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Bump #1 - still a few days to join the list in the spoiler box above.

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This quiz is called "2020" and most questions are somewhat related to events that will occur during the year. Rules/Notes 1) Lowest point total wins; your score for each question is equal to the total number of players submitting that same answer 2) You may use one drop and take zero points for one ...

The word "possession" in the FJ clue led to me taking the Greenland - Denmark path as well.

I was pleasantly surprised to get 42 - even with a few NHOs in there.

9. Name a city in Iowa with an airport considered "primary" (scheduled passenger service and 10,000+ boardings) by the FAA Equal sized flocks in two cities starting with the same letter… Des Moines [Co-SHEEP] - 10 saturnalia shambolic threearruda jeffwolfe xabe ElendilPickle barandall800 RougeGod 1s...

7. Name one of the Central American countries (located between Mexico and Colombia, the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean) The flock heads to the least populated area… Belize [SHEEP] - 8 Gamawire Rackme32 psgola xabe AFRET CMS ElendilPickle blueoncemoon cthulhu Honduras - 4 threearruda jeffwolfe bmwhi...

5. Name a non-numbered Bible book that is 4 letters in length [That means if looking for 5 letter books, 1 & 2 Kings would not count] Gospels on either end… Mark [SHEEP] - 6 MarkBarrett saturnalia merica jeffwolfe bmwhitehead heppm01 Acts - 5 Floridagator gwallace2 Ironhorse Rackme32 clprez Ezra - 4...

3. Name the current capital of a state that seceded from the Union and became part of the Confederacy A flock of Uptown Funk fans?... Jackson (Mississippi) [SHEEP] - 9 gwallace2 Rackme32 jeffwolfe clprez Peachbox RougeGod MollyQMurphy cthulhu squarekara Atlanta (Georgia) - 5 saturnalia threearruda x...

I did not intend for defunct or relocated teams to be used, but leaving out "current" meant a poorly pinned clue and led me to accept Expos. I am too lazy to list all of the other possible answers that I did not plan to accept and that nobody used.

Ironhorse wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 09, 2019 2:49 pm

I think squarekara has a possible case since the clue didn't specify they had to be current teams.

Agreed - I debated whether to accept Expos as correct and have reversed my original ruling as it was my incompetence that left out the word "current".

1. Unscramble one of these Lemony Snicket book titles [Hints: 1) All are preceded by "The" and those including two words are alliterative; 2) First letters include A, B, C, G, P, S, V & W] dab nibinnegg [Bad Beginning] letripe romo [Reptile Room] dwei dinwow [Wide Window] serbiaelm lilm [Miserable M...

3rd (and final) bump before Monday's deadline

Reveal should begin later that afternoon.

Bump #1

Entrant list... MarkBarrett Floridagator Gamawire casketromance gwallace2 saturnalia Ironhorse merica Rackme32 shambolic Woof psgola threearruda jeffwolfe True North bmwhitehead xabe twelvefootboy clprez SenseiCAY heppm01 AFRET CMS ElendilPickle Peachbox blueoncemoon barandall800 mahatma RougeGod Mo...

This quiz is called "Narrowing Nine" as the number of correct responses shrinks with each question. Rules/Notes 1) Lowest point total wins; your score for each question is equal to the total number of players submitting that same answer 2) You may use one drop and take zero points for one of the fir...

Brief report from my audition this afternoon (switched from the originally scheduled Saturday due to a conflict) in Milwaukee... 20 people - 14 men, 6 women Also three people from a local TV station who went through the process Most from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois [besides me (Iowa) and one l...

Thanks for hosting - I actually almost managed to pull off the "you win my TD, I win yours" double over these last two quizzes.

9. Fantasy football - Three years after diving into baseball, we finally got around to starting a fantasy football league. I called my team the Slobberknockers - based on a term used by college football analyst Tim Brant and WWE announcer Jim Ross. Name one of these people who is in the "celebrity w...

7. Fantasy hockey - Our second foray into fantasy was actually for the NHL. Name a school with multiple NCAA titles in men's hockey. (That means one-time winners such as Bowling Green, Harvard, Northern Michigan, Providence, Union and Yale do not count.) BC leads the way… Boston College (1949, 2001,...