Results of the third challenge:
1. Easy start: Name an object/tool that can cut a sheet of paper.
Scissors: 9
Tempted to say chainsaw, but I'm gonna go with Scissors here
2. Name a company that sells computer operating systems.
Microsoft: 9
Full points for everyone so far.
3. Which PC game of the Lemmings series is least often played by members of this forum?
Paintball: 4
Lemmings 3D: 2
Lomax: 2
Revolution: 1
I believe Lomax is actually the correct choice, but this game is a little hard to think of; I'd probably have guessed Paintball myself.
4. Name a well-known country in Asia.
China: 8
Japan: 1
5. Name a number that many people consider lucky or unlucky.
Number 13: 8
Number 7: 1
6. Pick a girl:
A) the tall blonde woman in high-heels,
B) the short medium-blonde cutie with freckles,
C) the hunchbacked grey-haired witch with butt-ugly teeth.
If you pick the second-to-most popular girl, you get 1 point. If you pick the wallflower, you get 1/2 point. The most popular girl is worth 0. (She will just go out with someone else.) Ties will be broken in the manner A > B > C > A, where X > Y means that X gets half an extra pick should X and Y tie in picks. Should all 3 girls tie, then everybody gets 0.
Tall girl: 3 (möbius, Rubix, Clam; worth 1 point)
Short girl: 4 (Insane Steve, LemSteven, Ramon, Akseli; worth 0 points)
Witch: 2 (geoo, ccexplore; worth 1/2 point)
This matches my expected result. Next time, we will put three witches up for choice, so it gets more fair!
7. There are 5 kinds of vegetables: Tomato, Cucumber, Broccoli, Leek, and Eggplant. Choose one to eat, and a different one to deep-freeze. Scoring depends on what you eat: If nobody wants to freeze what you eat, you get 1 point. If you eat the most-frozen thing, 0 points. Scoring for the remaining vegetables is accordingly linearly arranged between 0 and 1, based on the number of freezings.
First, the freezing statistics:
Tomato: frozen 5 times (Insane Steve, geoo, LemSteven, Clam, Ramon)
Cucumber: frozen 1 time (möbius)
Broccoli: frozen 2 times (RubiX, ccexplore)
Leek: still fresh
Eggplant: frozen 1 time (Akseli)
Then, the choice of lunch:
Tomato: eaten 3 times (möbius, RubiX, ccexplore; worth 0 points)
Cucumber: eaten 2 times (geoo, LemSteven; worth 4/5 points)
Broccoli: eschewed
Leek: eaten 4 times (Insane Steve, Clam, Ramon, Akseli; worth 1 point)
Eggplant: eschewed
<SimonN> I figured that most people hate eggplant, but some people love it
<SimonN> Also Leek is something that nobody cares about really
<geoo> Yeah, I actually do. There's some I sorta like. There's also some that you can't really freeze because they suck really hard once you unfreeze them
<geoo> I deep-fry the Quizmaster
ResultsClam Spammer wins first place with 7 points, the highest possible score!
möbius gets second place with 6 points. geoo and LemSteven share third place with 5 + 4/5 each. Getting a good score meant answering the first 5 questions very consistenly, and ripping a fair benefit from the mind games.
Next challenge should be up around tomorrow, and it's a different format than 5 family questions + 2 mind games, guaranteed. ;-)
-- Simon