Last week's Question:
The great archaeologist Jason Sun was digging in totally frozen ground when he came across a preserved body. As soon as he saw the body he knew that it had to be Adam, the first man. How could he be so sure of this?
The answer: No belly button.
We had many correct answers to this questions. To shorten this email, you can read the list of winners for our cheap greeting card at
http://www.campusnut.com/contest.cfm.
If you want to be one of five randomly selected winners of our greeting card (signed by some, not all, of the CampusNut staff), please participate in our contest.
***Question For This Week***
We realize that the past few questions have been easy. So here's a hard one:
You're in a room with three light switches, each of which controls a light in three
separate rooms. Once you leave the switch room you cannot go back inside, but you are only allowed into each of the other rooms once. How do you tell which switch turns on which light?
(We don't know the answer to this yet. We are hoping that at least one of you gets it right.)
*** If you know the answer, send it to contest@campusnut.com
***
** Oscar Picks (Predictions) **
Do better than either Jeyun or Gil's Oscar predictions and win a greeting
card from us. If you get 100% correct, you will receive fake money from us
ranging from $1 to $20.
Email your predictions to contest@campusnut.com
by March 10, 2001.
Best Picture Nominees: Chocolat; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Erin
Brockovich; Gladiator; Traffic
Gil's Pick - Gladiator
Jeyun's Pick - Gladiator
Best Director Nominees: Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot); Ang Lee
(Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon); Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich); Ridley
Scott (Gladiator); Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
Gil's Pick - Ridley Scott (Gladiator)
Jeyun's Pick - Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
Best Actor Nominees: Javier Bardem (BEFORE NIGHT FALLS); Russell Crowe
(GLADIATOR); Tom Hanks (CAST AWAY); Ed Harris (POLLOCK); Geoffrey Rush (QUILLS)
Gil's Pick - Russell Crowe
Jeyun's Pick - Russell Crowe
Best Actress Nominees: Joan Allen (THE CONTENDER); Juliette Binoche (CHOCOLAT);
Ellen Burstyn (REQUIEM FOR A DREAM); Laura Linney (YOU CAN COUNT ON ME); Julia
Roberts (ERIN BROCKOVICH)
Gil's Pick - Julia Roberts
Jeyun's Pick - Jula Roberts
Best Supporting Actor Nominees: Jeff Bridges (THE CONTENDER); Willem
Dafoe (SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE); Benicio Del Toro (TRAFFIC); Albert Finney (ERIN
BROCKOVICH); Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR)
Gil's Pick - Albert Finney
Jeyun's Pick - Benicio Del Toro
Best Supporting Actress Nominees: Judi Dench (CHOCOLAT); Marcia Gay
Harden (POLLOCK); Kate Hudson (ALMOST FAMOUS); Frances McDormand (ALMOST
FAMOUS); Julie Walters (BILLY ELLIOT)
Gil's Pick - Kate Hudson
Jeyun's Pick - Kate Hudson
REALLY TOUGH QUESTION FOR THE MONTH:
(each correct answer is guaranteed a greeting card)
There are 5 people named A, B, C, D, E. A can cross a narrow bridge in
1 minute, B in 2 minutes, C in 3 minutes, D in 4 minutes, and E in 5
minutes. Unfortunately, the bridge can only hold two of them at a
time. To make matters worse, it is dark. The only way to safely
cross the bridge would be to use a flashlight. That means that two people
can cross (one with the flashlight) but someone needs to cross the bridge back
to retrieve the others. But the flashlight has only 16 minutes of battery
time left. How can you have all of them cross the bridge in 16 minutes?
Our apologies to those who are due greeting cards. We've been
busy. But you'll get them soon.
