2021 Last Person Standing January Quiz

Electric Nitwit

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

When in doubt I tend to just go with 23

You trust in the GOAT, yeah?

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

You trust in the GOAT, yeah?

More like I watched a certain TV show that were obsessed with six mysterious numbers...

Trigger

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

You trust in the GOAT, yeah?

That gif is glorious!

Clarabel

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Aaahh, so close!
Delighted with that as it was a straight up guess

As was mine. Shocked

Green&Red

Trigger wrote: »

Considering you can't win the competition and you are a floater.

No

Clara had a note from her parents which the competition's governing committee have reviewed and given an exemption, her perseverance and non-flakiness was said to be the deciding factor

Green&Red

Anyway, one of my best friends lectures at MIT on Artificial Intelligence. There is a best selling book called "Machine Crowd Platform", he was a researcher on it. Interesting stuff about how traditional economic principles are being bypassed by "science fiction" technologies.

Encyclopedias are covered in one part of the book, how with the start of the internet Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales wanted to set up a free on-line encyclopedia, hired subject experts with PhDs to write the entries, they spent $250,000 and had 12 articles written in 18 months.

On January 15th 2001 they set up Wikipedia, how many articles did it have by the end of January 2001?

For reference - at the end of 2001 there were 19,000

Purgative

Green&Red wrote: »

On January 15th 2001 they set up Wikipedia, how many articles did it have by the end of January 2001?

For reference - at the end of 2001 there were 19,000

rainbowtrout

I’ve just come here from reading the guardian who have an article today ‘Wikipedia is 20’, which I read about 10 minutes ago. Sadly it didn’t mention how many articles Wikipedia had published in its first two weeks.

Mollyb60

Yeah there was an article on the BBC too which I did read. Don't remember it mentioning anything that could help me answer the question.

Electric Nitwit

Answer submitted. I remember seeing a documentary about it...

Clarabel

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Answer submitted. I remember seeing a documentary about it...

But are you leading us good or bad

HeidiHeidi

So, it's a number somewhere betweeen 12 and 19,000.


Great.

rainbowtrout

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

So, it's a number somewhere betweeen 12 and 19,000.


Great.

At least there's an upper and lower limit:pac:

Sephiroth_dude

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Answer submitted. I remember seeing a documentary about it...

Is the answer by any chance twee fiddy?

KathleenGrant

Put in the first number that came into my head. It's ridiculous

Purgative

Unless it was 19,001, you're grand in the same boat as the rest of us

rainbowtrout

Purgative wrote: »

Unless it was 19,001, you're grand in the same boat as the rest of us

Well as we saw the other night with the swimming question if anyone had guessed 101% they would have been closest to the right answer.

Purgative

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Well as we saw the other night with the swimming question if anyone had guessed 101% they would have been closest to the right answer.

Is that your approach with this question?

rainbowtrout

Purgative wrote: »

Is that your approach with this question?

No I ruled it out as unlikely

Green&Red

Evening everyone

Glad to see this was such an on point question

Every once in a while someone comes along with an answer that is so wrong that its almost the sum of all the other answers


Tonight is one of those occasions

duffman13

Green&Red wrote: »

Evening everyone

Glad to see this was such an on point question

Every once in a while someone comes along with an answer that is so wrong that its almost the sum of all the other answers


Tonight is one of those occasions

this should be fun

Green&Red

So the correct answer was 617, a lot of people were in and around that but Seph was closest

Unfortunately Collie assumed most of the years entries were in the first two weeks, we say goodbye to him


duffman13 40
wrestlemaniac 51
Irish Aris 120
Kolido 150
Trigger 176
Osh 180
Zaph 220
Also Starring LeVar Burton 272
rainbowtrout 337
Electric Nitwit 503
ShaneU 524
Sephiroth_dude 670
Reberetta 700
BuileBeag 725
HeidiHeidi 750
Posy 760
Loughc 791
hurlingman97 850
KathleenGrant 888
Pawwed Rig 899
Toto Wolfcastle 900
Mollyb60 2000
Shorty69664 2345
Purgative 3423
Clarabel 5000
Collie D 15000

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I was initially gonna put 666, but thought it was a bit too high for a brand new site to gain that much traction in its first two weeks, especially back in 2001, figuring that it would gain popularity and grow as the year went on...

Should've stuck with the number of the beast though, and I'd be walking away with a bye today...

Hail Satan!

Electric Nitwit

Green&Red wrote: »

Unfortunately Collie assumed most of the years entries were in the first two weeks, we say goodbye to him

Maybe not a crazy thought that they'd have tried to launch big...? Wrong, but maybe not crazy

Bye Collie!

ShaneU

Argh, was so close to a free hit tomorrow!

Clarabel

The paranoia is setting in.
I'm convinced he's doing trick questions

Trigger

Clarabel wrote: »

The paranoia is setting in.
I'm convinced he's doing trick questions

How was it a trick? He literally gave a hint with the 19000 post

Clarabel

Trigger wrote: »

How was it a trick? He literally gave a hint with the 19000 post

It wasn't a trick.... I thought it was a trick cause I'm paranoid.

Collie D

Jesus. I should be banned from the forum for that answer. Better to go bust in style I suppose

Best of luck to those remaining. I’ll be keeping an eye on the remainder anyway.

Collie D

Oh, and thanks for running.