NFL Swampcrash 2014 WEEK TEN

[DC47]

Tune in next week for the Hardest Question in Swampcrash History

Name one of the ten hardest questions in Swampcrash History as determined by percentage of incorrect answers.

[Yard of Junk]

Different Bruce Smith. Rest assured the questioner got his own answer right

The beauty of having one's own swampcrash question.....

[brian]

I'm curious - did people actually know those movie answers or were they educated guesses?

I knew Crash won the Oscar and I can't name the director, so that was the basis for my guess. Most of the other Oscar winners I thought of, I know who directed them.

I used the exact same "logic" for Shakespeare In Love. Didn't know the director and was pretty sure Spielberg won it that year for Saving Private Ryan

[The Sybian]

You guys are fucking killing me. Come up with your own god damn answers!

I'm two in front of you on the list for the Boston U answer. I thought that would be a good one, but no. So get off my lawn.

Really? I figured it was an obvious choice in a question that most people wouldn't have many answers they were confident in. I'm just glad my Law School roommate talked me into going to so many BU and BC games. I even have a Northeastern jersey I found on a clearance rack at a hockey warehouse store.

And what is with all the Ford Taurus lovers? Pissed I didn't come up with Checy Celebrity. The Celebrity Eurosport was the first car I ever drove.

[Giff]

Damn, Diamond and I had huge swings between questions 8 and 9. I'm proud.

[DC47]

Irvin drafted in 88. Not your best day, DC!

Any reasonable person would allow for a small margin of error on a question like this. 2 years is just .09% of the time since the birth of Christ. In almost every domain of life if you miss by just .09% you are a tremendous success, not unfairly judged to be "wrong."

So too with my modest request to slightly expand the completely arbitrary "Florida" boundary to include Georgia Tech. Using the conventional modern boundary is overly strict, and serves to reinforce the legitimacy of the genocidal European regime that destroyed the Native American culture in this area. The Cherokee and Seminole people surely did not recognize the nominal border between Florida and Georgia.

So it was actually a great day for me. Just not a great day for the Swampcrash commissioner who made these errors. But I'm moving on. Moving in another direction. We're all human; perhaps he'll get it together for next week.

[Shirley]

Yeah, that went about as expected. Stupid sports questions!

[Gunpowder]

You guys are fucking killing me. Come up with your own god damn answers!

I'm two in front of you on the list for the Boston U answer. I thought that would be a good one, but no. So get off my lawn.

Really? I figured it was an obvious choice in a question that most people wouldn't have many answers they were confident in. I'm just glad my Law School roommate talked me into going to so many BU and BC games. I even have a Northeastern jersey I found on a clearance rack at a hockey warehouse store.

And what is with all the Ford Taurus lovers? Pissed I didn't come up with Checy Celebrity. The Celebrity Eurosport was the first car I ever drove.

Boston College the only guess I had in my head that I was somewhat confident in giving. I too knew it was going to be the top scorer, but that's better than guessing wrong.

[DC47]

You guys are fucking killing me. Come up with your own god damn answers!

I'm two in front of you on the list for the Boston U answer. I thought that would be a good one, but no. So get off my lawn.

Really? I figured it was an obvious choice in a question that most people wouldn't have many answers they were confident in. I'm just glad my Law School roommate talked me into going to so many BU and BC games. I even have a Northeastern jersey I found on a clearance rack at a hockey warehouse store

Who can even remember the difference between BU and BC? Most of us just know that they're in Boston and aren't in the Ivy League.

That was me until last July. I was casting artificial flies into a cold, raging Rocky Mountains river in order to snag them, and then risk my life trying to retrieve them. The guy upstream stopped by to see if I was suffering from sunstroke or was perhaps just delusional. While I was unsnarling my line, we had a long talk about how we had both ended up there. He had graduated from BU a few years before and was on his way to Alaska for a job as a fishing guide. Go Terriers!

[Shirley]

Boston College the only guess I had in my head that I was somewhat confident in giving. I too knew it was going to be the top scorer, but that's better than guessing wrong.

Ditto.

Same thing with my Peter Warrick answer. I could think of a few more possibilities (although seeing the answers really jogged my memory - that list would have been more useful on Tuesday!), but I just wasn't sure who was drafted in the first round.

[Diamond]

Damn, Diamond and I had huge swings between questions 8 and 9. I'm proud.

I was feeling great after hitting Providence for one. Leaned right into that fencing haymaker. Great game. I think we had four or five same answers.

[Bensell]

Two wins in a row! Maybe the season can be saved

Good game junkyard

[Giff]

Damn, Diamond and I had huge swings between questions 8 and 9. I'm proud.

I was feeling great after hitting Providence for one. Leaned right into that fencing haymaker. Great game. I think we had four or five same answers.

Is it ironic that I picked fencing because of Neil Diamond?

[degenerasian]

i switched from fencing to wrestling!!

I was afraid fencing was introduced around the 1920 olympics.

[travzilla]

Bye week, decided why not go with some high-risk guesses. Figured i'd hit at least 1 or 2 of them. Nope.
3 top answers, and 7 wrong, including the capital of Croatia which my wife, who was there for a summer after high school, assured me was Dubrovnik.

Also, for the record there is BBQ and Sweet and Sour for Mcnuggets here and that is it.

[Jerloma]

Damn, Diamond and I had huge swings between questions 8 and 9. I'm proud.

I was feeling great after hitting Providence for one. Leaned right into that fencing haymaker. Great game. I think we had four or five same answers.

Is it ironic that I picked fencing because of Neil Diamond?

Why Neil Diamond?

[Shirley]

Somehow I missed that Olympics reveal. Fuck, I waffled between weightlifting and wrestling. I chose poorly (as always).

[TT2.0]

protest...it doesn't matter to my game, but it might screw up others.

jabar gaffney was not a first round draft pick.

[TT2.0]

also, hell of a game dc. i think that was my best performance this year and you faded it by a wide margin. well played sir.

[DC47]

TT, my score was much better than my actual knowledge. If my youngest had not recently dragged me to McDonalds and eaten something dreadful with this obnoxious dipping sauce stuff, I would not have had "ranch" to guess. The commissioner then generously allowed this to be the equivalent of a true answer -- "creamy ranch." That was worth 14 points to me. Without this fluke of fortune, I was eating your dust. Presumably with creamy ranch dipping sauce.

I suppose this generosity makes up for the bureaucratic outrages of not allowing Georgia Tech to count as a Florida college, or 1988 to count as being in the 1990s. So justice prevails, at least in the end.

[Johnny Carwash]

GG Keg. I might petition to have my place in the standings raised by a couple games based on my strength of schedule.

I was sweating bullets for a while that I might have left off some correct answers for my movie question, but it looks like it turned out OK.

[sancarlos]

an ugly win! I will take it!

Congrats, TB. You never had the lead until the very last question. I gotta quit getting my closers from the Detroit Tigers.

Funny thing, I was smugly awaiting the reveal of my 1 point Ricky Nattiel answer to question 10. Completely missed that "since 1990" part of the question. Sometimes having the old guy knowledge fucks you up.

[Giff]

Damn, Diamond and I had huge swings between questions 8 and 9. I'm proud.

I was feeling great after hitting Providence for one. Leaned right into that fencing haymaker. Great game. I think we had four or five same answers.

Is it ironic that I picked fencing because of Neil Diamond?

Why Neil Diamond?

He had a fencing scholarship to NYU.

[Ryan]

To keep the immigrants out

I'll fix the Jabar Gaffney thing on Monday

[Jerloma]

Damn, Diamond and I had huge swings between questions 8 and 9. I'm proud.

I was feeling great after hitting Providence for one. Leaned right into that fencing haymaker. Great game. I think we had four or five same answers.

Is it ironic that I picked fencing because of Neil Diamond?

Why Neil Diamond?

He had a fencing scholarship to NYU.

And that made you remember that Fencing was a discipline in the first modern Olympics?

[tennbengal]

an ugly win! I will take it!

Congrats, TB. You never had the lead until the very last question. I gotta quit getting my closers from the Detroit Tigers.

Funny thing, I was smugly awaiting the reveal of my 1 point Ricky Nattiel answer to question 10. Completely missed that "since 1990" part of the question. Sometimes having the old guy knowledge fucks you up.

Yup, total luck. Needed a pick me up after bengals.

Someone upstream asked why so many Taurus answers. For my part, several years ago, that was hammered home during radio buys on a sports station I listened to in memphis. Specifically during a show hosted by a cranky old guy George lapides. I can still hear him droning on about Taurus as best selling car in US.

[Giff]

Damn, Diamond and I had huge swings between questions 8 and 9. I'm proud.

I was feeling great after hitting Providence for one. Leaned right into that fencing haymaker. Great game. I think we had four or five same answers.

Is it ironic that I picked fencing because of Neil Diamond?

Why Neil Diamond?

He had a fencing scholarship to NYU.

And that made you remember that Fencing was a discipline in the first modern Olympics?

Exactly.

[DC47]

I'm puzzled by the Olympics question. I have never heard of "Athletics" as an Olympic "discipline." Or anything else. Isn't this what the Olympics are all about -- various forms of athletic competition -- rather than some narrow sub-section of the whole?

Is there still something called "Athletics" in the modern Olympics?

In truth, I don't even get this "discipline" thing. How have I missed it? Is this a term that is actually used in practice, like on Olympics broadcasts? Or just some bureaucratic categorization that is used by Olympic team administrators? I've never heard of it, and I've lived through dozens of Olympics now. When it comes up in a question, I just try to think of some theoretical category at a higher level than "100 yard dash" or "40 meter free."

To finish off my bewilderment, how could the Greeks been deeply into cycling in 1896, but not care about archery? I'm pretty sure the former wasn't really a sport until the development of EPO and other blood-doping techniques. But hasn't archery been a big deal for centuries, going back to the earliest era of Greek athletics? I was going to pick this, but I was unsure it was one of these mysterious disciplines. So I dropped back to a more certain -- and presumably more obvious to others -- choice of swimming. That worked out as a low-pointer for some reason. But not because I actually understood the subject area of this question. Rather, it's just my competitive mantra this season: first, get the damn question right.

[DC47]

Is it ironic that I picked fencing because of Neil Diamond?

Why Neil Diamond?

He had a fencing scholarship to NYU.

And that made you remember that Fencing was a discipline in the first modern Olympics?

Exactly.

The mental connection is obvious.

[Ryan]

Update - no game results changed due to the Jabar Gaffney mistake. Next time I post the standings, it will reflect any new scoring averages. Week 11 posted later today.

[brian]

I'm puzzled by the Olympics question. I have never heard of "Athletics" as an Olympic "discipline." Or anything else. Isn't this what the Olympics are all about -- various forms of athletic competition -- rather than some narrow sub-section of the whole?

Is there still something called "Athletics" in the modern Olympics?

In truth, I don't even get this "discipline" thing. How have I missed it? Is this a term that is actually used in practice, like on Olympics broadcasts? Or just some bureaucratic categorization that is used by Olympic team administrators? I've never heard of it, and I've lived through dozens of Olympics now. When it comes up in a question, I just try to think of some theoretical category at a higher level than "100 yard dash" or "40 meter free."

To finish off my bewilderment, how could the Greeks been deeply into cycling in 1896, but not care about archery? I'm pretty sure the former wasn't really a sport until the development of EPO and other blood-doping techniques. But hasn't archery been a big deal for centuries, going back to the earliest era of Greek athletics? I was going to pick this, but I was unsure it was one of these mysterious disciplines. So I dropped back to a more certain -- and presumably more obvious to others -- choice of swimming. That worked out as a low-pointer for some reason. But not because I actually understood the subject area of this question. Rather, it's just my competitive mantra this season: first, get the damn question right.

"Athletics" is still technically called Athletics by the IOC. It is more commonly referred to as "Track and Field"