Guesstimates #3 Results

[Eaglesfan27]

Some fairly interesting responses:

1. In 2000-2001, how many pounds of oranges per capita were consumed in the USA?

For this question, I think some people misunderstood the term per capita which means per person.

The correct answer: 86.4 - according to the USDA 12.3 pounds of oranges per person were consumed as whole oranges and 74.3 pounds of oranges per capita were consumed as orange juice.

Score:
5 points: Sublime, 80 (6.4 differential)

4 points: Eaglefan, 75 (11.4 differential)

2.5 points: kingfc22 and General Mike, 45 (41.4 differential)

1 point: Ravenhawk, 35 (51.4 differential)

Nonscorers:

JeeberD, 150 (63.6)
Quiksand, 15 (71.4)
Draft Dodger, 12 (74.4)
SirFozzie, 12 (74.4)
butter_of_69, 10 (76.4)
Kam, 7.3 (79.1)
Henry296, 6 (80.4)
tucker342, 200 (113.6)
RPI-Fan, 12.3 million (12.299 million)
mauboy1, 25 million (24.999 million)
KevinNU7, 77 million (76.999 million)

2. As of 4/29/04, how many former USC Trojan players are currently on NFL rosters, or have their draft rights currently owned by a team? Answer: 43.

You can go to USC's website to see all of the various players and where they are. Interestingly, the Detroit Lions have the most (4)

Score:
4.5 points: Henry296 and SirFozzie, 45 (2)

3 points: Sublime, 48 (5)

2 points: Raven Hawk, 36 (7)

0.5 points: Eaglefan, General Mike, and Jeeber D, 35 (8)

Non-Scorers:
RPI-Fan, 56 (13)
butter_of_69, 25 (18)
Quiksand, 24 (19)
tucker342, 20 (23)
Draft Dodger, 17 (26)
KevinNU7, 15 (28)
Kam, 13 (30)
Mauboy1, 8 (35)
kingfc22, 114 (71) - I truly wish this was the correct answer.

3. At the Olympic Venues in Los Angeles in 1984, how many total pounds of trash were generated in the 22 days that the olympics were held by the participants and spectators at the events?

Amazingly in 22 short days, 6.5 million pounds of trash were generated according to the department of sanitation's report.

Score:

5 points: Henry296, 5 million (1.5 million)

4 points: Ravenhawk: 3,567,890 (2,932,110)

3 points: Eaglefan, 10 million (3.5 million)

2 points: kingfc22, 2.4 million (4.1 million)

1 point: General Mike 2 million (4.5 million)

Non-scorers:
SirFozzie, 1.2 million (5.3 million)
Sublime, 1.2 million (5.3 million)
KevinNU7, 1.1 million (5.4 million)
butter_of_69, .75 million (5.75 million)
Kam, .47 million (6.03 million)
JeeberD, .4 million (6.1 million)
Draft Dodger: .31 million (6.19 million)
tucker342: .01 million (6.49 million)
RPI-Fan: 53.2 million (46.7 million)
Quiksand: 60 million (53.5 million)

4. How many total wins have the Florida Marlins had since they started playing major league baseball in 1993?

Answer: 797. This was higher then I thought it would be. The totals were really bolstered by the 92 wins in 1997 and the 91 wins they had last year.

Scores

4.5 points: Henry296 and tucker342, 800 (3)

3 points: General Mike, 790 (7)

2 points: Eaglefan, 775 (22)

0.5 points: Raven Hawk and SirFozzie, 765 (32)

Non-scorers:
Draft Dodger, 841 (44)
Quiksand, 750 (47)
RPI-Fan, 846 (49)
butter_of_69: 850 (53)
kingfc22, 874 (77)
JeeberD, 880 (83)
mauboy1, 700 (97)
Sublime, 900 (103)
Kam, 684 (113)
KevinNU7, 555 (242)

5. How many known strains of Ebola virus exist?

Answer: There are 4 species and 9 strains in total currently known. The Ebola Zaire is the most lethal species and it consists of 4 strains: Zaire Mayinga, Zaire-95 (these two are the most lethal with close to 90 percent mortality rate), Eckron-76, and Gabon 94. Ebola Sudan is the 2nd species that consists of Sudan Boniface and the Sudan Maleo-79 strains. Ebola Reston species consists of Reston Strain and Reston Siena/Phillipine-92 strain.
Ebola Ivory Coast species consists of only the Ivory Coast-94 strain.

In summary the correct answer is 9 strains.

Score:

4 points: General Mike and Quiksand, 6 (3) and Kam, 12 (3)

2 points: Kingfc22, 5 (4)

0.5 points: henry296 and tucker342, 2 (7)

Non-scorers:
butter_of_69: 22 (13)
JeeberD, 27 (18)
Eaglefan, 31 (22)
Raven Hawk, 35 (26)
SirFozzie, 42 (33)
Mauboy1, 97 (88)
Sublime, 100 (91)
Draft Dodger, 1321 (1312)
RPI-Fan, 12511 (12502)

Here are the final point totals:

Finishing out of the points on all 5 questions::

t. 13th butter_of_69
t. 13th Draft Dodger
t. 13th mauboy1
t. 13th RPI-Fan

Point-scorers not in the top 3:

t. 11th JeeberD - 0.5 points
t. 11th KevinNU - 0.5 points
t. 9th kam - 4 points
t. 9th Quiksand - 4 points
t. 7th SirFozzie - 5 points
t. 7th tucker342 - 5 points
6th kingfc22 - 6.5 points
5th Raven Hawk - 7.5 points
4th Sublime - 8 points

Bronze Medal:
3. Eaglefan - 9.5 points

Silver Medal:
2. General Mike - 11 points

Gold Medal, and winner of Guesstimates #3 :

1. henry296 - 14.5 points.

Congratulations and I hope you have as much fun with the next one as I just had.

[henry296]

Yeah....

I will have #4 up tomorrow night, as I am travelling for business on Wednesday.

Todd

[Sublime]

4th! I'll take it!

I only scored on two of em, but it worked out well

[RPI-Fan]

OUCH - I was only off by a cool, umm, 60 million.

[kingfc22]

6th place. Getting closer to the medals.

[Draft Dodger]

gee - the Avs lose and I get shutout here. what a night!

[JeeberD]

Ugh...I sucked ass on this one.

[General Mike]

2nd place again. Ugh

[Butter]

Well, THAT sucked.

[KevinNU7]

797 wins doesn't seem right. Can someone give me a break down?

[JeeberD]

From baseball-reference.com

2003 	NL East 	91-71 	
2002 	NL East 	79-83 	
2001 	NL East 	76-86 	
2000 	NL East 	79-82 	
1999 	NL East 	64-98 	
1998 	NL East 	54-108 	
1997 	NL East 	92-70 	
1996 	NL East 	80-82 	
1995 	NL East 	67-76 	
1994 	NL East 	51-64 	
1993 	NL East 	64-98 	

[mauchow]

Yeah, I did pretty bad..

No, let me rephrase that.

I did very shitty!

[General Mike]

bump?

[SirFozzie]

hmm where did Henry296 go?

[tucker342]

Just noticed this... I think that might be my best finish ever

[EagleFan]

Originally Posted by KevinNU7

797 wins doesn't seem right. Can someone give me a break down?

797 is only an average of 72 per year over 11 seasons, figure they had 2 world series titles which would raise the number a bit so that's about right.


You're guess of 555 has them having an AVERAGE record of 50-112 for the past 11 years.


Hope that helps bring the numbers back into focus.