| beauty contest | 9.41 | This is a beauty contest. | ||
| popularity contest | 6.32 | It will be a popularity contest. | ||
| leadership contest | 4.48 | He won the leadership contest. | ||
| election contest | 2.70 | And few election contests succeed, he said. | ||
| dunk contest | 2.50 | Just a dunk contest. | ||
| essay contest | 1.51 | The essay contest is open to all teenagers. | ||
| proxy contest | 1.51 | Then again, the Hewlett-Packard proxy contest has been filled with surprises. | ||
| look-alike contest | 1.25 | There was fiddle music and a Crockett look-alike contest. | ||
| sport contest | 1.18 | At least a sports contest is unscripted. | ||
| talent contest | 1.18 | Children are competing in a talent contest. | ||
| trivium contest | 1.18 | In attendance were winners of a Marilyn Monroe trivia contest. | ||
| art contest | 1.05 | They have won other art contests together. | ||
| slam-dunk contest | 0.99 | He won the slam-dunk contest Monday night. | ||
| personality contest | 0.92 | Personality contests get in the way of the real thing. | ||
| song contest | 0.92 | Some see song contest as Cold War victory. | ||
| design contest | 0.86 | The design contest was not just a glorified science project. | ||
| recipe contest | 0.86 | The chefs are competing in recipe contests. | ||
| year contest | 0.86 | The company changed the contest this year. | ||
| costume contest | 0.79 | Back in the arena, a costume contest was under way. | ||
| playoff contest | 0.79 | He was scoreless in two playoff contests. |