NFL Swampcrash 2014 WEEK EIGHT

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:44 am

STANDINGS

REMINDERS

Through W16, each set of questions will include 4 Swamper-submitted questions (2 sports, 2 other)
All questions in W17 and the playoffs will come from me
I'll post questions here and email them to the group. Make sure you don't reply to all if answering by email
For your own questions only, you may "cheat" and submit any answer you want
Correct answers get a score equal to the number of people who said it
Wrong answers get the value of the highest-scoring correct answer +5
Low score wins
Standings, tiebreakers, playoff matchups, all determined exactly as they would be in the real NFL

INSTRUCTIONS

Send answers to ryantfriedman (gmail) or private message here
ANSWERS DUE FRIDAY, OCT. 24 @ 12 PM (Reveal here on the boards @ 1 PM)

MATCHUPS

QUESTIONS

1. (From the desk of Ed Romero) Name any independent state that emerged from the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 (15)

2. FROM PRUITT - Name any 6-time (or more) Best Actor Academy Award nominee (10)

3. FROM GIFF - In 2007, Time Magazine released a list, the result of a survey of 125 well-known authors, of the top 10 written works of all time. One of them was The Stories of Anton Chekhov. Given a list of the other authors, name one of the other books (9)
LIST: Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Nobokov, Gustave Flaubert, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marcel Proust, George Eliot
NOTE: List includes 8 novels and 1 play

4. December 1985 marked the last month that Roddy Piper topped Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Most Hated list. Name any #1 Most Hated Wrestler from that point through the end of the 1980s (10)

5. These are the the nine songs to reach #1 on the Billboard charts via two different artists. Name any of the singers or groups involved (18)
LIST: Go Away Little Girl, The Loco-Motion, Please Mr. Postman, Venus, Lean on Me, You Keep Me Hangin' On, When a Man Loves a Woman, I'll Be There, Lady Marmalade
NOTE: One answer is a collection of solo singers - I'll take any of them individually but they will be added up together as one correct answer

6. Name any player with at least 50 career MLB wins or 100 career MLB home runs at a single stadium in Canada (11)

7. Of the 21 NHL franchises active in the entire time period between the 1979 WHA merger and the 1991 debut of the Sharks, name one of the 8 with the most losses (8)

8. FROM SABO - Name one of the last 10 unique winners of the PGA Championship (10)

9. Name any freshman named to the consensus All-America 1st or 2nd team for NCAA Men's Basketball since and including the 2006-07 season (13)
NOTE: All but one player entered the NBA draft after their freshman season

10. FROM TT - Name anyone to start a regular season or playoff game at quarterback for the Houston Texans (9)

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:13 am

Edited the Oscar nomination question to say "6-time" instead of "10-time"

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:28 am

And there are only 9 correct answers.

I apologize.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:30 am

Those errors mean this movie question must be removed.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:33 am

American Academy Awards or Canadian?

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:42 am

rass wrote:American Academy Awards or Canadian?

There should be a category devoted to the Juno Awards. One question every week.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:44 am

rass wrote:American Academy Awards or Canadian?

Not even a Canadian knows who won the Canadian award.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:57 am

Pruitt wrote:
rass wrote:American Academy Awards or Canadian?
Not even a Canadian knows who won the Canadian award.

Easy. Anne Murray and Gordon Lightfoot. Every year.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:58 am

Don't say any more. I haven't written playoff questions yet.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 1:08 pm

Gunpowder wrote:Those errors mean this movie question must be removed.

That would of course be the fair thing to do. Perhaps as a penalty movie questions should be removed for the duration of the season. Also, the wrestling question is invalid.

The wrestling question was typed improperly, because as it stands now it would seem to ask for detailed knowledge of professional wrestling during a four-year period that ended 25 years ago. No sane person knows this kind of thing. Perhaps it could be revised to read something like: "Name a professional wrestler in the 20th century who won a match even though some people didn't like him and he was using steroids."

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Oct 23, 2014 6:36 am

IN

SL
Diamond
Brian
Bensell
Wlulax
Cheddah
TT
Junkyard
BFJ
Sancarlos
Pruitt
Cerrano
Alex

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Oct 23, 2014 4:02 pm

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 8:22 am

STILL NEED

Rush
Rass
Jerloma
Ljam
Sybian
Fluff
Shirley
Keg

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 8:56 am

Rass can feel free to not read this.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:04 am

In. Who am I playing this week, aka who are the Bills. It's Diamond, isn't it.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:09 am

The Sybian wrote:In. Who am I playing this week, aka who are the Bills. It's Diamond, isn't it.

Yep.

devilfluff · Post by **devilfluff** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:11 am

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:13 am

BSF21 wrote:Rass can feel free to not read this.

Fuck...work...sorry...give me a couple of minutes...

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:17 am

3 swampers left, but for now we have just our second sub-10 score in one half this season.

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:18 am

rass wrote:
BSF21 wrote:Rass can feel free to not read this.
Fuck...work...sorry...give me a couple of minutes...

(computer crash) (fire drill) (explosive shits)....anything come on...

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:20 am

BSF21 wrote:
rass wrote:
BSF21 wrote:Rass can feel free to not read this.
Fuck...work...sorry...give me a couple of minutes...
(computer crash) (fire drill) (explosive shits)....anything come on...

Sorry man, PM'd.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:24 am

I just emailed you all but #7 which I need a clarification.

Are you asking for one of the teams that had the most losses between 1979 and 1991? Or asking one of the 8 teams that was established prior to 1991 that has the most losses in franchise history? It's the first one, right?

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:26 am

L-Jam3 wrote:I just emailed you all but #7 which I need a clarification.

Are you asking for one of the teams that had the most losses between 1979 and 1991? Or asking one of the 8 teams that was established prior to 1991 that has the most losses in franchise history? It's the first one, right?

The first one, but it has to be a team that was around the whole time (i.e. it's possible that a team could have come in 1985 and lost every game, but they wouldn't be an answer)

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:27 am

That's how I understood it.

I love my answers this week, which means I'll probably put up an 85.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:36 am

Okay, I just PMed my response to #7 to you. The other 9 are emailed.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:36 am

Ryan wrote:3 swampers left, but for now we have just our second sub-10 score in one half this season.

Congrats, Diamond.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:44 am

Who is St. Louis?

boxcar · Post by **boxcar** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:45 am

Giff wrote:Who is St. Louis?

hockey player. plays for the NY Rangers

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:51 am

Giff wrote:Who is St. Louis?

AB

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:57 am

Gang's all here. See you at 1ish.

Rass, you did not tie this week.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:58 am

Congrats BSF!

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 11:19 am

rass wrote:Congrats BSF!

I'm on the Jerloma train this week. Felt great about 8/10 answers. Likely means I scored a billion

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 11:55 am

It's football-inspired trivia tiiiiiiiiime

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:09 pm

Q1 - FROM ROMERO - Name any independent state that emerged from the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.(15)

CORRECT ANSWERS
Azerbaijan (1) - SL
Belarus (1) - Trav
Kazakhstan (1) - Sancarlos
Kyrgyzstan (1) - Brian
Russia (1) - Alex
Latvia (2) - Bronto, Shirley
Lithuania (2) - Bensell, Sybian
Ukraine (2) - BSF, Keg
Armenia (3) - Pruitt, Sabo, Wlulax
Uzbekistan (4) - AB, Cheddah, DC, Junkyard
Georgia (5) - BFJ, Carwash, Fluff, Giff, Jerloma
Estonia (8) - Bengal, Cerrano, Degen, Diamond, Ljam, PDX, Rass, Rush

INCORRECT ANSWERS (13)
Czech Republic - TT

LEFTOVERS
Moldova
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan

Post by **Sabo** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:10 pm

I figured Kyrgyzstan would be a very popular answer because so many Swampers play Sporcle.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:11 pm

Russia has to rank high on the Jordan scale.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:12 pm

Q2 - FROM PRUITT - Name any 6-time (or more) Best Actor Academy Award nominee (10)

CORRECT ANSWERS
Dustin Hoffman (1) - Diamond
Jack Lemmon (1) - Sabo
Marlon Brando (2) - Alex, Jerloma
Paul Newman (2) - BSF, Giff
Peter O'Toole (3) - Carwash, Ljam, Rush
Spencer Tracy (3) - AB, Pruitt, Wlulax
Lawrence Olivier (4) - BFJ, Cerrano, DC, Sancarlos
Jack Nicholson (6) - Brian, Degen, PDX, Rass, SL, Sybian

INCORRECT ANSWERS (11)
Al Pacino - Bengal, Bensell
Tom Hanks - Bronto, Fluff, Keg
Robert DeNiro - Shirley
Mickey Rooney - Cheddah
Jimmy Stewart - Junkyard
Sean Penn - Trav

LEFTOVERS
Richard Burton

THRU 2
3 Alex
4 Sabo
4 BSF
5 Sancarlos
6 wlulax
6 Pruitt
7 SL
7 Brian
7 Giff
7 Jerloma
7 AB
8 Carwash
8 DC
8 Sybian
9 Diamond
9 BFJ
11 Rush
11 Ljam
12 Trav
12 Cerrano
13 Bensell
13 Bronto
13 Shirley
13 Keg
14 PDX
14 Rass
14 Degen
15 Cheddah
15 Junkyard
16 Fluff
19 Bengal
24 TT

boxcar · Post by **boxcar** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:14 pm

DC47 wrote:Russia has to rank high on the Jordan scale.

YES!

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:15 pm

Q3 - FROM GIFF - In 2007, Time Magazine released a list, the result of a survey of 125 well-known authors, of the top 10 written works of all time. One of them was The Stories of Anton Chekhov. Given a list of the other authors, name one of the other books (9)
LIST: Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Nobokov, Gustave Flaubert, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marcel Proust, George Eliot
NOTE: List includes 8 novels and 1 play

CORRECT ANSWERS
Anna Karenina (1) - Carwash
Lolita (1) - Brian
Hamlet (2) - Giff, Wlulax
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (3) - Bengal, Cheddah, Shirley
Middlemarch (3) - PDX, Rush, Sabo
War and Peace (4) - Degen, Jerloma, Sybian, Trav
Madame Bovary (6) - AB, Cerrano, DC, Diamond, Ljam, Pruitt
The Great Gatsby (10) - Alex, BFJ, BSF, Fluff, Junkyard, Keg, Rass, Sancarlos, SL, TT

INCORRECT ANSWERS (15)
Macbeth - Bronto
Madame Butterfly - Bensell

LEFTOVERS
In Search of Lost Time

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:19 pm

Q4 - December 1985 marked the last month that Roddy Piper topped Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Most Hated list. Name any #1 Most Hated Wrestler during the remainder of the 1980s (10)

CORRECT ANSWERS
King Kong Bundy (1) - Cerrano
Paul Orndorff (1) - Sybian
Ric Flair (2) - Alex, Bronto
Andre the Giant (3) - AB, SL, Wlulax
Ted DiBiase (6) - Carwash, Diamond, Fluff, Jerloma, Keg, Ljam
Randy Savage (6) - Bengal, BSF, Giff, PDX, Pruitt, Rush

INCORRECT ANSWERS (11)
The Iron Sheik - BFJ, Brian, Cheddah, Junkyard, Sancarlos, Trav, TT
Nikolai Volkoff - Bensell
Jimmy Snuka - DC
Bret Hart - Degen
Jake Roberts - Rass
The Miz - Sabo
The Undertaker - Shirley

LEFTOVERS
Tully Blanchard
Honky Tonk Man
Barry Windham
Big Boss Man

THRU 4
11 wlulax
13 Sybian
15 Carwash
15 Giff
15 Alex
16 AB
17 Jerloma
18 Sabo
18 Pruitt
19 Brian
19 Cerrano
20 SL
20 Rush
20 BSF
21 Diamond
23 PDX
23 Ljam
25 DC
26 Sancarlos
27 Trav
27 Shirley
28 Bengal
29 Cheddah
29 Keg
29 Degen
30 Bronto
30 BFJ
32 Fluff
35 Rass
36 Junkyard
39 Bensell
45 TT