IWS #58

[Crim]

Took a while to work up the courage... ;)


Questions

Here are questions relating to six "major" sports.

1. Other than quarterback, name the most difficult position in the NFL for a rookie to excel.

2. Name the most inept owner in Major League Baseball.

3. Which NBA franchise is least likely to win a championship in the next five years?

4. Name a multi-goal scorer from any of the past 10 World Cup championship matches.

5. Name an NHL hockey team which has never won a Stanley Cup playoff series.

6. Name a dominant male tennis player who has never won all four Slam titles.




Hall of Heroes

Ahbrady - IWS#15, IWS#41
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Anxiety - IWS#49
Archer219 - IWS#18
Ardent Enthausiast - IWS#6
Bbor - IWS#23, IWS#26
BishopMVP - IWS#36
Blade - IWS#13
Bryce - IWS#40, IWS#53 (tie)
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Cornhuskerly - IWS#46
Crim - IWS#57
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Msf518 - IWS#11, IWS#15, IWS#35, IWS#39
Neuqua - IWS#19
NoMyths - IWS#46
Noop - IWS#46
Nothingman - IWS#6, IWS#45
Panerd - IWS#3
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Primelord - IWS#11
QuikSand - IWS#9, IWS#16, IWS#18, IWS#24, IWS#32
Qwikshot - IWS#5
Ramzavail - IWS#53 (tie)
RendeR - IWS#6
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Samdari - IWS#21
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Tredwel - IWS#6, IWS#9, IWS#20, IWS#43
TRO - IWS#7, IWS#9, IWS#12
Vince - IWS#37, IWS#46
Wheels - IWS#55


The Rules

The rules are the same as all FOFC "I’m With Stupid" Contests.

The object of this contest is to answer the questions posted, and to provide the most common answer among those submitted. For each question, your score will be equal to the number of people who submitted that response. Your score for the contest will be the product of your individual question scores. Highest score wins.

No collaborating in any way. No posting your answers to this board, nor sharing them by e-mail or in any other way with other potential contestants.

All determinations of "matches" and anything else requiring judgment fall to that of the sole administrator of this puzzle, i.e. the person posting the questions unless otherwise noted. You can reduce the need for doubt and judgment by properly spelling your submissions, being clear, and that sort of thing.

Any references that are unclear to you, due to language or geography, should be understood to be authored from the perspective of an English-speaking American. However...

Your answers do not necessarily have to be correct in order to score points. If I ask "name a color of the rainbow," and you and four other people responded "black" - you get five points, period, even if it is not technically a correct answer to the question.

Please submit entries via PM no later than Tuesday, Feb. 17, 11:59 p.m. EST
Thanks, have fun, and good luck.


Edited to clarify #6...

[corbes]

Question pertaining to #6-

a player who never won any major title?

or a player who has not completed a career grand slam?

[Crim]

Question pertaining to #6-

a player who never won any major title?

or a player who has not completed a career grand slam?

Sorry, I clarified it to mean, someone who has not won every Slam. So Serena, if male, would not qualify, because she has at some point won each of the four major tennis events. Venus, however, would qualify. Except for the gender thing. Of course, answers don't have to be "correct" to win, so, for all I know, Serena could be the winning answer... {shrug}

Crim

[fantastic flying froggies]

Scientifically, Serena might qualify in some circles as 'male'... :D

[MIJB#19]

I'd strongly suggest not to make more clarifications on questions to make it impossible to win for the early "sneting" participants.

[Alf]

snet, and since there is a baseball question, I'm likely to tie MIJB for last place :). Maybe lower than that since there is a hockey question too :D

[SirFozzie]

Answers submitted.

[Samdari]

You said major sports. Where does #4 come from then? No major sport has a championship called the World Cup.

[SirFozzie]

Oh I'm sure that the most watched event in the world, the FIFA World Cup is not a major event.

Yeesh

[fantastic flying froggies]

snet.

And Alf, I'll be competing with you and MIJB for last place... Both the NBA and the NHL, sheesh, come on !

[corbes]

mmmkay, my answers are nets.

[Poli]

I'm too shallow to enter. I don't follow half the sports involved.

[Ramzavail]

I snot it

[wheels]

ntse

[fantastic flying froggies]

I'm too shallow to enter. I don't follow half the sports involved.

Well, do like me, just guess !

[Crim]

Point noted on no more clarifications.

On the other hand, to those who are competing for the coveted last place trophy, I'd be right there with ya, if I were entering this one. I thought it'd be neat for this one to be as wide open as possible. Maybe noone, not even the eventual winner, will get even 5 of the most popular answers. I'm sure that I wouldn't.

Hopefully, the obscurity of some of the subjects won't discourage participation. I definitely wasn't trying to suck out all the fun... :eek:


Crim

[fantastic flying froggies]

Don't worry about that, it's fun all right !

[MIJB#19]

Think Olympic, participations is more important than winning it all.

So, I didn't win in the 50+ IWSes I played in, big deal...
:rolleyes:

[panerd]

stne

[fantastic flying froggies]

bmup after the week-end.

[MIJB#19]

Whoo, the deadline is coming closer...

[Alf]

ttt

[Abe Sargent]

Snet!

-Anxiety

[Eaglesfan27]

tnes.

[tucker342]

sent

[k0ruptr]

I'ma gonna be last

[The_herd]

a;ljfasdflj

[Crim]

Hark! The deadline approaches!


I have 21 replies. I will not be able to compile winners until late Wednesday night, so by then the tension should be built up to a level never before seen! Ever! In history!


Crim

[corbes]

*tension*

[k0ruptr]

*shudders with tension*

[General Mike]

crap i didnt even see this. maybe i can sneak an answer sheet in,

[TLK]

anybody got a knife...... I have some *tension* to cut..... :)

[Abe Sargent]

*poke*


-Anxiety

[kingfc22]

Hmmm. I will definatley be in the next one.

[Alf]

ttt

[fantastic flying froggies]

Man, there's so much *tension* around here I can't even read this thread anymore...

It's shaking with *tension* all over the place !

[corbes]

I think all the chippiness around here this morning is directly related to the *tension* emanating from this thread!