quiz and answers from the chat.

[tanglefoot]

a fantastic chat and trivia thos month, i really enjoyed doing the questions.
for you who missed it, here they are.

matty

1. who was this years slowest rookie? - christine roalofs ( red lantern 0
2.how many differnt countries entered mushers this year? - 7 canada, jamica, new zeland, russia, brazil, norway and of course... USA
3. name 4 foreign mushers from iditarod 2013 - Joar (norway), Mikhail (russia), Newton (jamica), Luan (brazil) Michele phillips ( canada ) Gerry w (canada) Curt P (New Zealand) Aaron Peck (canada)
4. who 24'd in rohn? martin buser and james failor
5.how many dogs did Jake Berkowitz drop? 1 - he finished with 15
6.name the missing dogs on the trail? newtons dog Mae and Gerrys dog Montego
7. who are the youngest and oldest iditarod champions/ - Dallas youngest - mitch oldest
8. how many mushers have finished the iditarod trail? nearest answer one go each - 852
9.whos the oldest musher to finish - col. norman vaughan
10.who was the most improved musher musher in 2013? Nick Petit
11. by how many places? 23
12. whats the first checkpoint on the yukon on the southern route? Anvik
13. name mitchs leaders under the arch into nome? tanner - ran single lead - (bit of a trick question that one)
14. who was the highest placed female musher - aliy zirkle
15. how many scrathed in 2013? 11 - 12 didnt finish, gerry willomitzer was withdrawn
16.how many checkpoints are there along the souther route? 27 is the offical iditarod answer but there was some conjecture so the question was reset
16.who is the boss of anchorage chrysler dodge, long time sponsor of the iditarod? Rod 'idita-rod' udd
a bonus question was set for fun, who has presented the truck on his behalf for the last two years? chuck
17.who wore bib #2? - martin buser
18. who won the junior iditarod? - noah Periorra
19. which is iditarods most winning family? - The mackeys with 7 wins, lance 4, D-ick 1, rick 1, cain 1 junior iditarod
20.which is the odd one out and why? bib, dogs, promotional mail, axe, cooker, snow shoes, sled, sleeping bag, booties? - sled. all others are mandatory items you must finish with... so in theory, you could carry all your gear and not have a sled to cross the finish line!

tie breaker was,
TB: name the 3 iditarod jnr and snr mushers with the same name
1 mike williams jnr and snr
2 ray redington jnr and snr
3 jim lanier jrn and snr

rick and ***** mackey are of course rick and ***** not richard mackey jnr and snr!

the winner was a very very quick sars who on some questions answered in less than 3 seconds.. very impressive!!!