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What elements are liquids at room temperature?


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• Bromine (Br), an reddish brown liquid with
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[FONT=geneva,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Francium (Fr), a radioactive and extremely reactive metal, melts around 300 K. The false color image at left shows 10,000 francium atoms in a laser trap. (For more about francium, see the Orozco group's francium research page at SUNY-Stony Brook.)
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Damn, 4th place after 7 questions is a lot better than I thought I would do. But I totally whiffed on #8.

8. Name a non-animated TV show which starred an animal character that was not a dog. The animal character must have been a central part of the show in most episodes. For example, if I included dogs, Lassie would be good; Mad about You or Frasier would not.

Mr. Ed - 22
Sheep:
Dudd
Syberduh
mattsey9
Melkerson
jonnyd
UMTerp
amplify
gusmahler
chymechowder
cardsman
EMD710N
legend42
gumpzilla
Aaronk56's Son
DWetzel
OutKicked
mjw0586
Nicholasp27
SarcasticRat
Peehs:
jedi
pwnsall
Aaronk56's Son
Pyromaniac

Flipper - 17
Sheep:
DrOldSchool
jedi
mute
DukeSucks
Paul Reiser
mexineil
Gonzaga1603
The_Hitch
sixfour
Pyromaniac
Fleebrog
True North
Peehs:
lukethefluke
jonnyd
amplify
OutKicked
mjw0586

Sabrina the teenage witch - 10
Sheep:
accobra_kid
Peehs:
Dudd
lsc1022
mattsey9
mute
Melkerson
Gonzaga1603
DWetzel
accobra_kid
True North

Skippy - 4
Sheep:
lukethefluke
TimeLady
Peehs:
mexineil
sixfour

Gentle Ben - 3
Peehs:
Paul Reiser
The_Hitch
SarcasticRat

Meerkat Manor - 2
Peehs:
TimeLady
cardsman

BJ and the Bear - 2
Peehs:
DukeSucks
Fleebrog

Seaquest DSV - 2
Peehs:
EMD710N
gumpzilla

Aces - 1 point
Sheep:
lsc1022- green acres
pwnsall- sesame street
A.Ertbjerg- Free willy
Willd- Animal Farm
Peehs:
Syberduh - The Black Stallion
UMTerp - Me and the Chimp
chymechowder- Lancelot Link
legend42 - My Friend Flicka
Nicholasp27 - ark II

Incorrects - 25 points
DrOldSchool - The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
gusmahler - no answers
A.Ertbjerg- Andre
Willd- Peter Rabbit

LOLOLOL @ that many people putting Sabrina the Teenage Witch. I'd have really put it too if I didn't think it was illegal.

excellent game Tom - this series was tons of work and you modded excellently

UM - congrats! well-played today and throughout

rin tin tin should be good

Man accobra_kid got majorly lucky that so many people put Sabrina for peehs to give him a decent sheep score.

That's Sheepeehs!

Good game/season... thanks for running it Tom.

I felt like I constantly got lucky with the peehs questions you asked - when others run games, there are usually one or two I don't have answers for, but almost all of your questions seemed to be right up my alley.

I like Sheep about 1000x better than Peehs.

dog imo

also good call with BJ and the Bear

Final Scores:

Our winner:
206 UMTerp

Second place
193 gumpzilla

Third place:
191 cardsman

Fourth place:
185 Syberduh

Fifth place:
170 Fleebrog

Top ten:
164 Nicholasp27
162 EMD710N
161 amplify
161 gusmahler
159 SarcasticRat

Top twenty:
153 mjw0586
152 True North
149 DrOldSchool
149 legend42
147 lsc1022
140 chymechowder
138 Melkerson
138 Gonzaga1603
138 accobra_kid
137 DukeSucks

The Rest of the pack:
136 OutKicked
135 lukethefluke
122 A.Ertbjerg
120 Willd
116 DWetzel
104 Pyromaniac
98 Paul Reiser
97 jedi
92 pwnsall
91 mexineil
86 TimeLady
86 sixfour
85 mattsey9
81 mute
81 jonnyd
63 Dudd
37 Aaronk56's Son
10 The_Hitch


Congrats to our winner UMTerp. Thanks to all who played!

For the record, UMTerp won by 13 points. Incorrects were only worth 11 on the element question, so if it were incorrect, he still would have won.

'doh. forgot that stipulation.

edit: thanks Tom!!

As for Meerkat manor, I decided to allow it as it has most of the elements of your typical reality tv show aside from having meerkats instead of people. I wouldn't have allowed Mutual of Omaha or random one off nature shows.

Wow, dodged a bullet there. When I submitted I thought Mr. Ed might be too old and Meerkat Manor might be nerdy enough to be a bad peehs answer. I will definitely take my result when I usually suck at this format.

Thanks for all your work Tom, this was a lot of fun! Fwiw I thought Meerkat Manor was easily allowable w no debate.

Thanks Tom.

Arbitrary and Capricious!

Also, this.

Thanks again to everyone who played. While this series was a lot of work, it was also a lot of fun for me. I'm bit fried right now so I probably won't have final POY standings until tomorrow. Obviously the Player of the Year is going to be UMTerp since he was the previous leader and actually won this event, so further congrats to UMTerp on that!!!

great game and series Tom, thanks tons. UMTerp is the man.

awesome awesome series, tom, thanks.

and congrats terp. very impressive run.

Thanks for running Tom. Congrats to UMTerp!

I should have submitted one of the hunting shows on Outdoor Channel for #8.

Meh, if you watch the show it's nothing like a random Wild Kingdom episode.

late, but wiki says Cartagena mile high, one time?

(should have just gone with Bogota for 2 points )

And cards, I was absolutely sure you were going to have Beck, Bogert, and Appice. Stayed away.