2004 Rare Entries Contest I is Here!!!

[DejaVu The Ride]

I have now heard from rich12_16. Remember contest ends tomorrow at 10pm CDT.

You don't want your answers to not be accepted do you?

[InsaneNewman]

HMmm... did you get InsaneNewman's? I sent them in!

[DejaVu The Ride]

There is only 4 1/2 hours left to send in your answers!

I have also received answers from:
Virtua Tennis
DejaVuGurl1203
Mr.DejaVu
Insane Newman

[DejaVu The Ride]

Ok, if you have yet to send in your answers when it hits 10 pm CDT, then you will be allowed to send them in until 11pm CDT. BUT, you will have 1 point added to your score. Only 20 minutes left.

Update: It is now 10pm CDT! Contest is now over, except for the "absentee ballots"(which will add a point to those scores) and the answer to the final trivia question in my signature.(This will stay on until it is answered.

Update 2: The contest has now ended and results are being tabulated. Results will be released at the latest Sunday night.

[Galvan]

Not to sound critical or anything, but wouldnt it have been easier to tabulate the answers as they came into you? I mean this idea was great in all but seriously, you've been stringing this along for a while now...

nevertheless good job on the test.

[DejaVu The Ride]

It's the nice way of saying, "I'm leaving right and won't have access to a computer until Sunday night."

[DejaVu The Ride]

Hey Guys, Sorry to say this, but the results still aren't ready. I've been way too busy. The results will definately be ready tomorrow by 5:00pm CDT.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[InsaneNewman]

Hrumph... seriously, when you enter a free contest, run just for fun, you expect a certain level of professionalism, but noooooooooooooooooo. Of course not.

[DejaVu The Ride]

Very funny .

Results are now ready!

22. Director_Guy 469
21. mr.dejavu 411
20. Virtua Tennis 402
19. Do I Know You 388
18. rich12_16 356
17. Galvan316 346
16. Sedir 331
15. shockwave8902 325
14. SFGAmfreak4life 308
12. Binks Drake 292
12. LAFFfan4lyfe 292
11. playerplex 290
10. punkbunny24242 278
09. DanHockey04 269
08. planea380 268
07. zjohn1988 263
06. Woodland 260
05. Shocker 252
04. DejaVugurl1203 244

And for the top 3!!!
03. Insane Newman with a score of 241!
02. Coasterdude316 with a score of 229!
01. Coasterfan88 with an astounding score of 221!

Congrats to all!

Now for the 15 trivia questions with their answers and winners.

1. Who is the Construction Supervisor for Hurricane Harbor? Terry Pearsall
Insane Newman was the first to answer correctly.

2. When is Joyfest at SfGam in 2005? May 21 Mr.DejaVu was the first to answer correctly.

3. What is the name of the lazy river attraction at Hurricane Harbor? Castaway Creek Insane Newman was the first to answer correctly.

4. Who is the founder of Six Flags Inc.? Angus Wynne Insane Newman was the first to answer correctly.

5. What was my 'location' on 11/13/04? The Offseason No one answered correctly. Question was deleted.

6. How many passengers can ride Spacely's Sprocket Rockets at one time? 16 Binks Drake was the first to answer correctly.

7. What date did Batman the Ride open to the public? zjohn1988 was the first to answer correctly.

8. Give me a link to the Gurnee Planning Board meeting minutes when the park was granted permission to build DejaVu. http://www.gurnee.il.us/zoning_board/zb ... 27-00.html [/url]
zjohn1988 was the first to answer correctly. (I would have accepted 2 dif. links. This one was close enough.)

9. Who won SfGam's Mr.Six look alike contests? Jordan Pope Insane Newman was the first to answer correctly.

10. What 2 parks are scheduled to hold ACE Coaster Con in 2005? SfGam and Big Chief's Mt. Olympus playerplex was the first to answer correctly.

11. What year was the Delta Flyer removed from Great America? 1991 zjohn1988 was the first to answer correctly.

12. What was the name of the Intamin Flying Dutchman that once stood at Great America. Davey Jones Dinghies zjohn1988 was the first to answer correctly.

13. Name all 5 rides located in Camp Cartoon Network. Scooby Doo's Mystery Machine, Yogi Bear's Yahoo River, Spacely's Sprocket Rocket, Bedrock Boulder Roller, and Rocky Rovers. playerplex was the first to answer correctly.

14. What is the max speed for Giant Drop? 62 mph coasterfan88 was the first to answer correctly.

15. What was the price for general admission in 2003 at SfGam? $39.99 coasterfan88 was the first to answer correctly.

Insane Newman subtracted 4 points to his score.
mr.dejavu subtracted 1 point from his score.
Binks Drake subtracted then added a point to his score.
zjohn1988 subtracted 4 points from his score.
playerplex subtracted 2 points from his score.
LAFFfan4lyfe added 2 points to her score.
coasterfan88 subtracted 2 points from his score.

I will hopefully add the answers that were accepted and rejected tomorrow.

Thanks.

[Coasterfan88]

What can I say, I must know my Six Flags Great America!!! No, seriously though, I wasn't expecting to win. If it's possible I'm really anxious to see what the other answers were for the questions.

[DejaVu The Ride]

Tomorrow at the earliest. I'm really busy with school so it will eventually come. Sorry.

[CoasterDave316]

Awww...second place. Oh well, I was afterall the FIRST loser...HA!

I blame the Vengaboys for my loss . I don't know crap about them. I didn't even know about the bonus questions....guess I should have read some more.

Nice little contest though Deja Vu The Ride.

[DejaVuGurl1203]

Wow, I actually got 4th place. I'm surprised. Nice contest Jeff, made the offseason go by a tad quicker.

[Sedir]

And I thought my reverse guessing strategy would work...

[DejaVu The Ride]

Sometimes you just have to reverse your reverse answer and then sometimes reverse that.

Really, not one person got all 35 questions correct.

Plus, I was lineant on the answers. Some of you tried to find loopholes, but I didn't allow those as answers.(ig, the numbers on Giant Drop. Only 76,65,54,43,32,and 21 were counted. Sorry to those you put 1,2,3,4,5,6, or 7. Like I said, I wasn't trying to trick anyone. )

It will take me awhile to write up a final answer post so I'm not sure exactly when it will show.

[Binks Drake]

well, twelth is better than i expected. I agree with dave. For my Venga Boys Questions i answered things like "Oprah Winfrey".

[DejaVu The Ride]

Yeah, it took me even awhile to find who the members of the Venga Boys were. The writers were easy, mostly because I have the single.

What did you guys think was the hardest question, research wise?(Besides the Venga Boys ones. Those were obvious ones.)

[InsaneNewman]

Woo-hoo! I get signature recognition! (you like me! You like me! You really like me!) Thanks <DejaVu The Ride> for running such a fun contest... it certainly took my mind off more important things (namely, finals).

As for my strategy, I put the most obvious answer for each one, assuming that most people would attempt to find the least obvious answer. Well exceot for the few answers I found that I thought might truely be rare answers, such as "1. Name a ride currently at SfGam, which has the name of a ride, currently used at another Six Flags owned park." My answer: Roaring Rapids (At Six Flags Over Texas)

EDIT (to avoid double-posting):
These were the ones I had to research:
18. Name a theme/amusement park that is within 60 miles of SfGam.

22. Name a hotel/resort that is within 2 miles of the SfGam entrance.

35. Name an attraction that was featured(6 rides were featured.) on the Discovery Channel’s ‘Extreme Rides: 2003’.(FYI: Doesn't specifically refer to SfGam.)

[DejaVu The Ride]

Also, the clear mistake of the contest.

"Name a color of one of the flags on the Six Flags logo." There is not a red flag! There is red in the logo, but not on a flag. The one flag is pink.

Just a little thing that irritated me.

[CoasterDave316]

I didn't do any research, except for a google search to attempt to find the Vengaboys answer...I doubt I got it right though heh.

As for strategy, I just basically used as many kids rides as I could to answer the questions.

[DejaVuGurl1203]

I'd say that the last one was the hardest question research wise. Took me a while to find it. There were a few others that were hard to find that I never found.

[Coasterfan88]

I thought the question about the logo that sponsors six flags with red was difficult, I knew coca-cola was a sponsor, but I thought most people would choose that, so I had to find the corporate sponsor's page in the Six Flags website. There was a whole list of sponsors to choose from! I think I picked "Hawaiian Island" or something like that

[Do I Know You]

I did surprisingly well for not filling in a few and picking the most obvious answers.

[w00dland]

Hey hey 6th place! Not too bad for finishing the thing in less than a half hour. I only googled the Vengaboys and everything else I just took my best guess on.

Was Superman: The Escape one of the rides featured in that show? I just remember that every show I see on that channel has SOMETHING about S:TE.

[punkbunny24242]

I'm happy I made it in the top 10 at least