Scoring
- Answer each question with the answer you think everyone else will give. If you don't understand a question, then ask us for clarification.
- This isn't a general knowledge quiz. Correct answers are not always the most popular, so simply enter what you think everyone else will enter, making sure that you spell the word the most popular way as well. You're after the most popular answer, not the most correct.
- For each question, your score is the percentage of people who give the same answer as you. The scores for each question are then multiplied together to make your total and the highest total wins the contest.
Email policy
By entering February's Common Answers you are agreeing to receive a number of emails:
- An immediate email asking you to confirm February's entry.
- If you don't confirm your entry a reminder will be emailed a few days later.
- If you confirm your entry your results will be emailed at the beginning of March.
- If you enter February's contest but haven't entered March's, a reminder will be sent in the middle of March.
Please note that registered users who are logged in when entering do not have to confirm their entries.
Rules
- You must enter your correct full name (e.g. Kevin Stone and not K. Stone, or Ivor Bignose, etc). We will disqualify entries where we don't believe the name is real.
- Spelling mistakes are not always corrected. If we think that you've entered an answer that is the same as another answer, we might change your answer to match the other. However, we don't always notice, or we might decide not to change any answers to certain questions. Therefore be very careful with your spelling, as a mistake could ruin your chances of winning.
- In general, answers will not be considered equivalent. RED is different from SCARLET. RECTANGLE is different than PARALLELOGRAM. Therefore be very careful with your spelling, as a mistake could ruin your chances of winning.
- Most questions only allow one word answers, don't enter more than one word, it can never win, as no-one else can enter more than one word either.
- We reserve the right to change any answer if we think it will make the contest fairer, at our discretion, and without justification. E.g. we might make an UK answer equivalent to a American one, especially if it's a difference in spelling.
- BrainBashers is a family friendly website and we reserve the right to remove any answer we deem unfit for such an audience.
- Unranked? All answers will be used for scoring purposes, however, only answers that have at least 10 people entering them will appear in the results, all other answers will simply be marked as unranked.
- Only the top 90% people will be listed on the final results, this number will be rounded up to the nearest hundred.
- The results may change at any point, for any reason, any email will only reflect your position at the time of the email's creation. The most recent result will appear on BrainBashers.
- You are only allowed to enter once. If you enter more than once, all but one of your entries will be randomly deleted.
- If you're registered and logged in, you can change your answers as many times as you like up to the end of the contest.
- The names of all entrants might be posted on the BrainBashers website at the end of the contest. In addition, the names of the top 20 entrants might be posted to a public newsgroup.
Leagues
- Registered users can be part of up to 5 leagues, simply log in, and edit your details to add the league names.
- Make sure your friends use the same league name as you do.
- Users have to have been registered and logged in when entering the previous contest.
- You can join or leave a league at any time.
- Anyone can use any league name, so if someone happens to use the same league name as you do, you'll see their results as well. So choose a league name few will think of.
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