Friday, February 05, 2010

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

You're playing Jeopardy and the final answer is a baseball category, what would you wager if you had $30,000 and your nearest competitor had $10,000? Would you risk it all, after all it's Baseball, your best category? Would you? ...WIMP!
Here are five actual answers from the show:
1. BASEBALL TERMS (4/29/09): "Hall of Famer Willie Stargell called it 'a butterfly with hiccups'"
2. BASEBALL HISTORY (2/2/04) "On August 10th, 2003, Rafael Furcal of the Braves became only the 12th man in MLB history to perform this single-handedly."
3. BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS (4/23/01): "A Red Sox pitcher, later a Yankee, he held the World Series record for consecutive scoreless innings from 1918 to 1961."
4. BASEBALL (9/11/02): "It's the only team to win World Series titles in three different cities for which it played."
5. BASEBALL (12/04/96): "The best American League left-handed pitcher 1916-18, he was moved to left field in 1919."
Pretty simple, huh. Aren't you sorry now? Well, consider this. Here are five other actual baseball answers from the show.
1. BASEBALL HISTORY (7/11/08): "For nearly 30 years, California's Catalina Island was the spring training camp for this non-California Major League team"
2. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL (3/23/05): "The team names of these two expansion clubs start with the same three letters; one might catch the other."
3. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM NAMES (10/19/01): "This team received its name after an 1890 incident in which it "stole" away an important player from another team."
This is one of the classic Jeopardy questions in which an emphasized word provides a giant clue. Anyone with logic and a knowledge of language and nicknames should get this one
4. BASEBALL HISTORY (5/22/00): "Current name of the National League team that started out in the 1870s as the Boston Red Stockings."
5. BASEBALL TEAMS (11/27/98): "In the early days, this team was known as the Alleghenies."
Aha. Not so easy now, is it? Assuming you got the first 5 right, I'll publish the answers later today. No fair looking them up.

Note: Johnny Damon is still looking and Francisco Franco is still dead.

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