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 DECEMBER 8th @ 12PM ET

WEEK FOURTEEN QUESTIONS

1. MUSIC
Name the singer or band of any of the following songs from the 2004 compilation album Motown 1s (10)

Please Mr. Postman
My Girl
Three Times a Lady
Reach Out I'll Be There
I Want You Back
Heat Wave
Don't Leave Me This Way
Rhythm of the Night
Uptight (Everything's Alright)

2. NHL
Name one of 15 most-called penalties in the NHL from 2010 to current EXCEPT FOR ANYTHING IN THE TOP FIVE (10)
NOTE: I may ask you to be more specific - for example, further down the list there are multiple things that can earn a "game misconduct" and they're all listed separately

3. FOOD & DRINK
Name one of the designated national foods pictured below and labeled with their country (9)



4. MLB
Name any MLB player who, in the divisional era (1969-), hit at least 65 career home runs ONLY counting seasons when his team won the World Series (13)
NOTE: Graig Nettles and Buster Posey would be next on the list with 64

5. SCIENCE
Name one of the top ten leading underlying causes of death in the United States for 2022 (10)
NOTE: "Underlying" is defined as the disease or injury that initiated the chain of morbid events leading directly to death. "Old age" is not on the list. None of these are what I would consider overly specific so be aware that you may be lumped into a larger category than you're expecting.

6. TENNIS
Other than shunned Russia, name a country represented by any of the top 16 seeds in any WOMEN'S singles Grand Slam event from 2023 (11)

7. MOVIES
Name any Best Picture Oscar winner since 1950 with a non-letter in its official title (12)
NOTE: Qualifying characters include unspelled-out numbers, roman numerals, and all punctuation

8. NFL/CFA
In 1968, Nashua native Greg Landry became the third and final quarterback of the pre-merger NFL to be drafted in the first round out of a NON-Division I school. Name any such QB taken in the first round since and including 1970 OR the college they attended (15)
NOTE: This includes anyone NOT from what is now called the FBS or Division 1A at the time of the draft

9. GEOGRAPHY
Holy shit - Washington DC and Lima, Peru lie at almost exactly the same longitude! Name another world capital that is within 5 degrees east or west of these two cities (8)

10. CBB
Name one of the players pictured below, all of whom are the all-time scoring leaders for their school (9)

I have no idea what it is but the Lebanon dish looks phenomenal.

Agreed, but that's clearly not Rony Seikaly

I say this every week, but this one is tough! On the other hand, I might know all of those basketball players. We should have more college hoops questions!

Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 10:35 am I say this every week, but this one is tough! On the other hand, I might know all of those basketball players. We should have more college hoops questions!

I looked at that slideshow and realized I might know less about college basketball than I do college football. I'm 90% sure I know one guy, and 50% on a second one. Now the food, I'm pretty confident on and tried 8 of them (unless I'm wrong).

Fuck it, guesses sent. Congrats in advance, nonlinear.

Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 10:35 am I say this every week, but this one is tough! On the other hand, I might know all of those basketball players. We should have more college hoops questions!

Ryan can confirm as I tried to answer them all, but I think I went 7 of 9. One I had no idea, one I think was a wrong guess.

2-11 has my name all over it. IN.

Ha! Sxm’s Underground Garage just played one of the #1 songs.

Sent!

IN:

Bengal
BFJ
Chedda
DiS
GPJ
Mister D
Pruitt
Sancarlos
Syb

One point bonus for first entry in, right?

tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 2:11 pm Fuck it, guesses sent. Congrats in advance, nonlinear.

You're playing a guy that routinely provides answers that are noted to not be eligible in the question.

(Though, just sent, and I'm preeeety sure I avoided that nonsense this week.)

Now you're going too far in the other direction. Which of these auto-erotic asphyxiations do you want me to pick?

Sent. Loved the hockey question.

I’m kicking myself for my hockey answer. A couple hours later I thought of a better one but of course you never really know.

So are we like operating under the premise that there's only one cause of death, lack of blood/oxygen to the brain, and these are just what non-pedants normally would refer to as the cause?

Jerloma wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:05 pm So are we like operating under the premise that there's only one cause of death, lack of blood/oxygen to the brain, and these are just what non-pedants normally would refer to as the cause?

Had the same thought, Should have known you'd call it out.

STILL NEED:

Bronto
BSF
Carwash
Cerrano
DSafe
Duff
Citgo
LJam
PDX
Rass
Shirley
Tony

Am I missing a trick on #1, with 9 songs but (10) answers?

Hmmm, nope that's either a typo or I removed a song at some point

OK, thanks man.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:03 am

Jerloma wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:05 pm So are we like operating under the premise that there's only one cause of death, lack of blood/oxygen to the brain, and these are just what non-pedants normally would refer to as the cause?

Had the same thought, Should have known you'd call it out.

Lol. I can't tell if that's a hat tip or a dig.

Jerloma wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 9:52 am

The Sybian wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:03 am

Jerloma wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:05 pm So are we like operating under the premise that there's only one cause of death, lack of blood/oxygen to the brain, and these are just what non-pedants normally would refer to as the cause?

Had the same thought, Should have known you'd call it out.

Lol. I can't tell if that's a hat tip or a dig.

Neither, just such a JLo thing to do.

Imagine calling the medical branch of the federal goverment "non-pedantic"

We're down to:

BSF
Duff
Citgo
LJam
Shirley

Shirley, feel free to take the week off, you might need the rest

Only Shirley and BSF now. A little pregame side question:

The hockey penalty database has 8 different calls that were only made one time in this window. One of them was for a coach or manager on the ice and one of them was for a player leaving the penalty box. Can you name either one? (I'm only asking because you probably can)

Jeff Van Gundy.

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:42 am Only Shirley and BSF now. A little pregame side question:

The hockey penalty database has 8 different calls that were only made one time in this window. One of them was for a coach or manager on the ice and one of them was for a player leaving the penalty box. Can you name either one? (I'm only asking because you probably can)

Felony assault was called on Marty McSorley

174 times but all before 2010 unfortunately

Coach feels like it would be Torts.

Evander Kane? Brad Marchand?

Patrick Roy/Milan Lucic

OK, BSF about to enter and then we're good. Lemme go eat a goddamn snack and start the reveal at about 12:45 et

For the record, well done to the swamp for providing me several genuine laughs over the stuff in the verisimilitude mouse threads this morning.

Game of the Week

As chronicled by SL last week, lots at stake in the AFC this week with 6 teams at .500 or better in the middle of the conference all playing each other. Let's go with the best records of the bunch though, as the 8-4 Syb Colts battle the 7-5 Rex Bengals

NFL SNL Skit of the Week



Halftime Report of the Week

Steve McNair suffers a mild concussion and could return. All quarterbacks for the Bengals get banged around. The America Online Keyword is NFL.com

Q1 - Name the singer or band of any of the following songs from the 2004 compilation album Motown 1s (10)

CORRECT
Reach Out I'll Be There = THE FOUR TOPS (MINUS-1) - Romero
Uptight = STEVIE WONDER (3) - Bengal, Mister D, Syb
Rhythm of the Night = DEBARGE (3) - Giff, Citgo, PDX
Don't Leave Me This Way = THELMA HOUSTON (3) - Jerloma, LJam, Rass
Please Mr. Postman = THE MARVELETTES (3) - Duff, Pruitt, Sancarlos
My Girl = THE TEMPTATIONS (3) - Rex, Shirley, Trav
I Want You Back = THE JACKSON 5 (4) - AB, BSF, Nonlinear, Tony
Three Times a Lady = COMMODORES (4) - Brian, Bronto, GoodKarma, Rush
Heat Wave = MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS (7) - BFJ, Carwash, Chedda, DiS, DSafe, Enoch, GPJ

INCORRECT (12)
The Shirelles - Cerrano

LEFTOVERS
None

My first negative one! And I answered them because I thought they sang My Girl