Guestimates Restart #1: Results

[SirFozzie]

1.1. One of the big topics on the board lately, is the European Football (what we call soccer) Championships. Now.. in the first round of qualifying, there were 10 groups of 5 teams, playing a home and home series with each other team in their group. This means approximately 200 games were played. In those 200 or so games, how many goals were scored?

A: 544. The most goals were scored by group 1, which scored 67.

General Mike:575 (+31) -- 5 Points
TredWel: 500 (+44)-- 4 Points
tucker342:600 (+56) -- 3 Points
mijb: 625 (+81) -- 2 Points
DeToxRox: 450 (-94) -- 1 Point
Kingfc22 445 (-99)
timmynausea: 341 (-103)
Radii: 405 (-139)
albionmoonlight:400 (-144)
wade moore:700 (+156)
RPI: 228 (-316)

2. There is a site (wwiTV.com) dedicated to providing links to TV stations around

the world that provide streaming video. As of June 13th, How many different

stations had links on the itv database?

A: 844. I prefer the Austrian channel. All jack pot quizzes and nekkid babes. Woohoo!

tucker342:844 (0) 5 Points.. have you been to this site before this, tucker?
General Mike:1200 (+356) 4 Points
Kingfc 1250 (+406) - 3 Points
RPI: 1258 (+414) -2 Points
timmynausea:1349 (+505) - 1 Point
DeToxRox: 274 (-570)
wade moore: 150 (-734)
mijb: 125 (-759)
Radii:1900 (+1056)
TredWel:2500 (+1656)
albionmoonlight:5000 (+4156)

3. Now, we like to claim that FOFC is everywhere. So I took one of the most famous words in FOFC, "dola" and searched for it on Ebay (looked for it in both the title AND the description. As of 5:30 pm on June 19th, how many auctions had the word "dola" in the title and/or description?

A: 49

wade moore: 50 (+1) -- 5 Points
KingFC: 33 (-16) -- 3.5 Points
General Mike 33 (-16) -- 3.5 Points
TredWell 15 (-34) 2 Points
RPI: 11 (-38) 1 Point
timmynausea: 7 (-42)
albionmoonlight:6 (-43)
mijb:5 (-44)
tucker342: 0 (-49)
detoxrox:124 (+75)
Radii: 1200 (+1151)

4. "The Detroit Pistons are one of the unlikeliest NBA Champions in recent history. But the main reason they won is their defense. How many points did they give up in the 23 playoff games they played?"


Milwaukee (4-1) 428..
New Jersey (4-3) 583
Indiana (4-2) 436
Los Angeles (4-1) 409

A:1856

albionmoonlight:1800 (-56) 4.5 Points
Radii: 1800 (-56) 4.5 Points
TimmyNausea: 1748 (-108) 3 Points
General Mike: 1725 (-131) 1.5 Points
mijb: 1725 (-131) 1.5 Points
RPI: 1722 (-134)
TredWel: 2000 (+144 Points)
wade moore: 1700 (-156)
KingFC: 1640 (-116 Points)
detoxrox: 1600 (-256)
tucker342: 1000 (-856)


5. In May 2004, anti-spam provider Brightmail blocked over 100 BILLION pieces of junk email. They were able to break it down by category (products, financial, adult, scams, Inernet, Leisure, Fraud, Political and other). What % of this 100 Billion Emails was illegal? (Fraud or scams)

A:14% (Although I feel sorry for the poor shmuck who had to COUNT via category )

KingFC: 15% (+1) 4.5 Points
TredWel:15% (+1) 4.5 Points
albionmoonlight: 10% (-4) 3 points
Radii: 20% (+6) 2 Points
General Mike: 33 (+19) 1 Point
tucker342 40%
timmynausea:42%
RPI: 49%
mijb: 50%
wade moore: 70%
detoxrox: 70%

Next 5 and FINAL RESULTS, as soon as I can finish typing them

[SirFozzie]

6. Shrek 2 just became the top grossing movie for '04, outdoing its predecessor.

As of this week, how much has Shrek 2 pulled in in gross earnings?

A: 370 Million

KingFC: 310 Mill
General Mike: 255 Million
timmynausea: 460 Mill
tucker342: 5.4 Million
wade moore 160 mill
mijb: 1 Million
detoxrox: 424.323 Million
RPI: 189 mill
Radii: 114 mill
TredWel: 275 M
albionmoonlight: 150 M

7. Microsoft made an announcement in the past month that it would "lock out" the

next service pack against the twenty most use pirate registration keys. But, the

company is still kicking major butt on the stock market. What is Microsoft's

Market Cap? (The market capitalization (or "cap") of a stock is simply the market

value of all outstanding shares and is computed by multiplying the market price by

the number of outstanding shares. For example, a publically held company with 10

million shares outstanding that trade at US$20 each would have a market

capitalization of 200 million US$.)

A: 306.03 Billion. I had a joke here.. but wow.. you can't really joke about 300 Billion dollars, can you? Apparently, most of you guys couldn't believe that either..


Timmynausea: 358 Billion (+51.97 B) 5 Points
Radii: 214 Billion (-92.03 B) 4 Points
albionmoonlight" 70 Billion (-236.03B) 3 Points
General Mike 50 Billion (-256.03B) 2 Points
rpi: 20 Billion (-286.03B) 0.5 Points
tucker342: 20 Billion (-286.03 B) 0.5 Points

TredWel:15 Billion
wade moore: 2 Billion
detoxrox: 600 Million
KingFC 320 *Million*
mijb: 100 Dollars. (uh.. no.. I assume you meant 100 Billion, but all your answer said was 100 US Dollars )





8. The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was recently designated ast the trade

show with the highest buying power (figured by the largest percentage of attendees

who plan to purchase products exhibited at the show within six months). This

year's E3 had over 400 companies offering products, and 540,000 square feet of

space. How many people attended E3?

A: 65,000, amongst them if I remember correctly, our own SackAttack

wade moore: 75K (+10K) 5 Points
tucker342: 50K (-15K)4 Points
detoxrox: 90K (+25K) 3 Points
General Mike: 35,000 (-30 Points) 2 Points
RPI: 32K (-33K) 1 Point

Timmynausea: 250K
TredWell: 250K
mijb: 250K
albionmoonlight:300K
Radii: 400K
KingFC: 3.5 Million

9. The movie Kill Bill had to be split into two volumes, because Quentin Tarantino

did not want to cut a lot of his story of the vengeful assassin The Bride's

revenge against her former compatriots. What is the total running time of the two

"Kill Bill" movies?

A: 4 hours, 7 Minutes

General Mike: 4:10 (+0:03) 5 Points
wade moore: 4:30 (+0:23) 3.5 Points
albionmoonlight: 4:30 (+0:23) 3.5 Points
RPI: 4:36 (+0:29) 2 Points
TimmyNausea: 3:26 (-0:41) 1 Point

Tucker342: 5:00
TredWell: 5:20
detoxrox: 5:34
KingFC: 5:42
mijb: 6:15
Radii: 7:30

10. Sometimes, you feel like doing GOOFY things. Like going to job site

"monster.com" and searching for Sex. And then goggling at how many items come up.

I did just that. How many jobs out there popped up on monster (as of 6 PM, June

19th), when you search for Sex?

A:2349. What can I say. Sex apparently drives the job markets. Of course, they were just jobs with "Sex" in the description

tucker342:2350 (+1) 5 Points
KingFC: 775 (-1574) 4 Points
Wade moore: 500 (-1849) 3 Points
RPI: 350 (-1999) 2 Points
Radii:300 (-2049) 1 Point

TredWel:200
TimmyNausea:58
detoxrox: 45
General Mike:33
mijb: 15
albionmoonlight:7,123

Next: The Final Results!

[SirFozzie]

Final Scores:

MIJB #19: 3.5 Points
DeToxRox: 5 Points
RPI-Fan: 8.5 Points
Radii: 11.5 Points
TredWel: 12 Points
TimmyNausea: 13 Points
albionmoonlight: 14 Points
wade moore: 16.5

BRONZE MEDAL
Tucker342: 17.5 Points

Silver Medal
KingFC: 23 Points

Gold Medal (Scoring on all but the final question....)
General Mike: 25 Points!

Congrats, GM.. you have Guesstimates #2 (5 questions).. Post whenever you want

[General Mike]

whoo hoo I finally won one of these things

[Radii]

Wow a couple of my answers were just godawful. Good to see this contest back foz, these are fun

[SirFozzie]

Question six was scored on the scoresheet I did.. just I didn't copy it back. But just in case you were wondering:

KingFC: 5 Points
DeToxRox: 4 Points
TimmyNausea: 3 points
TredWel: 2 Points
General Mike: 1 Point

[kingfc22]

Damn. damn. damn. 320 million??? I'm so stupid. If I put billion I would have won. Oh well. There is always next time I guess.

[tucker342]

wow... I did not think I would do that well...

[wade moore]

HRmm... I did much better in this on my first try than I generally do in IWS...

[MIJB#19]

Originally Posted by wade moore

HRmm... I did much better in this on my first try than I generally do in IWS...

I didn't.
Count me out for the next Guestimates...

[SirFozzie]

MIJB: It was first timer's blues

[wade moore]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

MIJB: It was first timer's blues

Yeah, there's always next time, just ask Fumblin' Justin