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henry296
05-12-2004, 07:55 PM
Very interesting results:

1. How many bank branches in the country: 87,793. Many of you would have better off picking 0.

5 Points - GoSeahawks (100,000)
4 Points - MattJones4Heisman (70,000)
3 Points - Mauboy1 (67,000)
2 Points - Pyser (27,672)
1 Point - General Mike (25,000)

No Score:
Sublime (500,000)
EaglesFan27 (5,215,310)
SirFozzie (450,000)
EagleFan (855,001)
RPI - Fan (12,499)
Kam (387,000)
TredWel (950,000)
Kingfc22 (250,000)
Radii (19,000)
Raven Hawk (725,000)
Butter_of_69 (500,000)
Draft Dodger (1,295)

2. What is the population of the United States. When I visited the US Census web page on Sunday it was 293,207,670.

5 Points - Draft Dodger (295,000,000)
4 Points - Kam (287,983,203)
3 Points - General Mike (285,000,000)
2 Points - MattJones4Heisman (284,000,000)
1 Point - TredWel (283,000,000)

No Points:
Pyser (273,500,00)
Sublime (275,000,000)
EaglesFan27 (265,225,000)
RPI-Fan (305,842,128)
Mauboy1 (412,000,000)
Kingfc22 (25,000,000,000)
Radii (280,000,000)
raven Hawk (350,000,000)
Butter_of_69 (261,000,000)
GoSeahawks (500,000,000)

3. How many games have the Steelers won since 1933. Everyone was way to high. The total is 485, with Chuck Noll winning 209 and Bill Cowher 115.

5 Points - Pyser (29
3.5 Points - DraftDodger (545)
3.5 Points - TredWel (545)
2 Points - Sublime (580)
1 Point - EagleFan (594)

No Points:
EaglesFan27 (720)
SirFozzie (623)
RPI-Fan (820)
Kam (652)
MattJones4Heisman (774)
Mauboy1 (630)
GeneralMike (655)
Kingfc22 (680)
Radii (639)
RavenHawk (600)
Butter_of_69 (650)
GoSeahawks (1000)

What were the Afte Tax Earnings (Profit) of Wal-Mart in 2003. Since Wal-Mart's fiscal year ends in January the answer is actually from February 2003-January 2004. The answer is $9.054 billion

5 Points - Radii (5.6 billion)
4 Points - Kam (5.4 billion)
3 Points - Kingfc22 (4.5 billion)
2 Points - RPI-Fan (2.2 billion)
0.5 Points - Butter_of_69 (1.2 billion)
0.5 Points - Pyser (1.2 billion)

No Points
Sublime (30.5 million)
EaglesFan27 (18.7 billion)
SirFozzie (400 million)
EagleFan (135 million)
MattJones4Heisman (600 million)
mauboy1 (450 billion)
GeneralMike (17 billion)
TredWel (125 million)
RavenHawk (121 billion)
GoSeahawks (200 billion)
DraftDodger (430 million)

5. How many medals did the US win at the Sydney Olympics: 97 total medals

5 Points - Sublime (105)
4 Points - Kam (87)
3 Points - Radii (75)
2 Points - RPI-Fan (73)
0.5 Points - SirFozzie (125)
0.5 Points - EagleFan (125)

And the final Standings:

Shutout:
EaglesFan27
Raven Hawk

14th - SirFozzie (0.5)
14th - Butter_of_69 (0.5)
13th - EagleFan (1.5)
11th - mauboy1 (3)
11th - Kingfc22 (3)
9th - General Mike (4)
9th - RPI-Fan (4)
8th - TredWel (4.5)
7th - GoSeahawks (5)
6th - MattJones4Heisman (6)
5th - Sublime (7)
4th - Pyser (7.5)

BRONZE - Radii with 8 points
SILVER - DraftDodger with 8.5
GOLD - Kam with a score of 12 points

Kam gets to host the next guesstimates. E-mail me for the template.

Todd
mauchow
05-12-2004, 07:59 PM
Well.. I was pretty horrid again.
Eaglesfan27
05-12-2004, 08:03 PM
From 1st to worst in one quick step.
SirFozzie
05-12-2004, 08:31 PM
eek. whahappeneed?
GoSeahawks
05-12-2004, 08:34 PM
I got one top answer, but flopped on the other four. Either way I managed a respectable 7th place:)
Kam
05-12-2004, 09:29 PM
WOOHOO!
Sublime
05-12-2004, 09:31 PM
Still just outside the placings
Draft Dodger
05-12-2004, 09:38 PM
see, I luck out on 2 - actually, I knew the approximate population, so I lucked out on 1 answer - and looked like a total idiot on the others.

9.04 BILLION dollars? that's just crazy. I'm boycotting.
Radii
05-12-2004, 09:55 PM
not bad for my first try! 6th on two different answers, and then... damn steelers. I figured "they've been a very solid franchise" and figured them for like 9 wins per year. Whoops.
kingfc22
05-12-2004, 10:50 PM
Doh!
Draft Dodger
05-12-2004, 10:57 PM
not bad for my first try! 6th on two different answers, and then... damn steelers. I figured "they've been a very solid franchise" and figured them for like 9 wins per year. Whoops.

the key there is that 16 games seasons didn't start until the late 70's. Lots of 12 or 14 game seasons (or less) in there.
henry296
05-13-2004, 09:31 AM
the key there is that 16 games seasons didn't start until the late 70's. Lots of 12 or 14 game seasons (or less) in there.

Plus they stunk for the first 40 years. We make fun of the Bengals and Cardinals but that was the Steelers in the 50s and 60s. Their first playoff victory was 1972 on the Immaculate Reception.

Todd