Forbes.com Live Large Sweepstakes

pandybat · #1 (**permalink**) 10-05-2001, 04:04 AM

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Prizes are pretty cool! Trip to Paris for a week, DVD Players, Digital Audio Players, DVD/VCR combos, first class round trip plane tickets...YAHOO!

Answers are different everyday....please post them if you get them all correct. They don't tell you which ones you get right or wrong. But they do tell you when you got them all correct.

Answers for Oct 5:
What are Galaendewagens?
Military Vehicles

The Malaysian government is paying $258.7 to upgrade and electrify a stretch of railway track leading from the Rawang suburb of Kuala Lumpur to the northern town of Ipoh. How long is that stretch?
180-kilometers

Samsung has combined a digital music player directly into a mobile phone in which of it's lines of phones?
Uproar

According to Forbes' own Doug Donovan, when is a good time to start a diet?
There is never a good time to start a diet.

shrartman · #2 (**permalink**) 10-05-2001, 09:54 AM

Thanks for the great post............and thanks for the answers. Your are a genius (or a very good searcher!).

pandybat · #3 (**permalink**) 10-05-2001, 01:41 PM

LMBO!!! Oh Sharon....no genius here by any means....I just use Google alot! lol But I do like the hunt for the answers....this was a great game for doing that.

ronirp · #4 (**permalink**) 10-05-2001, 11:44 PM

I have played this one in the time before when they had it. Right after the question you can seach for terms on the Forbes site. Unless the question only includes common terms, this is a very useful tool that would get you right to the article with the answer.

Roni

pandybat · #5 (**permalink**) 10-06-2001, 04:28 PM

AM General's 2002 Hummer H2, which goes on sale late next spring, will likely sell for around ________.
$50,000

How many steps lead to the summit of the Brunelleschi's Dome, the structure atop Florence's main cathedral?
463

Who is the Secretary-General of the United Nations?
Kofi Annan

LCD makers are upping production by cutting more screens from ever-larger pieces of glass. How many 15-inch LCD screens can Samsung cut from a large glass sheet?
Six

biscuit1 · #6 (**permalink**) 10-07-2001, 04:49 PM

10/7 Answers

1. Arnold and Rudy
2. Halston
3. Bottle of Vodka
4. Cleveland

pandybat · #7 (**permalink**) 10-08-2001, 12:06 AM

Thanks a million Biscuit1!!!

miriama59 · #8 (**permalink**) 10-08-2001, 04:43 AM

10/8

1. All of the above

2. A single malt scotch whiskey

3. Godiva

4. 21%

pandybat · #9 (**permalink**) 10-09-2001, 03:16 PM

1. Anne Baxter
2. 50
3. Kuala Lumpur
4. All of the above

biscuit1 · #10 (**permalink**) 10-10-2001, 10:29 PM

10/10

1. 53
2. Anne Fogarty
3. 6-foot-9
4. Balfour Beatty

pandybat · #11 (**permalink**) 10-10-2001, 10:33 PM

HALLELUJAH!!!!!
Cleverclickster.com has the Forbes answers on their site!!!
HALLELUJAH!!!

This is one of the most time consuming sweepstakes I have ever seen. Glad to see the answers posted somewhere.