Question Quest #8 – Statistics

The Question Quest series continues, this time with focus on the blog itself, and statistics in particular!

Below you’ll find 14 questions for you to answer, some with multiple choice answers, others with open ends. Your job is to pick an answer for each question and send the answers using our contact form (or by e-mailing them directly to Jozii@pp.inet.fi).

In the end, the participant with the most correct answers is crowned the winner. In case of a tie, the 14^th question serves as a tie-breaker (closest to the real answer wins).

Prizes

Of course, there are prizes to be won:

• 100 coppers/correct answer (max 1300C)
• 500 coppers for being closest to the correct answer in the tie-breaker question
• 250, 500 and 1000 coppers to the 3rd, 2nd and 1st positions

In other words, you may win up to 2800 coppers total!

Questions

So what do you say we get this 8th roundof the QQ series started? Here are the 14 questions:

1. Akismet is a program designed to block spam. Approximately how many spam comments has Akismet blocked on the TMU Blog?

• a) 1000
• b) 2500
• c) 5000

2. The TMU Exchangeis the website who has referred the most visitors to the TMU Blog (it’s the website on which the most people have clicked links leading to the blog). Approximately how many hits has the TMU Exchange generated?

• a) 5000
• b) 13000
• c) 22000

3. Name three websites, besides the TMU Exchange, from which the TMU Blog has been linked to. You must name all three correctly to get the question right. It’s helpful, but not necessarily required, if you can also provide a link to the exact location of the link (if doubt, you will be asked to do so, so better be prepared anyway).

4. Which of the following posts has received the most hits?

• a) Stadium Fashion
• b) Driver’s Contest II – Semifinals
• c) TMX Track List #7

5. The most popular post ever to be written here at the blog has received 1261 hits at the time of writing. Who wrote this post?

• d) Jozii
• e) Alcator
• f) Djoszee

6. The TMU Blog has long since been reviewing tracks uploaded to TMX. One of these tracks has received 360 clicks, the highest ever for a single-review post, on the link leading directly from the blog to the downloadable file (at TMX) containing the track. Which track would this be?

• a) BeyonD, by JakeOIL
• b) [PF] Spin Doctor [PF], by BCS[Viper]
• c) Speed Anxiety, by DanDaMan & S8ndm8n

7. Name three websites that have been linked to from the TMU Blog. You must name all three correctly to get the question right.

8. The most popular page on the TMU Blog, besides the main one, has received 2968 hits at the time of writing. Which page would this be?

• a) About
• b) Contact
• c) Tracks I

9. Approximately how many comments, not counting blocked spam, have been made on the blog?

• a) 2900
• b) 3100
• c) 3300

10. The TMU Blog is frequently visited via search engines. Among the following search terms, which has been most frequently used?

• a) TrackMania United Tutorial
• b) TMU
• c) TrackMania United Key

11. Approximately how many hits has the TMU Blog received through search engines?

• a) 3000
• b) 6000
• c) 9000

12. How many posts total have been made at the blog, not including this one or any posts after it?

• a) 378
• b) 414
• c) 449

13. Tie-breaker: During week 38 in 2007, how many visits did the TMU Blog have?

Deadline: Saturday 23rd of February, 2008

Remember: e-mail your answers via the contact form or directly to Jozii@pp.inet.fi. Good luck