The Matching Game has ended! The results are in!The (correct) answers:
1 - What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?chocolate (2 people answered) - ccx, Simon,
vanilla (2 people answered) - IchoTolot, Raymanni
moose tracks (for any unaware: vanilla ice cream, fudge and peanut butter cups covered in chocolate, or a similar recipe) - ColorfulArty
strawberry - geoo
Anything with lots of sprinkles - Gronkling
mint chocolate chip - mobius
banana - Ramon
liquorice -Akseli
green tea - NaOH
2 - what website (besides the Lemmings forum) do you visit most often?YouTube (3 people answered) - mobius, IchoTolot, ColorfulArty
Google (2 people answered) - ccx, NaOH
facebook - Akseli
twitch - Simon
Aljazeera English - geoo
rateyourmusic - Gronkling
Nintendo Everything - Raymanni
Little Fighter Empire - Ramon
3 - What did the three wise men bring to baby Jesus?gifts - ccx
smoke - mobius
Lots of gold - Ramon
glistening but pointless junk - Akseli
Um... Hay? - Raymanni
The first wise man brought him medicine so that he was able to cure the people, The second one brought him hover sandals so that he was able to walk on water, The third one brought him a pill that was able to fake his death at the cross. - IchoTolot
Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh - Colorful Arty
frankensence murr and gold - Gronkling
wisdom - NaOH
zip archive with backroutes - Simon
Pacifier, diapers, a soundproof box - geoo
4 - If you could choose any profession to suddenly do (instead of your current one) what would it be?Rock climber - geoo
medical doctor - IchoTolot
Indie developer - ColorfulArty
game developer - Raymanni
musician - Gronkling
movie producer/director - mobius
software engineer - Simon
athlete -Akseli
CEO - ccx
Composer - Ramon
writer - NaOH
5 - What video game character best describes you? (Video game source in parenthesis)Chell (Portal) - mobius
GLaDOS (Portal) - geoo
Stinky (?) - ccx
Warren (Life is Strange) - Ramon
pokemon trainer (pokemon) - Akseli
Kane (Command & Conquer) - IchoTolot
sans (Undertale) - Colorful Arty
frog trap (Lix) - NaOH
Cranky Kong (Donkey Kong Country: Rumble in the Jungle) - Simon
Commander Keen (Commander Keen) - Raymanni
komasan (Yo-Kai) - Gronkling
6 - Pop quiz, hotshot: There's a bomb on a bus, full of passengers traveling down a highway in a busy U.S. City. The bus's number is 2525. If the bus goes over 50 MPH, the bomb is armed. If it then goes below 50, it blows up. Now what do you do?answers:
panic - ccx
Jump off the bus and hope I survive. - Raymanni
It is most likely I am not on this bus and therefore don't know about its existence and terroristic properties, thus I am probably at home sleeping or playing video games, considering the time zone difference. - Ramon
Keep the bus just over 80,4672 km/h () and let the passengers jump out as carefully as possible. Better to break some bones as exploding! Of course the driver must be the last one to jump out + choosing a place where the bomb can explode with as little collateral damage as possible. - Ichotolot
Anything I want; this is America after all. - Colorful Arty
I would be clueless - Akseli
Make note of what everyone else does and publish the events as a movie script. - NaOH
Call police, tell 2525. They have enough time to stop because the bus can't go fast in the crowded city. - Simon
If I'm the driver: Honk to make sure the lane stays clear in front of me, If I'm a passenger: DON'T PANIC, If I'm neither: Get the popcorn ready. - geoo
Tell the driver there’s a bomb on the bus and also phone the police/army/bomb defusal team - Gronkling
shoot the hostages - mobius
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7 people submitted guesses!
SCORE BREAKDOWN:questions they guessed correct:
questions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 TOTALSimon 3 6 2 4 5 4 24
Akseli 4 4 2 5 5 4 24
Gronkling 1 4 4 4 3 3 19
IchoTolot 1 4 4 3 2 3 17
geoo 2 6 1 4 6 4 23
NaOH 2 4 3 4 4 3 20
ccexplore 4 2 5 6 4 2 23
And the winner is...........
A TIE between Simon and Akseli!with a close second tie between geoo and ccxexplore
The average number of correct answers on any guess was 3. The highest number was 6. Everyone was guaranteed at least 1 guess correct (their own answer).
-Some good funny answers in this game.
-In retrospect I should've worded the last question differently to make it clearer and avoid such lengthy answers. In the future I will be much more thoughtful and careful with how I word the questions.
-I've never heard of liquorice or green tea flavored ice cream
?? Not many knew other's favorite flavor of ice cream, even geoo and Simon who are close friends.
-many incorrect choices seemed reasonable; NaOH picking Chell, as a female. Icho liking chocolate icream, he stated in IRC he loves chocolate, mobius picking a pokemon character because he's recently been Lping pokemon on his youtube channel. picking mobius for the incorrect spelling answer of questions 3, mobius often mispells on IRC.
-Apparently almost everyone knows geoo wants to be a rock climber.
-Almost everyone correctly guessed Icho's answer for the Bus question. Probably due to his writing style?
my answers: (mobius)
1 honest answer
2 honest answer; could've also said wikipedia (perhaps should have said this to make it more diverse...)
3 this was my favorite (actual) answer from a particular game of the online family feud game Simon posted long ago
4 I suspected many people might guess, musician for me. I frequently talk about music on IRC. There are many professions I would try. Making movies allows you do get involved with music too, and many other things as well.
5 I actually honestly couldn't think of a very good answer for this question. Somedays I feel like this character... >_> Life is a game and I'm just a pawn
6 a reference to the movie which the question is also a reference to: "Speed" starring Keanu Reeves. When a bad guy has taken a hostage and threatens to kill them, shoot the hostage in a non-lethal place, the bad guy loses his bargaining chip and is at disadvantage. This has little to do with the answer to the actual question asked.
The actual answer, according to the movie is (ultimately) closest to what Icho said. Near the end, after safely escorting the passengers off onto another moving truck, Keanu Reeves shoves a bar onto the gas pedal to keep the bus going and he jumps off. The bus careens into a plane and blows up spectacularly. Of course not after a bunch of other more totally unrealistic feats.
Thanks everyone for participating! If someone else wants the quizmaster account, PM the quizmaster. If not I may start another game later. It most likely won’t be another matching game.