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Baseball (Western Washington edition)

5-March-08 / James Callan

1) What company is the majority owner of the Mariners?
2) What current major league team used to be the Seattle Pilots?
3) What former Mariner had the best batting average on the US team in the 2006 World Baseball Classic?
4) The Mariners’ only officially retired number is 42 — in honor of what non-Mariner player?
5) When Alex Rodriguez played against the Mariners in April 2001, fans threw what multicolored pieces of paper at him?
6) What town do the AquaSox call home?
7) What local team has been known as the Giants, the Cubs, the Twins, the Yankees, the Tugs, and the Tigers before settling on their current name in 1995?
8) Who threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Mariners’ opening game at Safeco Field?
9) The Mariners are one of four teams that’s never played in the World Series. Name one of the other three.
10) According to Ichiro Suzuki, what does Korea smell like?

Average score (20 teams): 5.05

Quiz: Rules of the Game

8-August-07 / James Callan

Each of these clues is a quote from the rules of a reasonably well known game. Identify the game. Note: these are all commercially produced games — no generics like chess or checkers.

1) The “Qu” cube counts as two letters.
2) Creative answers can be acceptable. For example, you could answer Knuckle as a kind of Sandwich.
3) A player landing on this place does not receive any money, property or reward of any kind. This is just a “free” resting-place.
4) There are 2 shortcuts on the path — the Rainbow Trail and the Gumdrop Pass.
5) You can roll anything and be able to put it in the Chance category. You score the total of the die faces.
6) Should you get nine cards all alike and also hold the Bull Card in addition, you have a “Double Bull Corner” which doubles the score of the article cornered.
7) At the beginning of each turn, players meet together one-on-one or in small groups to discuss their plans and suggest strategies. Alliances between players are openly or secretly made, and orders are (hopefully) coordinated.
8) If on your turn you cannot outflank and flip at least one opposing disc, your turn is forfeited and your opponent moves again.
9) There can never be more than one hand or foot on any one circle. If two or more players reach for the same circle, the referee must decide which player got there first.
10) To remove a block, use one hand at a time. You can switch hands whenever you wish.

Round 3 at the Old Pequilar on August 7, 2007. Average score (18 teams): 8.50
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Quiz: Something Came Between Us

4-April-07 / James Callan

I’ll name two things, you tell me what comes between them.

1) The geologic period between Triassic and Cretaceous
2) The US federal holiday between Labor Day and Veterans Day
3) The Stephen King novel published between The Shining and The Dead Zone
4) The Monopoly property between Atlantic Avenue and Marvin Gardens
5) Geena Davis’ husband between Richard Emmolo and Renny Harlin
6) The stage of grief between bargaining and acceptance
7) The scientific classification rank between family and species (not subfamily)
8) The US president between Grover Cleveland and Grover Cleveland
9) The Seattle Mariners manager between Lou Piniella and Mike Hargrove
10) From fall 1984 to spring 1986, the sitcom between Cheers and L.A. Law
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