A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology edged out about 4,300 other teams on Saturday in a Pentagon-sponsored contest to correctly identify the location of 10 red balloons distributed around the United States.
A big day yesterday for Joba Chamberlain, Dwight Howard, J. J. Putz, and John Reinhart, of Alexandria, Virginia, though only the last of these won this week's Covers Contest, divining correctly that the small images corresponded to books about sports.
By Willing Davidson April 30, 2009 A big day yesterday for Joba Chamberlain, Dwight Howard, J. J. Putz, and John Reinhart, of Alexandria, Virginia, though only the last of these won this week's Covers Contest, divining correctly that the small images corresponded to books about sports.
He won our NCAA contest by correctly picking U-Conn to win it all before the tournament began.
Here are the rules to the baseball card contest: 1. Correctly identify all three of these baseball stars (pictured here from the late-eighties/early-nineties) and send their names and your own name and address to [email protected] by no later than Monday, December 15th, and you will receive a signed printout of the original drawing, as well as acclaim on this Web site and in heaven.
He rightly awarded three penalties in a thrilling contest and his assistant correctly judged Gary Cahill's header to have crossed the line.
Sixteen years ago in Florida questions about election procedures and ascertaining voter intent in three Florida counties led Al Gore initially legally to protest and then contest the election results, correctly demanding a recount because the Bush margin of victory was so close.
The word was spelled on Thursday — correctly, according to contest officials — by Arvind V. Mahankali, 13, an eighth grader from Bayside, Queens, who is a son of immigrants from southern India and New York City's first national champion since 1997.
Why not create online contests, offering prizes to readers who correctly answer questions based on the plots of certain books?
It will be an especially joyful one for liammacpherson and Shane Kennealy – the only two people to call every game correctly in our Pick Six contest last week.
