BrainBashers: Common Answers: September 2004 - Results

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Q1. Name a type of pasta. 1 SPAGHETTI 672 2 MACARONI 40 3 LASAGNA 26 4 PENNE 23 5 ANGEL HAIR 22

Q2. Name a word used to describe the weather. 1 SUNNY 271 2 HOT 138 3 COLD 133 4 RAINY 77 5 CLOUDY 70

Q3. Name the number of ants you could fit in a shoe. 1 1000000 202 2 1000 157 3 10000 77 4 5000 44 5 100000 34

Q4. Name a famous cartoon ghost. 1 CASPER 878 2 SPACE GHOST 9 3 DANNY PHANTOM 7 4 SLIMER 2 5 JACOB MARLEY 1

Q5. Name one of the seven wonders of the world. 1 GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA 438 2 GRAND CANYON 60 3 GREAT WALL OF CHINA 52 4 TAJ MAHAL 49 5 HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON 49

Q6. Name an amphibian. 1 FROG 627 2 LIZARD 79 3 SNAKE 24 4 SALAMANDER 24 5 FISH 20

Q7. Name a country in Africa. 1 EGYPT 231 2 SOUTH AFRICA 177 3 KENYA 127 4 ZIMBABWE 68 5 NIGERIA 59

Q8. Name either ORANGE, RED, BLUE or GREEN. 1 RED 346 2 BLUE 334 3 ORANGE 152 4 GREEN 82

Q9. Name an inventor. 1 THOMAS EDISON 404 2 ALBERT EINSTEIN 187 3 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL 87 4 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 84 5 LEONARDO DA VINCI 24

Q10. Name a word which ends in the letter Z. 1 BUZZ 174 2 JAZZ 81 3 QUIZ 51 4 PIZZAZZ 51 5 ZEBRA 38

Good thing Common Answers is not Right Answers.

Kevin Stone schrieb:

Only 2 out of 5 correct. See http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/

Yeah. Right.

If you hold that he *discovered* relativity, then there's a puzzle: What did he invent? (I found at least 2 answers.)

Is there an animal that ends in Z?

Why was zebra allowed when zoo was disallowed? Or, why was zoo disallowed when zebra was allowed?

He co-invented a refrigerator with Leo Szilard.

The national dog of Finland.

He certainly held a patent for a gyrocompass.

Kuvasz. It's a breed of dog.

Stewart Houten schrieb:

You and Jim got the answers.

Dogz. No catz?

Oops - I'd forgotten to correct that, my original plan was to disallow incorrect answers, but when Zebra went mad, I reconsidered both ways many times and in my indecision I fell off the fence. I've now allowed all answers!

The website has the corrected tables - it's made no difference to the people at the top (as you'd expect).

Somebody claiming to be Michael Mendelsohn

The spitz comes to mind.

Kevin, according to this, both QUIZ and PIZZAZZ had 51 hits, and both are valid answers. How do you decide which one is #3 and which is #4?

No matter which way around I put them, you'd ask me this question...



It matters not, the tally for the victor is independent on the position of their answer.

As it happens, I've no idea why one is above the other - on checking, I think that it places the first one to be entered by someone above the other (which is in agreement as I always enter first, and I entered QUIZ), but I imagine alphabetical would make more sense.