IWS #101 Results

[QuikSand]

I’m With Stupid #101 – The Reckoning

This group effort of questions yielded lots of fun. We had some questions that were perceived to be impossible – yet they yielded a pretty reasonable spread of answers after all. Who knew?

Without further ado…


1. What is your least favorite U.S. city?

9 New York
6 Los Angeles
5 Detroit
2 Cleveland
2 Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Las Vegas
Dallas
Washington DC


Not a huge shock to me here – I expected more NY than LA, probably by a wider margin. An impressive strong showing for the Motor City – not exactly a city that immediately comes to mind for anything, since hardly anybody would actually visit there to form his own opinion. Well done, Detroit!


2. What class in school would you least want to repeat?

8 calculus
7 math
4 algebra
3 biology
2 chemistry
trignonometry
history
economics
English
freshman


Well, even among the so-called geekfest of a sports sim message board, it turns out Barbie was right after all: “math class is hard!” Geez, if all the math people had gotten their act together and just said “math” (clearly the preference of Stupid himself) this would have been an eliminator. And I’m sure the “economics” response was just a typo.



3. Who should be the first pitcher taken in fantasy baseball drafts this season?

17 Randy Johnson
8 Johan Santana
Roger Clemens
Jason Schmidt
Pedro Martinez
Curt Schilling


Not quite an eliminator… but pretty close to consensus here.


4. Name a player who was a 2005 NBA All-Star.

12 Lebron James
10 Shaquille O’Neal
3 Allen Iverson
2 Kobe Bryant
Tim Duncan
Yao Ming


Sign of the times, perhaps? King James reigns supreme, even when the question amounts to “name a guy.” Good for him.


5. Besides "Come on Eileen," name a song by Dexy's Midnight Runners.

9 Geno
5 The Celtic Soul Brothers
3 Show Me
2 Dance Stance
2 Jackie Wilson Said
2 Lets Get This Straight
Plan B
This is What She Likes
Because of You
There There, My Dear
All in All
no answer

After all the hand-wringing, we ended up with most of the responses landing on two songs. I’m interested to see why those two songs… “Geno” because of its short title? TCSB because of its catchy title? Placement on the same album as “Eileen”– like the first song listed? Beats me, I didn’t even try this one…


6. Besides “idiot,” name a word you would use to insult an “idiot.”

16 moron
6 dumbass
2 stupid
2 retard
jackass
imbecile
asshat


Pretty much an eliminator here – I thought there might be more creative responses give the setting, and I fully expected “stupid” to make the list more prominently. Alas… if there’s one thing Stupid knows, it’s an insult for stupid people.



With that – we have our results. First, we will thank for participating:


oliegirl 313,344
Raven Hawk 178,500
Solecismic 171,360
BillyPilgrim 130,560
varacel 108,864
Radii 103,680
EagleFan 66,096
MIJB#19 65,280
Leonidas 58,752
JeeberD 57,600
General Mike 48,960
Desnudo 44,800
mhass 44,064
kingfc22 41,472
timmae 39,168
BrianD 22,032
flere-imsaho 12,800
Pyser 9,792
Critch 5,600
Celeval 3,072
hhiipp 2,448
Raiders Army 2,448
Noop 2,268
tanglewood 1,224
Sublime 2 864
robbgmaier 192


:: polite applause::


Now, our runners-up…


Klinglerware 660,960
TazFTW 552,960


::enthusiastic applause::


And, our grand champion…


albionmoonlight 856,800


::throwing applesauce::


Congratulations to albionmoonlight on the victory – the torch has been passed to you, sir.

[albionmoonlight]

Finally.

To answer your Dexy question: I googled Dexy and found a couple of band bio pages. Both of them mentioned the "moderate" success of TCSB and that it came out around the time of Come on Eileen. That was good enough for me (and, it seems, good enough for Stupid as well).

[tanglewood]

I found that Geno was their only other No.1 in the UK so stuck that down. However, my googleage seemed to indicate that according to various surveys, reports etc. Cleveland was almost uninanimoulsy the worst metropolitan area to live in the US. I guess that stupid disagrees.

[Klinglerware]

Finally.

To answer your Dexy question: I googled Dexy and found a couple of band bio pages. Both of them mentioned the "moderate" success of TCSB and that it came out around the time of Come on Eileen. That was good enough for me (and, it seems, good enough for Stupid as well).

Again, with the Dexy question: I picked Geno because it was on a compilation of British #1 hits that I bought years ago. Apparently it was their only other really big hit (in the UK anyway). Not a bad song...

[MIJB#19]

What was I thinking with "Philadeplhia" over "New York"?
And then "algebra" over simple "math"?
Those two ruined a perfect score in the baseball and basketball questions.

[Raiders Army]

I didn't think that NY would beat out LA, predominantly because of 9/11. I guess the Yankees totally overcame that though.

[cartman]

I'll fess up, it was me that sent in the Dexy's Midnight Runners question. If I had a submission, I don't have a clue what I would have put down as an answer for that one... :D

[QuikSand]

I'll fess up, it was me that sent in the Dexy's Midnight Runners question. If I had a submission, I don't have a clue what I would have put down as an answer for that one... :D

I actually thought that "none" might fetch a handful of votes there. After all Stupid hates to work for it.

[JeeberD]

I almost PM'd Quik and asked him to change from Trig to Calculus, but I never got around to it. Doesn't matter, I still would have been screwed for picking Santana...

[flere-imsaho]

My goal of sucking more at this than MIJB (you removed that line from your sig, by the way) is well on its way to fruition.... :D

[MIJB#19]

My goal of sucking more at this than MIJB (you removed that line from your sig, by the way) is well on its way to fruition.... :DYep, I didn't feel the need to point out how much I sucked at IWS-ing anymore.

Plus, with the links in the signature, it was getting too long.

[Alf]

New York and moron would have been my answers too :) yeah ! But you would have had another Shaq entry.

[panerd]

Why the hate for Saint Louis? I wouldn't rank it as the favorite place to live, but least favorite? I thought it was kind of the Switzerland of cities, no opinion either way.

[oliegirl]

Well, I didn't win, but at least I kicked radii's butt!!!! :)

[BrianD]

I was initially excited to see my name somewhat near the top, but then I realized I was still much nearer the bottom. Oh well.

Oh, and economics wasn't a typo. I liked the class, but it seems like everyone I have talked to hated the class. Having said that, I'm pretty dumb for not picking an actual math class.

[Desnudo]

Why the hate for Saint Louis? I wouldn't rank it as the favorite place to live, but least favorite? I thought it was kind of the Switzerland of cities, no opinion either way.

Maybe a Cubs fan? I chose based on where I'd least want to live. I obviously should have chosen based on a more general, abstract hatred.

[TazFTW]

Wow, I picked Detroit and Johan Santana and still came up third.


I picked Geno because I saw that it made #1 in the UK, so I went with what seemed like the 2nd most popular song.

[Pyser]

i honestly thought "cant name another song" would win for dexys midnight runners. i cant believe im the only one who just figured "stupid" wouldnt know, rather than look it up.

[Solecismic]

No one remembers War Games (my solo Las Vegas answer)? Now that's a true example of stupid overthinking the question.

Starting to wonder what the record is for consecutive top-ten finishes without winning.

[RPI-Fan]

Quik:

Did you get my entry? Wouldn't have won, here, but just curious where I would have stood.

[QuikSand]

Quik:

Did you get my entry? Wouldn't have won, here, but just curious where I would have stood.

Didn't get it, sorry.

[Vince]

I would have had Calculus and moron correct, but the Dexy's question sort of scared me off, and I forgot to come back and finish it out. Probably just as well, because I wouldn't have done so hot :)

[RPI-Fan]

Didn't get it, sorry.

Strange, it's in my "Sent" folder @ 10:14am on March 4th. I used the "Forward" function for it... wonder if that messed it up, somehow.