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BrainBashers: May 2013 Common Answers
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Kevin Stone
May 1, 2013, 6:57:46 AM5/1/13
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Hi,
PLEASE DO NOT POST OR DISCUSS ANSWERS IN THIS NEWSGROUP.
Please enter via the site, however I will accept answers via email.
If you create a UserID, and add a league called rec.puzzles, we'll be able
to easily see how rec.puzzles regulars compare each month (see
http://www.brainbashers.com/commonrules for league info).
Common Answers: guess the most popular answers to 10 easy questions:
http://www.brainbashers.com/common
[Here are the questions]
Name a month when allergies are common.
Name a word that is a big number.
Name a misspelling of the word NECESSARY.
Name a non-English word for the number 1.
Name a character from a fairy tale.
Name something that a watch can be made from.
Name the number of times the average person uses a light switch each day.
Name a city that has taxis known world wide.
Name the side of a bicycle stood beside before riding.
Name a movie starring Daniel Craig.
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Kev
www.brainbashers.com/common
PLEASE DO NOT POST OR DISCUSS ANSWERS IN THIS NEWSGROUP.
Please enter via the site, however I will accept answers via email.
If you create a UserID, and add a league called rec.puzzles, we'll be able
to easily see how rec.puzzles regulars compare each month (see
http://www.brainbashers.com/commonrules for league info).
Common Answers: guess the most popular answers to 10 easy questions:
http://www.brainbashers.com/common
[Here are the questions]
Name a month when allergies are common.
Name a word that is a big number.
Name a misspelling of the word NECESSARY.
Name a non-English word for the number 1.
Name a character from a fairy tale.
Name something that a watch can be made from.
Name the number of times the average person uses a light switch each day.
Name a city that has taxis known world wide.
Name the side of a bicycle stood beside before riding.
Name a movie starring Daniel Craig.
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Kev
www.brainbashers.com/common
Kevin Stone
Jun 3, 2013, 7:35:17 AM6/3/13
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> Common Answers: guess the most popular answers to 10 easy questions:
rec.puzzles result:
19 Peter Scandrett 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 33.69%
50 Marc Dashevsky 2 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 14.64%
71 Gary Moncur 2 2 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 9.87%
330 Peter Ward 1 3 3 1 2 1 2 2 1 2 0.32%
353 Liisa Sarakontu 2 1 2 1 2 3 1 2 1 3 0.26%
400 Carl Ginnow 1 3 1 1 7 2 3 1 1 1 0.16%
439 Don Dodson 1 4 2 1 1 2 10 2 1 1 0.10%
494 Steve Fry 1 5 1 1 7 2 1 2 1 1 0.06%
507 Michael Shreeve 1 4 1 1 2 7 3 1 2 1 0.05%
534 Stephen Perry 2 3 1 4 1 4 1 1 2 1 0.04%
557 Kevin Stone 5 1 3 2 1 4 1 1 1 1 0.03%
585 Peter Chapman 7 3 4 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 0.02%
724 Jimmie Hagblad 1 8 5 1 1 4 4 2 1 1 0.00%
743 Marc Rintsch 1 3 3 1 7 2 6 2 1 3 0.00%
Well done to Peter.
Q1. Name a month when allergies are common.
1 MAY 458 44.5%
2 APRIL 331 32.2%
3 JUNE 90 8.7%
4 MARCH 52 5.1%
5 JULY 34 3.3%
6 AUGUST 23 2.2%
7 SEPTEMBER 19 1.8%
+ 5 other unranked answers.
Q2. Name a word that is a big number.
1 MILLION 372 36.2%
2 BILLION 214 20.8%
3 TRILLION 145 14.1%
4 GOOGOL 59 5.7%
5 INFINITY 55 5.3%
6 THOUSAND 44 4.3%
7 ZILLION 21 2.0%
8 GAZILLION 20 1.9%
9 HUNDRED 17 1.7%
+ 51 other unranked answers.
Q3. Name a misspelling of the word NECESSARY.
1 NECESARY 337 32.8%
2 NECCESSARY 185 18.0%
3 NECCESARY 154 15.0%
4 NESESSARY 138 13.4%
5 NECESSERY 35 3.4%
6 NESESARY 18 1.7%
7 NECASSARY 17 1.7%
8 NESSESSARY 16 1.6%
9 NECISSARY 12 1.2%
+ 59 other unranked answers.
Q4. Name a non-English word for the number 1.
1 UNO 911 88.5%
2 UN 45 4.4%
3 UNE 22 2.1%
4 EIN 19 1.8%
+ 20 other unranked answers.
Q5. Name a character from a fairy tale.
1 CINDERELLA 512 49.8%
2 SNOW WHITE 266 25.9%
3 LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD 33 3.2%
4 TINKERBELL 28 2.7%
5 PETER PAN 27 2.6%
6 SLEEPING BEAUTY 22 2.1%
7 PRINCESS 17 1.7%
8 GOLDILOCKS 17 1.7%
9 RAPUNZEL 12 1.2%
10 PRINCE CHARMING 11 1.1%
+ 42 other unranked answers.
Q6. Name something that a watch can be made from.
1 GOLD 378 36.7%
2 METAL 232 22.5%
3 STEEL 86 8.4%
4 PLASTIC 71 6.9%
5 SILVER 51 5.0%
6 LEATHER 50 4.9%
7 QUARTZ 32 3.1%
8 TITANIUM 20 1.9%
9 GLASS 15 1.5%
+ 42 other unranked answers.
Q7. Name the number of times the average person uses a light switch each
day.
1 10 357 34.7%
2 20 202 19.6%
3 50 72 7.0%
4 25 57 5.5%
5 15 47 4.6%
6 5 41 4.0%
7 30 38 3.7%
8 6 36 3.5%
9 12 36 3.5%
10 100 33 3.2%
11 4 22 2.1%
12 8 19 1.8%
13 2 11 1.1%
14 7 10 1.0%
+ 30 other unranked answers.
Q8. Name a city that has taxis known world wide.
1 NEW YORK CITY 835 81.1%
2 LONDON 162 15.7%
+ 19 other unranked answers.
Q9. Name the side of a bicycle stood beside before riding.
1 LEFT 720 70.0%
2 RIGHT 275 26.7%
+ 26 other unranked answers.
Q10. Name a movie starring Daniel Craig.
1 SKYFALL 554 53.8%
2 CASINO ROYALE 176 17.1%
3 JAMES BOND 160 15.5%
4 QUANTUM OF SOLACE 24 2.3%
5 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO 19 1.8%
6 007 14 1.4%
+ 53 other unranked answers.
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Kev
www.brainbashers.com/common
Peter Scandrett
Jun 3, 2013, 7:59:45 AM6/3/13
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Kevin Stone wrote on 03/06/2013 12:35:
>> Common Answers: guess the most popular answers to 10 easy questions:
> rec.puzzles result:
>
> 19 Peter Scandrett 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 33.69%
> Well done to Peter.
>> Common Answers: guess the most popular answers to 10 easy questions:
> rec.puzzles result:
>
> 19 Peter Scandrett 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 33.69%
Yay! It's all (well, mostly) (well, partly) luck - but coming 19th is
good. Hurrah.
Peter (something of a lurker here, sorry)
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mbuck
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