New Trivia Game (Name TBD)

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:26 am

howard wrote:Group A
Three’s Company
Sanford and Son
All in the Family
Veep
Too Close for Comfort

Group B
Good Times
Married…With Children
Maude
Golden Girls
Who’s the Boss?

If the distinction of the two groups is too obtuse, I can name a sixth member of each group which would immediately give away the answer. In other words, I've omitted the most obvious member of teach of the two groups. I hope that makes it tougher.

Group A shows were adapted from British sitcoms?

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:51 am

Bingo! The missing show in list A is The Office.

Now, what about group B? (Don't overthink it)

I'll add two more:

Group B
Good Times
Married…With Children
Maude
Golden Girls
Who’s the Boss?
That 70s Show
Friends

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:54 am

Group B all had spinoffs.

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 6:25 am

rass wrote:Group B all had spinoffs.

please, more specific

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 6:31 am

howard wrote:
rass wrote:Group B all had spinoffs.
please, more specific

Yeah, All in the Family had a spinoff so it can't be as simple as my initial answer. I'm not sure.

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 6:41 am

We're gonna flip over all the cards and award Mr. Mappy the point.

Group A shows were all adaptations of Brit shows for American tv.

Group B shows were all original American shows that were adapted into Brit tv programmes. Mostly unsuccessfully. The creators of Coupling will protest they were not copying Friends, but give me a friggin' break.

Friends having the distinction of inspiring Coupling, which was then remade into an American version of Coupling. The television version of the song I Can't Stand The Rain, Ann Peebles trying to sound like Tina Turner, then the song being covered by Tina Turner (both of them really trying to sound like Patti LaBelle).

I have really scraped bottom, trying to delay going to work today. I surrender.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 8:27 am

GROUP A:

Rafael Furcal
John Valentin
Troy Tulowitzki
Jimmy Cooney
Ernie Padgett
Glenn Wright

GROUP B:

Starlin Castro
Ozzie Smith
Omar Vizquel
Leo Durocher
Red Kress
Marty Marion

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:23 pm

Here is an easy one

Group A
Cimarron
Dances With Wolves
Unforgiven

Group B
In Old Arizona
How the West Was Won
High Noon
Giant
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Brokeback Mountain

Group C
Blazing Saddles

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:25 pm

Is it...

Group A: Won Best Picture
Group B: Nominated, did not win
Group C: Not nominated

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:37 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote:Is it...

Group A: Won Best Picture
Group B: Nominated, did not win
Group C: Not nominated

Well, to be technical, Group C is the greatest western film ever made. "Up yours, nigger!"

But yes, you nailed it. Additionally, all films in group B won at least one oscar in other major categories (Best Actor, Director, Screenplay). The full list of the western films that garnered a best picture nomination and did not win:

In Old Arizona
Viva Villa
San Francisco
Stagecoach
The Ox-Bow Incident
High Noon
Shane
Giant
The Alamo
How The West Was Won
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Brokeback Mountain
True Grit (Coen Bros remake)

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:44 pm

Open Range was a very underrated western. Carry on.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 8:55 pm

howard wrote:Well, to be technical, Group C is the greatest western film ever made.

Harrumph, harrumph!!

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:13 pm

I suck at this game

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 7:04 am

Gunpowder wrote:GROUP A:

Rafael Furcal
John Valentin
Troy Tulowitzki
Jimmy Cooney
Ernie Padgett
Glenn Wright

GROUP B:

Starlin Castro
Ozzie Smith
Omar Vizquel
Leo Durocher
Red Kress
Marty Marion

PLAY YOU FUCKING QUEERS

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 7:06 am

Group A--homosexuals?

Hey, I'm playing queers.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 7:07 am

No, as Leo Durocher was probably a repressed homosexual in the J Edgar Hoover mold.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:20 am

I know Group A - Is Group B more than "They didn't do (that)"?

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:27 am

Ryan wrote:I know Group A - Is Group B more than "They didn't do (that)"?

No, Group B just exists so you can't say Group A is shortstops.

I didn't want to look up the batter that hit into each one.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:34 am

Ah..so somethign about triple plays...unassisted turning one vs. hitting into an unassited one?

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:37 am

AB_skin_test wrote:Ah..so somethign about triple plays...unassisted turning one vs. hitting into an unassited one?

Shortstops in A turned an unassisted triple play. SS in B did not AND they hate Jews.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 9:19 am

Gunpowder wrote:

PLAY YOU FUCKING QUEERS

I'd love to. Use more players I've heard of, and I'll join in.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 10:02 am

GROUP A
Shaquille O'Neal
Dion Phaneuf
Steve Francis
Kevin Stevens
Barry Sanders
Brett Lawrie

GROUP B
Patrick Chung
Adam Lind
Rick Nash
Steve Nash
DeMar DeRozan
Ray Bourque

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 12:15 pm

Group A is the first 6 people that popped in your head and Group B is the second 6 people that popped in your head.

Rams Fanny · Post by **Rams Fanny** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 12:30 pm

Ryan wrote:GROUP A
Shaquille O'Neal
Dion Phaneuf
Steve Francis
Kevin Stevens
Barry Sanders
Brett Lawrie

GROUP B
Patrick Chung
Adam Lind
Rick Nash
Steve Nash
DeMar DeRozan
Ray Bourque

Group A have all been on video games covers
Group B play(ed) for teams outside their country of birth

Know those two things aren't related but that's all I got.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 12:44 pm

Rams Fanny wrote:Group A have all been on video games covers
Group B play(ed) for teams outside their country of birth

Know those two things aren't related but that's all I got.

Pretty much half correct

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 4:48 am

Jerloma wrote:Group A is the first 6 people that popped in your head and Group B is the second 6 people that popped in your head.

Brilliant! I won't laugh harder today.

Is the answer to the Michael Sam question that he actually graduated from college?

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:02 am

Nobody finished mine yet.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:20 am

Group A:

I
Have

Group B:

No
Idea

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:29 am

Ryan wrote:GROUP A
Shaquille O'Neal
Dion Phaneuf
Steve Francis
Kevin Stevens
Barry Sanders
Brett Lawrie

GROUP B
Patrick Chung
Adam Lind
Rick Nash
Steve Nash
DeMar DeRozan
Ray Bourque

A - what he said.

B - on cover of SI's Canadian edition

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:40 am

AB_skin_test wrote:Ok...one from me:

A
Alabama
Idaho
Indiana
Florida
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Oregon
Utah

B
Arizona
California
Georgia
Kentucky
Maine
Ohio
Oklahoma
Rhode Island

No one?

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:43 am

AB, is yours one where each group has it's own distinctive property, or does is group B just a set of things that aren't group A?

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:46 am

rass wrote:AB, is yours one where each group has it's own distinctive property, or does is group B just a set of things that aren't group A?

Hmmm. I guess they are not Group A, but only because I tried to keep the list the same number of entries. Technically I could have listed every other state in Group B.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:17 am

GROUP A

Mary Tyler Moore
Bob Newhart
Tony Danza
Andy Griffith
Lucille Ball
Woody Harrelson
Marion Ross
Ray Romano

GROUP B

Dick Van Dyke
Bill Cosby
Carroll O'Connor
Ron Howard
Ted Danson
Candice Bergen
Kelsey Grammer
Tina Fey

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:14 am

Group A: Never won an Emmy
Group B: Won an Emmy

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:21 am

The Sybian wrote:Group A: Never won an Emmy
Group B: Won an Emmy

Not sure whether that's true, but not what I was looking for.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:22 am

I'm pretty sure Lucille Ball has won many Emmys.

Post by **Shirley** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:25 am

Johnny Carwash wrote:GROUP A
Mary Tyler Moore
Bob Newhart
Tony Danza
Andy Griffith
Lucille Ball
Woody Harrelson
Marion Ross
Ray Romano
GROUP B
Dick Van Dyke
Bill Cosby
Carroll O'Connor
Ron Howard
Ted Danson
Candice Bergen
Kelsey Grammer
Tina Fey

Group A all played characters with their same first name. Not sure about B.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:32 am

Yup that's it. Group B didn't play characters with their first names.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:36 am

Shirley wrote:Group A all played characters with their same first name. Not sure about B.

I was working on basing it on the show title, and that fell apart because of DVD and Cosby. I guess Tina Fey completely throws off my show named after character thinking, too.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:38 am

Shirley wrote:Group A all played characters with their same first name. Not sure about B.

This is correct.