BrainBashers: May 2011 Common Answers Results
Kevin Stone
March results for BrainBashers Common Answers are now ready. There were
1,748 valid entries and I came 19th.
The percentage below is that of the maximum available score.
Liz Agostinho 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 100.0000%
Pat Amann 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 100.0000%
Barbara Stout 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 100.0000%
Todd Laplace 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 100.0000%
Sean Selvey 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 100.0000%
Benjamin Wake 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 79.8295%
Amanda Snook 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 79.8295%
Raanan Tauber 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 79.8295%
Michael Gillman 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 79.8295%
Dan Therrien 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 79.8295%
Alan Hochbaum 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 79.8295%
William Dunham 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 79.8295%
Kevin Stone [BB] 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 70.0713%
Q1. Name a type of bear.
1 POLAR 704 40.3%
2 GRIZZLY 562 32.2%
3 BLACK 197 11.3%
4 BROWN 114 6.5%
5 TEDDY 64 3.7%
6 PANDA 59 3.4%
7 KOALA 15 0.9%
+ 25 other unranked answers.
Q2. Name a 3-letter word that rhymes with ZOT.
1 DOT 691 39.5%
2 NOT 241 13.8%
3 HOT 215 12.3%
4 POT 190 10.9%
5 LOT 86 4.9%
6 COT 78 4.5%
7 BOT 68 3.9%
8 GOT 63 3.6%
9 TOT 59 3.4%
10 ROT 32 1.8%
+ 13 other unranked answers.
Q3. Name the number of spiders that might live in a garage.
1 10 421 24.1%
2 100 295 16.9%
3 20 183 10.5%
4 5 150 8.6%
5 50 149 8.5%
6 25 69 3.9%
7 3 51 2.9%
8 15 48 2.7%
9 1000 48 2.7%
10 8 41 2.3%
11 6 31 1.8%
12 30 31 1.8%
13 12 27 1.5%
14 4 21 1.2%
15 2 21 1.2%
16 200 15 0.9%
17 1 14 0.8%
18 7 13 0.7%
19 500 12 0.7%
+ 55 other unranked answers.
Q4. Name which came first: Chicken or Egg?
1 CHICKEN 1024 58.6%
2 EGG 724 41.4%
+ no unranked answers.
Q5. Name something found in the sea [excluding water].
1 FISH 1417 81.1%
2 SALT 61 3.5%
3 SHARKS 52 3.0%
4 WHALES 48 2.7%
5 SEAWEED 40 2.3%
6 DOLPHINS 16 0.9%
7 SAND 14 0.8%
8 CORAL 10 0.6%
9 ANIMALS 10 0.6%
+ 48 other unranked answers.
Q6. Name a sport that two people play.
1 TENNIS 1491 85.3%
2 CHESS 38 2.2%
3 BADMINTON 37 2.1%
4 BASKETBALL 28 1.6%
5 PING-PONG 27 1.5%
6 BOXING 18 1.0%
7 GOLF 14 0.8%
+ 44 other unranked answers.
Q7. Name a colour beginning with the letter B.
1 BLUE 1377 78.8%
2 BLACK 204 11.7%
3 BROWN 147 8.4%
4 BEIGE 10 0.6%
+ 9 other unranked answers.
Q8. Name the number of times an average person can blink in 5 seconds.
1 10 545 31.2%
2 20 278 15.9%
3 5 203 11.6%
4 15 163 9.3%
5 25 98 5.6%
6 2 73 4.2%
7 3 63 3.6%
8 30 47 2.7%
9 1 45 2.6%
10 50 32 1.8%
11 7 26 1.5%
12 100 21 1.2%
13 8 18 1.0%
14 6 18 1.0%
15 4 16 0.9%
16 40 14 0.8%
17 12 14 0.8%
+ 28 other unranked answers.
Q9. Name a day of the week with lots of letters.
1 WEDNESDAY 1347 77.1%
2 SATURDAY 283 16.2%
3 THURSDAY 100 5.7%
+ 4 other unranked answers.
Q10. Name the age someone might have grey hair.
1 50 702 40.2%
2 60 284 16.2%
3 40 282 16.1%
4 45 117 6.7%
5 70 57 3.3%
6 65 57 3.3%
7 55 55 3.1%
8 30 40 2.3%
9 35 39 2.2%
10 80 30 1.7%
+ 46 other unranked answers.
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Kev
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Kevin Stone
> 1,748 valid entries and I came 19th.
Well done to me!
rec.games.trivia results:
19 Kevin Stone [BB] 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1313 Calvin Kelly 2 2 10 1 2 1 1 4 1 6
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Kev
Marc Dashevsky
Only two league entrants?
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Ted Schuerzinger
> Q8. Name the number of times an average person can blink in 5 seconds.
> 1 10 545 31.2%
> 2 20 278 15.9%
> 3 5 203 11.6%
> 4 15 163 9.3%
> 5 25 98 5.6%
> 6 2 73 4.2%
> 7 3 63 3.6%
> 8 30 47 2.7%
> 9 1 45 2.6%
> 10 50 32 1.8%
> 11 7 26 1.5%
> 12 100 21 1.2%
> 13 8 18 1.0%
> 14 6 18 1.0%
> 15 4 16 0.9%
> 16 40 14 0.8%
> 17 12 14 0.8%
> + 28 other unranked answers.
Did anybody else try counting how many times they could blink in 5
seconds?
Every time I see one of these number questions, I'm amazed at how many
different answers are given. There are 45 different answers to this
one, and with 50 and 100 (I presume nobody actually *tried* to blink 100
times in 5 seconds) given, that means that either every answer between 1
and 43 is given, or some other higher numbers were given.
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Now blogging at http://justacineast.blogspot.com
Kevin Stone
>> > 1,748 valid entries and I came 19th.
> Only two league entrants?
Just 2 for rec.games.trivia...
However, around 20 for rec.puzzles.
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Kev
Kevin Stone
>> 1 10 545 31.2%
>> 2 20 278 15.9%
>> 3 5 203 11.6%
>> 4 15 163 9.3%
>> 5 25 98 5.6%
>> 6 2 73 4.2%
>> 7 3 63 3.6%
>> 8 30 47 2.7%
>> 9 1 45 2.6%
>> 10 50 32 1.8%
>> 11 7 26 1.5%
>> 12 100 21 1.2%
>> 13 8 18 1.0%
>> 14 6 18 1.0%
>> 15 4 16 0.9%
>> 16 40 14 0.8%
>> 17 12 14 0.8%
>> + 28 other unranked answers.
> Every time I see one of these number questions, I'm amazed at how many
> different answers are given.
And it's rarely just one person...
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Kev
Calvin
<use...@marcdashevsky.com> wrote:
> In article <94ldci...@mid.individual.net>,
> newsN...@brainbashers.com says...
>> > March results for BrainBashers Common Answers are now ready. There
>> were
>> > 1,748 valid entries and I came 19th.
>>
>> Well done to me!
>>
>> rec.games.trivia results:
>>
>> 19 Kevin Stone [BB] 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
>> 1313 Calvin Kelly 2 2 10 1 2 1 1 4 1 6
>
> Only two league entrants?
I much prefer the rare entries contests (and did so even before this lousy
showing).
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cheers,
calvin