in any case, absolutely love your work.
@TheThomasCynic When it comes to Suddery, Wilbert is very definitive on it's city status due to it's cathedral - it doesn't claim to be one, it is the historical and current capital city of the Island. Regarding the question, given some of the accompanying images were chosen to be misleading (Bullseye picture making people think of Daisy instead of Sir Handel) I assumed it asking for a town was deliberately goading people into saying Suddery rather than the *closest* town to the mouth of the Maura. I think saying "Settlement" would solve the problem without giving away the answer haha. With the opening date question, I knew you weren't after 1914 as you said 'Officially opened' rather than 'formed' - it made me stop and think and then say 1916 as that's when the construction work was completed. I went digging afterwards and yeah, couldn't find any definitive opening date - which makes me think given the nature of the railway it never had one and just immediately started operations in 1914 upon formation to aid the war effort.
@@ExplosiveCookie That all makes sense... I was a bit cruel with the images lol. I hope you realise we need an updated Luke Ryan RWS quiz with 500 questions and negative scoring now. But thanks again for your help :)
As a person who literally rewrote the ios book and the first 26 books with a pen to paper when i wanted a copy ( i am not kidding it is like 230 a4 pages of my handwriting, took 6 months) i am ashamed of my 47/100. Awesome job mr cynic, very glad you have returned, and you are enjoying it( at least i hope😅) god bless all of you reading this, have a blessed Christmas
I saw this and at first I thought “well I know my lore and I have pretty good knowledge of this series” I was immediately humbled (Also I would love one of these for the tv series canon and/or model then cgi canon if you count them separately)
Got 67/100. Most questions related to specific history and locations absolutely dragged me down. Loved the quiz tho, came out learning new stuff in the end
49/100. Did better than I expected, though you made me think with a couple of these. I love also how you didn’t organise the questions in difficulty, instead jumbling them around. Makes it more fun & spontaneous that way
There’s actually 7 books out of the 42 that don’t contain the word ‘engine’ or ‘engines’. Those being: 1) Toby, Trucks and Trouble (1988) 2) Thomas and the Twins (1989) 3) Thomas and the Great Railway Show (1991) 4) Thomas Comes Home (1992) 5) Henry and the Express (1993) 6) Thomas and Victoria (2007) 7) Thomas and his Friends (2011)
28/100 I was ever so close to getting the last one correct. I guess 8:00 in the evening, turns out it was literally 20 minutes after that. I guessed Charlie from the Vicar's real name, I was surprised when I actually got it right. Henry meeting that Bahamas engine was quite a surprise for me. I actually did not know he actually did. Either way, It seems like I really need to study more.
After writing down every single number of the questions I got right I got 66 of them right which on a grading scale I'm going to say that's a B-. So overall I'm pretty adequate on the RWS knowledge but a lot of things that trick me up where the Sudric names unless it's like for an engine like Culdee. Oh well you're always learning something new everyday. This was a fun video man you really made me test my knowledge.
59/100 Good job at pick these out I genuinely had to take a few seconds to think about the answer to a lot of them, and I learned so much more about the Lore of the railway series
I got 77/100, which honestly I’m quite proud of! There wasn’t one particular thing which got me, it was kind of a mix of a few things - a few dates, some quotes, stuff like that. But I REALLY need to work on my Sudrian… shame I can’t find any online Sudrian language-learning classes, it’s no wonder they said the language was dying out!
Excellent vid, loved getting my teeth into this! I gave it an honest go and got 60/100, which I think isn't too bad considering how brutal some of the questions are 😅 Though its not something that interests me personally, I think a TV series version would go down very well!
Wasn't really keeping track of my score but needless to say, I can't claim to have mastered this quiz. But I had fun regardless, and hopefully retained some more information than I did when I began. Now here's a trivia question of my own (this might be easy for you): Who was the first TV series-exclusive character to be introduced in the show? (Hint: You know his laugh. We all know it. It haunts us all.)
@TheThomasCynic Nah, this guy had a coat of dark green paint. I am talking, of course, about Sam the American articulated locomotive who is on a British island just because.
74/100. For No.25, I wasn't listening and stupidly said "end" instead of "anywhere"; still kicking myself for throwing an easy one! Also, I didn't understand the question nor answer of No.28. Awesome quiz - would love a TVS version too!
It seems 28 has got a few people confused - the idea is that there are three numbers in RWS titles: the THREE Railway Engines, FOUR Little Engines, and EIGHT Famous Engines. Add those together and you get 15. I will almost certainly make a TVS version, but it might be a bit of a wait!
@TheThomasCynic I didn’t understand the maths one initially. That’s my trouble with maths, understanding what’s being asked, not necessarily the maths itself.
...45/100...I didn't know/remember half of these were even mentioned, like the questions 50 and 100. Also the adding the titles one tripped me up for a bit. I didn't realize what it was until I saw the answer.
@@jonfranklin18 EIGHT Famous Engines, THREE Railway Engines, FOUR Little Engines. I was thinking you had to add up all of the books together, ie, 42+41+40, etc. but that was what he meant.
@ Oh ok thanks. I thought it was adding the number of books together, hence my getting 903. This is my trouble with maths type questions, understanding what’s being asked, not necessarily the maths itself
47/100. Was one off a few of the dates and didn’t understand the maths one, else I would’ve got that. Disappointed with that, considering how many times I’ve read these books but I’m not really interested in the history or geographical parts, hence my low score
i got 64/100 not too bad, i thought i'd get lower. i'm surprised at how many i got from purely guessing. all you need to do now is convert this into a kahoot
I'll advise if you really haven't studied the sodor map or the history book awdry wrote, you'll only get about 50/100😂 Also A.W Dry and company is WILD awdry was hilarious 😂
I got 64/97! A lot of the quote questions got me actually haha - I've focused so much on the lore that I definitely need to scrub up on the actual text in the stories. A few silly mistakes and misremembering of things in there too haha.
However, why out of 97? There are three questions that are wrong in-themselves so I will not be counting them in the total:
Question 2 is misleading in it's wording - Suddery is a City, not a Town as the question specifies.
Question 15 - There is no "Official" open date for the NWR in any writings from Wilbert or Christopher - the Company was formed in 1914 and the line was completed in 1916. Operations seemingly begin in 1915, but you could argue that they started the moment the Company was formed if you follow that logic - I am being pedantic with this one, but only because there is never once a sentence that reads something like "The NWR officially opened in 1915, with the double tracking being completed in 1916". Being a government strategic Railway first - it does beg the question would it not officially "open" straight away upon amalgamation of the companies in 1914? I can't see passenger services being withdrawn along the TK&E or W&S lines for 2 years as the line was being double tracked.
Question 83 is also a bit of an interesting one - I'd be very interested as to where you sourced the answer of 87 from? There is no written total mainline mileage of the NWR by Wilbert or Christopher - measuring the line with a piece of string on a map isn't a reliable source either, as when you measure the Mid-Sodor it comes out wrong compared to the 25 mile length stated by Wilbert meaning that the scaling is not 1:1.
Question 6's answer is also wrong, it's 7 in total:
1. Toby, Trucks and Trouble
2. Thomas and the Twins
3. Thomas and the Great Railway Show
4. Thomas Comes Home
5. Henry and the Express
6. Thomas and Victoria
7. Thomas and His Friends
Thoroughly enjoyable quiz!
I must say Luke, out all the people who commented, yours was the one I was most interested in. You are pretty much the Sodor Historian, I mean you are the one who looks after the creators Study and has had a hand in updating some of Wilbert’s Lecture notes. so seeing this score is impressive. Glad to know we are on the same level of knowledge on this island too.
Appreciate this Luke! Here were my reasonings for those ones:
2) Yes, Suddery claims to be a city - but I'm pretty sure it is only a claim (due to it being the former HQ of the Bishops of Suddery) - I don't know if it officially has been granted city-status by the monarchy within the canon. At least in the early 1900s, I think a settlement needed a population of 300,000 minimum to be classed as a city, which I doubt Suddery would have at the time of the RWS - there were some exceptions made based on cathedrals or heritage though, so I'm not gonna push that too hard. Also, there isn't really any other settlement at the mouth of the Maura, so I think that was the only possible answer even with the slightly ambiguous wording.
6) Yep, that was a genuine mistake. A couple of other people have picked up on that, my bad.
15) Very interesting. I compiled these questions a while ago (and over about a month) so I can't remember where I sourced that, but I do remember I was specifically trying to trick people into saying 1914, rather than 1915. If I have time later I might have a look at that one and get back to you, but you're almost certainly right as historian-in-chief.
83) Aight I admit I pulled that one straight from the wiki and fan estimates. Probably not the best sources on my part, forgive me :)
Really glad you enjoyed it in any case, absolutely love your work.
@TheThomasCynic When it comes to Suddery, Wilbert is very definitive on it's city status due to it's cathedral - it doesn't claim to be one, it is the historical and current capital city of the Island.
Regarding the question, given some of the accompanying images were chosen to be misleading (Bullseye picture making people think of Daisy instead of Sir Handel) I assumed it asking for a town was deliberately goading people into saying Suddery rather than the *closest* town to the mouth of the Maura. I think saying "Settlement" would solve the problem without giving away the answer haha.
With the opening date question, I knew you weren't after 1914 as you said 'Officially opened' rather than 'formed' - it made me stop and think and then say 1916 as that's when the construction work was completed. I went digging afterwards and yeah, couldn't find any definitive opening date - which makes me think given the nature of the railway it never had one and just immediately started operations in 1914 upon formation to aid the war effort.
@@ExplosiveCookie That all makes sense... I was a bit cruel with the images lol. I hope you realise we need an updated Luke Ryan RWS quiz with 500 questions and negative scoring now.
But thanks again for your help :)
@TheThomasCynic i imagine the wiki got 87 mi from Tug's video were he traced the maine line with Christmas string and estimated around 87.
As a person who literally rewrote the ios book and the first 26 books with a pen to paper when i wanted a copy ( i am not kidding it is like 230 a4 pages of my handwriting, took 6 months) i am ashamed of my 47/100. Awesome job mr cynic, very glad you have returned, and you are enjoying it( at least i hope😅) god bless all of you reading this, have a blessed Christmas
That is crazy😂 merry christmas
mad respect
Have a blessed Christmas yourself :)
I saw this and at first I thought “well I know my lore and I have pretty good knowledge of this series”
I was immediately humbled
(Also I would love one of these for the tv series canon and/or model then cgi canon if you count them separately)
What did you get I got 29
Got 67/100. Most questions related to specific history and locations absolutely dragged me down. Loved the quiz tho, came out learning new stuff in the end
nerd
I aimed for at least 50/100 & got 58/100. I’m endlessly grateful for this man’s return to the fandom. Keep it up, Cynic!
Great quiz! It was a lot harder than I expected - I got 53/100 correct.
Nicely done, I think I'd have probably gotten about the same.
I've never read the books, just seen Unlucky Tug's vids, and got 6! Great quiz, learned a lot
34/100
RWS lore is so massive, but you know what else is massive?? The low taper fade
49/100. Did better than I expected, though you made me think with a couple of these. I love also how you didn’t organise the questions in difficulty, instead jumbling them around. Makes it more fun & spontaneous that way
Got less than half. It’s the deeper lore which tripped me up.
Got 37. Not bad but had more that few “damn I knew that” moments 😂 this is a very fun video,Well done
7... points... (internal screaming)
There’s actually 7 books out of the 42 that don’t contain the word ‘engine’ or ‘engines’. Those being:
1) Toby, Trucks and Trouble (1988)
2) Thomas and the Twins (1989)
3) Thomas and the Great Railway Show (1991)
4) Thomas Comes Home (1992)
5) Henry and the Express (1993)
6) Thomas and Victoria (2007)
7) Thomas and his Friends (2011)
Also 64/100
Yep, another commenter alerted me to that. My mistake :)
W christmas present
28/100
I was ever so close to getting the last one correct.
I guess 8:00 in the evening, turns out it was literally 20 minutes after that.
I guessed Charlie from the Vicar's real name, I was surprised when I actually got it right.
Henry meeting that Bahamas engine was quite a surprise for me. I actually did not know he actually did.
Either way, It seems like I really need to study more.
After writing down every single number of the questions I got right I got 66 of them right which on a grading scale I'm going to say that's a B-. So overall I'm pretty adequate on the RWS knowledge but a lot of things that trick me up where the Sudric names unless it's like for an engine like Culdee. Oh well you're always learning something new everyday. This was a fun video man you really made me test my knowledge.
37/100 you know I’m quite happy about that score. I think that’s about where I would’ve expected since I haven’t read the IOS book
59/100
Good job at pick these out I genuinely had to take a few seconds to think about the answer to a lot of them, and I learned so much more about the Lore of the railway series
29/100
oh my god wtf is this LORE
I got 77/100, which honestly I’m quite proud of! There wasn’t one particular thing which got me, it was kind of a mix of a few things - a few dates, some quotes, stuff like that. But I REALLY need to work on my Sudrian… shame I can’t find any online Sudrian language-learning classes, it’s no wonder they said the language was dying out!
Very entertaining and challenging quiz, i managed a fairly paltry 42/100
I got like less than 30 correct. Thanks for the challenge and merry Christmas.
I really enjoyed that, it was very funny and I learnt a few more things, 71/100, really happy with that
D&D players: my lore is deep!
meanwhile the Chad Rev. Wilbert Awdry:
34/100, loved this!
59/100
Thought I would've gotten more correct ngl
MERRY CHRISTMAS, THOMAS CYNIC!!!
30/100, I'm more of a TVS expert, please do one for that in the future
This is my kind of quiz
It’s very hard to answer all the questions. Some I get right and some I get wrong. Anyways, nice quiz for the lore of the RWS Books.
36/100
There were so many which I knew, but my brain decided to forget them while watching the video
Excellent vid, loved getting my teeth into this! I gave it an honest go and got 60/100, which I think isn't too bad considering how brutal some of the questions are 😅
Though its not something that interests me personally, I think a TV series version would go down very well!
Wasn't really keeping track of my score but needless to say, I can't claim to have mastered this quiz. But I had fun regardless, and hopefully retained some more information than I did when I began.
Now here's a trivia question of my own (this might be easy for you): Who was the first TV series-exclusive character to be introduced in the show?
(Hint: You know his laugh. We all know it. It haunts us all.)
was it hugo the rail zeppelin by any chance
@TheThomasCynic Nah, this guy had a coat of dark green paint.
I am talking, of course, about Sam the American articulated locomotive who is on a British island just because.
That was really challenging. I got 25 correct.
This is amzing! Can you please do a TVs one?
Got 16/100. Should read the iOS book and Christopher awdrys stuff at some point
74/100. For No.25, I wasn't listening and stupidly said "end" instead of "anywhere"; still kicking myself for throwing an easy one! Also, I didn't understand the question nor answer of No.28. Awesome quiz - would love a TVS version too!
It seems 28 has got a few people confused - the idea is that there are three numbers in RWS titles: the THREE Railway Engines, FOUR Little Engines, and EIGHT Famous Engines. Add those together and you get 15. I will almost certainly make a TVS version, but it might be a bit of a wait!
@TheThomasCynic Thanks for the clarification, that makes much more sense to me now.
@TheThomasCynic
I didn’t understand the maths one initially. That’s my trouble with maths, understanding what’s being asked, not necessarily the maths itself.
...45/100...I didn't know/remember half of these were even mentioned, like the questions 50 and 100. Also the adding the titles one tripped me up for a bit. I didn't realize what it was until I saw the answer.
I saw the answer to the adding titles together and still don’t get it.
@@jonfranklin18 EIGHT Famous Engines, THREE Railway Engines, FOUR Little Engines. I was thinking you had to add up all of the books together, ie, 42+41+40, etc. but that was what he meant.
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Oh ok thanks. I thought it was adding the number of books together, hence my getting 903.
This is my trouble with maths type questions, understanding what’s being asked, not necessarily the maths itself
40/100
That was a lot of fun, I’ll take my 35/100
47/100. Was one off a few of the dates and didn’t understand the maths one, else I would’ve got that.
Disappointed with that, considering how many times I’ve read these books but I’m not really interested in the history or geographical parts, hence my low score
Time to grow my RWS knowledge
I got 37 of these right
Awsome
This was a very interesting video
I got 47/100
64/100
Honestly, this was a really good quiz, and it shows that I’m going to have to pick up on my Sudric more…
If I count correctly, I have 43/100.
32... not too shabby.
When I read the titel I thought, it can't be that hard, but then.
I got 15/100
Not my best trivia but it was very fun and I learned a lot
34 correct out of 100.
Would have been higher, but I was slightly off with certain numbers and characters.
39 is not good
How could I fail!?
I got 10, i have not read a single rws anything lol
61/100
A LOT of the questions quite literally STUMPED me because of me never hearing about the lore
51, tbh after the first 20 or so I thought if I can be above 50% then I'll be satisfied lol
Q: who was the last character Wilbert Awdry created for the series
A: Mavis
Q: How many of Wilberts books don’t feature Thomas?
A:8
28/100, thought I would get more
I’ve only read 6 rws books so I got 12/100
i got 64/100
not too bad, i thought i'd get lower. i'm surprised at how many i got from purely guessing.
all you need to do now is convert this into a kahoot
Awesome
I got 38
I'll advise if you really haven't studied the sodor map or the history book awdry wrote, you'll only get about 50/100😂
Also A.W Dry and company is WILD awdry was hilarious 😂
The hilarious thing is there's some semi obscure ones I got and some simple ones I didn't. 😅
I got 86/100
*39/100* I may not be a true Thomas fan
(Some spellings are wrong)
1. Africa +1
2. Crosby +0
3. 1923 +1
4. Haultrough +1
5. 1880 +0
6. 5 +0
7. "stone trucks" +1
8. Sidney Heaver +1
9. Cas Ny Hawyn +1
10. Unknown +0
11. Stone +0
12. Clarabel +1
13. 5748 +0
14. Harwick +0
15. 1915 +1
16. Plaster +0
17. Fred +1
18. March 18 +0
19. Big City Engine +1
20. Henry +1
21. Rose +1
22. Helen +0
23. Killdane +0
24. "Once" +1
25. "Engines" +0
26. *dunno* +0
27. "Duck" +0
28. Five +0
29. *dunno* +0
30. Two physical platforms +0
31. Rusten +0
32. *dunno* +0
33. Crowes Farm +1
34. Duck +1
35. Great Little Engines +0
36. Elsie +1
37. *dunno* +0
38. Hermit +0
39. 50 +0
40. Chug Chug +0
41. Helen +0
42. Metropolitan Vickers Type 2 +0
43. "Flounced" +1
44. 15 miles +0
45. "Rip-off" +0
46. "There's nothing quite like it" +0
47. More About Thomas The Tank Engine +0 (OH WAIT STORY TITLE NOT BOOK TITLE AAARGH)
48. The slaughter of Danish people +0
49. Sixteen was sold off to a herritage railway +0
50. Quaker +0
51. Green +1
52. Toby, Trucks and Trouble +0 (Drat did it again!)
53. A. W. Dry +1
54. Kellsthorpe Road +1
55. £30 +0
56. Creek +0
57. Ffarquhar +1
58. "Elizah" +0
59. *dunno* +0
60. Agnes +0
61. Percy +0
62. Small Railway Engines +0
63. Switzerland +1
64. James +0
65. "Undignafied" +0
66. Cromford +1
67. James the Red Engine +1
68. *dunno* +0
69. 87546 +1
70. Donald +0
71. Manchester +1
72. 2 thousand +0
73. Thomas Comes Home +1
74. Daisy +0 (threw me off there lol)
75. M.C.Bunn +1
76. Butter +0
77. *dunno* +0
78. Bournmouth +1
79. "Museum piece" +1
80. Toby +0
81. Brendam +0
82. Railway +1
83. 89 miles +0
84. Jane and Jill +0
85. Beware the wood +0
86. Uranium +1
87.Caroline +1
88. Bahamas +1
89. 6 +1
90. 12 +0
91. Spa +0
92. James +0
93. Standpipe +1
94. Ballahoo tunnel +1
95. Annie +1
96. Blister twins +1
97. 69 +0
98. 1952 +0
99. River Orry +0
100. 9PM/21.00 +0
53/100 I think I did pretty well
29
I got 30/100 (that's probably a grade F, that's what happens when you don't own a copy of People, History, and Railways)
Got 34. Not sure how to feel to be honest.
I thought “yeah, I know idk the railway series, but I’d get like 60 something.”
I got 15/100 😭😭😭
22/100
11:04 Sweden? SWITZERLAND F-
10% correct
I got 31/100 and that's giving myself some of them like i shortened it (42) or was its either this or that (4) (thinking it was a trick question)
I ultimately got a 52/100; I could have done better though if I paused on some of the more difficult questions😅
I’ve gotten about 25 questions right, I’m guessing I know more of the tv series lore than the rws
13:02 isn’t that daisy?
It was a trick question, I wanted to catch people out with that. Definitely Sir Handel :)
I got 22 correct and 4 Half Correct. So in total my score would be 24/100 I would have gotten
A solid 80
71/97
Not to mention the answer for the last question will be the new year
I got 27/100
I got 39/100 correct
59/100, not bad
Jeez I need to study. I gave up keeping score but I think I got around 30/100
I got 53 out of 100 right. Not bad.
I am thoroughly embarrassed
This was fun! But man I did terrible 😭
#74 honestly thought it was daisy
I got 62/100
i got 40/100
I GOT 48
Q: what is Duck’s real name)
A: Montague
14:55 The actual answer to this one is "I do not speak English"
you can have the point for either of those
Dangit, on question 8 i said Stone Cars! Curse my americanisms, but yea cool quiz!
I got 48 out 100
Got a score of 65
14/100 Someone give me a copy of IOS book😂
50/100
I got 54.
I got 47/100. Guess I’m a fake fan :(
34/100