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These are the 21 entrants:

xander biscuits
Gamer Dude
Jmurder3
eleanor60
dnkyhunter31
housenuts
wesrwood
Booker Wolfbox
aaronk56
Mr. Watson
filthyvermin
True North
eyebooger
Precept2
Carl_Spackler
ArcticKnight
arjun13
hussainsajwani
Asterix811
rtspurs
kokiri

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08-30-2017 , 11:42 AM

eyebooger

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zomg

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08-30-2017 , 11:48 AM

JMurder3

not god, probably jebus

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 53,649

I wonder if the 3 questions are what I think they are, & if it will play out how I hoped it would...

...I'm guessing probably not & almost certainly not.

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08-30-2017 , 11:49 AM

eyebooger

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 58,708

LOL strategy.

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08-30-2017 , 11:50 AM

JMurder3

not god, probably jebus

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 53,649

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Originally Posted by eyebooger

LOL strategy.

I thought about it for 12 seconds. You seem to have taken a much longer time to enter...I can only assume you carefully crafted your selection for minutes.

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08-30-2017 , 11:51 AM

Eric

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1. Number of letters in the name of the country

For this, I standardized all America responses to United States, and all UK answers to United Kingdom.

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08-30-2017 , 11:53 AM

JMurder3

not god, probably jebus

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 53,649

That was my 4th choice for question...was hoping it wouldn't be one, but didn't see much I could do about it.

Other 3 were:
Continent
Language
1st letter

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08-30-2017 , 11:54 AM

Eric

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Oh, yeah the countries:

xander biscuits	Andorra
Gamer Dude	Canada
eyebooger	China
rtspurs	China
dnkyhunter31	Croatia
hussainsajwani	Fiji
aaronk56	France
Asterix811	India
Precept2	Paraguay
ArcticKnight	Portugal
kokiri	Suriname
housenuts	Togo
Jmurder3	UK
True North	United Kingdom
Carl_Spackler	United States
arjun13	United States
wesrwood	USA #1
Mr. Watson	USA #1
eleanor60	Vanuatu
Booker Wolfbox	Venezuela
filthyvermin	westeros

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08-30-2017 , 11:55 AM

Eric

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Originally Posted by JMurder3

That was my 4th choice for question...was hoping it wouldn't be one, but didn't see much I could do about it.

Other 3 were:
Continent
Language
1st letter

Not that simple.

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08-30-2017 , 11:56 AM

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Eric

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1. Number of letters in the name of the country.

Twelve		4
USA #1	wesrwood
USA #1	Mr. Watson
United States	Carl_Spackler
United States	arjun13

Eight		4
westeros	filthyvermin
Paraguay	Precept2
Portugal	ArcticKnight
Suriname	kokirir

Seven		3
Andorra	xander biscuits
Vanuatu	eleanor60
Croatia	dnkyhunter31

Five		3
China	eyebooger
China	rtspurs
India	Asterix811

Thirteen		2
UK	Jmurder3
United Kingdom	True North

Six		2
Canada	Gamer Dude
France	aaronk56

Four		2
Togo	housenuts
Fiji	hussainsajwani

Nine		1
Venezuela	Booker Wolfbox

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08-30-2017 , 11:57 AM

#11

Asterix811

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Originally Posted by e_holle

Oh, yeah the countries:

xander biscuits	Andorra
Gamer Dude	Canada
eyebooger	China
rtspurs	China
dnkyhunter31	Croatia
hussainsajwani	Fiji
aaronk56	France
Asterix811	India
Precept2	Paraguay
ArcticKnight	Portugal
kokiri	Suriname
housenuts	Togo
Jmurder3	UK
True North	United Kingdom
Carl_Spackler	United States
arjun13	United States
wesrwood	USA #1
Mr. Watson	USA #1
eleanor60	Vanuatu
Booker Wolfbox	Venezuela
filthyvermin	westeros

lol xander, my first choice was Andorra too, but I changed it because I thought one of the questions might be about size or population.

Edit: If I had gone with my first choice we'd both have 4 after the first round

Last edited by Asterix811; 08-30-2017 at 12:03 PM.

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08-30-2017 , 11:58 AM

#12

Eric

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wesrwood	4
Mr. Watson	4
Carl_Spackler	4
arjun13	4
filthyvermin	4
Precept2	4
ArcticKnight	4
kokiri	4
xander biscuits	3
eleanor60	3
dnkyhunter31	3
eyebooger	3
Asterix811	3
rtspurs	3
Jmurder3	2
True North	2
Gamer Dude	2
aaronk56	2
housenuts	2
hussainsajwani	2
Booker Wolfbox	1

Lots of sheepers

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08-30-2017 , 11:58 AM

#13

JMurder3

not god, probably jebus

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 53,649

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Originally Posted by e_holle

Not that simple.

I might just go ahead & score the game with my questions & see how I did out of general principal haha.

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08-30-2017 , 12:02 PM

#14

Eric

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2. What quadrant of the planet is the country in?

For this, a country is North or South of the equator, Or neither (eg on the equator).

East or West of the IERS Reference Meridian, Or neither (eg on the meridian).

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08-30-2017 , 12:03 PM

#15

Eric

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2. What quadrant of the planet is the country in?

NW		8
wesrwood	USA #1
Mr. Watson	USA #1
Carl_Spackler	United States
arjun13	United States
ArcticKnight	Portugal
Gamer Dude	Canada
Booker Wolfbox	Venezuela
kokiri	Suriname

NE		6
xander biscuits	Andorra
dnkyhunter31	Croatia
eyebooger	China
rtspurs	China
Asterix811	India
housenuts	Togo

NO		3
Jmurder3	UK
True North	United Kingdom
aaronk56	France

SE		2
eleanor60	Vanuatu
hussainsajwani	Fiji

SW		1
Precept2	Paraguay

OO		1
filthyvermin	westeros

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08-30-2017 , 12:07 PM

#16

Asterix811

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Originally Posted by e_holle

Not to be a nit or anything, but technically you can't have six quadrants.

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08-30-2017 , 12:08 PM

#17

Eric

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wesrwood	12
Mr. Watson	12
Carl_Spackler	12
ArcticKnight	12
arjun13	12
kokiri	12
Gamer Dude	10
xander biscuits	9
dnkyhunter31	9
Booker Wolfbox	9
eyebooger	9
Asterix811	9
rtspurs	9
housenuts	8
Jmurder3	5
eleanor60	5
aaronk56	5
filthyvermin	5
True North	5
Precept2	5
hussainsajwani	4

Still 6 in danger.

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08-30-2017 , 12:09 PM

#18

eyebooger

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 58,708

Nitty would be pointing out that there are nine possibilities, not six.

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08-30-2017 , 12:10 PM

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Eric

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Originally Posted by Asterix811

Not to be a nit or anything, but technically you can't have six quadrants.

I know. I wrestled with this as well. I figured simplicity in title trumped technical accuracy for this.

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08-30-2017 , 12:11 PM

#20

eyebooger

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 58,708

Also, technically, the US, UK, and France have possessions on more quadrants than are listed.

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08-30-2017 , 12:11 PM

#21

Asterix811

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Originally Posted by eyebooger

Nitty would be pointing out that there are nine possibilities, not six.

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08-30-2017 , 12:15 PM

#22

Asterix811

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Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 650

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Originally Posted by e_holle

I know. I wrestled with this as well. I figured simplicity in title trumped technical accuracy for this.

Simplicity, huh? Well we all managed to screw that up for you, didn't we?

Or was it just me?

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08-30-2017 , 12:16 PM

#23

Eric

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3. Number of Olympic medals won in the past four years.

I decided to create buckets as follows: Zero medals, One to twenty medals, Twenty-one to Forty Medals, and Forty-one medals and up. I wanted to have buckets of nearly equal size, in terms of possible countries, but not be too small.

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08-30-2017 , 12:17 PM

#24

Eric

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Originally Posted by eyebooger

Also, technically, the US, UK, and France have possessions on more quadrants than are listed.

Indeed so, but I went with where the bulk of the country is.

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08-30-2017 , 12:18 PM

#25

JMurder3

not god, probably jebus

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 53,649

Hmm, turns out I would have lost if the questions were what I was guessing they were haha. Was expecting more Canada/Mexico answers.

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