IWS #192: Results

[cuervo72]

1. Name a vegetable that is not generally considered "green."

17 tomato
14 carrot
4 potato
3 corn
1 eggplant
1 lettuce
1 onion
1 beet

Two horse race here. A few did note in their entries that a tomato was not technically a vegetable, but hey, this is Stupid we're talking here. Mildly surprised corn didn't have a better showing.

2. Name a prepared food which, while possibly containing ingredients that have been cooked, is generally not thought of as being cooked.

15 salad
12 sushi
5 sandwich
2 cake
2 ice cream
1 cereal
1 potato salad
1 nachos
1 frozen pizza
1 jello
1 tofu

Another question where if you didn't have one of the top two choices, you had no chance. I actually had sushi in mind when phrasing the question -- it's typically thought of as raw, but the rice itself HAS been cooked. I didn't even think of salad, which is funny considering I have them all the time. For scoring I considered 'potato salad' to be an intrinsically different beast.

3. Name a type of "cake" which is not a cake in the traditional baking sense (egg/sugar/flour mixture cooked in an oven, etc.). This need not be edible.

11 pancake
8 urinal/toilet cake
7 cheesecake
5 fruit cake
2 beefcake
2 Cake (band)
2 rice cake
1 cocaine cake
1 ice cream cake
1 meatloaf
1 patty-cake

This question was actually inspired by an odd craving I had for funnel cake (though I'd have gone with urinal, myself). I'm a little surprised the band only had two votes.

4. Name a condiment that might not be found at a typical sports arena.

9 mayo
6 soy sauce
5 salsa
3 horseradish
2 pepper
2 ranch
2 relish
2 steak sauce
1 bbq sauce
1 capers
1 Grey Poupon
1 honey
1 honey mustard
1 hot sauce
1 mustard
1 pickles
1 sauerkraut
1 syrup
1 tartar sauce

Wow, now THAT is a spread. I'm actually a little surprised mayo won here, as I'd guess that any park serving burgers might have mayo (I think my minor league stadium does). But as it's not one of the big hot dog toppers, it is a logical choice.

5. Name a food or drink that men, in general, do not consume.

9 quiche
5 wine
5 wine cooler
4 cosmopolitan
2 salad
2 tea
2 daiquiri
1 appletini
1 Bailey's
1 cottage cheese
1 margaritas
1 martini
1 milk
1 mimosa
1 onion
1 slimfast
1 tofu
1 vegetables
1 water
1 yogurt

I actually went to great lengths to NOT phrase this question as "Name a food that real men don't eat." But, that's really what I had in mind here. All of you who still came through with quiche, congrats. And, you're old. I considered 'wine' and 'wine cooler' to be separate answers because, well, they're completely different drinks. Oh, and Dark Cloud and Lathum - you've been called out.

6. Give the name of a food which contains each of the letters "n", "o", and "t". These letters may appear multiple times and may be in any order.

11 doughnut/donut/dough knot
4 wonton/wonton soup
2 cantaloupe
2 cotton candy
2 mutton
2 pomegranate
2 rigatoni
2 t-bone
2 watermelon
1 cheese on toast
1 coconut
1 fig newton
1 garlic knot
1 hot dong
1 I Can't Believe It's Not Butter [ed: of 69?]
1 manicotti
1 nothing
1 nougat
1 pinto beans
1 rotini
1 tenderloin
1 tuna noodle casserole

I rather expected that question to be a mess, but a rather strong contingent focused in on Homer's passion. I was fairly forgiving here, grouping all spellings (even "dough knot", which I would actually guess had more of a garlic knot in mind). I did the same for wonton/wonton soup.

But uh, "hot dong"? Really??

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***The Results***

Well, hot diggity dong:

Warhammer

4

0.00%

Guys, this was IWS, not MMR:

Alf	105	0.00%
Dodgerchick	192	0.01%
Toddzilla	238	0.01%
MIJB#19	255	0.01%
Grover	300	0.01%
mauboy1	308	0.01%
Mustang	528	0.02%
korme	952	0.04%

Solid outing, but need to eat their vegetables for next time:

Abe Sargent	1200	0.05%
RendeR	1848	0.07%
Marc Vaughan	1870	0.07%
EagleFan	2160	0.09%
britrock88	2520	0.10%
kcchief19	2835	0.11%
Chief Rum	2880	0.12%
corbes	3080	0.12%
nilodor	3366	0.13%
tyketime	5040	0.20%
claphamsa	5040	0.20%
Coffee Warlord	8160	0.33%
TRO	9240	0.37%
wade moore	10200	0.41%
Julio Riddols	13440	0.54%
Sublime 2	13860	0.55%
PurdueBrad	16320	0.65%
Barkeep49	16320	0.65%
Pyser	19008	0.76%

In the running, but didn't quite cut the...mayo:

QuikSand	41580	1.66%
Logan	44880	1.80%
CrimsonFox	45360	1.81%
albionmoonlight	98736	3.95%
Butter of 69	102850	4.12%
Subby	110160	4.41%
Masked	124740	4.99%
chesapeake	151200	6.05%
Dark Cloud	168300	6.73%
Morgado	277200	11.09%
Karlifornia	294525	11.78%

Doesn't eat no girly food:

Suburban Rhythm

623700

24.96%

Crushed it, but didn't quite take the cake:

DanGarion

1454112

58.18%

Your winnar and now FIVE-TIME IWS Champion:

digamma

1590435

63.64%

Congrats digamma! Thanks for participating all, sorry if some of the questions were a little rough but I thought this was a fun one. PEACE.

[QuikSand]

Interesting questions - I was sure I had botched more than two of them. Spent forever on the n-o-t one, it seemed, only to blow it.

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Crushed it, but didn't quite take the cake:

Awesomeness.

[albionmoonlight]

Thanks for running it. Fun questions. I was killed by the Grey Poupon thing. Classing overthinking on my part.

[stevew]

nice to see urinal cake get some love.

[Subby]

In the lead maybe and then MASSIVELY whiffed on N-O-T. :\

rigatoni? really?

[Butter_of_69]

I got #5 after I had already submitted wine, but I missed so badly on #2, it made no difference.

[Logan]

Can't believe I whiffed so bad on donuts. I had no idea on #5 so I went with salad, even though I eat them all the time.

[Pyser]

loved these questions

[Suburban Rhythm]

My best ever IWS showing...fruit cake burned me...

[Sublime 2]

Fun questions.

Why rigatoni? I'll never know.

[Grover]

Did not finish last. Awesome. That was my goal.

[Young Drachma]

Did about what I expected. Nice work digummah.

[Warhammer]

The letters just stuck in my head. I thought of hot dong, and couldn't stop giggling, which turned into maniacal laughter. I tried waiting a bit, but then came back and thought of hot dong, so I went with it.

[MIJB#19]

[slap head] donuts and pancakes!

But then, I would have never guessed mayo as being irregular..

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by MIJB#19

[slap head] donuts and pancakes!

But then, I would have never guessed mayo as being irregular..

Me neither.

[claphamsa]

wow I suck!

and who the hell eats cottage cheese....

[DanGarion]

Damn you salad and pancakes, my Achilles heel!

[Mustang]

Originally Posted by stevew

nice to see urinal cake get some love.

I thought that with him putting 'may or may not be edible' that urinal would win...

[wade moore]

I really fell big time on #6 with Garlic Knot, but I too am surprised to see Mayo - that is a typical condiment at ballparks to me.

[CrimsonFox]

I was doing great until donut. Can't believe I didn't think of that.
All I could think of was cantaloupe. Glad Sushi came to me finally as before that all I could think of was shrimp cocktail which I knew wouldn't do it.

[Logan]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

I was doing great until donut. Can't believe I didn't think of that.
All I could think of was cantaloupe. Glad Sushi came to me finally as before that all I could think of was shrimp cocktail which I knew wouldn't do it.

I was your fellow cantalouper.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Logan

I was your fellow cantalouper.

highfive!

I can't believe mayo won. I see mayo everywhere :P

I said horseradish. Soysauce was a graet answer tho too.

[Coffee Warlord]

Damn you, doughnuts and pancakes. Damn you.

At least I decided to be stupid and go with tomato.

[RendeR]

Tomato is NOT a vegetable. its a citrus fruit. Recalculate please

[korme]

This was a great IWS, it really made me think

[digamma]

Thanks cuervo. Been out of town. Will get a new one up this week.