200-credit Giveaway!

hey there trapsters,

you may remember me as being a very active trap17 poster last year. sadly, this year i have found myself buried in homework, and i have literally no time to work on my website, so there really is no point in upkeeping it by paying credits. they're credits gone to waste.

so here's whats gonna happen: im gonna give away probably the largest amount of credits ever given away on trap17: 200 CREDITS!!!

what do you have to do to win this?

it's simple: attempt to answer the following 13-question quizzes. there will be one each day. in the end, points will be added up. without further ado...

1. what is my full name?

2. what suburb in sydney am i from?

3. when is my birthday?

4. what size ipod touch do i have?

5. what is the only social site i use (and love dearly)?

6. how many grains of rice have i donated to combat world hunger?

7. which programming language am i best at?

8. at the time of me having finished editing this post, how many credits do i have?

9. which operating system do i use?

10. what is my most-used piece of software?

11. what text does the following output?:



12. what do you call a donkey with three legs?

13. a man is trying to hook his colleague up, and when his colleague finally meets his date, he asks: "why did you get me a date with a mushroom?". the man then replies: "????????"

more of the quiz to come soon...

also, i like making new friends, so i am looking forward to getting to know the winner of this comp better

this is open to all members of trap17. the comp finishes on the 13th of september, 13 being my favourite number. it was also the age during which i joined trap17

good luck trapsters!!!

This post has been edited by bthaxor: Sep 4 2008, 09:51 AM

You made it too hard!

I'll try to answer (and fail badly).

1: Bob... Taylor.
2: ...the CBD.
3: 6/6/94
4: Average.
5: ..Adult Friend-finder.
6: 9010. It's over nine thousand! Also that probably makes you good at linguistics.
7: J.
8: 202.02. You can't even afford to send 200 credits!
9: Windows XP.
10: The web browser.
11: Error opening file output.txt. Please ensure write access is present and that you have sufficient memory and hard drive space to complete the operation.
Error while parsing line 'cout << "hello world";'
The system has been paused. Press any key to continue, and CTRL+C to break operation.
12: Unlucky.
13: 'She's really trippy, yo'

It isn't my fault I don't know these things!

edit) WAIT I WORKED IT OUT! IT'S ALL A TRAP!

9 days!? You see the problem is, we're all dead before then (LHC)! And so you don't have to pay the winner! What a complete scam!

This post has been edited by Nabb: Sep 4 2008, 10:36 AM

1. what is my full name?

2. what suburb in sydney am i from?: Australia

3. when is my birthday? Aug 13th

4. what size ipod touch do i have?: Width: 2.4 inches (61.8 mm), or Height: 4.3 inches (110 mm)?

5. what is the only social site i use (and love dearly)?: http://www.projekthaxor.com

6. how many grains of rice have i donated to combat world hunger?:

7. which programming language am i best at?: Javascript?

8. at the time of me having finished editing this post, how many credits do i have?: 10 credits added on to your total credits: 242.49

9. which operating system do i use?: Windows XP?

10. what is my most-used piece of software?: IP.Board 2.3x?

11. what text does the following output?: I don't use these scripts sorry

12. what do you call a donkey with three legs? A wonky

13. a man is trying to hook his colleague up, and when his colleague finally meets his date, he asks: "why did you get me a date with a mushroom?". the man then replies: "????????": What?

Delian Entchev



Carlingford?



13th August 1994



8GB?



Well, you're experienced in Javascript, Java, CSS, XHTML, a bit of AJAX, and HTML... I'll go for Java.



242.54? Roughly...



The excellent Ubuntu.



I'll guess at Ubuntu again. Seeing as it's your operating system, you probably use it quite a lot



A wonkey!



Not sure, but is it a pun on fungi/fun guy?

1. delian entchev

2. Hornsby

3. Aug-13-1994

4. 8GB

5. myspace.com

6. 0 to 10,000

7. javascript

8. 242.32

9. Ubuntu

10. IPB, Unbuntu, firefox, Wordpress

11. I know the language if that is close enough

12. Wonkey

13. Fungi as well.

So who wins?

1. Brian T. Haxor
2. Inner West
3. 13 August
4. 8 GB
5. Facebook
6. None
7. C++
8. 216
9. Windows XP (i have a 60% chance to have gotten this right )
10. Firefox (your browser)
11. hello world
12. A stupid stubborn animal with too many legs anyway
13. "So you can see women are ugly and I am beautiful ;;)"


It would be nice if you would somehow split the points. I mean, something like 100 1st prize, 60 the 2nd and 40 the 3rd.
Because if you get tens of people answering 9 quizzes of 13 questions, it would be kind of akward that only one of them gets something out of it.
Cheers!

here are the answers to this round of the quiz:

1. delian entchev
2. hornsby
3. 13th august
4. 8gb
5. bebo.com
6. 30,000 exact
7. c++
8. 245.15
9. windows xp, dual-boot with ubuntu (but mainly xp 'cos of photoshop etc.)
10. firefox
11. nothing - that was a trick question. the compiler would give an error because i used cout without first including the iostream header file. this was c++ by the way.
12. a wonkey!!!
13. haha yeah, it was a fungi/fun guy joke

so, how did you guys fare?

Nabb:

1. haha nice try
2. cbd's not really a suburb, you've gotta be really lucky to live in the cbd
3. nice guess... you got the year right...
4.
5. how dare you suggest that!!! come on, im 13...
6. well it is over 9000, but nowhere near close to what it actually is...
7. haha ok... that was random...
8. im not that cheap...
9. correct - 1 POINT
10. oh alright, ill give you that one as well... but only 1/2 A POINT
11. youre the only one that actually picked out the error of using cout, so i'll give you 1/2 A POINT
12. hhahahahhaha
13. see above

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TOTAL: 2 POINTS


-Sky-:

1. N/A
2. hahhaahhahhahaha
3. you got that one - 1 POINT
4. um.... a bit too detailed? but for the effort, - 1/2 A POINT
5. nice try
6. N/A
7. not exactly a programming language... but alright, i'll give you 1/2 A POINT
8. close enough - 1 POINT
9. yup - 1 POINT
10. haha not exactly software...
11. ah well.... youre doing well anyway
12. and so it is...
13. it's the fun guy joke....

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TOTAL: 4 POINTS


rvalkass:

1. yups - 1 POINT
2. nope, but that's where my school is
3. mhm - 1 POINT
4. nice guess - 1 POINT
5. N/A
6. N/A
7. i actually don't do java: the answer was meant to be c++. but, i'll give you some for listing them - 1/2 A POINT
8. good enough - 1 POINT
9. well alright, i'll give that to you... but i use xp more - 1 POINT
10. nah, im not gonna count an operating system as the software....
11. N/A
12.
13. yup, im surprised someone got that - 1 POINT

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TOTAL: 6 1/2 POINTS


Saint Michael:

1. yups - 1 POINT
2. very nice research - 1 POINT
3. mhm - 1 POINT
4. nice guess - 1 POINT
5. who uses myspace?
6. haha you ch34t3r you... and it wasnt even right
7. well it was meant to be c++, but since i do know javascript very well - 1 POINT
8. good enough - 1 POINT
9. well alright, i'll give that to you... but i use xp more - 1 POINT
10. well after a few tries you did get firefox... - 1/2 A POINT
11. haha
12.
13. once again, c0p13r - 1 POINT

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TOTAL: 7 1/2 POINTS


bittr:

1. good try - a name i would wish to have though...
2. once again, good try
3. mhm - 1 POINT
4. nice copying - 1 POINT
5. nice try - i tried facebook once, and removed my profile from it within an hour of getting an account there. i hate it. bebo is awesome
6. hey, a good guess...
7. first one to get it fully right - 1 POINT
8. sorry but that wasnt very close...
9. yup - 1 POINT
10. first one to get this, as well - 1 POINT
11. nope, sorry but trick question
12. haha nice try
13. o..k...

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TOTAL: 5 POINTS

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Scoreboard:
Saint Michael - 7.5 points
rvalkass - 6.5 points
bittr - 5 points
-Sky- - 4 points
Nabb - 2 points

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bittr: yes, i have decided i will give 100 credits to the winner, and the rest will be split up in the ratio of the number of points you have. seems fair enough

well done everyone - i can tell some people did their research, and that put them at the top of the scoreboard. let me remind everyone that they are still welcome to enter the contest, it's just that they may be slightly behind the other people that have already earned points from today.

2nd quiz:

1. what is my true nationality?

2. which school do i attend?

3. in which year did i first start paying serious attention to computing?

4. i have only ever played one game: which game was this?

5. complete the following joke: a proton tells a neutron that mercury is the only metal that is a liquid. the neutron replies: "are you sure?". the proton replies: "??????".

6. which media player do i use?

7. what is my favourite firefox addon?

8. which email provider do i use?

9. as mentioned before, i program using c++. which compiler do i use?

10. how many white guys does it take to screw in a light bulb?

11. since i signed up to trap17, there has been one change to the site that i didnt and still dont approve of: what is this change?

12. why is 29 x 20^99 + 71 x 56^64 + 24 x 37^55 divisible by 19? (^ = to the power of)

13. what bitrate are songs purchased from itunes, and what extension are they?

good luck!

This post has been edited by bthaxor: Sep 5 2008, 09:43 AM

Bulgarian ?

2005

Hide and seek

FairPlay

Adblock Plus!

Yahoo.com

Borland C++ Builder

Hosting credit system

128 kbit/s -> .AAC
256 kb/s -> .AAC (After 29 May 2007)

Okay, here are my answers.

1: Czechoslovakian. (YES IT PASSED THE SPELL CHECK )
2: Carlingford High School
3: 2006.
4: Pokemon. With the accented e.
5: Do I have an electron orbiting me? Have I spontaneously decomposed? Can I exceed the speed of light? False, and I'm positive!
6: Windows Media Player. Lamer.
7: ADBLOCK PLUS!
8: ...gmail.
9: GCC, the ((G(...)s Not Unix)s Not Unix)s Compiler Collection. It was the first result on google.
10: One. But then he gets zapped and burns and turns into a pile of black mess, so he isn't a white guy anymore, so zero.
11: I joined. I'm sorry :'(
12: Because 10 + 14 - 24 = 0. And 10 + 14 - 5 = 19. And Mod[18380933703309326865318004310297584938507042295167035777785126131244596541180319604442588082223841710597873466432170065262701109048, 19] churns out 0. (seriously, any more will give free points to everyone else =|)
13: 2^11 bits a second? Format is .LOL.

This post has been edited by Nabb: Sep 5 2008, 11:35 AM