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12-24-2004, 05:01 PM
I’m With Stupid – REVEALED!
The results from game #94 are in… and without further ado, here we go.
1. George W. Bush was recently named Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.” Other than him, who do you think might have been deserving of this recognition?
9 John Kerry
3 Donald Rumsfeld
2 Karl Rove
2 Tony Blair
2 Michael Moore
Lance Armstrong
Burt Ratan
the US Soldier
Jon Stewart
Ken Jennings
Paris Hilton
The Red Sox
Curt Schilling
Pat Tillman
Saddam Hussein
Well, I intended for this to be a total stumper – I didn’t even know what I would have answered myself (which I take as a great sign). I didn’t think about the possibility of Kerry here – I guess there are two different rationale to support that answer. One is that by “deserving” you were thinking “well, he deserved to win the election, so he’d have been POTY” – the other is just that while the mention of Bush got you thinking of the election, you couldn’t find another answer good enough to get you off that topic. Tough to know what Stupid was thinking here.
2. What was your favorite movie of this year?
8 Spiderman 2
8 Shrek 2
5 The Incredibles
2 Fahrenheit 9/11
2 The Passion of the Christ
LOTR: ROTK
The Terminal
Friday Night Lights
Though we’d get a few different ones near the top here… the resulting mix is about what I expected.
3. Whose music (group or individual) from this year was your favorite?
9 U2
5 Green Day
3 Usher
Linkin Park
eminem
Franz Ferdinand
Bowling for Soup
Norah Jones
Coldplay
Kenny Chesney
Shania Twain
OutKast
The Killers
Kanye West
But for that insipid iPod commercial, and some unctuously phony Spanish, I think we’d have had a wide open category here. Not an eliminator, at least.
4. What television show did you enjoy most in 2004?
5 CSI
5 The Wire
5 Lost
4 Survivor
2 24
Arrested Development
Nip/Tuck
MNF
Desperate Housewives
The OC
Sopranos
Superbowl
I love a tight race, but this is silly. I’m guessing that the FOF threads about Lost and The Wire played a role in their success here… and CSI is constantly just trumpeted as the most-watched show on TV. Fair spread here.
5. Who was the most overexposed person in 2004?
17 Paris Hilton
4 Scott Peterson
2 George W Bush
Michael Moore
Britney Spears
Kobe Bryant
Okay, our first eliminator. I really thought there would be several good answers to this – but perhaps the male dynamic interpreted “overexposed” a bit more literally than I had intended, making Paris a runaway winner.
6. What was the least surprising news headline of 2004?
13 Bush wins
3 Steroids in baseball
3 Peterson guilty
3 No WMD in Iraq
NHL cancels season
Powell resigns
Red Sox win
Iraq casualties
Kobe acquitted
campaign turns ugly
Well, another runaway – possibly poisoned by the Bush reference in the earlier question. Mrs. Q wanted to offer multiple choices for this – and maybe that would have been a good idea. (I resisted, on the grounds that Stupid seemingly tends to just pick the first option listed when offered a list)
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So, with that – let’s see who took down the big prize, shall we?
First, the “field”
digamma Kerry Shrek 2 U2 Arrested Development Scott Peterson Bush wins 9 8 9 1 4 13 33,696
Radii Kerry Shrek 2 Green Day CSI Scott Peterson Peterson guilty 9 8 5 5 4 3 21,600
Solecismic Kerry Passion OutKast CSI Paris Hilton Bush wins 9 2 1 5 17 13 19,890
Shorty3281 Kerry Passion Kanye West Survivor Paris Hilton Bush wins 9 2 1 4 17 13 15,912
tanglewood Rove Spiderman 2 Franz Ferdinand Survivor Paris Hilton Bush wins 2 8 1 4 17 13 14,144
albionmoonlight Rove The Incredibles Coldplay Wire Paris Hilton Bush wins 2 5 1 5 17 13 11,050
Plundun Pat Tillman Spiderman 2 Green Day The OC Paris Hilton Bush wins 1 8 5 1 17 13 8,840
TurnerONU22 US soldier Fahrenheit 9/11 Usher CSI Paris Hilton Bush wins 1 2 3 5 17 13 6,630
JeeberD Kerry Shrek 2 U2 CSI Bush campaign gets ugly 9 8 9 5 2 1 6,480
spleen1015 Curt Schilling The Incredibles Kenny Chesney Wire Paris Hilton Bush wins 1 5 1 5 17 13 5,525
Raven Hawk Blair Spiderman 2 U2 Wire Bush No WMD in Iraq 2 8 9 5 2 3 4,320
Desnudo Red Sox Spiderman 2 U2 MNF Paris Hilton Peterson guilty 1 8 9 1 17 3 3,672
oliegirl Rumsfeld Shrek 2 U2 Nip/Tuck Britney Spears Bush wins 3 8 9 1 1 13 2,808
Celeval Ken Jennings The Incredibles U2 Lost Scott Peterson MLB steroids 1 5 9 5 4 3 2,700
kingfc22 Kerry Spiderman 2 Linkin Park 24 Paris Hilton Sox win 9 8 1 2 17 1 2,448
MikeVic Paris Hilton The Incredibles U2 Desperate Housewives Paris Hilton MLB steroids 1 5 9 1 17 3 2,295
Easy Mac Kerry The Terminal The Killers Lost Paris Hilton Peterson guilty 9 1 1 5 17 3 2,295
MIJB#19 Rumsfeld Shrek 2 Eminem Wire Trump Bush wins 3 8 1 5 1 13 1,560
Dutch Michael Moore The Incredibles Green Day Lost Scott Peterson Iraq casualties 2 5 5 5 4 1 1,000
RainRaven Armstrong Spiderman 2 Usher 24 Paris Hilton Powell resigns 1 8 3 2 17 1 816
rlfreeze Blair Fahrenheit 9/11 Usher Sopranos Paris Hilton No WMD in Iraq 2 2 3 1 17 3 612
Glengoyne Kerry ROTK Shania Twain Wire Michael Moore Bush wins 9 1 1 5 1 13 585
temley06 Ratan Shrek 2 Bowling for Soup Survivor Paris Hilton NHL cancels season 1 8 1 4 17 1 544
GoldenEagle Rumsfeld Friday Night Lights Green Day Lost no answer No WMD in Iraq 3 1 5 5 1 3 225
Alf Saddam Spiderman 2 Norah Jones SuperBowl Kobe Bryant Kobe acquitted 1 8 1 1 1 1 8
And now, to our top scorers… first, our two runners-up, who posted similar scores to take the lesser medals:
Raiders Army 44,200
panerd 36,720
But our grand champion, who absolutely blew the field out of the water, we not even an American! Well, kinda…
Maple Leafs 572,832
And with a mighty 80% score of the possible points, Maple Leafs secures another IWS championship, an takes the reins for the next edition.
Congratulations to Maple Leafs and the other participants!
The results from game #94 are in… and without further ado, here we go.
1. George W. Bush was recently named Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.” Other than him, who do you think might have been deserving of this recognition?
9 John Kerry
3 Donald Rumsfeld
2 Karl Rove
2 Tony Blair
2 Michael Moore
Lance Armstrong
Burt Ratan
the US Soldier
Jon Stewart
Ken Jennings
Paris Hilton
The Red Sox
Curt Schilling
Pat Tillman
Saddam Hussein
Well, I intended for this to be a total stumper – I didn’t even know what I would have answered myself (which I take as a great sign). I didn’t think about the possibility of Kerry here – I guess there are two different rationale to support that answer. One is that by “deserving” you were thinking “well, he deserved to win the election, so he’d have been POTY” – the other is just that while the mention of Bush got you thinking of the election, you couldn’t find another answer good enough to get you off that topic. Tough to know what Stupid was thinking here.
2. What was your favorite movie of this year?
8 Spiderman 2
8 Shrek 2
5 The Incredibles
2 Fahrenheit 9/11
2 The Passion of the Christ
LOTR: ROTK
The Terminal
Friday Night Lights
Though we’d get a few different ones near the top here… the resulting mix is about what I expected.
3. Whose music (group or individual) from this year was your favorite?
9 U2
5 Green Day
3 Usher
Linkin Park
eminem
Franz Ferdinand
Bowling for Soup
Norah Jones
Coldplay
Kenny Chesney
Shania Twain
OutKast
The Killers
Kanye West
But for that insipid iPod commercial, and some unctuously phony Spanish, I think we’d have had a wide open category here. Not an eliminator, at least.
4. What television show did you enjoy most in 2004?
5 CSI
5 The Wire
5 Lost
4 Survivor
2 24
Arrested Development
Nip/Tuck
MNF
Desperate Housewives
The OC
Sopranos
Superbowl
I love a tight race, but this is silly. I’m guessing that the FOF threads about Lost and The Wire played a role in their success here… and CSI is constantly just trumpeted as the most-watched show on TV. Fair spread here.
5. Who was the most overexposed person in 2004?
17 Paris Hilton
4 Scott Peterson
2 George W Bush
Michael Moore
Britney Spears
Kobe Bryant
Okay, our first eliminator. I really thought there would be several good answers to this – but perhaps the male dynamic interpreted “overexposed” a bit more literally than I had intended, making Paris a runaway winner.
6. What was the least surprising news headline of 2004?
13 Bush wins
3 Steroids in baseball
3 Peterson guilty
3 No WMD in Iraq
NHL cancels season
Powell resigns
Red Sox win
Iraq casualties
Kobe acquitted
campaign turns ugly
Well, another runaway – possibly poisoned by the Bush reference in the earlier question. Mrs. Q wanted to offer multiple choices for this – and maybe that would have been a good idea. (I resisted, on the grounds that Stupid seemingly tends to just pick the first option listed when offered a list)
- - -
So, with that – let’s see who took down the big prize, shall we?
First, the “field”
digamma Kerry Shrek 2 U2 Arrested Development Scott Peterson Bush wins 9 8 9 1 4 13 33,696
Radii Kerry Shrek 2 Green Day CSI Scott Peterson Peterson guilty 9 8 5 5 4 3 21,600
Solecismic Kerry Passion OutKast CSI Paris Hilton Bush wins 9 2 1 5 17 13 19,890
Shorty3281 Kerry Passion Kanye West Survivor Paris Hilton Bush wins 9 2 1 4 17 13 15,912
tanglewood Rove Spiderman 2 Franz Ferdinand Survivor Paris Hilton Bush wins 2 8 1 4 17 13 14,144
albionmoonlight Rove The Incredibles Coldplay Wire Paris Hilton Bush wins 2 5 1 5 17 13 11,050
Plundun Pat Tillman Spiderman 2 Green Day The OC Paris Hilton Bush wins 1 8 5 1 17 13 8,840
TurnerONU22 US soldier Fahrenheit 9/11 Usher CSI Paris Hilton Bush wins 1 2 3 5 17 13 6,630
JeeberD Kerry Shrek 2 U2 CSI Bush campaign gets ugly 9 8 9 5 2 1 6,480
spleen1015 Curt Schilling The Incredibles Kenny Chesney Wire Paris Hilton Bush wins 1 5 1 5 17 13 5,525
Raven Hawk Blair Spiderman 2 U2 Wire Bush No WMD in Iraq 2 8 9 5 2 3 4,320
Desnudo Red Sox Spiderman 2 U2 MNF Paris Hilton Peterson guilty 1 8 9 1 17 3 3,672
oliegirl Rumsfeld Shrek 2 U2 Nip/Tuck Britney Spears Bush wins 3 8 9 1 1 13 2,808
Celeval Ken Jennings The Incredibles U2 Lost Scott Peterson MLB steroids 1 5 9 5 4 3 2,700
kingfc22 Kerry Spiderman 2 Linkin Park 24 Paris Hilton Sox win 9 8 1 2 17 1 2,448
MikeVic Paris Hilton The Incredibles U2 Desperate Housewives Paris Hilton MLB steroids 1 5 9 1 17 3 2,295
Easy Mac Kerry The Terminal The Killers Lost Paris Hilton Peterson guilty 9 1 1 5 17 3 2,295
MIJB#19 Rumsfeld Shrek 2 Eminem Wire Trump Bush wins 3 8 1 5 1 13 1,560
Dutch Michael Moore The Incredibles Green Day Lost Scott Peterson Iraq casualties 2 5 5 5 4 1 1,000
RainRaven Armstrong Spiderman 2 Usher 24 Paris Hilton Powell resigns 1 8 3 2 17 1 816
rlfreeze Blair Fahrenheit 9/11 Usher Sopranos Paris Hilton No WMD in Iraq 2 2 3 1 17 3 612
Glengoyne Kerry ROTK Shania Twain Wire Michael Moore Bush wins 9 1 1 5 1 13 585
temley06 Ratan Shrek 2 Bowling for Soup Survivor Paris Hilton NHL cancels season 1 8 1 4 17 1 544
GoldenEagle Rumsfeld Friday Night Lights Green Day Lost no answer No WMD in Iraq 3 1 5 5 1 3 225
Alf Saddam Spiderman 2 Norah Jones SuperBowl Kobe Bryant Kobe acquitted 1 8 1 1 1 1 8
And now, to our top scorers… first, our two runners-up, who posted similar scores to take the lesser medals:
Raiders Army 44,200
panerd 36,720
But our grand champion, who absolutely blew the field out of the water, we not even an American! Well, kinda…
Maple Leafs 572,832
And with a mighty 80% score of the possible points, Maple Leafs secures another IWS championship, an takes the reins for the next edition.
Congratulations to Maple Leafs and the other participants!