Alright then! Let's see how things went!
1. Name a place where you would go to buy pizza.For this one, several answers were variations of generally "a pizza store". I've counted these as the same. However, I counted "restaurant" as seperate, as that doesn't specifically imply a
pizza store.
Pizza store / Pizza restaurant / Pizzeria - 6 people (1 point)
> 607, Akseli, grams88, NaOH, Nepster, Timballisto
Pizza Hut - 2 people (0.33 points)
> ccexplore, Simon
Answers given by only one person (0.17 points each)
> geoo: "Restaurant"
> Minim: "Papa John's"
> namida: "Domino's Pizza"
2. Name a country that does not have a president.For this one, I have counted "UK", "The UK" and "Great Britain" as the same.
Great Britain / The UK - 6 people (1 point)
> 607, ccexplore, geoo, grams88, Minim, Simon
Answers given by only one person (0.17 points each)
> Akseli: "New Zealand"
> namida: "Australia"
> NaOH: "Canada"
> Nepster: "Vatican"
> Timballisto: "Sealand"
3. Name a level from "COVOX Lemmings".All but one person answered "The COVOX Level" here. That one exception said "the first level", which technically, is The COVOX Level (although a somewhat sneaky way of choosing it). I'll accept that as the same.
With that being said, everyone chose The COVOX Level here, so that's simply 1 point to everyone.
3. The COVOX Level (I was really tempted to say "I don't know", but I was too curious to not look it up)
4. Name a commonly-consumed product which is generally thought to be unhealthy.In this one, I felt the answers were differentiated enough that none should be counted as the same. So...
Pizza - 3 people (1 point)
> Akseli, Grams88, Timballisto
Answers given by only one person (0.33 points each)
> 607: "Candy"
> ccexplore: "Fast food"
> geoo: "Fries"
> Minim: "Lard"
> namida: "Tobacco"
> Nepster: "Chocolate"
> Simon: "Coke"
No answer given (0 points)
> NaOH
4. Coke, the drink
5. Name a dwarf planet.Well. Every contestant answered "Pluto" to this one, so it's one point to everyone.
5. Pluto (I wonder how much "IT'S A PLANET" arguing we'll get )
6. Name a real-life venomous creature.Snake - 8 people (1 point)
> Akseli, ccexplore, geoo, grams88, Minim, namida, NaOH, Simon
Answers given by only one person (0.13 points each)
> 607: "Shark"
> Nepster: "Black Widow"
> Timballisto: "Scorpion"
6. Snake (Or Viper, if you want a more specific answer)
7. Name an evil dictator (past or present).Well, it seems we had a lot of agreement as to the answer to this question. I considered "Hitler" and "Adolf Hitler" the same answer, obviously.
Hitler - 10 people (1 point)
> 607, Akseli, ccexplore, geoo, Minim, namida, NaOH, Nepster, Simon, Timballisto
Answers given by only one person (0.09 points each)
> grams88: "Saddam Hussein"
7. Adolf Hitler (at first I wanted to do Kim Jong Un because I wasn't sure if Hitler was a dictator, but I decided to just go for it)
7. Hitler (was very tempted to say "John Key")
PS: I would stay away from political questions like Q7 in the future. It is too easy to step on someone's toes if answering a present dictator.
8. Name a programming language.I did NOT consider "C" and "C++" the same for this question. I would assume a lot of people would agree with me on this.
C++ - 5 people (1 point)
> ccexplore, geoo, Minim, Nepster, Simon
Answers given by only one person (0.2 points each)
> 607: "Java"
> Akseli: "C"
> grams88: "Cobol"
> namida: "Delphi"
> NaOH: "D"
> Timballisto: "QBasic" (I would've considered this the same as "Basic" if anyone had answered that)
8. C++ <-- This is an amended answer, my original answer was C; these shouldn't be treated as feud-equivalent. Even though C is more prevalent in open source, I will choose C++ because the non-programmers will think of that more quickly. If HTML wins this, geoo can fetch his salty concoction.
9. Name a version of the Windows operating system.Probably the most different "not just one person" answers here out of any of these questions. I would've treated "Windows 8" and "Windows 8.1" as equivalent if it came up, but it didn't.
Windows 7 - 4 people (1 point)
> 607, Akseli, ccexplore, geoo
Windows 8 - 3 people (0.75 points)
> grams88, Nepster, Simon
Windows XP - 2 people (0.5 points)
> namida, NaOH
Answers given by only one person (0.25 points each)
> Minim: "Windows 95"
> Timballisto: "Windows 3.1"
9. Windows 7 (another good question! I decided to go with what most people use. But I think Windows 95, Vista and XP might also be chosen a lot)
Well, Vista didn't get chosen at all. 10. Name a Lemmings Forums member who is not yourself, a global moderator or an administrator.We had two answers here that ignored the question's limits - but as mentioned above, on feud scoring questions this is irrelevant, the answers are still scored as such. To be specific, we had one user who named themself, and one user who named an administrator.
Simon - 6 people (1 point)
> 607, Akseli, geoo, grams88, namida, Simon
Quizmaster - 2 people (0.33 points)
> NaOH, Nepster
Answers given by only one person (0.17 points each)
> ccexplore: "NaOH"
> Minim: "namida"
> Timballisto: "Insane Steve"
11. Pick a whole number between 1 and 25. (Highest number = least points)A lot of people went for a "pick high numbers so it's hopefully safer" approach here. So, here's the breakdown of what numbers were picked:
22: Minim, NaOH - 0 points
21: namida - 0.6 points
18: grams88 - 0.8 points
17: 607 - 1 point
14: Simon - 1.2 points
6: Akseli, geoo - 0 points
4: Nepster - 1.8 points
1: ccexplore, Timballisto - 0 points
12. Pick a whole number between 1 and 25. (Lowest number = least points)Some of the "pick low-scoring but safer" numbers strategy still appeared here, but people seemed to be a bit more daring this time around. Interestingly, the 5 lowest answers are the same people in the same order as had the 5 highest answers on question 11, even with a collision between the same two who collided. The same is also true for the single highest number.
4: Minim, NaOH - 0 points
7: namida - 0.6 points
11: grams88 - 0.8 points
17: 607 - 1 point
18: Akseli - 1.2 points
19: Nepster - 1.4 points
20: Simon - 1.6 points
24: geoo - 1.8 points
25: ccexplore, Timballisto - 0 points
13. Guess how many numbers will have "collisions" in question 11 and 12 combined. (Feud scoring)So back to regular feud-scoring for a moment, we had a bit of overlapping here...
0 collisions - 4 people (1 point)
> 607, Akseli, geoo, Nepster
2 collisions - 2 people (0.5 points)
> ccexplore, namida
5 collisions - 2 people (0.5 points)
> grams88, NaOH
Answers given by only one person (0.25 points each)
> Minim: 3 collisions
> Simon: 1 collision
> Timballisto: 4 collisions
14. Guess how many numbers will have "collisions" in question 11 and 12 combined. (Accuracy scoring)And the final question - with the most accurate estimate getting 2 points, second most accurate getting 1 point, third most accurate getting 0.5 points, and everyone else missing out.
The correct answer was
5 collisions. These were on numbers 1, 6 and 22 in Question #11, and numbers 4 and 25 in Question #12.
Only one person got the answer exactly -
geoo, who earns 2 points!
There were 3 people who guessed 6, and one person who guessed 4, who are all tied for 2nd place. Thus, the points for 2nd and 3rd places will be divided equally among these four people - that's 1.5 points, so 0.38 each (by the usual convention of rounding to 2 decimal places).
These were NaOH, Nepster and Timballisto guessing 6, and namida guessing 4.
Other people's guesses (which unfortunately did not earn them any points) were:
> 607: 11 collisions
> Akseli: 3 collisions
> ccexplore: 3 collisions
> grams88: 7 collisions
> Minim: 3 collisions
> Simon: 2 collisions
TOTAL SCORESSo with that out of the way, the only thing left to do is tally up the total scores. Our results are...
geoo - 13.30 points
Simon - 11.46 points
Nepster - 11.29 points
607 - 10.48 points
Akseli - 10.39 points
grams88 - 9.96 points
ccexplore - 8.33 points
namida - 8.27 points
Minim - 7.17 points
NaOH - 6.90 points
Timballisto - 6.37 points
Thank you for playing, and we look forward to your participation in the next round, which I will now sign onto #lix to see who's interested in hosting it.