Think Different 19: ???

[aakoala]

Rules yanked from TD 18, which were yanked from TD 17, which were yanked from TD 16:

1. You have 10 questions that you try to guess a correct answer for.
2. The catch is that the goal is to get the fewest number of points. The way you earn points is for each correct answer you give, you will earn the number of points equal to the number of people who guessed that answer. So, for instance, if your answer to Question 1 is Thomas Jefferson and 3 other people guessed that answer, you would earn 4 points for that question (1 for yours and 3 for the others). If you get the answer wrong, you earn the number of points equal to the number of participants plus 5 points (i.e. if there are 13 participants, you get 18 points). The best attainable score is 10 points.
3. There are two bonuses you could use to replace an answer: DROP and SHEEP. DROP means you earn 1 point for that question. SHEEP means you earn the number of points equal to the answer that the most people answered. So for instance, if the correct answers were A, B, C, and D, and 7 people guessed A, 6 people guessed B, 3 people guessed C, and 2 people guessed D, then the people who said SHEEP would earn 7 points for the answer (your SHEEP doesn't count as an answer and doesn't affect the others' scores). You get only 1 of each bonus if you so choose to use them. It is advised that you use DROP before SHEEP. Again, you don't have to use either of these bonuses.
4. Please send your responses to me via private messaging on the forums or through Discord DMs (aakoala#1515) before 14 August 2021 at 12:00 PM ET (9:00 AM PT). Any answers sent after that point will not be considered.
5. Make sure not to cheat, please. Cheating is defined as letting other users know what your answers are before the deadline is reached. For this game, you may use any sources to find your answers (i.e. the wiki, Google, etc.).
6. Users can change their answers before the due date arrives, but after the due date, answers may not be changed.

[aakoala]

1. Name a class of minerals.
2. Name a national park located in California.
3. Name a woman who has won a Nobel prize in the past 6 years.
4. Name an expansion pack of the card game "Exploding Kittens."
5. Name an ocean current that is part of the North Atlantic Gyre.
6. Give the unit of measurement for a fundamental quantity in the International System of Units.
7. Name a fruit tea that is offered by the bubble tea store “CoCo”
8. Assuming that the 0th row is the row with a singular “1,” name a number on the 8th row of Pascal/Yang Hui’s Triangle.
9. Name a Science Olympiad event that has been run nationally for the past 5 years. (exclude 2020)
10. Name a color on the symbol for the Olympics.

[aakoala]

ahhh how do i delete a post

[BennyTheJett]

For 8, do trials count?

[aakoala]

For 8, do trials count?

Yep!

[aakoala]

Let me make a couple of clarifications:
For #4, expansion packs are additions to a game that cannot be played on its own.
For #5, I am only counting the 4 main boundary currents.
For #9, the event was run for EACH of the past 5 years, meaning it was run nationally in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021.

[aakoala]

Less than one week left for submissions! Get your answers in before time runs out! If you happened to submit a response and I have not confirmed your submission, please try again and let me know.

[aakoala]

Last day to submit! There aren't many, but to those who submitted, thank you!

[aakoala]

Thanks to malikaow, HugoTroop, and RiverWalker88 for participating! I'm currently driving somewhere right now, but the results will hopefully be out by tomorrow or the day after!

[aakoala]

Thanks for your patience everyone! The results for Think Different 19 are in!

1. Name a class of minerals
Correct answers:
Carbonates - Malikaow - 1
Halides - RiverWalker88 - 1
Sulfides - Hugotroop - 1

All correct answers:
silicates
sulfides
carbonates
oxides
halides
sulfates
phosphates
native elements

2. Name a national park located in California
Correct answers:
Joshua Tree National Park - Malikaow, RiverWalker88 - 2
Sequoia National Park - HugoTroop - 1

All correct answers:
Channel Islands
Death Valley
Joshua Tree
Lassen Volcanic
Pinnacles
Redwood
Sequoia
Kings Canyon
Yosemite

3. Name a woman who has won a Nobel prize in the past 6 years.
Correct answers:
Louise Glück - Malikaow - 1
Donna Strickland - RiverWalker88, HugoTroop - 2

All correct answers:
Svetlana Alexievich
Tu Youyou
Nadia Murad
Olga Tokarczuk
Donna Strickland
Esther Duflo
Louise Glück
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Jennifer A. Doudna
Andrea Ghez

4. Name an expansion pack of the card game "Exploding Kittens"
Correct answers:
Streaking Kittens - Malikaow - 1
Barking Kittens - RiverWalker88 - 1
DROP - HugoTroop - 1

All correct answers:
Barking Kittens
Streaking Kittens
Imploding Kittens

5. Name an ocean current that is part of the North Atlantic Gyre.
Correct answers:
Canary Current - Malikaow - 1
North Atlantic Current - RiverWalker88 - 1
North Equatorial Current - HugoTroop - 1

All correct answers:
Gulf Stream
North Atlantic Drift
Canary Current
North Equatorial Current

6. Give the unit of measurement for a fundamental quantity in the International System of Units.
Correct answers:
Mole - Malikaow, HugoTroop - 2
Candela - RiverWalker88 - 1

All correct answers:
Kilogram
Meter
Second
Mole
Candela
Coulomb
Kelvin

7. Name a fruit tea that is offered by the bubble tea store “CoCo”
Correct answers:
Lemon Aloe Vera - Malikaow - 1
Lemon Green - RiverWalker88 - 1
Mango Green - HugoTroop - 1

All correct answers:
Mango Green Tea
Bubble Gaga
Passionfruit Black Tea
Passionfruit Green Tea
Lemon Green Tea
Lemon Black Tea
Honey Aloe Vera
Lemon Aloe Vera
Grapefruit Green Tea
Lemon Dunk
Lemon Winter Melon Tea

8. Assuming that the 0th row is the row with a singular “1,” name a number on the 8th row of Pascal/Yanghui’s Triangle.
Correct answers:
28 - Malikaow - 1
8 - RiverWalker88 - 1
56 - HugoTroop - 1

All correct answers:
1
8
28
56
70

9. Name a Science Olympiad event that has been run nationally for the past 5 years. (exclude 2020)
Correct answers:
Wright Stuff - Malikaow - 1
Chemistry Lab - RiverWalker88 - 1
Dynamic Planet - HugoTroop - 1

All correct answers:
Anatomy and Physiology
Astronomy
Crime Busters
Chemistry Lab
Disease Detectives
Dynamic Planet
Experimental Design
Forensics
Game On
Meteorology
Mission Possible
Road Scholar
Wright Stuff
Write It Do It

10. Name a color represented on the Olympic Symbol
Correct answers:
Yellow - RiverWalker88, HugoTroop - 2
DROP - Malikaow - 1

All correct answers:
Blue
Yellow
Black
Green
Red

And now, the final rankings!
In second place, RiverWalker88 and HugoTroop - 13 points!
In first place, Malikaow - 12 points!

In hindsight, I should've made the questions have fewer possible outcomes (ie Questions 7 and 9), but I'm really glad that I could host! Thanks for playing!