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cornfused wrote:
Caesar Rodney HS wrote:See if you can guess why a student legitimately thought his answers might be right.
The two parts that make up a lycan, I take it. One of my teammates had a similar wrong bonus answer the other day.
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League Play last night:

Given: Sphincter
Correct: Dendrite
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Recently on older NAQT stuff:

Plutarch for Petrarch
Theodosius for Theodoric
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One of our Freshmen said Bikini Bottom for Bikini Atoll in practice yesterday
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At Eleanor Roosevelt this morning:

Full Metal Alchemist for Fire Emblem

It was a category round: "Things Beginning With the Letter F." The first line mentioned the series being imported from Japan, and I guess they just guessed.
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From practice:

Given: Huson River Valley
Answer: Kuiper Belt
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Prof.Whoopie wrote:From practice:

Given: Huson River Valley
Answer: Kuiper Belt
How did that happen?
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quantumfootball wrote:
Prof.Whoopie wrote:From practice:

Given: Huson River Valley
Answer: Kuiper Belt
How did that happen?
An extremely bad player who shows up at practice sometimes and often doesn't pay attention to the question, producing hilarity.
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From today's Metcalf Sweetheart Tournament (middle school):
Given: Taxidermist
Correct: Taxonomist
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From a several-years-old NAQT IS set in practice:
Q: FTPE identify the third part of these triplets blah blah... The three theological virtues are faith, hope, and this.
A: Chastity.
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Not a neg, but still kind of painful when it happened.

At practice, one of our players answered Sudan, and got power on it. Then he said:

"I knew it was Sudan because I knew it had to be in the Middle East."

Mind you, his definition of Middle East is the normal definition, he just thought that Sudan was in Asia.
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Occurring in at least two rooms at Triton Bowl, and an unknown number of rooms at other Prison Bowl mirror sites:

Wrong: Whaling
Right: Incest
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During county play, last question out of 25 tossups:

This woman, who was born in 1891, was the first lady (buzz)

My guess: Jacqueline Kennedy
Answer: Onassis

Almost: what N university had "Win one for the Gipper", team was going to say Northwestern :sad: , but pulled out Notre Dame at last second.

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scquizbowl wrote:This woman, who was born in 1891, was the first lady (buzz)

My guess: Jacqueline Kennedy
Answer: Onassis
:w-hat:
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AndyShootsAndyScores wrote:
scquizbowl wrote:This woman, who was born in 1891, was the first lady (buzz)

My guess: Jacqueline Kennedy
Answer: Onassis
:w-hat:
No no no, Joe, you've got it backwards.

Your guess was Onassis, to which I immediately responded that Aristotle Onassis was not a woman.

The correct answer was Rose Kennedy.
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At last year's EQUINE:

Something about a concert, AIDS, Africa

*blind buzz*
"Freddy Mercury."

The answer was Nelson Mandela.
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From Prison Bowl:
Given: Kevin Bacon
Correct: Stanley Milgram
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la2pgh wrote:From Prison Bowl:
Given: Kevin Bacon
Correct: Stanley Milgram
Let me guess, off the Six Degrees of Separation clue.
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AlphaQuizBowler wrote:
la2pgh wrote:From Prison Bowl:
Given: Kevin Bacon
Correct: Stanley Milgram
Let me guess, off the Six Degrees of Separation clue.
Bingo, except he waited about half a line after that, which made it more ridiculous.
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cvdwightw wrote:Occurring in at least two rooms at Triton Bowl, and an unknown number of rooms at other Prison Bowl mirror sites:

Wrong: Whaling
Right: Incest
Damn, now I really wish I'd gone to Triton Bowl...
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Given: KKK
Answer: Copperheads
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cvdwightw wrote:Occurring in at least two rooms at Triton Bowl, and an unknown number of rooms at other Prison Bowl mirror sites:

Wrong: Whaling
Right: Incest
One team at EPITHET negged with "sex" after it had mentioned some countries have made it illegal.
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Should "sex" have been promptable?
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OntarioQuizzer wrote:Should "sex" have been promptable?
Except that the countries that have banned sex have horrible growth rates. Incest, not so much.
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There's no imaginable way that should be promptable.
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hwhite wrote:
OntarioQuizzer wrote:Should "sex" have been promptable?
Except that the countries that have banned sex have horrible growth rates. Incest, not so much.
Swaziland actually tried that for a while not too long ago. I remember that, at some point during that period, the king got married, breaking the vow of chastity and forcing himself to fine himself one (1) cow.
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This is from Round 1 of Cardinal Classic:

My Answer: Katy Peters
Right Answer: Katy Perry
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wd4gdz wrote:This is from Round 1 of Cardinal Classic:

My Answer: Katy Peters
Right Answer: Katy Perry
Classy, Billy.
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wd4gdz wrote:This is from Round 1 of Cardinal Classic:

My Answer: Katy Peters
Right Answer: Katy Perry
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From a player of mine at today's Streator Northlawn Knowledge Power Tournament (middle school):
"What word is synonymous with traditional, timeless, and standard and was removed from Coca-Cola products in the beginning of two thous[BUZZ]"
Given: Cocaine

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Theory Of The Leisure Flask wrote:the king got married, breaking the vow of chastity and forcing himself to fine himself one (1) cow.
If you're the king, how exactly do you fine yourself a cow... I mean, where did the cow go?
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On scholars' bowl...
...These were dried out *buzz* raisins?
...and made into bird houses. Gourds.
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Today at Practice:

Given: The Donner Party
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Today:

Given: Telekinesis
Answer: Telophase
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At a tournament last weekend

"This holiday...blah blah blah...started by a Marxist...BUZZ"

Given: Labor Day
Answer: Kwanzaa
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BATE practice...


Given: goats

Answer: wisdom teeth
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That was my tossup... Where was the neg? What clue was it on?
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That was my tossup... Where was the neg? What clue was it on?
I would not look too much into, Ian. The person who got the neg was rather green, since he has only been coming to practice for a few weeks or so. Also, he buzzed in/around the first line, I think, so he did not have much to go off of, so there was likely not much to justify his answer (almost certainly not, in fact).
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ImaPC wrote:
That was my tossup... Where was the neg? What clue was it on?
I would not look too much into, Ian. The person who got the neg was rather green, since he has only been coming to practice for a few weeks or so. Also, he buzzed in/around the first line, I think, so he did not have much to go off of, so there was likely not much to justify his answer (almost certainly not, in fact).
Here you go:
round 2, tossup 16 wrote:In 2008 a Japanese team was able to extract stem cells from them, useful because they are so readily available. They are labeled...
BUZZ.

"goats?"

*stunned looks from teammates*

"ummm... no..."

*increased laughter as question progresses*

Yeah... i guess goats are readily available...
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'“filioque” clause of the Nicene Creed is often regarded-'
BUZZ
"Extinction of the Dinosaurs" for "Great Schism"
In my teammate's defense, he claimed he heard "comet".
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Since the WoQ mirror has finally passed, I am free to post this one, probably the best neg I've been present for all year.
Given: Bilbo Baggins's Birthday Party
Correct: Field of the Golden Cloth
Off the opening clue "Fireworks in the shape of a dragon distracted participants at this event."

The worst part about the whole thing is that, when my teammate buzzed, his answer was completely correct. Still, there was solid laughter in the room for about a minute afterward.
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He should have protested.
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Johannes Climacus wrote:Since the WoQ mirror has finally passed, I am free to post this one, probably the best neg I've been present for all year.
Given: Bilbo Baggins's Birthday Party
Correct: Field of the Golden Cloth
Off the opening clue "Fireworks in the shape of a dragon distracted participants at this event."

The worst part about the whole thing is that, when my teammate buzzed, his answer was completely correct. Still, there was solid laughter in the room for about a minute afterward.
ihavenoidea wrote:He should have protested.
Well, the actual text is:
WoQ wrote:During this event, an incident involving fireworks forming a dragon temporarily stopped the procession which was followed by a sermon delivered by Richard Pace.
So either you buzz before the word procession and you're only buzzing off of fireworks forming a dragon, which could happen at any really big fireworks show, or you hear the word procession and must ignore that in order to answer with the Lord of the Rings answer...
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I mean, it seems fairly reasonable to buzz in before the word "procession" (I certainly would have). I probably would have weighed whether it was crazier to have a tossup on Bilbo's party, or to have a tossup on the Field of the Cloth of Gold at a high school tournament. I think I would have negged with Bilbo. In any case, it's amusing but hardly a bad neg. Consequently, I recommend that tossup author George Stevens switches from being a history player to being a lord of the rings player.
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DumbJaques wrote:I mean, it seems fairly reasonable to buzz in before the word "procession" (I certainly would have). I probably would have weighed whether it was crazier to have a tossup on Bilbo's party, or to have a tossup on the Field of the Cloth of Gold at a high school tournament. I think I would have negged with Bilbo. In any case, it's amusing but hardly a bad neg. Consequently, I recommend that tossup author George Stevens switches from being a history player to being a lord of the rings player.
I'll admit, the tossup was probably too difficult, but I certainly heard a few tossups on it as high schooler (including a memorable buzz of mine which won the game at some tournament at Vandy).
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GlitchYC wrote:'“filioque” clause of the Nicene Creed is often regarded-'
BUZZ
"Extinction of the Dinosaurs" for "Great Schism"
In my teammate's defense, he claimed he heard "comet".
Hey--what set are these from?
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myamphigory wrote:
GlitchYC wrote:'“filioque” clause of the Nicene Creed is often regarded-'
BUZZ
"Extinction of the Dinosaurs" for "Great Schism"
In my teammate's defense, he claimed he heard "comet".
Hey--what set are these from?
I would assume it was:
PACE Spring Qualifier Round 7 wrote:Tossup 15. This event was preceded by letters sent from Martin Cerularios to Cardinal Humbert of Mourmoutiers, and the “filioque” clause of the Nicene Creed is often regarded as one of the earliest causes of it. One attempt to revert the effects of this event and was attended by a representative of Byzantine emperor Michael VIII, which occurred during the Second Council of Lyon in 1274, while the 1439 Council of Florence’s attempts to reunite the two parties. For 10 points, what is this event which saw the church split into the Eastern Orthodox and Western Catholic branches?
ANSWER: Great Schism [or Schism of 1054 ]
Which would make the neg even worse considering the inadequacy of pre-extinction mail service...
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Tower Monarch wrote:
myamphigory wrote:
GlitchYC wrote:'“filioque” clause of the Nicene Creed is often regarded-'
BUZZ
"Extinction of the Dinosaurs" for "Great Schism"
In my teammate's defense, he claimed he heard "comet".
Hey--what set are these from?
I would assume it was:
PACE Spring Qualifier Round 7 wrote:Tossup 15. This event was preceded by letters sent from Martin Cerularios to Cardinal Humbert of Mourmoutiers, and the “filioque” clause of the Nicene Creed is often regarded as one of the earliest causes of it. One attempt to revert the effects of this event and was attended by a representative of Byzantine emperor Michael VIII, which occurred during the Second Council of Lyon in 1274, while the 1439 Council of Florence’s attempts to reunite the two parties. For 10 points, what is this event which saw the church split into the Eastern Orthodox and Western Catholic branches?
ANSWER: Great Schism [or Schism of 1054 ]
Which would make the neg even worse considering the inadequacy of pre-extinction mail service...
Great--I just wanted to make sure it was from a set that was cleared for discussion. For future reference, please make sure to say what set each bad neg is from (per the first post in this thread) to avoid terrifying board staff who fear you might be posting uncleared answers.
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Re: Bad Negs Again

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Not exactly a neg, but worth sharing...
(during a bonus discussion at practice using the St. Viator MS Tourney packets)
part C. Xylophones, drums, and even pianos belong to this family because they produce sound when they are struck with a tool, such as a stick or mallet

Player K (rookie): Part C is woodwinds.
Player C (3-year vet): What?
Player K: No, a teacher in elementary school told us! They're made of wood and..
Player C (exasperated): K! YOU DON'T BLOW INTO A PIANO!
Player K: Yeah, but...

But it was too late. The room broke down into laughter and I had to leave the room to compose myself. :lol: :lol:
Player K hereby no longer gets to razz the teammate who negged on the river that flows through London with "English Channel." :wink:
Jeff Price
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Barrington Station Middle School Coach (2013 MSNCT Champions, 2013 & 2017 Illinois Class AA State Champions)
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