LOGOLOG
a weblog of wordplay by Eric Harshbarger My Initial SurpriseBack in November 2016 I noticed that the Top-10 movies from the U.S. Domestic Box Office for the past weekend all started with a different letter (if you omit any instances of a starting "THE " in the title).I finally got around to seeing if that was the longest such Top-# list historically. It is not. The current record (as of this past weekend) was set over the weekend of 20-22 August, 2004. The Top-15 movies all began with distinct letters (again, discounting occurrences of initial "THE"s):
While I was writing scripts to determine the above list, I thought I'd go ahead and answer a related question: "For which weekend did the Top-10 movies contain the fewest total letters and digits in their titles?" This turns out to be 15-17 April 2011 when the Top-10 movies were:
This second question leads, of course, to a third question: "Which Top-10 list contains the most letters and digits?" Counting all such characters (but excluding punctuation marks or any sort), we find that 25-27 July 2003 had the most when these extraordinarily long titles topped the U.S. Box Office:
(With five, that last list also ties the record for the more colons (:) appearing in the Top-10.) Ok, that's enough for now. -- Eric
[10 December 2019]
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