Estimation game

[Chulk]

Working now, will send tonight (in about 10hs). I'm pretty confident about question 9.

[CTG]

Working now, will send tonight (in about 10hs). I'm pretty confident about question 9.

Hahaha, Googlakers...

[CTG]

Usrin is watching his messages. Probably we will get the results soon.

666th reply in this topic, evil laugh. 

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

The deadline is extended to tomorrow (26 Aug, 16:00 CET) - I'm still hoping to get more tips, especially from Argentina and from Slovakia!

Can we see the results at last?

[Usrin]

Sorry, I'm after some extremely busy days at work...

Before publishing the results, I should ask: if there is a tie between two pipsqueaks for the 1st place in one question, does the pipsqueak behind them gets 2nd or 3rd place? (The final order depends largely on the number of 2nd places.)

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Sorry, I'm after some extremely busy days at work...

Before publishing the results, I should ask: if there is a tie between two pipsqueaks for the 1st place in one question, does the pipsqueak behind them gets 2nd or 3rd place? (The final order depends largely on the number of 2nd places.)

3rd, I think.

[CTG]

Sorry, I'm after some extremely busy days at work...

Before publishing the results, I should ask: if there is a tie between two pipsqueaks for the 1st place in one question, does the pipsqueak behind them gets 2nd or 3rd place? (The final order depends largely on the number of 2nd places.)

3rd, I think.

3rd, no doubt.

[Chulk]

Yeah. You were beaten by 2 people -> you're 3rd

[Usrin]

Here are the results!

1. Average fuel consumption of my car on the way from my workplace to home, 12 August.
7.8 l/100 km.

CTG & Zak McKracken - 8.2
Akoss Poo - 7.12
Chulk - 8.7
Duplode - 9.35
Bonzai Joe - 10.7

2. Number of people living in countries with no sea coast.
475,818,737.

Akoss Poo - 600,000,000
Zak McKracken - 650,000,000
Duplode - 293,000,000
CTG - 666,666,666
Chulk - 250,000,000
Bonzai Joe - 143,657,869

3. Boiling point of water at the lowest sea level pressure ever recorded.
The lowest pressure was 870 hPa in a typhoon over the Pacific Ocean, 12 October 1979. At this pressure, water boils at 95.8°C.

CTG - 95.01
Zak McKracken - 97.2
Duplode - 99.3
Bonzai Joe - 92.2
Akoss Poo - 82.8
Chulk - 150 ()

4. Distance of the furthest object I've ever seen through a telescope (light years).
It is the galaxy M 81, being 12 million light years away.

Akoss Poo - 8,000,000
CTG - 6,000,001
Bonzai Joe - 2,300,000 (this would be good for the furthest object visible with naked eye)
Zak McKracken - 342
Chulk - 4.4
Duplode - 2,900,000,000 (more realistic answer than the previous two... a logarithmic scale would have been better for this question)

5. Yearly potato consumption per capita in the United Kingdom, 2005.
102 kg.

CTG - 99.9
Duplode - 93
Chulk - 150
Bonzai Joe - 34
Zak McKracken - 27
Akoss Poo - 13.48

6. Length of the world's longest straight paved road.
It is highway 10 in Saudi Arabia, with a 261 km long straight section.

Duplode - 251
CTG - 203
Zak McKracken - 329
Akoss Poo - 22.155
Chulk - 12
Bonzai Joe - 1865

7. Number of goals scored by the champion of the Armenian Premier League (football), 2013/14.
The champion was Banants, scoring only 38 goals in 28 games. (The runner-up Shirak scored 48. There are only 8 teams in the top league, playing 4 times with each other.)

Zak McKracken - 42 (our football expert! )
CTG - 55
Bonzai Joe - 77
Duplode - 82
Akoss Poo - 88
Chulk - 105

8. Total weight of a Trabant 601 Limousine.
615 kg.

CTG - 607
Zak McKracken - 601
Chulk - 900
Akoss Poo - 1708
Duplode - 1825
Bonzai Joe - 6200 (hey, it's not a lorry! )

9. Number of matches in the longest undefeated streak in the history of North American professional sport leagues.
35, by Philadelphia Flyers (NHL) in 1979-80. Sorry, Mr. Poo!

CTG - 34
Akoss Poo & Chulk - 37 & 33
Duplode - 42
Bonzai Joe - 43
Zak McKracken - 22

10. Density of hydrogen cyanide at room temperature (g/cm3).
0.687 g/cm3. (It's still liquid, boiling point is 26°C.)

Chulk - 0.753
CTG - 0.555
Akoss Poo - 1.123
Zak McKracken - 0.2
Bonzai Joe - 0.0031
Duplode - 0.0019

11. Number of nights I've ever spent in Slovakia.
Unfortunately I've never lived in the current territory of Slovakia, and many of my visits there were day trips. So sadly enough, this number is only 21.

CTG - 28
Akoss Poo - 6
Zak McKracken - 42
Duplode - 281
Bonzai Joe - 877
Chulk - 1095

12. Length of the longest train ever run in the world (m).
7353 m, during a test run in Australia (in 2001).

Chulk - 6000
Akoss Poo - 8994
Zak McKracken - 3800
Bonzai Joe - 2140
Duplode - 379
CTG - 28300

13. Heel height of the shoes my wife wore for our wedding (cm).
4.0 cm.

Bonzai Joe - 4.75
Duplode - 3
Zak McKracken - 6
CTG - 6.9
Akoss Poo - 7.9
Chulk - 10

+1. Minimum speed needed for driving a REAL Corvette ZR1 around a loop with diameter of 30 m.
43.2 km/h. The calculation is discussed e.g. here: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/calculate-the-velocity-necessary-to-counteract-gra.html (The type of the car doesn't really matter - only the height of the centre of gravity should be subtracted from the loop radius.)

CTG - 60
Duplode - 62
Zak McKracken - 110
Bonzai Joe - 125
Chulk - 175
Akoss Poo - 177


Overall:

1. CaxTheGoogleMaster 7
2. Zak McKracken 2 (3 second, 5 third places)
3. Akoss Poo 2 (3 second, 2 third places)
4. Chulk 2 (2 second, 1 third places)
5. Duplode 1 (3 second places)
6. Bonzai Joe 1 (no second place)

[Usrin]

Before publishing the results, I should ask: if there is a tie between two pipsqueaks for the 1st place in one question, does the pipsqueak behind them gets 2nd or 3rd place? (The final order depends largely on the number of 2nd places.)

3rd, I think.

Zak should be grateful for that. 

[CTG]

7, nice!

New question set... well... dunno when.

[Duplode]

I arguably should have been aware of the half-gotcha in question 10... Also...

+1. Minimum speed needed for driving a REAL Corvette ZR1 around a loop with diameter of 30 m.

CTG - 60
Duplode - 62

...I think we made the same mistake here 

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

2. Number of people living in countries with no sea coast.[/b]
475,818,737.

Akoss Poo - 600,000,000


3. Boiling point of water at the lowest sea level pressure ever recorded.
The lowest pressure was 870 hPa in a typhoon over the Pacific Ocean, 12 October 1979. At this pressure, water boils at 95.8°C.

4. Distance of the furthest object I've ever seen through a telescope (light years).
It is the galaxy M 81, being 12 million light years away.

Akoss Poo - 8,000,000

5. Yearly potato consumption per capita in the United Kingdom, 2005.
102 kg.

Akoss Poo - 13.48

7. Number of goals scored by the champion of the Armenian Premier League (football), 2013/14.
The champion was Banants, scoring only 38 goals in 28 games. (The runner-up Shirak scored 48. There are only 8 teams in the top league, playing 4 times with each other.)

8. Total weight of a Trabant 601 Limousine.
615 kg.

9. Number of matches in the longest undefeated streak in the history of North American professional sport leagues.
35, by Philadelphia Flyers (NHL) in 1979-80. Sorry, Mr. Poo!

CTG - 34
Akoss Poo & Chulk - 37 & 33

10. Density of hydrogen cyanide at room temperature (g/cm3).
0.687 g/cm3. (It's still liquid, boiling point is 26°C.)

Akoss Poo - 1.123

11. Number of nights I've ever spent in Slovakia.
Unfortunately I've never lived in the current territory of Slovakia, and many of my visits there were day trips. So sadly enough, this number is only 21.

13. Heel height of the shoes my wife wore for our wedding (cm).
4.0 cm.

I'm proud of having a right tips in fields of science which I like very much (population geography and astronomy) - by overtaking both Google Masters.

I'm less proud of somehow remembering a stronger dependence of boiling point decrease vs. pressure decrease... I also remembered a bit lower value (~800 hPa) of minimum ever recorded pressure in a typhoon.

I underestimated the potato consumption to a big extent... That's around 300 grams per a day. English are potato eaters, it seems... That's even higher than my consumption, and I LIKE potato very much. I thought I eat a lot of potato.

Armenian League: I don't like beugratós questions... (I thought there is a big difference between the strength of the teams, triggering high scoring games. It seems I wasn't the only one.)

What kinda limousine is that? Only 600 kgs?

Fúck you for your Philadelphia Cryers question! It couldn't have been worse after seeing CTG's answer, victory and my tip...

I wrote 1.123 kg/m3 for the HCN. I thought it is still a gas. Btw this was the only question for which I checked the answer after sending the tips in the message. Again, I don't like beugratós questions.

Well, I was right when I thought that you - like me - mostly made one day trips to Slovakia 'cos it's close. I sent the number of nights spent there by me, 6 (all of them in 1995, Kokava nad Rimavicou, when I learnt to ski). But you spent there much more. 21 is a nice number in a country where you make mostly one day trips.

LOL, that's not a picsacipö, especially not for a wedding!

[CTG]

Let me quote the answers sent to Usrin:

"10. Density of hydrogen cyanide at room temperature (g/cm3).
25°C-on folyékony az, remélem Poo beszopja. Legyen mondjuk 0.555 g/cm3."

It means something like "it's a liquid at 25°C, I hope Poo will suck in this question."

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Btw Wikipedia says

HCN: Boiling point   25.6 to 26.6 °C; 78.0 to 79.8 °F; 298.7 to 299.7 K

Room temperature

Scientific use
For scientific work, room temperature is taken to be about 20 to 26 degrees Celsius with an average of 23°C (about 73.4 degrees Fahrenheit (°F), 293 to 299 kelvins (K), or 528 to 537 degrees Rankine (°R)).[4] For numerical convenience, either 20 °C (68 °F) or 300 K (80 °F) is often used, without being specified as "room temperature". However, room temperature is not a defined scientific term, unlike Standard Temperature and Pressure (STP); admittedly, STP has several slightly different definitions.

So at taking the higher values of 'room temperature' into account, HCN can be considered as a gas at room temperature. So both the gas and the liquid densities should be accepted as a correct answer, I think.

That's why it is not a good idea to ask a beugratós kérdés with a scientifically undetermined term (e.g. "room temperature) in it.