IWS XL: A Stupid Treasure Hunt

[Skanky Burns]

What time is it?

Time our results were up!

[duke o' york]

I hope you made good use of your weekend SnowFire - better use than Skanky, Joncha, Smiley and Pave made of theirs.

But we still need the results!

[Skanky Burns]

Hey, I earnt more money, drank alcohol and posted on Poly.
What else is there to life?

[Rasputin]

well i did all that except the Drinking didnt get much of that done ....

[Snowflake]

It is becoming real imperitive that somebody comes out with a good way to calculate the IWS scores.

[J Bytheway]

I think I could throw together a program to do it relatively easily. The only minor problem is similar but not identical answers, but I think I see an easy way to deal with those.

Leave it with me for a while...

[loinburger]

Let's impeach Starfire.

[SnowFire]

loinburger: I agree. Starfire is a miserable imposter wretch, and I hate him or her. SnowFire on the other hand should definitley be elected to dictator of the universe, for his cunning delay to increase the tension, or something.

1. What would be the most valuable resource in the New World, circa ~1600?
6 gold
3 tobacco
2 gunpowder/guns
2 Silver ($20 a load in colonization) {Don't forget the exclamation mark- it's Colonization!}
1 water
1 MSN Messenger
1 Indian virgins
1 enriched uranium
1 smallpox
18

2. What will be the second planet/moon to be terraformed by humans?
4 Mars
3 Venus
3 Earth (After we F it up)
2 The Moon
2 Titan {Why was this more popular than Europa? Haven't you seen 2010?}
2 Chiron (Alpha Centauri)
1 Europa
1 Start
18

3. Who is the greatest artist of the past 513 years?
5 Da Vinci
4 Michelangelo
2 Picasso
1 Show Desktop
1 Mozart
1 The artist formerly known as prince
1 Bob Dylan
1 My daughter
1 Michael Haire
1 Salvadore Dali
18

4. What is your favorite acronym?
3 STFU
2 TLA (three letter acronym)
1 WTF
1 IMHO
1 SARS
1 PEBKAC
1 Acronym?
1 SSDD
1 OMGWTF
1 Bloody Squito
1 ACS
1 IWS
1 SNAFU
1 Written Apology
1 Poly
18

5. How about your favorite homonym?
3 their/they're/there. They're there with their tools.
2 dont know any gay nyms !!
2 MrFun
2 bare/bear
1 How can you just have a favourite homonym? You'd have to have favourite homonyms. They don't exist on their own!
1 The Bible
1 ass
1 snatch
1 like
1 homonym?
1 monkeys
1 The Plague
1 bow/bough
18

6. So, when you read "Bloody Squito" above... what did you think it was? An evil mosquito? A feared (American) Indian chief? An alien mutant brain-sucker?
4 (A plump, full, just feasted on my arm and makes a lovely sound when it gets crushed) mosquito
3 An alien mutant brain-sucker
2 An angry cephalopod/ An octopussy
1 Some kind of Monty Python reference
1 A DL
1 The answer to the Bonus Question.
1 Read it where?
1 Used Tampon
1 Mexican dish
1 A description of the stupider entrants of this competition
1 1979
1 It was bloody
18

7. John Ashcroft has just sent you hurtling back in time to 100 years ago. Luckily, you think you can manipulate where you land. Where do you go to to seek your fortune?
3 New York (and get rich for being the guy that orchestrates the Babe Ruth deal)
2 John Rockefeller's money safe / US Mint {They're the same thing, roughly.}
1 Cuzzabuzz
1 China
1 The bookmaker's
1 I want to go to Disney Land!
1 Finland
1 Nowhere
1 Sell short on shares of the Titanic
1 whos john ashcroft.
1 Alaska
1 John Ashcroft's grandparents house, to bump em off
1 Russia!
1 Hawai'i
1 the US of A.
18

8. What one trait do you think best describes most Apolytoners?
3 geekish / nerdy
2 horny / randy
1 stupid
1 male
1 jackass
1 obsessive
1 crazy
1 kids
1 They don't live in the real world
1 dorks
1 lazyness
1 opinionated
1 short {Heh.}
1 PHP
1 love of spam
18

9. Which exotic country will the United States next go to war with?
4 North Korea
2 Finland
2 Syria
2 Itself! Civil War part II! / Puerto Rico
2 Canada
1 rant
1 Sudan
1 Easter Island {But how could we stop the alien statues from levelling us?!}
1 Israel
1 Iran
1 Cuba
18

10. Where is the lost city of El Dorado?
4 South America
2 *points at heart* it is here
2 Like everything that's lost, in the last place you'll look
1 California
1 Peru
1 Texas
1 Inca
1 Union County, Arkansas
1 It's in my pants
1 Venezuela
1 Near El Dorito? {... no.}
1 /.
1 Rome
18

11. What have the Romans ever done for us?
5 aqueducts/sewers
3 You mean besides the roads, education, sanitation, medicine, irrigation, public health, baths, a freshwater system and public order? Not a thing. Oh, except peace.
2 nothing
1 no no no no no :vomit:
1 Discovered the insanity-causing effects of plumbum {:d}
1 Crucifixions are the best things ever
1 spaghetti
1 Built ruins
1 Sent Christians to the lions
1 The Romans r0xx0r5 u, punk!
1 They gave us all those funky quotes.
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SBQ:
3 Canada / America Junior (it wishes)
2 "Bloody Squito / It's a mosquito. A bastard, bloodsucking, scourge of the swamp mosquito. Either that or it is a pronoun.

"The citronella... it does nothing! AIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!""
2 I hate George W Bush / George W. Bush just invaded Canada! {Both were similar items used as examples in the rules quote. I almost included 42, which also qualified, but left it to honor Chaunk's perfect score.}
2 Finland
1 A finely crafted pipe
1 Norway
1 who cares
1 Aha, but you are the fool, for it IS Zylka!!!
1 I don't know
1 42
1 Dr. Spike

[SnowFire]

So, the scores.

17 12 Chaunk
16 16 Skanky Burns
15 20 Mr. President
12 22 Rasputin
12 22 Pave
12 22 HongHu

It is clearly a sign of the Apocalypse when Rasputin does this well. Skanky also miserably failed in his quest for the lowest possible score, one-upped by Chaunk.

11 23 Smiley
10 24 mrmitchell
9 25 St. Leo
5 26 Weranzaruma III
5 26 LotC
5 26 loinburger
5 26 Barinthus

The random bit with "Bloody Squito" and all was only correctly intuited by Barinthus, who apparently saw what I was referring to. See, Wizards of the Coast- the people who make Magic Cards- did a spin-off called "Duel Masters" made for the 10-year old market. My roommate got some reasonable money to demo it for kids at a mall, and got some free decks of it. The game features the most amazingly overblown names imaginable ("Immortal Baron Vorg" for a vanilla small critter, for instance), including the aforementioned Bloody Squito (which I, having read it, assumed referred to an Indian, not a 'brain jacker' with art showing an evil mosquito).

4 29 duke o' york
3 30 Boshko
2 33 Kucinich
2 33 Kassiopeia

A close almost battle for the top here. As you can tell, lots of random questions with a low score this time. And even though the SBQ was pretty easy to find, only 3 people got it. Odd. Anyway, the winner is...

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1 35 Solomwi

Who indeed had the "The Citronella! It does nothing!" answer for the SBQ. Congratulations and all that!

[J Bytheway]

Well, I've made a start at something to automate the collection of answers/calculation of scores. If I notice the next question thread I'll post more there...

[Rasputin]

damn how did my score get high ... ???? what is coming to the workld !!!

[Mr. President]

Oh come on! You can't expect any actual Magic fan to know about Duel Masters!

[Rasputin]

who are the magic fans ???



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[Mr. President]

I'm a Magic fan. As are DinoDoc, SnowFire, Urban Ranger, and Frankychan (although he usually doesn't post in the Magic threads).

I shouldn't complain. I guess not knowing about Duel Masters helped me finish third from bottom!

[loinburger]

Originally posted by SnowFire
loinburger: I agree. Starfire is a miserable imposter wretch, and I hate him or her.

Damn straight! He/she should get a name that doesn't sound so much like Snowfire!

Ah well, I'm glad that I placed 5th, and yet I'm upset that I also placed 8th.