The Swamp

SEASON-LONG REMINDERS

-Each week consists of 10 questions (5 sports, 5 not). The Swamper Bowl will have 20 questions.
-I'll post questions here and email them to the group. Make sure you DO NOT REPLY ALL if answering by email
-No Googling, No Doubt
-Answer every week, even when your NFL team has a bye

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
-If you're the only player with a one-pointer, you are credited with a score of -1
-Low score wins
-Weekly ties will be broken by best score in Q10, Q9, etc.
-Standings, tiebreakers and playoff matchups all determined exactly as they would be in the real NFL

INSTRUCTIONS

-Send answers to ryantfriedman (gmail, and don't forget the middle initial T) or private message here
-Unless you're giving something away by asking, bring up any questions or clarifications in the weekly thread so everyone can see the answer. 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 OCTOBER 13th @ 12PM ET

WEEK SIX QUESTIONS

1. MISCELLANEOUS
Name the famous landmark you'd be looking at if you turned around in any of the following locations (10)



2. TENNIS
Name any back-to-back winner of the men's singles title at either the French Open or Wimbledon from 1968-2001 (10)

3. GEOGRAPHY
Name an independent nation OR capital city whose name starts with the word Saint IN ANY LANGUAGE (11)
NOTE: The "saint" part must be on its own, so something like "Saintgapore" wouldn't count. In the hypothetical event that a country and a capital have the EXACT SAME name, that answer would only appear on my list once

4. NFL
Jeff Brohm, Trent Edwards, and Brooks Bollinger all threw exactly one touchdown pass to Terrell Owens. Name any QB with at least 2 (9)

5. SCIENCE AND MATH
Name the thing being calculated by any of the following scientific formulas (8)

Mass x Acceleration
Mass / Volume
Work / Time
Mass x Gravity
Voltage / Resistance
Degrees Celsius + 273
Mass x Velocity
Wavelength / Speed

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

7. MUSIC
Name a featured performer on either of the first two VH1 Divas concerts from 1998-99 OR one of The Three Tenors (12)
NOTE: Does not include "guest Divas" Carole King and...Elton John

8. MLB
Name one 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)

9. LITERATURE
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, deal with it (15)

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

Q1 May be the best SwamCrash question of all time. You’ve outdone yourself, Ryan.

You probably just used 360 view from Google maps, but I'd like to think you went to all of those spots and took a picture in the other direction, just for us.

Rex wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 8:33 am You probably just used 360 view from Google maps, but I'd like to think you went to all of those spots and took a picture in the other direction, just for us.

No wonder we had to pass the hat around. Someone had to pay for our foreign correspondent's travel.

Rex wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 8:33 am You probably just used 360 view from Google maps, but I'd like to think you went to all of those spots and took a picture in the other direction, just for us.

Sadly the budget ran out after hitting up the world championships of all those Olympic sports

Guesses sent.

8. MLB
Name one 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)

Umm....could someone explain this one to me? I'm not getting it...

Who are the 10 most recent managers to win the World Series if you ignore the ones who were still managing last week

Nice to put in those bye week guesses. No stress!

Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 10:54 am Who are the 10 most recent managers to win the World Series if you ignore the ones who were still managing last week

Do we get a list to choose from?

I’ve watched so little baseball lately and it’s going to show.

IN:

Bengal
BFJ
Brian
Bronto
Chedda
Dsafe
Duff
GoodKarma
GPJ
Nonlinear
Pruitt
Romero
Sancarlos

Sent!

STILL NEED:

AB
BSF
Carwash
Enoch
Giff
Citgo
Jerloma
LJam
Mister D
PDX
Rass
Shirley
Syb
Tony
Trav

Sent.

Coming soon to an inbox near turd.

Sent!

Multiple wrong answers sent.

STILL NEED:

Citgo
Mister D
Rass
Shirley

Not sure about a reveal time yet. Will update mid-morning. Gonna be knee deep in pictures of other sports that may look close enough to the ones in the slideshow...

That list is obsolete.

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:01 am Gonna be knee deep in pictures of other sports that may look close enough to the ones in the slideshow...

Week 17 - Identify any of the best-selling pick-up trunk bumpers pictured below (10)

(Checks sharing priviledges)

sent

That's everybody. Let's say 12:15 for the festivities. I expect some controversy this week!

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 9:18 am I expect some controversy this week!

First Arcia-gate and now a controversy in Swampcrash? Stars are aligned this week...

Game of the Week

Giff Broncos (3-2) vs. Bengal Chiefs (4-1)

Sears Wish Book Item of the Week



Halftime Report of the Week



Only one goddamn highlight (of the game most people were watching anyway) but they make up for it with the classic Irv Cross silly voiceover segment.

OK, shitty decision no.1 here. Sorry, DSafe

Q1 - Name the famous landmark you'd be looking at if you turned around in any of the following locations (9)

CORRECT
Burj Khalifa (1) - Cerrano
Niagara Falls (1) - Citgo
St. Basil's Cathedral (1) - Syb
Uluru (3) - AB, Carwash, Trav
Christ the Redeemer (3) - BSF, Giff, Jerloma
Key West Southernmost Point (5) - Chedda, GoodKarma, GPJ, Sancarlos, Tony
Hollywood Sign (6) - Bronto, Duff, Enoch, Mister D, Romero, Rush
Stonehenge (8) - Bengal, BFJ, Brian, LJam, Nonlinear, Pruitt, Rex, Shirley

INCORRECT (13)
Kilimanjaro - DiS, Rass
Victoria Falls - PDX
Griffith Observatory - DSafe

LEFTOVERS
Pyramids of Giza

I thought for sure the Hollywood sign was actually Griffith Observatory.

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:21 am OK, shitty decision no.1 here. Sorry, DSafe

I don't mind. The view is just about the same, including a twisting path and the Hollywood Hills/view of downtown, because the two are about a mile apart. I thought the Swamp thread was the clincher.

Q2 - Name any back-to-back winner of the men's singles title at either the French Open or Wimbledon from 1968-2001 (11)

CORRECT
Jim Courier (2) - Jerloma, Romero
Rod Laver (3) - GoodKarma, LJam, Sancarlos
Ivan Lendl (5) - Brian, Giff, Nonlinear, Rass, Rex
Bjorn Borg (6) - Bengal, Cerrano, DiS, DSafe, GPJ, Rush
Boris Becker (6) - BFJ, Duff, Enoch, Citgo, Pruitt, Shirley
Pete Sampras (7) - AB, Bronto, BSF, Carwash, Mister D, PDX, Syb

INCORRECT (12)
Rafael Nadal - Chedda, Trav
Andre Agassi - Tony

LEFTOVERS
John Newcombe
Jan Kodes
John McEnroe
Sergi Bruguera
Gustavo Kuerten

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:27 am

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:21 am OK, shitty decision no.1 here. Sorry, DSafe

I don't mind. The view is just about the same, including a twisting path and the Hollywood Hills/view of downtown, because the two are about a mile apart. I thought the Swamp thread was the clincher.

Shouldn't have Rush Rushed with that answer.

You left me off the Laver answer, Ryan.

...aaaaand, I shouldn't have Rush Rushed with my answer to Q2.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:29 am You left me off the Laver answer, Ryan.

Fixed

Q3 - Name an independent nation OR capital city whose name starts with the word Saint IN ANY LANGUAGE (11)

CORRECT
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE DIVISION
Sao Tome (1) - Pruitt
Sao Tome & Principe (1) - Rex
OTHER
Santo Domingo (2) - Carwash, PDX
St. George's (2) - GPJ, Trav
St. Lucia (3) - Jerloma, Mister D, Rush
San Jose (4) - Chedda, Duff, Giff, Rass
San Marino (5) - AB, BSF, Cerrano, DiS, Nonlinear
San Salvador (5) - Bronto, LJam, Sancarlos, Shirley, Syb
St. Kitts & Nevis (6) - Bengal, BFJ, Brian, Enoch, GoodKarma, Citgo

INCORRECT (11)
San Tropez - DSafe
St. Paul - Romero
No Answer - Tony

LEFTOVERS
St. John's
St. Vincent & the Grenadines

Isn’t St. Paul the capital of Zazopolisland?

No idea why became fixated on Mt K. I knew it didn't make as much sense as some of the other guesses I had (most of which turned out to be right) because it's a fucking mountain.

LOL

Q4 - Jeff Brohm, Trent Edwards, and Brook Bollinger all threw exactly one touchdown pass to Terrell Owens. Name any QB with at least 2 (9)

CORRECT
Tim Rattay (1) - GPJ
Ryan Fitzpatrick (1) - Pruitt
Drew Bledsoe (3) - Bronto, LJam, Rush
Steve Young (3) - Carwash, Giff, PDX
Tony Romo (3) - DiS, Rass, Rex
Carson Palmer (4) - AB, Bengal, GoodKarma, Nonlinear (the 4 Horsemen of the Midwestalypse)
Donovan McNabb (4) - BSF, Mister D, Romero, Tony
Jeff Garcia (13) - BFJ, Brian, Cerrano, Chedda, DSafe, Duff, Enoch, Citgo, Jerloma, Sancarlos, Shirley, Syb, Trav

INCORRECT (18)
none

LEFTOVERS
Ty Detmer

Heh