Estimation game

[Chulk]

6 competitors so far, Chulk, we are only waiting on you! 

Sent!!

[CTG]

6 competitors so far, Chulk, we are only waiting on you! 

Sent!!

So... how many perfect shots do you have now?

[zaqrack]

thanks! results soon

[zaqrack]

RESULTS, ROUND 10:

1.   Number of Nintendo Wii machines sold worldwide until 2011 December 31.
Answer: 94,970,000

99,999,999   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!

[Chulk]

2.   Highest number of fingers and toes a person was ever born with (sum of fingers + toes)
16   Bonzai Joe

I guess BJ bet on EXTRA fingers and not total...

3.   Cigarettes per year per person consumed in average within the adult population of Albania.

I tipped daily, don't know really why...

10.   Height difference between the tallest and smallest United States resident film actors ever lived, in centimeters

Stupid me, didn't even considered children...

777,777,777      Friker

Lucky number, right?

[Duplode]

Yay, at last a decent result from me 

5.   Electricity consumed in our Shanghai apartment during November 2012, in kWh.
[...]
5,400   Duplode –   I don't have industrial equipment at home. 

For some reason I missed the "November" next to the "2012"...

Round 11: Questions to be posted soon-ish, unless Usrin wants to run this round (as per his shared round 9 victory).

[CTG]

Good questions, but crappy round

[Friker]

7.77   Friker – did you come and check yourself?

I was counting with a pack of wheat in our store.

10.   Height difference between the tallest and smallest United States resident film actors ever lived, in centimeters
77   Friker -

hmm.. I was thinking only at adult actors. :-/ Otherwise it would be 177.

777,777,777      Friker

Lucky number, right?

yeah, lucky, it is.

[CTG]

I thought the height difference is a tricky question, expected more from American castings.

Certified records: tallest man on Earth: 272 cm; shortest one: 54.6 cm

Btw...

Flag: United States
Metrict: 2.74 m
Imperial: 8 ft 11.5 in
Name: John Aasen
Note: American silent film actor, height is not officially confirmed.
Lifespan: 1890–1938

[BonzaiJoe]

I can see that my guess on the 'highest number of fingers and toes' question was quite bad 

[CTG]

Btw height difference between the tallest and smallest Stunts pipsqueaks?

(Stunts wiki list about height?  )

[Duplode]

Okay, it's time for Round 11!
Deadline: February 26th, 23:59:59, GMT -3 (that is, in 14 days and a few hours).

1. Result of the Roman census for 147/46 BC.

2. Typical (measured for just one specimen) migration distance for an Amur Falcon, in km (just one leg of the route only).

3. Fuel consumption of a Lotus Elan Sprint (the 1970-73 model), in km/L.

4. 2012 third quarter cellphone sales in Brazil, in number of phones.

5. London Underground average speed, including stops at stations, in km/h.

6. Area of the Congo River basin, in km².

7. Total number of second places in F1 races between Coulthard, Barrichello and Webber as of today.

8. Lines of source code of DOSBox as of today.

9. Length of the free-form improvisation section at the end of King Crimson's Moonchild.

10. Distance between western and eastern extreme points of São Paulo, Brazil (the city, not the state).

11. Number of numbered sections/aphorisms in Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil.

12. Estimated total population of Asian Elephants (quoted from a 2011 paper).

13. Average number of "componentes" (i.e. people in costumes dancing or playing instruments) per samba school (main group only) at the Rio de Janeiro carnival parade in 2009.

+1. Time difference between the longest and shortest final laps sent by me to a Stunts competition (LeStunts races excluded).

(The units quoted are what I will use for the answers, though you can use anything sensible as long as you mention it!)

[Chulk]

Btw height difference between the tallest and smallest Stunts pipsqueaks?

(Stunts wiki list about height?  )

Probably shortest is one of Krys Toff's kids. No idea about the tallest... Akoss, BJ?

[Chulk]

in 14 days

Chaser's or Earth's?

[Duplode]

Btw height difference between the tallest and smallest Stunts pipsqueaks?

(Stunts wiki list about height?  )

Probably shortest is one of Krys Toff's kids. No idea about the tallest... Akoss, BJ?

Or Renato, he is in the 190+ range.