Think Different 17: This Title Has Been Intentionally Left Blank

userpage · Post by **HugoTroop** » Wed Jun 30, 2021 1:37 am

Several months minutes later, a new Think Different!

Rules yanked from TD 16:

1. You have 10 questions that you try to guess a correct answer for.
2. The catch is that the goal is to get the fewest number of points. The way you earn points is for each correct answer you give, you will earn the number of points equal to the number of people who guessed that answer. So, for instance, if your answer to Question 1 is Thomas Jefferson and 3 other people guessed that answer, you would earn 4 points for that question (1 for yours and 3 for the others). If you get the answer wrong, you earn the number of points equal to the number of participants plus 5 points (i.e. if there are 13 participants, you get 18 points). The best attainable score is 10 points.
3. There are two bonuses you could use to replace an answer: DROP and SHEEP. DROP means you earn 1 point for that question. SHEEP means you earn the number of points equal to the answer that the most people answered. So for instance, if the correct answers were A, B, C, and D, and 7 people guessed A, 6 people guessed B, 3 people guessed C, and 2 people guessed D, then the people who said SHEEP would earn 7 points for the answer (your SHEEP doesn't count as an answer and doesn't affect the others' scores). You get only 1 of each bonus if you so choose to use them. It is advised that you use DROP before SHEEP. Again, you don't have to use either of these bonuses.
4. Please send your responses to me via private messaging on the forums or through Discord DMs before 11 July, 2021 at 1:00 PM EDT (12:00 noon CDT). Any answers sent after that point will not be considered.
5. Make sure not to cheat, please. Cheating is defined as letting other users know what your answers are before the deadline is reached. For this game, you may use any sources to find your answers (i.e. the wiki, Google, etc.).
6. Users can change their answers before the due date arrives, but after the due date, answers may not be changed.

userpage · Post by **HugoTroop** » Wed Jun 30, 2021 1:40 am

Questions:

1. Name a denomination of US Federal Reserve banknote currently issued by the Federal Reserve Board.
2. Name a poker hand (by category) that is achievable with a standard 52-card deck.
3. Name a combination of pennies, nickels, and dimes to make 16 cents.
4. Name a year which saw the Doomsday Clock moved backwards.
5. Name a Cyrillic character in the Russian alphabet that is a homoglyph of an Latin character in the English alphabet.
6. Name a named character from The Legend of Korra who received airbending following Harmonic Convergence.
7. Name a British warship engaged by and/or involved in the pursuit and destruction of the German battleship Bismarck.
8. Name a lake in Europe which is (on average) larger than 1000 square kilometers.
9. Name a page on the Scioly.org Wiki in the MediaWiki namespace.
10. Name a landlocked nation which borders exactly one other landlocked nation.

userpage · Post by **HugoTroop** » Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:54 pm

Additional clarifications:

For question 8, define Europe as the countries considered part of Europe by the Statistics Division of the United Nations (https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/ under 'Geographic Regions'), but only including Russia when west of the Ural Mountains and also including Eastern Thrace, which is a part of Turkey commonly referenced as part of Europe.

For question 10, use only countries recognized by the United Nations when defining whether a country landlocked.

For question 10, the phrasing is rather confusing. Substitute it with this:
Name a landlocked nation which, of all the countries it borders, exactly one and only one is landlocked.

userpage · Post by **HugoTroop** » Fri Jul 09, 2021 11:50 am

Two days left for submissions!

userpage · Post by **HugoTroop** » Sun Jul 11, 2021 4:45 pm

Results are in! One long post because making multiple is a lot of effort.

1. Name a denomination of US Federal Reserve banknote currently issued by the Federal Reserve Board.