How many of these can you answer correctly?

In My Humble Opinion
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  1. Who won the Superbowl at the end of the 2005/2006 season? (1 point) Which team did they defeat? (2 points) Where was the game played? (3 points)

  2. Who won the 2005 World Series? (1 point) Which team did they defeat? (2 points) In how many games? (3 points)

  3. Who won the 2005/2006 NBA Championship? (1 point) Which team did they defeat? (2 points) In how many games? (3 points)

  4. Who won the 2005/2006 NCAA Football Championship game? (2 points) Which team did they defeat? (2 points) Bonus: where was it played? (4 points)

  5. Who won the 2005/2006 NCAA Basketball title? (1 point) Who did they defeat? (2 points) Who were the other two teams in the Final Four? (4 points) Where was the Final Four held? (3 points)

  6. Who won the 2005/2006 English Premiership? (3 points) Bonus: Name the three teams that were relegated to and the three teams that were promoted from the Championship? (6 points)

  7. Who won the FIFA World Cup (football/soccer) in 2006? (2 points) Who did they defeat? (2 points) Bonus: Where was the final match held (city and country)? (4 points)

  8. Who won the last FA Cup? (3 points) Who did they defeat? (3 points)

  9. Who won the last Champion’s League Final? (3 points) Who did they defeat? (3 points)

  10. Who won the UEFA Cup? (4 points) Who did they defeat? (5 points)

  11. Who won the last NASCAR Nextel Cup/The Chase? (5 points) Who was second? (10 points)

  12. Who won the 2006 Kentucky Derby? (3 points) Preakness? (5 points) Belmont Stakes? (5 points) Bonus: name the jockey of each horse (9 points)

  13. Who won the 2006 Formula I title (driver and team)? (5 points each)

  14. Who was drafted first overall in the 2006 NFL Draft? (5 points) Who was drafted second? (2 points)

  15. Who won the 2003 FIFA Women’s World Cup? (5 points) Who did they defeat? (5 points) Where was the game played? (5 points) Bonus: Where was it supposed to be played, and why was it moved? (6 points)

  16. Who won the Women’s Olympic figure skating gold medal in 2006? (5 points) Who won the silver? The bronze? (5 points each)

  17. Who won the 2006 Boston Marathon, women’s and men’s open divisions? (5 points each)

  18. Who won the 2006 Tour de France? (10 points)

  19. Which film won Best Picture at the 2006 Academy Awards? (5 points) Which film won the Palm d’Or at Cannes in 2006? (10 points)

Who won the Nobel Prize in 2006? (25 points each)
20) Peace?
21) Physics?
22) Medicine?
23) Literature?
24) Chemistry?
25) Economics?

  1. Who were the last two people named to the United States Supreme Court? (5 points each) Who were the last three nominated? (5 points for all three)

  2. Who was the last person to be awarded the (US) Congressional Medal of Honor? (100 points)

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Answers:[spoiler]

  1. Winner: Pittsburgh Steelers – 1 point; Loser: Seattle Seahawks 2 points; Venue: Detroit’s Ford Field – 3 points.
  2. Winner: Chicago White Sox – 1 point; Loser: Seattle – 2 points; 4 games – 3 points.
  3. Winner: Miami Heat – 1 point; Loser – Dallas Mavericks – 2 points; 6 games (4:2) – 3 points
  4. Winner: Texas Longhorns – 1 point; Loser: USC Trojans– 2 points; Venue: Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California.
  5. Winner: Florida Gators 1 – point; Loser: UCLA Bruins – 2 points; Other teams: LSU Tigers and George Mason Patriots – 2 points each correct; Venue – RCA Dome, Indianapolis, Indiana
  6. Winner: Chelsea – 3 points; Promoted sides: Reading, Watford, Sheffield United – 1 point each; Relegated Sides: Sunderland, West Bromich Albion, Birmingham City – 1 point each.
  7. Winner: Italia – 2 points; Loser: France – 2 points; Venue: Berlin, Germany – 4 points.
  8. Winner: Liverpool – 3 points; Loser: West Ham United – 3 points
  9. Winner: Barcelona – 3 points; Loser: Arsenal – 3 points
  10. Winner: Sevilla – 4 points; Loser: Middlesborough – 5 points
  11. Winner: Tony Stewart – 5 points; Runner up: Greg Biffle – 10 points
  12. Kentucky Derby: Barbaro - 3 points, ridden by Edgar Prado – 3 point; Preakness: Bernardini – 5 points, ridden by Javier Castellano – 3 points; Belmont Stakes: Jazil – 9 points, ridden by Fernando Jara – 3 points.
  13. Driver: Fernando Alonso - 5 points; Team: Renault – 5 points.
  14. 1st – Mario Williams, chosen by Houston Texans – 5 points; 2nd – Reggie Bush chosen by New Orleans Saints – 2 points. (no points if you got the order wrong)
  15. Winner: Germany – 5 points; Loser: Sweden – 5 points; Venue – Home Depot Center, Carson, California – 5 points. Bonus: The match was supposed to have taken place in Beijing – 3 points, but was moved because of the SARS scare earlier in 2003 – 3 points. The 2007 Finals will be in China.
  16. Gold: Shizuka Arakawa – 5 points; Silver: Sasha Cohen – 5 points; Bronze Irina Slutskaya – 5 points.
  17. Women’s: Rita Jeptoo – 5 points; Men’s: Robert K. Cheruiyot – 5 points. (both are from Kenya)
  18. Winner – Oscar Periero Sio – 10 points; Floyd Landis – 1 point (consolation, result is still contested).
  19. Best Picture Oscar: Crash – 5 points; Palm d’Or: L’enfant (The Child) – 5 points.
  20. Peace: Muhammad Yunus & Grameen Bank (micro-credit to fight poverty) – 25 points
  21. Physics: John C. Mather & George F. Smoot (Big Bang theory) – 25 points;
  22. Medicine: Andrew Z. Mello & Craig C. Fire (discovery of mechanism controlling flow of genetic information) – 25 points;
  23. Literature: Orhan Pamuk – 25 points ;
  24. Chemistry: Roger D. Kornberg (mechanics of DNA) – 25 points ; Economics:
  25. Edmund S. Phelps (tradeoffs of economic objectives) – 25 points.
  26. Appointees: John Roberts and Samuel Alito – 5 points each; Nominees: Harriet Myers, Roberts and Alito – 5 points.
  27. Paul R. Smith, Sergeant First Class, USArmy, for 4 April 2003. Awarded posthumously – 100 points.
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Total possible points: 474. How did you do?

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There’s a women’s FIFA?

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Your spoilered answer for #2 is incorrect.

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I meant to add: the loser part of the answer.

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Full points on soccerball, except for thinking the World Cup final was in Munich. Bugger all elsewhere.

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I just spoiled the spoiler, didn’t I?

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I could answer (off the top of my head…I assume thats what you meant) basically:

#18, #20-25 and #26. Do I win something? :stuck_out_tongue:

-XT

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And looking at the spoilers, I got #18 wrong. :smack:

-XT

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I’m not interested in sport, so none of them.

I got the US Supreme Court appointment ones though.

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That’s where cut & paste will get you. Correct answer for #2:

  1. Winner: Chicago White Sox – 1 point; Loser: Houston Astros – 2 points; 4 games – 3 points.

And, yes, I did mean, “Can answer off the top of your head”. I’d expect everyone who can Google would get 100% correct. Where’s the fun in that?

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51 points for the Rickster! (I think full answers on the last question gives me 25 points, right?)

13

Zero. Same planet, different worlds.

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I got 73 points. I got most of the points in 1-5 and the Supreme Court questions. Not much of anything else though.

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134, mostly from non-racing (horse, car, bike, and human, I think I got maybe ten points total) sports and SC general knowledge, with a 25 point bump for the Economics Nobel Winner (since I just graduated with a degree in it and was at least nominally paying attention when the announcement came out).

A lot of it was pretty well-aimed at stuff I pay attention to, though, and the type of stuff I’d remember. The major American sports and the soccer-ball stuff took me a minute, but it was mostly all there.

If anyone can sweep the Nobel Prizes, with all of the half-awards, and the Congressional Medal, they deserve all of those points.

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32 points. Got about half of the “American” sports questions (all the football, some baseball, very little basketball), then not much until World Cup and Supreme Court.

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Got the World Series, the Derby winner (and jockey), the Preakness (but not the jockey), and the Supremes.

However, I can’t find my calculator.

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All that and no Stanley Cup?

19

What s/he said.

I can tell you who won the Melbourne Cup yesterday though. Does that count??

:smiley:

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I know 18, and also that he won after the original winner got disqualified for testosterone doping.

I know 7 and 9, barely. Mostly because my brother’s career choice if he ever gets tired of Accounting is as a Sports Comentator. One of these days, he’s going to start retelling the story of the last World Cup Final as if I hadn’t been in the room while it played and I’m going to hit him with his college dorm’s Trivial Pursuit 1997 Championship Cup (the closest thing to a sports trophy we have at home; in '96 they made second so it was just a medal).

I’m European, have a general allergy to sports and no reason to keep up with them (back in HS I would keep track of the Liga because it was a good way to get guys talking).