REMINDERS
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 don't reply to all if answering by email
For your own questions only, you may "cheat" and submit any answer you want
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
Send answers to ryantfriedman (gmail) or private message here
ANSWERS DUE FRIDAY, OCT. 17 @ 12 PM (Reveal here on the boards @ 1 PM)
MATCHUPS
QUESTIONS
1. On a list of the 100 most populous cities in New England (2010 Census), name one that is found in Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont (8)
2. SUBMITTED BY DC - Name one of the top 20 scientific innovations since the wheel, according to the assessment of a panel of scientists, entrepreneurs, historians of technology, and others who were assembled by the magazine The Atlantic in 2013 (20)
COMMISH NOTE: This list is a mix of inventions in the classic sense, and procedural innovations
3. Name any last name more common in Ireland than Kennedy (15)
NOTE: Some names have been traditionally used with and without an O' at the start - the 2 uses are combined for these totals
4. Name one of the 10 deadliest jobs in America, according to Forbes.com through Bureau of Labor Statistics data (10)
NOTE: This is a statistical list determined purely by occupational-related deaths per full-time equivalent employee, and not a subjective "most dangerous" list
5. Name one of the five characters depicted on the official movie poster for the 1987 movie Spaceballs or the actor/actress that portrayed them (10)
6. SUBMITTED BY LJAM - Since the Cy Young Award was first instituted in 1957, there have been 8 times when a team won "The Treble", meaning it won the World Series in the same year they had the MVP and Cy Young winner. 13 different men represent these award winners (on three occasions, the MVP and Cy were the same man). Name one of them.
HINT: The years in question are 1957, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1968, 1980, 1984, and 1988
7. SUBMITTED BY BRONTO - Name any player to win the Heisman Trophy as a junior or a sophomore since Billy Sims in 1978 (10)
8. The top ten all-time leading scorers in the NBA are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Wilt Chamberlain, Shaquille O'Neal, Moses Malone, Elvin Hayes, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Dirk Nowitzki. Name anyone currently ranked 11-20 (10)
NOTE: 3 of the players are active
9. Name any Olympic team that has won more than 4 modern Summer Olympic medals and is either NOT currently an independent nation OR no longer exists in the same form as it did (12)
NOTE: Does not include Chinese Taipei, the Olympic designation for Taiwan. Examples that have won LESS than 4 medals include the Virgin Islands and Hong Kong
10. There are 24 current members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame who threw at least 1 touchdown pass in the NFL. Name anyone on the list with more TD passes than Bob Waterfield's 97 but less than Terry Bradshaw's 212 (10)
NOTE: Includes AFL statistics
