Trevkeeper wrote:Hmm. Then, if I committed the cardinal sin of QB and said a first name, would they accept both Francis and Franz?
This is not a case of that. "Ferdinand" is not his last name; his name is "Franz Ferdinand," just as with Franz Josef or Frederick Wilhelm. In fact, you ought to be required to give the entire name (by the way, Franz and Francis should be equally acceptable, as has been noted) at once and probably should not be prompted on a partial answer.
Mac McGarry: "if a cubic function is third degree, what degree is a linear function?"
Springbrook: "180!"
This lovely little neg can be seen when Springbrook (who somehow made the playoffs) dukes it out against GDS and Gonzaga on May 21st on DC area It's Academic
DaGeneral wrote:How bout a new coach saying to a reporter that he plans to turn his team around 360 degrees?
That was actually Jason Kidd after he was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks. One of the funnier quotes in NBA history. Another great one was George Rodgers of the New Orleans Saints, when asked how many yards he planned to gain that season, he replied "1500 or 2000. Whichever comes first."
Slade Gilmer, 2004 Graduate of THE Russellville High School, 2009 Graduate of THE University of North Alabama
DumbJaques wrote:Raiders of the Lost Ark for Eratosthenes
Having recently played that exact question in practice (old NAQT HSNCT set), I can assure you that that is an entirely justifiable neg.
Noah Rahman
Welcome to Simbabwe, where the property is already owned and the houses built and you compete to burn and dispossess them. Compete with Robert Mugabe, Canaan Banana, Cecil Rhodes and Sir Godfrey Huggins to earn a place on the all-time EU travel ban list!
This was a completely unjustifiable neg and by far the worst I have ever committed at a tournament, considering that, even though I buzzed after the first clue, it was a clue that uniquely identified the answer as someone other than the answer I gave. Don't ask me what I was thinking.
Blah blah blah considered man's inherent nature to be savage and brutish-
Me: (buzz) Locke
Teammate: No. . . it's Hobbes.
Me: What. . . wait, what did I say?
Teammate: Locke. . .
Me: What? $%#@
Chris Ray
OSU
University of Chicago, 2016
University of Maryland, 2014
ACF, PACE
Raj, considering that audio from the majority of rounds is online, I would think at this point individual players at these summer events would be on the honor system.
Dan Passner Brandeis '06 JTS/Columbia '11-'12 Ben Gurion University of the Negev/Columbia '12?
I was just reading a news story about sleep apnea that reminded me of what was probably the most spectacular neg (visually) of my career.
It was my sophomore year of high school, and I had just discovered the game. At my third or fourth tournament of the year, there was a tossup of the form "what do people with <name of a medical condition which I forget> do during sleep?"
Well, I incorrectly thought that they were talking about the condition where you kick in your sleep, so I buzzed in, but, for some reason, perhaps the novelty of the game, perhaps the excitement of the Rick Lazio tossup I had answered moments before (anyone remember him?) but I found myself incapable of expressing my thoughts in words. So I said "they do this with their legs" and I started kicking with my left leg. Finally, after a few seconds, my brain started working and I rushed out "they involuntarily move their legs" before time. It was wrong, of course.
bigtrain wrote:Not mine:
Wrong: The Yellow Rose of Texas
Right: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom
There were several more bad negs that came up at this past weekend's PACE NSC. Hopefully someone with the list (Tom? Trish?) can provide us with the juicy details, including something said in FIVE different rooms.
Dan Greenstein wrote: Hopefully someone with the list (Tom? Trish?) can provide us with the juicy details, including something said in FIVE different rooms.
The five different rooms answer was actually on this bonus part:
[10] Classified into Nozomi, Hikari, and Kodama categories, these help commuters travel around Honshu.
Apparently RICKSHAWS are very popular modes of transportation in contemporary Japan. The right answer is bullet trains.
Dan Greenstein wrote:
Hopefully someone with the list (Tom? Trish?) can provide us with the juicy details, including something said in FIVE different rooms.
The five different rooms answer was actually on this bonus part:
[10] Classified into Nozomi, Hikari, and Kodama categories, these help commuters travel around Honshu.
Apparently RICKSHAWS are very popular modes of transportation in contemporary Japan. The right answer is bullet trains.
Wasn't there something in the question about "...moving at around 160mph..." (or similar)
bigtrain wrote:Not mine:
Wrong: The Yellow Rose of Texas
Right: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom
There were several more bad negs that came up at this past weekend's PACE NSC. Hopefully someone with the list (Tom? Trish?) can provide us with the juicy details, including something said in FIVE different rooms.
Aye, Dan, they have been posted to the PACE NSC thread... I've been a bit slow, since I have only occasional net access while on vacation...
I don't care whose fault this was, just get it sorted! And could someone please bring me something deep fat fried and smothered in chocolate?! ~ Fairy Godmother, "Shrek 2"
Tamiami Trail, NOT Trail of Tears – Stephen – St. John’s
Herman Hesse, NOT Freud + Adler – St. John’s + ASFA
Saudi Arabia, NOT Illuminati – Kyle – Brindlee Mountain B
When Lilacs Last…, NOT Yellow Rose of Texas – Adam – Walter Johnson
Bullet Trains, NOT Rickshaws – FIVE different people, including at least once who buzzed after hearing “they go 120 mphâ€
Emil Thomas Chuck, Ph.D.
Founder, PACE
Facebook junkie and unofficial advisor to aspiring health professionals in quiz bowl
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Pimping Green Tea Ginger Ale (Canada Dry)
I used to know someone who used to say John Williams if he didn't know that answer. It was seriously bad. Especially when he forgot to consult the team...
also
some French poet for Chopin
Zach Yeung
St. John's '08
Rice University '12
Biochemistry and Cell Biology and Political Science
We have one guy in brindlee mountain B, that always said 'illuminati' if he didn't knwo the answer to the question. even when it was clear that the question asked for a country for example, he would still say illuminati. This occured at the pace nationals and was quite annoying.
Maximilian Franck, former player of Brindlee Mountain High School (2004-05) quizbowl
I had a friend who always said "Johnny Cash" for his random guess, when it was obvious that no one from our team had any idea about the answer. Then, in the State finals, we actually got a question with the answer "Johnny Cash." He was quite pleased with himself.
Yeah, we had a stand-by like that for Greek myth we didn't know (which didn't happen too often). Ours was Testicles, but we said it TESS-tik-leez as opposed to TESS-tik-els. And we always said it earnestly, like we didn't know better. The couple of times we got to use it, it was incredibly funny.
If this had come up in my room, I might well have done a spit take. It's an eminently plausible guess, but still completely off base.
For those of you wondering, the question began as follows:
"Discovered during experiments on how long-chain molecules form in outer space, in its pure form it is relatively useless as a lubricant. . . ."
[One of those counterintuitive chemistry facts: even though buckyballs resemble little ball bearings, in and of themselves they are nearly useless as lubricants.]
samer dot ismail -at- gmail dot com / Samer Ismail, PACE co-founder, NAQT editor
Matt Weiner wrote:Some good ones from the Chicago cornucopia of tournaments:
Wrong: Super Happy Fun Ball
Right: Alonzo Mourning's kidneys
Do not taunt Alonzo Mourning's kidneys.
At trash I had toucan sam for Bud Ice and an opponent had that 5 part R. Kelly rap whose name escapes me for a certain hsqb list posted by Martin Faber.
Dan Passner Brandeis '06 JTS/Columbia '11-'12 Ben Gurion University of the Negev/Columbia '12?
When asked for the author of Anna Karennina during practice Freshman year, I spent several minutes acting smug before I asserted the correct answer was Trotsky.
Interestingly, I don't think I had any bad negs at ACE. I must be just about the only one, eh?
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read only once.
