*NEW* Cedar Point "COMMON Entries" question

Here is a new contest, similar to the previously posted "rare entries", yet with a completely different strategy.

IMPORTANT - DO NOT POST ANSWERS HERE. INSTEAD, E-MAIL THEM TO ME AT DBCAHILL@DEJAZZD.COM. You might want to read this entire post before answering the questions.

For each of the items below, your objective is to give an answer which is both correct and will be duplicated by as many other people as possible. The highest score wins. You get one point for every person who answers the same as you do (kind of like Match Game)

1.  Give the name of any department at Cedar Point.

2.  Name any attraction at Cedar Point that contains the letters "A, C, and R" in any order.

3.  Give the name of any place at Cedar Point that sells french fries.

4.  Give the name of any attraction at Cedar Point that requires a separate charge over and above the price of a Cedar Point park ticket.

5.  Excluding roller coasters, name anything on park property that is higher than Breakers Tower.

6.  Name any Cedar Point ride which was once in a different location in the park.

7.  Name any Cedar Point attraction that opened in the 1990's.

8.  Give the screen name of any GTTP member.

9.  Name any part of a roller coaster car.

10.  Name any food item that can be purchased at the Red Garter Saloon.

For each of the items above, your goal is to give the most common response to the question.

Your score on each question is equal to the number of people who give that answer. If you skip a question or leave it blank, you will score 1 for that question.  Your total score is the product of your scores on each question. Your object is to get as high a score as possible.

NO ANSWERS WILL BE JUDGED INCORRECT. As moderator, I will need to decide if two answers are the same, but I will not check the answers for correctness. The object is to get the most common answer, which is not necessarily the most common correct answer. A general class and a specific member of that class will be treated as distinct answers.  ("Ford" and "Thunderbird" would be considered distinct answers.)

For example, suppose I ask for a color on the current Cedar Point logo.  20 people say green, 9 say lime, 8 say blue, 5 say red, 4 say orange, 3 say Snoopy, and 1 says dog. The scores are then simply green/lime=29 (as I've decided that they are the same answer), blue=8, red=5, orange=4, Snoopy=3, and dog=1. I ignore the fact that orange is not on the current Cedar Point logo, that Snoopy and dog are not colors, and that a Snoopy is a specific instance of the class dog.
 
For my convenience, please do not quote this message when responding.

Your message should contain the 10 answers, numbered 1 to 10, and your GTTP screen name. Comments,  explanatory notes, explanations of strategy, and suggestions for questions for future contests are all welcome, but please place them after your 10 answers, and make sure that they are clearly marked so as to not be confused with your answers.  Clarifications will generally not be given during the contest. Multiple entries are not allowed. Please do not post any discussion of the questions to GTTP or collaborate with other contestants in your entries.

This contest will end Sunday, August 5 at 9:00 PM to give our "weekend warriors" a shot. 

Have fun!

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Duane Cahill
Cedar Point - One small part of a whole big life.

Is a drink considered food?
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Kerry - Bright Man of the Elite Eight
*boggle* some of these are making my head hurt! :)
Kerry -

Clarifications will generally not be given during the contest
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Duane Cahill
Cedar Point - One small part of a whole big life.
Good question, though Kerry.  I was wondering the same thing.  Oh well.
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UCSigEp

Isn't Disney World a people trap run by a mouse?

MF 2K1: 4
MF life: 12

Entries received so far from:

force312

millrace

Nilawd

ShiveringTim

UCDAAP42

RedGarterRob

putergeek

Joe E.

jaredb12

UCSigEp

jesserina

loriu

frontierman

Neil

Corbin

Mantomatic

VorTeX

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Duane Cahill
Cedar Point - One small part of a whole big life.

I see why no clarifications can be given, everyone could get an idea for the same thing then.
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Kerry - Bright Man of the Elite Eight
That, and no answer is incorrect
10 more entries

eric, Dan, slithernoggin, crashoverride, Patrick Shultz, funboy, Raptor Dave, sky kicker, spewey, Dave Kneebush.

Please remember to include your screen name with your entry, otherwise I'll post the name on the mail account as the entry (and you won't get the adulation and adoration of your fellow GTTP members if you win)

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Duane Cahill
Cedar Point - One small part of a whole big life.

10 more entries

Gemini, Pete, MF_is_sinking_too, BeemanCP65, Vince, Julia, jmstuckman, wildcatadam, Kevin, Mannes

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Duane Cahill
Cedar Point - One small part of a whole big life.

Duane, are you planning on cutting this one off at 50 if this rate keeps up, or are you going to keep it open until Sunday night?

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PO!NT OF VIEW - A Different Look at Roller Coasters
http://www.crosswinds.net/~justmayntz/thrills/

More entries.... More points!
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Next trip to CP on July 25th - 28th!
I really wanted to give the folks who can only post on weekends a chance.  The response on this one has been just short of overwhelming, but I'm keeping up pretty well on logging answers.

Since we'll hit our 50th entry sometime today, I'll keep it going until Sunday regardless of the number of entries.

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Duane Cahill
Cedar Point - One small part of a whole big life.

Duane,  If this is gonna be a regular event, then maybe make it web based.  Can use a database to track it all then.
Just a thought.
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Next trip to CP on August 25th - 26th!

*** This post was edited by putergeek on 8/2/2001. ***

Duane, these are great-- kudos for thinking them up!
GOING TO CP FOR FIRST TIME ANYONE HAVE ANY  ADVICE??? CHEAP LODGING???
putergeek - If I keep these up as a regular feature, I'll likely do a quickie web-based app to handle them. 

10 more entries:

Ride of Steel, Alison, cpparrothead, probie, Georgeq es, Stormin' Fox, swan boats, RideMan, cheeseonastick, eggs

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Duane Cahill
Cedar Point - One small part of a whole big life.

Good call Duane.  No sense making this any more work than it needs to!

Thanks for the efforts! 

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Next trip to CP on July 25th - 28th!

Slowing down a bit and waiting for the weekend entries to roll in.  New entries received from:

Jeffrey Spartan, RaptorFlyer, CP_Bound, Cathy Schwab, Old Timer Tim (and family)

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Duane Cahill
Cedar Point - One small part of a whole big life.

I know the contest ends Sunday the 5th, but when will you post the results?
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Formerly known as Shorti2443

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