Comments on: How Did You Know Adam Constable?

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:45:31 +0000

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!

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:19:30 +0000

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.

By: marybeth

marybeth — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:06:58 +0000

i feel much better knowing that i was only beat by seconds. i look forward to the next HDYK contest. thanks again, david!

By: Hema

Hema — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:44:38 +0000

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!

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:38:49 +0000

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!

By: David

David — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:42:23 +0000

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.

By: Marybeth

Marybeth — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:40:50 +0000

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?

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:21:11 +0000

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!

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:25:54 +0000

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!