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It’s the final game of the season for the round-robin matches in the Sandbag Tournament. Will the little-team-that-could from the small market town of Albuturkey hold off the challenger and advance as a division winner into the single-bracket elimination round? Many other division favorites have fallen by the side of the road as teams formerly thought to be out of contention have caught and passed them. The fans are filling the seats in anticipation of a slugfest.
Worn-up Round
1. “In My Time” is the new memoir by this politico: DICK CHENEY. 2. Yellow heavy, fine-grained wood retains its fragrance for decades: SANDALWOOD. 3. The Black hills, Mt. Rushmore and Custer State Park are in: SOUTH DAKOTA. 4. Elephant Itch and the Speckled Monster were nicknames of this now-eradicated disease: SMALLPOX. 5. Lee Radziwill was the sister of this 20th Century figure: JACQUELINE KENNEDY. 6. Which drug listed is an anticoagulant: WARFARIN. 7. This comedian’s 1960 album won the Grammy for Best Album of the Year: BOB NEWHART. 8. Cuba’s ___ was both a revolutionary and a poet: JOSE MARTI. 9. Lumpia, kabyob, and Kati are very much like China’s: EGGROLLS. 10. Which singer is known for her innovative jazz stylings: CASSANDRA WILSON.
In this round, on Q7 suggestions of Newhart were shouted down and cursed by Lenny Bruce. The on Q10, no one heeded the warnings of Cassandra, who got lost in the shuffle. Coaches sluggers went 8 for 10 to jump into a quick lead.
Ground-down Round
1. “The Curse of Lono” is a book, set in Hawaii, by this author: HUNTER S. THOMPSON. 2. In what country will you find the Ungava Peninsula? CANADA. 3. This King of Italy was assassinated in 1900: UMBERTO I. 4. The robot-like character Tik-Tok lives in this imaginary, literary land: OZ. 5. In which state was the Ku Klux Klan formed in 1865: TENNESSEE. 6. The santur is a/an __ musical instrument containing 72 strings in its classic form: PERSIAN. 7. Brownie Wise, the first woman to appear on the cover of Business Week, is associated with: TUPPERWARE. 8. In antiquity, Hero of ___ invented a force pump, a syringe, and a wind powering machine: ALEXANDRIA. 9. The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual festival in: LONDON. 10. The Alpine, the Spanish and the Nubian are three types of the wild goat called the: IBEX. 11. Dizziness and fainting produced at the sight of great art is called the __ syndrome: STENDAHL. 12. Petit Pois is a dwarf variety of: PEAS.
Yowch. We barely managed to bat .500 on that round as the BUZZIES threw some wicked curveballs at us. There were 5-way whiffs on the first question and also the second. A string of three single followed on Q 3, 4, and 5. Then it was back to waving blindly at change-ups on # 6, 7 and 8. Two quick hits on Q 9 and 10 were followed by the BUZZIES turing a double play on us for Q 11 and 12. We need to get our offense on track to win tonight.
Scatological Round
1. sports fiction v HUMAN ANATOMY
Blood enters the ___ immediately after passing through the heart’s left ventricle: AORTA.
2. vitamins v CRIMINAL GANGS
Which ethnic group started the 18th Street gang, one of America’s most notorious gangs? HISPANICS
3. GEOGRAPHY v Political Currents
Marie Byrd land is located here: ANTARCTICA
4. CRIMINAL GANGS v sports fiction
San Quentin Prison was the birthplace of this violent and criminal group: ARYAN BROTHERHOOD
5. political currents v VITAMINS
Tocopherol is part of a class of chemical compounds that have __ activity: VITAMIN E
6. HUMAN ANATOMY v geography
These nerves supply impulses to the muscles of the forearms and hands: MEDIAN
The Scat round was a flurry of scoring for the Crotches Crewe. We managed to avoid the old hidden ball trick on the gansta queries.
Frightening Round
1. Ronaldinho and Ronaldo are champion soccer stars from: BRAZIL 2. Ed Stelmach resigned from this post earlier this year: PREMIER of ALBERTA. 3. “Decline and Fall” is the title of this British author’s first published novel: EVELYN WAUGH. 4 The U.S. Justice Department filed suit to block its takeover of T-Mobile: AT & T. 5. Anasheeds are Islamic: DEVOTIONAL SONGS. 6. Hunts staged on commercial preserves are called __ hunts: CAPTIVE. 7. A flaneur is someone who enjoys: STROLLING A CITY.
We lead off this inning with a bunt single, but the runner was picked off at first on Q2. This was followed by two singles (Q 3 and 4.) The lead runner was gunned down by Q5, but this was rectified by a double on Qs 6 and 7. The runners scored.
The BUZZIES are looking to even the score by wiping us out on the Py-ram-it Round. We go up to the plate with confidence.
Py-ram-it Round
P1. Which tool is used to metaphorically designate the female branch of a family: DISTAFF
P2. Odd Nerdrum is a controversial Norwegian: PAINTER
P3. The Boron Group of elements includes: ALUMINUM
P4. Born in 1837, he is known for his realistic portrayals of middle class Americans: WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
P5. “Pelasgian” is a term used by the __ to refer to their forebearers: ANCIENT GREEKS
We left the bases loaded with runners stranded for that round. We managed to get a lead-off single. Then the BUZZIES worked a brilliant double play against us on Q 2 and 3. We drew a walk on Q4 using a 5-way bat. Fortunately we scored one run with a solid smack on Q5.
As we expected, the BUZZIES went to their bullpen ace for the Final Tragedy.
Final Tragedy on the Topic: NOBEL LAUREATES
Nikolay Semyonov, the first Soviet Winner of a Nobel Prize for science was a/an:
CHEMIST
Woo Hoooo, a grand slam for us!
The top six individual scores were 45803, 44871, 44619, 43809, 43567, and 43558. This rather tight grouping yielded a team average of 44,354 points, or just about what we’ve been averaging for the last three months. The place ranking, given recent experience could be anywhere in the range from fifth to fiftieth. After sweating out the collection and regurgitation phase of the scoring system, we were excited to see the Crotches Crewe rated FIFTEENTH for the night.
In the highly unofficial Sandbag Tourney, the little-team-that-could finished ahead of the Blue Goose, our head-to-head match for the night. This means we advance as division winners into the playoffs. In the Zone (Tampa) and SRO OT (Houston) finished 1,2, followed closely by Danny K’s, McGillacuddy’s and the Grand Slam. Congrats.
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Oh my gawd, they killed
Ken Z.
You bastards!
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