-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 SEPTEMBER 16th @ NOON
MATCHUPS
QUESTIONS
1. Including all of its overseas departments and territories, name an independent nation that borders France (11)
2. FROM SABO: 7 states (Alabama, Georgia, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Tennessee) have two official state birds - one "regular" bird and one "game or waterfowl" bird. Name one of the bird species representing those states (9)
COMMISH HINT - The two most common state birds, the Cardinal and Meadowlark, are not on the list
3. Name one of Honda's American consumer automobile models from the company's 2016 or 2017 lines, as per their website (12)
4. FROM BFJ: Name a location that has hosted a version of Bravo's "The Real Housewives of…" series (9)
NOTE: Does NOT count international versions or spinoffs
5. Name a word with 6 or more letters in the official English lyrics to "O Canada" (8)
NOTE: Only the first commonly-sung stanza is being considered here
6.Name any MLB pitcher with more than 50 career wins while in his 40s (12)
NOTE: Includes any entire season in which the player was 40 or older as of June 30th
7. FROM TT: Name anyone in the top 10 for field goal (any non-free-throw) attempts in the 2015-16 NBA regular season (10)
8. FROM SYBIAN: Name one of the 10 most-capped (games played) players for the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (10)
9. Name one of the 10 top vote getters for the 2015 Heisman Trophy, half of which are still in college this year (10)
10. This year's Jared Goff trade was the 4th instance of a team trading up for the #1 pick in the NFL Draft since 1994. Considering the other 3 trades from 1995, 1997 and 2001, name a team involved on either side (like the Rams and Titans), OR the eventual #1 pick (like Goff), OR the player taken later in the 1st round by the team that traded the top pick away (like Corey Coleman) (12)
