I’m sure you’ll be able to usurp my place, sooner or later.
But I’ve been doing particularly miserable lately. Oh, well.
(Just so long as I don’t end up with another trophy…)
Thanks again, Dolores and brujaja.
- Well. Ahem.
Not exactly the wonderful return to feuds I was looking for after a victory and an absence. But I’ll take top half quite happily. I can’t believe I didn’t go with mitosis I just figured that most people would know that cell division is mitosis and try to come up with a better answer.
I was pretty sure mitosis was the wrong answer but it was the closest I could come up with. Plus I figured everyone else would remember mitosis, too. Because cell division is a bit obscure after all these years…
Third place! woo hoo!
I wanted to say “Bose-Einstein Condensate”, but I knew that would be the low scoring answer.
I’ll see your “Four States of Matter”, and raise you a fifth state.
I thought that the word “phase” in the question would be enough of a hint the people would recall at least one of the phases. Plus I’m too much of a biologist that I didn’t even think of simply answering “mitosis”.
So… stayin’ awake occasionally in high school biology paid off did it? 
WOOHOO! #1 Even! This will no doubt be my first and only number one, so I shall rejoice in it til the next feud.
4! Glad I answered Mitosis, even though it’s not a phase of cell division. I’d have to look the various phases up.
You know, there is no rule for actually looking stuff up. I, myself, have actually googled answers before. It doesn’t help me win, unfortunately. 
Thanks, Brujaja. I didn’t even notice your simulpost! I kept looking for you to be online, and never saw you.
I’m having computer problems at home, so the next few will be from work. The next one will be up soon! (And y’all think you’re addicted?? Ha, I say! :D)
Yeah, I almost went with Mitosis too, but the biologist in me just could not do it. It’s just not right!
Some of the other answers, though, I’m shocked I missed. Clearly my brain isn’t quite as in step as I thought it was.
Yeah, I goofed by going with mammoth. Dodo is the obvious answer, but it wouldn’t even have been my second thought…if I’d glanced over at the one on my desk, I would have changed my answer to trilobite, and done even worse!
As in…today? ohhh, anticipation!
I’m 17. Yah me. Much better than the last one. I figured abalone for the #5 question and California Condor for #7 would lose me points. In my defense, #5 just made me hungry for what I want, not for what others would guess.
I was torn between dodo and passenger pigeon, and went with the pigeon. Darn! I wouldn’t have won, but I’d have finished higher.
Yea swampy!
I guess I can’t bring myself to always go with what people will say instead of a correct answer.