IWS #94 results, redux

[QuikSand]

I’m With Stupid – REVEALED!

The results from game #94 are in… and without further ado, here we go.

1. George W. Bush was recently named Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.” Other than him, who do you think might have been deserving of this recognition?

9 John Kerry
3 Donald Rumsfeld
2 Karl Rove
2 Tony Blair
2 Michael Moore
Lance Armstrong
Burt Ratan
the US Soldier
Jon Stewart
Ken Jennings
Paris Hilton
The Red Sox
Curt Schilling
Pat Tillman
Saddam Hussein


Well, I intended for this to be a total stumper – I didn’t even know what I would have answered myself (which I take as a great sign). I didn’t think about the possibility of Kerry here – I guess there are two different rationale to support that answer. One is that by “deserving” you were thinking “well, he deserved to win the election, so he’d have been POTY” – the other is just that while the mention of Bush got you thinking of the election, you couldn’t find another answer good enough to get you off that topic. Tough to know what Stupid was thinking here.


2. What was your favorite movie of this year?

8 Spiderman 2
8 Shrek 2
5 The Incredibles
2 Fahrenheit 9/11
2 The Passion of the Christ
LOTR: ROTK
The Terminal
Friday Night Lights


Though we’d get a few different ones near the top here… the resulting mix is about what I expected.



3. Whose music (group or individual) from this year was your favorite?

9 U2
5 Green Day
3 Usher
Linkin Park
eminem
Franz Ferdinand
Bowling for Soup
Norah Jones
Coldplay
Kenny Chesney
Shania Twain
OutKast
The Killers
Kanye West

But for that insipid iPod commercial, and some unctuously phony Spanish, I think we’d have had a wide open category here. Not an eliminator, at least.



4. What television show did you enjoy most in 2004?

5 CSI
5 The Wire
5 Lost
4 Survivor
2 24
Arrested Development
Nip/Tuck
MNF
Desperate Housewives
The OC
Sopranos
Superbowl


I love a tight race, but this is silly. I’m guessing that the FOF threads about Lost and The Wire played a role in their success here… and CSI is constantly just trumpeted as the most-watched show on TV. Fair spread here.



5. Who was the most overexposed person in 2004?

17 Paris Hilton
4 Scott Peterson
2 George W Bush
Michael Moore
Britney Spears
Kobe Bryant


Okay, our first eliminator. I really thought there would be several good answers to this – but perhaps the male dynamic interpreted “overexposed” a bit more literally than I had intended, making Paris a runaway winner.



6. What was the least surprising news headline of 2004?

13 Bush wins
3 Steroids in baseball
3 Peterson guilty
3 No WMD in Iraq
NHL cancels season
Powell resigns
Red Sox win
Iraq casualties
Kobe acquitted
campaign turns ugly


Well, another runaway – possibly poisoned by the Bush reference in the earlier question. Mrs. Q wanted to offer multiple choices for this – and maybe that would have been a good idea. (I resisted, on the grounds that Stupid seemingly tends to just pick the first option listed when offered a list)


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So, with that – let’s see who took down the big prize, shall we?

First, the “field”

digamma	Kerry	Shrek 2	U2	Arrested Development	Scott Peterson	Bush wins	9	8	9	1	4	13	         33,696 
Radii	Kerry	Shrek 2	Green Day	CSI	Scott Peterson	Peterson guilty	9	8	5	5	4	3	         21,600 
Solecismic	Kerry	Passion	OutKast	CSI	Paris Hilton	Bush wins	9	2	1	5	17	13	         19,890 
Shorty3281	Kerry	Passion	Kanye West	Survivor	Paris Hilton	Bush wins	9	2	1	4	17	13	         15,912 
tanglewood	Rove	Spiderman 2	Franz Ferdinand	Survivor	Paris Hilton	Bush wins	2	8	1	4	17	13	         14,144 
albionmoonlight	Rove	The Incredibles	Coldplay	Wire	Paris Hilton	Bush wins	2	5	1	5	17	13	         11,050 
Plundun	Pat Tillman	Spiderman 2	Green Day	The OC	Paris Hilton	Bush wins	1	8	5	1	17	13	           8,840 
TurnerONU22	US soldier	Fahrenheit 9/11	Usher	CSI	Paris Hilton	Bush wins	1	2	3	5	17	13	           6,630 
JeeberD	Kerry	Shrek 2	U2	CSI	Bush	campaign gets ugly	9	8	9	5	2	1	           6,480 
spleen1015	Curt Schilling	The Incredibles	Kenny Chesney	Wire	Paris Hilton	Bush wins	1	5	1	5	17	13	           5,525 
Raven Hawk	Blair	Spiderman 2	U2	Wire	Bush	No WMD in Iraq	2	8	9	5	2	3	           4,320 
Desnudo	Red Sox	Spiderman 2	U2	MNF	Paris Hilton	Peterson guilty	1	8	9	1	17	3	           3,672 
oliegirl	Rumsfeld	Shrek 2	U2	Nip/Tuck	Britney Spears	Bush wins	3	8	9	1	1	13	           2,808 
Celeval	Ken Jennings	The Incredibles	U2	Lost	Scott Peterson	MLB steroids	1	5	9	5	4	3	           2,700 
kingfc22	Kerry	Spiderman 2	Linkin Park	24	Paris Hilton	Sox win	9	8	1	2	17	1	           2,448 
MikeVic	Paris Hilton	The Incredibles	U2	Desperate Housewives	Paris Hilton	MLB steroids	1	5	9	1	17	3	           2,295 
Easy Mac	Kerry	The Terminal	The Killers	Lost	Paris Hilton	Peterson guilty	9	1	1	5	17	3	           2,295 
MIJB#19	Rumsfeld	Shrek 2	Eminem	Wire	Trump	Bush wins	3	8	1	5	1	13	           1,560 
Dutch	Michael Moore	The Incredibles	Green Day	Lost	Scott Peterson	Iraq casualties	2	5	5	5	4	1	           1,000 
RainRaven	Armstrong	Spiderman 2	Usher	24	Paris Hilton	Powell resigns	1	8	3	2	17	1	             816 
rlfreeze	Blair	Fahrenheit 9/11	Usher	Sopranos	Paris Hilton	No WMD in Iraq	2	2	3	1	17	3	             612 
Glengoyne	Kerry	ROTK	Shania Twain	Wire	Michael Moore	Bush wins	9	1	1	5	1	13	             585 
temley06	Ratan	Shrek 2	Bowling for Soup	Survivor	Paris Hilton	NHL cancels season	1	8	1	4	17	1	             544 
GoldenEagle	Rumsfeld	Friday Night Lights	Green Day	Lost	no answer	No WMD in Iraq	3	1	5	5	1	3	             225 
Alf	Saddam	Spiderman 2	Norah Jones	SuperBowl	Kobe Bryant	Kobe acquitted	1	8	1	1	1	1	                 8 

And now, to our top scorers… first, our two runners-up, who posted similar scores to take the lesser medals:

Raiders Army	                 44,200 
panerd	                 36,720 

But our grand champion, who absolutely blew the field out of the water, we not even an American! Well, kinda…


Maple Leafs 572,832


And with a mighty 80% score of the possible points, Maple Leafs secures another IWS championship, an takes the reins for the next edition.

Congratulations to Maple Leafs and the other participants!

[MIJB#19]

Well that's freaky, exactly the same final scores and rankings as yesterday.

[Raiders Army]

Damn you John Kerry! I said Jon Stewart and that was a big one. Well, second place ain't so bad...

[Alf]

Yeah, I made it dead last !

[spleen1015]

See, Quik, I knew it would be Spiderman 2!

I won't do well on the music questions. ESPN Radio doesn't play much music.

[JeeberD]

Bump

What's the word, ML?

[MIJB#19]

Hastalabumpa, baby.

[Maple Leafs]

Thanks for the bump... I'd missed this completely the first time around.

(Which made it fun to read through the results two weeks later, seeing as I couldn't remember what I had answered, or even if I'd entered.)

I'll come up with something this week.