Summer Hiatus Challenge: Round 1, Day 1

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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge: Round 1, Day 1

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VIDEO GAMES

2: What is Angry Birds?

4: Who is John Madden?

6: What is Call of Duty?

8: What is Farmville?

10: What is a CLAM that has never been played on my BlackBerry?

AMERICAN STORIES

3: What is The Lottery?

6: Who is Mark Twain?

9: What is The Cask of Amontillado, for the love of God?

12: What is Poker Flat?

15: Who is Ray Bradbury?
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2: Angry Birds

4: John MAdden

6: Call Of Duty

8: Farmville

10: Words With Friends

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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge: Round 1, Day 1

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2: Angry Birds
4: John Madden
6: Call of Duty
8: Farmville
10: clam

3: The Lottery
6: Mark Twain
9: The Cask of Amontillado
12: Poker Flats
15: Bradbury
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge: Round 1, Day 1

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VIDEO GAMES

2: Angry Birds

4: John Madden

6: Clam

8: Farmville

10: Clam

AMERICAN STORIES

3: The Lottery

6: Mark Twain

9: The Cask of Amontillado

12: Poker Flat

15: Kurt Vonnegut?
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Spoiler
2: Angry Birds
4: Madden
6: Call of Duty
8: Farmville
10: Words with Friends

3: The Lottery
6: Mark Twain
9:
12: Poker Flats
15:
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge: Round 1, Day 1

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VIDEO GAMES
2: Angry Birds
4: John Madden
6:
8:
10:

AMERICAN STORIES
3:
6:
9:
12:
15:
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2. the angry birds
4. john madden
6. call of duty
8. farm town
10. words with friends

3. the lottery
6.
9. the cask of amontillado
12. poker flat
15.
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2. CLAM
4. John Madden
6. Call of Duty
8. Farmville
10. Words With Friends

3. The Lottery
6. Mark Twain
9. The Cask of Amontillado
12. CLAM
15. Ray Bradbury
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge: Round 1, Day 1

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VIDEO GAMES

2: Angry Birds

4: John Madden

6: Call of Duty

8: Farmville

10: PASS

AMERICAN STORIES

3: "The Lottery"

6: Mark Twain

9: "The Cask of Amontillado"

12: PASS

15: PASS
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge: Round 1, Day 1

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VIDEO GAMES

2: Angry Birds

4: Madden

6: clam

8: Farmville

10: clam

AMERICAN STORIES

3: The Lottery

6: clam

9: The Tell-Tale Heart?

12: clam

15: clam
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge: Round 1, Day 1

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2. Angry Birds
4. Madden
6. Call of Duty
8. Farmville
10. Words with Friends

3. The Lottery
6. CLAM
9. The Cask of Amontillado
12. CLAM
15. CLAM
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I hope I'm not too late for this round--I just stumbled across the board today. Soooo happy not to miss the SHC!
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2: Angry Birds
4: John Madden
6: Call of Duty
8: Farmville
10: Words With Friends

AMERICAN STORIES

3: The Lottery
6: Mark Twain
9: The Cask of Amontillado
12:
15: Ray Bradbury?
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DadofTwins wrote:VIDEO GAMES

2: worst...category...imaginable.....

4: OK, I got one...John Madden

6: What's the capital of "clam?"

8: no clue

10: what's the plural of "clam?"



AMERICAN STORIES

3: no freaking clue....

6: ditto

9: The Cask of Amontillado

12: clam

15: I could guess, but....naaaahhhhh.

And he's off to a stellar start in the tournament of dolts.
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2: Angry Birds
4: John Madden
6: Call of Duty
8: Farmville
10: Words With Friends

3: The Lottery
6: Samuel Clemens
9: The Cask of Amontillado
12: Roaring Camp?
15: Ray Bradbury?
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DadofTwins wrote:VIDEO GAMES

2: Angry Birds

4: Madden

6: Call of Duty

8: Farmville

10: CLAMville

AMERICAN STORIES

3: The Lottery

6: Twain?

9: Cask of the Amontillado

12: CLAM

15: CLAM
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2. Angry Birds
4. Madden
6. Call of Duty
8. Farmville
10. Clam

3. The Lottery
6. Mark Twain
9. Cask of Amontillado
12. Clam
15. Bradbury
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2: Angry Birds
4: Madden
6: CLAM
8: Farmville
10: CLAM -- I would have said "Scrabulous" but I think that name has been lawsuited out


3: The Lottery
6: Mark Twain
9: The Cask of Amontillado
12: CLAM Gulch
15: Harlan CLAMison
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2. Angry Birds
4. Madden
6. Call of Duty
8. Farmville
10. Clam

3. The Lottery
6. Twain
9. Cask of Amontillado
12. Poker Flats
15. Ray Bradbury
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge: Round 1, Day 1

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VIDEO GAMES

2: CLAM (off to a good start)
4: John Madden
6: CLAM
8: Farmville
10: CLAM

AMERICAN STORIES

3: "The Lottery"
6: Mark Twain
9: "The Cask of Amontilado"
12: CLAM
15: CLAM
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge: Round 1, Day 1

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2: In this game developed in Finland the title “upset” objects are hurled at structures which, when they collapse, kill the pigs underneath. What are the Angry Birds?

4: Cleveland Browns running back Peyton Hillis will appear on the cover of the 2012 EA Sports game named for this announcer. What is Madden?

6: First released in 2003, this first-person shooter set during World War II takes its three-word title form the Congressional Medal of Honor citation. What is Call of Duty?

8: This title agricultural “town,” the most-used application on Facebook, topped 80 million residents in 2010. What is FarmVille?

10: Unlike Scrabble, in this Zynga word game playable on the Android or IPhone J's are worth 10 points and L, N, and U are worth 2. What is Words with Friends?

AMERICAN STORIES

3: Tessie Hutchenson drew the black-dotted slip of paper in this Shirley Jackson story. What is The Lottery?

6: In “The Private History of a Campaign that Failed,” this Missourian wrote, “the Union colonel whose coming frightened me out of the war” was Ulysses S. Grant. Who was Mark Twain?

9: Montressor, murderer-narrator in this Poe story, boasts that fifty years after chaining and entombing Fortunato in a wine cellar, he still has never been caught. What is The Cask of Amontillado?

12: When the “law of” this Bret Harte town arrives at the cabin, they find John Oakhurst dead beneath a tree with a suicide note written on a two of clubs. What is Poker Flat?

15: His story “Kaleidoscope” begins with a rocket cut open “with a giant can opener” and its crew “thrown into space like a dozen wriggling silverfish.” What was Ray Bradbury?
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