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June's Common Answers results can be found below. The scoring method can be found here. For each of the winners, I have shown the position of their answer for each question. For example, a 2 indicates that for that question, the entrant answered with the second most popular answer. If someone answered all questions with the most popular answer, their score would be 100%, the % of max shows how close to the maximum score each person was.

There were 3,061 valid entries. The top answers to each question can be found below the winners' names.

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#	Name	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q5	Q6	Q7	Q8	Q9	Q10	% of max
1	Jennifer Giorgio	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	100.00%
1	Miriam Culwell	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	100.00%
1	Russell Gray	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	100.00%
1	Andrew Reed	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	100.00%
1	Jennifer Taylor	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	100.00%
1	Roy Grabois	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	100.00%
7	Lisa Miller	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	97.84%
8	Dallas Greene	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	86.64%
9	Kristen Gettys	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	84.77%
9	Kacper Nieckarz	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	84.77%
11	Ken Rosenberg	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	78.29%
12	Lisa Parker	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	76.60%
12	Karen Richards	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	76.60%
12	Hanna Vigil	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	76.60%
15	Linda Rodriguez	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	67.83%
15	Angela Mellema	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	67.83%
17	Mary Flanagan	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	67.18%
17	David Pavlik	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	67.18%
17	Jessica Botham	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	67.18%
20	Ken Corless	1	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	66.08%
20	Tammi Baker	1	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	66.08%
20	Christopher Long	1	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	66.08%
188	Kevin Stone	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	2	15.42%

Below you can find the most popular answers for each question, only answers that have at least 10 people entering them appear. The score is the number of entrants who gave that answer. This information can be used to cross-reference the winners' answers.

Q1. Name an animal that is usually white.		Score
1	POLAR BEAR	1745
2	RABBIT	510
3	DOVE	176
4	SHEEP	134
5	SWAN	69
6	MOUSE	66
7	CAT	48
8	BEAR	24
9	DUCK	17
10	ZEBRA	16
11	LAMB	14
12	HORSE	13
13	PANDA	12
14	DOG	12
15	COW	12
16	GOOSE	11
17	RAT	10
+ 82 other unranked (UR) answers.
Q2. Name the number of pieces in a typical jigsaw.		Score
1	500	958
2	100	750
3	1000	633
4	50	101
5	250	80
6	200	59
7	300	53
8	150	41
9	20	29
10	25	25
11	24	21
12	9	19
13	12	19
14	10	18
15	30	12
16	1500	12
17	2	11
18	32	10
+ 80 other unranked (UR) answers.
Q3. Name an Internet search engine.		Score
1	GOOGLE	2742
2	YAHOO	222
3	EXPLORER	19
4	ASK	15
5	FIREFOX	14
6	AOL	10
+ 27 other unranked (UR) answers.
Q4. Name the total number of children in an average high school.		Score
1	1000	750
2	500	432
3	2000	279
4	1500	234
5	800	140
6	1200	139
7	600	119
8	300	103
9	400	79
10	3000	77
11	700	69
12	200	58
13	5000	48
14	2500	44
15	900	40
16	750	34
17	250	30
18	4000	27
19	100	27
20	350	26
21	450	24
22	650	12
23	850	11
24	1300	11
25	550	10
+ 117 other unranked (UR) answers.
Q5. Name a 5-letter word that ends in OUT.		Score
1	SHOUT	1517
2	ABOUT	746
3	SPOUT	200
4	TROUT	148
5	STOUT	131
6	SNOUT	99
7	SCOUT	85
8	CLOUT	46
9	GROUT	31
+ 35 other unranked (UR) answers.
Q6. Name the opposite of 'NOT IN'.		Score
1	IN	1385
2	OUT	1200
3	NOT OUT	192
4	INSIDE	34
5	OUTSIDE	33
6	IS OUT	33
7	IS IN	21
8	HERE	17
9	AWAY	11
10	YES OUT	10
+ 61 other unranked (UR) answers.
Q7. Name a star constellation.		Score
1	BIG DIPPER [seven stars of Ursa Major]	1179
2	ORION	792
3	URSA MAJOR	223
4	MILKY WAY	161
5	LEO	83
6	URSA MINOR [or Little Dipper]	79
7	ANDROMEDA	47
8	GEMINI	46
9	ZODIAC	45
10	SOUTHERN CROSS	33
11	ARIES	30
12	CANCER	29
13	LIBRA	25
14	AQUARIUS	25
15	VIRGO	21
16	PISCES	20
17	TAURUS	18
18	HERCULES	17
19	SCORPIO	16
20	CAPRICORN	15
21	PEGASUS	14
22	CASSIOPEIA	12
23	SAGITTARIUS	10
+ 80 other unranked (UR) answers.
Q8. Name either YESTERDAY, TODAY or TOMORROW.		Score
1	TODAY	2191
2	YESTERDAY	514
3	TOMORROW	354
+ 1 other unranked (UR) answer.
Q9. Name the family name (surname) of a historic US president.		Score
1	WASHINGTON	1370
2	LINCOLN	568
3	KENNEDY	434
4	BUSH	274
5	ROOSEVELT	89
6	ADAMS	87
7	CLINTON	61
8	JEFFERSON	36
9	REAGAN	19
10	JOHNSON	15
11	FORD	15
12	NIXON	14
+ 42 other unranked (UR) answers.
Q10. Name an uncommon letter of the alphabet.		Score
1	Q	1064
2	X	1041
3	Z	680
4	V	55
5	J	55
6	Y	39
7	U	23
8	W	21
9	A	14
10	K	12
+ 16 other unranked (UR) answers.

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The contest has been running since July 2002, but the very old results are not available.