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Hillbillies for Morlocs

Wrong: God
Right: Syphilis

Some preliminary results, I do not have stats of any sort. In order to get teams out in time for passover, we had to leave some stat entering undone in the playoffs. Further clarification can be posted later, should you desire. 1) Thomas Jefferson A 2) Thomas Jefferson B 3) Walter Johnson A 4) Spots...

It's done completely by single person sign ups. You can sign up as a team (whether you actually happen to be a team or not), or as a single player and get sorted.

To gloriously thread-jack my own team's tournament's thread, I believe holton was defeated by st. albans, who will be at the tournament. So counting us, that's everyone.

AA's Twelve Steps for SUFISM

Good god. . .

This is the third or fourth time someone from Maryland has been trying to call out Illinois teams (and no, I will not apologize for any one Illinois person trash talking the other states, that's just as wrong). I think the moderators of this website have been asking people to stop that. That's a bi...

Josie and the Pussycats for Blondie

Actually, this is hardly the most useless post this thread has head in the last couple of days

EDIT: I stand corrected

hsquizbowl. . . where coherence is checked at the door

Nero for Diderot (After the player had badly, badly misheard another tell him the answer)

Me. I actually went in on "his parents died in the holocaust, which caused him to realize his abilities-"

Not unreasonable, but I still answered an X-men bad guy for a well-known author.

Right: Eli Wiesel
Wrong: Magneto

Greek fire for Aurora Borealis

I personally feel that my fast-twitch forarm muscle system, that is, my video game muscles, have been improved by playing quizbowl. I know of no greater measure of self-betterment than improving the physical aspect of one's video gaming skill. I really value who I've met, by chance you could say, th...

Sharon, from RM B, and I will be "coaching" the b team. On the off chance that some of them are on this board, I won't call it babysitting. Actually, on the off chance that some of them are on this board, I will call it babysitting. Just out of spite. I know ER has some sophmore talent, an...

In a desperate effort to avoid turning this thread into a discussion of Keegan:

How is everyone's freshman/sophmore talent? Any pre-tournament predictions for the little ones?

Howard, would you type up what you would believe to be example of this mysterious pyramidal Keegan question? Perhaps that could solve what seems to be a bit of a communication block between the pro-keegans (you) and the anti-keegans (everyone else who has posted). We're evidently having a problem se...

I weep for the state of quizbowl

Viewers are not ready for 4 and 6 line questions. Are we thinking of the same Keegan??????? Here is my impression (I encourage all of you to give your own example) of what the vast majority of questions are like: "December 10th sees in 1958 the publication of The Witches of Eastwick, a novel b...

The thing about the region is that everyone is so good. For what it's worth, I really did not like the questions used at states. Not to downplay any of the upsets or anything, because as I said, the region is so good that they are definately going to happen, but there was something about them that j...

Was RC missing people?

Seppuku for Tea Ceremony

Rending yourself, enjoying an herbal remedy. . . it's a fine line

Michael Jackson for Steve Irwin....

Baby dangling?

in hamlet, hamlet does accuse claudius of whoring his mother, and if you watch the gibson movie (i have seen the olivier, gibson, branagh, and hawke versions of hamlet), during the scene where hamlet is with his mother in her bedchamber, he has her in a certain position on the bed and the headboard...

Plastique for Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for Magical Mystery Tour

steven-lamp wrote: Today at the tournament at Bryant High in Tuscaloosa: Q: "What power did the American character on 'Captain Planet' possess?" Me: *BUZZ* "Um, the power to bring pollution down to zero..." Ma-Ti, the "Heart" Planeteer, was also from (South) America. O...

Fire, right?

Today on Kevin "the undead" Keegan's Quizmaster Challenge TV show:

Buzz: Sacco and Vanzetti
Answer: King Tut

There was a visual (black and white) which showed to males standing around. The offending player later claimed that the men "looked italian."

RM A and B are now the only two undefeated teams. I don't know why my coach gave them such an easy schedule (which does not feature RM A, Blake A or WJ A) while slamming us with both Blake and RM A. RM B won last year. I assume that's why. Still, playoffs will force all of us to play each other, so...

I understand Blake put up 800 points in one of the games today. Not very sporting, Mike. . .

Congratulations to Walter Johnson A, winner of the RichMo Stakes, held 11/9/04 at Richard Montgomery High school. WJ defeated Blake 230-150 in the final round of a round robin playoff, capping a 6-0 day. The top four: 1) Walter Johnson A 2) Blake 3) Whitman 4) Eleanor Roosevelt All four teams, in ad...

Congrats to TJ, and to the Blake folks for getting us outta there at 2:30. Wow.

I feel compelled to post about a reader error in one of our prelim games:

Reader: This apostle to the genitals. . .
Player: What??
Reader: Oh. . . God!

Since our resident Blake webmaster, Mike Braun, is a bit busy right now, I have been encouraged to post the results from the 2004 Quizmaster Invitational Tournament, held at Blake HS in Silver Spring, MD. So, here they are: Playoff teams* (out of a field of about 30) 1) Richard Montgomery A 2) Walte...

Ok, my own personal contribution, and what I hope will not be replaced as my worst neg ever:
"Blah blah blah name this type of latin music, which shares its name witha type of hot mexican sauce"
BUZZ
Me: "Tabasco. . . no, wait. . ."

I've seen the timer employed well, and I've seen it employed terribly. These experiences have led me to believe that, while the timer itself is an excellent solution to absurdly long tournaments, it can be VERY problematic when horribly mismanaged. Fortunately, TJ this year (and any other time I've ...

Pretty sure we're sending 3 teams.

Someone on my team buzzed when it began "Oscar Robertson attended a high school" and said Cincinatti (which is, I believe, where he played in college). Apparently, he also attended Crispus Attucks high school. And a few more: Smallpox and Solar Eclipse for El Nino Microscope for Submarine ...

At practice today:
Cincinatti for Crispus Attucks
Empire State Building for Dag Hammerskjold

The onion juice for smog is only really funny because, although it was a buzz right after "irritates the eyes," the question had already stated that it contained formaldehyde, acrolein, and peroxy-acetyl nitrate.

Outstanding job of management by you guys. The time in which we finished was really unbelievable. Although I was a bit disapointed about the lack of medieval weapons as awards. . . but still, nicely done.

I am from WJ and am going to Furman. Who from RM are you and who from RM is going to Furman? I assume you are the RM player who placed 2nd in lit..congrats Humza and Alex are going to Furman. I believe they are majoring in science and social studies, respectively. I'm Chris Ray, I played mostly on ...

Sounds great. I especially like the random placement of ten lightning buzzes, because hey, you can never prime the buzzer too much.

How many teams are you expecting?

Camp was pretty great. Both minor subjects (art and music) were extremely informative and covered material I remember coming up frequently at PACE and other tournaments. Terrill Wilkins (Dorman, class of 03) did the art lecture, and told us stories about obscure art tossups he'd gotten. The majors w...

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