Rare Entries Results

• From: samer_ismail
• Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 07:33:10 -0700
• Message-ID: <000SP5F96.000LIKPVO.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

For this contest, I am declaring two
winners:

K. Michael Wilcox, with a score of 4, and
Mark
Tong, who had a perfect entry, but missed the
"official" deadline by about an hour.

Just a couple
of quick notes:
(1) The Screw answers were
divided among four questions (organelles [4], states [3],
Requiems [4], and baseball [1]).

(1b) One screw
answer was given twice as a screw, but never as an
answer (Golgi body). Most effective screw: Wyoming
(given by 4 people).

(2) There were a total of 8
wrong answers, four each on the last two
questions:
Baseball players: McGwire, Burks, Matt Lawton, and Ted
Williams.
Game shows: Twenty-One [2], Jeopardy!, Tic Tac
Dough

(3) A number of people caught on to the fact that the
"Requiem" question did not require the work in question to
be a musical one.

(4) Interestingly enough,
the most obvious answer for the baseball
question--Nomar Garciaparra--was never given as an official
answer or as a screw.

At any rate, here are the
results (numbers in parentheses are scores without
screws, if lower):

Mark Tong 1
K. Michael
Wilcox 4
Nate Meyvis 6
Tom Chuck 12 (6)
Jason
Keller 20 (8)
Joon Pahk 20 (8)
Steve Lawrie 20
(16)
Noel Erinjeri 27 (18)
Jer Smith 27
C.St.Hugh
Purcell 36 (24)
Edmund Schluessel 36
Guy Jordan
72
Dan Suzman 360 (288)

Since I've got another
two weeks before I go back to the OR, look for
another Rare Entries from me this weekend.