Kataghories

[Agamemnon]

Simple game requiring simple thought.
Below are catagories, each catagory will have a lead letter for which to answer each catagory question. The idea is to gain as little points as possible in answering each question, but, any person sharing the same question as another will start to gain points.

Example:
1) Breed of dog - H
2) Road in London - W
3) Illness contracted in Burma - L

you would send answers to me like:

1) Huskey
2) Whitehall
3) Looping Llama sickness


So, really, all you have to do is just try to think of an answer that no-one else would think of. Easy? Well, don't forget, others might be thinking the same as you, so maybe going for the easy answer might be better.
This is just an easy peasy silly game to see who has the best imagination in catagory answers, please don't take it too seriously

Please send your answers to zz@rt.nl Do not post any answers here.
My judgement on received answers is final. If I decide to mark down dubious answers, I shall, nardy nardy nah!


The Kataghories are:

1) World Country - S
2) Garden implement or tool - M
3) Fish - B
4) Dairy Product - R
5) Plant or Flower - C
6) Sportsman, past or present (surname only, but please give full name for reference) - D
7) Part or piece of a car/automobile - H
8) Item of clothing - T
9) Animal - P
10) A word containing exactley 4 letters - Z

Brand names are allowed (except for question 7) as long as they can be referenced and searched on the internet.

[Lepton]

Are outside resources allowed?
Is there a bonus is I can name lots of dairy products that don't start with "r"?

[Agamemnon]

Hmmmm, I think I will allow outside resources as it might make things more interesting.
Lepton, behave.

[Lepton]

/sent
Now anyone that sends the same answer as me gives me extra points.

[Beartalon]

/sent

[Quailman]

sent

[Hitchhiker]

sent

[Dragon Phoenix]

sent

[One Skunk Todd]

sent

[Sami]

sent.

[Orbiting]

also sent

[Agamemnon]

Sorry, forgot, closing date is 23rd July

[Beartalon]

2 days left

[CrystyB]

damn it, why do i always leave these things until the last (few) day(s)??

i guess i should print out in large font "Days in calendar are closer than they appear!!"

[This message has been edited by CrystyB (edited 07-23-2003 07:22 PM).]

[Beartalon]

You're chronologically challenged?

[SaberKitty]

sent... because someone's gotta come in last place

[Mentat]

/Sent.

[CrystyB]

Would a shorthand version of a longer (and with a different prefix) word be acceptable, if it is enlisted at dictionary.com ?

[Agamemnon]

No.

[Agamemnon]

I'll collate and post final answers sometime tonight.
I might have a problem with some folks 'real names' from received emails too.

[Lepton]

I'm the one named "Lepton". I also made some disparaging remarks about my fellow participants, in case you got more than one entry from "Lepton".

[MatthewV]

Are you trying to ch33t lepton? Tsk tsk!

oh, /sent a about two weeks ago.

[Agamemnon]

Collating now, posting results in a few hours after beer and food.

[Agamemnon]

Ok then, here we go...........Zero points for unique answer, 1 point for same answer, adding up with other same answers, 10 points for crap answer.

DRA - Sierra Leone - 0
TMA - Senegal - 1
HIT - Switzerland - 1
CRY - Slovakia - 1
MEN - Surinam - 2
SAB - Switzerland - 1
MAT - South Africa - 0
QUA - Surinam - 2
BEA - Sao Tome and Principle - 0
SAM - Somalia - 0
ORB - Senegal - 1
??? - Sudan - 0
DET - Surinam - 2
LEP - Seychelles - 0


DRA - Mower - 7
TMA - Mower - 7
HIT - Mower - 7
CRY - Moat - 10
MEN - Machette - 3
SAB - Mulcher - 2
MAT - Machette - 3
QUA - Mower - 7
BEA - Maul - 0
SAM - Mower - 7
ORB - Mower - 7
??? - Mower - 7
DET - Machette - 3
LEP - Mulcher - 2


DRA - Bream - 3
TMA - Bass - 3
HIT - Bream - 3
CRY - no answer - 10
MEN - Blue Marlin - 0
SAB - Blenny - 0
MAT - Bass - 3
QUA - Bream - 3
BEA - Blindshark - 0
SAM - Branzino - 0
ORB - Bubble eyed goldfish - 0
??? - Betta - 0
DET - Babel - 0 (I feel generous)
LEP - Bass - 3


DRA - Roquefort - 3
TMA - Rennet - 1
HIT - Ricotta - 5
CRY - no answer - 10
MEN - Roquefort - 3
SAB - Ricotta - 5
MAT - Ricotta - 5
QUA - Rochebaron Cheese - 0
BEA - Ricotta - 5
SAM - Roquefort - 3
ORB - Romano Cheese - 0
??? - Rennet - 1
DET - Root Beer Float - 10 (no so generous this time)
LEP - Ricotta - 5


DRA - Chrysanthemum - 3
TMA - Cholla - 0
HIT - Camellia - 0
CRY - Chamomile - 0
MEN - Columbine - 0
SAB - Celery - 0
MAT - Corn - 0
QUA - Cowslip - 0
BEA - Cinquefoil - 0
SAM - Chrysanthemum - 3
ORB - Calla Lily - 0
??? - Chrysanthemum - 3
DET - Carnation - 0
LEP - Cale - 0


DRA - Johan Deurindt - 0
TMA - David Duvall - 0
HIT - Joe DiMaggio - 3
CRY - Helmuth Dukadem - 0
MEN - Kenny Dalgleish - 0
SAB - Tom Dolan - 0
MAT - Marcus Dunbar - 0
QUA - Daffy Dean - 0
BEA - Mike Ditka - 0
SAM - Lenny Dykstra - 0
ORB - Dizzy Dean - 0
??? - Joe DiMaggio - 3
DET - Joe DiMaggio - 3
LEP - Brandon Doman - 0


DRA - Hood - 0
TMA - Hatchback - 1
HIT - Horn - 0
CRY - no answer - 10
MEN - Heated Rear Window - 0
SAB - Hatchback - 1
MAT - Hydroelectric engine - 0
QUA - Header - 0
BEA - Hood Ornament - 1
SAM - Hubcap - 0
ORB - Hood Ornament - 1
??? - Headrest - 0
DET - Hand Brake - 0
LEP - Heater - 0


DRA - T Shirt - 3
TMA - Tube Sock - 1
HIT - T Shirt - 3
CRY - T Shirt - 3
MEN - Trainer - 0
SAB - Tights - 0
MAT - Tunic - 0
QUA - Tank Top - 0
BEA - Tam O'Shanter - 0 (Nice one)
SAM - Turtleneck - 0
ORB - Tube Socks - 1
??? - Tassle - 0
DET - Tap Dancing Shoes - 0
LEP - Track Pants - 0


DRA - Phoenix - 0
TMA - Pelican - 0
HIT - Panda - 0
CRY - Puma - 0
MEN - Polar Bear - 0
SAB - Pony - 1
MAT - Poodle - 0
QUA - Potto - 0
BEA - Pinneped - 0
SAM - Pony - 1
ORB - Pereguine Falcon - 0
??? - Pangolin - 0
DET - Pheasent - 0
LEP - Platypus - 0


DRA - Zult - 0 (Some Dutch word meaning 'I forgot to put several J's in my word')
TMA - Zags - 0
HIT - Zoom - 0
CRY - Zinc - 0
MEN - Zoic - 0
SAB - Zoon - 0
MAT - Zany - 0
QUA - Zaps - 0
BEA - Zoea - 0
SAM - Zeal - 0
ORB - Zeus - 0
??? - Zigs - 0
DET - Zips - 0
LEP - Zoos - 0


And the final score in this stupid silly easy game is.............


1st - BEARTALON - 6 PTS

2ND - MENTAT - 8 PTS

3RD - ORBITING, SABREKITTY & LEPTON 10 PTS

4TH - MATTHEWV - 11
5TH - QUAILMAN - 12
6TH - TMCAY, SAMI & ??? - 14
7TH - DETHWING - 18
8TH - DRAGON PHOENIX - 19
9TH - HITCHHIKER - 22
10TH - CRYSTYB - 44

(Any mis-scoring is totally down to Lowenbrau, not me)

[One Skunk Todd]

??? is me. thought I put my name in but I guess not.

[Dragon Phoenix]

Congrats Bearty, and thanks for running this Sean.

Zjult!

[Agamemnon]

Sorry Skunky, did not want to put you're real name in, and as you forgot to put you're screen name on you're email, thus rendering me bewildered as to who it was, I just put ??? as I did not know who they were. Sorry again old chum.

[Agamemnon]

Dragon old chum, what does it mean anyway?

[One Skunk Todd]

No need to apologize. Totally my fault.

[Dragon Phoenix]

It's an obscure sour-tasting meat(?) product. Best not eaten actually.

[Orbiting]

Yay Beardarlin!
*cheers*
*wonders what a potto is*

[Agamemnon]

I just searched......

ZULT


YUK!

[One Skunk Todd]

And thanks for doing this Aga. I really enjoy these.

[Agamemnon]

This is a Potto

[Orbiting]

aww... they're cute....

[One Skunk Todd]

Pangolin

[Quailman]

I almost changed it to Pangolin, but changed it back before sending.

I can't believe that there were no duplicate Z words with that many entries.

[One Skunk Todd]

Yeah, very low scoring mostly. That darn garden one zinged a lot of folks though.

[SaberKitty]

congrats bearty!

pony was mine, y0! (i want a pony...)

[T McAy]

Nice job, Beartalon. Thanks for running the game, Aga.

I would be curious to know how many players used research. I decided not to, simply to make the game more of a personal challenge. I figured that with enough poking around the internet, I could probably find some obscure athlete or unusual but defensible garden tool that would be nearly guaranteed to get a good score.