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[BonzaiJoe]

How much they plan to spend.

[BonzaiJoe]

I haven't received any message from you, Zak. Did you send it to CTG by mistake?


Akoss, Usrin, Argammon, SuperBrian: are you in?

[Chulk]

How much they plan to spend.

ok, will send the answers tonight

[zaqrack]

I haven't received any message from you, Zak. Did you send it to CTG by mistake?

no, but accidentally I sent it an email to jackyvso@hotmail.com instead of a forum PM. Have you received it there?

[BonzaiJoe]

Yes! Thanks.

[CTG]

How much they plan to spend.

Ouch. Decrease my tip by 45% (if it's still possible).

[Argammon]

PM sent.

[CTG]

Temporary results: Argammon 14 pts (CTG 1 pt, I'm sure about question 7).

[Argammon]

I doubt that. 

[Duplode]

Submitted 

[Chulk]

Sent!!

Edit: Just checked on a few answers, I tipped on "The Sorrows of Young Werther" release even before Goethe was born...

[BonzaiJoe]

If there are posthumous releases, why not prenatal ones? 

[BonzaiJoe]

Results: probably this evening. I can tell you the round has a very clear winner, and 2 exact correct answers.

[BonzaiJoe]

RESULTS, round 8:

1. Size of the United States federal budget for 2013
Answer: 3,8 trillion USD

3,8 trillion Argammon(!)
4,1 trillion Chulk
3,24 trillion Usrin
5,999999999 trillion CTG
1 trillion Friker
10 trillion Duplode
15 trillion Zak
55 trillion Akoss

Almost everyone got the order of magnitude right in this one. Good job.

2. Number of settlements in India with more than 100 inhabitants (2001)
Answer: 552,717 - it's a whole lot of settlements.

700,000 Friker
320,000 Akoss
300,001 CTG
220,000 Zak
125,105 Usrin
100,000 Chulk
50,000 Duplode
1,200,000 Argammon


3. Height of the 100th tallest mountain on Earth
Answer: 7221 m - Karjiang, Himalaya. Never climbed.

7050 Chulk
7400 Argammon (close...)
7001 CTG
7000 Akoss     
6999 Usrin   (did you three spend too much time together?)
5888 Zak
5432 Duplode
770000 Friker (? If we had a mountain that high, we could launch satellites by dropping them from the top.)


4. How many days did Napoleon spend in exile on St. Helena?
Answer: 2029 days - arrival October 1815, death May 1821. Rumour says he suffered an early and troubled death because he insisted on eating lots of cake and cream during his exile on St. Helena and not enough vegetables.

1897 Usrin
2192 CTG
2200 Chulk
2500 Duplode
430 Friker
280 Argammon
144 Akoss
4444 Zak


5. Total number of characters, including spaces, in the document containing all of my introspective writings from 2001 to 2012.
Answer: 2,155,511 - nearly 900 pages. So much emo stuff from the old days.

1,501,000 Zak
1,007,500 Argammon
500,000 Duplode
251,000 Usrin
77,777 Friker
10,000,000 Chulk
14,674,231 Akoss
68,042,034 CTG    (that's more than 15 Bibles... I have done a few other things in life besides typing.)


6. Distance between the easternmost point on the South American continent and the westernmost point on the African continent (km)
Answer: 3081 km

3001 CTG
2900 Argammon
3400 Chulk
2651 Akoss
2009 Usrin
4444 Zak
1377 Friker
6500 Duplode


7. Standard atomic weight of Mendelevium (units).
Answer: 258

258 CTG (!)
255 Akoss
276 Duplode
278 Usrin
150 Argammon
150 Chulk
107 Zak
89 Friker

8. Number of words in Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy" (original Italian version)
Answer: 96655

100,001 Art-loving CTG
80,000 Duplode
130,000 Chulk
52000 Argammon
30000 Friker
19231 Akoss
4444 Zak
2989 Usrin


9. Release year of J.W. von Göethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther"?
Answer: 1774 - the earliest of Göethe's famous works

1799 Argammon
1800 Akoss
1801 CTG
1745 Usrin
1807 Duplode
1740 Chulk
1817 Friker
1710 Zak

Nobody came really close, nobody was really far off.


10. What is the median length of the songs in my music library?
Answer: 4:01

3:59 CTG
3:52 Zak
3:46 Usrin
3:33 Friker
4:30 Chulk
4:32 Argammon
4:57 Akoss
3:01 Duplode


11. Average penis length in North Korea (cm)
Answer: 9,66 cm - one of the smallest known national averages.

9,8 CTG
9,9 Argammon
10 Chulk
10,61 Akoss
10,9 Usrin
12,3 Zak
13,1 Friker
14 Duplode


12. Number of women on Forbes' current list of the 71 most powerful people in the world.
Answer: 6 : Angela Merkel (2), Sonia Gandhi (12), Dilma Rousseff (18), Christine Lagarde (38), Margaret Chan (58), Kathleen Sebelius (68)

9 Usrin
2 Akoss
11 Zak
1 Friker
15 Argammon
15 Chulk
15 CTG
17 Duplode


13. Time of sunrise in Anadyr, Chukotka, Russia, on July 21st
Answer: 2:32 AM

3:00 Chulk
3:30 Zak
3:45 Friker
4:12 Duplode
4:30 Argammon
23:58 Usrin
5:40 CTG
5:51 Akoss

+1. How many goals will be scored in the Premier League on January 1, 2013?
Answer: 23 - not such a boring day.

21 Zak
21 Argammon
20 Chulk
19 Akoss
19 Usrin
18 Duplode
17 CTG
9 Friker



Scores, round 8:

5 - CTG
2,5 - Argammon
2 - Chulk
2 - Usrin
1,5 - Zak
1 - Friker
0 - Akoss
0 - Duplode

[zaqrack]

exciting and thanks for the questions. So CTG has to write questions again.