User:Jimbo Wales/Boston/Quiz answers

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Answers to round one[edit]

What is today's featured article?
Gender role at the time. See the Main Page for today's correct answer.
Two people were recently elected to the Wikimedia foundation board. What are their Wikipedia usernames?
Angela and Anthere
The arbitration committee is having an election soon. Besides User
Raul654, name one person who is running. : 172, Snowspinner, Ambi, Sam Spade, David Gerard, Jwrosenzweig, Lir, or Misterrick
One featured article was so controversial, that after being put on the main page it quickly generated an edit war and had to be replaced (by Go). What article was that?
Zionism
Of the large Wikipedias (10+ admins), which language Wikipedia has the highest ratio of Admins/user?
Swedish
Which language Wikipedia has the highest ratio of articles/native speaker?
Polish
What artificial-language Wikipedia has the tlh abbreviation?
Klingon
Wikipedia was started to complement Nupedia, which has since shut down. In what month of what year did Nupedia shut down?
September, 2003
Who wrote the first Wiki software?
Ward Cunningham

Answers to round two[edit]

Committees:

Real names:

Photos:

(see [1] for a copy in case this image is deleted)
Hyacinth, Elf, Nohat
Seth Ilys, Adam Carr, Tim Starling

Answers to round three[edit]

  1. Anemia or Anaemia
  2. Dialog or Dialogue
  3. Fiber or Fibre
  4. Flavor or Flavour
  5. Gray or Grey (Neither! It's a disambiguation page at both variants)
  6. Humor or Humour
  7. Jewelry or Jewellery
  8. Judgment or Judgement
  9. Pajamas or Pyjamas
  10. Theater or Theatre

Answers to round four[edit]

How many times does the word Wikipedia appear in Google?
Approx. 11,400,000. See Google:Wikipedia for today's correct answer. (23,300,000 by February 10, 2005)
In which year was the Boston Molasses Disaster?
1919
How many edits were there to the Wikipedia article in June 2004?
91
Boston, Massachusetts is named after the town of Boston in which county of England?
Lincolnshire
The monkeypox article is used in an example of what in the Wikipedia article?
Vandalism (Sarah Lane vandalised the monkeypox article live on air in June 2003 by writing "Sarah Lane is the coolest! But she doesn't have monkeypox.")
Which famous event took place in Boston on December 16, 1773?
Boston Tea Party
Which Linux distribution are Wikimedia's web servers currently running on?
Fedora Core
According to Rambot (or the United States Census Bureau) what percentage of Boston is water?
50% (Actual: 45.98%)
Name two awards Wikipedia won in 2004 that are mentioned in the Wikipedia article.
The Prix Ars Electronica and The Webby Awards
A smoot is a unit of distance used for measuring which Boston bridge?
Harvard Bridge

Answers to round five[edit]

  1. Michael Snow
  2. Brion Vibber
  3. Fennec
  4. Lucky 6.9
  5. Quadell
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