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Showdown Recap for Coaches on 22 Nov 2011
Lesser among the many things the team at Coaches has to be thankful for this year is the continued non-bankruptcy of BUZZTIME. The majority of the team was able to make it in tonight to play with us, rather than be pulled away by their private lives. Like I always say, “Don’t let your personal life interfere with Trivia.” However, for this week, to save time for my personal life this Thanksgiving, I am going straight to the recap.
Worn-up Round
1. The late Dan Wheldon won the Indianapolis 500 __ times: TWO. 2. Which item listed is a synthetic polyester fabric: DACRON. 3. Tortola is an island of the: BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS. 4. This account of disassociative identity disorder is being attacked as a fraud: SYBIL. 5 Southern Africa’s springhare is a rodent that moves like a: KANGAROO. 6. Boules and pentanque are games very much like: BOCCE. 7. This great photographer was married to the artist Georgia O’Keefe: ALFRED STIEGLITZ. 8. A paso doble is the type of music typically played at this juncture: BULLFIGHTER’S ENTRANCE. 9. Who replaced Prince Philip as Chancellor of Cambridge University: PRINCESS ANNE. 10. Donna Elvira, Donna Anna and Zerlina are the three heroines of Mozart’s: DON GIOVANNI.
Ground-down Round:
1. Ivar Kreuger and Charles Ponzi are among the world’s notorious: CROOKED BUSINESSMEN. 2. This South American plant is used to make a tea high in antioxidants: ROOIBOS. 3. The late Dennis Ritchie invented the __ programming language: C. 4. Chamfer and fillet are terms used in: INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. 5. The All Blacks and the Wallabies are prominent __ teams: RUGBY. 6. It is the longest venomous snake in the Americas: BUSHMASTER. 7. The Continental Op investigates a diamond heist in this Dashiell Hammett novel: THE DAIN CURSE. 8. Which thing listed is a tropical disease affecting the skin, bones and joints: YAWS. 9. Which great of cabaret singing was a regular at the Café Carlyle for 35 years: BOBBY SHORT. 10. The Medills of Chicago have been called “The Royal Family of __”: JOURNALISM. 11. Which book listed is subtitled “A Report on the Banality of Evil”: EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM. 12. The idea of selfish DNA was introduced by this British scientist in 1970’S: RICHARD DAWKINS.
Scatological Round:
1. Business currents v CHILDREN’S WRITERS
Suzane Collins wrote “The __ Games” and the five books of the Underland chronicles: HUNGER.
2. U.S. artists v GEOGRAPHY
The Gulf of __ is the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea: BOTHNIA
3. SCIENCE FICTION v mathematicians
“The Man in the High Castle” and “Radio Free Albemuth” are novels by: PHILIP K. DICK
4. geography v BUSINESS CURRENTS
Insider trader Raj Rajaratnam received __ years in prison for his infractions: 11
5. MATHEMATICIANS v U.S. artists
Daniel Bernoulli was a great mathematician of the era: 18th CENTURY
6. children’s writers v SCIENCE FICTION:
Which author is known as the Master of Alternative History: HARRY TURTLEDOVE
Frightening Round:
1. Chic’s “Le Freak” is this type of song: DISCO. 2. Piri Thomas’ “Down These Mean Streets” is a memoir about growing up in: SPANISH HARLEM. 3. “--: Arkham City” is a highly touted video game: BATMAN. 4. Which Prominent woman just had a baby girl named Giulia: CARLA BRUNI-SARKOZY. 5 Which seal gives birth on Arctic ice flows: HARP. 6. Rouy, Soumaintrain and Mamirolle are valued washed-rind: CHEESES. 7. This dance was most popular in the U.S. from the 1830’s to the 1890’s: VIRGINIA REEL.
Py-ram-it Round:
P1. Satyagraha is a philosophy associated with this celebrated man: MAHATMA GANDHI
P2. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt were __ painters: PRERAPHAELITE
P3. Julian Barnes’ “The Sense of an Ending” won this prestigious __ prize in 2011: MAN BOOKER
P4. Cladistics is a system of __ taxonomy: BIOLOGICAL
P5. Jacques Pepin is a name shared by a distinguished chef and an esteemed: EPIDEMIOLOGIST
FINAL TRAGEDY, on the Topic of EUROPEAN HISTORY
Who were the opponents of the Jacobins during the French Revolution?
GIRONDISTS
The little-team-that-could had some pretty good scores tonight. The top six were 53985, 52875, 52837, 52497, 49104, and 48274. Our unusually high team score (for the last 3 months) was 51,595 points. This is looking promising, but our final rank probably depends more on the luck of the Borgs versus the skill of the top teams. Was this game easy to Borg? We don’t know.
The rankings page eventually ground its way back to our screens and we saw the Crotches Crewe ranked Number 5 for the night. WooHoo! Congrats to Jilly’s, Danny K’s, the Fellowship, and the Stadium Café for besting us tonight. Raspberries for the Borg, who seem not to have cracked the Top Page.
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Oh my gawd, they killed
Ken Z.
You bastards!
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