BrainBashers: May 2012 Common Answers

[Kevin Stone]

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 lucky number.
Name a sport that begins with the letter B.
Name a 4-letter word that ends in ARD.
Name a tool used with wood.
Name a fruit you might pick yourself.
Name the number of days between haircuts.
Name a flavour of cat food.
Name a word/phrase used when parting company.
Name an animal associated with Africa.
Name the number of floors in a skyscraper.

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Kev
www.brainbashers.com/common

[Kevin Stone]

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

rec.puzzles result:

4 Peter Scandrett 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1
18 Liisa Sarakontu 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1
61 Kevin Stone 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
71 Michael Shreeve 1 1 2 1 1 1 3 2 1 1
88 Marc Dashevsky 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2
90 Gary Moncur 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2
164 Chris Cole 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2
172 Jimmie Hagblad 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2
292 Carl Ginnow 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 2 1 2
311 Stephen Perry 1 1 1 1 1 7 2 1 2 2
338 Peter Ward 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 4
700 Peter Chapman 1 2 2 1 UR 2 1 1 1 2
745 Steve Fry 1 1 2 UR 1 3 1 2 1 1
961 Marc Rintsch 1 1 1 1 1 1 UR 6 2 1

Well done to Peter.

Q1. Name a lucky number.
1 7 1033 81.2%
2 13 81 6.4%
3 3 47 3.7%
4 8 19 1.5%
5 9 14 1.1%
6 5 11 0.9%
7 4 11 0.9%
8 2 11 0.9%
9 1 10 0.8%
+ 20 other unranked answers.

Q2. Name a sport that begins with the letter B.
1 BASEBALL 885 69.6%
2 BASKETBALL 350 27.5%
3 BADMINTON 17 1.3%
+ 9 other unranked answers.

Q3. Name a 4-letter word that ends in ARD.
1 HARD 540 42.5%
2 CARD 430 33.8%
3 YARD 168 13.2%
4 LARD 66 5.2%
5 BARD 38 3.0%
6 WARD 19 1.5%
+ 3 other unranked answers.

Q4. Name a tool used with wood.
1 SAW 757 59.5%
2 HAMMER 251 19.7%
3 AXE / AX 189 14.9%
4 CHISEL 22 1.7%
5 PLANE 12 0.9%
+ 23 other unranked answers.

Q5. Name a fruit you might pick yourself.
1 APPLE 987 77.6%
2 STRAWBERRY 147 11.6%
3 ORANGE 34 2.7%
4 BLACKBERRY 15 1.2%
5 PEACH 12 0.9%
+ 21 other unranked answers.

Q6. Name the number of days between haircuts.
1 30 458 36.0%
2 60 187 14.7%
3 90 95 7.5%
4 14 71 5.6%
5 42 59 4.6%
6 50 53 4.2%
7 28 49 3.9%
8 100 47 3.7%
9 45 43 3.4%
10 21 34 2.7%
11 7 23 1.8%
12 40 20 1.6%
13 20 20 1.6%
14 35 14 1.1%
15 31 13 1.0%
+ 33 other unranked answers.

Q7. Name a flavour of cat food.
1 TUNA 455 35.8%
2 FISH 409 32.2%
3 CHICKEN 186 14.6%
4 SALMON 74 5.8%
5 LIVER 24 1.9%
6 BEEF 24 1.9%
7 MEAT 17 1.3%
8 SEAFOOD 13 1.0%
+ 46 other unranked answers.

Q8. Name a word/phrase used when parting company.
1 BYE 559 43.9%
2 GOOD BYE 493 38.8%
3 SEE YOU LATER 43 3.4%
4 BYE BYE 20 1.6%
5 SEE YA 18 1.4%
6 SEE YOU 13 1.0%
7 FAREWELL 12 0.9%
+ 71 other unranked answers.

Q9. Name an animal associated with Africa.
1 LION 751 59.0%
2 ELEPHANT 318 25.0%
3 GIRAFFE 108 8.5%
4 ZEBRA 46 3.6%
5 TIGER 17 1.3%
6 CHEETAH 12 0.9%
+ 15 other unranked answers.

Q10. Name the number of floors in a skyscraper.
1 100 433 34.0%
2 50 315 24.8%
3 30 87 6.8%
4 20 62 4.9%
5 25 37 2.9%
6 80 35 2.8%
7 60 32 2.5%
8 40 27 2.1%
9 10 17 1.3%
10 120 16 1.3%
11 150 15 1.2%
12 75 14 1.1%
13 70 13 1.0%
14 90 11 0.9%
15 110 11 0.9%
16 35 10 0.8%
+ 62 other unranked answers.

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Kev
www.brainbashers.com/common