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Posted: **Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:51 am**

George Berry on IRC last night:

Given: shattering the backboard
Answer: converting to Islam

Posted: **Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:25 am**

metsfan001 wrote:George Berry on IRC last night:

Apparently I am undergoing a metamorphosis into Trevor Davis. Hopefully my PPG will undergo a similar change.

Posted: **Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:13 pm**

From some set last year (house written I believe, perhaps a Maryland tournament and Henry might know):

A tossup's first sentence mentioned that he was born to Hasidic Jews in Belarus and studied art.

Buzz!

Hitler

We stopped and laughed for a few minutes. Then we discussed why the Freshman Method of buzzing is not a good idea.

(The answer was Marc Chagall.)

Posted: **Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:32 pm**

This one was a pretty interesting one from an old NAQT A set.
this product with a 2 million strong sales force *buzz* wrong answer gasoline
I finish reading the clue which includes thin mints and tagalongs... and the answer was Girl Scout Cookies

Posted: **Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:40 am**

Matthew D wrote:This one was a pretty interesting one from an old NAQT A set.
this product with a 2 million strong sales force *buzz* wrong answer gasoline
I finish reading the clue which includes thin mints and tagalongs... and the answer was Girl Scout Cookies

Someone on our team negged with cigarettes.

Posted: **Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:48 pm**

Given:Schezerhade's captor
correct:Don Quixote
from and old NAQT A-set. The clue invovled damsels in distress.

Posted: **Sat Sep 06, 2008 1:32 am**

metsfan001 wrote:George Berry on IRC last night:

Given: shattering the backboard
Answer: converting to Islam

To be fair, it was at least talking about basketball players who converted to Islam.

Posted: **Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:33 pm**

At HSNCT (I think), I gave "shattering the backboard" for "being drafted out of high school". The second clue (the clue I buzzed on) was about noted short guy Sebastian Telfair.

Posted: **Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:35 pm**

la2pgh wrote:At HSNCT (I think), I gave "shattering the backboard" for "being drafted out of high school". The second clue (the clue I buzzed on) was about noted short guy Sebastian Telfair.

This was an IS set last spring; I remember because I did the same thing when playing the round for laughs with some other staffers just before it was read to teams.

Posted: **Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:45 pm**

Resurrecting due to an amusing neg at practice today on an '02 IS set (32, I think):
Question: something about it being treason for anyone but a sultan to own one
My teammate: Mamluks?
Correct: Elephants
The next clue involved the first domestication of them.

Posted: **Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:15 am**

We were practicing on a packet from our tournament from years ago, and one of our seniors was a bit out of it...

...Jane Addams *buzz* Huddle House...
Yeah. Who needs social reform when we have waffles?

Posted: **Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:58 pm**

Tonight was a good one at Pitt practice. There was:
Aristotle for Jethro Tull after "Berkshire native"
Pittsburgh for Calcutta after "population of 14 million"
Carebears for Yaya Sisterhood

Posted: **Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:30 pm**

At practice on 2007 D2 SCT:
Rosalind Parks for Rosalind Franklin

Posted: **Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:11 pm**

Rape, for escape, after several saints had been named performing the action

Posted: **Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:19 pm**

George, at practice tonight:

Given: Hannibal
Actual answer: Genghis Khan

Posted: **Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:37 pm**

GoffmanProphecies wrote:George, at practice tonight:

Given: Hannibal
Actual answer: Genghis Khan

Were elephants involved?

Posted: **Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:18 pm**

Goff at practice

Given: Ba'ath party
Answer: Conservative Party (British)

note: this packet is a theme packet where everything revolves around brains!

Posted: **Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:25 pm**

Trying to give the location of the Alamo -- Texas! "Could you be more specific?" Los Angeles!!
First man to spacewalk -- Uhh, was that Lance Armstrong?
Spell pharmaceutical -- F-, ah crap

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:43 pm**

A gem I had from New Trier Solo's finals last year:

Wrong: My Grandfather's Son (by Clarence Thomas)
Right: Black Boy (by Richard Wright)

What makes this especially bad was that it came after the clues "hanged a kitten" and "joined the Communist party"

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:36 pm**

Yesterday at practice, one player on our B team convinced the captain that "Bukakke" was a famous Russian author. Hence:

Correct Answer: Maxim Gorky
Answer Given: Bukakke

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:08 pm**

quizbowllee wrote:Yesterday at practice, one player on our B team convinced the captain that "Bukakke" was a famous Russian author.

That's either Kaleb or Jesse.

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:19 pm**

quizbowllee wrote:Yesterday at practice, one player on our B team convinced the captain that "Bukakke" was a famous Russian author. Hence:

Correct Answer: Maxim Gorky
Answer Given: Bukakke

Epic.

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:53 pm**

Given: Archimedes
Correct: Reggie Jackson

Given: Ambrose Bierce
Correct: Adlai Stevenson
Came in WAY too early on both.

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:09 pm**

On Tuesday, playing MCMNT 2008, the one freshman we've recruited so far made his first collegiate practice buzz.

Wrong: Dalai Lama
Right: John Roberts

Luckily this came just before "Fred Thompson" and not after.

If you're going to have a memorable first buzz, it might as well be a bad neg. That said, he seems eager to have fun and learn stuff, so I predict he will be making much better buzzes soon (in all senses of the word "better").

Posted: **Sat Sep 27, 2008 8:46 pm**

From today's coaches round:
Given: Bridge on the River Kwai
Correct: Mikhail's Navy

Posted: **Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:17 pm**

Ned Gravelshirt wrote:From today's coaches round:
Given: Bridge on the River Kwai
Correct: Mikhail's Navy

Is that a hilarious misspelling of McHale's Navy?

Posted: **Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:22 pm**

DeisEvan wrote:
Ned Gravelshirt wrote:From today's coaches round:
Given: Bridge on the River Kwai
Correct: Mikhail's Navy
Is that a hilarious misspelling of McHale's Navy?

Yes.

Posted: **Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:00 am**

me: "white flight" for "vowel shifts"

Posted: **Sun Sep 28, 2008 9:50 am**

my co-captain: "the devil wears prada" for "the bell jar"
It really made sense at the time.

Posted: **Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:41 pm**

In practice today, on an IS-70 packet:

Given - "Diba"
Answer - "Minerva"

Posted: **Thu Oct 09, 2008 2:51 pm**

In middle school practice today:

Answer given: Melanoma
Correct Answer: Melatonin

The question asked for a neurotransmitter secreted by the pineal gland. I was somewhat impressed that a 7th grader sort of knew what he was talking about, but the idea of a cancer-secreting gland amused me.

Posted: **Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:05 pm**

Given: Maginot Line
Correct: Tropic of Capricorn

We were all tired, so we got alot of caffeine and twitchbuzzed. A lot...

Posted: **Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:56 pm**

Playing in a county match on 10/7/08 in which the questions are house-written

Given Answer: Mr. Freeze
Correct Answer: TImur

Posted: **Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:34 pm**

Voltaire for Pancho Villa. (IS-75A)

After ..."best known for raiding Columbus, NM, in 1916..."

Posted: **Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:29 am**

rchschem wrote:Voltaire for Pancho Villa. (IS-75A)

After ..."best known for raiding Columbus, NM, in 1916..."

Interesting...

Posted: **Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:15 am**

(In practice on some old NAQT packet)

Given: Tennis' Grand Slam
Answer:(ascend) The Matterhorn

All I remembering hearing was that someone with a rather German-sounding name was the first person to do it in one calendar year.

Posted: **Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:42 am**

Me, on an 07 HSNCT packet in the car last night on the way to EFT:

Given: Endangered Species Act
Actual: The Joy of Cooking

Posted: **Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:53 am**

Given: abstinence-only education
Answer: the embargo on Cuba

To be fair, I buzzed in after it was described as a "policy of non-intercourse."

Posted: **Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:52 am**

A.F. wrote:Me, on an 07 HSNCT packet in the car last night on the way to EFT:

Given: Endangered Species Act
Actual: The Joy of Cooking

My teammate negged that IN-GAME with the Golden Record at the mention of squirrels.

Posted: **Sat Oct 11, 2008 1:28 pm**

Earlier this week at practice:

Black Death for Iron Age. Oops.

Posted: **Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:16 pm**

During EFT, I negged with "Jedi Council" for "Lutwaffe" at some point in the question were it had almost certainly established that it the answer was something involving Germany. It ruled. I think Evan also negged with "Tie Fighters" for "Sentinels" after a clue about them gaining the ability to teleport after flying into the sun.

Posted: **Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:23 pm**

Antisamitism wrote:Given: abstinence-only education
Answer: the embargo on Cuba

To be fair, I buzzed in after it was described as a "policy of non-intercourse."

Made my day.

Posted: **Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:35 pm**

From EFT:

Wrong answer: Star Trek
Right answer: Salman Rushdie

Posted: **Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:12 am**

From FEUERBACH:

Wrong answer: Ayers Rock
Right answer: Canadian shield

This after the clue "three million square miles of exposed Precambrian rock." I was only off by about 3 million percent.

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:31 am**

Yesterday at practice...

Answer given: American Gothic
Correct answer: Harland Sanders

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:25 pm**

From a 2005 NAQT set we read in practice, given by our newest member:
Wrong: Britney Spears
Right:St.Ceclia

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:05 pm**

Today in practice:

Given answer: Sierra Leone
Correct answer: Topeka, KS

(after "founded a railroad...")

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:14 pm**

An old Is Set:

Clue: ...North Pole
Ans Given: Frederick Douglass
Ans: Byrd

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:23 pm**

This was a month or so ago (For some reason i can't remember if it was at russel or at pratice)

I have no idea where my head was at, but

Give: Charles De Gaulle
Answer: Mark Chagall

The question started "Fled to France in WW2... *Buzz*"

If you want some epic negs just come to any of my games I have one a round

Posted: **Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:22 pm**

Not a neg, but sort of funny in a similar way (from some old ACF or mACF packet):

Clue in a question about John Cage that listed some of his works: 4'33"
Moderator said: "Four Feet, Thirty-Three Inches"

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