Make Mine Rare (MMR) #9 - Results Posted

[TRO]

Since Quik resurrected IWS this week, I thought MMR could use a revival as well.

Make Mine Rare is about answering with the most unique correct answer that you can come up with.


Rules
- Each question must be answered with a valid answer for that question. Any answer that is invalid will receive the maximum factor for that question.
- All questions must be answered, not answering a question will receive the maximum factor for that question.

Scoring
- Scoring will be done after all entries are received.
- The score given for each question will be equal to the number of players with that same answer (example: If the question was to name a vowel and 3 people say E while 8 people said A those who said E will be scored 3 for that answer while those who said A will be scored 8).
- The final score will be the product of the scores (example: if there were 3 questions and your scores were 3, 8 and 7 your final score would be 3 * 8 * 7 = 168).
- The winner is the player with the lowest final score.


Deadline
Friday morning, January 6th, 9am CST.


The questions
1) Name a previous winner of MMR since May 2003. (History is below)

2) Name a color of the rainbow. (Remember, ROYGBIV)

3) Name a NFL team that did NOT make the 2012 Playoffs.

4) Name a NFL team that DID make the 2012 Playoffs.

5) Name a starting QB for a 2012 NFL Playoff team.

6) Name somebody who received over 50 votes in the 2012 Iowa Republican Caucus.

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The Hall of Heroes

3ric - MMR #1
Anrhydeddu - MMR #4
CU Tiger - MMR #8
digamma - MMR #5
Easy Mac - MMR #2
gold101 - MMR #1
msf518 - MMR #3
SackAttack - MMR #7
wade moore - MMR #6

Contest History is as of MMR: The Remake - May 2003

[JeeberD]

I've always done better at IWS than MMR, but why not...

Scented

[panerd]

snet

[PurdueBrad]

Sent...first timer so I don't expect much!

[sterlingice]

snetted

SI

[General Mike]

in like flynn

[Danny]

Flynn isn't starting in the postseason, invalid answer

[RendeR]

Umm, we haven't played the 2012 NFL season yet, I think some questions are invalid? =)

[Buccaneer]

My favorite game.

[MizzouRah]

sizzle sent

[CrimsonFox]

sconces

[TRO]

Tabulating results now, still time for a last second entry if you want to submit one.

[TRO]

1) Name a previous winner of MMR since May 2003. (History is below)
Anrhydeddu - 4*
Easy Mac - 4
gold101 - 4
3ric - 2
SackAttack - 2
CU Tiger - 1
digamma - 1
msf518 - 1
wade moore - 1

Every previous winner was selected. Specialy recognition given to digamma who selected himself.

A bit of controversy on this one. One entrant submitted "Buccaneer" as their answer. He did win it...under the user name of "Anrhydeddu". I really want to reward creative correct answers, but since it is technically the same person, I felt that I needed to group the answers together.

2) Name a color of the rainbow. (Remember, ROYGBIV)
Orange - 6
Yellow - 6
Red - 4
Green - 2
Blue - 1
Violet - 1
Indigo - 0

The front end of the spectrum really stole the votes here. Poor Indigo.

3) Name a NFL team that did NOT make the 2012 Playoffs.
Buffalo Bills - 3
Jacksonville Jaguars - 3
Chicago - 2
Cleveland Browns - 2
Seattle Seahawks 2
Tennessee Titans - 2
Arizona Cardinals - 1
Dallas Cowboys - 1
New York Jets - 1
San Diego Chargers - 1
St Louis Rams - 1
Tampa Bay Buccaneers - 1
8 remaining choices - 0

20 valid options here and only 12 were named.

4) Name a NFL team that DID make the 2012 Playoffs.
Baltimore Ravens - 4
Cincinnati Bengals - 3
Houston Texans - 3
San Francisco 49ers - 3
New England Patriots - 2
Atlanta Falcons - 1
Denver Broncos - 1
Green Bay Packers - 1
New Orleans Saints - 1
New York Giants - 1
Lions & Steelers - 0

Are the Ravens our pick to win the Super Bowl?

5) Name a starting QB for a 2012 NFL Playoff team.
Eli Manning - 4
Alex Smith - 3
Joe Flacco - 3
Matt Ryan - 2
Tim Tebow - 2
TJ Yates - 2
Tom Brady - 2
Drew Brees - 1
Matt Leinart - 1
8(?) other valid answers - 0

Only 6 entries doubled up their playoff team with the same team's QB. The winner was one of those entries.

Matt Leinart scores as a correct answer since he started a game for the Texans this year.

Other valid entries that I did not receive: Rodgers, Flynn, Schaub, Orton, Dalton, Roethlisberger, Batch, Stafford. I believe that includes those that are not their teams current starting QB.

6) Name somebody who received over 50 votes in the 2012 Iowa Republican Caucus.
Rick Perry - 6
Jon Huntsman - 4
Newt Gingrich - 4
Mitt Romney - 2
Ron Paul - 2
Michele Bachmann - 1
Rick Santorum - 1
Herman Cain - 0

So much for Santorum's run at the nomination. He barely gets a vote here.

Surprisingly, Perry was NOT an eliminator.

THE RESULTS

If only this was an IWS contest...
Barkeep49 - 1728

Burnt to a crisp
Coffee Warlord - 1152
DanGarion - 1152
Grover - 1152
JeeberD - 1152

(Not so) Well Done
B & B - 864
cartman - 864
Pyser - 768
Warhammer - 648
Butter_of_69 - 576
Danny - 576

Medium Well
digamma - 432
PurdueBrad - 384
Sublime 2 - 288

Medium
sterlingice - 192
MizzouRah - 144

Medium Rare
MIJB#19 - 96
CrimsonFox - 64
panerd - 48

Rare
General Mike - 36

Congrats Mike!

[TRO]

I've highlighted General Mike's answers in the rundown above.

[CrimsonFox]

LOL I totally didn't read the rules for scoring, yet came in 3rd anyway nie goin Mike.

[sterlingice]

Good stuff- thanks for running it, TRO!

SI

[Toddzilla]

Awesome! Only 2 years and 3 months until the next MMR!

[Barkeep49]

Wow. If only this were IWS is right.

[MIJB#19]

That was awkwardly close to first place. Even closer than the score looks, given that I tried to outsmart everybody at the first question (not realizing it could backfire with a high score )...

'grats, General Mike!

[PackerFanatic]

I had never seen this game, and I like this one - will have to keep my eyes peeled for the next one in April :-D

[TRO]

Originally Posted by MIJB#19

That was awkwardly close to first place. Even closer than the score looks, given that I tried to outsmart everybody at the first question (not realizing it could backfire with a high score )...

'grats, General Mike!

If I had given you a 1 there, you would have scored 24 for the victory. I agonized over it for a while too.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by MIJB#19

That was awkwardly close to first place. Even closer than the score looks, given that I tried to outsmart everybody at the first question (not realizing it could backfire with a high score )...

'grats, General Mike!

sooooo....you were trying to cheat, were you?

[Grover]

Damn, and I really considered going with Herman Cain instead of Huntsman.

[Barkeep49]

Any chance we can get another one going? I would like to redeem my name.

[CrimsonFox]

Yeah General MIke! Hop to it!

[MizzouRah]

Not too shabby...

[General Mike]

Wow finally won something. May try to rework the questions I had planned if I ever won IWS, in to MMR questions.

[General Mike]

Dola, sorry for the delay, didn't even realized these had been tabulated for almost a week.