IWS #45

[JeeberD]

Questions for IWS #45

1. Name a current or former Dallas Cowboys quarterback.

2. Aside from Berlin or Frankfurt, name a city in Germany.

3. Name a Stephen King novel.

4. Name one of the Power Puff Girls.

5. Who is currently the best closer in MLB?

6. Name a brand of bottled water.


Winners' List Of Honour

Ahbrady - IWS#15, IWS#41
Airhog - IWS#1
Albionmoonlight - IWS#30
Archer219 - IWS#18
Ardent Enthausiast - IWS#6
Bbor - IWS#23, IWS#26
BishopMVP - IWS#36
Blade - IWS#13
Bryce - IWS#40
Bsak16 - IWS#6, IWS#9, IWS#17
Cuervo72 - IWS#27, IWS#38
Desert Dweller - IWS#6
Digamma - IWS#14
EagleFan - IWS#41
Hammer755 - IWS#38
HeavyReign - IWS#23
Henry296 - IWS#12
HornedFrogPurple - IWS#10
JeeberD - IWS#44
Joe Canadian - IWS#29
John Lynch - IWS#10
Maple Leafs - IWS#34
Marmel - IWS#8
Masked - IWS#22, IWS#30, IWS#31, IWS#33
Msf518 - IWS#11, IWS#15, IWS#35, IWS#39
Neuqua - IWS#19
Nothingman - IWS#6
Panerd - IWS#3
Pjstp20 - IWS#42
Primelord - IWS#11
QuikSand - IWS#9, IWS#16, IWS#18, IWS#24, IWS#32
Qwikshot - IWS#5
RendeR - IWS#6
RobbieDobbs - IWS#37
RPI-Fan - IWS#9
Samdari - IWS#21
ScottVib - IWS#9
SplitPersonality1 - IWS#4
Sterlingice - IWS#28, IWS#31, IWS#35
Sublime - IWS#25
Swaggs - IWS#2, IWS#35
Tredwel - IWS#6, IWS#9, IWS#20, IWS#43
TRO - IWS#7, IWS#9, IWS#12
Vince - IWS#37

The Rules

These are the copy and pasted rules from the very first The FOFC “I’m With Stupid” Contest, written by QuikSand.

The object of this contest is to answer the questions posted below, and to provide the most common answer among those submitted. For each question, your score will be equal to the number of people who submitted that response. Your score for the contest will be the product of your individual question scores. Highest score wins.

There aren’t many rules or clarifications necessary, but here are those I can think of:

No collaborating in any way. No posting your answers to this board, nor sharing them by email or in any other way with other potential contestants.

All determinations of “matches” and anything else requiring judgment fall to that of the sole administrator of this puzzle, <b>JeeberD</b>. You can reduce the need for doubt and judgment by properly spelling your submissions, being clear, that sort of thing.

Any references that are unclear to you, due to language or geography, should be understood to be authored from the perspective of an English-speaking American. However...

Your answers do not necessarily have to be correct in order to score points. If I ask “name a color of the rainbow,” and you and four other people responded “black” - you get five points, period, even if it is not technically a correct answer to the question.

Submit your answers by Private Message to <b>JeeberD</b> before <b>Friday 23:59 Central Time</b>.

[Abe Sargent]

Too many questions to research.

-Anxiety

[JeeberD]

Really, you think that those require research?

Sorry...

[bbor]

JeeberD won IWS???

No wonder i don't play anymore:D

[TLK]

#4 for sure

[MIJB#19]

Another quality copy and paste and editing.
I'll be in.

[vtbub]

sent

[JeeberD]

Originally posted by MIJB#19
Another quality copy and paste and editing.


You better believe it. I'm much too lazy to write it all out myself... :)

[MIJB#19]

:)

By the way, this will not be my best IWS ever considering there's a baseball question in this one.

I can see how people need research on 3 or 4 of the questions.
Personally, I researched for 2 and just guessed on 1.

[Syrinx]

sent
(and I only needed research on number 4)

[TLK]

sent

[korme]

in

looked up 2, 3, and 4

[RPI-Fan]

Could have done 5 or 6, but it would have been the first thought that came to mind. So I checked with buddies on that one.

Had to look up #4 - awful question IMO. How many people from FOFC are going to know the powerpuff girls?

[cmp]

PM Sent.

[Wolfpack]

Sent. Also had to look up #4.

[Fidatelo]

I would need to research at least 3 of them. I think I'll sit this one out.

[JeeberD]

It looks like question #4 isn't that popular. Sorry about that. Guess I should have gone with X-Men or something instead.

Oh well, the Powerpuff Girls still rock!!! :)

And here's the list of current participants:

Katon
vtbub
MIJB#19
Sachmo71
Sublime
gold101
mrsimperless
Shorty3281
RPI-Fan
Syrinx
Sybot
TheLionKing
Wolfpack
Tredwel

Thanks to everyone who's participated so far.

[tucker342]

sent:D

Luckly my brother new the names of the power puff girls(don't ask me how:D)

[sterlingice]

Should I just post the names of the Powerpuff Girls for everyone? (Cartoon Junkie over here)

SI

[Draft Dodger]

#4 not only needed research, but it took me a while to find an answer.

[pjstp20]

bump

[JeeberD]

Originally posted by sterlingice
Should I just post the names of the Powerpuff Girls for everyone? (Cartoon Junkie over here)

SI

I thought about editing the question to list their names, but I thought that the order that I listed them might affect the way people voted.


Here's an updated list of participants (we're up to 22):


Katon
vtbub
MIJB#19
Sachmo71
Sublime
gold101
mrsimperless
Shorty3281
RPI-Fan
Syrinx
Sybot
TheLionKing
Wolfpack
Tredwel
Chief Rum
tucker342
pjstp20
albionmoonlight
Draft Dodger
MizzouRah
VPI97
Nothingman

A couple of the questions have runaway leaders, a couple of question have a couple of leaders battling it out, and a couple of questions are very mixed. So far, no one has a perfect score.

It's anybody's ballgame. Keep those entries coming!!!

[MIJB#19]

Power Puff Saves The Day!

(Having a 3yo sister helps, as does watching Cartoon Network.)
Don't post the names, it will affect the outcome of the game in an undesired way (at least for the earlier participants.)
Besides, if nobody knows the names, the question will only be some sort of tiebreaker, not a big decission maker.

[Alf]

in, but Baseball sucks...

[Mustang]

I shall now kick my own ass for now knowing the names of the Powerpuff Girls.

[cuervo72]

Originally posted by MIJB#19
Power Puff Saves The Day!

(Having a 3yo sister helps, as does watching Cartoon Network.)
Don't post the names, it will affect the outcome of the game in an undesired way (at least for the earlier participants.)
Besides, if nobody knows the names, the question will only be some sort of tiebreaker, not a big decission maker.

I have a 3yo son - thanks for making me feel old ;)

He doesn't watch Powerpuff yet, though he he does tell me "I need to watch my show.". What show? "George Shrinks". Sorry Cole, I don't think it's on. "Kim Possible". The first time he said this, I was surprised, I didn't even know he knew about Kim Possible (Disney). I didn't think he'd even watched it before :)

Oh, and I'm in.

[KWhit]

Sent and sent.

[Frozenrope]

sent, sent, sent.

[JeeberD]

Here's the updated list of participants. We're already up to 31, but no QuikSand entry yet. That makes me sad. Guess my questions weren't up to snuff.

Katon
vtbub
MIJB#19
Sachmo71
Sublime
gold101
mrsimperless
Shorty3281
RPI-Fan
Syrinx
Sybot
TheLionKing
Wolfpack
Tredwel
Chief Rum
tucker342
pjstp20
albionmoonlight
Draft Dodger
MizzouRah
VPI97
Nothingman
Neuqua
sony
Sterlingice
Alf
Mustang
cuervo72
KWhit
Butter_of_69
Frozenrope

Still no perfect score yet, though. This should be really close and really interesting.

Keep those entries coming! :)

[JeeberD]

Bump for the afternoon crowd...

[korme]

bizzamp

[korme]

Holy crap, I didn't realize the deadline was... Saturday. That's enough time to squeeze in 50 participants.

[JeeberD]

It was just started yesterday, and while I didn't research it, it seems like most people give about five or six days for participants to submit their answers...

[TredWel]

Back to the front page with ye!

[JeeberD]

We're up to an awesome 35 contestants so far. Can we make it all the way to 40?

Oh, I'm also going to go ahead and move the deadline up a day, to Friday at midnight since it seems that most of the usual participants are already in. Except for QuikSand of course. He's still holding out on me.

Here's the latest and greatest list of playing people:


Katon
vtbub
MIJB#19
Sachmo71
Sublime
gold101
mrsimperless
Shorty3281
RPI-Fan
Syrinx
Sybot
TheLionKing
Wolfpack
Tredwel
Chief Rum
tucker342
pjstp20
albionmoonlight
Draft Dodger
MizzouRah
VPI97
Nothingman
Neuqua
sony
Sterlingice
Alf
Mustang
cuervo72
KWhit
Butter_of_69
Frozenrope
panerd
Maple Leafs
TRO
Solecismic

Let's get five more people to play. I want to hit 40! Just another 36 hours for you holdouts to join in on the fun.

[Marmel]

I refuse to look up the names of the Powder Puff Girls. I'm out.

[MIJB#19]

Originally posted by cuervo72
I have a 3yo son - thanks for making me feel old.Oops, sorry for the typo, it was supposed to read 13yo sister.

Personally, I haven't been seeing the Powerpuff girls a lot since they decided to narrate the cartoons on Cartoon Network to Dutch, ugh.

Next time, you'd better ask a Pokémon question, JeeberD.

[JeeberD]

And one more bump before I go to work this evening...

[MIJB#19]

does this thread need another "bump"?

[cartman]

After avoiding the first 44 of these, my will has been broken and I've joined in #45.

[Sybot]

Originally posted by cartman
After avoiding the first 44 of these, my will has been broken and I've joined in #45.

Does that have anything to do with the fact that this is the first one involving a PowerPuff Girl question?

I for one am hoping against hope that I do not do well in this IWS. I'd hate to forever be known as the winner of the IWS that involved both the Baseball and PowerPuff Girl questions.

[JeeberD]

Up to 38 people. Can we get another two contestants in the next ten hours and twelve minutes?


Katon
vtbub
MIJB#19
Sachmo71
Sublime
gold101
mrsimperless
Shorty3281
RPI-Fan
Syrinx
Sybot
TheLionKing
Wolfpack
Tredwel
Chief Rum
tucker342
pjstp20
albionmoonlight
Draft Dodger
MizzouRah
VPI97
Nothingman
Neuqua
sony
Sterlingice
Alf
Mustang
cuervo72
KWhit
Butter_of_69
Frozenrope
panerd
Maple Leafs
TRO
Solecismic
QuikSand
cartman
BishopMVP

[JeeberD]

And here are the results for I'm With Stupid #45

1. Name a current or former Dallas Cowboys quarterback.

Troy Aikman - 33
Roger Staubach - 4
Quincy Carter - 1

Troy ran away with this one. I was expecting a few more Staubach votes, but I guess that you guys have short memories...

2. Aside from Berlin or Frankfurt, name a city in Germany.

Munich - 26
Hamburg - 9
Stuttgart - 1
Bonn - 1
:confused: - 1

I was expecting a more widespread vote on this one, and was surprised at all the Munich votes. I guess Oktoberfest has made Munich one of the more famous cities in Germany.

3. Name a Stephen King novel.

It - 11
The Shining - 7
The Stand - 7
Cujo - 5
Carrie - 4
Pet Semetary - 1
The Green Mile - 1
Christine - 1
:confused: - 1

A nice spread out vote there...

4. Name one of the Power Puff Girls.

Blossom (the red one) - 20
Buttercup (the green one) - 10
Bubbles (the blue one) - 8

The controversial Power Puff Girls question had a pretty definitive winner. Blossom was the obvious choice since she's the 'leader' of the group, and sure enough, she was the leading vote getter.

5. Who is currently the best closer in MLB?

John Smoltz - 21
Eric Gagne - 10
Mariano Rivera - 7

Rivera got off to a quick start, capturing the first four votes, but then Smoltz took over and blew everyone else away. No love for my boy Billy Wagner though. That's sad... :(

6. Name a brand of bottled water.

Evian - 19
Dasani - 11
Aquafina - 4
Perrier - 2
Aquarius - 1
Poland Spring - 1


And here are the final results:

<PRE>
Chief Rum 33 26 7 20 21 19 47,927,880 63.64%
Nothingman 33 26 7 20 21 19 47,927,880 63.64%
Sublime 33 26 11 20 21 11 43,603,560 57.89%
Butter_of_69 33 26 11 20 21 11 43,603,560 57.89%
cartman 33 26 11 10 21 19 37,657,620 50.00%
Tredwel 33 26 5 20 21 19 34,234,200 45.45%
Alf 33 26 11 20 7 19 25,105,080 33.33%
Mustang 33 26 7 20 10 19 22,822,800 30.30%
Syrinx 33 26 7 8 21 19 19,171,152 25.45%
QuikSand 33 9 7 20 21 19 18,336,780 24.35%
Frozenrope 33 9 7 20 21 19 16,590,420 22.03%
albionmoonlight 33 26 11 8 10 19 14,345,760 19.05%
KWhit 33 26 7 10 21 11 13,873,860 18.42%
Cuervo72 33 26 4 10 21 19 13,693,680 18.18%
BishopMVP 33 26 5 20 10 11 9,438,000 12.53%
Maple Leafs 33 26 7 8 10 19 9,129,120 12.12%
Solecismic 4 26 11 20 21 19 9,129,120 12.12%
RPI-Fan 33 26 4 10 21 11 7,927,920 10.53%
Sterlingice 33 26 11 20 10 4 7,550,400 10.03%
Sybot 33 26 11 10 7 11 7,267,260 9.65%
TRO 33 9 7 8 21 19 6,636,168 8.81%
pjstp20 33 26 7 8 10 11 5,285,280 7.02%
panerd 33 26 1 20 21 11 3,963,960 5.26%
mrsimperless 33 9 4 8 21 19 3,792,096 5.03%
TheLionKing 33 26 1 20 10 19 3,260,400 4.33%
tucker342 33 9 5 8 21 11 2,744,280 3.64%
VPI97 33 1 7 20 21 19 1,843,380 2.45%
Shorty3281 33 26 5 10 10 4 1,716,000 2.28%
gold101 33 9 7 20 10 4 1,663,200 2.21%
Neuqua 33 26 1 10 10 19 1,630,200 2.16%
MIJB#19 33 26 11 20 7 1 1,321,320 1.75%
Wolfpack 33 9 5 20 21 2 1,247,400 1.66%
MizzouRah 4 26 7 20 21 4 1,223,040 1.62%
Sachmo71 33 1 11 20 7 19 965,580 1.28%
vtbub 4 26 4 10 7 11 320,320 0.43%
sony 33 1 1 10 21 11 76,230 0.10%
Katon 1 26 11 8 7 2 32,032 0.04%
Draft Dodger 4 9 7 10 7 1 17,640 0.02%
</PRE>

Congratulations to our co-winners, Chief Rum and Nothingman. This is Chief's first victory while Nothingman has won once before (IWS #6).

The torch is now passed. Have fun creating IWS #46, gentlemen...

[sachmo71]

Isn't Munich in Austria?

EDIT: Nope, it isn't. Good thing this isn't Jeopardy!

[Sublime]

Not bad, a third place finish!
The only reason I answered IT for the Steven King novel was because my sister made me watch it when i was like 6, and to this day, clowns scare the living shit out me.

[Chief Rum]

Heh, cool! :D

I have been terrible in these things the four or five times I have done it. I guess I'm getting better (or I just got very lucky :) ).

Well, Nothingman, what's the plan? I'll be glad to do it if you like, or we can commisserate. Let me know, or PM me.

CR

[Draft Dodger]

last. dead last.
I need to give up.

[TredWel]

Darn. I had It down initally for #3, and then erased it in favor for Cujo.

Of course, it's not like I really need to win another one of these things ... :)

[tucker342]

hey! I think that might be my best finish ever:D

[MIJB#19]

100% in the top 4 question and then choking in the last two...
That's terrible.

BTW, the Stephen King question has been asked before in an earlier IWS.
It and The Stand tied for first back then...

[MIJB#19]

I was expecting a more widespread vote on this one, and was surprised at all the Munich votes. I guess Oktoberfest has made Munich one of the more famous cities in Germany.Jeeber,
Bayern München (pretty famous soccer team) is from Munich.

last. dead last.
I need to give up.Don't.
The more you lose, the better you feel when you end up in, say, second?

[Nothingman]

Woohoo! I had a good feeling about this one. :)

Chief, great minds think alike! (err... I'm With Stupid... oh well) :D

I think we should do the next one together. How bout you do all the hard work, and I come up with the questions? ;) Maybe you'd prefer some other division of the labor? PM me.

[korme]

Originally posted by TredWel
Darn. I had It down initally for #3, and then erased it in favor for Cujo.

Of course, it's not like I really need to win another one of these things ... :)

same here for the King question.

Also, I had Dasani down (came in as 2nd highest answer), but changed to Aquafina as I thought that was the most commonly drank water.

[Sublime]

Just wondering on the next IWS...sorry for pushing just getting anxious.

[Nothingman]

I tried to send Chief a PM but his inbox was full... I sent him a U2U on the RWBL board, don't know if that worked.

[Chief Rum]

I did get it, NM. And my PM box is relatively clear now. But I'm having massive computer problems again (same problem as a few days ago acting up again--why the hell does adding friggin' memory to my computer have to be such an ordeal?). I would suggest you go ahead and run it, asI have no idea at this point how long it will take me to get this stupid thing working again. :(

Chief Rum

[MIJB#19]

Chief, you could always sent 3 questions to Nothingman and have hive add 3 questions and run the contest, that would fit into tied victory iws history.

[Alf]

100% in the non-baseball questions !!! And a top 7 finish. Blossom was just the first result that came up on google (piece of luck).

1. Cowboy QB : Aikman won trophies lately

2. Munich : it is Germany most "football" known city

3. It : easy to remember

4 & 5 : no idea

6 : Evian : French spring water (I don't know the others)