Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle quiz/Answers

Wikipedia People

 * Category:Wikipedians with article had 7 people listed at the time of the quiz: Jim Duffy (author), Michael Everson, Joi Ito, Richard Mayer, Sheldon Rampton, Larry Sanger, and of course, Jimmy Wales.


 * How many members of the Arbitration Committee ran for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees? Two, User:Delirium and User:Maveric149.

Brilliant Prose
Featured article? At the time of the quiz: This kind of question naturally gives you a 50/50 chance. One person at the meetup commented on his performance: "Considerably worse than random." Note: All of those that are not featured have been featured article candidates at some point.
 * Aviation history - No
 * Bishojo game - Yes
 * Brolga - Yes
 * Common sense - No
 * Freemasonry - Yes
 * Imatinib - No
 * Ralph Yarborough - Yes
 * Richard Wagner - No
 * Shrine of Remembrance - Yes
 * Strategic management - Yes
 * Treaty of Devol - Yes
 * Urban renewal - No

Language Skills

 * cy = Welsh
 * el = Greek
 * eu = Basque
 * ga = Irish
 * nl = Dutch
 * zh = Chinese

In order of size by number of articles, at the time of the quiz:
 * 1) nl.wikipedia.org
 * 2) zh.wikipedia.org
 * 3) cy.wikipedia.org
 * 4) eu.wikipedia.org
 * 5) el.wikipedia.org
 * 6) ga.wikipedia.org

Miscellaneous Trivia
Which of the following phrases is not the title of a Wikipedia article? At the time of the quiz, Boxers or briefs? was a redlink. Note: All your base are belong to us and England expects that every man will do his duty are featured articles.
 * All your base are belong to us
 * Boxers or briefs?
 * England expects that every man will do his duty
 * It depends what the definition of is is...
 * Let's get ready to rumble!
 * What would Jesus do?

How many pages of Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense does Wikipedia currently have, not counting subpages?
 * Credit was given for any answer between 15 and 19, as the basic BJAODN is an index, there are (or were at the times) 15 content pages, two "best-ofs", and you can see all of the pages together as the Encyclopædia BJAODNonica.

Where's the Article?
All of the alternate spellings are redirects, of course.
 * Aluminum/Aluminium
 * Color/Colour
 * Fiber/Fibre
 * Humor/Humour
 * Kilometer/Kilometre (of course, because the U.S. still is not metric)
 * Sulfur/Sulphur
 * Theater/Theatre

A total of 120 points was theoretically possible.