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Showdown Recap for 18 Oct 2016 at BWW Gibson in ABQ
The team would play tonight with 10 heroic trivia mavens. The squad would be lacking our Big Business expert, our Chef, and our Gameboy Geek. Their general knowledge expertise would probably valuable, but we’ll have to forge onwards without them. Only time and the vagaries of the Buzzheads would determine whether or not their absence would prove disastrous. Would it affect the…
Worn-up Round
1. Pinnipeds are commonly known as: SEALS.
2. The Anasazi was an ancient civilization located in this region: AMERICAN SOUTHWEST.
3. Warren Harding was President of the United States during the: ROARING TWENTIES. {We could not conclusively rule out ‘Ball and Chain.’}
4. Which beer brand’s commercials feature the most interesting man in the world: DOS EQUIS.
5. Veteran blues songwriter William Bell wrote this famous blues song: BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN.
6. Which computer program is an intelligent personal assistant? SIRI.
7. Which U.S. state contains the most National Parks? ALASKA. {There was controversy on the team here, with many pumping for CALIFORNIA. What say you, out there in trivia land?}
8. The Rambouillet is a breed of sheep that originated in: FRANCE.
9. When a human baby is born bottom first instead of head first, it is a ___ birth. BREECH.
10. Who wrote ‘The Alchemist,’ a play first performed in 1610? BEN JOHNSON.
The team had a very good first round, getting eight of ten correct and 2-way splits on the other two.
Ground-down Round
1. Melilla is a ___ autonomous city located on the North coast of Africa. SPANISH.
2. Luminism was an ___ art movement that began in the 1850’s: AMERICAN.
3. Charles Dow and Edward Jones co-founded this publication in 1889: WALL STREET JOURNAL.
4. ‘Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet Prince,’ comes from this Shakespearian play: HAMLET.
5. Blue Point, Pemaquid, and Coromandel are prominent types of this seafood: OYSTERS.
6. The Laurentian Uplands are a part of which U.S. state? MINNESOTA.
7. A ___ person is one who is easily afraid: TIMOROUS.
8. Scotland’s William Ramsey is credited with discovering the: NOBLE GASES.
9. If you speak Geordie, you probably live in: NORTH EAST ENGLAND.
10. Who is the most famous member of the Shakya Clan? PRINCE SIDDHARTHA.
11. Which of these is a musical direction? PIZZICATO.
12. Although the name is German, the Spritz cocktail is associated with: NORTHERN ITALY.
This round was fabulous, owning to the application of inspired guesses or notable deductions. It was only marred by a 2-way on GD6 and a miss on GD12. A full 10 of 12 were answered correctly.
Scatology Round {Questions paraphrased…apologies to all.}
S1. ROMAN EMPERORS v tool box
Hadrian was the first Roman Emperor to: WEAR A FULL BEARD.
S2. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE v G-d-p-f-v-Animal Breeds
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of ___ in 1769: CORSICA.
S3. SCIENTISTS v The Road to Morocco
William Buckland, Gideon Mantell, and Richard Owen pioneered the scientific study of:
DINOSAURS.
S4. Gawd-damned-pink-fuzzy-venomous Animule Breeds v ROMAN EMPERORS
This Roman Emperor had his wife Pappaea beaten to death in 65 AD: NERO.
S5. Road/ Morocco v NAPOLEON
In 1803 Napoleon's Act of Mediation established a ___ Confederation: SWISS.
S6. Tool box v SCIENTISTS
In 1905, Philip Lenard was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work on: CATHODE RAYS
The team got all six of these, even though there were some delayed calls.
Frightening Round
1. – 7. No video recording made.
The team missed F2, but went on to get the rest of these correct.
Py-Ram-It Round
P1. Of the Seven Wonder of the Ancient World, three were destroyed by:
EARTHQUAKES. {For a few seconds, the team thought it might be fire, but DUFF and the team was able to name at least two that fell to earthquake. We all rattled the boards with the quaking answer.}
P2. It is commonly found in natural compounds such as galena, cinnabar, and pyrite:
SULFUR. {SCOOTR got this using his internal chemical reactions.}
P3. This literary prisoner is given the number 24601:
JEAN VALJEAN. {SCOOTR was first with the number of the answer.}
P4. At 693 miles long, the Liard River is the largest tributary of the ___ River.
MACKENZIE. {We eliminated the Liffey and the Ohio, and split between the Orange, Mackenzie and Murray.}
P5. ‘Songs and Dances of Death’ is a musical work by this Russian composer born in 1839: MODEST MUSSORGSKY. {We eliminated Godunov, Liszt, and Gorky, and played a safety split with MUSSORGSKY and Borodin. Had we known Borodin was born in 1833, this split would have been more emphatic.}
This round was better than average for us, but we regret the need for splits.
FINAL TRAGEDY
Topic: THE SOLAR SYSTEM
It (Sic, Buzzie, sic) [In] what month is the Earth farthest from the Sun?
1. September
2. December
3. February
4. July
5. April
The order of the eliminations was 2, 5, 3, and 1, leaving #4, JULY, as the correct answer. There was confusion on the team about this answer, and nobody took the lead to definitively call a number. Some good scores got crushed by this miscue.
The top individual scores for the night were 53956, 53693, 51347, 50181, 47925, and 47079.
The team average score was 50,530 points.
The team’s ranking was NINTH Place.
Kudos go to tonight’s winner, The Fellowship, playing at the BWW in Kent, OH with their score of 56,404. They were closely followed by Big Guys, Winnipeg, MB @ 55,405 and Mad River, New York, NY @ 55,286.
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Oh my gawd, they killed
Ken Z.
You bastards!
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