E: 31/10 Win Bremont goodies and more (daily, help please)

pate-ci0

Just to clarify, I did not mean to infer that compers enter every competition regardless of prize, we tend to enter comps for prizes we are interested in. However, winning any one particular prize is so unlikely given the odds that the excitement of the hobby (and that is what it is, to me certainly) is the unexpected email or parcel that pops up in your life. There is a perpetual sense of anticipation and occasionally that is rewarded. To a non-comper the competition you are entering is of great importance and you may really believe that you will win it. In this particular case you might well do so, if you are the FIRST with the final answer, but most competitions tend to be random draws so the more comps you enter the better chance there is of winning something. This site helps with that, allowing the whole community the best chance of getting that thrill of a win, even if it is only a DVD. The value of the prize is not so important that we deliberately try to maximise our chance at the expense of the rest of the community.

JustJMD

gdmoney said:

jktlinuxguy said:

gdmoney said:

jktlinuxguy said:

Q13 is quite the head-trip.  The correct answer requires reviewing your source(s).

If you know the answer, please can you post it? I don't see why this competition is different from others on this forum where people happily post the answers for each other.

If someone wants to work it out for themselves, they can stop looking at this thread.

That's going to be a hard pass from me, unfortunately.

Only if they look at this forum (unlikely) and work out your real name from the name you use on the forum (even more unlikely).

But you asked the question 'why is this competition different to others? ' . The key is in the rules: rules don't usually specify no sharing answers.
It may be unlikely that Bremont would research the winner, but not impossible given that:
1. There will only be one person to research
2. There aren't many websites where answers are shared
3. The difficulty of the quiz questions suggest that Bremont have some pretty keen detectives of their own, and would possibly be able to identify rule breakers fairly easily. (I know I'm probably out).
So why would anyone take the risk of missing out on the prize by breaking the rules? 

HarryT93

wow this has got out of hand - let me just make this clear:
It literally does not matter in the slightest if the winner is a fan or watches or bremont or not. The sole point of these forums on MSE is for compers to help out fellow compers. If you are not coming on these forums to either post an answer or get an answer then don't post. I have put answers on other posts for prizes that I have a deep interest in because I know that at the same time others have posted answers for me to use on prizes I have less interest in.
The arguments on these forums are ridiculous.

MDUK

Q14

not theorem
not gravity

obrsj

I’m thinking Alan Turing rather than Hawkins as Turing was a Mathematician. 

Sicknote069

I was thinking along the lines of Alan Turing but can't think of anything with 7 letters..  

obrsj

I’ve tried decrypt and ciphers but no luck

tompob

ive tried science no luck either

Midnighter

It's ENIGMAS.

MDUK

Midnighter said:

It's ENIGMAS.

Haha, well done. Enigma was the first thing I thought of but never considered pluralising it.