IWS XXXII: Stupid Powers of Two.

[SnowFire]

Greetings all for another round of the fine old country tradition of I'm With Stupid XXXII, which, sadly, is not a prime number. Despite the trials of our composite times, we get by somehow. For those joining us for the first time, a "classic" rules C&P from days gone by:

All answers are allowed. However, scoring is not based on what the "correct" answer is . It is based on how many other participants choose the same answer. So, for example, if I ask what fruit is the greatest, and 17 people say "banana," each person who answered "banana" will get 17 points for that question. If someone says "mango," and they're the only one, they will get 1 point for that question.

However, the answer doesn't have to even fit the criteria. If two people answer "I hate George W. Bush" when asked what fruit is the greatest, they will still get two points for that question.

Your individual score will be the total of your scores for all questions.

Just be sure not to post the answers in the thread; PM them to me. Also note that no response at all will net you 0 points, so be sure to be careful and answer every question.

1. What did you forget this morning?

2. What is the best prime number?

3. Who is the world's #2 Super-Villain?

4. The Finns are invading! What branch of the military do you join to protect your country? (Or, for Nordically-inclined posters of an eastern Scandanavian variety, what branch are you in to invade OUR freedom-loving countries?)

5. What is your favorite non-alcoholic drink? Be specific.

6. Who was President of Poland from 1795-1808? (This is common knowledge, after all.)

7. On a scale of 3-18, how would you rate your Strength? Assume that the distribution across society is the one given by summing 3 randomized numbers from 1-6.

8. What is the finest prank ever pulled?

9. What will be the next Wonder of the World/Secret Project constructed (in the "real" world)?

10. Gleep! Espel urgle mortant! Murcassat mulprandis?

...

No, that's not the question, you silly fools. What language was I most likely speaking in?

11. Apolyton has proven what the hardest word to spell in the English language is. Under 7 letters, of course, to prevent this from getting too silly. What is it?

12. What "supernatural" creature is most likely to actually have existed?

13. A bonus question for the observant among you. Do NOT post of this question's existence to the thread on pain of... something bad. How many questions are in this IWS?

The deadline is Sunday the 22nd. Go to! (Reminder: This is a crosspost in the OT as well. But give it a shot.)

[Skanky Burns]

Sent with all haste onwards!

[Theben]

all my answers are been sent to u

[Space05us]

wrong forum aint it?

[Skanky Burns]

Its a game.
Besides, it worked well last round - we got more people joining than normal.

[Rasputin]

corect forum for a sort of game, but not so sure it a game if it continues to refer to topics only mentioned in the off topic area...

[SnowFire]

Ras: True. I realized after I posted the list that there was one question in particular that was a wee bit too OT-centric. That said... perhaps we can spice things up with more Other Games references later (what racer crashes the most?).

Also, this is a duh, but if you aren't interested, that's okay... just don't send in answers. Or, for more humor value, send in complete mocking answers. That's what I do for most IWS's, actually. I just decided that I wanted to win one and sent in mostly serious answers the last two times (although even my winning entry included time-travelling to stop Gorbachev from being possessed by evil banana spirits, for all of one point.).

[self biased]

hahahah... +1.

[Ben Kenobi]

sent

[Rasputin]

Originally posted by SnowFire
Ras: True. I realized after I posted the list that there was one question in particular that was a wee bit too OT-centric. That said... perhaps we can spice things up with more Other Games references later (what racer crashes the most?).

Also, this is a duh, but if you aren't interested, that's okay... just don't send in answers. Or, for more humor value, send in complete mocking answers. That's what I do for most IWS's, actually. I just decided that I wanted to win one and sent in mostly serious answers the last two times (although even my winning entry included time-travelling to stop Gorbachev from being possessed by evil banana spirits, for all of one point.).

i am interested . that why i play, but would like a chance to win , as it is i do pick all the obscure answers

[Stuie]

Dispatched.

[SnowFire]

Without further ado...

Question 1
What did you forget this morning?
3 Wake up.
2 Breakfast.
2 Pants.
2 Brush teeth.
1 To call my mom.
1 Pee before taking subway.
1 Take shower.
1 Homework
1 The joy of living.
1 Nothing.
1 Sex.
1 My keys.
1 My hat.
1 What I did last night.

Question 2
What is the best prime number?
5 1 {Heathens.}
2 2
5 3
1 5
1 8, if it's with tarragon sauce.
3 7
1 13
1 32
1 69

Question 3
Who is the world's #2 Super-Villain?
4 George W. Bush
3 Dr. Doom, aka DinoDoc
2 Ming
3 Dick Cheney
1 John Ashcroft
1 Silvio Berlusconi
1 MichaeltheGreat
1 zylka
1 Lex Luthor
2 The Joker
1 Number Two

Question 4
The Finns are invading! What branch of the military do you join to protect your country? (Or, for Nordically-inclined posters of an eastern Scandanavian variety, what branch are you in to invade OUR freedom-loving countries?)
5 Army/Infantry
2 Marines
2 Navy
2 Propaganda/Intelligence
1 Royal Canadian Mounties {Isn't it either "Royal Canadian Mounted Police," or just "the Mounties"?}
1 The Queens Royal Sauna Brigade
2 Sex Slaves / The branch that gets laid the most
1 Officers
1 Coast Guard
1 Roman Catholic Church
1 Air Force
1 I'm a pacifist. I flee the evil Finns.

Question 5
What is your favorite non-alcoholic drink? Be specific.
2 Orange juice
5 Water
5 Coca-Cola / Coke
1 Vanilla Coke
1 Soda
1 A pint of pathos, with a twist of despair, and a splash of soullessness, on the rocks of wretchedness.
1 Vaginal Juice.
1 Moxie
1 Milk {}
1 Vodka
1 Non-alcoholic Beer

Question 6
Who was President of Poland from 1795-1808? (This is common knowledge, after all.)
6 There was none/ Nobody(nski).
4 Zylka
3 George W. Bush {This explains a lot.}
2 Napoleon {Close, but jumping the gun. THat would be 1808 and onward, roughly.}
1 The President of Poland
1 Stanislav Prodizcwitz
1 woh cares
1 Puss in Boots!
1 I don't know.

Question 7
On a scale of 3-18, how would you rate your Strength? Assume that the distribution across society is the one given by summing 3 randomized numbers from 1-6.
1 3
1 5
1 7
1 8
1 9
2 10
3 11
1 12
1 14
1 15
5 18 {Theben defeats the standard 18ers with his 18/51, though. Guess you should have made fighter your class so you could roll for exceptional.}
1 19
1 Bananna

Question 8
What is the finest prank ever pulled?
1 Pull my finger.
1 Zylka
2 Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast
1 the spaghetti incident. {}
1 April Fool's Day
1 Backstabbing in a game of Nuclear War
1 George W. Bush's presidency.
1 The one where I convinced a guy that I was ex-navy seal b/c a owned an army hat and jacket. Had him going for 6 months.
1 Election of George W. Bush in 2000.
1 Finland
1 asher killing the mac forum
1 Reasons of Iraq-War
1 Watergate
1 Potemkin Villages
1 Sex
1 The devil convicing the world he didn't exist
1 the moon landing
1 The "do not post in this thread or you will be banned" thread
1 A bucket of water perched atop a slightly open door.

Question 9
What will be the next Wonder of the World/Secret Project constructed (in the "real" world)?
4 Cure for Cancer
5 Flight to Mars/Mars Colony
1 Moon Base
1 spaceship
1 SETI Project
1 Orbital Mind Control Lasers
2 World Trade Center replacement (with rollercoasters?)
1 None
1 Sex
1 some crap that isn't really a construction project
1 Bananna
1 Stealth Nation Defense {Already constructed.}

Question 10
Gleep! Espel urgle mortant! Murcassat mulprandis?
2 Esperanto!
10 Finnish
2 American
1 gibberish
1 I don't know
1 bunga-bunga
1 TheDayTheEarthStoodStillian
1 Latin
1 Orkan

Question 11
Apolyton has proven what the hardest word to spell in the English language is. Under 7 letters, of course, to prevent this from getting too silly. What is it?
3 zylka/zlyka
2 polyton/Apolyton
2 their
2 Bananna/banana
1 Theben {The correct answer.}
1 party
1 it's
1 huh??
1 I hate that kind of questions about a language I didn't inhale with my mother's milk! {over 7 letters. Sorry.}
1 teh
1 smegma
1 Deity
1 rogue
1 ****

Question 12
What "supernatural" creature is most likely to actually have existed?
4 Yeti
4 Dragons
2 Loch Ness Monster
2 Jesus/God {I know I'm going to get it from our Israeli friends for combining these two supernatural 'creatures' together.}
2 Zylka
1 Vampires
1 Beautiful women
1 Zombies
1 Werewolf
1 Ming
1 Angels

Question 13
13. A bonus question for the observant among you. Do NOT post of this question's existence to the thread on pain of... something bad. How many questions are in this IWS?
10 13
2 15!! Ha! You think you pruddy smard, eh?
1 12

[SnowFire]

For what it's worth: 7 people skipped #13, and 1 person skipped both question 1 and 11, why they don't add up to 20.

20. 23 skywalker
19. 24 The Andy-Man
18. 25 Stuie
17. 26 Ben Kenobi
16. 28 Theben
15. 31 Smiley
13. 32 Boshko
13. 32 DataAeolus
12. 33 self biased
11. 34 St. Leo
10. 36 Guynmeyer
8. 38 Oncle Boris
8. 38 Rasputin
7. 40 The Emperor Fabulous
6. 46 VJ

Some more notes. self biased did excellently, but he missed the "big 2." Most of the questions were pretty balanced- quite a few where there were two top answers, both with 5 or so. However, there was some pretty strong (and I must say surprising) unanimity on both the language and the number of questions. I suppose Martian's close relationship to Finnish confused some people, but nobody noticed that the lack of accents or little two-dotty thingies wasn't just American laziness, it was intentional. In fact, I think all the Finns who sent in replies agreed that it was Finnish. How odd. Gangerolf was amazing, being one point away from the top answer for #1 & #8, and choosing the most popular answer on every other question... well, except the language one. Which was pretty big.

4. 50 kassiopeia
4. 50 Wernazuma III

Shortly after I posted this, I wanted to remove question 11- it'd be too obvious an OT reference. I mean, everybody would remember the impossibility of spelling Theben, right? Weirdly enough, Theben himself skipped that question, and only kassiopeia figured it out- and got his reward of 1 point. How cruelly life cuts us at times.

Also, no one got my answer for Number 1- lunch, of course. Haven't you forgotten to bring your packed lunch before?

3. 52 Shi Huangdi
2. 54 Gangerolf

Guess not. Anyway, congratulations to...




1. 59 Skanky Burns

Considering that the max was 64, that's pretty amazing. Excellent work & congrats!

[self biased]

i'm moving up in the world. woo hoo!

[Skanky Burns]

Heh, from one extreme to the other for me.

Looks like I'll need to think of some questions now...

[Rasputin]

wow managed to get 8th without knowing anyanswers