NEWS - Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Xbox Live Arcade Trivia
In addition to the arcade announcements we made yesterday, we are having a sweepstakes focused around Live Arcade! We’ll run the contest starting today (it is Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday, after all) and up through next Tuesday (2/6/07). Correctly answer all of the questions below, and you will be entered into a drawing for 1000 Microsoft points! The answers can be found in the games mentioned (including the free trials). To enter, send an email to arctriv@microsoft.com including your Xbox Live Gamertag, the email address tied to your Xbox Live Gamertag, and your answers to the questions below. 100 winners will be selected from the correct entries. Trivia Questions: 1 - In Small Arms, the frenetic action shooter, in what city did Mousey McNuts, the lovable street urchin, grow up? (Quit laughing, that's his name...) 2 - In Marble Blast Ultra, the 3D marble puzzler, what is the difficulty rating of the hardest single player level? 3 - In Cloning Clyde, the zany-side-scrolling platformer, how much money is Clyde offered for his help in the cloning experiment? People in suits and black sunglasses are requiring me to state the following: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to legal residents of the 50 United States (includes D.C.) 18 years or older. Game ends February 6, 2007. THE MICROSOFT XBOX LIVE ARCADE TRIVIA SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES 1. ELIGIBILITY: Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and District of Columbia 18 years of age or older at the time of entry. Employees of Microsoft Corporation and any person engaged to work on this promotional program and their respective affiliates, parent companies, subsidiaries, promotion, advertising and promotional agencies and each of their immediate family members (including mother, father, sister, brother, child, husband or wife) and those living in their households are not eligible to enter or win. 2. ENTRY PERIOD: The Sweepstakes opens at 12:01 AM Pacific Time (PT) on January 31, 2007, and ends at 11:59 PM PT on February 6, 2007 (“Entry Period”). 3. HOW TO ENTER: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. There are two ways to enter; online or via mail. To enter online, navigate to the Xbox Live Trivia Sweepstakes Blog (“Blog”) online at http://www.gamerscoreblog.com anytime during the Entry Period. On the Blog web page, you will be presented with three (3) Xbox Live Arcade related questions. (HINT: You can find the answers to these questions by downloading and playing the free trial versions of the Xbox Live Arcade games referenced in the questions on Xbox Live). To receive one (1) entry into this Sweepstakes, you must submit an e-mail to arctriv@microsoft.com by the close of the Entry Period with the following information: • A valid Xbox Live Gamertag (NOTE: An Xbox Live Gamertag can be created for free at: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live) • The e-mail address tied to your Xbox Live Gamertag • Correct answers to all three (3) Xbox Live Arcade related questions. To enter by mail without answering the Xbox Live Arcade related questions, hand-print your name, address, city, state, ZIP code, phone number and e-mail address (if any) on a 3x5 piece of paper and mail to: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Xbox Live Arcade Trivia Sweepstakes One Microsoft Way Mil-B / 1018 Redmond, WA 98052 Mail entries must be postmarked by February 7, 2007, and received by February 12, 2007, to be eligible for entry. Limit one (1) entry per person, Xbox Live gamertag and email address, regardless of the entry method. Subsequent entries from the same individual, Xbox Live Gamertag and email address will be automatically disqualified. Void where prohibited by law.Source: http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2007/01/31/540513.aspx