The Swamp

Jeff Garcia was my immediate guess too, so I'm not surprised. Took me a while to remember the QB he's most memetically associated with

Q5 - Name the thing being calculated by any of the following scientific formulas (8)

CORRECT
Mass/Volume = DENSITY (1) - Mister D
Wavelength/Speed = FREQUENCY (1) - Rex
Work/Time = POWER (3) - Cerrano, Enoch, GoodKarma
Mass x Acceleration = FORCE (4) - AB, Bronto, Carwash, DSafe
Mass x Gravity = WEIGHT (5) - Bengal, Brian, Duff, LJam, Syb
Degrees Celsius + 273 = KELVIN (5) - Chedda, Giff, Citgo, Rass, Rush
Mass x Velocity = MOMENTUM (5) - Jerloma, Pruitt, Sancarlos, Shirley, Trav
Voltage/Resistance = CURRENT (6) - BFJ, BSF, DiS, GPJ, Nonlinear, PDX

INCORRECT (11)
Watts - Romero
Distance - Tony

LEFTOVERS
none

The undefeated teams are in trouble!

I remembered the tearful "that's my quarterback" press conference..

CORRECTION ON Q3 - I just missed Tony's answer of St. Kitts & Nevis, so that's now worth 7.

Scores are:

18 Rex
19 Carwash
20 Giff
20 GPJ
21 Mister D
21 Pruitt
22 GoodKarma
23 AB
23 Rush
24 L-Jam
25 Bronto
25 BSF
26 Jerloma
28 Cerrano
28 Nonlinear
30 Bengal
30 Rass
31 PDX
31 Sancarlos
31 Syb
32 HaulCitgo
33 DiS
34 Duff
35 Enoch
35 Romero
35 Travzilla
37 Shirley
38 Brian
39 Chedda
39 Tony
40 BFJ
48 DSafe

Q6 - Name an NHL franchise with an above-.500 record in individual Stanley Cup FINALS games from 1967-current (10)

CORRECT
Kings (1) - BSF
Lightning (1) - Chedda
Oilers (1) - Citgo
Canadiens (3) - DSafe, Enoch, Tony
Red Wings (4) - Bengal, Brian, Bronto, GoodKarma
Avalanche (5) - BFJ, Carwash, Giff, Rex, Rush
Penguins (6) - AB, GPJ, Jerloma, PDX, Rass, Romero
Islanders (10) - Cerrano, DiS, Duff, LJam, Mister D, Nonlinear, Pruitt, Sancarlos, Shirley, Syb

INCORRECT (15)
Maple Leafs - Trav

LEFTOVERS
Devils
Ducks

Q7 - Name a featured performer on either of the first two VH1 Divas concerts from 1998-99 OR one of The Three Tenors (12)

CORRECT
Celine Dion (1) - BSF
Shania Twain (1) - Nonlinear
Aretha Franklin (3) - Bengal, BFJ, Mister D
Tina Turner (3) - Giff, Rush, Tony
Placido Domingo (4) - Chedda, DiS, Rex, Syb
Mariah Carey (4) - Duff, GoodKarma, GPJ, Romero
Jose Carreras (5) - AB, Carwash, Enoch, LJam, Pruitt
Luciano Pavarotti (6) - Bronto, Cerrano, Citgo, Rass, Shirley, Trav

INCORRECT (11)
Mary J Blige - DSafe, PDX
Patti LaBelle - Sancarlos
Diana Ross - Brian
Donna Summer - Jerloma

LEFTOVERS
Gloria Estefan
Whitney Houston
Cher
Brandy?

Dorks. The lot of us.

Was scared to guess the diva question. Clearly should have.

Typical Swampcrash thought process - “everyone will say Aretha Franklin , so I’ll say Patti LaBelle and get a one pointer!”

Somewhere in the recesses of my memory there was a sitcom that referred to Carreras as “the other guy”. Seinfeld maybe?

Q8 - Name any of the ten most recent winning managers of the World Series among people who were not currently managing as of the end of this regular season (10)

CORRECT
Jack McKeon (1) - Carwash
Ozzie Guillen (1) - Duff
Mike Scioscia (1) - Rex
Charlie Manuel (2) - GPJ, Mister D
Joe Maddon (3) - BFJ, Citgo, Jerloma
Joe Girardi (3) - BSF, Cerrano, Nonlinear
John Farrell (3) - LJam, Romero, Tony
Ned Yost (4) - Bronto, DiS, Enoch, Giff
Tony La Russa (5) - Bengal, GoodKarma, Pruitt, Rass, Trav

INCORRECT (10)
AJ Hinch - AB, Sancarlos
Jim Leyland - Chedda, DSafe
Bruce Bochy - Brian
Dusty Baker - Syb
Tommy Lasorda - PDX
Alex Cora - Rush
Joe Torre - Shirley

LEFTOVERS
the last on the list, Bob Brenly

Is it weird that I feel like Whitney Houston died in the mid-90s?

Q9 - Name one of the 15 Most Famous Black Authors of all Time, according to a blog that I felt best represented the variety of answers that I saw from all sources (15)

CORRECT
Zora Neale Hurston (1) - PDX
Alice Walker (1) - Pruitt
Toni Morrison (1) - Tony, Tone!
Alex Haley (3) - Bengal, BFJ, Chedda
Ralph Ellison (3) - Brian, Citgo, Rass
Langston Hughes (3) - BSF, Carwash, GPJ
Richard Wright (3) - Cerrano, Shirley, Syb
Maya Angelou (5) - Bronto, Jerloma, Nonlinear, Rex, Romero
James Baldwin (8) - AB, DiS, Duff, Giff, LJam, Mister D, Rush, Sancarlos

INCORRECT (13)
Ta-Nehisi Coates - DSafe, Trav
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1. oh no, but 2. I had to check) - GoodKarma
Frederick Douglass - Enoch

LEFTOVERS
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Octavia Butler
Lorraine Hansberry
August Wilson
Amiri Baraka

...as a bystander who may be missing something here...how are the Leafs an incorrect answer for Q6?

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:19 pm ...as a bystander who may be missing something here...how are the Leafs an incorrect answer for Q6?

0-0 is .000 percent

I'm feeling a Bengal Hail Mary on question 10!

Gunpowder wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:21 pm

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:19 pm ...as a bystander who may be missing something here...how are the Leafs an incorrect answer for Q6?

0-0 is .000 percent

Max! (Ryan - the Leafs won the Cup in ‘67 so isn’t Max/Trav right?)

Gunpowder wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:21 pm

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:19 pm ...as a bystander who may be missing something here...how are the Leafs an incorrect answer for Q6?

0-0 is .000 percent

Probably because I searched from 1967-68 so I missed their win. Shoulda known he wouldn't have screwed that up...Trav goes from 15 to 1 on that and owes the peanut gallery a big bottle of ketchup.

Q10 - Identify any of the sports pictured below, all of which have been contested at the Olympics but only under unofficial or demonstration status (9)

CORRECT
Savate (accepted kickboxing) (MINUS 1) - Tony
Boules (accepted bocce and petanque) (3) - Cerrano, Pruitt, Romero
Australian Football (3) - Enoch, Giff, Sancarlos
Bowling (4) - BFJ, Duff, Citgo, Jerloma
Bandy (4) - Carwash, LJam, Nonlinear, Trav
Roller Hockey (5) - AB, Bronto, Chedda, DSafe, GPJ
Hurling (5) - BSF, PDX, Rass, Rex, Shirley

INCORRECT (10)
Netball (close but it definitely doesn't look the same as below) - DiS, Rush, Syb
Taekwondo - GoodKarma
Jai Alai - Bengal
Lacrosse - Brian
Rugby - Mister D

LEFTOVERS
Korfball
Skijoring

I guess skijoring was whatever the fuck that was?

Pending any questionable rulings that actually matter...



Winless and lossless teams dropping like flies. Duff completes the comeback to survive PDX's upset bid but Syb was not as lucky as LJam breezes to his first victory. And Tony hits the brakes on Q10 on his way to a 9 spot in the 2nd half to get in the win column.

AHEM - YOU'RE WELCOME TRAV

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:25 pm

Gunpowder wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:21 pm

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:19 pm ...as a bystander who may be missing something here...how are the Leafs an incorrect answer for Q6?

0-0 is .000 percent

Probably because I searched from 1967-68 so I missed their win. Shoulda known he wouldn't have screwed that up...Trav goes from 15 to 1 on that and owes the peanut gallery a big bottle of ketchup.

Thanks turd and nice work GPJ

Empire state clash was a bit of low key barnburner.

Good game Jlo. (I had a huge crush on Shania Twain during the diva period, and that answer/swing was huge.)

So who’s the best New Jersey lawyer at SwampCrash now!

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:21 amChrist the Redeemer (3) - BSF, Giff, Jerloma

This is kinda funny, right?

There are like three questions where I was debating between two answers and I chose the one that ended up being the most popular.

Like, how the fuck was Toni Morrison a 1-pointer?

Best score yet just to be put to shame on my blackness by pruitt. good game

Game is better when you go with sure things instead of guesses. Who knew?

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:10 pm Typical Swampcrash thought process - “everyone will say Aretha Franklin , so I’ll say Patti LaBelle and get a one pointer!”

In fairness, you were the only one to say LaBelle. I knew it was a couple old divas and Mariah Carey, afraid to guess which ones. And kicking myself for sticking with Garcia. I thought it'd be huge, but was too lazy to think of others and hoped the rest of you would be more creative.

Tony going from a miss on question 5 to 9 points in the second half is impressive. That’s like giving up a pick 6 to go down 28, then coming back to win.

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:16 pm Q9 - Name one of the 15 Most Famous Black Authors of all Time, according to a blog that I felt best represented the variety of answers that I saw from all sources (15)

CORRECT
Zora Neale Hurston (1) - PDX
Alice Walker (1) - Pruitt
Toni Morrison (1) - Tony, Tone!
Alex Haley (3) - Bengal, BFJ, Chedda
Ralph Ellison (3) - Brian, Citgo, Rass
Langston Hughes (3) - BSF, Carwash, GPJ
Richard Wright (3) - Cerrano, Shirley, Syb
Maya Angelou (5) - Bronto, Jerloma, Nonlinear, Rex, Romero
James Baldwin (8) - AB, DiS, Duff, Giff, LJam, Mister D, Rush, Sancarlos

Joke of the gameweek, maybe the season.

Thanks, Ryan, and good game DSafe. Interesting that we answered 3 questions the same.

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:16 pm
Toni Morrison (1) - Tony, Tone!

I couldn't let this slide... nice work Ryan.

Good game L-Jam, after Q1, this game was never close. And fuck Korfball! Oh, and that opposite side of famous sites was a fantastic question. Surprised myself and guessed right on 8 out of 9.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 2:30 pm

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:16 pm
Toni Morrison (1) - Tony, Tone!

I couldn't let this slide... nice work Ryan.

Good game L-Jam, after Q1, this game was never close. And fuck Korfball! Oh, and that opposite side of famous sites was a fantastic question. Surprised myself and guessed right on 8 out of 9.

I was racking myself for what that dumb sport was called for like an hour and it never came to me.

BSF21 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:21 pm Game is better when you go with sure things instead of guesses. Who knew?

That's been my strategy. You tend to get a lot of most popular, but then you avoid the dreaded Incorrect plus up.

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 3:08 pm

BSF21 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:21 pm Game is better when you go with sure things instead of guesses. Who knew?

That's been my strategy. You tend to get a lot of most popular, but then you avoid the dreaded Incorrect plus up.

Apparently everyone overthinks it anyway and you end up with good answers some weeks.

I'm also killing myself on the landmark one. I figured it was Giza but I wasn't sure if he was going for Sphinx or Pyramids and I didn't want to take a wrong answer.