IWS #150: Celebrate the Anniversary - RESULTS POSTED!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Hello and welcome to the 150th I'm With Stupid! I won the 49th and 149th games, so watch out when number 249 comes around!

For today, I wanted to mix some easier questions with some more difficult questions. Remember, just pm, me with yer answers and more detailed rules are after the questions. This game will end at 5 pm EST Friday the 2nd of March.


IWS has always been a game about the questions, and this is no different. Here we are, and good luck:



Name a food that is yellow

Did you like Titanic?

Name a breed of tropical fish you might find in a pet store

How old were you when you first had sex?

Name a star in the sky, other than our own

Chutes or Ladders


And the super special 150th question:

If you were married to your spouse for 150 years, what would be an appropriate anniversary gift?






The Rules

The rules are the same as previous FOFC “I’m With Stupid" Contests, as set forth by the game’s widely revered and most truly beloved founding fathers.

The object of this contest is to answer the questions posted, and to provide the most common answer among those submitted. 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. Yes, that means they will be multiplied together, not added. Highest score wins.

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

All determinations of "matches" and anything else requiring judgment fall to that of the sole administrator of this round of the game. You can reduce the need for doubt and judgment by properly spelling your submissions, being clear, and that sort of thing. My decisions are final and inarguable. Whining or otherwise making a nuisance of yourself gives me license to reduce your score to zero, and make fun of you and/or your loved ones in public.

Any references that are unclear to you, due to language or geography, should be understood to be authored from the perspective of an English-speaking American. However...

Your answers do not necessarily have to be correct in order to score points. If I ask "what is the trickiest punctuation mark?" and you and four other people responded "commas", you each get five points, period, even though the correct answer is "apostrophe's."


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The Hall of Heroes

Ahbrady - IWS#15, IWS#41, IWS#85, IWS#100
Airhog - IWS#1
Albionmoonlight - IWS#30, IWS#50, IWS#101, IWS#127, IWS#146
Anxiety - IWS#49, IWS #149
Archer219 - IWS#18, IWS#100
Arctus – IWS#135
Ardent Enthusiast - IWS#6
Atatange1 - IWS#79
Barkeep49 - IWS#62, IWS#100, IWS#117
bbor - IWS#23, IWS#26
Bearcat729 - IWS#82, IWS#93
BishopMVP - IWS#36
Blade - IWS#13
BrianD - IWS#106
Bryce - IWS#40, IWS#53
Buccaneer - IWS#47
Butter_of_69 - IWS#128, IWS#144
Bsak16 - IWS#6, IWS#9, IWS#17
cartman - IWS#48, IWS#100
Celeval - IWSE146
Chief Rum - IWS#45, IWS#56, IWS#95
Cornhuskerly - IWS#46
Crim - IWS#57
Cthomer5000 - IWS#54, IWS#75
Cuervo72 - IWS#27, IWS#38
Dangarion – IWS#100, IWS#122
Desert Dweller - IWS#6
Desnudo - IWS#88, IWS #120, IWS #137
Digamma - IWS#14, IWS#92
DukeRulesMAB - IWS#76
Dutch - IWS#90
EagleEye11 - IWS#54
EagleFan - IWS#41
Farrah Whitworth-Rahn- IWS#126
Frozenrope - IWS#86
George W Bush- IWS#80, IWS#84
Glengoyne - IWS#71
gold101 - IWS#63
GoSeahawks - IWS#64 IWS#131
gstelmack - IWS#116
Hammer755 - IWS#38
HeavyReign - IWS#23
Henry296 - IWS#12
Honolulu_Blue - IWS #129, IWS #144
HornedFrogPurple - IWS#10
JeeberD - IWS#44, IWS#52, IWS#61, IWS#87, IWS#91, IWS#110, IWS#138, IWS #141
Jesse Ewiak – IWS#100
Joe Canadian - IWS#29
John Lynch - IWS#10
kingfc22- IWS#75, IWS#123, IWS#140
kurtism - IWS#79
KWhit - IWS#142, IWS#147
lighhousekeeper - IWS#125
Logan – IWS#100
Maple Leafs - IWS#34, IWS#84, IWS#94, IWS#113, IWS#118, IWS#139
Marmel - IWS#8
Masked - IWS#22, IWS#30, IWS#31, IWS#33, IWS#100
mauboy1 - IWS#77
MIJB#19 - IWS#59, IWS#69, IWS#117
Msf518 - IWS#11, IWS#15, IWS#35, IWS#39, IWS#100
Neuqua - IWS#19
NoMyths - IWS#46
Noop - IWS#46
Nothingman - IWS#6, IWS#45
ntndeacon - IWS#81
Oliegirl - IWS#72, IWS#81
PackerFanatic - IWS#130
Panerd - IWS#3, IWS#84, IWS#89, IWS#107, IWS#120, IWS#133
PineTar - IWS#108
Pjstp20 - IWS#42
Primelord - IWS#11
Pyser - IWS#85
QuikSand - IWS#9, IWS#16, IWS#18, IWS#24, IWS#32, IWS#58, IWS#66, IWS#70, IWS#73, IWS#78, IWS#83, IWS#93, IWS#100, IWS#103, IWS#111, IWS#132
Qwikshot - IWS#5
Radii – IWS#100, IWS#106
RadioFriendlyUnitShifter - IWS#81, IWS#97, IWS#99, IWS#124, IWS#134
Ramzavail - IWS#53
Raven Hawk - IWS#68 IWS#96
RendeR - IWS#6
RGunner - IWS#121
rkmsuf - IWS#145
RonnieDobbs - IWS#37
RPI-Fan - IWS#9
sabotai - IWS#143
Samdari - IWS#21
ScottVib - IWS#9
Solecismic - IWS#83
spleen1015 - IWS#98
SplitPersonality1 - IWS#4, IWS#104
Sterlingice - IWS#28, IWS#31, IWS#35, IWS#51
Subby - IWS#107, IWS#110, IWS#112
Sublime 2 - IWS#25, IWS#134, IWS#148
Suicane75 - IWS#109
Swaggs - IWS#2, IWS#35
Tasan - IWS#65
ThunderingHERD - IWS#114, IWS#119, IWS#122
Timmae - IWS #115
Tredwel - IWS#6, IWS#9, IWS#20, IWS#43, IWS#67, IWS#84
TRO - IWS#7, IWS#9, IWS#12, IWS#85, IWS#102, IWS#109
tucker342 - IWS#60
Vince - IWS#37, IWS#46, IWS#62
Wbatl1 – IWS#105, IWS #136
Whar - IWS#75
Wheels - IWS#55
WSUCougar – IWS#105

[KWhit]

Spent.

[Dr. Sak]

sent

[lordscarlet]

Sent last night.

[sachmo71]

sended

[Green Caesar]

Sent

[SnDvls]

sent

[Abe Sargent]

Currently at 16 players thus far!

[path12]

tnes.

[LoneStarGirl]

for anxiety, I will do this. It will be sent shortly

[Logan]

As one of the winners of the infamous IWS#100, I will have to participate. Sending soon...

[Lathum]

sent

[Greyroofoo]

tnes

[PackerFanatic]

Hehe, I like my answer for the last one...

Scent!

[Abe Sargent]

We are at 25 - Keep them coming!

[Poli]

I thought about playing, but I just wasn't comfortable with the questions. I mean, I remember when I co-won, and it was explained to me you need to give the players options on the questions, not a yes or no. Nothing against you, Anxiety, but if the questions were more open ended I'd be in.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by ardent enthusiast

I thought about playing, but I just wasn't comfortable with the questions. I mean, I remember when I co-won, and it was explained to me you need to give the players options on the questions, not a yes or no. Nothing against you, Anxiety, but if the questions were more open ended I'd be in.

With seven questions, and with a combination of "shot in the dark" and "either/or" questions, there's enough of detail that we won;t have a double winner, and that bears up looking at the scores so far.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We are so close to breaking 30! Bump for the night crowd.

[Raiders Army]

Sent

[MIJB#19]

I'm in. (I still can't believe I missed iws#149).

[Abe Sargent]

Okay, we had THIRTY-ONE entrants! Awesome! Now let's look at the questions:

Name a food that is yellow.

I thought that the answers here would be between lemons, bananas, and corn. I would have selected lemon, since a color is typically named after it, thus making it more obvious. Here is how the answers broke down:

Banana 15
Corn 11
Twinkie
Scrambled Eggs
Mac & Cheese
Potatoes

As you can see, Bananas and corn were at the top, and my answers would not have even been found. Bananas won. However, if you answered corn, you were not out of the running.


Did you like Titanic?

Unlike the previous question, this one I would have answered yes, simply because so many people did like it. However, this board answered truthfully and the answer reflect that:

No 20
Yes 11



Name a breed of tropical fish you might find in a pet store


I really liked this question. However, two of teh highest answers were not even tropicial fish. Grr. If I had to answer, I would have thought one of these three: either neon tetras or angel fish or bettas. Let's see how they broke down:

Goldfish 8
Clownfish 8
Betta 6
Angelfish 5
Neon
Marlin
Tetra


Okay, a few things. Clownfish are saltwater fish and goldfish are coldwater fish. Also, a few of you pm'd me this, "Beta" not this, "Betta." The fish's name is pronounced "beh-tuh," not, "bay-tuh." It's not a greek letter, its the actual name of the fish as given by natives.

All of the top five scores had to answer one or the other in this.


How old were you when you first had sex?

I woulda gone 16 here, with 18 a close second and 21 my third option. The scores pretty much reflected my intuitions:


15 2
16 11
17 6
18 10
19
20


As you can see, 16 or 18 were the top getters here. You had to get one of these in order to be in the top five scores.



Name a star in the sky, other than our own

I woulda gone for the obvious North Star here. Let's see what happened.


North Star 9
Alpha Centauri 8
Sirius 5
Betelgeuse 2
The Sun 3
Andromeda 2
Moon
Mars


There was a run on Sirius late in the game. Other than that, I honestly think Alpha Centauri was the result of the computer game and Civilization. The second highest score did not take one of the top two choices here, interestingly enough.


Chutes or Ladders


Pick your choice.

Chutes 19
Ladders 12

Pretty simple and hard to spin.


And the super special 150th question:

If you were married to your spouse for 150 years, what would be an appropriate anniversary gift?

This was a good place to pick up some points late if you said the right answer. Otherwise, it was just a question. The winning entry got two point here.


Coffin/Casket 6
Guns and Bullets 2
Sex or Hot Monkey Sex 2
Diapers or Depends 2
New Teeth
Motorized Cart
Gold
An Island
coffin
Jewlery
Platinum Ring with a Large Diamond
Divorce
A Day Off From Me
A defibulator
Copy of Maximum Football
Viagra
The World
dick in a box
Diamond
150 Flowers
a cyanide pill
Another Year
New Teeth
Death


Okay, top five coming up next

[LoneStarGirl]

I got every answer right but the star, I put sun, and I did like titanic.

[Abe Sargent]

Before I head to the scores, I want to talk a second out and thank all of you for playing, both old and new!


At number 4, we had a tie with miked and CU Tiger - each had 2,851,200.


At number three we had Coffee Warlod with 2,942,720


At number two, we had the highest score that a new player had. LoneStarGirl notched 4,514,400. Great job!


And finally, our winner, with 5,885,440 is ....


KWHIT!!!


Congrats buddy!


Thanks again to you all!

[cartman]

I thought more stupids would say 'moon'

[LoneStarGirl]

I got second place!! yauy! I think this was the third game I have ever played and its dedicated to you anxiety

[Toddzilla]

Holey crap - that's 3 out of the last 9 for KWhit. You really are stupid

[CU Tiger]

I'm number 4
I'm number 4
I'm number 4

If only I hadnt erased casket and put death

[JeeberD]

Damn, that was a quick turnaround! I totally meant to get an entry in...

That being said, I'm pretty sure the last question would have sunk me. I would have swept the rest, though.

[hoopsguy]

Props to the person who gave a "dick in a box" for 150 years

[KWhit]

Originally Posted by Toddzilla

Holey crap - that's 3 out of the last 9 for KWhit. You really are stupid

I'm on FIRE!

[miked]

Originally Posted by hoopsguy

Props to the person who gave a "dick in a box" for 150 years

It was my first time playing, I figured it would be an appropriate gift (better than a coffin).

[MIJB#19]

What? No complete scores? We need to know who finished last!

[Desnudo]

I need to know, was I mediocre or really stupid?

[Toddzilla]

Originally Posted by hoopsguy

Props to the person who gave a "dick in a box" for 150 years

Sadly, after 150 years, it may very well just be a dick inside of a box.

*shudder*

[sachmo71]

bump

[JeeberD]

Yeah...

[KWhit]

I'm up? Jeez, forgot about that.

I'll try to get something up today.

[Richard Weed]

Originally Posted by KWhit

I'll try to get something up today.

That's what she said.

[kingfc22]

Almost half a year....

[Toddzilla]

KWhit - IWS KIller

[JeeberD]

*cough*

*gasp*

*wheeze*

[Abe Sargent]

As the person who did IWS 150, I'm making an executive decision. If KWhit does not have one up by Monday, I''ll do 151 so we can continue the games.

[JeeberD]

In the past, if the winner never posted a new one didn't we pass the honors to the runner-up? I say that if LSG wants to host the next one, she should be able to.

Either way, lets just get this sucker up and running again!

[Toddzilla]

Originally Posted by JeeberD

In the past, if the winner never posted a new one didn't we pass the honors to the runner-up? I say that if LSG wants to host the next one, she should be able to.

Either way, lets just get this sucker up and running again!

She hasn't posted in 2 months, so let Anxiety roll with 151 if there's no movement by Monday, thats what I say.

[KWhit]

Okay, okay!

Thread on its way.

[KWhit]

IWS 151 posted.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by KWhit

IWS 151 posted.

YAYAYAYAY!!!