BrainBashers: Common Answers: October 2004 - Results

entries (which is a crazy task to score!).

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Q1. Name a shape with four sides [excluding SQUARE]. 1 RECTANGLE 914 2 DIAMOND 84 3 SQUARE [DISALLOWED] 42 [Scores 1] 4 TRAPEZOID 24 5 RHOMBUS 24

Q2. Name something you put into your mouth. 1 FOOD 847 2 GUM 70 3 TOOTHBRUSH 46 4 CANDY 27 5 SPOON 25

Q3. Name something you can write with. 1 PEN 752 2 PENCIL 363 3 CHALK 9 4 QUILL 8 5 PAPER 8

Q4. Name a type of fish. 1 GOLDFISH 506 2 SALMON 103 3 TUNA 84 4 BASS 76 5 TROUT 70

Q5. Name the number of days in a month. 1 30 677 2 31 400 3 28 68 4 29 12

Q6. Name a fraction [in the form n/n]. 1 1/2 853 2 1/4 75 3 3/4 29 4 1/3 25 5 1/1 22

Q7. Name a fast-food restaurant company. 1 MCDONALDS 942 2 BURGER KING 60 3 WENDY'S 43 4 TACO BELL 35 5 KFC 17

Q8. Name the number of seats in a typical fast-food restaurant. 1 50 257 2 30 140 3 100 139 4 20 96 5 40 84

Q9. Name a category for which a Nobel prize is awarded. 1 PEACE 457 2 SCIENCE 201 3 LITERATURE 184 4 PHYSICS 60 5 BEST ACTOR 26

Q10. Name a language [excluding ENGLISH]. 1 SPANISH 638 2 FRENCH 336 3 GERMAN 39 4 CHINESE 32 5 JAPANESE 19

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I think that time the UnCommon Answers game was more interesting - and I did quite well.

atb, Adrian

Election update: Bush gains Hampshire, Cheshire. More details here:

Which proves Kerry is pro WAR.

I'm a bit confused about some of the results (not the ones that matter, though) -

What's the difference between the people who voted 'spelling' as a nobel prize field and those who voted 'spelling' (answers 28 and 29)? Why was one allowed and the other not?

Eytan

I'd noticed this when I was at work, now I'm home I'll have a look - not sure why the system should class them as two answers.

Can you really win a nobel prize for spelling? How would that work? If you spell a word the way everyone else does, they'll call you 'unoriginal', and if you spell it a way nobody else does, they'll cal you 'wrong'. It's hard to see how you could distinguish yourself in a good way.

Maybe the last person on earth to spell 'lose' with only one o will get the prize.

well, there is a word in english that avery student and every proferrors spells wrong. which is this word? pazqo

just a joke!

Wrong

If someone spells it wrong, then they spell it right. If they spell it right, then they spell it wrong.

So right is also spelled right only when it is spell right. Any other spelling and it is spelled wrong. Which of course is right for wrong.

yep!

Wow, came in 525 with no answer placed lower than 5:

525 Andy Jakcsy 4 1 2 2 1 1 1 5 1 1

...but that 4 was pretty disastrous...