Showdown Recap for 6 Feb 2018 at BWW in ABQ
The team assembled at its temporary home in the Northeast Heights, the BWW on Montgomery Blvd. for this week’s brain drain. We were greeted by a former regular, Bart, who decided to sit in with us for this game. That upped our body count to 13 players, who would command 15 boxes for the fray.
Worn-up Round
1. Sheboygan is a city found on the western shore of this body of water: LAKE MICHIGAN. 2. ‘The Splendid Splinter’ is a nickname given to a famous: BASEBALL PLAYER. 3. A sloven person is one who is most likely a: CARELESS DRESSER. 4. What billionaire adventurer died in a plane crash in 2007? STEVE FOSSETT 5. Collagen is the most abundant ___ in mammals: PROTEIN. 6. Which famous painting has a house and a barn in the background? AMERICAN GOTHIC. 7. To calculate the volume of a sphere it’s necessary to know the: CUBE OF THE RADIUS. 8. Which man served as the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1630 to 1634? JOHN WINTHROP. 9. Which people are indigenous to the Mariana Islands? CHAMORRO. 10. ‘Franny and Zooey’ is a book by this celebrated author: J.D. SALINGER.
{The team got 9 of the 10 in this round correct. The miscue came upon navigating to the Marianas and being ambushed by the Chamorro, when we expecting to be greeted by the Guanaco.}
Ground-down Round
1. Madame White Snake is a ___ legend that has spawned countless stage adaptations. CHINESE. {Egads! Someone had the temerity to call “Cajun,” and their handle wasn’t BLZBUB.} 2. What color is the flower of the heliotrope? PURPLE-PINK. {No, not yellow.} 3. Lincoln Ellsworth made his name in the Twentieth Century as a: POLAR EXPLORER. {Brick’s best guess was sufficient.} 4. This large town in Uganda lies about 25 miles from the country’s capital of Kampala: ENTEBBE. {Greek chorus} 5. Bhutanese Red and Red Cargo are less familiar varieties of: RICE. {HEBEGB} 6. What geological epoch are we living in right now? HOLOCENE. {CROEM} 7. Which of these dogs is believed to have been sacred to the Aztecs? CHIHUAHUA. {CROEM} 8. By definition, something that is consistent and logically connected is: COHERENT. {BRICK} 9. Cuban, spoon, Annabel, wedge, and kitten are types of this footwear: HIGH HEELS. {MEERA} 10. Humbaba was a god in Ancient ___ religion. MESOPOTAMIAN. {DUFF & CSICOP} 11. ‘He was my father’ is the final line of this 2002 movie starring Tom Hanks: ROAD TO PERDITION. {BLZBUB!} 12. What sort of fancy new gadget is the FLIR One Pro? CAMERA. {BLZBUB!}
{The team profited by listening to the lesser-heard mates on this round. But no one could save them on the first and second question, where the Buzzhead-provided third clue bailed them out. From the third question on to the twelfth the team was correct.}
Scatology Round
S1. Music class v WEAPONS OF LONG AGO The pilum was a type of ___ used by the armies of Ancient Rome. JAVELIN. {DUFF}
S2. Vocabulary v SCIENCE The Holmes and Rahe Scale is a ___ scale. STRESS. {GOOD guess by BRICK}
S3. Plays v CELEBRITY CHEFS Jeremiah Tower and Alice Waters are credited with pioneering this type of food: CALIFORNIA CUISINE. {BLZBUB ID’d Waters as a CA Bay-area restauranteur. That was sufficient for the points.}
S4. SCIENCE v music class Which of these belongs to the genus Vaccinium? BLUEBERRY. {JAX, with a pre-call}
S5. Celebrity chefs v VOCABULARY An awkward or clumsy person would best be described as: UNCOUTH. {BRICK}
S6. WEAPONS OF LONG AGO v plays What kind of weapon is a Bilbo? SWORD. {WALACE, with a pre-call}
{The team got answers for all six of the questions from all around the table for this round. This was a nice collaborative effort.}
Frightening Round
1. How is the number 23 written in the binary system? 10111. {CROEM & BLZBUB} 2. This singer’s fan club is known as ‘no shoes nation’: KENNY CHESNEY. {HEBEGB} 3. It is one of 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet: RESH. {JAX!} 4. This Renaissance diplomat and political scientist was also a playwright: NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI. {DUFF} 5. About how many movie tickets were sold in the U.S. in 2017? 1.24 BILLION. {BRICK came the closest with his estimate of 1 Billion, so we went with it.} 6. The House of ___ is the lower branch of the Parliament of the Isle of Man. KEYS. {DUFF and HEBEGB’s calls for ‘Knaves’ locked us out of the points for this “KEY’ answer.} 7. In Greek myth, who is credited with coming up with the idea of the Trojan Horse? ODYSSEUS. {DUFF redeems himself.}
Py-Ram-It Round* *Due to operator error, there is no video of this round. Questions paraphrased.
1. Can’t remember the question, but relates to? Van der Lubbe was alleged to be part of the conspiracy to:??? BURNING OF THE REICHSTAG
P2. Which of the following terms might you see in music theory? SUBMEDIANT.
P3. This element, a member of the platinum group, was first discovered in 1844? RUTHENIUM.
P4. (names of 4 women0 who were sisters of which lit. character? ELIZABETH BENNETT
P5. Which medical term is derived from the Greek term for stupor? CAROTID
{The team did horribly on this round getting only two fully correct. One 2-way split, one 5-way split, and one completely wrong. P1 was the 2-way, P3 was the whiff, and P5 was the 5-way. We were fortunate to have some useful knowledge on both P2 and P4.}
FINAL TRAGEDY Topic: FAMOUS STRUCTURES
Antoine Becquerel is one of 72 names engraved and painted in gold on the sides of the:
1. Gateway Arch 2. Eiffel Tower 3. Arc de Triomphe 4. Brandenburg Gate 5. Washington Monument
The order of the eliminations was 4, 3, 5, and 1, leaving #2, EIFFEL TOWER as the correct answer. MEERA made an early call for this answer as she had some personal knowledge of it from a visit to Paris.
The top individual scores for the night were 46702, 44826, 44779, 44467, 44446, and 42786.
The team’s average score for this game was 44,667 points.
The Ragged Rascals’ systemwide ranking was FIFTH Place.
The top score went to a Borg unit in Ohio. The real winner of tonight’s game was DANNY K’S of Orange, CA with 49,235 points. The Stained Glass Pub of Elkridge, MD was second with 48,478 points. T’s Rockin Roadhouse of Columbus, MI was third at 45251. {Does anybody out there know of these people? Are they BadBartians or affiliates of one of our sites?}
Rounding out the non-Borg top ten were the Old Barn of Portland, OR, Scooters of Las Vegas, NV, Big Guys of Winnipeg, MB, BWW New Orleans, Tailgate of Minneapolis, MM, and Fab Ferns of St, Paul, MN.
_________________ }}}--( (x) (x) )---> Oh my gawd, they killed Ken Z. You bastards!
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