NFL Swampcrash 2023 - Week 6

[The Sybian]

Game is better when you go with sure things instead of guesses. Who knew?

That's been my strategy. You tend to get a lot of most popular, but then you avoid the dreaded Incorrect plus up.

Apparently everyone overthinks it anyway and you end up with good answers some weeks.

I'm also killing myself on the landmark one. I figured it was Giza but I wasn't sure if he was going for Sphinx or Pyramids and I didn't want to take a wrong answer.

I've come to learn that Ryan is extremely forgiving on these types of answers (except for not accepting netball!), but since netball was never in the Olympics, there is no way he could accept that answer. I was debating answering St. Basil's or Red Square, but since St. Basil's is in Red Square, I figured going broader was fine. OTOH, how close to the pyramids is the sphinx?

[The Sybian]

I decided to look to see how laughable my Dusty Baker answer was. I thought he won the World Series managing the Giants or possibly with the Cubs. I figured I was about a decade late for him being a correct answer, but that's the best I had. I was 50/50 on whether he died, and really thought I saw something about him retiring years ago. Turns out he only won the World Series with the Astros but was incorrect because he is still managing the Astros who are apparently in the playoffs now. And did you guys know the Astros are no longer in the National League?

[EdRomero]

Isn’t St. Paul the capital of Zazopolisland?

State capitals aren't capitals?

Attaboy Bronto

[EnochRoot]

Q9 - 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 (15)

CORRECT
Zora Neale Hurston (1) - PDX
Alice Walker (1) - Pruitt
Toni Morrison (1) - Tony, Tone!
Alex Haley (3) - Bengal, BFJ, Chedda
Ralph Ellison (3) - Brian, Citgo, Rass
Langston Hughes (3) - BSF, Carwash, GPJ
Richard Wright (3) - Cerrano, Shirley, Syb
Maya Angelou (5) - Bronto, Jerloma, Nonlinear, Rex, Romero
James Baldwin (8) - AB, DiS, Duff, Giff, LJam, Mister D, Rush, Sancarlos

INCORRECT (13)
Ta-Nehisi Coates - DSafe, Trav
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1. oh no, but 2. I had to check) - GoodKarma
Frederick Douglass - Enoch

LEFTOVERS
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Octavia Butler
Lorraine Hansberry
August Wilson
Amiri Baraka

I’m stunned Frederick Douglass wouldn’t make any list of top black authors of all time. Unless the author had to write works of fiction, I guess? I mean, the guy’s got bridges and schools named after him.

[Jerloma]

Typical Swampcrash thought process - “everyone will say Aretha Franklin , so I’ll say Patti LaBelle and get a one pointer!”

Mine was that everyone will say Whitney so I'll go with Donna for the 1...Whitney would have been a 1!!!! What is happening?

Nice game NLFC, but uggggghhhh....

[Gunpowder]

Na na na na

[Shirley]

I decided to look to see how laughable my Dusty Baker answer was. I thought he won the World Series managing the Giants or possibly with the Cubs. I figured I was about a decade late for him being a correct answer, but that's the best I had. I was 50/50 on whether he died, and really thought I saw something about him retiring years ago. Turns out he only won the World Series with the Astros but was incorrect because he is still managing the Astros who are apparently in the playoffs now. And did you guys know the Astros are no longer in the National League?

I just checked and my Joe Torre answer was only off by one. But I really didn't have any other guesses. I did think about Baker, but thought I'd seen that he's still managing.

And yes, the Astros being in the American League still confuses me. And that happened 10 years ago.

[The Sybian]

I decided to look to see how laughable my Dusty Baker answer was. I thought he won the World Series managing the Giants or possibly with the Cubs. I figured I was about a decade late for him being a correct answer, but that's the best I had. I was 50/50 on whether he died, and really thought I saw something about him retiring years ago. Turns out he only won the World Series with the Astros but was incorrect because he is still managing the Astros who are apparently in the playoffs now. And did you guys know the Astros are no longer in the National League?

I just checked and my Joe Torre answer was only off by one. But I really didn't have any other guesses. I did think about Baker, but thought I'd seen that he's still managing.

And yes, the Astros being in the American League still confuses me. And that happened 10 years ago.

Joe Torre was my only other thought. I debated whether reading the baseball postseason thread to see what teams are in the playoffs would be cheating, but even if I saw the teams, I dont know who the managers are.

[sancarlos]

Didn’t realize that AJ Hinch had gotten another managing job.