BrainBashers: June 2011 Common Answers
Kevin Stone
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If you create a UserID, and add a league called rec.puzzles and/or
rec.games.trivia, we'll be able to easily see how rec.puzzles and/or
rec.games.trivia 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 letter of the alphabet that has curves.
Name a Summer month.
Name a food item found in a salad.
Name a reptile.
Name a country that begins with the letter P.
Name a three digit number.
Name a vampire.
Name a colour found on a road sign.
Name the number of cars a wealthy family might own.
Name the most common way of naming the 2-wheeled machine that is pedalled.
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Kevin Stone
www.brainbashers.com/common
humunculus
> Hi,
>
> PLEASE DO NOT POST OR DISCUSS ANSWERS IN THIS NEWSGROUP - ENTER VIA THE SITE
> ONLY.
>
> If you create a UserID, and add a league called rec.puzzles and/or
> rec.games.trivia, we'll be able to easily see how rec.puzzles and/or
>
> Common Answers: guess the most popular answers to 10 easy questions:
>
> http://www.brainbashers.com/common
>
> [Here are the questions]
>
> Name a letter of the alphabet that has curves.
> Name a Summer month.
> Name a food item found in a salad.
> Name a reptile.
> Name a country that begins with the letter P.
> Name a three digit number.
> Name a vampire.
> Name a colour found on a road sign.
> Name the number of cars a wealthy family might own.
> Name the most common way of naming the 2-wheeled machine that is pedalled.
>
> --
> Kevin Stonewww.brainbashers.com/common
Can we discuss QUESTIONS? What exactly does the last one mean?
--riverman
Mark Brader
> > PLEASE DO NOT POST OR DISCUSS ANSWERS IN THIS NEWSGROUP...
Myron Buck:
> Can we discuss QUESTIONS?
I don't do web-based contests, but the answer to Myron's meta-query
seems self-evident to me. Without discussion, you should simply
decide how most people will interpret the question and then use that
decision to decide what the most common answer will be.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | English is just getting used to the telephone.
m...@vex.net | -- John Lawler
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Kevin Stone
>> pedalled.
> Can we discuss QUESTIONS? What exactly does the last one mean?
All questions mean whatever you'd like them to mean. At which point you
think of the most common answer to those meanings.
I can say at this point that all entrants for this question so far have
answered with answers I was expecting.
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Kev
Kevin Stone
Anyone is very welcome to email me their answers, and they will be imported
into the system...
Remove the obvious anti spam in the email address first though.
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Kev
Rich Grise
> Kevin Stone:
>> > PLEASE DO NOT POST OR DISCUSS ANSWERS IN THIS NEWSGROUP...
>
> Myron Buck:
>> Can we discuss QUESTIONS?
>
> I don't do web-based contests, but the answer to Myron's meta-query
> seems self-evident to me. Without discussion, you should simply
> decide how most people will interpret the question and then use that
> decision to decide what the most common answer will be.
Well, I don't know if it's the non-prescription stress medicine, or if
this is the finest meta-answer I've ever read. ;-)
Just for the record, I think it means, "What's the most common name for
that 2-wheeled thing that has pedals?" or something like that.
Cheers!
Rich
Rich Grise
I remember one time I intentionally gave the "wrong" answer. The question
was, "Name the largest organ of the human body" (or some such) and I
answered "liver," assuming that that'd be the most common, notwithstanding
the largest human organ is the skin. ;-)
Cheers!
Rich
gerson
"Kevin Stone"
> I can say at this point that all entrants for this question so far have answered with answers I was expecting.
Someone said Africa ?
David
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:o)
gerson
"David" wrote
>> > I can say at this point that all entrants for this question so far have answered with answers I was expecting.
>>
>> Someone said Africa ?
> :o)
Good that you reply, thank you, but I myself, personally speaking, that is, me, I have not got any idea what :0) means, and although
I've spent a few minutes looking it up by goobgling and saying emoticons and so on, I've given up, and so now I say, whatever is it
do you mean ? pls
David
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I can't believe that you're being serious but it's just a smiley face
Mr.Gerson.
I hate text speak like 'LOL' (or 'pls' for that matter) and I wasn't
laughing out
loud anyway. It just made me smile, simple as that.
D
gerson
> > I can't believe that you're being serious ...
> I hate text speak like 'LOL' (or 'pls' for that matter) and I wasn't laughing out
> loud anyway. It just made me smile, simple as that.
fair enough, - only bogans say 'LOL' and that, ( and 'pls' )
(Maybe I should have said "No-one said Africa ?")
gerson
"gerson" (that is I) wrote
> (Maybe I should have said "No-one said Africa ?")
hey, I'm going to do that now
[Taking liberties]
gerson
> I can say at this point that all entrants for this question so far have answered with answers I was expecting.
What, No-one said Africa ?
David
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He would have been expecting that.
humunculus
Hence, the 'common answer'...
--riverman