If someone contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's work on climate change, for which the organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, is this person a Nobel laureate? If not, what are they? [more inside]
posted by PercussivePaul on Nov 26, 2009 - 9 answers

How does prize money effect entry to free to enter competitions? [more inside]
posted by lilyflower on Jul 10, 2009 - 1 answer

Can you suggest prizes and trophies for a software/hardware hacking competition? [more inside]
posted by godawful on Mar 8, 2009 - 5 answers

Think-Back-To-High-School-Filter: What incentives / prizes / privileges really motivated you? (Aside from grades) [more inside]
posted by Alabaster on Jan 17, 2009 - 31 answers

My company has offered to spend $25,000 on 35 people for an activity in February. What do we do? [more inside]
posted by KirTakat on Oct 15, 2008 - 23 answers

I won a trip! But where should I go? I've got six choices. [more inside]
posted by Atom12 on Jun 3, 2008 - 18 answers

I need a really great, somewhat poker related prize (or a couple of prizes) that will cost less than $1200. I'm giving it away in early August (somewhat flexible on the date). [more inside]
posted by my homunculus is drowning on May 20, 2008 - 8 answers

Help me design a small Access application to run a prize drawing. As I see it, the MC will open the application and click the Draw button, which will select from the available prizes for that month. Once drawn, that prize becomes unavailable. MC will then type in the winner's name and click Save, setting the form ready for the next contestant. Specs and examples follow. [more inside]
posted by kc0dxh on Jan 16, 2008 - 8 answers

Is anyone familiar with the web site Photography Laureates? [more inside]
posted by ObscureReferenceMan on Nov 29, 2007 - 5 answers

When companies sponsor contests to win a "lifetime supply" of their product, how do they decide what constitutes a lifetime supply? [more inside]
posted by amyms on May 30, 2007 - 14 answers

Lost book question: When I was a kid, our upstairs neighbors lent me a book of wild fantasy illustrations that contained a hidden puzzle. There was a sizable prize for whoever figured out the riddle. [more inside]
posted by hydrophonic on Apr 6, 2007 - 12 answers

How can I win this writing bursary? [more inside]
posted by Chorus on Aug 22, 2006 - 6 answers

In 1959, Richard Feynman gave a now-famous talk at Caltech titled Plenty of Room at the Bottom in which he challenges the scientific community to write the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica on the head of a pin. Has anybody ever done this? [more inside]
posted by sergeant sandwich on Nov 19, 2005 - 17 answers

Scam? I've been contacted and told I was selected to win a prize as a thank you for filling out a survey a few months ago. I have to go to a lunch and draw for which prize I'll receive out of 5. Presumably this is a scam, and I imagine it's a Time Share sales thing. So my question is this, if I go, and withstand the stupid timeshare marketing thing, will I actually get a prize? Or will I be scammed out of that, too? The company in question is 'The Vacation Store' and this is local to Toronto, since there are a lot of Vacation Stores out there on the net.
posted by jacquilynne on Jan 20, 2005 - 13 answers

Has anyone here ever won either the grand prize or a major prize from one of those "instant win" games on cereal boxes, candy bars, fast food promotions, or soda cans? Has anyone ever known someone who has won or known someone who knows someone? [More inside] [more inside]
posted by ontic on Dec 17, 2004 - 35 answers

[scamfilter] Anybody ever heard of saprizo.com? [+] [more inside]
posted by codger on Dec 1, 2004 - 14 answers