This IWS was pretty brutal due to the vagueness of a couple of the questions. There were only six participants who managed to score over 10% of the max, and only one person who scored over 50%...

1. Name a woman who has at one point in her life been featured in Playboy.

Pam Anderson - 18
Marilyn Monroe - 8
Anna Nicole Smith - 3
Cindy Crawford - 2
Carmen Electra - 2
Vanessa Williams - 1 (Just an FYI, but I believe her pictures were featured in Penthouse)

I was expecting more love for Marilyn and Carmen, but Pam ran away with this one...

2. Name an NFL Europe team.

Berlin Thunder - 11
Frankfurt Galaxy - 7
Rhein Fire - 6
Amsterdam Admirals - 5
Barcelona Dragons - 2
Scottish Claymores - 1
London Monarchs - 1
"NFLE sucks" - 1

I would have thought that MIJB would have influenced the board into more Amsterdam votes, but it looks like FOFC went with the World Bowl champs instead.

3. Who is the best network news host?

Tom Brokaw - 17
Dan Rather - 7
Peter Jennings - 5
Paula Zahn - 1
Ted Koppel - 1
Bill O'Reilly - 1
CNN - 1
"John Madden for games, Dan Marino for studio" - 1

I wonder how Rather would have done before the whole National Guard Papers thing?

4. Who will win NFL MVP this season?

Payton Manning - 15
Donovan McNabb - 14
Tom Brady - 4
Randy Moss - 1

I was really expecting McNabb to run away with this one seeing how well the Eagles have been playing, but it was a tight race that Manning barely pulled out...

5. Name a dish you would order in a Chinese restaurant.

Gen Tso's Chicken - 8
Sweet and Sour Chicken - 4
Egg Rolls - 4
Sesame Chicken - 3
Kung Pao Chicken - 2
Moo Goo Gai Pan - 2
Pu-pu platter - 1
Chicken - 1
Pepper Steak - 1
Lo Mein - 1
Chicken Balls - 1
Chow Mein - 1
Honey Chicken - 1
Fried Rice/Rice - 2
Egg Fu Yung - 1
Sweet and Sour Pork - 1

This question was way to vague and I got a ton of different answers. However, it was one of my personal favorites that wound up being FOFC's favorite... :)

6. Name a city in Iowa, other than Des Moines.

Iowa City - 15
Cedar Rapids - 11
Sioux City - 4
Dubuque - 2
Davenport - 1
Lake Mills - 1

I had no clue as what to expect with this question, but it was nice to see the city of my father's birth come in second.

And now here come the results...

Participant Playboy NFLE News MVP Chinese Iowa Total Percent
AstroFan 8 1 7 1 3 1 168 0.00%
Frozenrope 8 6 5 14 1 1 3360 0.06%
Noop 18 2 1 15 1 11 5940 0.10%
flere-imsaho 3 1 5 15 2 15 6750 0.11%
tanglewood 8 7 1 15 1 15 12600 0.21%
tucker342 2 7 1 15 4 15 12600 0.21%
albionmoonlight 1 5 5 14 3 15 15750 0.26%
Radii 18 1 7 14 1 11 19404 0.32%
Daddy_Torgo 2 11 17 15 1 4 22440 0.37%
kingfc22 18 6 7 15 1 4 45360 0.75%
Mustang 8 11 5 15 4 2 52800 0.87%
Raven Hawk 18 2 7 14 2 11 77616 1.28%
TheLionKing 3 11 17 4 4 11 98736 1.63%
VPI97 3 7 17 14 2 15 149940 2.47%
Bomber 18 5 1 14 8 15 151200 2.50%
EagleFan 18 11 7 14 2 4 155232 2.56%
MIJB#19 18 11 1 15 4 15 178200 2.94%
General Mike 18 11 7 15 1 11 228690 3.77%
Wolfpack 2 11 17 14 3 15 235620 3.89%
msf518 18 5 17 14 1 11 235620 3.89%
Mr Wednesday 2 6 17 15 8 11 269280 4.44%
mauboy1 18 11 7 4 4 15 332640 5.49%
ntndeacon 8 6 17 14 2 15 342720 5.66%
Maple Leafs 18 7 17 15 1 11 353430 5.83%
ahbrady 8 11 17 4 4 15 359040 5.93%
Chief Rum 8 5 17 14 4 11 418880 6.91%
Subby 18 6 17 15 8 2 440640 7.27%
Z²+ 18 7 17 4 8 11 753984 12.44%
PineTar 18 6 17 14 2 15 771120 12.73%
QuikSand 18 5 5 15 8 15 810000 13.37%
gottimd 18 7 17 14 8 4 959616 15.84%


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Raiders Army!
Raiders Army 8 11 17 14 8 11 1843072 30.42%


Second place is...
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pjstp20!!!
pjstp20 18 7 17 15 4 15 1927800 31.82%


And the winner is...
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Desnudo!!!
Desnudo 18 11 17 15 8 15 6058800 100.00%

Congrats to Desnudo on his first IWS victory!!! :)

Man, Marilyn did it in for me. After looking at the results, Pam Anderson was the shoo-in. Gratz Desnudo!

Wow. Serves me right on NFL Europe, but I just can't imagine Tom Brokaw.

Got torpedoed on question one. Forgot about Pam (or did I blot her out after what's she's done to herself over the years?). Also got busted in the chops on the Chinese food question.

Damn you Sioux City, DAMN YOU!!!!

I suck.

I suck more than Noop.

Sweet! I'll try and have one up by tomorrow evening. Can someone please email the scoresheet to me? Email is in my profile. Thanks.

Damn, I almost went with Tso's and the Thunder too. Oh well, good job Desnudo.

The news network host question eliminated me before I even knew what to answer and I finally went with some googling and came up with Paula Zahn.

Berlin Thunder and Peyton Manning were the IWS traditional answers (always take the last winner), the Iowa city question almost made me go with the "obvious" Cedar Rapids as most populated, yet the option Iowa City was too good to pass on. Pam Anderson was a little bit of a guess, altough even in the NLs, people know she's the "quick, we can't find someone else, let us do Pam again" girl.
The chinese food question was a dissaster to even google for, eventually I settled with egg roll, expecting it to see at least a couple more 'votes'.

Happy now, Desnudo?
:)

I suck at life and this game :(. Time to go kill myself.

I suck at life and this game :(. Time to go kill myself.Oh c'mon, the more you lose, the bigger the joy when you win.
I'm writing out of experience, I've ended up in the bottom 3 in about 1/3rd of all IWSs I played until I pulled the upset to win for the first time.