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jonpin wrote:I don't know if the one I saw while scorekeeping was just in D2 or if it was also in D1, but this one was certainly D1:
Hess for Hogan (as in Hogan's Heroes)
I believe I made that neg.
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Oh man, this has gotta be my worst neg since middle school; I'm just glad it happened in practice.

This is after the question has made it explicitly clear that they are looking for a compound and after they have given its chemical formula:

Right Answer: Lactic Acid
Horribly, terribly wrong answer: Yeast

In my defense, however, the question had just said something about air pockets in bread.
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I hear bad ones every day, but this one took the cake:

Wrong Answer: Blood Clot
Right Answer: Epsom Salt
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Heard at a recent tournament:

Q: This treaty ended the Spanish-American war.

A: The Camp David Accords. (given after carefully considering, and rejecting, the Treaty of Paris)

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rchschem wrote:Heard at a recent tournament:

Q: This treaty ended the Spanish-American war.

A: The Camp David Accords. (given after carefully considering, and rejecting, the Treaty of Paris)

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Woooooooow... I hope that wasn't our team. They have been trained to guess "Treaty of Paris" if they ever don't know a treaty.
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Post by Tegan »

In the same tournament (different rounds):
Hemmingway for e e Cummings
Hemmingway for Dos Passos
Hemmingway for Masefield
Hemmingway for Hammett
Hemmingway for Maugham

And, it was (truly) strictly coincidence that:
1. the tournament was in Oak Park.
2. the teams that missed this a lot were the two local schools.
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Category: Home Economics
Concord and Niagara are two forms of this--
Wrong: Waterfalls
Right: Grapes
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Me: The Hartford Convention
Right: The Tet Offensive
This came in a game where I personally had 6 "power-negs" out of 20 total questions :cry: :lol: :shock: .
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At practice last night:

Me: Tiki Time
Answer: Bungie Jumping
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This came from our team's crazy neg-machine:

Right answer: Wiffle Ball
Wrong answer: Washing Machine
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Post by Bubiyuqn »

From a member of my team:

Right Answer: Nitro-glycerin
Answer Given: Viagra

It was on our local public TV, no less.

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Wrong: "Angina pectoralis"
Right: sickle-cell anemia

That was the way to start off a tournament... with a power neg.
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blah blah blah ... "name this inventor of the world wide web"

*Buzz*

"Al Gore?"

the whole room bursts out laughing
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Bubiyuqn wrote:From a member of my team:
Right Answer: Nitro-glycerin
Answer Given: Viagra
-JSto
J.S, I could see where that would not necessarily be that bad of a neg....might have been taking a bit of a risk, but I hope no one gave you too tough a time over it.....even for someone so deeply seeded with science knowledge as yourself.
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Oh, no it wasn't me, it was my team member, and I do have to admit that it wasn't a terrible neg. The question mentioned something about it being used as heart medicine, but given that it was on television and seemingly so incorrect, I thought it was pretty funny.

Here's one from me that was pretty good awhile ago in practice. Topic is British History or something of that sort

Right Answer: King Edward the Eighth
Me: King Charles the Third...wait...

I suppose that's what I get for European History being at 7:30 in the morning.

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Q: In the War of the Roses, what flower represented the House of York?

A: Carnation
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"blah, blah, blah...addicted to Ritalin"

*buzz*

Saurabh: Requiem for a Dream

Matt: *glare of death*

Answer: Desperate Houswives
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Name the island where limbo was invented.

Costa Rica!
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Name the Article the contains the Elastic Clause *buzz*
Me (and I was being completely serious): 9th!
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Not technically a neg:

blah, blah, blah. Name the sculptor hired by the Athenians to provide much of the scuplted artwork for the rennovated Parthenon.

BUZZ.......Rodan
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From an old packet, used as practice:

Wrong: Ritchie Valens
Right: Rudolf Hess
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Courtney Cox Arquette for Sarah Michelle Gellar

Goodbye Mr. Chips for Lord of the Flies

and possibly the worst:
On a Victoria Woodhull Question:
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Post by LadyInBlack »

Probably already been posted by one of my other teammates, so apologies for a repeat, (I'm too lazy to check) but reminded today of one of my teammate's blunders:

this fourteen letter word, etc etc etc

A: Hurl
As we all glare with frustration.
Operative: "It's worse than you know"
Mal: "It usually is"
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Post by Siverus Snape »

That 9th article of the Constitution thing actually happened the exact same way to a team we were playing at either regionals or sectionals this year; you probably know which, Trevkeeper, considering it had to be the same question. Needless to say, when the poor guy on the other team said it, I nearly fell out of my chair with the effort of suppressing my giggles.
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I think this happened two years ago (maybe last year, but not sure...)

The question had to do with a category that was basically "nuts and berries"... which meant the question or answer could have something to do with it....

So the lead-in is like... "yadda yadda... identify this large labial flatulation..."

Answer Given: Queef
Right Answer: Raspberry

As a coach, I almost had a heart attack in the back of the room.
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This was in a tournament a while ago....
Q: this process....
*buzz* density
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Freshman year practice. Bonus. "Capital of Turkey" I was being cute, and none of us had any idea, so...."Gravy"
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blah blah blah, name this partner of Roy Rogers

Answer Given: Fred Astaire
Correct Answer: Trigger
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Today, at Lousiville Male:

(QUESTION THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN MENTIONED)
(BUZZ)
(ODDLY AND/OR COMICALLY WRONG ANSWER)
(REAL ANSWER)
(LULZ GO HERE)

Honestly, while it seems stupid now, I don't feel that bad. We won the match, but more importantly, it could've easily been (SOMETHING ELSE). I really had no idea what I was doin by buzzing in so early.

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Administrator, this needs to be deleted as it comes from a current NAQT set.
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I believe the March 4 Maryland questions have completed their migration across the country. If not, delete this.

Wrong: Poet laureate
Right: Mayors of Chicago

Wrong: Ethiopia
Right: King David Hotel
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JohnandSlation wrote:"Capital of Turkey" I was being cute, and none of us had any idea
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JohnandSlation wrote:This was in a tournament a while ago....
Q: this process....
*buzz* density
I'm a teammate of John's... That one was actually:
Q: An example of this type of mixture is oil and water... it///
A: Density!

From the same guy:
Q: This is blah, blah, blah... disputed territory between India and Pakistan.
A: Israel!

This is probably our team's funniest neg guy, though i've definitely got the lead in quantity.
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Post by Maxwell Sniffingwell »

and Coach "tegan"... cuz I just gotta...

Auguste RODIN, with an I, is a short, bearded Frenchman who sculpts and looks like this.

RODAN, with an A, originally starred in "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster," in which he helped Godzilla and Mothra defeat King Ghidorah. He looks like this.

Couldn't resist... though there is a resemblance...
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cornfused wrote: RODAN, with an A, originally starred in "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster," in which he helped Godzilla and Mothra defeat King Ghidorah. He looks like this.
Lies. Rodan starred in his own movie first. In fact, there were two of them in the original Rodan movie.
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cornfused wrote:and Coach "tegan"... cuz I just gotta...
Auguste RODIN, with an I, is a short, bearded Frenchman who sculpts and looks like this.
RODAN, with an A, originally starred in "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster,"
Sigh......the original Rodan picture from Japan featured a gigantic, hulking French artist destroying Tokyo. When the realized no one would buy it, they replaced French artist with pterosaur-like creature....the rest is history. Hence, the spellings are somewhat interchangable

Anyone buying that? I guess not.

Its not an excuse, but I had just finished watching "Final War", in which RODAN (not Rodin) made an appearance.

And Bruce is absolutely correct.....Rodan was a star in his own right before jumping on Gojira's (coat)tail.

And now, back to the regularly scheduled "Bad Negs" forum. End transmission.
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Here's a fun one from the final round of ACF Nationals:

Right: Castle
Wrong: Gentlemen's Club

This got a big laugh out of the crowd. I'm not going to attempt to explain it.
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From Round 14 of ACF Nats, on a bonus:
Right: The Philadelphia Story
Wrong: Spy Kids
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After this lead-in:

It was passed 3 weeks after its namesake died...

Me: *BUZZ* Brady Bill

Correct answer: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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Me: Jedi Council
Correct Answer: Conservative party of Canada (or Tory party, if you prefer)
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Here's a great one from our practice last Monday (from the 2003 ICT set):

Wrong: Academic Decathlon Nationals
Right: Frozen Four

There was also a very, very strong temptation to neg with "Kenny" (from South Park) on a tossup from last weekend's ICT, which a Virginia player finally yielded to. The correct answer was Uncle Duke (from Doonesbury).
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??? I am sure I can come up with a question on Academic Decathlon Nationals. In fact, I think I have! :cool:
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Don't feel bad, Andy.

A few years ago, my team was asked to name the five Presidents buried West of the Mississippi River. One of our guesses was Gerald Ford. I explained that he probably will be buried East of the Mississippi at a more appropriate time.
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ReinsteinD wrote:Don't feel bad, Andy.

A few years ago, my team was asked to name the five Presidents buried West of the Mississippi River. One of our guesses was Gerald Ford. I explained that he probably will be buried East of the Mississippi at a more appropriate time.
"Gerald Ford dead today at the age of 84. He was eaten by wolves."
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From Williams College's beer practice:

Wrong: Babi Yar
Right: Baba Yaga

Wrong: Order of St. John
Wrong: Order of the Garter
Right: Spirochetes

A couple other classics from our team:

Wrong: Spontaneous human combustion
Right: Balk

Wrong: Antigone at Colossus
Right: Oedipus at Colonus

Wrong: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Right: Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Wrong: Percy Shelley
Right: Ernest Thayer
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One of my favorites was a few months ago...

blah blah blah about the French regime during WWII

*buzz* Third Reich!
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Wrong: World Trade Center
Right: Blind(ness)

I got swerved; what can I say?
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may i ask what the question was?
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From NAQT State two years ago:

Moderator: blah blah blah something about Memphis...

Me: *BUZZ* Cleopatra's Needles

Correct: NBA

Apparently, the Memphis thing was about the Grizzlies relocating there. I wasn't really paying attention until the point when he said Memphis. That one is probably the worst ever for me.
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Not a neg per se, but an incorrect movie bonus answer from ICT, coutresy of Amherst, who I'm sure did it for laughs.

(blah blah blah), the bonus is indicating either Meet the Parents or Meet The Fokkers at his point

Amherst: Uh, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

Seth Kendall: Wow. (slight pause) Wow.

Another gem, this time from one of my teammates from Sectionals

He recently had his jaw in a cast...
Wrong: Shareef Abdur-Rahim
Right: Kanye West
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