The Swamp

Reveal for Week 12 will take place NEXT MONDAY, so I'll take answers all the way up until then but you might not want to make me track you down over the weekend. Questions will be posted shortly - Happy Thanksgiving.

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 MONDAY NOVEMBER 27TH @ 12PM ET

WEEK TWELVE QUESTIONS

1. BUSINESS
Name the company that purchased one of the companies/brands on the list below in one of the 100 biggest mergers and acquisitions of the 21st century (10)

Activision Blizzard
Dr Pepper Snapple
Sprint
Aetna
Monsanto
Kraft
Anheuser-Busch
21st Century Fox
Alltel
WhatsApp Inc

2. NFL
Name anyone in the NFL's top 5 for career passing, rushing, or receiving yards among ACTIVE players (15)
NOTE: 6th on each list are Derek Carr, Dalvin Cook, and Keenan Allen

3. GEOGRAPHY
Palma in the Balearic Islands and Las Palmas in the Canaries are two of Spain's ten overall largest cities. Name one of the ten largest cities found on the Spanish mainland (10)

4. COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Name any of the college football players pictured below, all of whom once finished in 10th place in Heisman Trophy balloting (9)



5. MISCELLANEOUS
The first round of the "Toms" draft episode of All Fantasy Everything featured Cruise, Hanks, Jones, and Brady. Name one of the other picks from rounds 2-4 (12)
NOTE: Includes other forms of the name Tom, but always as a first name. Three fictional characters are included.

6. MLB
Since and including 2021, name an MLB team that finished at least 40 games out of first place in their division OR the corresponding division winner (10)

7. LANGUAGE
The 36 most common words in the written English language are all 4 letters or shorter. Name a 5-letter word or longer that's ranked in the top 100 (12)

8. NHL
Name one of the ten most recent geographic identifiers (e.g. "New York" or "Golden State") to be changed in the name of an NHL franchise, dating back to 1976 (10)
NOTE: Includes franchise relocation and rebranding but I'm not counting "Anaheim" and "of Anaheim". I'm looking for the name that the team got rid of in each case

9. TELEVISION/DUOLINGO
Name the American reality television show that matches any of the foreign adaptations listed below along with the country they air in (10)

La Casa de Los Secretos (Peru)
Yok Böyle Dans (Turkey)
Кандидаm (Kandidat) (Russia)
Mission Catwalk (Jamaica)
Eesti otsib superstaari (Estonia)
Expeditie Robinson (Belgium)
Jefe encubierto (Colombia)
O Grande Perdedor (Brazil)
Myanmar's Got Talent (Myanmar)

10. SOCCER
There are 207 national teams included in the FIFA Men's World Rankings. Name any UEFA team ranked LOWER (worse) than Estonia, currently sitting at 118 (10)
NOTE: I'm taking Azerbaijan off the list - the rest are all comfortably European according to, well, me

#7 include contractions?

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 12:01 pm #7 include contractions?

Good question - no

No clarifications, I just wanted to note that the foreign reality shows is a great question.

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 12:17 pm No clarifications, I just wanted to note that the foreign reality shows is a great question.

For me to poop on

triomphe le chien comique insultant

Decided not to take a risk on the game show question and it turns out I should have. We gotta stick to the gameplan though.

Apropos of nothing, I just passed my two-year streak on Duolingo for French this past weekend. I started a little before Thanksgiving of 2021 for our delayed honeymoon to Paris over Valentine's Day '22, and I've kept up with it since. I do about 45 minutes a day, 15 in the morning and about a half hour after dinner. I took it for four years in high school so there was still the basics somewhere in the large filing room of my memory. I'm a few months from completing the entire course and afterwards I'm planning on taking the CFER test to see my rating.

IN:

BFJ
Bronto
GoodKarma
GPJ

Gunpowder wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 8:20 am Decided not to take a risk on the game show question and it turns out I should have. We gotta stick to the gameplan though.

Fired

Did the Toms draft include only living or imaginary Toms? In other words, were dead Toms allowed?

Shirley wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 10:25 am Did the Toms draft include only living or imaginary Toms? In other words, were dead Toms allowed?

This would have been open to any Tom of any status

Guess sent.

Geography and international soccer, great

I write what I know and also do not know

Sent!

#7 (the language one) was a total guess...

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 1:52 pm Sent!

#7 (the language one) was a total guess...

that should be the case for all of us, right? Like, how is that common knowledge?

Not me. I made a list of every 5+ letter word then by process of elimination got a sample of 17 that I figured could be inside the top 12. From there it was pretty easy.

That one had me writing shit down for sure.

I was kidding. I li-ter-a-lly picked the more popular five-letter word of the title-made-up-of-two-five-letter-words song I was listening to at that moment.

(That will very likely be hint enough for Chedda to know which one it was (without googling, just like swampcrash!).)

I scanned every Hemingway novel and wrote a quick macro to list every five-letter word ranked by number of appearances.

I just picked a word I think is common and has enough letters. But that was for the NHL question.

Sent!

So with 6.03 to play the 1st Quarter I have seen 3 Washington receptions in a row where the WR has been thrown to the floor by a Dallas DB grabbing the frame of the WR's helmet, without holding the facemask. So in effect twisting the player's neck around and nothing has been called/flag thrown etc,... Should those types of tackles be called?

Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 4:59 pm So with 6.03 to play the 1st Quarter I have seen 3 Washington receptions in a row where the WR has been thrown to the floor by a Dallas DB grabbing the frame of the WR's helmet, without holding the facemask. So in effect twisting the player's neck around and nothing has been called/flag thrown etc,... Should those types of tackles be called?

Elway never missed like this.

(and we’re eating so only 1/3 watching but I saw one of those tackles)

rass wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 5:04 pm Elway never missed like this.

Well said. And, I’m certain Tom agrees.

FFS, fucking huge headed, West coast whinny Stanford moaning twat, who didn't want to play for the Colts and got picked by another set of horses arses. Spent the 1980's carrying a bunch of average nobodies on his back to a few Super Bowls only to stink the place up in the big game and make the AFC look shite. Cunt couldn't catch a cold, the cunt..

Obviously the wrong thread, but now Elway has been mentioned I don't give a fuck...

Oh, Tom. Our discussions about TGJE are like a holiday tradition

Weekend reminder but you still have until Monday. STILL NEED:

Cerrano
Giff
Citgo
Jerloma
LJam
Rex
Romero
Syb

Lots of perfectly cromulent yet incorrect Toms being submitted. Sorry not sorry.

Will have them submitted tomorrow morning.

Ryan wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 12:59 pm Weekend reminder but you still have until Monday. STILL NEED:

Cerrano
Giff
Citgo
Jerloma
LJam
Rex
Romero
Syb

Lots of perfectly cromulent yet incorrect Toms being submitted. Sorry not sorry.

FUCK (I will be genuinely unhappy if I chose wrong as I was between two)

I looked it up and I was resoundingly incorrect on my Tom selection

In.

Good morning and welcome to the Worst Monday of the Year. I think I just need Citgo and LJam. Quite possibly a record number of wrong answers this week, but we still have plenty of close games on the board. Tune in for all the fun at about 12:30 et

Also Week 13 questions will be posted later in the afternoon.

OK, that's everybody and we have a first for 2023!

Ryan wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 7:04 am Good morning and welcome to the Worst Monday of the Year. I think I just need Citgo and LJam. Quite possibly a record number of wrong answers this week, but we still have plenty of close games on the board. Tune in for all the fun at about 12:30 et

Also Week 13 questions will be posted later in the afternoon.

That makes me feel better. Never been clueless on so many questions in one week. Granted, the Tom questions is completely random guessing, and the 5-letter word is educated guessing, but fuck college football.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 5:56 pm I looked it up and I was resoundingly incorrect on my Tom selection

One of those rare questions where you can submit a piss-take answer and it still might hit.