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 JUNE 19TH @ 12PM


WEEK FIFTEEN QUESTIONS

1. GEOGRAPHY
There are 17 countries that are more populous than any of their bordering neighbors. Three of them (The UK, Dominican Republic, and South Korea) only border 1 other country. Name any of the remaining 14. (...14)

2. WORDS
Name a 4-LETTER word starting with W and found in the Scrabble dictionary that you can make from the letters in "SWAMPCRASH" (10)
NOTE: You may use each letter only as many times as it appears in the original word

3. TELEVISION
FROM GOODKARMA - Name one of the 10 most-watched TV shows of the 1980s, as measured by total viewers across the decade (10)
NOTE: These are all, to some degree, recurring series in primetime. Don't count special events like the Academy Awards or the World Series or non-primetime shows like the news or soaps.

4. GAMES
Name any of the properties on the first half of a classic American Monopoly board that you can build houses on (11)
NOTE:These are any properties belonging to a color group between Go and Free Parking in the direction you go around the board

5. BUSINESS
Name any airline that served more than 1 million INTERNATIONAL passengers to and from the combination of JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark airports in 2018 (11)

6. MLB
Name one of the 15 all-time leaders in regular season hits AS A VISITOR at the current version of Yankee Stadium (15)

7. COLLEGE FOOTBALL
After transferring from Alabama, Jalen Hurts threw for 3,851 yards in his one season at Oklahoma. Name any quarterback that threw for more than 4,000 yards in his career for the Sooners (8)

8. GENERAL SPORTS
FROM BRONTO - Name a NASCAR driver who has won more than 75 career Cup Series races (8)

9. NBA
FROM HAULCITGO - Name any player with at least 100 dunks in the current NBA regular season (15)

10. NFL
Name any quarterback taken in the first round of an NFL draft since 1995 from a school that was, at that time, in the ACC or Big East (12)

Sorry for the sort-of-doubling-up on NYC and College Football questions. You can be assured I would not intentionally do anything to help those demographics.

it's absolutely wild that Hurts is 9th on the OU career passing list with one season

Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:50 pm it's absolutely wild that Hurts is 9th on the OU career passing list with one season

Maybe they have like 16 guys between 3,851 and 4k. Every think about that?

A_B wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:52 pm

Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:50 pm it's absolutely wild that Hurts is 9th on the OU career passing list with one season

Maybe they have like 16 guys between 3,851 and 4k. Every think about that?

no because I know he's ninth!!!!!

Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:50 pm it's absolutely wild that Hurts is 9th on the OU career passing list with one season

And if he played, say, 2 more years like the last one, he'd have as many rushing yards as Demarco Murray.

so many good answers for No. 10 this week too

Ryan wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 1:00 pm

Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:50 pm it's absolutely wild that Hurts is 9th on the OU career passing list with one season

And if he played, say, 2 more years like the last one, he'd have as many rushing yards as Demarco Murray.

linc's offense is the goat

Can I ask if Nascar Cup Series races go way back to the beginning of Nascar (does it just mean winners of top-level races?), or is that something else that was introduced much later.?

Cup Series is NASCAR's top level back to 1948. The Busch Series was formed in the 80s and the Truck Series in the 90s. So yes, it goes back to 1948 but does not count Busch or Truck wins. What a time to be alive.

Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:33 am Cup Series is NASCAR's top level back to 1948. The Busch Series was formed in the 80s and the Truck Series in the 90s. So yes, it goes back to 1948 but does not count Busch or Truck wins. What a time to be alive.

FUCK. Ryan i need my answers back.

Special annoucement - the 2020 Swampcrash Playoffs will be held at Canobie Lake Park. There are no hotels on property, but teams with a bye are welcome to stay on Castaway Island or, like, under the carousel or something. You'll have to hide though - they really don't want us there.




IN:

BFJ
Brian
Chedda
Gunpowder
NO3L
Pruitt
Rush
Sancarlos
RSL

IN:

BFJ
Brian
Bronto
Chedda
DSafe
GodKarma
Gunpowder
NO3L
Pruitt
Rush
Sabo
Sancarlos
Syb
RSL

Ryan wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 7:32 am Special annoucement - the 2020 Swampcrash Playoffs will be held at Canobie Lake Park. There are no hotels on property, but teams with a bye are welcome to stay on Castaway Island or, like, under the carousel or something. You'll have to hide though - they really don't want us there.

The next day this announcement comes out: https://www.canobie.com/updates/

Ryan, did you threat you'd take your Swampcrash business to Water Country if they didn't open soon?

It's a very cool spot.

I hope we all get pale Japanese belts for participating.

Ryan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 11:32 am IN:

BFJ
Brian
Bronto
Chedda
DSafe
GodKarma
Gunpowder
NO3L
Pruitt
Rush
Sabo
Sancarlos
Syb
RSL

Missing me here. PM'd you on Monday..saw it in my sent moments ago

Got it

STILL NEED:

BSF
Cerano
Diamond
Duff
Giff
HaulCitgo
Jerloma
Mister D
Nonlinear
Rass
Rex
RSL

A_B wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 12:57 pm I hope we all get pale Japanese belts for participating.

You see, it would be a Canobie Wan Obi

Someone should tally AB's jokes in this thread...

It's pronounced "CAN-a-bee" so we're still at zero

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:54 am It's pronounced "CAN-a-bee" so we're still at zero

The perfect swampcrash score!

rass wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:35 am Someone should tally AB's jokes in this thread...

You see, we would count dooku.

rass wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:58 am

rass wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:35 am Someone should tally AB's jokes in this thread...

You see, we would count dooku.

Dammit.

I walked so you could fly.

The fun is multiplying like tribbles

A_B wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:56 am

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:54 am It's pronounced "CAN-a-bee" so we're still at zero

The perfect swampcrash score!

Sooo ... seeing this .. maybe in a future season, the outside submitted questions can have a designated zero score answer that the submitter can't pick themselves? So you see if someone can beat you at your own question?

sent

rass wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 10:31 amsent

sent. what the hell is wrong with union county?

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 10:13 am

A_B wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:56 am

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:54 am It's pronounced "CAN-a-bee" so we're still at zero

The perfect swampcrash score!

Sooo ... seeing this .. maybe in a future season, the outside submitted questions can have a designated zero score answer that the submitter can't pick themselves? So you see if someone can beat you at your own question?

Modified Stableford Swampcrash

stop picking my nascar answer

New England has the shittiest fun parks of any region. And it's not the cold either because Chicagoland has a six flags. I seem to remember going to Riverside. Maybe nantasket beach some. They all sucked in retrospect I just didn't know any better.

Is it called "Six Flags New England" ironically?

Sorry, I had 2 meetings back to back. I'm in.

HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 10:55 am New England has the shittiest fun parks of any region. And it's not the cold either because Chicagoland has a six flags. I seem to remember going to Riverside. Maybe nantasket beach some. They all sucked in retrospect I just didn't know any better.

And Ohio has Cedar Point and King's Island.

Everyone's in - reveal at 1 PM

There's one answer I've asked someone to fix, but right now there are 5 games being decided by a single point.

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 11:11 am Everyone's in - reveal at 1 PM

There's one answer I've asked someone to fix, but right now there are 5 games being decided by a single point.

Done.

that's the fastest I've ever done one of these... i don't think it bodes well for my score.

And now there are two ties.

Bonus points if I can guess the clarification?

Sure, but it was a misread instead of a clarification and like 10 people did it