Coming into the competition, five people -- Beth-Annie, Ed, Kimberly, moM, and Alexander -- could have potentially won. I will list the scores of those five people, question by question, in a "Survivor"-esque manner.
1) I have 15 AIM buddies, which was moM's exact answer.
Beth-Annie, 42½; Ed, 37; Kimberly, 36½; moM, 24¼; Alexander, 23¼. Alexander is mathematically eliminated.
3) I saw from the 12-minute mark of the third quarter to the five-minute mark of the fourth quarter, which is 22 minutes, which is Beth-Annie's exact answer.
Beth-Annie, 43½; Ed, 37; Kimberly, 36½; moM, 24¼; Alexander, 24¼. Ed and Kimberly cringe.
4) As of when I wrote the question, I had eight computers in my office and one computer at home. Ed's 5:1 ratio was closest.
5) The correct irrational number was e/pi -- approximately .86525598 -- and Lisa's first guess of radical three over two -- approximately .86602540 -- was amazingly close.
Beth-Annie, 43½; Ed, 38; Kimberly, 36½; moM, 24¼; Alexander, 24¼; Lisa-Anne, 11½. Lisa now solidly in 6th.
6) Ed's "Scelio africanus Risbec" is apparently a real animal and is closer than any of the other choices.
15) All of you undershot the distance of the rat's bite, but Alex's 11 cm was closest to the actual 6 cm.
Beth-Annie, 43½; Kimberly, 39½; Ed, 39; Alexander, 27¼; moM, 25¼. Ed and Kimberly on verge of elimination.
16) A tie: I got a +1, and moM and Kim each guessed two away (the former, above; the latter, below).
Beth-Annie, 43½; Kimberly, 40; Ed, 39; Alexander, 27¼; moM, 25¼. Ed gone. Kim must answer every remaining question correctly to win.
17) Shockingly, I have 291 bookmarks (and 42 folders!) on Yahoo Bookmarks; Kim, with the highest guess of 182, wins the puppy.
Beth-Annie, 43½; Kimberly, 41; Ed, 39; Alexander, 27¼; moM, 25¼. Kim must still answer every remaining question correctly to win.
18) I have seen 24 Woody Allen-directed movies; go here, down to the "Director - filmography" area, and I've seen Husbands and Wives through Hollywood Ending except the two TV movies (11), Crimes and Misdemeanors, Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy through September (7), Manhattan, Annie Hall, Love and Death, Sleeper, and What's Up, Tiger Lily?. Kimberly was closest with 23.
19) I have seen 16 Mike Leigh-directed movies; go here, down to the "Director - filmography" area, and I've seen Naked through All or Nothing (5), Four Days in July through Life is Sweet (4),Kiss of Death through Home Sweet Home (6), and Nuts in May. And again, Kimberly was closest with 13.
20) This is a difficult decision, one that I have been dreading, because...wait folks, just a second. I am being told by the producer that we are out of time for today. How wretching. Please come back tomorrow, same time, for the denouement of "The First Annual How Perfectly Swell Points Competition"!
oh so lovingly written by
Matthew |
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
