IWS #159 Aanswers

[Karlifornia]

It's the day we've all been waiting for. The day when we find out the winners and losers. We know the old favorites, we cheer for the plucky underdogs. That's right...it's:

IWS #139 Results day!


1. Name a job someone with a math major would have.

Math teacher/professor 22
Accountant 8
Mathematician 2
Statistician 2
Scientist 2
Engineer 2
Architect

2. Name a fictional character who's good at math.

Will Hunting 17
Raymond Babbitt (Rain Man) 5
Dilbert 3
Lisa Simpson 2
Professor Charles Eppes 2
The guy from Pi 2
Mathemanic
C3PO
Ian Malcolm
Doc Brown
Professor Frink
Doctor Who
Spencer Reid
Malcolm (In The Middle)

Toothpick counter extraordinaire couldn't hold a candle to the smoldering looks of Matt Damon.

3. Who will win the American League pennant in 2009?

Boston Red Sox 19
New York Yankees 17
Greater Metro Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in Southern Calfornia 2
Tampa Bay Rays

Apparently, stupid watches a lot of ESPN.

4. Who will win the National League pennant in 2009?

Philadelphia Phillies 10
Chicago Cubs 9
Los Angeles Dodgers 9
New York Mets 9
St. Louis Cardinals
Atlanta Braves

Came down to the wire. Recent history overcame high major-market saturation.

5. Name a popular side dish at a barbecue.

Baked Beans 13
Potato Salad 11
Corn 8
Cole Slaw 3
Chips 2
Fruit Salad
Ribs

Could the two loser answers represent any two different barbecues?

"Mom...mom....MOM!!"

"What is it, dear?"

"MOM..MOM I'm hungry"

"Ok, dear, just wait"

"Mom...mom..MOM!!"

"JESUS CHRIST. Bruce, will you stuff some fruit salad into this little brats mouth so he will shut the FUCK up."

or

"Hey, Rusty..the burgers are done. Huh? Yeah, so what if I'm usin jumper cables for tongs. It's my dang ol barbecue. Now what do you want for your side dish? A 52 Oz. Porterhouse, or a full slab of pork spare ribs?"

6. Name a band where the guys looked more like girls.

Hanson 11
Poison 8
Twisted Sister 6
Kiss 3
Guns 'N' Roses 2
Culture Club 2
Aerosmith
Duran Duran
Dead Or Alive
Cinderella
Whitesnake
Whitesnake
Jonas Brothers
Van Halen

Now, I had to look up Dead or Alive on allmusic as I was compiling the scores. I thought maybe someone was thinking of Bon Jovi. Nope! Dead or Alive is a band, and they did that "You Spin Me Round" song in the 80's. I thought that was Kajagoogoo. They did that song "Too Shy". I wonder if they look like girls. Are they girls? Ok. Ok. Fine. We'll find out who won.


Throw some footballs through the tires these people hung

Abe Sargent
Lorena
PackerFanatic
Chesapeake
Spleen 1015
DetoxRox
BYU 14
MIJB#19
Masked

By the power vested in me, and the state of California, I now pronounce you crappy.

MrDNA
Danny
EagleFan
Lathum
SunDvls
PurdueBrad
gstelmack
Pyser
GlenGoyne
StLee
Coffee Warlord
MikeVic
Samdari

If you fell in love with me, I'd at least think twice before spiking your drink with the glove cleaner.

Sublime 2
LoneStarGirl
lordscarlet
GoSeahawks
albionmoonlight
hoopsguy

You're not Pablo Honey, but don't go around you're OK Computer, either

Toddzilla
CU Tiger
cthomer5000
Quiksand
Dangarion
samifan24

Shameful Bronze

Passacaglia


If winning IWS was really important to you, you'd probably start crying now

Stevew

...Your winner, and NEW WWF Women's Champion

LOGAN

Full results attached

[Abe Sargent]

Never even SEEN Good Will Humping

[LoneStarGirl]

Stupid GoldenEagle being a Cardinals Fan! I believed him instead of saying Phillies. Got the rest right though I believe

[DeToxRox]

Speaking of stupid ... nice subject.

[Abe Sargent]

I only hit the number 1 answer once, Beans. I had Van Halen, Statistician, Braves, Yankees, and The Guy from Pi

[panerd]

Missed this. I love the C3PO answer for someone who is good at math.

[Karlifornia]

Speaking of stupid ... nice subject.

No wonder you did so terribly. You couldn't tap into your inner Aadvark.

[spleen1015]

Disappointed yet again.

[Logan]

I'm truly honored.

I owe it all to them hot Hanson bitches.

[PackerFanatic]

I blame the stupid "80's one hit wonders" show that I had seen shortly before compiling these answers - that is why I picked Dead or Alive. The lead singer creeped the hell outta me.

[StLee]

Missed this. I love the C3PO answer for someone who is good at math.

I thought for sure that would be one of my winning answers. Who can forget the scene where C3PO gives the probability of survival and then feels sorry about saying it?

[Pyser]

cant believe im the only one who though architect. dumb of me.

[Passacaglia]

Ah, so close -- I was considering both baked beans and potato salad instead of corn. I wonder if either of those would have got me the win.

Also, I got lucky with Will Hunting. I thought a lot of people might have said Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory and was seriously considering that as an answer, but I guess I was way off.

[samifan24]

How could I forget about Hanson? That answer killed me.

[albionmoonlight]

Answer #1 killed me. Good questions.

[Lorena]

Ribs as a side dish at a bbq... yum!

[Karlifornia]

Answer #1 killed me. Good questions.

You can thank lurker for the first two, and butter_of_69 for the second two

[stevew]

Fuck. So close. I felt really good about this one too

[stevew]

Fuckin poison.

[BYU 14]

I just want to know what kind of women the guys that picked Twisted Sister hang out with? :eek:

[Samdari]

"Bahhbara, what a chahhming mixer this is. I'm going to fix myself another champagne with caviar floating in it. Would you be a dahhling and arrange another serving of that divine fruit salad?"



You don't have kids do you? Or go to barbeques with kids? The second barbeque would have lots of kids (most named Billy Bob) and therefore some fruit salad.

[gstelmack]

Four #1 answers and a #2 and I'm in the second-to-last group because none of you watched or read Jurassic Park.

I turned off Good Will Hunting after about the 10th f-bomb, so like 3 minutes in.

[Passacaglia]

You don't have kids do you? Or go to barbeques with kids? The second barbeque would have lots of kids (most named Billy Bob) and therefore some fruit salad.

Can't believe I didn't think of fruit salad. I make a pretty mean one, but since it's comprised mostly of canned fruit in heavy syrup, I call it a sugar salad. Good, good stuff.

[gstelmack]

You don't have kids do you? Or go to barbeques with kids? The second barbeque would have lots of kids (most named Billy Bob) and therefore some fruit salad.

Mine are wolfing down the baked beans...

[lurker]

Man, I can't believe so many people think accountants major in math! And no love for actuaries? Yeah, yeah, I know it's what stupid thinks.

I thought someone would say John Nash for a fictional character good at math, and we could get in a nerd debate about whether or not the character in A Beautiful Mind was different enough from the real John Nash to be considered fiction.

Sorry it took us so long to put this IWS together -- hopefully there's no more ties in future games!

[Samdari]

Mine are wolfing down the baked beans...


How old?

The kids I am talking about are under 5. Never seen a kid that age willing to put baked beans into their mouth. And they'll eat dirt.

Not that I mean to defend the answer (I said baked beans). I am just saying the inclusion of fruit salad does not mean a hoity-toity fancy barbeque is occurring. More often, it probably means someone has kids who won't eat anything else.

[gstelmack]

How old?

The kids I am talking about are under 5. Never seen a kid that age willing to put baked beans into their mouth. And they'll eat dirt.

3 and a half and 6. Both have loved baked beans and bean soup most of their lives.

Not that I mean to defend the answer (I said baked beans). I am just saying the inclusion of fruit salad does not mean a hoity-toity fancy barbeque is occurring. More often, it probably means someone has kids who won't eat anything else.

We're not allowed to have serious conversations in IWS threads ;)

[Karlifornia]

I edited the fruit salad part for samdari

[Danny]

I didn't even think of Will Hunting, thought Dilbert would be a better answer.

[MIJB#19]

Good Will Hunting? Seriously? *shakes head*

[stevew]

Good Will Hunting? Seriously? *shakes head*

I gather you haven't seen it? It was all about a dude that was good at math, and was a really popular flick in the US

[MIJB#19]

I gather you haven't seen it? It was all about a dude that was good at math, and was a really popular flick in the USOh, I saw it alright, a couple of times even.

[MrDNA]

I only hit the number 1 answer once, Beans. I had Van Halen, Statistician, Braves, Yankees, and The Guy from Pi

Nice to meet you, other Guy From Pi Guy. :D

[B & B]

You can stuff your fruit salad, and your sorries in a sack, mister!

[LoneStarGirl]

Logan, when can we expect the next IWS?

[Logan]

It's been so long since the last one, I forgot what the process is.

[Karlifornia]

It's been so long since the last one, I forgot what the process is.

Funny, your lady said the same thing to me the other night.

[stevew]

Cough

[PackerFanatic]

I fully expect IWS #160 to be sometime in 2010

[Logan]

Oh shit...seriously, are there rules somewhere on how to run this thing?

[gstelmack]

It's at the top. You post the questions and a deadline, collect the answers, put them in a spreadsheet (I'm pretty sure the XLS linked here as the formulae), and get the results from it. Then you post the results.

[Passacaglia]

Actually, there's no formulae in there at all. While I'm nitpicking the spreadsheet, I'm not sure how Logan got a 9 on the 5th question. Shenanigans.

[Logan]

Good call, I came in second (61.5%).

Congrats to the true winner, stevew!

Better off, no idea when I'd be able to think up questions for this.

[LoneStarGirl]

Anybody see Stevew lately?

[spleen1015]

Anybody see Stevew lately?

Nope.

Cough

[stevew]

I wons? I'll put one together then.

[Karlifornia]

Yeah, I just did the spreadsheet from scratch, and did the math by hand. It was a real pain in the ass.

Sorry to stevew if I effed up. I'm looking to see what, if anything, went wrong

[Karlifornia]

Yup, sure enough. I put in a 9 instead of an 8 for Logan's answer to the 5th question, and after correction, it puts Logan at 61.5%, making STEVEW THE REAL WINNER.

I'm sorry, Stevew :(