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BASEBALL

  1. Match the following baseball players with their nicknames:
    1. Steve Lyons
    2. Lou Novikoff
    3. Hugh Mulcahy
    4. Dennis Boyd
    5. Lou Gehrig
    6. Ted Williams
    7. Stan Musial
    8. Mike Hargrove
    9. Bill Lee
    10. Floyd Rayford
    11. Joe Wood
    12. Grover Cleveland Alexander
    13. Charlie Gehringer
    14. Walter Johnson
    15. Tom Henke
    16. Jimmie Foxx
    17. Willie Mays
    18. Dennis Martinez
    19. Mordecai Brown
    20. Willie Stargeil

    Nicknames: Oil Can, Pops, The Big Train, The Mechanical Man, The Mad Russian, The Iron Horse, The Terminator, Three-Finger, Psycho, The Human Rain Delay, Spaceman, Sugar Bear, El Presidente, Losing Pitcher, The Man, Old Pete, Smokey, The Beast, The Kid, The "Say Hey" Kid

  2. In what way was the life of each of the following touched by Ty Cobb? Claude Lueker, Bungy the groundskeeper, Charley Schmidt, Fred Collins, George Stansfield, Harold Harding, Billy Evans.

  3. What is the highest price paid for an autograph from Shoeless Joe Jackson?

  4. What were the complaints against the 1945 St. Louis Browns, in the only year they won the pennant?

  5. Before Robin Roberts was a black female sportscaster for ESPN, he was a white male Hall of Fame pitcher for the Phillies. What did he do 505 times in his career, more than any other pitcher?

  6. A little more baseball lore. Make us happy (and proud) and name the four men who batted before Casey in the last inning of that fateful Mudville day.

  7. What is the full title of "Casey at the Bat"?

  8. Teammates often become famous together, rather than for their personal exploits. What three men's names entered baseball history as the Chicago Cubs' famous double play combination in the 1900s and 1910s.

  9. What was the famous Boston Red Sox outfield of the same era?

  10. What team (city, team name, and year) was known as:

    1. The Gashouse Gang

    2. The Miracle Mets

    3. The Hitless Wonders

    4. The Big Red Machine (lst year)

    5. The Whiz Kids

    6. The Miracle Braves

    7. Harvey's Wallbangers

    8. The Black Sox

FOOTBALL

  1. Georgia Tech beat Cumberland College 222 - 0 in the worst college blowout ever. The pros play with a bit more parity. What was the final score (and who were the teams involved) of the worst blowout in NFL history?

  2. The first Rose Bowl ever played (Jan 1, 1902) was such a blowout (Michigan 49, Stanford 0) that the Stanford team threw in the towel 8 minutes before the end of the game. This proved so embarrassing to the Rose Festival that they didn't play another Rose Bowl until 1916. What sporting event replaced football in the Rose Festival in the interim?

  3. In 1986, New York Giants punter Sean Landetta had a memorable playoff game against the Chicago Bears. What did Landetta do?

  4. Each year, Sports Illustrated attempts to predict which school will be on top of the polls at year's end. They're really, really bad at it. Given the actual winner of the football season, who did SI pick? 
    	Year   Actual winner	                Predicted winner
	1976	Pitt
	1977	Notre Dame
	1978	Alabama / USC*
	1979	Alabama
	1980	Georgia
	1961	Clemson
	1982	Penn State
	1963	Miami (FL)
	1984	BYU
	1985	Oklahoma
	1986	Penn State
	1987	Miami (FL)
	1988	Notre Dame
	1989	Miami (FL)
	1990	Colorado / GA Tech
	1991	Miami (FL) / Washington*
	1992	Alabama

(* - indicates a difference of opinion between polls for #1)

GOLF

  1. Golf sucks. Golf is not a sport. There will be no real golf questions in this hour bonus. Instead, we'll resort to literature. According to Tolkien, who invented the game of golf, and how did he do so?

CHESS

Chess is more of a sport than golf. As a result, it gets a much more prominent place in this hour bonus.

  1. You know you're cool when two of your chess games are actually named. Adolf Anderssen, a professor of mathematics, played two famous games in the 1850s: one in London, 1851 against Kieseritsky and one against Dufresne in Berlin, 1853. What were the names of these famous games?

  2. What movie featured a recreation of one of Anderssen's games between two of its characters?

  3. Another movie showed part of a game between Boris Spassky and David Bronstein, known in Russian as the "Bluebird" game. In what film does the game's final position appear on a demonstration screen?

  4. Please solve the following chess problems, using proper algebraic chess notation for full credit. Write answers on the back. In the first problem, white moves to win -- in this case, checkmate on white's next move no matter what black does. In the second problem, give white's next move if white is to checkmate in three or four moves, regardless of black's defense.

    (Two chess boards are shown.)

HOCKEY

  1. Hockey history is one of the sadly neglected realms of sports trivia. Do you know, for example, the year in which the NHL played its first All-Star Game?

  2. The Montreal Canadiens are hockey's most historically successful franchise, winning more championships than any other team. At the conclusion of the 1918-1919 season, however, Montreal failed to defeat the Seattle Metropolitans in the championship series. What prevented another championship for les Habitants?

  3. The pictures below show the gestures which an official makes to symbolize the various penalties of the game. For each picture, name the penalty which matches the gesture.

CARD GAMES AND BOARD GAMES

RISK

  1. How many territories are there on the game board?

  2. Which is the only landlocked territory?

  3. For a game of three players, how many armies are counted out to start the game?

  4. Through the course of the game, a player can collect cards which he may turn in for bonus armies. How does one earn a card?

  5. Each card (excluding the wild) has a one of three characters on it. Name them.

  6. What is the formula for determining the amount of armies earned each turn (before adding bonus armies)?

AXIS AND ALLIES - (Risk on steroids)

  1. Each country starts with a specified number of IPC'S.

    1. What does IPC stand for?

    2. What does each IPC represent?

  2. The only way for the Allies to win is to conquer both the Axis capitals. What are the two ways for the Axis to win?

  3. What can be carried on a transport?

  4. What is the penalty for violating the neutrality of a nation?

  5. Give the order of play, from first through fifth.

COMPUTER GAMES

  1. In Sid Meier's classic computer game, "Civilization," what are the mathematical odds that a phalanx fortified on a mountain will be able to defeat a veteran catapult (which just moved one square on a road ) when the latter attacks?

  2. List the races which one can play in the Microprose game "Master of Orion":

  3. In the "Wizardry" installment "Bane of the Cosmic Forge," what is the name of the demoness-lover of the vampire king?

  4. "Hexen" (the sequel to the "Doom" spinoff "Heretic") allows the player to play as one of three classes (fighter, mage, and cleric - how creative!) Name all twelve weapons which you can collect, four per class.

  5. TSR opened a highly successful series of computer RPGs with "Pool of Radiance," the first of the "gold box" games. In this game, your party adventures in the city of Phlan.

    1. Who controls the forces of evil beseiging Phlan?

    2. What is the name of the city's graveyard?

    3. Where does the party encounter a basilisk?

  6. Obviously, no reminiscing about old-school computer games could be complete without that apotheosis of the Apple II, "The Bard's Tale." Name the four magic-using classes in the first "Bard's Tale."

  7. What are the full names of the following spell abbreviations: ARFI, SPTO, YMCA, ZZGO (BT2)

MISCELLANEOUS

  1. List the only pieces able to kill a general in "Stratego."

  2. Whose murder are the players trying to solve in "Clue"?

  3. Which of the original "Monopoly" pieces (i.e. car, wheelbarrow,etc.) is not found in modern standard editions?

  4. In August 1994, the reigning world champion of Checkers, Dr. Marion Tinsley, had to withdraw from the Championship competition for health reasons, making his competitor the World Champion. What was the name of the new, slightly unorthodox, champion?

  5. In "Mille Bornes," what are the four cards that prevent your opponent from stopping your motion, and what hazards does each prevent? Oh, yeah, please answer in the original French, s'il vous plait.

  6. What Darklord of Helgedad must you slay in Book 5 of the Lone Wolf Series, "Shadows on the Sand"?

  7. In the basic "Illuminati" card game, what are the six illuminati?

  8. What is the only rule of Calvinball?