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Old 05-11-2003, 09:16 PM   #1
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IWS #37

IWS Rules

This is copied from IWS #32 and those rules were copied from previous versions of the game.

The object of this contest is to answer the questions posted below, and to provide the most common answer among those submitted. This answer does not have to be correct.

For each question, your score will be equal to the number of people who submitted that response. Your score for the contest will be the product of your individual question scores. Highest score wins.

Send your entries by private message to me, BishopMVP, via PM on the FOFC board. If I run out of space on my private message system, only those actually received will be considered. When I post bumps, I will post the people from whom I have entries so you can make sure that I have received yours. Entries must be submitted by 8:00 PM (EST) on Wednesday May 14, 2003.

There aren’t many rules or clarifications necessary, but here are those I can think of:

No collaborating in any way. No posting your answers to this board, nor sharing them by email or in any other way with other potential contestants.

All determinations of matches and anything else requiring judgment fall to the sole administrator of this puzzle. There will be no appeals or contesting of the results the single judge’s decisions are final. You can, however, reduce the need for doubt and judgment on my part by properly spelling your submissions, being clear, that sort of thing. Anything that gives me clear and precise knowledge of how to determine whether your answer is the same as another answer is very helpful both to me and to you. (Answering Cincinnati Bengals is probably clearer than answering Cincinnati, for instance)

The winner of this contest will become the host of the next "I'm With Stupid Contest. If he chooses not to host the contest, the next highest placing participant who wishes to host may do so. In the event of a tie, one winner will moderate, and all winners will have the option to contribute questions.

The winner(s), of course, also retain the right to have their screen names published as past winners of the contest for all future versions. And that's nothing to sneeze at, I'll tell you.

Past Contests (Partial list now, will edit it later if I have more time):

(IWS #36 Q's/R's)
Winner: BishopMVP 100%
Entrants: 29
(IWS 35 Q's)
(IWS 35 R's)

(IWS 34 Q's)
(IWS 34 R's)

(IWS 33 Q's)

(IWS 33 R's)

(IWS 32 Q's/R's)

(IWS 31 Q's/R's)

(IWS 30 Q's)

(IWS 30 R's)


I'm With Stupid #36 Questions:

1. Name a character from the Matrix trilogy other than Neo or Morpheus

2. Which college football team will win the NCAA Title next year?

3. Name the most hated country in the world

4. Name the best Tom Clancy novel

5. Name the best rapper ever

6. Name the funniest FOFC poster


Also, if anyone has the spreadsheet for tabulating the results it would be helpful. Thanks.

{Edit: Added the word Trilogy to q1}


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Old 05-11-2003, 09:47 PM   #2
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Old 05-11-2003, 10:01 PM   #3
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Old 05-11-2003, 11:29 PM   #4
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Old 05-12-2003, 02:13 AM   #5
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Sent, but gonna do terrible...
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Old 05-12-2003, 02:55 AM   #6
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I guess I won't win this one...

Acutally, I finished outside of the bottom 4 in IWS#36, go figure!
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Old 05-12-2003, 03:46 AM   #7
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Old 05-12-2003, 09:28 AM   #8
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Old 05-12-2003, 09:32 AM   #9
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Sent, but gonna do terrible...

I have the feeling that I'll be in the bottom half myself (if not last place altogether).
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Old 05-12-2003, 09:44 AM   #10
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I have the feeling that I'll be in the bottom half myself (if not last place altogether).

I'll be close, once I submit something. I haven't seen the Matrix, don't usually read books and don't listen to rap, so......
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Old 05-12-2003, 10:13 AM   #11
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Old 05-12-2003, 11:52 AM   #12
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13 entries received from:

RonnieDobbs
KWhit
msf518
Swaggs
Pyser
JeeberD
MIJB#19
Alf
Blade
albionmoonlight
Maple Leafs
3ric
Quiksand


Two of the questions aren't going as planned, one due to poor phrasing but the others are sorting out nicely. One perfect score as of now, but that could easily change.
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Old 05-12-2003, 01:31 PM   #13
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Sent, but no shot at this one either. *sigh*
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Old 05-12-2003, 01:40 PM   #14
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Sent... I finished tied for second last time, which means it's all downhill from here.
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Old 05-12-2003, 05:36 PM   #15
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Bump and sent. I think I'll be undone by my lack of rap knowledge.

BishopMVP, if you want the spreadsheet to keep track of answers, just PM me with an email address to send it to.

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Old 05-12-2003, 05:50 PM   #16
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Old 05-12-2003, 06:10 PM   #17
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Sent my answers in.
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Old 05-13-2003, 04:34 AM   #18
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Old 05-13-2003, 10:59 AM   #19
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Old 05-13-2003, 09:01 PM   #20
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bump. this should never be on page 2.

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Old 05-13-2003, 09:06 PM   #21
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Old 05-13-2003, 09:09 PM   #22
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23 Current Entries:

RonnieDobbs
KWhit
msf518
Swaggs
Pyser
JeeberD
MIJB#19
Alf
Blade
albionmoonlight
Maple Leafs
3ric
Quiksand
Franklinnoble
Wolfpack
Panerd
SterlingIce
tucker342
gold101
Agpete
ISiddiqui
Cuervo72
Vince

Currently a 2-way tie for 1st.
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Old 05-14-2003, 02:31 AM   #23
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bump bump. bump bump bump bump bump bump. bump bump.

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Janos: "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!"
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Old 05-14-2003, 04:30 PM   #24
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1 more entry, making 24.

Code:
RonnieDobbs KWhit msf518 Swaggs Pyser JeeberD MIJB#19 Alf Blade albionmoonlight Maple Leafs 3ric Quiksand Franklinnoble Wolfpack Panerd SterlingIce tucker342 gold101 Agpete ISiddiqui Cuervo72 Vince Butter_of_69

Just testing formatting. Thanks Sterling.

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Old 05-14-2003, 04:33 PM   #25
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Old 05-14-2003, 08:19 PM   #26
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And we have a tie between RonnieDobbs and Vince with 100% each. Congratulations.

Code:
Player SCORE max=100% RonnieDobbs 16257024 100 Vince 16257024 100 Panerd 8128512 50 KWhit 5806080 35.7 Agpete 5080320 31.3 Quiksand 2903040 17.8 Pyser 2709504 16.7 JeeberD 2709504 16.7 gold101 2709504 16.7 Swaggs 1806336 11.1 Maple Leafs 1244160 7.7 msf518 604800 3.7 Shorty3281 508032 3.1 Blade 387072 2.4 Franklinnoble 387072 2.4 SterlingIce 338688 2.1 Cuervo72 290304 1.8 Butter_of_69 248832 1.5 tucker342 225792 1.4 ISiddiqui 129024 0.8 albionmoonlight 90720 0.6 Wolfpack 42336 0.3 MIJB#19 35280 0.2 Alf 25920 0.2 3ric 23040 0.1 Player RonnieDobbs Trinity Miami USA Hunt for Red October Tupac Fritz KWhit Trinity Miami USA Hunt for Red October Eminem Fritz msf518 Trinity Miami France Hunt for Red October Eminem Kodos Swaggs Trinity Miami France Sum of All Fears Tupac Fritz Pyser Trinity Miami USA Clear And Present Danger Tupac Fritz JeeberD Trinity Miami USA Clear and Present Danger Tupac Fritz MIJB#19 Agent Smith Miami USA Rainbow Six Tupac Kodos Alf Trinity Oklahoma USA Sum of All Fears Eminem Jason Tobias IV Blade Trinity Miami USA Rainbow Six Dr. Dre Fritz albionmoonlight Trinity Ohio St USA Patriot Games Snoop Dogg Kodos Maple Leafs Trinity Oklahoma USA Hunt for Red October Eminem Fritz 3ric Trinity Florida N.K. Hunt for Red October Tupac Kodos Quiksand Trinity Ohio St USA Hunt for Red October Eminem Fritz Franklinnoble Trinity Ohio St France Hunt for Red October Dr. Dre Fritz Wolfpack Trinity Ohio St USA Red Storm Rising Tupac Coffee Warlord Panerd Trinity Ohio St USA Hunt for Red October Tupac Fritz SterlingIce Trinity Miami France Hunt for Red October Tupac HornsManiac tucker342 Trinity Ohio St France Pelican Brief Tupac Fritz gold101 Trinity Miami USA Patriot Games Tupac Fritz Agpete Trinity Miami USA Hunt for Red October Tupac Kodos ISiddiqui Trinity Miami France Sum of All Fears Ice T Fritz Cuervo72 Trinity Miami USA Cardinal of the Kremlin Snoop Dogg Fritz Vince Trinity Miami USA Hunt for Red October Tupac Fritz Butter_of_69 Trinity Oklahoma USA Sum of All Fears Snoop Dogg Fritz Shorty3281 Trinity Ohio St USA Hunt for Red October Tupac Franklinnoble

On the questions, #1 was terrible. I should have either stated something like "that did not appear in the original" or just used a different movie-LOTR would probably work well. #2 went as I expected. #3 would have worked better as a "which country do you hate the most," getting a mix of US/France/Iraq/NK but it was poorly worded for this format. #4 was the best question for the breakdown. #5 I'm not surprised that 2pac won, but I expected it to be a 3-way race between him, B.I.G. and Eminem, but no one went with Biggie. #6 turned out well, although I thought Kodos might get enough to turn it into a 2-person/alien race. Overall, I think I should have gotten another question with more luck and less of an obvious answer, but asking what your favorite emoticon is would have cheapened it, IMO.

Congratulations, Ronniedobbs and Vince. You can work it out between the two of you for the next contest.

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Old 05-14-2003, 08:36 PM   #27
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I finally got the formatting right for the scores, I won't even attempt it for the answers, so here is the breakdown for each question:

1. Name a character from the Matrix trilogy other than Neo or Morpheus

Trinity 24
Agent Smith 1

2. Which college football team will win the NCAA Title next year?

Miami 14
Ohio State 7
Oklahoma 3
Florida 1

3. Name the most hated country in the world

USA 18
France 6
North Korea 1

4. Name the best Tom Clancy novel

Hunt for Red October 12
Sum of All Fears 4
Clear and Present Danger 2
Rainbow Six 2
Patriot Games 2
Red Storm Rising 1
Cardinal of the Kremlin 1
Pelican Brief 1 (actually Grisham)

5. Name the best rapper ever

2pac 14
Eminem 5
Snoop Dogg 3
Dr. Dre 2
Ice T 1

6. Name the funniest FOFC poster

Fritz 16
Kodos 5
Jason Tobias IV 1
Coffee Warlord 1
Franklinnoble 1
HornsManiac 1 (Insert your favorite Cocky joke here)
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Old 05-14-2003, 09:14 PM   #28
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Sweet... we'll try to get it going soon to keep the ball rollin'.
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Old 05-14-2003, 09:16 PM   #29
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Woo-hoo! I was quite surprised at all the people saying that they thought they would do terrible...I was fairly confident in my answers for the first time ever. To be honest, Fritz was my weakest guess, in my opinion. I thought that Kodos or Tobias would make a run at that category.
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Old 05-14-2003, 09:58 PM   #30
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If this was 6 months-1 year ago Tobias would have been up there, and wig too likely. But they're not around much anymore.

One more note; I think the 3-day turnover worked well and could even be reduced to a 2-day turnover if it is during the week. I only received 3 entries after 8 PM last night, so it seems the majority will enter within 2 days.
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Old 05-14-2003, 10:13 PM   #31
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CRAP! All perfect except for one. I'm never gonna win one of these things.
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Old 05-14-2003, 10:28 PM   #32
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Damn, just missed one. Screw Tom Clancy....
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Old 05-15-2003, 04:57 AM   #33
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Damn, I went with HM on the humor question because I figured he scored high on the inadvertantly funny scale.

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Old 05-15-2003, 08:45 AM   #34
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Look how good the European connection does in these competitions, well done Alf and 3ric!
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Old 05-15-2003, 09:05 AM   #35
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I think I might be the worst here. I have never seen the Matrix, I detest rap, I have never read a Tom Clancy Novel (was Splinter Cell a novel? Rainbow Six?), AND.......

I don't think any of you are funny.
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Old 05-15-2003, 11:05 AM   #36
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I think I might be the worst here. I have never seen the Matrix, I detest rap, I have never read a Tom Clancy Novel (was Splinter Cell a novel? Rainbow Six?), AND.......

I don't think any of you are funny.

Yeah, sometimes some of these questions preclude certain members or almost force a "looked up" answer. I've never seen Matrix either, the only way I knew Trinity was to look it up on IMDB and see who was listed third. Personally, I've never heard a 2Pac song, at least I don't think I have. Can't say I know much of Snoop's work either, I just get a kick out of his antics. I made it through a bit of one of the Clancy novels...the one where a plane takes out the Capital Building. Now if it was what was the best Movie Adaptation of a Tom Clancy Novel....

IWS #30 was a good example of this (sorry Joe Canadian):

2. Name a member of the “Dave Matthews Band” other than Dave Matthews.
5. Name a character, NOT actor, in the movie “The Usual Suspects.”
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Old 05-16-2003, 09:51 PM   #37
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Doh! One question away again from being perfect! Arghhh. LOL The only reason I picked Kodos over Fritz was because of that recent poll someone posted asking, "How funny is Kodos?" It was still fresh in my mind. After turning in my entry and reading a Fritz post, I quickly realized I had blown it.
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Old 05-17-2003, 04:32 AM   #38
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Look how good the European connection does in these competitions, well done Alf and 3ric!

LOL! At least we share the same perspective, however misguided it might be...
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Old 05-17-2003, 06:40 PM   #39
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