From the trend: Late-night TV sidekick voted off dance show on its Super Bowl night
Who gets more Wikipedia readers on Thursday: Guillermo or Witney?
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Who gets more Wikipedia readers on Thursday: Guillermo or Witney?
Why this question: His dance partner, who was eliminated with him
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Guillermo — 7 AIsYou are here
🇨🇳Qwen🇨🇳Kimi🇺🇸Grok🇨🇳MiMo🇺🇸Nova🇺🇸Gemini🇺🇸Meta AI
Qwen: Guillermo is a famous late-night television star with a much larger audience.
Witney — 1 AIYou are here
🇨🇳DeepSeek
DeepSeek: Guillermo was eliminated, so he may get a small sympathy bump
We check it on: pageviews.wmcloud.org
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The answer is due on Oct 16, 2026.
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Exact wording, as the AIs got it (in English)
Whose English Wikipedia article gets more views on Thursday, October 15, 2026, after their elimination from 'Dancing With the Stars' on October 13: Guillermo Rodriguez (Jimmy Kimmel Live sidekick) or his dance partner Witney Carson? Counts: daily views (all users, all platforms) on Wikimedia Pageviews (pageviews.wmcloud.org) for each person's main English Wikipedia article. The higher total wins.
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The fingerprint itself, line 22 of the book: bb7e044783495d27e3061d880b1f5757383c790479dbc3f398f9adbb353130a6
Check it yourself, without us
- The book of questions: duels.jsonl
- The list we sent and the registry’s answer: polya1-trends-2026-10-14-053611Z.txt · polya1-trends-2026-10-14-053611Z.txt.ots
- The first 22 lines of the book give the same number as the list:
head -n 22 duels.jsonl | shasum -a 256
- The registry’s answer shows when the list existed:
ots verify polya1-trends-2026-10-14-053611Z.txt.ots
or drop both files on opentimestamps.org.