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While officiating a middle school regional today:

Blah, blah...name this Newberry award winning book.
Answer: Memoirs of a Geisha

I tried to keep a straight face, and though I didn't laugh at her like the rest of the audience, I was likely turning a nice shade of crimson trying to hold it in.
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This is more of a hose than a bad neg. from 2003 NAQT Nationals I think...

As of (some date) 2003 their roster consisted of players from france, the virgin islands *BUZZ*

Wrong: Spurs (tony parker, tim duncan)
Answer: Dallas Mavericks (two words later I would have gotten it on tariq abdul wahad)
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Post by cronoyuha »

I heard of this one...

Given Answer: Osama Bin Laden
Right Answer: Whiffle ball

Heard at a tournament...

After a clue had been "this element found in the earth's crust"...
given answer: chlorophyll
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Yesterday at NCOAST:

Answer given: Forrest Gump
Correct answer: James Bond
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Post by Byko »

DrakeRQB wrote:Yesterday at NCOAST:

Answer given: Forrest Gump
Correct answer: James Bond
I had to look back at that one because I wondered, "How could that kind of mistake happen?" Then again, the opening clue was about him being created as "an interesting man to whom extraordinary things happen," which actually sounds like it fits BETTER with Forrest Gump than James Bond.
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Don't remember the context of these, but I found them when I was typing up some practice notes:

Incorrect: Taser
Correct: Euro

Incorrect: Oliver Twist
Correct: Remus

I know I made the first one, not sure who did the second one.
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Post by GreyGhost06 »

Wrong answer: Most Valuable Player Award.

Right Answer: Plantar Facitis

Our coach read something about Albert Pujols and Tim Duncan before our freshman buzzed. It was really funny after we found out the answer... and the category, which was medicine
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Wrong Answer: Champagne

Right Answer: Rayon
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In practice

Correct answer: Lycanthropy
Provided answer: Bestiality
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from RM's tournament today

Calvinball for Wedding Crashers

Puss in Boots for The Highwayman

Order of the Phoenix for Gunpowder Plot, owned
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Also from RM's tournament today:

Bonus: Given an element, identify its flame test color

Question: "Indium. Hint: Think about it "
(You know, because Indium is named for the color Indigo, so it's blue)

Neel Kotra: ". . . Brown?"
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DumbJaques wrote:Also from RM's tournament today:

Bonus: Given an element, identify its flame test color

Question: "Indium. Hint: Think about it "
(You know, because Indium is named for the color Indigo, so it's blue)

Neel Kotra: ". . . Brown?"
The questions about the flame test are just stupid.
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Post by Bugsy »

The reader had said "Pongo pygmaeus," then Alex Price, on It's Academic today, buzzed in and said "Waiting for Godot." The answer turned out to be Orangutan; the clue was apparently the scientific name for an orangutan.
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On a team bonus involving Team Illinois during a practice:

The PDP-8 was the first successful <<BLANK>>, and was invented in 1963.

Correct answer: microcomputer
Given answer: birth control pill
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The reader had said "Pongo pygmaeus," then Alex Price, on It's Academic today, buzzed in and said "Waiting for Godot." The answer turned out to be Orangutan; the clue was apparently the scientific name for an orangutan.
Was my name really necessary to convey the stupidity in that buzz :lol: ?
I thought the host said "Pozzo" and not "Pongo" :oops: .
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Given answer: Watergate
Correct answer: Saturday Night Massacre

One of my fellow players was too reckless and buzzed in too early, locking me out.
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Post by bigtrain »

minty064 wrote: Given answer: Watergate
Correct answer: Saturday Night Massacre
That's not a bad neg at all. In fact, they probably should have been prompted.
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I agree. The two answers are closely related. A worse neg on my part was saying "Scientology" for "Christian Science."

*edit*
More of an accident though. I'm surprised I can't think of more...
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In a bonus about G G-M, after the mention of a century in Macondo...

"1000 Years of Solitude"

Also, this gem:

"...name this capital of the Inca empire."

"Couscous"

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Post by dschafer »

From practice today (an old HSNCT packet):

"Shroud of Turin" for "Halley's Comet"

"Jury duty" for "Smallpox vaccine"
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Post by brownboy79 »

Also from today in practice. Old NAQT sets:

Q:This novel from Plumfield Boys' School <Buzz>

Me: Goodbye Mr. Chips
A:Little Men

Another question that I do not totally remember

Me: Mt. Pelee (sp)
A:Canary Islands

What I was thinking, I have no idea.
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Wrong Answer: Circle
Right Answer: Neighborhood
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Wrong:Bull Moose Party
Right:A&W Root Beer
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Me:

Arnolfini for the White Rabbit

Evan Silberman of TJ:

Quisling for blue
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Post by Zip Zap Rap Pants »

today in practice-

Wrong Answer: Faberge Eggs
Right Answer: the Concorde
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1. Gilligan's Travels

2. Pocahontas for Phyllis Wheatley

3. This was our coach, practicing against us:
Right Answer - Spain
Wrong Answer - William McKinley
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Today in practice:

Reader: something about a disease in the digestive system

Me: "Quetzalcoatl's Revenge"

Answer: Ecoli

I meant to say Montezuma's Revenge, but that didn't turn out so well.
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And you didn't even make it to state in ASCA :wink:
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Might this also be from the NCT? I hope not, yet I'm making the words different just in case.
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This may have come from the HSNCT set so I will destroy it.
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WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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Post by wwellington »

Seen on the local quiz show:

Given answer: KKK
Correct answer: Democratic Party
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And you got 3rd at NAQT, Dostoevsky :razz:.

Given Answer: Tuesdays with Mory
Correct Answer: Bobbie Knight
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Post by nurgles_herald »

My team captain at NAQT Championships (for State College B) negged on this:

Given Answer: INCORRECT!
Correct Answer: CORRECT!

o_O

All of us were stunned for a moment, and then we had to fight the impulse to laugh uproariously.


~Edited due to a mirror or something
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NAQT put up Podcasts of all the questions last year, I don't think talking about one question could do much more harm.
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Post by Dostoevskyistheman »

This sure can't be talked about yet!
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Post by jdd2007 »

Dungeons and Dragons for something very, very different at NAQT.


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Post by The Time Keeper »

The NAQT National Championship set is being used at a mirror in the near future so please avoid discussing those questions in this or any other thread.
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Post by AndyShootsAndyScores »

My discussion about bigtrain's question probably came from Nats, but my own neg I put did not.
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AndyBrindlee Mountain wrote:My discussion about bigtrain's question probably came from Nats, but my own neg I put did not.
My bad. Feel free to edit and repost it.
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Given Answer: Sepoy Mutiny

Correct Answer: Wounded Knee Massacre
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Post by EagleFan »

wwellington wrote:Given answer: KKK
Correct answer: Democratic Party
I don't know...that doesn't seem too off to me (jk) :wink:
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from practice:

Wrong: kabuki
Correct: Titus Andronicus

Wrong: Self-Reliance
Right: Margaret Mead

(I may have posted this one a long time ago, but it's still pretty funny)
Wrong: Sonic Hedgehog (the gene)
Right: Great Vowel Shift
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Wrong: tarring and feathering
Right: sauna
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At NAQT,
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for just about any question that may have been related to a car.
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Given: Memphis

Correct: Bombing of Cambodia
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In the ASCA State Finals:

Wrong: Yuri Gagarin
Right: Buddy Holly
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DVader wrote:In the ASCA State Finals:

Wrong: Yuri Gagarin
Right: Buddy Holly
At least they both have something to do with aircraft?
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Trevkeeper wrote:
DVader wrote:In the ASCA State Finals:

Wrong: Yuri Gagarin
Right: Buddy Holly
At least they both have something to do with aircraft?
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Me at NAQT nationals:

"It declared independence from Britain in 1981..."
Buzz: Zimbabwe
Correct answer: Belize

Dar! Off by a year (and a hemisphere)...
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