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Showdown Recap for 7 Aug 2018 at BWW Montgomery in ABQ
BLZBUB is looking for a volunteer to take over the duties of writing and posting the Showdown Recaps. He has been posting to three sites for the last few years. These include ScaRatings, BadBart on Yahoo Groups, and BadBart on Facebook. And while this workload is not onerous, BLZBUB feels that seven years at the helm of the Chroniclers of Showdown is enough. The thought of another deadline has become a bile-inducing experience.
BLZBUB would like to thank his many predecessors for showing the way to a successful recap. Kudos to LEWSER, BLUMAX, GIRLIE, TSMACK, SEKA, LILJOL, GRIFF, and many others for undertaking the role of Chroniclers of Showdown before BLZBUB’s seven+ year run.
Anyone of the hundreds of followers on the Showdown blogs could do this job at least as well. In addition, you’d gain Trivia Immortality, or maybe just the undying enmity of some guys in New York. Either way, it could be a defining moment in your life, like it has been for Old Scratch.
BLZBUB will do the recap for 14 Aug 2018, but after that He is going on an extended vacation. Volunteers have, thus, TWO weeks to step forward.
Worn-out Round
1. The District of Colombia is bordered on the south by the ___ River. POTOMAC.
2. A kettlebell is designed to be used in: BODILY EXERCISE.
3. Which animal would you most likely find sticking to the side of a boat? QUAGGA MUSSEL.
4. Swords were once made in the Near East of this famous material: DAMASCUS STEEL.
5. A famous boxing match featuring ___ took place on July 4, 1910. JACK JOHNSON.
6. Boba, an increasingly popular tea-based drink, comes to us from: TAIWAN.
7. Which word would most likely mean ‘sweet-smelling’? REDOLENT.
8. He served over 21 years as Prime Minister of Canada: MACKENZIE KING.
9. Which professional would be most likely interested in a Kilanova? ASTRONOMER.
10. The Pink Palace was a mansion designed and owned by this celebrity who died in 1967: JAYNE MANSFIELD.
Ground-down Round
1. Tellus Mater was an ancient Roman goddess of the: EARTH.
2. The Moomba is an annual tradition in this city: MELBOURNE.
3. Piccolo, Vegeta, and Trunks are characters in the ___ series. DRAGON BALL.
4. Malus Pumila is the scientific name for the ___ tree. APPLE.
5. On a visit to France, what should one do with a quenelle? EAT IT.
6. Duff McKagan is the bass guitarist for this famous band formed in 1985: GUNS N’ ROSES.
7. Several species of the genus Lutjanus are marketed as: RED SNAPPER.
8. Who would likely suffer from Caisson Disease? SUBA DIVER.
9. Which restaurant chain was founded in London in 1971? HARD ROCK CAFÉ.
10. The Czech Republic’s short official name is: CZECHIA.
11. Which person played a role in the Watergate Scandal of the 1970’s? ROSE MARY WOODS.
12. Lord Peter Wimsey is a sleuth created by this writer: DOROTHY SAYERS.
The team finished the first two rounds with an average of 12500 points out of a possible 17000.
Scatology Round
S1. WORLD CAPITALS v big trees
This nation’s two capitals are Sucre and La Paz: BOLIVIA.
S2. Human anatomy v INVENTIONS
In the Western World, eyeglasses were invented in the late ___ Century. 13TH.
S3. Literary characters v FUN WITH FLAGS
The flag of South Korea has a large circle made of these two colors: RED AND BLUE.
S4. Inventions v WORLD CAPITALS
What city serves as the capital of Kenya? NAIROBI.
S5. FUN WITH FLAGS v human anatomy
This country’s flag consists of four white stars on a blue field: MICRONESIA.
S6. Big trees v LITERARY CHARACTERS
Julia Wolf, a secretary of Clyde Wynant, is murdered in this Dashiell Hammett tale: THE THIN MAN.
The team picked uo an additional 5200 points by average on this round.
Frightening Round
1. The Food Network’s ‘Chopped’ just added this celebrated food maven to its judges: MARTHA STEWART.
2. A weak and ineffective person would best be described as: FECKLESS.
3. She was a legendary pin-up girl of the 1950’s: BETTIE PAGE.
4. What is now called Universal Time was once called ___ Mean Time. GREENWICH.
5. Shoo-fly Pie, Apple Pandowdy, and Funnel Cake are gifts to U.S. cuisine from the: PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH.
6. This filmmaker based movies on ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Othello’: ORSON WELLES.
7. Razz is a form of this card game: STUD POKER.
The team picked up an average of 7500 points on this round.
Py-Ram-It Round
P1. Norman Mailer’s ‘Armies of the Night’ deals with the 1967:
Choices: March on the Pentagon; Democratic Convention; Kennedy Assassination; Zodiac killings; Bay of Pigs Fiasco
A: MARCH ON THE PENTAGON.
P2. Fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing is the process for creating:
Choices: pearls, Lead, Tin, Vitreous Enamel, Pewter
A: VITREOUS ENAMEL
P3. Isoroku Yamamoto was the Japanese naval leader involved in both Pearl Harbor and: MIDWAY.
Choices: Midway, Iwo Jima, Dunkirk, Cape Spada, The Gulf of Tonkin
A: MIDWAY.
P4. At 464 square miles in area, the Tiburon Island is the largest island in:
Choices: Indonesia, Mexico, Chile, The Gambia, Norway
A: MEXICO.
P5. Vincent Van Gogh’s famous ‘Starry Night’ painting can be seen at a museum in:
Choices: Beijing, San Francisco, Edmonton, New York, Paris
A: NEW YORK.
The team got all five of these correct.
FINAL TRAGEDY
Topic: LIBRARIES
The Biblioteca Marciana, one of the oldest European libraries, is located in this city:
1. London
2. Venice
3. Madrid
4. Lisbon
5. Nice
The order of the eliminations was 5, 4, 1, and 3, leaving #2, VENICE, as the correct answer. The team went down hard by choosing Madrid as their answer.
The top individual scores for the night were in The Abyss.
The team’s average score for this game was DISMAL.
The Ragged Rascals’ systemwide ranking was 99 Place overall and irrelevant in the wetware-only competition.
Thanks again to my predecessors LEWSER, BLUMAX, GIRLIE, TSMACK, GRIFF, LILJOL, SEKA, and many other contributors, for making this a true community and preparing the way for my (remarkable) run of seven + years.
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Oh my gawd, they killed
Ken Z.
You bastards!
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