IWS #53
 

Welcome back to IWS. Sorry I'm a little late with it. I've been a little under the weather plus FOF2K4 has taken up much of my free time. But enough with the excuses, let's get to the game...

If you're new to this, read the rules below. Otherwise, jump straight to the questions, and get your answers in by end of day Friday.

Questions

1. Name a vegetable often eaten at Thanksgiving dinner.

2. Name a brand of watch/timepiece.

3. How much cash do you usually carry in your wallet?

4. What time do you usually go to bed?

5. Who is the best scrambling quarterback in NFL history?

6. Name an NBA franchise located in the state of Texas.


Winners' List Of Honour

Ahbrady - IWS#15, IWS#41
Airhog - IWS#1
Albionmoonlight - IWS#30, IWS#50
Anxiety - IWS#49
Archer219 - IWS#18
Ardent Enthausiast - IWS#6
Bbor - IWS#23, IWS#26
BishopMVP - IWS#36
Blade - IWS#13
Bryce - IWS#40
Buccaneer – IWS#47
Bsak16 - IWS#6, IWS#9, IWS#17
cartman - IWS#48
Chief Rum - IWS#45
Cornhuskerly - IWS#46
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, IWS #52
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
NoMyths - IWS#46
Noop - IWS#46
Nothingman - IWS#6, IWS#45
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
RonnieDobbs - IWS#37
RPI-Fan - IWS#9
Samdari - IWS#21
ScottVib - IWS#9
SplitPersonality1 - IWS#4
Sterlingice - IWS#28, IWS#31, IWS#35, IWS#51
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, IWS#46


The Rules

The rules are the same as all FOFC "I’m With Stupid" Contests.

The object of this contest is to answer the questions posted, 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.

No collaborating in any way. No posting your answers to this board, nor sharing them by e-mail 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, i.e. the person posting the questions unless otherwise noted. You can reduce the need for doubt and judgment by properly spelling your submissions, being clear, and 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 JeeberD before Friday, 11/28/03, 11:59pm EST.

snet

long time listener, first time caller

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Just a quick pre-work update. I have nine submissions so far. I'mnot expecting a huge turn-out considering it's a holiday week, but I'm expecting a whole lot more entries. Keep 'em coming guys!

Dola-

Make athat eleven entries... :)

snet

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bump

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Late night update.

We now have 20 entries so far. Good work guys, were about half way home. I would like to get at least 40 entries for this...

In so far are...

RPI-Fan
Pumpy Tudors
TheLionKing
Philliesfan980
Sublime
panerd
finkest
Vikings13
Dutch
VPI97
cthomer5000
cartman
Archer219
tucker342
Chief Rum
MikeVic
Ramzavail
GoldenEagle
Neuqua
Shorty3281

A special thanks to both Pumpy and cthomer, who both entered their first IWS after all this time... :)

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Bump- I haven't gotten my entry yet, but I'll have it soon enough.

Oh, and JeeberD, if you need the spreadsheet, PM me with an email address to send it to.

SI

Thanks SI, but I don't have Excel on my computer. Instead it came with some generic Microsoft spreadsheet program. Last time I hosted I created a program for the cheezy spreadsheet and it worked pretty well. Thanks though... :)

Just use Open Office.

bump

PM Sent.

Awesome! Thanks MC. Guess I can go ahead and get that spreadsheet now... :)

Up to 28 participants...

RPI-Fan
Pumpy Tudors
TheLionKing
Philliesfan980
Sublime
panerd
finkest
Vikings13
Dutch
VPI97
cthomer5000
cartman
Archer219
tucker342
Chief Rum
MikeVic
Ramzavail
GoldenEagle
Neuqua
Shorty3281
bryce
Noop
EagleEye11
Sidhe
RonnieDobbs2
Wasabiak
yacovfb
mckerney

Sent.. Just want to make sure you got mine :)

Newbie here.. :D

Got it. Thanks!

Welcome to the wonderful world of IWS... :)

why dank ya

I see I have until Friday...
Expect my entry within 24 hours...

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and bump

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snet.

Bump!

Up to 35 participants!

RPI-Fan
Pumpy Tudors
TheLionKing
Philliesfan980
Sublime
panerd
finkest
Vikings13
Dutch
VPI97
cthomer5000
cartman
Archer219
tucker342
Chief Rum
MikeVic
Ramzavail
GoldenEagle
Neuqua
Shorty3281
bryce
Noop
EagleEye11
Sidhe
RonnieDobbs2
Wasabiak
yacovfb
mckerney
pjstp20
mauboy1
MIJB#19
fantastic flying froggies
Alf
vexroid
cuervo72

Night time bump. Up to 38 participants. At this point things are very, very close. A few entries that give the right answers and the person who is on top right now moves down several notches.

The following people are in...

RPI-Fan
Pumpy Tudors
TheLionKing
Philliesfan980
Sublime
panerd
finkest
Vikings13
Dutch
VPI97
cthomer5000
cartman
Archer219
tucker342
Chief Rum
MikeVic
Ramzavail
GoldenEagle
Neuqua
Shorty3281
bryce
Noop
EagleEye11
Sidhe
RonnieDobbs2
Wasabiak
yacovfb
mckerney
pjstp20
mauboy1
MIJB#19
fantastic flying froggies
Alf
vexroid
cuervo72
Butter-of-69
QuikSand
albionmoonlight
CubsFan915

Why is it I know that's the finishing order...

Bah, you're only at the bottom of the list cause you were so late in getting your answers in.

Of course, I'm not gonna say that's not where you are in the standings... ;)

It appears the list is in the order people submitted them

Just sent mine, my first shot at this.

Sent.

Trying a new philosophy this time.

when will the results come in?

Submit your answers by Private Message to JeeberD before Friday, 11/28/03, 11:59pm EST.

Probably Saturday..

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So at one point RPI-FAN controlled his own destiny to victory, I wonder if he held off the 39 other challengers for his lead he had at one point?

You mean QuikSand will finish in the bottom 10 and Alf and I would top him by a few places?
Or if the order is bottom-top, then it would mean both Alf and I would finish in the top 10...

Both cases are like fairy tales: some are true, most will never happen.

Bump

We're up to 44 people, which has got to be close to the record. Meep, do you happen to know what the record for most participants is?

Here's the list...

RPI-Fan
Pumpy Tudors
TheLionKing
Philliesfan980
Sublime
panerd
finkest
Vikings13
Dutch
VPI97
cthomer5000
cartman
Archer219
tucker342
Chief Rum
MikeVic
Ramzavail
GoldenEagle
Neuqua
Shorty3281
bryce
Noop
EagleEye11
Sidhe
RonnieDobbs2
Wasabiak
yacovfb
mckerney
pjstp20
mauboy1
MIJB#19
fantastic flying froggies
Alf
vexroid
cuervo72
Butter-of-69
QuikSand
albionmoonlight
CubsFan915
spleen1015
KWhit
Chubby
dangarion
Eaglesfan27

Snet!

-Anxiety

Jeeber, I'll check the IWS section on my website, but my first guess is 59 participants as the record.

My sources say 58 participants is the record, set in IWS#9, hosted by henry296 and won by a sixtet.

58? Damn! Guess I'm falling quite a bit short with only 45 so far...

Thanks for looking it up, Meep.. :)

bump with another entry.

SI

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Awesome! Up to 49 entries. The deadline in midnight tonight, so if you still want to get one in you had better hurry... :)

Jeeber, i sent you mine a while ago but dont' see myself on the list, should I re-send?

Hmmm...I don't have your entry for some reason. Yeah, please re-send it to me. Sorry about that...

and the results are...