The previous thread was corrupted, I couldn't post to it any more. Week 2 is now closed, 21 players. Answers posted shortly.
Question 1: Granny Smith - 18 Green - 2 Golden Delicious - 1 Question 2: Tigris - 16 Euphrates - 5 Question 3: Great Wall of China - 12 Stonehenge - 7 Roman Colosseum - 1 Great Pyramids - 1 Question 4: Grizzly - 17 Black - 2 Brown - 1 Polar - 1 Question 5: A Little Help From My Friends - 11 You Are So Beautiful - 5 Up Where We Belong - 2 Let’s Go Get Stoned - 1 Love Lift Us Up - 1 Midnight Rider - 1
Question 6: Leaving Las Vegas - 11 Karate Kid - 3 Adventures in Babysitting - 3 Cocktail - 2 Back to the Future II - 1 Gracie - 1 Question 7: Newton - 9 Natick - 4 Nantucket - 4 Norwood - 2 New Bedford - 1 Medford - 1 Question 8: The Caine Mutiny - 12 War and Remembrance - 5 Winds of War - 3 A Hole in Texas - 1 Question 9: Aquaman - 9 Green Lantern - 6 Wonder Woman - 2 Red Arrow - 1 Martian Manhunter - 1 Hawkman - 1 Zatanna - 1 Question 10: Reggae Boyz - 7 Soca Warriors - 6 Sam's Army - 2 Spice Boyz - 1 The Eagles - 1 USA - 1 El Tri - 1 Yanks - 1 Catrachos - 1
Question 11: Steve Nicol - 9 Juergen Klinsmann - 7 Sigi Schmid - 3 Guus Hiddinck - 1 Eric Wynalda - 1 Question 12: Joseph - 16 Nyassi - 3 Dube - 1 Castro - 1 Question 13: Dwayne De Rosario - 6 Stuart Holden - 4 Brian Ching - 2 Corey Ashe - 2 Blanco - 2 Everyone - 2 Kenny Cooper - 1 Landon Donovan - 1 No Clue - 1 Question 14: Tiny Tim - 15 Bob Cratchet - 4 The Ghost of Christmas Past - 1 Jacob Marley - 1 Question 15: CHANUKAH - 17 CHANUKKAH - 3 HANUKA - 1
Week 2 scores Rankings and scores for week 2: Code: 1 ElasticNorseman 181 21.0+5.0 = 26.0 2 Revs in 2010 179 20.0 3 dadcoachref 160 19.0 4t Meinert6 159 17.5 4t untowardbehavior 159 17.5 6 firstshirt 147 16.0 7t Rex Kramer 145 14.5 7t BrianLBI 145 14.5 9t cptrandom 144 12.5 9t Art Vandaley 144 12.5 11 hutchtx 142 11.0 12 thecastigador 137 10.0 13t uhcougar31 136 8.5 13t REVS FAN 1 136 8.5 15 ToMhIlL 132 7.0 16 MidnightMackemRider 130 6.0 17 chazsoccer 128 5.0 18 KATref 120 4.0 19 Craig P 115 3.0 20 DREWWW 106 2.0 21 revsrock 92 1.0
Craig P pointed out that this should be changed to: A Little Help From My Friends - 11 You Are So Beautiful - 5 Up Where We Belong - 3 Let’s Go Get Stoned - 1 Midnight Rider - 1 Fortunately, the final scores were unchanged by this correction.
Third and final round: 1. Grapefruit: red, white or pink? 2. A US National Park east of the Mississippi River 3. One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World 4. A bird of prey 5. A Van Morrison song 6. A Susan Sarandon movie 7. A Massachusetts town beginning with S 8. A novel by William Faulkner 9. A comic book publishing company 10. Worst team nickname in USL 11. Person you would like to see succeed Sepp Blatter as president of FIFA 12. If Twellman left, Revs forward most likely to be able to score 10 goals in 2009 13. Revs best win of 2008 was against which team? 14. Other than George Bailey, a character from "It's A Wonderful Life" 15. TV Network you watch on New Year's Eve
Ten players so far: cptrandom thecastigador ToMhIlL REVS FAN 1 untowardbehavior Rex Kramer firstshirt dadcoachref Craig P MidnightMackemRider
Answers, Q1-5 Q1: Pink - 10 Red - 9 Q2: Acadia - 7 Everglades - 7 Great Smoky Mountains - 1 Freedom Trail - 1 Cape Cod - 1 Appalachian Trail - 1 White Mountain NP - 1 Q3: Empire State Building - 9 Panama Canal - 5 Channel Tunnel - 4 Golden Gate Bridge - 1 Q4: Eagle - 12 Hawk - 7 Q5: Brown Eyed Girl - 13 Moondance - 5 Gloria - 1
Answers, Q6-10 Q6: Thelma & Louise - 12 Bull Durham - 4 Rocky Horror Picture Show - 3 Q7: (I almost changed this because I thought it was too obvious, so I was a bit surprised) Somerville - 9 Salem - 7 Situchate - 1 Springfield - 1 Shrewsbury - 1 Q8: The Sound and the Fury - 14 As I Lay Dying - 1 Absalom, Absalom! - 1 A Fable - 1 A Light in August - 1 Requiem for a Nun - 1 Q9: Marvel Comics - 16 DC Comics - 3 Q10: Ragin' Rhinos - 8 Hogges - 3 Kickers - 2 Chaos - 1 RailHawks - 1 Rowdies - 1 Bravos - 1 Impact - 1 Monarchs - 1
Answers, Q11-15 Q11: Monty - 8 Franz Beckenbauer - 4 Nicol - 3 Sunil Gulati - 2 Jack Warner - 1 Platini - 1 Q12: Dube - 13 No one - 2 Cristman - 2 Videira - 1 Ralston - 1 Q13: Houston Dynamo - 17 Pachuca - 1 Columbus Crew - 1 Q14: Clarence (the angel) - 9 Mr. Potter - 5 Mary - 4 Bert the cop - 1 Q15: ABC - 13 (Looks like Dick Clark still rules) Comedy Central - 2 NBC - 2 None - 2
Week 3 results Scores and points for week 3: Code: firstshirt 159 19.0+5.0=24.0 Meinert6 157 18.0 REVS FAN 1 155 17.0 ElasticNorseman 146 16.0 MidnightMackemRider 143 15.0 thecastigador 142 14.0 dadcoachref 141 13.0 untowardbehavior 140 12.0 BrianLBI 139 11.0 cptrandom 136 10.0 KATref 132 9.0 Rex Kramer 130 8.0 Revs in 2010 126 7.0 hutchtx 118 6.0 chazsoccer 117 5.0 DREWWW 116 4.0 Craig P 113 3.0 ToMhIlL 110 2.0 nsa 95 1.0
Holiday Cup 2008 Standings page updated with the final results. Thanks to everyone who participated, I hope it brought you some holiday cheer! Assuming Julie plans to shepherd again, the next season is scheduled to begin one week from today, Jan 7, 2009. Season 6 Standings