I'm With Stupid #170 - Results

[QuikSand]

I’m With Stupid # 170

Thanks to SteveBollea for helping with the administration.

Not much fanfare here… just the facts, ma’am. And this might turn out to be subtitled “The IWS when the specific words or numbers used in the question itself influenced the answers too much” as you will note through the results summary below:

How many inches of snow is required for you to consider it to be "a lot of snow?"

17 - 6 inches
8 – 12 inches
5 – 10 inches
2 – 3 inches
Also ran: 4,7,8,20

At what temperature (F), is it officially "cold as hell" in your own mind?

17 – 0 degrees
6 – 32 degrees
6 – 20 degrees
4 – 10 degrees
Also ran: 12,15,30,-20

You are driving your ordinary car down a road, a day after a snowstorm -- where you got as many inches of snow as you answered above. The road has been plowed and is definitely passable, but there's still a bit of snow and ice on the roadway. The speed limit here is ordinarily 35 MPH, and right now there's no traffic around you in either direction. How fast are you driving?

15 – 35 MPH
9 – 30 MPH
3 – 40 MPH
3 – 25 MPH
2 – 10 MPH
2 – 20 MPH
Also ran: 15,45,60(!)


Picture a school bus, half full of kids, on its way to school. Six rows back there's a boy, sitting alone, apparently unpopular. He's a third grader, holding his books, he's got slightly messy brown hair, has a bit of a runny nose, and he's wearing a winter knit hat. Now that you have your mental picture, what color is the hat?

13 – red
10 – brown
7 – blue
7 – black
This probably goes (and pardon the mixed FOFC metaphors) onto my own Mount Rushmore of IWS questions. For such a wide open question, that’s a very precise little grouping of answers, don’t you think? And brown wouldn’t have even been a serious player had it not been in the question, I pretty firmly believe. Oh, and I was dead certain red was correct, without being able to say why… I love that feeling.

At what price point is a PC game cheap?
16 - $10
8 - $20
5 - $19.99
3 - $9.99
2 - $5.99
Also ran: $5, $30, $29.99

Sadly, it doesn’t appear that the penny-pricing differential made the difference in the champion here. I also wonder why it is that a greater share of the “twenty bucks” crowd went for the ninety-nine version than did the “ten bucks” crowd. **shrug**

How many Christmas presents is average for a ten year old?
20 – 10
6 – 5
3 – 12
2 – 8
2 – 5
Also ran: 3,6,11,20
We’ll never know what the correct answer would have been for a child of generic age, alas. Probably still ten.



Okay, the standings:

THREE INCHES

LoneStarGirl 252
Bisbo 360
dervack 3,120
Dodgerchick 3,570
nilodor 3,780
Airhog 22,542
spleen1015 28,288
Pyser 40,320
panerd 42,432
EagleFan 48,384
Klinglerware 48,552
MikeVic 50,400
MIJB#19 84,000
EaglesFan27 119,340
MizzouRah 153,600
dacman 168,480
Raiders Army 183,600
lighthousekeeper 192,000
mauboy1 212,160
Bad-example 215,040
flere-imsaho 244,800
wheels 255,000
nZane 265,200
tarcone 390,150
MrDNA 685,440


SIX INCHES

Ramzavail 1,370,880
Abe Sargent 2,304,000
packerFanatic 2,545,920
boberot 2,601,000
PurdueBrad 3,381,300
Kwhit 3,427,200
clemsonfan 4,855,200
cmp 5,091,840
RPI-Fan 5,410,080
Mustang 9,710,400


TEN INCHES

Butter_of_69 13,872,000


TWELVE INCHES

hoopsguy 18,033,600


SWISH!

[Butter]

Awwww, thought I had this one. Stupid hat color effed me.

[lighthousekeeper]

guess my "10 for everything" tactic wasn't as popular as i'd hoped.

[jbergey22]

Wow I must have really sucked. I didnt even make the final standings.

Let me double check that I sent it.
sent 12/29 at 3:22

[Toddzilla]

hoopsguy 12 inches? Whoa, nelly.

[hoopsguy]

Woot! I thought I had some particularly stupid answers this time around.

OK, will look to post something by the end of the week.

[Bisbo]

Looks like I kicked LoneStarGirl's ass!

[mauchow]

I had 19.99 written down then changed it to $20, helped a little but not enough. lol

[Danny]

Damn it, I would have owned if I had entered. Had all of them perfect except I had 12 inches of snow.

[Logan]

Question #4 made me sad.

[flere-imsaho]

Originally Posted by Logan

Question #4 made me sad.

Glad I wasn't the only one. Further, I picked brown in this scenario because I figured this would be the saddest color for an unpopular kid.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Originally Posted by jbergey22

Wow I must have really sucked. I didnt even make the final standings.

Same here. I got the 'stupid' answer on at least three of the questions. Perhaps Quiksand blocked my IM's.

[MIJB#19]

Yikes, I'm clearly out of touch with this game. I thought stupid loved whole round numbers.

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by MIJB#19

Yikes, I'm clearly out of touch with this game. I thought stupid loved whole round numbers.

Stupid does. zero not withstanding.

I had a response typed up, but never sent. I wanted my wife to recommend an answer for the number of presents. I wasn't happy with 10. DAMNIT!

Admittedly the snow and temp questions burned me. Those of us in CA should have received a bonus multiplier of 10 or so to make up for the fact that we're doing fun stuff at the beach while you all freeze your asses off.

[boberot]

Originally Posted by Glengoyne

Admittedly the snow and temp questions burned me. Those of us in CA should have received a bonus multiplier of 10 or so to make up for the fact that we're doing fun stuff at the beach while you all freeze your asses off.

Yeah, but those of us [for example] in the northeast were probably trying to compensate for folks like you by answering 6 inches. I don't REALLY consider that a lot of snow, even though that was my answer. So I guess it works both ways.

My answer of "brown hat" was my undoing.

Felt good about this one . . ..

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by boberot

Yeah, but those of us [for example] in the northeast were probably trying to compensate for folks like you by answering 6 inches. I don't REALLY consider that a lot of snow, even though that was my answer. So I guess it works both ways.

My answer of "brown hat" was my undoing.

Felt good about this one . . ..

Somehow I didn't even struggle with that one. It seemed like a IWS defacto rule that color questions impartial to the responder are answered with 'RED'. It is sort of like the Pop tart rule. If the question is about Pop Tarts...the answer is Strawberry.

[LoneStarGirl]

Didn't I get all the questions right except the price of a game? I thought 29.99 was cheap!! All of my games I buy are 49.99 or 59.99. Man I suck. This game is sexist!

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by LoneStarGirl

Didn't I get all the questions right except the price of a game? I thought 29.99 was cheap!! All of my games I buy are 49.99 or 59.99. Man I suck. This game is sexist!

You don't suck. You just make too much money, or don't buy near enough games that you don't buy them only when they're on sale.