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There are roughly 29 hours remaining (as of this post) to submit entries for TD 254! With 35 unused answers remaining and a maximum possible score currently at 68, anyone can still win it.
This has been an issue with the most recent entries I have received, so I want to say this again for people who may submit today: please provide the letter corresponding with your response to questions 1, 3, 5, and 6. I've been sending PMs to those who haven't done so, but I will be starting the reveal shortly after the quiz closes, and I do not want to rule anyone's answers incorrect due to such a small omission.
Magna wrote:If you're able to, it might be a good idea to edit the submission form to prompt people to include the letter with their answers.
Going forward, it might be a good idea for the quizmasters to have a seperate box where they put the letter for that question if one is required. That way people won't forget about it.
A total of 44 players have submitted responses, and they are:
Spoiler
Rackme32
cf22
Abraxas
MarkBarrett
MitchO
geolawyerman
immaf
Gamawire
Category 13
Ryno
quarterrican
Blue Lion
Austin Powers
ElendilPickle
dnbguy
mennoknight
dott888
BigDaddyMatty
TerSch
kebert.xela
squizzle
dinghammer
Vermonter
Peachbox
nightreign
coolcah36
clprez
patkav
brainpower
sillymonkey
barandall800
ihavejeoprosy
econgator
colonialrampage
Caboom
mahatma
Magna
tjconn728
Woof
whatisbishkek
Tabby
Bamaman
goforthetie
goatman
I'm working out the kinks of the scoresheet, and I will be posting the results of question 1 very soon. Before that, let me explain quickly how the responses will be formatted.
The names of players who assigned a high score to their response to a question will appear in regular text.
The names of players who assigned no score to their response to a question will appear struck through.
The names of players who assigned a low score to their response to a question will appear in italics.
Identify a body of water with "sea" in its name from the satellite images pictured below. (Some are lakes.) Spoiler
D, E, and F require responses more specific than "Mediterranean."
Most players used the first question as an opportunity to provide a low-scoring response; only a quarter of the entries elected to open with a high score. That tendency had an effect of spreading out the responses among all eleven possible answers; only one of them was a Singleton.
One point of disclosure on the question's lone Singleton: the answer I was intending for the body of water labeled "J" was the Yellow Sea. ihavejeoprosy's response was "East China Sea," which was not the one I had in mind. However, the Wikipedia article for the Yellow Sea states it "...is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea" in the very first sentence of the article. Unlike options D, E, or F, I did not explicitly state that I was looking for a more specific response than the larger sea the Yellow Sea is a component of; therefore, ihavejeoprosy gets credit for his response.
A. SALTON SEA – 7 responses
Rackme32 whatisbishkek geolawyerman
Ryno
Blue Lion
mahatma
Tabby
K. SEA OF JAPAN – 7 responses MitchO
Brainpower mennoknight
BigDaddyMatty
kebert.xela
coolcah36
sillymonkey
G. SEA OF GALILEE – 5 responses
Gamawire TerSch
squizzle
patkav
econgator
E. ADRIATIC SEA – 4 responses
Abraxas
ElendilPickle
dinghammer MarkBarrett
F. AEGEAN SEA – 4 responses
Bamaman quarterrican cf22
tjconn728
C. ARAL SEA – 3 responses
Vermonter
goatman Magna
D. TYRRHENIAN SEA – 3 responses Peachbox
Caboom
Woof
I. BERING SEA – 3 responses
Category 13 immaf
Colonialrampage
B. CASPIAN SEA – 2 responses
dnbguy
barandall800
H. SEA OF OKHOTSK – 2 responses clprez
Goforthetie
J. YELLOW SEA – Singleton! ihavejeoprosy (Actual response: East China Sea)
Incorrect responses – 0/-14 B. BLACK SEA nightreign
G. DEAD SEA
dott888
NO RESPONSE Austin Powers
Unused answers
None
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I wonder if there is a way to make both the high and low scores comparable? Anyone?
I suppose one solution the make the standings more useful would be to list which scoring options each player has used, or still have in their disposal.
Aw rats. I tried to enter last night and my computer was acting up. I was afraid it didn't go through. (I was also afraid I might have submitted it 6 times and gotten blocked!) I guess I'll just fail along at home.
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ihavejeoprosy wrote:I recognized sea of Japan and naturally thought of east china sea on the other side. Nice that it worked out.
I thought about that and went for Aral Sea instead thinking "It's so tiny and dried up maybe no one else will notice it's even on the map; and the letter 'C' is kind of washed out too!" LOL... "Yellow Sea" is a moniker denoting the drainage of the Yellow River, it appears infrequently as a 'colorful sea.' TPTB seem to like Blue Ridge Mtns better under 'colorful' category. As an extension of the East China Sea either nomenclature is acceptable, UNLESS the category is 'colorful,' in which case you must respond "Yellow sea"!
BTW I was pleased to note that wiki entry above includes a Jeoprosy-like reference to seas of 'color'; they include the Black, Red, and White seas as well!
Sounds like another category in the offing...!
The corridors of my mind are plastered with 3M Post-It notes!
Name a university in either Maryland or Washington, DC, whose athletics program competes at the NCAA Division I level in any sport.
The fact that I wanted campus names for the University of Maryland schools likely skewed the distribution of responses somewhat; the two lesser-known campuses both scored higher than the flagship campus, which I'm guessing most people weren't used to attaching a name to. The sheep this time was a university that some people may know as Bill Clinton's alma mater, but more likely is known as a basketball powerhouse. Oddly, the four low and no score responses for it came within the first 14 entries received; perhaps players sensed the results as they were coming in. Also in this round, the first example of why you really didn't want to get a low-scoring response wrong.
MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK – 3 responses
cf22
kebert.xela whatisbishkek
Unused answers
Loyola (MD)
I get it that these games produce unexpected answers, but geesh this one surprised me. I had every single answer listed (and could've named a bunch more DII and DIII schools), and I still manage to screw it up by choosing UMES over College Park, where I went to grad school, and Loyola, where my wife went and worked. I was sure that no one has ever heard of UMES. They've never come close to making the NCAA tournament, I don't think they have a football team, and are not near or on the way to anything (except Chincoteague, but only if you are coming from the north). Ugh.
I was going to go high on Georgetown, but needed another low response. I actually thought UMBC would get a good number of responses (they've been a long-favored cupcake for Big East basketball teams), and that UMES would come in on the lower side.