Common Entries Contest MOJO2
This is a Common Entries contest, MOJO2
Reply ONLY by e-mail to momo@physics.ucsb.edu.
DO NOT POST ANSWERS TO ANY NEWSGROUP!!!
Entries must reach here by Monday, June 25th, 6 P.M. (L.A. time, zone -7).
I encourage you to enter my other contest, Numbers Contest, NUM2, which
is posted only in rec.puzzles
The rules below are essentially the same as those in my previous Common
Entries Contest, MOJO1, with only minor wording differences. For each
question the object is to get the most common answer.
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0. Write two words which both begin with the letter d, separating
the words with a space.
(Entries which give the same two words as each other, but in
opposite order, will NOT be considered the same when scoring.)
1. Give an antonym of "blue book" which does not include the letter
sequence "blue book" in it, either forwards or backwards.
2. Name a country in Europe other than Lichtenstein or France.
3. Complete this analogy: pig is to web as horse is to ______.
4. State the capital of Australia.
5. Name a type of object.
6. Please help me define love by completing the sentence
"Love is __________," without anywhere re-using the word "love."
(Entries must be identical, except for possible minor punctuation
differences, to be considered the same).
7. Name a musical album.
8. Consider the following game. You and nine other readers from rec.puzzles
and rec.games.trivia are placed in separate rooms, and given two buttons,
"C" (for cooperate) and "D" (for defect), and given ten minutes to decide
which button to press. If everyone presses "C," you will all get
$1000. If at least one person presses "D," then everyone who
presses "D" will get $100, while those who press "C" will get
nothing. Which button you pressed will not be revealed to the other
players at the end of the contest. Which button do you press?
9. Quote a line or sequence of lines from a movie.
(Entries which differ slightly in phrasing or which quote different
lengths of text will be considered the same as long as the material
quoted is sufficient to make clear the scene and movie being quoted.)
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For each of the items above, your goal is to give the most common
response to the question.
Your score on each question is equal to the number of people who give that
answer. If you skip a question, or leave it blank, you will score 1 for
that question. Your total score is the product of your scores on each
question. Your object is to get as high a score as possible.
NO ANSWERS WILL BE JUDGED INCORRECT. As moderator, I will need to
decide if two answers are the same, but I will not check the answers for
correctness. The object is to get the most common answer, which is not
necessarily the most common correct answer. A general class and a specific
member of that class will be treated as distinct answers. An ambiguous
answer will be treated as a general class consisting of all things which
that ambiguous answer might be interpreted as.
For example, suppose I ask for a color on the current Canadian flag.
20 people say red, 8 say blue, 4 say white, 3 say maple leaf, and 1 says
leaf. The scores are then simply red=20, blue=8, white=4, maple leaf=3,
and leaf=1. I ignore the fact that blue is not on the current Canadian
flag, that leaf and maple leaf are not colors, and that a maple leaf is a
specific instance of the class leaf.
For my convenience please do not quote this message when responding.
Mail only your answers, and these in plain ASCII or ISO 8859-1 text:
no HTML, attachments, Micros--t character sets, etc. (People who fail
to comply will be chastised in the results posting.)
Your message should contain the 10 answers, numbered 0 to 9, and your
name. Comments, explanatory notes, explanations of strategy, and
suggestions for questions for future contests are all welcome, but
please place them after your 10 answers, and make sure that they are clearly
marked so as to not be confused with your answers. Your email address will
be posted in the results if I don't see both a first and a last name, or an
explicit request for a particular form of your name to be used.
No clarifications will be given during the contest. Multiple entries are
not allowed. Please do not post any discussion of the questions to the
newsgroup or collaborate with other contestants in your entries.
Have fun!
Momo Jeng (momo@physics.ucsb.edu)