The Swamp

NO GOOGLING

SEASON-LONG REMINDERS

-Each week consists of 10 questions (5 sports, 5 not). The Swamper Bowl will have 20 questions.
-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 DO NOT REPLY ALL if answering by email


SCORING

-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

-For your own questions only, you may "cheat" and submit any answer you want
-Send answers to ryantfriedman (gmail, and don't forget the middle initial T) or private message here
-From time to time, there will be discussion, clarification, questions, etc. in these threads. I will NOT be emailing any important updates to questions that may affect answers, so it's on you to keep up before submitting


SCHEDULE



ANSWERS DUE FRIDAY MAY 15TH @ 12PM


WEEK ELEVEN QUESTIONS

1. GEOGRAPHY
FROM SYB - Name a country whose name, on an English language list, starts with the letter N (11)

2. MISCELLANEOUS BUT GEOGRAPHY
Name one of the 9 mountains on most variations of the "Seven Summits" list of the tallest peak on each continent OR one of the attractions that make up Walt Disney World's Six-Mountain Challenge, a YouTube-centric list of mountain-inspired rides to try in do all in the same day (15)

3. MUSIC
Name the "featured' singer on any of the following #1 singles (10)

See You Again by Wiz Khalifa
Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson
We Are Young by fun.
Love the Way You Lie by Eminem
Baby by Justin Bieber
Closer by The Chainsmokers
Fancy by Iggy Azalea
Hips Don't Lie by Shakira
21 Questions by 50 Cent
I'll Be There by Mariah Carey

4. MOVIES
Name any Best Picture Oscar NOMINEE in which Martin or Charlie Sheen, Donald or Kiefer Sutherland, or Talia Shire or Jason Schwartzman appeared (13)

5. WORDS
FROM BFJ - Name one of the "most relevant" synoyms for fat, according to thesaurus.com (11)

6. MLB
Name any MLB player to get at least 200 total hits while in his forties since 2000 (10)

7. NHL
FROM CHEDDA - Name the NHL team that any of the following players scored an overtime goal for during the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs (10)

Josh Bailey
Charlie Coyle
Matt Duchene
Carl Gunnarsson
Erik Karlsson
John Klingberg
Nathan MacKinnon
Brooks Orpik
Craig Smith
Jordan Staal

8. COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Name any Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Men’s Tournament from Villanova, Connecticut, Kentucky, or Louisville since and including 1980 (3 each, for a total of 12)

9. SOCCER
FROM PRUITT - Name a CONCACAF team to qualify for the World Cup finals (11)

10. NFL
Name any NFL team that has had less than 5 top ten draft picks since 2000 (9)

As you may or may not be aware, I generally wait until the last minute, so yeah?. All 10?

I'm in. I suck anyway so there's no shortage of entertainment.

I’ll do it because I can’t wait to see what weird picture you’ve made to hold up in front of the zoom camera for us to name a 19th century composer

Yinz and anyone else that wants to join, just shoot me a pm or email with possible times. I can do pretty much any night starting whenever from now through Sunday.

In, if available.

I'm in for this...could be fun.

I think Ryan is just setting this up for "Name the Top 10 things you can stack"

A_B wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 5:36 pm I’ll do it because I can’t wait to see what weird picture you’ve made to hold up in front of the zoom camera for us to name a 19th century composer

Or worse, a band from 2000.

I'm not doing it for two (2) reasons:
1. My current hair
2. Geography questions

A_B wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 12:52 pm I think Ryan is just setting this up for "Name the Top 10 things you can stack"

PANTRY

mister d wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 1:06 pm 1. My current hair

My wife was FaceTimeing today with her friend from New Jersey. Her friend saw me in the background, and said,“You look like Robinson Crusoe! Well, mostly the shipwrecked part. “

I’ve got two takers (to paradise) tonight

If some wants to get in around 9, let me know

The geography question is manageable. There are no picture questions. There are Google slides. Wear a hat.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 1:22 pmMy wife was FaceTimeing today with her friend from New Jersey. Her friend saw me in the background, and said,“You look like Robinson Crusoe! Well, mostly the shipwrecked part. “

I went the opposite and took the sides and back off. Its "not the best".

Ryan wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 1:48 pm I’ve got two takers (to paradise) tonight

If some wants to get in around 9, let me know

The geography question is manageable. There are no picture questions. There are Google slides. Wear a hat.

I emailed but I can do the 9 o clock

Fuck yeah change my name for next week hookers.

Pretty sure I just kicked AB's ass.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 9:00 pm Pretty sure I just kicked AB's ass.

We should have gone heads up in a three way.

A_B wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 9:06 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 9:00 pm Pretty sure I just kicked AB's ass.

We should have gone heads up in a three way.

Too easy to ...

I'll do it.

This motherfucker.

Thanks Jerloma for the obvious-in-hindsight suggestion that people should stick around and watch/comment/DJ for the other sessions. When we figure out how to do all 32 at once, we’re pitching it to MTV (featuring...)

I’m with jerloma. This should be Ryan’s full time job. Unpaid of course. Sign up for the draw.

Ryan wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 9:42 pm Thanks Jerloma for the obvious-in-hindsight suggestion that people should stick around and watch/comment/DJ for the other sessions. When we figure out how to do all 32 at once, we’re pitching it to MTV (featuring...)

There's gotta be a way to make money off of this. It would be an awesome game show and you could start with like 16 (or so) people.

What's the deadline for the Zoom thing? I can probably do it before next Friday.

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 10:10 pm What's the deadline for the Zoom thing? I can probably do it before next Friday.

Yeah I have a couple people that said yes that I haven't gotten to yet. It would have to be by this Sunday night

If you need any more Ryan, I’ll give it a shot.

I ran out of steam this week. If I do it another week, and I definitely will try, I’ll get those of you I missed.

I can still do it Sunday night if that works.

This week's questions are now at the front of the thread. Some other news:

I'll be posting the videos from this week's live contestants at noon on Friday and I won't be around until later that afternoon, so you can watch before the reveal if you have time to kill. Swamper episodes will go up individually.

No live action happening this week in advance of Week 12, partly because I don't have all the questions but mostly because I can't do it every week. I will bring it back once or twice more before the end of the regular season, and then we can try for as many as possible during the playoffs.

Emails went out to everyone who I still need a question from through the rest of the year.

CONCACAF is North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.

Northern Ireland is not a country.

Disney World is in Florida.

Naboo.

Oh, wait.

Ryan wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 10:57 am Northern Ireland is not a country.

Should I tell her she made the cut?

Gotta love BFJ's sense of humor.

For the hockey one, we can just guess a team and not need to know which player plays on that team right?

The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 11:28 am For the hockey one, we can just guess a team and not need to know which player plays on that team right?

Ryan made me specify a team and how long said players had played for them.


(He did not do that)

The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 11:28 am For the hockey one, we can just guess a team and not need to know which player plays on that team right?

Correct.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 11:25 am Gotta love BFJ's sense of humor.

Agreed. It's a brilliant question.

Guesses sent. Can't wait to share a "did you know" I came across in the aftermath of sending the answers.

Ryan wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 11:39 am

The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 11:28 am For the hockey one, we can just guess a team and not need to know which player plays on that team right?

Correct.

Excellent. Could just reword that as "name an NHL team."

Right, you have a 30ish% chance of nailing it if you know all the teams in the NHL

And a whopping 62.5% chance if you know all of last year’s playoff teams but none of the players. I’m feeling like this is likely not the case maybe?