Estimation game

[CTG]

Duplode, Chulk: 13 +1? Both of you forgot to answer it!

[Chulk]

Sorry! Sent.

[Duplode]

Oops! My eyes were fooled by the linebreak. Sent it; thanks for the warning!

[CTG]

...on the other hand it wasn't really important to ask for these tips, since one of the rivals missed the correct answer only by 1.

Results: at home, sorry. All I know is the point's distribution: 4-4-3-2-1-0.

[CTG]

Round 6

1, Height of the tallest standing building on Earth in 1800

The 159.7 m tall Lincoln Cathedral (England) was built in 1300, but it collapsed in 1539. Two other cathedrals were also over 150 m, both were destroyed (by lightning strike). So the title was inherited by Strasbourg Cathedral with it's 142 m height.

151 - Zak
130 - Chulk
169 - Usrin
110 - Duplode
104 - Bonzai Joe
513 - Akoss Poo (LOL)


2, Usain Bolt's personal best in 400 m: 45.28, I hope once he'll try it again (his 300 m performance was more than promising: 30.97, the second best result behind Michael Johnson's 30.85)

44.66 - Usrin
45.96 - Akoss Poo
44.52 - Bonzai Joe
44.50 - Chulk
46.50 - Zak
39.12 - Duplode 

3, Current file size of "estimationgame.xls" on my computer: one worksheet, only 21504 bytes

29183 - Bonzai Joe
36400 - Zak
42976 - Usrin
86572 - Akoss Poo
92000 - Duplode
155648 - Chulk

4, Number of days when Otto von Bismarck (died: 30th July 1898) and Nils Bohr (born: 7th October 1885) were both alive: 4679 days

4444 - Zak
3900 - Duplode
5896 - Usrin
1212 - Bonzai Joe
701 - Akoss Poo
9000 - Chulk

5, Distance between Hockenheims's and Sepang's finish line: 10008 km (according to Google Earth)

8849 - Usrin
11344 - Bonzai Joe
8200 - Zak
12000 - Chulk
12321 - Akoss Poo
13750 - Duplode

6, Performance of the original Lada Niva SUV (in horse power), believe me or not, only 72 HP (and still better than a Hummer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct7ScV3NmFM )

65 - Zak
60 - Usrin
43 - Duplode
120 - Chulk
135 - Bonzai Joe
350 - Akoss Poo

7, Lens diameter of Grande Lunette optical refractor in Nice (built in 1886): 77 cm

75 - Akoss Poo
101 - Usrin
52 - Chulk
180 - Duplode
240 - Bonzai Joe
800 - Zak

8, El Clásico: the first yellow card will be shown in the ?? minute (hopefully Pepe or Sergio Ramos will get it )

40th minute, Pedro, quite a surprise (everybody expected earlier cards)

33 - Chulk
26 - Duplode
19 - Akoss Poo
17 - Zak
12 - Bonzai Joe
10 - Usrin

9, Fleet size of Cargolux Airlines (how many airplanes?) - 14 (all of them are Boeing 747-400 or 747-8F)

11 - Zak
35 - Duplode
38 - Usrin
50 - Chulk
92 - Bonzai Joe
540 - Akoss Poo (it would be so great...)

10, Difference of the highest and lowest temperature values recorded in our flat since 2009

Min. 10.0°C (at least 30 minutes long refreshing aerate in the coldest winter, it came back to 20°C in two hours), max. 35.8°C (no air-conditioner ), so 25.8°C

22.1 - Usrin
21 - Duplode
19 - Zak
16.1 - Bonzai Joe
15 - Chulk
13.8 - Akoss Poo

11, Number of design patents hold by Thomas Edison

Tricky question. Edison was quite successful patentee, he had 1093 in overall: 1084 of them were utility patents and only 9 design patents. Sorry!

21 - Bonzai Joe
96 - Akoss Poo
256 - Zak
570 - Duplode
897 - Usrin
1200 - Chulk

12, Saturated vapor pressure of ethanol at 25°C is 7.8 kPa

12 - Chulk
1.5 - Akoss Poo
16.9 - Usrin
22 - Duplode
38 - Bonzai Joe
200 - Zak (another nice paralel universe, getting drunk by breathing )

13, The lowest price of an Apple Inc. stock in 2011: 310.5 USD

400 - Chulk
420 - Zak
94 - Akoss Poo
14.99 - Usrin
8.37 - Usrin
2305 - Bonzai Joe

+1, Number of ZakStunts replays sent by South American pipsqueaks in 2011: 7 pipsqueaks, 213 replays

214 - Usrin (almost there...)
162 - Bonzai Joe
150 - Chulk
144 - Duplode
121 - Zak
430 - Akoss Poo

Results of round 6

4 - Usrin & Zak
3 - Chulk
2 - Bonzai Joe
1 - Akoss Poo
0 - Duplode

Overall standings

23 - Chulk
15 - Akoss Poo
14 - Duplode
14 - Zak McKracken
9 - Bonzai Joe
8 - Usrin
2 - Super Brian

[CTG]

Akoss: publish your questions! He said it's impossible to cheat, so maybe I'll enter the game. 

[zaqrack]

great round! 

[CTG]

Akoss: publish your questions! He said it's impossible to cheat, so maybe I'll enter the game. 

Khm-khm... Write them or else I'll find another 13+1 stupid questions.

[CTG]

Akoss: publish your questions! He said it's impossible to cheat, so maybe I'll enter the game. 

Khm-khm... Write them or else I'll find another 13+1 stupid questions.

Another reminder, Dacjuk!

[CTG]

Round 7

1, How much money did Novartis - one of the TOP5 pharmaceutical companies worldwide - spend on research & development in 2009? (USD)

2, How many goals did Zlatan Ibrahimovic score in the Swedish national team while Asafa Powell was the WR holder of 100 m run?

3, Total weight of Eiffel Tower's metal frame

4, Number of Dallas episodes (the old series) without J.R. Ewing

5, What will be the left/right keypress ratio of the official Lancia lap made by "The Stig" on Default? (For those who don't know: it can be checked in RPLInfo)

6, The first visible speed value appearing in Knight Rider season 3 main title (mph)

7, If we add the current age of Gwen Stefani, James Hetfield, Aretha Franklin and Dave Gahan, how many times are they older (together) than Lady Gaga alone?

8, Distance between K-2 and Mount Everest peaks (km)

9, FIDE peak rating of Anatoly Karpov chess grandmaster in 1994 (pts)

10, Number of SMS messages stored currently in my cell phone

11, Length of railway network in Iran (km)

12, Number of ZakStunts pipsqueaks finishing at least twice at the bottom of the scoreboard since 2001

13, How deep is the ocean at the furthest point on Earth from my current geographical position (~20000 km from here)?

+1, How many points will Chulk earn from questions 1-13?

[CTG]

Before I forget: deadline is 17th December 2012.

[CTG]

No tips so far.

[CTG]

Temporary standings: Bonzai Joe 14 pts.

[Duplode]

I sense I'll fail miserably in this round - how surprising... 

[CTG]

I sense I'll fail miserably in this round - how surprising... 

Don't worry about that, others have no clue either.