RESULTS, ROUND 10:
1. Number of Nintendo Wii machines sold worldwide until 2011 December 31.
Answer: 94,970,00099,999,999 CTG – nice!
80,000,000 Chulk
42,756,322 Bonzai Joe
22,990,000 Usrin
20,000,000 Duplode
7,777,777 Friker
519,000,000 Akoss Poo
2. Highest number of fingers and toes a person was ever born with (sum of fingers + toes)
Answer: 34
Poor guy Akshat Saxena was born with 7 fingers on each hand and 10 toes on each foot two years ago. Now he is back to normal 20.
36 Duplode
38 Usrin
40 CTG
27 Friker
26 Akoss Poo
24 Chulk
16 Bonzai Joe
3. Cigarettes per year per person consumed in average within the adult population of Albania.
Answer: 1201
First of all it was number of cigarettes, not packs of cigarettes. Second, Albania is a muslim country, so women not smoking it brings down the average considerably. Men still smoke a lot.
1,449 Akoss Poo – quite close!
110 Duplode
40 Chulk
17 Friker
2,980 Usrin
4,790 Bonzai Joe
7,300 CTG
4. Average weight of babies born (live) in Ireland in 2010 (in grams).
Answer: 3468g
3,500 Chulk
3,403 Akoss Poo
3,277 Friker
3,240 Usrin
3,001 CTG
2,975 Duplode
2,840 Bonzai Joe
5. Electricity consumed in our Shanghai apartment during November 2012, in kWh.
Answer: 1242kWh
It was unusually cold (0 to 10 degrees the whole month), there is no heating, we must heat with the air conditioners and insulation is poor. What a waste of energy
573 Usrin
353 Akoss Poo
312 Bonzai Joe
277 Friker
150 Chulk
111 CTG
5,400 Duplode –
I don’t have industrial equipment at home.
6. Price of 1kg of all-purpose wheat flour (cheapest brand) in the supermarket nearest our home, in Chinese Yuan.
Answer: 7.8CNY
Equals about 1.25USD.
7.77 Friker – did you come and check yourself?
6 Chulk
3.50 Bonzai Joe
2.95 Akoss Poo
15 Duplode
20 CTG
20 Usrin
7. Number of Lamborghini LM002s ever produced.
Answer: 328
Not too many, so be careful how much to wreck on the racetracks.
500 Chulk
500 Duplode
77 Friker
1,001 CTG
9,805 Usrin
15,000 Akoss Poo
36,883 Bonzai Joe
8. World uranium production in 2010, in tons.
Answer: 53,663 tons
33% of it is produced is Kazakhstan. Must be the source for their shiny new capital.
40,000 Chulk
72,000 Akoss Poo
12,250 Usrin
9,999 CTG
1,777 Friker
1,500 Duplode
32,333,222 Bonzai Joe
9. Travel time of the fastest train going from Beijing to Changsha in minutes.
Answer: 394 minutes
Changsha is the capital of Hunan province with more than 7 million inhabitants. I have never heard about it either until a couple of weeks ago when it appeared in local news
It is 1484km from Beijing on train, but seems like most of you thought its closer.
572 Bonzai Joe
60 Akoss Poo
46 Usrin
45 Duplode
40 Chulk
999 CTG
2,777 Friker
10. Height difference between the tallest and smallest United States resident film actors ever lived, in centimeters
Answer: 153cm
Lock Martin was the highest, 232cm, starring in The Day the Earth Stood Still. Tamara De Treaux was the shortest, 79cm, staring in E.T.
145 Duplode
162 Usrin – almost!
142 Akoss Poo
110 Chulk
108 Bonzai Joe
199 CTG-
77 Friker -
11. Transistor count of an Intel Core-i7 quad processor.
Answer: 731,000,000
Spread on only 263 square millimeters. The first commercially available microprocessor, Intel 4004 had 2300 transistors. I think we never saw answers spread on such a big scale in the history of this game, but Friker was almost spot on…
777,777,777 Friker
50,000,001 CTG
500,000 Chulk
4,444 Bonzai Joe
500 Akoss Poo
10,000,000,000 Duplode
1,200,000,000,000 Usrin
12. Maximum net load of a standard 20’ international shipping container in kilograms.
Answer: 28200kg
Almost all standard shipping containers have the allowed weight of 30400kg. The tare weight of the 20’ container is 2200kg, so comes the result.
26,000 Bonzai Joe
24,000 Usrin
23,777 Friker
20,000 Chulk
4,536 CTG
30 Akoss Poo
300,000 Duplode
13. In which year was the first known electric passenger train introduced.
Answer: 1879
Well, it does not look like it, more like a toy train, but is technically an electric passenger train. Manufactured by Werner Siemens and put in operation on the Berlin World Fair. Maximum speed was 13km/h, it carried 90000 passengers during the fair on its 300m long track.
1,896 Duplode
1,860 Chulk – tight!
1,904 Usrin
1,909 CTG
1,927 Friker
1,948 Akoss Poo
1,959 Bonzai Joe
+1 Fastest speed achieved by a human powered bicycle on flat surface, unpaced, in km/h.
Answer: 133km/h
Achieved in 2009 by Sam Whittingham on an aerodynamic recumbent bicycle.
143 Akoss Poo
160 Chulk
161 CTG
161 Usrin
83 Bonzai Joe
77 Friker
57 Duplode – even I can almost reach this speed for a short while
Results of round 10:
4 – Duplode
3 – Chulk
2 – Akoss Poo, Bonzai Joe and Friker
1 – CTG and Usrin
Overall standings
32 - Chulk
22 - Zak McKracken
22 - Duplode
21 - Akoss Poo
20 - Usrin
16 - Bonzai Joe
6 - CTG
3 - Argammon
3 – Friker
2 - SuperBrian
Thanks for joining this round!
