The Swamp

Right back at it. Questions will be posted in a little while, including the List Question of the Year

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 1st @ 12PM ET

WEEK THIRTEEN QUESTIONS

1. GAMES
From this list of 16 words, name one that actually precedes "Man" in a Mega Man boss name (8)

Grind
Thrust
Hard
Screw
Pump
Wood
Flash
Nail
Stiff
Junk
Plug
Spread
Fur
Drill
Deep
Blast

2. BASEBALL
Name any current MINOR League Baseball team whose geographic identifier (e.g. "Carolina", "Down East" or "Scranton Wilkes-Barre") starts with P, Q, or R (13)
NOTE: I don't need the team name. This is limited to the current official affiliates of MLB teams

3. HISTORY
Name a U.S. President who lived/has lived past his 80th birthday (12)
NOTE: Full names, please

4. GENERAL SPORTS
Name a STATE represented by a host, winner, or runner-up of EITHER (or both, sure) the NCAA Beach Volleyball or NCAA Alpine Skiing championships since and including 2016 (9)
NOTE: Just to make the list a little longer, I'm going to count the state that was scheduled to host the COVID-cancelled 2020 skiing event

5. GEOGRAPHY
Name one of the world RIVERS pictured below flowing through one of its major cities (9)
NOTE: These were sadly not all taken by Carwash



6. NBA
Name anyone with more PLAYOFF rebounds during the 1990s than Shaquille O'Neal's 730 (12)

7. PAROCHIAL TELEVISION
Name one of the top 10 vote-getters in Boston.com's 2023 poll of favorite TV shows set in Massachusetts (10)
NOTE: This poll was inspired by the Boston/Western Massachusetts Pyrenees-based episodes of The Last of Us, which does NOT appear on the list. One of the correct answers is only assumed to take place in the state, as the specific location is fictional

8. OLYMPICS
Name the sport for which one of the following athletes won a medal for the United States at the 2020 (2021..Tokyo) Summer Olympics (10)
NOTE: If you want to shoot for one of the first 3 on the list, I'd be looking for a specific event instead what you might consider the larger sport

Ryan Crouser
Molly Seidel
Kelsey Plum
Nelly Korda
Oshae Jones
April Ross
Carissa Moore
Jade Carey
Triston Casas
Jagger Eaton

9. "MUSIC"
The Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance has been awarded since 2012. Name any artist with more than 1 NOMINATION in that category's history (13)
NOTE: Just for fun, my breakdown here is 8 "oh yeah, that's a famous country artist"s, 2 "I probably would have been able to tell you that's a country artist"s and 3 "never heard of them"s. And fine, Taylor Swift won the first one but hasn't been nominated since.

10. NFL
Name the HEAD COACH of one of the 11 most recent quarterbacks taken first overall in the NFL Draft when they made their first career start (11)
NOTE: Next on the list would be Lane Kiffin with JaMarcus Russell

For one of these I am proactively mad that I know my answer is correct but will probably also be the answer of multiple people who just guessed.

The Mega Man series slaps.

Doing my answers now. Bumpage.

Did I miss an email this week?

Crap, no. On it soon

Anyone who gets #1 wrong explodes into a ball of flashing lights.

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:09 pm Anyone who gets #1 wrong explodes into a ball of flashing lights.

And they still won't understand this joke.

There was a similar Megaman question in years past no? Or am I experiencing swampa vu?

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:26 pm There was a similar Megaman question in years past no? Or am I experiencing swampa vu?

definitely

Sent...with 3 absolute total guesses included.

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:09 pm Anyone who gets #1 wrong explodes into a ball of flashing lights.

Then cue up the explosion, because that was one of my total guesses.

Never played that game. Or watched it.

BTW, am I allowed to ask what "Best Country Solo Performance" means? Is it a live performance on a show or concert? Or is it just a performance on a recorded song or album?

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:09 pm Anyone who gets #1 wrong explodes into a ball of flashing lights.

Golf clap.

#8 title is an error right and those aren't all hockey players who participated in other olympic events and also some have female names???

Shirley wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:44 pm Never played that game. Or watched it.

BTW, am I allowed to ask what "Best Country Solo Performance" means? Is it a live performance on a show or concert? Or is it just a performance on a recorded song or album?

It's for an album track (or single or however a song is released now).

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:50 pm #8 title is an error right and those aren't all hockey players who participated in other olympic events and also some have female names???

Whoops. Hockey players are definitely busy year-round but that was an error.

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:40 pm Sent...with 3 absolute total guesses included.

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:09 pm Anyone who gets #1 wrong explodes into a ball of flashing lights.

Then cue up the explosion, because that was one of my total guesses.

Total guess for me as well.

I don't even know what Mega Man is.

tennbengal wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 4:31 pm I don't even know what Mega Man is.

I've never seen them, but I do know it is a franchise of animated movies.

ETA: Since I've already submitted my answers, I looked this up. As noted above, I thought for sure it was a cartoon movie series, not a japanese video game series. Things you learn in the Swamp.

tennbengal wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 4:31 pm I don't even know what Mega Man is.

I had a friend who was obsessed with the series. If it wasn't for him, not sure I'd know. Spent way too many hours playing these games on the original NES. Frustrating as hell because each board was long with very little action, and it was easy to make a slight slip up and have to start all over. It would take forever to beat a relatively easy level, because you'd have to restart. And since it felt easy, you kept restarting.

Not that it's going to change my answer because complete guess but until now I thought it was the Will Ferrell movie.

Jerloma wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 5:05 pm Not that it's going to change my answer because complete guess but until now I thought it was the Will Ferrell movie.

Ha, that was Megamind!

Just curious with the Olympics questions, but are these names people know, or did Ryan just choose obscure people so it's basically "name a sport in the Olympics?" Actually, don't answer that, it gives a hint on whether it's mainstream or niche sports. Remember the days when the entire country knew all the US Olympic medal winners?

sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:01 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:40 pm Sent...with 3 absolute total guesses included.

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:09 pm Anyone who gets #1 wrong explodes into a ball of flashing lights.

Then cue up the explosion, because that was one of my total guesses.

Total guess for me as well.

Ryan was nice enough to set it up as a 50/50 proposition.

The country music one was a complete guess (based on some comments in the Swamp)

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 5:19 pm

Jerloma wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 5:05 pm Not that it's going to change my answer because complete guess but until now I thought it was the Will Ferrell movie.

Ha, that was Megamind!

Just curious with the Olympics questions, but are these names people know, or did Ryan just choose obscure people so it's basically "name a sport in the Olympics?" Actually, don't answer that, it gives a hint on whether it's mainstream or niche sports. Remember the days when the entire country knew all the US Olympic medal winners?

Really? With how many medals you guys win?

I remember way back in the late 80s when I was working on a game show and it really wasn't hard to come up with every Canadian gold medal winner.

IN:

AB
BFJ
Brian
Carwash
Chedda
DiS
DSafe
GoodKarma
GPJ
Nonlinear
Pruitt
Rex
Rush
Sancarlos

Literal in about four cases guesses sent.

STILL NEED:

BSF
Duff
Enoch
Giff
Citgo
LJam
Mister D
Rass
Shirley

Giff knows he can't mess with texans

ugh

sent

Glad this is a bye week. I may have set a new PR for total guesses.

Is snipe hunting an olympic sport? Maybe one of those medaled in that...

DOWN TO;

Mister D
Enoch
Giff
BSF

Someone is currently sitting on a SUB-5 HALF

It's Shirley.

Its me because I got all zeroes!



(I'll do it now.)

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 10:11 am Its me because I got all zeroes!



(I'll do it now.)

Yes, that's exactly how scoring works.

Sent

Done.