Alright, time for the reveal!
1. How many players will participate in this round? (ccexplore)15 (1 pt) - ccexplore, Akseli, bsmith, grams88
10 (1 pt) - Simon, Nihilist Comedy Hour, Crane, geoo
0 (0.25 pt) - 607
I mean... "0"? It really does seem like the most obvious answer, here. Besides perhaps the number of participants from the previous round.
10 (because it's a hard round)
geoo's intuition was practically dead-on: initially only 8 players participated including yours truly, with all submission arriving within 1-2 days after questions were posted. Then we finally had geoo's late submission arriving just as I was about to wrap up scoring.
2. Give an example of a large number. (NaOH)one million/million/a million (1 pt) - Simon, Akseli, 607
googolplex (1 pt) - ccexplore, Crane, geoo
one billion/1 billion (0.67 pt) - Nihilist Comedy Hour, bsmith
100 (0.33 pt) - grams88
"Who wants to be a millionaire?" Apparently a good number of you.
3. Name a month with 31 days. (NaOH)January (1 pt) - Nihilist Comedy Hour, Akseli, Crane, 607, grams88, geoo
March (0.5 pt) - ccexplore, Simon, bsmith
4. Name a fruit with large seed(s). (ccexplore)peach (1 pt) - ccexplore, bsmith, 607
avocado (0.67 pt) - Simon, geoo
grapefruit (0.33 pt) - Nihilist Comedy Hour
coconut (0.33 pt) - Akseli
watermelon (0.33 pt) - Crane
loquat (0.33 pt) - grams88
(loquats)
The Mango has a gigantic seed, but maybe that's not as well-known as the Avocado. At least with the Avocado seed, the internet loves to argue whether you should eat the seed or not!
Wait, you can eat the avocado seed?!?!?
I think some of you misread "large" as "many" (eg. watermelon). Avocado did come to my mind actually, but wasn't sure if it's as well known of a fruit for feud purposes.
5. Submit a forum emote (aka smiley/emoticon) that is related to the Olympic games. (NaOH) (1 pt) - ccexplore, Simon, Nihilist Comedy Hour, Akseli, bsmith, grams88
(0.17 pt) - Crane
(0.17 pt) - 607
(0.17 pt) - geoo
I'm torn between and because obviously is factually best, but is related too and sticks out clearly from all other smileys
(those talismans are not real emotes)
6. Name an Oscar category whose associated films/features rarely show up in another category. (ccexplore)Best Foreign Language Film (1 pt) - ccexplore, Simon
Best Animated Feature (1 pt) - Nihilist Comedy Hour, Akseli
Best Documentary Feature (0.5 pt) - bsmith
Best Animated Short Film (0.5 pt) - Crane
Best Documentary Short Subject (0.5 pt) - 607
Best Picture (0.5 pt) - grams88
Best soundtrack [Best Original Score] (0.5 pt) - geoo
I think the award categories so often being split between "short" and "feature" hurted some people here score-wise.
By the way, Best Animated Feature often had a nominee (usually from Pixar/Disney/Dreamworks) that also had a Best Original Song nomination. And often one of the Best Picture nominees also got a Best Original Score nomination.
7. What is a way that someone can stay warm while being inside? (NaOH)blanket/wear a blanket/blanket over you (1 pt) - Nihilist Comedy Hour, bsmith, grams88
heater/room heating/turn on the heating (1 pt) - ccexplore, Simon, geoo
log-fire (0.33 pt) - Akseli
central heating (0.33 pt) - Crane
wear clothes (0.33 pt) - 607
The various heating answers gave me so much grief wrt subclass rule.
I think "central heating" is technically slightly more specific than "heating" in general, though it is common enough for indoor heating that maybe one should argue is synonym? "Heater" is just
any device that produces heat (and I basically meant heating in general even though the answer I typed in is "heater"), so I would count it as synonym for general heating. "Room heating" is not exactly the typical phrasing in my parts of the world, I'm reading it as indoor heating in general, and therefore another synonym for "heating" in context of given question.
If anyone feels strongly about all that, feel free to argue your case and I'll consider re-scoring if you change my mind. I did verify though that changing "central heating" to synonym scoring with the rest of heating answers does not affect the top 3 rankings, but does move Crane up one ranking.
Besides Room heating, another excellent answer is Booze. Most of the Lemmings Forums should have reached drinking age, but several geeks shun all alcohol.
8. Name an energy source for a power plant. (ccexplore)nuclear/nuclear fission/nuclear energy (1 pt) - ccexplore, Crane, 607, geoo
coal (0.75 pt) - Simon, Nihilist Comedy Hour, bsmith
fossil fuel (0.25 pt) - Akseli
oil (0.25 pt) - grams88
9. Name a mathematical function. (NaOH)sin/sine (1 pt) - ccexplore, Simon, bsmith, Crane, geoo
squared (0.2 pt) - Nihilist Comedy Hour
constant function (0.2 pt) - Akseli
addition (0.2 pt) - 607
square root (0.2 pt) - grams88
10. Which key on the keyboard is used the least? (ccexplore)` ~ (1 pt) - ccexplore, bsmith
scroll lock (1 pt) - Simon, 607
insert (0.5 pt) - Nihilist Comedy Hour
num lock (0.5 pt) - Akseli
q (0.5 pt) - Crane
PrintScreen/Sysrq (0.5 pt) - grams88
menu key (0.5 pt) - geoo
Unsurprisingly, lots of opinions here (and variety of answers). I actually have no clue what the "real" answer is.
MS Excel reacts to Scroll Lock, I hope this feature is not prevalently known across the Feud players here. Insert and Caps Lock may be less useful than Scroll Lock, but people press them by accident all the time.
non-Feud answer... it's probably Scroll Lock, but I can see people choosing letters first
My real answer: Pause/Break. My Feud answer: "Scroll Lock".
sometimes the Sysrq is on the same key as the printscreen
menu key (even though I do use it myself to avoid touching the mouse)
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Results:
1. ccexplore (9.50)
2. Simon (8.92)
3. bsmith (8.42)
4. geoo (7.83)
5. Nihilist Comedy Hour (7.45)
6. Crane (6.83)
7. Akseli (6.62)
8. 607 (6.45)
9. grams88 (6.12)
Yay me.
In case you're wondering, geoo's late entry pushed Simon's score past bsmith's and widened the gap between me and Simon.
Anyhow,
Simon gets to host the next round or pass the honor to someone else. Thanks everyone for participating!
Also special thanks to
NaOH for helping with half the questions.
Not sure if it made things easier or harder?
-- ccexplore