And The Winner Is…

by Not That Mike The Other Mike on November 5, 2008

As the entries poured in for our game of Trivial Fursuit (bada bing, Allison Y.!), one thing became clear: Those who love Teh Qte are Teh Smrt. Out of over 540 entries in 8 hours, most of you displayed your Google and Wikipedia skills command of knowledge flawlessly.

Our winner, randomly selected from all correct entries, is Arbed. Congratulations! 

Now, the answers:
( G ) What big cat lives in the Himalayas at altitudes up to 20,000 feet?  The Snow Leopard

Duz we getz kalinder, too?

(  E ) What TV character was pursued by a policeman named Dibble?  Top Cat

Now, imagine this walnut is your brain, see ...

(  H ) Who was the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office under Margaret Thatcher and John Major?  Humphrey

I am NOT amused.

( AL ) What author’s museum is home to many six-toed cats?  Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man And Teh Qte

( SN ) What are the collective names for a group of cats and a group of kittens?  Preferred answers: clowder and kindle, respectively, but we also accepted cluster, clutter, glaring, kendle, nuisance and pounce.

Not chowder, you idiot!  CLOWDER!!

( SL ) What game involves cat’s eyes?  Marbles

I think you lost these. (*snerk*)

Thank you to EVERYONE who participated! If you’d like to see more competishes, let us know in the Comments!

{ 48 comments }

1 Ann M. 11.05.08 at 11:12 pm

won’t say b word. yes! more furry contests

[Teh Mod is pleased... - Ed.]

2 berthaservant 11.05.08 at 11:26 pm

OH!! OH!! OH!!!

(Raising hand “Horshack”-style).

CAN I HELPS WITH THE CONTESTS PLEASE? OHPLEASEOHPLEASEOHPLEASE NTOMTOM! I’LL BE YOUR BEST FRIEND!

(I even knew five of the answers to this w/o the google by the way).

3 arbed 11.05.08 at 11:30 pm

YAY and YIPPEE!!!! I knew I liked you for a reason, NTMTOM! ;-)

4 Melanie H. 11.05.08 at 11:39 pm

More contests definitely!

5 butterfly 11.05.08 at 11:41 pm

yes! please! more contests :)

I am so disappointed that I didn’t win… next time, possiblez?

6 J. Bo 11.05.08 at 11:47 pm

We can haz moar contestz, plz?

7 Michelle S 11.05.08 at 11:55 pm

grats Arbed! Yay for competischons!

8 Michelle S 11.05.08 at 11:56 pm

The two I didn’t know were Top Cat and Humphrey (although he looks more like a Harumph-ery).

9 AuntieMame 11.06.08 at 12:02 am

Yay for Arbed!

Extra credit: After whom was Humphrey the No. 10 Downing Street cat named?

10 Mary (the first) 11.06.08 at 12:04 am

I also didn’t know Top Cat and Humphrey. More competishes is always good! Love the games! I did not know Google and Wikipedia were legit or I might have entered.

11 Courtney Fishaahhh 11.06.08 at 12:05 am

YES! more cuhmpetishions!

tehehe i got them all right =D

12 taj 11.06.08 at 12:08 am

This was fun! More please. -)

13 KittehMamax3 11.06.08 at 12:11 am

Yeah. I knew I was right, but the hubbie told me I got Top Cat wrong and that it was Hep Cat. Please, can we have more, sir? I need to be able to say thhhhppppbbbbtttt to the hubbie more often when he’s SO wrong…

14 Lins 11.06.08 at 12:13 am

Yes please!

15 rockle 11.06.08 at 12:20 am

moar plz kthx

16 KentuckyKitty 11.06.08 at 12:25 am

Please oh please more competishes please!!

=^..^=

17 e 11.06.08 at 12:26 am

Yes Yes Yes. more trivia please.

18 xyz 11.06.08 at 12:45 am

Cute Overload : Increasing your general knowledge, one (snow leopard)kitteh at a time

Yay for the winner!

19 JakePets 11.06.08 at 12:48 am

Hey, you’ve got a primo idea for ‘nuther whole C.O. calendar with Trivial Fursuit! So… TWO calendars next year?

Oh, and yes plz, more competishes.

The answers are the best part …

20 Saski 11.06.08 at 12:48 am

Yah for competitions!

21 Gail (the first one) 11.06.08 at 12:51 am

Congrats, Arbed!

I didn’t know the Top Cat and Humphrey ones, either…

22 red 11.06.08 at 12:52 am

ey, you’ve got a primo idea for ‘nuther whole C.O. calendar with Trivial Fursuit! So… TWO calendars next year?

Oh, and yes plz, more competishes.
http://www.trsohbet.name
The answers are the best part …

23 spb 11.06.08 at 1:54 am

More! More! More!

(I knew the marble one. But the others I woulda had to look up.)

24 Samantha 11.06.08 at 2:08 am

Aww, I was so hoping I’d win after the Phillies and Obama did. Nonetheless, congrats to Arbed! Enjoy your calender!

I’d love more competitions, this one was fun, I learned a lot, and I had something to look forward to all day.

25 misscrisp 11.06.08 at 2:40 am

Ummm, so, is that a picture of chowder…somehow referring to clowder? And is nuisance a joke answer, or a real name for a group of kittens? Or…both? LOL

26 sizzle komizzle 11.06.08 at 2:40 am

Yes! More contests!!!

27 Jezebel 11.06.08 at 2:58 am

Trivia is hot!

28 Gabby Smith 11.06.08 at 3:48 am

Contests are always teh awesome. Also more pictures of sooooper cute kittehs!

29 dub1 11.06.08 at 4:43 am

Yes, please, more contests.

Haiku Contest?

To set the mood, imagine if you will, a single perfect cherry blossom floating in a bowl of warm sake, and to the faint strains of samisen music:

Screen light flickers on/
Miffed Winston, ‘tocks, plinks: brain ’splodes/
Cute Overloaded.

5/7/5, beeyotches!
Served! Woot!

30 ratchic 11.06.08 at 10:00 am

Nice Haiku!! 5/7/5 with brain ’splodes!

31 Katrina 11.06.08 at 10:50 am

That was fun, (I sat on the sidelines, I didn’t know Humphrey, but that was fun!

I guess more competishes could be fun,I doubt I’d play, thought, just watch!

Thank you for teh fun!

32 Katrina 11.06.08 at 10:51 am

I forgot to close my parens-sorry. here it is…).

Have a great hope-filled day, Peeps!

33 Sarah F. 11.06.08 at 12:19 pm

Bummer, dude. I got the last one wrong! I put in “Cat’s Eye” because there was a game from the late 70s/early 80s called “Cat’s Eye” that had ‘cats’ eyes’ in it.

34 mberkie0 11.06.08 at 12:51 pm

@Arbed: Kewell, and goodonyer, mite.

@NTMTOM: Lurve the competishes – I try to never lose an opportunity to learn something new, and competishes are a kewell way to do that.

35 Kris 11.06.08 at 2:23 pm

I had to look them all up, except for marbles!
Congrats Arbed!

And, yes please, can we have some more???

36 Holly 11.06.08 at 2:56 pm

Bah – foiled in my attempt to get a CO calendar. AND I knew all of them apart from the collective noun for kittehs…

37 Janie 11.06.08 at 3:28 pm

I got all of them except the last one. I didn’t even think of marbles! I used to play a string game called cat’s cradle and while you’re going through it you make cat eyes with the string. Oh well! It was still a lot of fun. :)

38 Rooanne 11.06.08 at 3:31 pm

Top Cat!! yay! That was my favorite cartoon was I was a kid.

39 ACook 11.06.08 at 3:51 pm

I loved the competition! It was fun and informative! I would definitely enjoy more games like this!

40 Kiragirl 11.06.08 at 4:44 pm

bring ‘em on!

41 Silvia 11.06.08 at 5:19 pm

yes please! more furry competishes =D

42 Kimberly 11.06.08 at 5:49 pm

I loved it, it was a lot of fun! Humphrey was named after Humphrey Appleby from the British comedy Yes, Minister, a hilarious show making fun of bureaucracy and the civil service. The only one I missed was a group of kittens, I said litter. Maybe a doggie competishe would be a good next step :)

43 Red 11.06.08 at 6:15 pm

I didn’t know Top Cat either, yay learning :P

44 Annie 11.06.08 at 7:05 pm

I got them all right too. and some I knew and some required google foo.

Yay Arbed…

and Moar Moar Moar Contests Please!

45 jenoofer 11.06.08 at 7:55 pm

What does it say about me if my immediate answer to the Geography question was “Ceiling Cat!!!”?

46 AuntieMame 11.07.08 at 5:39 am

Ding, ding, ding! Kimberly wins the extra credit prize! Which is…um…well, you done good, Kimberly! *pats you on the back*

(I lurve Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister!)

47 Sams 11.07.08 at 11:23 pm

Yay, more competishes!!

48 lovemily 11.10.08 at 3:12 am

Note on the Hemingway Museum…
First of all it’s crap. I grew up in Hemingway’s hometown and he hated it there. Also, i have never ever seen a cat there, though to be fair I haven’t looked very hard. Also in the spirit of fairness there are gillions of six toed cats in Oak Park. So many that they aren’t even very exciting. I have one, he’s a badass rodent killing machine, but he’s an import (from WI but shhh don’t tell the Hemingway stock… they’ll tease him)

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