Like Water off a Duck's Back
An eccentric billionaire, named Clementine, has decided to award all of her wealth to the person or animal or thing that was least affected by the events of 2011. She has named this award the “Duck Prize” after the phrase “like water off a duck's back.” She scattered trillions of tiny robots around the world in order to record everything that happened. You were hired by Clementine to read the reports and mark down for each report anyone or anything who was essentially unaffected. Any time somebody is unaffected by an event, they are given a “duck point”. The person or animal or thing with the most duck points for the year will win the award (yes, Clementine is eccentric enough that she would give away all her money to an inanimate object).

Someone/thing is "affected" if they are somehow different or changed compared with before the event. This could include moving ("The ball rolled down the hill"), changing in form ("The vase broke"), or changing in character ("John became angry"). Here are the ground rules:

1) The question is whether the person or thing was affected by the EVENT, not by another participant in the event. So if "the vase broke", the vase is changed regardless of the fact that we don't know who caused it to break.

2) Give contestants the benefit of the doubt. If “Sally saw John”, that may affect John, but you do not know for sure. Give John a duck point. But Sally was definitely affected (her mind now contains an image of John that it did not contain before) and should not get a duck point.

Similarly, if “John broke the vase”, while it is possible that this resulted in John getting in trouble or hurting his hand, you do not know for sure. As far as you know, John was unaffected, so give him a duck point. The vase, obviously, does not get one.

3) You are to make your decision based only on the event described in the report. The report “the ball broke the window” refers only to the event of the window breaking, which definitely affected the window but probably does not affect the ball. The prior event that caused the ball to be flying through the air will be covered by a different report.

4) If multiple people/things are unaffected (“the cat is on the mat”), give them all duck points.

5) People (and animals or things) can affect themselves. So if John made himself angry, he was affected. If John went for a run, he was affected (he got some exercise and moved locations).

6) Some events are too insignificant to count as affecting something/something. If "John went to the store", John was affected (he moved locations), but the store probably was not. It is a different story if John bought the store.

A final note: Clementine is worried about your impartiality. Perhaps you would help your friends win. So Clementine has  "anonymized" the reports you get from the nanobots. People's names have been changed randomly (so "Mary" in one report may not be the Mary in another), and many of the words for nouns and adjectives have been replaced with made-up words so that you won't have any clues as to who the report is about.

Summary:
1) Read the following reports from the nanobots.
2) Select any people, animals OR THINGs which were not affected by the event.
3) Being "affected" means being different in some way: this could be movement, a change in form, etc.
4) If more than one person, animal or thing was unaffected, select all of them.
5) Decide based only on the evidence, not guesses that someone/something was "probably" affected or a belief that the person/thing was affected in the past or will be in the future.
6) The names of characters have been changed, and names of objects and other words have been replaced with made-up words.
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