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The Answers.com Scholarship winners have been chosen and, right here, right now – announced. The students who placed in the top three winner spots include:

1st Place: Natalie Weires ($5,000 scholarship)
2nd Place: Sara Underwood ($2,500 scholarship)
3rd Place: Faizan Ahemad ($2,500 scholarship)

The runners up will each receive a $1,000 scholarship.

As follows, the complete list of student winners (and their Answers.com usernames):

• Faizan Ahemad Faizan ahemad
• Taryn Alford TAlford
• Alexandra Cota Alexandra Cota
• Rosetta Fernando rosettamichelle
• Mary Nguyen Maraay
• Michael Sawyer Msawyer9616
• Chanapa Tantibanchachai Chanapa_T
• Sara Underwood Sunderwoodbio
• Lindsey Uribe lahoi.uribe
• Margaret Wang magiecake
• Natalie Weires ScienceNerd17
• Amie Whitlock amiewhitlock
• Natalie Chen Furioso

To read more about the Answers.com Scholarship program, check this out.

Winners of the Holiday AnswerThon have been announced. But if you’re too lazy to click that link, I understand (still tired from the Summit?). So I have reprinted them here:

FIRST PLACE: Aggie80 ($500 Amazon gift card!)

SECOND PLACE: Wonderful Wanda and Infinitedrmr ($250 Amazon gift card!)

THIRD PLACE: Xwizardgodx, Eclipse8, and Squirrel Man ($100 Amazon gift card!)

Go Aggie80, go! Not only did he win first place, but he participated in the Answers Summit as well… Aggie, how do you find the time?

This past weekend was an exciting and intense AnswerThon, mainly due to the fact that the first prize is a $1,000 Amazon gift card… Not to mention, 34 other prizes available to other winners and runners up!

Keep in mind, the folks mentioned below managed to answer hundreds – and some over one thousand – questions in a 48-hour period over the weekend.

So, on to the winners. Drum roll, please….

FIRST Place goes to Blue, who clocked in with over 1600 answers!

SECOND Place is taken by Aggie80, a past champion who answered over 1200 times!

THIRD Place prizes are awarded to Fuzzy Logic (1100+), Porkchop1802 (900+) and Steven Keyman (900+).

The thirty RUNNERS UP include: HisPowr4U, Darksyde, Anandvijayakumar, EndTrans, Xuxa, Ftaylor13, Chemistry4thewin, Ananddave, Jadeacres, Ibbag, Manikkpudur, George McCasland, ThePigWhisperer, Blackwolfspirit, Jute, Squirrel Man, Ilovebulldogs, Webby08, Mathdoc, Funbelow, EducationsAdvocate, Idisjunction, Hilmarz, Kharrima, Bluedolphin30, Armoryhistorian, Ginezumi, MattApril, C.Hainsaw, and Wiki Gator.

Thanks to everyone who participated this weekend! And congrats to the winners. Until next time… you are the AnswerThon champions!

Stay tuned for some news regarding future contests coming soon… All I can say is, more contests, more often. I said, stay tuned!

Congrats to Sandface, who submitted quite a few Video Answers for the WikiAnswers Video Answer contest back in September – she won an Honorable Mention for this one:

What size are runt shorkies?

This video taught me a lot since before I saw it, I honestly didn’t know what a shorky was. But as we say here at Answers headquarters: Now I know.

A big thanks goes out to everyone who flexed their fingers and maxed out their minds in name of knowledge this past weekend! This was the fourth AnswerThon we’ve had at WikiAnswers but only the second one without the bells and whistles for you purists out there. Since the original AnswerThon we’ve had Charity and How-To editions of this answering extravaganza…

Without further ado, the April 2009 WikiAnswers AnswerThon champions are Steven Keyman (supervisor division) and Jordang123 (standard division). Steven smoked the competition with an amazing 1,231 answers!  Second-place finishers included Aggie80, Rimshakr27, Iluvcake94, and Ananddave. Check out the full list of prize winners.

First, second and third-place winners are receiving Amazon.com gift certificates worth $500, $200 and $100 respectively. Additionally, second-place winners will take home WikiAnswers laptop bags while third-place finishers will walk away with WikiAnswers blankets. Fifty runners-up will receive WikiAnswers t-shirts.

Congratulations to all the winners, both first-time contributors and seasoned veterans!  When’s the next AnswerThon? I’m glad you asked. Sign up for WikiAnswers e-mail announcements and follow us on Twitter to be notified when the next WikiAnswers challenge is launched!

Sure, Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button are getting a lot of attention at the Oscars. Sure, you’ll probably grab some popcorn and watch intently to see which celebs are wearing whose gowns on February 22nd.

But none of that awards-watching will inform you of who racked up the most WAmmys this year. How else will you know which two contributors had the Answers of the Year or the Most Contributions? How will you learn which New Supervisors are this year’s stars? And what about Best How-To Answer, Best Advice Answer and Funniest Answer?

The 2008 WAmmy Awards have been voted on and doled out… And WikiAnswers is the only place to find out the who, what, and most importantly – which questions – are winners this year.

Yes, last year’s WAmmys were such a big hit that they’ve done it again… So start brushing up on your answering skills for next year! In the meantime, check out the full listing of the winners…

Hope you’re ready to learn who won the How-To AnswerThon that happened on WikiAnswers over the weekend of November 7-9th. There were plenty of prizes to go around, since winners were tallied in two categories: Contributors and Supervisors.

The first place winners for those categories were Cobber43 and HisPowr4U, respectively. HisPowr4U actually made it with the top How-To answers overall. That is some powrful answering! Both those first place winners will receive $200 Amazon.com gift certificates and HisPowr4U will be getting a special prize donated by user Rudiful2. Hmm, wondering what  that will be…

Go ahead and check out the complete list of winners and feel free to congratulate them.

Stay tuned for the next AnswerThon…