BrainBashers: April 2013 Common Answers

[Kevin Stone]

Hi,

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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 that is associated with Spring.
Name the leg that is on top when you cross your legs.
Name an unlucky number.
Name a chemical element that begins with the letter C.
Name the number of adults that can comfortably sit in an average family car.
Name a character from the book 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.
Name a country that the river Nile runs through.
Name the number of weeks between fingernail trims.
Name a word that completes this phrase: 'As clear as...'.
Name a social networking website.

--
Kev
www.brainbashers.com/common

[Kevin Stone]

> Common Answers: guess the most popular answers to 10 easy questions:

rec.puzzles result:

104 Marc Dashevsky 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 50.85%
172 Peter Ward 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 33.03%
172 Peter Chapman 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 33.03%
206 Gary Moncur 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 27.06%
228 Peter Scandrett 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 25.71%
250 Carl Ginnow 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 23.57%
268 Don Dodson 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 21.75%
338 Liisa Sarakontu 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 3 2 1 13.76%
359 Michael Shreeve 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 12.25%
399 Stephen Perry 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 9.13%
417 Alan O'Donnell 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 8.28%
538 Myron Buck 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 4.39%
569 Andrew Erickson 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 3 2 1 3.24%
735 Jimmie Hagblad 1 1 1 4 1 2 1 1 3 1 0.73%
736 Steve Fry 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 UR 1 1 0.72%
849 Kevin Stone 3 1 1 4 1 2 1 2 1 1 0.16%
1019 Marc Rintsch 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 UR 0.00%

Well done to Marc.

Q1. Name a month that is associated with Spring.
1 APRIL 731 66.2%
2 MAY 215 19.5%
3 MARCH 125 11.3%
+ 9 other unranked answers.

Q2. Name the leg that is on top when you cross your legs.
1 RIGHT 891 80.7%
2 LEFT 210 19.0%
+ 3 other unranked answers.

Q3. Name an unlucky number.
1 13 1004 90.9%
2 7 30 2.7%
3 6 15 1.4%
4 3 12 1.1%
+ 15 other unranked answers.

Q4. Name a chemical element that begins with the letter C.
1 CARBON 891 80.7%
2 CHLORINE 85 7.7%
3 CALCIUM 48 4.3%
4 COPPER 46 4.2%
+ 20 other unranked answers.

Q5. Name the number of adults that can comfortably sit in an average family
car.
1 4 760 68.8%
2 5 281 25.5%
3 6 24 2.2%
4 2 20 1.8%
5 3 11 1.0%
+ 3 other unranked answers.

Q6. Name a character from the book 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.
1 CHARLIE BUCKET 708 64.1%
2 WILLY WONKA 379 34.3%
+ 13 other unranked answers.

Q7. Name a country that the river Nile runs through.
1 EGYPT 1036 93.8%
2 AFRICA 22 2.0%
+ 24 other unranked answers.

Q8. Name the number of weeks between fingernail trims.
1 2 558 50.5%
2 4 194 17.6%
3 1 151 13.7%
4 3 140 12.7%
5 6 33 3.0%
6 5 14 1.3%
+ 6 other unranked answers.

Q9. Name a word that completes this phrase: 'As clear as...'.
1 DAY 400 36.2%
2 MUD 380 34.4%
3 CRYSTAL 105 9.5%
4 GLASS 87 7.9%
5 WATER 49 4.4%
6 BELL 34 3.1%
7 SKY 10 0.9%
+ 18 other unranked answers.

Q10. Name a social networking website.
1 FACEBOOK 1048 94.9%
2 TWITTER 33 3.0%
3 GOOGLE 10 0.9%
+ 10 other unranked answers.

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Kev
www.brainbashers.com/common

[Ted Schuerzinger]

On Wed, 1 May 2013 12:02:26 +0100, Kevin Stone wrote:

> Q1. Name a month that is associated with Spring.
> 1 APRIL 731 66.2%
> 2 MAY 215 19.5%
> 3 MARCH 125 11.3%
> + 9 other unranked answers.

I can understand the Antipodean spring months getting some entries, but
the winter/summer months??

> Q2. Name the leg that is on top when you cross your legs.
> 1 RIGHT 891 80.7%
> 2 LEFT 210 19.0%
> + 3 other unranked answers.

I hope "Top" was one of the three unranked answers. I'm trying to
figure out what the other two are. How many of our four-legged friends
entered this quiz anyhow?

> Q7. Name a country that the river Nile runs through.
> 1 EGYPT 1036 93.8%
> 2 AFRICA 22 2.0%
> + 24 other unranked answers.

!

--
Ted S.
fedya at hughes dot net
Now blogging at http://justacineast.blogspot.com

[mbuck]

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:02:26 PM UTC+8, Kevin Stone wrote:
> > Common Answers: guess the most popular answers to 10 easy questions:
>
>
>
> rec.puzzles result:
>
>

> 538 Myron Buck 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 4.39%
>

Amazing. Only three answers that were not the top answer, but were the second most common...and I'm not even in the top 50%.

[Marc Dashevsky]

In article <145tbd1qw4a24$.d...@justacineast.motzarella.org>, fe...@hughes.spam says...

>
> On Wed, 1 May 2013 12:02:26 +0100, Kevin Stone wrote:
>
> > Q1. Name a month that is associated with Spring.
> > 1 APRIL 731 66.2%
> > 2 MAY 215 19.5%
> > 3 MARCH 125 11.3%
> > + 9 other unranked answers.
>
> I can understand the Antipodean spring months getting some entries, but
> the winter/summer months??
>
> > Q2. Name the leg that is on top when you cross your legs.
> > 1 RIGHT 891 80.7%
> > 2 LEFT 210 19.0%
> > + 3 other unranked answers.
>
> I hope "Top" was one of the three unranked answers. I'm trying to
> figure out what the other two are. How many of our four-legged friends
> entered this quiz anyhow?
>
> > Q7. Name a country that the river Nile runs through.
> > 1 EGYPT 1036 93.8%
> > 2 AFRICA 22 2.0%
> > + 24 other unranked answers.
>
> !

Only 2%. People are finally learning!

[Stanley Daniel de Liver]

I reckon that anytime now there'll be a cunningly loaded question to which
the "obvious" answer is "Africa"

e.g.

Name a continent which contains one (or more) of the top 3 largest lakes
(by surface area).

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