TD 270: Back to Basics

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TD 270: Back to Basics

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Welcome to TD 270!

I had big plans for this TD, but ultimately, I couldn't get quite it to work. So instead, I figured we would go back to basics. No gimmicks, nothing fancy.

Here are the rules:

1. Please submit your answers using this link. The deadline for submissions will be Sunday, November 22 at 8:00 PM EST. Do not post the answers in this thread!
2. The object of the game is to answer the following trivia questions and score the fewest points. Each question has multiple answers. If you give a correct response, your score for that question will be equal to the total number of players who gave that response. If you give an incorrect response, your score for that question will be equal to the highest scoring correct response (the SHEEP score) plus 5.
3. You may DROP one question. If you use the DROP option, your score for that question will be 0. This may only be used once - otherwise, it will be marked as incorrect.
4. You may SHEEP one question. If you use the SHEEP option, your score for that question will be equal to the SHEEP score. This may only be used once - otherwise, it will be marked as incorrect.
5. Don't cheat! You may not intentionally look up information to answer these questions.
6. Ties will be broken by order of submission. You may resubmit answers as many times as you wish before the deadline, provided that you have not looked up the answers. Your final submission will be used to break ties.

Good luck!
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1. Name a UN member state whose English name begins with the letter G.
2. Name a movie for which Jack Nicholson received an Academy Award nomination for either Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor.
3. Name one of the last 12 Speakers of the United States House of Representatives, the current Speaker included. This list includes all Speakers dating back to September 16, 1940.
4. Name any captain who has been shown in command of a ship called Enterprise on any of the Star Trek TV shows or movies.
5. Name any college or university located in Virginia that is in Division I of the NCAA. The school must have a Division I men's basketball team.
6. Name a team that participated in the 2015 Major League Baseball postseason.
7. Name any feature length Pixar film that has already been released in the United States, or will be by the end of 2015.
8. Name one of the twelve cities containing a Federal Reserve Bank. This does not include the Federal Reserve Headquarters in Washington, DC.
9. Name a song on Taylor Swift’s 1989 album. The two bonus tracks, Wonderland and New Romantics, do not count.
10. Name an element that is either an alkali metal or a halogen.
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CLARIFICATIONS

For question 5, the school must have a Division I men's basketball team.
For question 7, any Pixar movie released prior to 2015 will work, not just movies released in 2015.
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On Question 5, are you looking for Division I football schools or Division I men's basketball schools? I suspect you're looking for the latter.
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Blue Lion wrote:On Question 5, are you looking for Division I football schools or Division I men's basketball schools? I suspect you're looking for the latter.
Correct. They don't need to have a football team, but they do need to have a Division I basketball team. Thanks!
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For question 7, is it any movie released by Pixar, or just ones released in 2015?
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chmmr wrote:For question 8, is it any movie released by Pixar, or just ones released in 2015?
It is any movie released by Pixar, not just the ones released in 2015.
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For the Star Trek question, sometimes there are alternate timeline episodes where someone else is shown as captain. Do those count?
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chmmr wrote:For the Star Trek question, sometimes there are alternate timeline episodes where someone else is shown as captain. Do those count?
If they are a character shown on screen, yes. If they are only mentioned, no.
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When are you people going to stop making me use up brain cells on Taylor Swift?
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MitchO wrote:When are you people going to stop making me use up brain cells on Taylor Swift?
We are never, ever, ever giving up on Taylor.
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MitchO wrote:When are you people going to stop making me use up brain cells on Taylor Swift?
I knew you were trouble.
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Caboom wrote:
MitchO wrote:When are you people going to stop making me use up brain cells on Taylor Swift?
I knew you were trouble.
Why do you have to be so mean?
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caknuck wrote:
Caboom wrote:
MitchO wrote:When are you people going to stop making me use up brain cells on Taylor Swift?
I knew you were trouble.
Why do you have to be so mean?
Not mean, fearless. If you disagree, speak now.
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I don't get a single one of these references.

Wake me up when you're quoting 80s music. :D
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MitchO wrote:I don't get a single one of these references.

Wake me up when you're quoting 80s music. :D
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I really appreciated the drop option when it came to Taylor Swift. No disrespect intended; I have a hole in my head where song titles and artists are supposed to be stored.
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Volante wrote:
MitchO wrote:I don't get a single one of these references.

Wake me up when you're quoting 80s music. :D
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I guess Molly & I are Never Ever Getting Back Together :D
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