Guesstimania Final Jeopardy Week of 7/9/12 (SPOILERS)

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Guesstimania Final Jeopardy Week of 7/9/12 (SPOILERS)

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A little late getting it on here, but hopefully people will enter ... The rules, briefly, are that you have to guess the results of this week's Final Jeopardy responses. You would receive one point for the absolute value of each percentage that your guess varies from the actual poll results for each of the five Final Jeopardy clues for the week. So, for example, if you guessed 40 on Monday's question, and the poll ended up being 52, you would get 12 points. If you guessed 64, you would still get 12 points. Your total will be the total of the five questions (none of the extra questions), and the person with the lowest number of points wins.
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Monday: 1910 winner Albrecht Kossel studied a new material in the control center of cells; today, we know it as this
Tuesday: In 1989 he said, "You can't just ask customers what they want...by the time you get it built, they'll want something new"
Wednesday: He said, "it is 72 years since the first inauguration of a president under our national Constitution"
Thursday: Of the 6 official languages used at the U.N., this one is last alphabetically.
Friday: This appointed position first held by John Dryden echoes a "Versificator Regis" of Richard I in the 12th century.
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Monday: 73
Tuesday: 68
Wednesday: 84
Thursday: 84
Friday: 63
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alietr wrote:A little late getting it on here, but hopefully people will enter ... The rules, briefly, are that you have to guess the results of this week's Final Jeopardy responses. You would receive one point for the absolute value of each percentage that your guess varies from the actual poll results for each of the five Final Jeopardy clues for the week. So, for example, if you guessed 40 on Monday's question, and the poll ended up being 52, you would get 12 points. If you guessed 64, you would still get 12 points. Your total will be the total of the five questions (none of the extra questions), and the person with the lowest number of points wins.
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Monday: 1910 winner Albrecht Kossel studied a new material in the control center of cells; today, we know it as this
Tuesday: In 1989 he said, "You can't just ask customers what they want...by the time you get it built, they'll want something new"
Wednesday: He said, "it is 72 years since the first inauguration of a president under our national Constitution"
Thursday: Of the 6 official languages used at the U.N., this one is last alphabetically.
Friday: This appointed position first held by John Dryden echoes a "Versificator Regis" of Richard I in the 12th century.
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M:74
T:81
W:89
T:92
F:84
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Mon. 70
Tues. 80
Wed. 80
Thurs. 80
Fri. 85
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Monday 66
Tuesday 55
Wednesday 66
Thursday 66
Friday 45
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Monday: 61
Tuesday: 74
Wednesday: 65
Thursday: 72
Friday: 67
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Monday: 60
Tuesday: 55
Wednesday: 88
Thursday: 82
Friday: 66
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I may be a little too optimistic here, but:
Monday: 70
Tuesday: 75
Wednesday: 90
Thursday: 75
Friday: 80
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Monday: 72
Tuesday: 78
Wednesday: 89
Thursday: 85
Friday: 71
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Monday: 82
Tuesday: 75
Wednesday: 92
Thursday: 76
Friday: 74
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Monday: 82
Tuesday: 77
Wednesday: 80
Thursday: 78
Friday: 86
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80%
80%
80%
80%
80%
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The poll has been posted.
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Oops, I'm a little late but I give you my word that I haven't looked at the poll yet.
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M: 69
T: 69
W: 78
Th: 78
F: 69
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jeff6286 wrote:Oops, I'm a little late but I give you my word that I haven't looked at the poll yet.
Ditto!
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70
74
91
63
68
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Re: Guesstimania Final Jeopardy Week of 7/9/12 (SPOILERS)

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It looks like Lisa has won in a walk! She was just about spot-on for every question, and I think that's the lowest score yet. Plasticene put on a good show, followed by OrangeSAM. GroupThink once again would have been in second, were it only human.

M T W Th F Points
lisa0012 82 75 92 76 74 12.0
plasticene 72 78 89 85 71 20.0
OrangeSAM 70 75 90 75 80 23.0
cheezguyty 80 80 80 80 80 27.0
jeff6286 69 69 78 78 69 28.0
econgator 82 77 80 78 86 30.0
alietr 73 68 84 84 63 31.0
woof 70 74 91 63 68 31.0
Bamaman 74 81 89 92 84 39.0
gamawire 70 80 80 80 85 40.0
Pacule 60 55 88 82 66 48.0
MarkBarrett 61 74 65 72 67 54.0
Frank Hardy 66 55 66 66 45 93.0
GroupThink 71.5 72.4 82.5 77.8 72.2 15.1
Actual 79 73 89 78 72
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Second win, woohoo! Thanks for the games, as always :D
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