Bad Negs

bigtrain · Post by **bigtrain** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:18 pm

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bigtrain · Post by **bigtrain** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:21 pm

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mrblinux · Post by **mrblinux** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 10:24 pm

I think I speak for all of us when I say...

the heck?

Post by **DumbJaques** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 10:41 pm

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

EDIT: I stand corrected

Marcel Duchamp · Post by **Marcel Duchamp** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:16 am

Roman Holiday for Spartacus

Daniel Day Lewis for James Fenimore Cooper

Post by **DumbJaques** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:40 pm

Josie and the Pussycats for Blondie

dtaylor4 · Post by **dtaylor4** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:52 pm

Francis Click for Crick (issue with handwriting)

steven-lamp · Post by **steven-lamp** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:44 pm

From ASCA state tournament:

Johnny Cochran for Louis Brandeis (heard 1960 instead of 1916)

obscenity for patent

Both accredited to me...

BobGHHS · Post by **BobGHHS** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:36 pm

Today at Solon, can't remember the question, maybe Noah can refresh my memory...

Answer: Bill O' Reilly
Correct Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Bonus, name these African countries...

Blah Blah Blah
Anisha: JAPAN!

Leo Wolpert · Post by **Leo Wolpert** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:26 pm

From ICT:

Wrong: Astroglide
Right: Buckyballs

cvdwightw · Post by **cvdwightw** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:33 pm

Also from ICT:

Wrong: Ferris Wheel
Right: Field Museum of Natural History

This is possibly the most off I've ever been on a neg.

No Sollositing On Premise · Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:42 pm

From ICT:
Wrong: Police Academy
Right: A Light in August

Off a clue on a character named "Hightower"

Captain Sinico · Post by **Captain Sinico** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:51 pm

Leo Wolpert wrote:From ICT:

Wrong: Astroglide
Right: Buckyballs

I still stand by my terrible, terrible neg.

MaS

Jeremy Gibbs Lemma · Post by **Jeremy Gibbs Lemma** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:54 pm

From one of my teammates:

His answer: Dolphin
Correct answer: Larva

zwtipp · Post by **zwtipp** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:59 pm

Comets for Clouds

Post by **DumbJaques** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:31 pm

AA's Twelve Steps for SUFISM

Good god. . .

zwtipp · Post by **zwtipp** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:18 am

Fundamental Orders of Connecticutt for answer from NAQT IS set.

Moderator: Please do not post answers from NAQT IS sets in any form until they're released.

steven-lamp · Post by **steven-lamp** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:15 pm

Today at Practice (not committed by me):

Ted Bundy for Perse Shelley

jewtemplar · Post by **jewtemplar** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:47 pm

steven-lamp wrote:Today at Practice (not committed by me):

Ted Bundy for Perse Shelley

"The Necessity of Serial Killing," anyone?

How did that work?

steven-lamp · Post by **steven-lamp** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:23 pm

It was made by one of the stupider guys, I think he was just messing around, but it was really funny.

In fact, I just remembered another good one from today.

Axl Rose for Harold Pinter (same guy, don't ask)

AndyShootsAndyScores · Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:43 pm

One from a middle school kid practicing with us:

Question: "...some of them were starved by Incans as sacrifices to the gods..."

Answer Given: Survivor (the TV show, not the band)
Correct Answer: llamas

I still to this day wonder how he came up with this.

Skepticism and Animal Feed · Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:56 am

zwtipp wrote:Fundamental Orders of Connecticutt for Aleutians

That is possibly the most awesome neg ever. It has made my day. Thank you.

I'm curious as to what prompted it, however. Something about trees?

zwtipp · Post by **zwtipp** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:58 am

Well, the reader reset the buzzer as he started the question and my teammates buzzer went off without him touching it. Since our coach was reading the match, he didn't believe him and made him give an answer. He did realize that the buzzer was malfunctioning and we simply replaced the buzzer and went on with the question since he had only gotten one word out.

zwtipp · Post by **zwtipp** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:14 pm

Treaty of Port MacArthur for answer from NAQT IS set.
This was me. Although we were winning 425 to -10 when i did it.

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dtaylor4 · Post by **dtaylor4** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:49 pm

I am insulted as I go to MacArthur High School (not really).

Washington Monument for Gateway Arch

jonpin · Post by **jonpin** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:50 am

DaGeneral wrote:Washington Monument for Gateway Arch

I think I made that mistake on a bonus part, because it wanted the tallest something-or-other, and I didn't think the Arch fell under that heading. Going to college in St. Louis, I was shamed.

Back in HS, a teammate of mine tried to say Fort Marlboro instead of Fort McHenry on a bonus part. When we didn't know the last part of the bonus, we had her say Fort Virginia Slims.

Skepticism and Animal Feed · Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:56 pm

Gnolem for Golem at practice yesterday. I think I confused Golem and Gnome, and thus buzzed in with their unholy joint spawn.

Larry Horse · Post by **Larry Horse** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 7:31 pm

Practice doesn't count, Mr. Arthur.

By the way, the funniest right answer I ever heard to a toss-up was

PENIS!!!!

That's right, the answer was actually penis! Who'd of thunk it

dtaylor4 · Post by **dtaylor4** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:26 am

jonpin wrote:
DaGeneral wrote:Washington Monument for Gateway Arch
I think I made that mistake on a bonus part, because it wanted the tallest something-or-other, and I didn't think the Arch fell under that heading. Going to college in St. Louis, I was shamed.

I went in early when it started off with the exact height (630 ft) but I realized that the Washington Monument is 555 feet, and when they said Eero Saarinen, the art person on my team smacked me in the head.

bigtrain · Post by **bigtrain** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:03 pm

Syphilis for Sisyphus

dtaylor4 · Post by **dtaylor4** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:44 pm

everything for eclectic

ezubaric · Post by **ezubaric** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:30 pm

Also at the ICT:

Wrong: Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the communist party?
Right: Is it because I'm a lesbian?

grapesmoker · Post by **grapesmoker** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:01 pm

Me at ACF Nationals:

Right: Maps of the moon
Wrong: Fonts

Post by **DumbJaques** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:09 pm

Wrong: God
Right: Syphilis

cvdwightw · Post by **cvdwightw** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:01 pm

ezubaric wrote:Also at the ICT:

Wrong: Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the communist party?
Right: Is it because I'm a lesbian?

After hearing the entire text of that question, Steve buzzed in with "At long last, sir, have you left no sense of decency?" (or something very similar)

Not that anyone in our room was going to get it off of the moderator reading "L.A. Law and Order" as the giveaway.

mrs. dalloway · Post by **mrs. dalloway** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 5:49 pm

Q: "In 1992, the 500th anniversary of Columbus...blah blah blah...what is the name for a 500th anniversary?"
A: "THANKSGIVING!" (cried very loudly and excitedly)

(Some of our team members still torment the kid about this, two years later.)

quizbowllee · Post by **quizbowllee** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:33 pm

Today in practice:

Answer Given: Ayatollah
Correct Answer: Lee Iacocca

Good stuff.

Post by **DumbJaques** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:19 pm

Hillbillies for Morlocs

dtaylor4 · Post by **dtaylor4** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:27 pm

Is there really a difference between the two?

mrblinux · Post by **mrblinux** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:25 pm

Colleen, those must have been Chip Beall questions.

I'd rather make fun of the question writer than the player who negged. After all, Chip breeds those kinds of answers.

mrs. dalloway · Post by **mrs. dalloway** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:05 pm

[quote]Colleen, those must have been Chip Beall questions.
I'd rather make fun of the question writer than the player who negged. After all, Chip breeds those kinds of answers.[/quote]

I do realize that it was a bad question, but still, what does Thanksgiving have to do with anything in that question? (Like Columbus?)

bigtrain · Post by **bigtrain** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:09 pm

mrblinux's signature wrote:No longer affiliated with Blake It's Ac team :D

I've known there was something up with you considering I've had no contact with you for three weeks and you have been absent from a few events your team has attended. I was just wondering what is going on with you. If you don't feel comfortable answering here, you know other ways to contact me.

Post by **DumbJaques** » Thu May 05, 2005 12:24 pm

Ragnarok for The Great Escape

UFeng · Post by **UFeng** » Fri May 06, 2005 12:48 am

This is an old one, but I was just reminded of it the other day-

"Not knowing his wife had also been shot, his final words were, 'Sophie live for our children'"

Wrong: MacDuff
Right: Franz Ferdinand

Trevkeeper · Post by **Trevkeeper** » Fri May 06, 2005 4:56 pm

Stupid Question-Is it FRANZ Ferdinand, or FRANCIS Ferdinand? I can never remember.

Skepticism and Animal Feed · Fri May 06, 2005 5:21 pm

Trevkeeper wrote:Stupid Question-Is it FRANZ Ferdinand, or FRANCIS Ferdinand? I can never remember.

Franz is German for Francis, iirc.

Trevkeeper · Post by **Trevkeeper** » Fri May 06, 2005 5:23 pm

Hmm. Then, if I committed the cardinal sin of QB and said a first name, would they accept both Francis and Franz?

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Fri May 06, 2005 6:03 pm

Trevkeeper wrote:Hmm. Then, if I committed the cardinal sin of QB and said a first name, would they accept both Francis and Franz?

In this case, possibly. Wikipedia claims that he is occasionally refered to as Francis in English (something I haven't seen prior to this, but I don't read a whole lot about Franz), so if there's a good answer line or if your TD/moderator is informed and/or willing to research things, then you should be fine.

Skepticism and Animal Feed · Fri May 06, 2005 6:28 pm

Trevkeeper wrote:Hmm. Then, if I committed the cardinal sin of QB and said a first name, would they accept both Francis and Franz?

If they did not accept either Francis or Franz, that is a very legitimate protest. For all we know, you were raised by rabid anti-Germans who taught you history with Anglicized names, and by not accepting Francis, you are being discriminated against. Similar logic is behind original-language names always being accepted.

Though "Joe Table" is still not acceptable on Jose Mesa tossups.

solonqb · Post by **solonqb** » Fri May 06, 2005 6:49 pm

Bruce wrote: Though "Joe Table" is still not acceptable on Jose Mesa tossups.

In Cleveland, we would accept several other answers, each of which I would get banned for saying

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