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Congrats to the winner of our second How Did You Know? Trivia Hunt! Adam Constable was one of dozens who had all the answers correct, but he was the first, so he gets a t-shirt and book of his choice from our store. Below you’ll find his e-mail containing the answers and the logic. I’ll have round three for you all next month… so stay tuned.
Adam Constable wrote:
Day 1
Interview with a Vampire – fiction - Anne Rice
Phantoms – fiction - Dean Koontz
Danse Macabre – non–fiction - Stephen King
The Rising – fiction - Brain Keen
3 Orange Juices had pulp, 1 didn’t have pulp
Day 2
Movie 1 - Platoon
Movie 2 - Lorenzo’s Oil
Movie 3 - Elephant Man
Movie 4 - Roseaux sauvages, Les
Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber
Day 3
Softorrebesttagsummerplay - Forrest Gump
Softampranholidayfallandsoapfuse - Mr. Hollands Opus
Softasprintitinkmotesatripedeagemoneythingh - fast times at ridgemont high
Jackson Browne
Day 4
Three Amigos - 3
Four Wedding and a Funeral - 4
The Seven Year Itch - 7
10 - 10
3 Men and a Baby - 3
3+4+7+10-3 / 3 = 7
Samuel Jackson co-starred in the movie Pulp Fiction which was nominated for 7 Oscars but only won one.
That Oscar was Best Original Screenplay
Comments (9)
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Nice job Adam! I was going for a back-to-back on the HDYK contest but guess I was too slow on the draw this time. I had never been so stressed out trying to type out my answers as fast as possible!
As a side note, did anyone else take issue with the order of operations for the math portion?
Congratulations again!
posted by Neil on 3-29-2008 at 12:25 am
For some reason, I knew it was Pulp Fiction=Best Screenplay from Day 1. Weird. Great job Adam!
The math part was fine, I was sidetracked by the poster for 10, which I thought was 10 at first, but when you first go to imdb, the poster they show is the hideous still frame version. I found myself searching for obscure Griffin Dunne movies, thanks David!
posted by Johnny Cat on 3-29-2008 at 2:21 am
Darn! I sent my email exactly 10 minutes after Day 5 was posted. I was also stressed out trying to type the last few items as quickly as possible, because I had already written out the answers for the rest of the clues! The order of operations did cross my mind, but I had already looked up how many nominations Pulp Fiction had, so seven made sense. Great job Adam! How quickly did you get your email in?
posted by Marybeth on 3-29-2008 at 8:40 am
marybeth: adam beat you by seconds! but you’re still a winner in our book.
as for the order of operations, i thought the parenthesis would make it too easy. not that it was hard, but at least without them you should have come up with multiple answers, only one of which could possibly work.
posted by David on 3-29-2008 at 9:42 am
It’s not that the order of operations made it difficult — it just made the math purist in me cry a little. :)
Thanks for another good puzzle, David!
posted by Neil on 3-29-2008 at 10:38 am
My son tried it out and came up with the right answer. Guess he was late! He mailed the answer around 6pm. He did get to read about the final day’s post only after he came back from school, which was past 4:30pm. Still I say good job, Son!
posted by Hema on 3-29-2008 at 11:44 am
i feel much better knowing that i was only beat by seconds. i look forward to the next HDYK contest. thanks again, david!
posted by marybeth on 3-29-2008 at 12:06 pm
I knew from Day 1 that it would be Pulp Fiction. I figured the final answer would involve Quentin Tarantino, who (like me) celebrated his birthday last week. Turns out it did; Quentin was one of the winners of the Best Original Screenplay Oscar.
posted by Paul on 3-31-2008 at 11:19 am
Thanks for all the comments. I to was frantically trying to finish my e-mail, fairly sure I wasn’t going to make it in time.
The poster for 10 and Les Roseaux Sauvages where particularly troublesome for me.
Look forward to the next HDYK!
posted by Adam on 3-31-2008 at 12:45 pm