I think this is a fun idea; let’s see if it gets any traction.
Here’s how it’ll work: The first player (that’d be me) will come up with a category, and then post a Jeopardy!-like clue which fits the category.
The first player to post the correct response to the clue (in the form of a question) can then post another clue in the same category for the next player to answer, and so on.
Whoever provides the correct response to the fifth clue in a category picks a new category and clue. The categories can be as clever or as mundane as you like, but if an explanation is needed, please provide one.
Assigning dollar values to the clues would probably be too confusing, so let’s just number them 1-5.
Let’s try to keep googling to a minimum (honor system) - but if there’s a clue that stumps everybody, we’ll do what we gotta do.
Sidetrack: the headache story though ubiquitous is untrue
In the case of Wally Pipp there was no inopportune headache, no “delightful and romantic story” — just a case of a slumping player who lost his job to an up-and-comer and never got it back. But his replacement was the stuff of legend (the indestructible ballplayer finally felled by a fatal disease), and so he became part of a legend that mixed fact and fiction and grew so large even some of the participants came to believe in its fictional aspects.
