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Showdown Recap for 17 May 2016 at BWW Gibson in ABQ
Tonight’s game featured a familiar dirty dozen players on a team that is sorely missing some of its departed (playing elsewhere) members. The efforts of those in attendance tonight made up in some cases for the expertise not available. If the team were to return to full strength, we’d be a threat to annihilate the Borg collective playing across town from us.
Worn-up Round
1. Canadians will celebrate ___ Day next Monday: VICTORIA.
2. A chemistry student should know that the Atomic Number of platinum is: 78.
3. Operation Babylift was a 1975 effort that relocated thousands of war orphans out of: SOUTH VIET NAM.
4. Singer Rita Coolidge has written a new memoir titled: DELTA LADY.
5. Known for their durability, tardigrades are: MICRO-ANIMALS.
6. Nancy, Tina and Francis are names of the three children of: FRANK SINATRA.
7. A traveler wanting to visit Kruger National Park needs to book a passage to: SOUTH AFRICA.
8. Which person is a successful author of books for young adults? RANSOM RIGGS.
9. Who would be most helped by ‘VASI’ and ‘PAPI’ lights? AIRLINE PILOT
10. Of the 10 U.S. states that have two-word names, four have ___ as the first word: NEW.
{Ouch, only eight of ten correct. WU1 was a miss because our resident Canuck is now playing down in Las Lunas, and WU8 was whiffed by one-third of the team due to a miscommunication. Also, BLZBUB hopes that none of you out there forgot that NEW Mexico was one of the four New states. After all, New Mexico is much fresher than Old Mexico.}
Ground-down Round
1. Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson recently resigned as Prime Minister of: ICELAND.
2. Geodesy is a branch of: APPLIED MATHEMATICS.
3. It began in 1846 as a cooperative of five New York daily newspapers: ASSOCIATED PRESS.
4. Abseiling is an activity that involves the use of a: ROPE.
5. Which writer penned the 1993 spy novel ‘The Night Manager’? JOHN LECARRE.
6. The Rafah border crossing is the sole crossing point between ___ and ___. EGYPT – GAZA.
7. The Kindle ___ is the latest version of Amazon’s popular e-reader. OASIS.
8. ‘Pis aller,’ borrowed from French, refers to the: LAST RESORT.
9. In which part of the world was the Bosporan Kingdom located? CRIMEA.
10. Project Aries and Terragraph are two projects being touted by: FACEBOOK.
11. Schistosomiasis is a tropical disease also known as ___ Fever. SNAIL.
12. Zimbro, Kunik, and Manchego are three highly valued: CHEESES.
{Another tough round, these required splits on GD7, 8 and 10. Salvation of points by the third clue was welcomed.}
1. Scatology Round
S1. Mexico City v WHAT IS IT?
What in the world is Naloxone? DRUG. {JAX got this one, but refuses to share how she knows it.}
S2. The Supreme Court v BASEBALL BOOKS
The business practices of this baseball team are detailed in the book ‘Moneyball’: OAKLAND A’S {This was truly a Greek Chorus answer.}
S3. THE CRUSADES v literary characters
Richard I of England and ___ signed the treaty that ended the Third Crusade: SALADIN. {DUFF got this one, with only internal warfare with himself.}
S4. BASEBALL BOOKS v Mexico City
‘Pitch by Pitch’ is a 2015 baseball book from this Hall of Famer: BOB GIBSON. {CHILL narrowed this down to a choice betwixt Gibson and Gaylord Perry.}
S5. Literary characters v THE SUPREME COURT
This Supreme Court Justice wrote a book titled ‘The Court and the World’: STEPHEN BREYER {SCOOTR made the call for a 2-way split with Ginsburg.}
S6. What is it? v THE CRUSADES
Which famous person participated in the Second Crusade during the 12th Century? ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE. {DUFF, all the way, with a rapid pre-call.}
***Several team members are highly desirous of seeing the Altergory questions on Literary Characters and Mexico City.***
{Other than for that horrid double 2-way split for this round, the team did really well here.}
Frightening Round
1. What is the title of the 1981 sequel to ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’? SHOCK TREATMENT.
2. This popular car has been on the road since 1966: TOYOTA COROLLA.
3. President Obama made a noteworthy visit to ___ last month. SAUDI ARABIA.
4. Published in 1985, this Orson Scott Card book became a bestseller in 2013: ENDER’S GAME.
5. A gold harp with silver strings is the national symbol of: IRELAND.
6. Which product is Electrolux famous for making? DISHWASHER.
7. The Kyoto Prize is this country’s highest private award for global achievement: JAPAN.
{If Electrolux is so famous for making dishwashers, why was everybody on the team yelling ‘Vacuum cleaners’ before the five choices appeared? OBTW, the team got the other six.}
Py-Ram-It Round
P1. The Uinta Mountains are the source of two tributaries of this body of water:
GREAT SALT LAKE. {JAX and BLZBUB provided speculations that prompted SCOOTR to call this one correctly.}
P2. Which fictional character lives in a town called Idaville?
ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN. {This one came down to a split with Rex Morgan, because nobody on the team could specify where Rex lived.}
P3. A 2015 scientific study validated this term once considered redundant:
BRONTOSAURUS. {JAX was the first to suggest this answer. Good for us.}
P4. In 1933, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was killed by a bullet that was intended for:
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. {Our history-boy, DUFF pre-called this one.}
P5. The phenomenon known as solmization is a key part of ___ history:
MUSICAL. {OK, we admit it; we were baffled and split 5-ways.}
{That round exactly matched our old bugaboo. Three correct, one 2-way, and one 5-way split told the tale for the team. After the past few months of outperformance on this round, this result was a come-down.}
FINAL TRAGEDY
Topic: BIRDS
The ___ family of birds contains 17 Grossbeaks.
1. Albatross
2. Tern
3. Eagle
4. Cardinal
5. Vulture
The order of the eliminations was 2, 5, 3, and 1, leaving #4, CARDINAL, as the correct answer. Having a field ornithologist on the team certainly helped with this query. JAX was able to pre-call this answer.
The team did fairly well on this game, even with the bobbles on the Pyramid Round holding down the scores. As it turned out only one machine entered the Final Strategy Round with 5 for 5 correct on Pyramid. The vast majority of the team managed to hold on at 4 of 5 correct from Pyramid.
The top six scores were 56644, 48795, 48625, 48544, 48246, and 48175 points. The team average fell just below the 50,000 point threshold at 49,838 points for the night. So although the team finished ahead of several powerhouse teams, we saw our composite score ranked SEVENTH Place for this game.
The surprise #1 team was The LOOP of Streamwood, Il at 54,645, challenged for nirvana by The Tilted Kilt of Scottsdale, AZ at 54240, Stained Glass Pub near Baltimore, MD at 53691 and the Concert Pub of Houston, TX at 53540 points. Congratulations to all the wetware teams who beat their Borg Nemesis rivals.
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Oh my gawd, they killed
Ken Z.
You bastards!
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