Rare Entries

• From: calibanman
• Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 06:31:37 -0700
• Message-ID: <000SI7S5P.001Q600A1.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

I'm trying to allieviate some morning boredom and
give you all an opportunity to learn something as
well, so I'm doing a rare entries contest this week.
I'll give the winner next Thursday.

For those
of you who don't know how it works:
I ask a bunch
of questions that have a finite number of correct
answers. Your entry is a correct answer to each of those
questions. The entries are then scored at the end of the
contest. Each answer is assigned a value equal to the
number of people who gave it as a correct answer. The
answers are then _multiplied_ together to give a final
score for the entry. A perfect score is 1. The winner
is the person with the lowest score--the one with
the rarest entries. For this contest, WRONG answers
will be assigned one point greater than the maximum
for that question--so make sure you give a valid
answer.

The questions will be in the tradition of academic
competition.

Here's the first week's contest:

Name...
1. A
war that ended with a Treaty of Paris.
2. A play
written between 1600-1610
3. A Roman Emperor who
served more than ten years.
4. An SI unit.
5. An
African Capital City
6. A feature film directed by
Orson Welles.
7. A metal. (element)

Please
send all entries to yorick_at_...

Jer