TD 439 - Buffalo (final results)
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:46 am
Welcome to TD 439. The theme is the word and city name "Buffalo".
Rules/Notes
1) Lowest point total wins; your score for each question is equal to the total number of players submitting that same answer
2) You may use one drop and take zero points for one question
3) You may elect to take the sheep answer for one question
4) Wrong responses are the "sheep" answer +3
5) There will be a 5 point bonus for answering questions 1-10 correctly and not using a sheep or drop.
6) Question 9 is "letter preferred" - there will be a 3 point deduction for not including a letter. Answers that include the wrong letter will be scored as incorrect.
7) Don't cheat.
8) Answers will be due on Tuesday, February 4 at 2:30 PM Eastern Time.
9) Submit at https://forms.gle/k3dPeBVU1Jw6MvQk7
1. "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is famous for being a grammatically correct sentence. Identify one of these other phrases or terms that has a repeated word.
Bus system at Honolulu’s airport that lent its name to a very popular website
A popular seafood appetizer at the Bonefish Grill chain
Neil Diamond song famously covered by UB40 in 1983
City of just over 30,000 in southeastern Washington
Vanilla Ice’s most well known song
News-related quiz segment on NPR
Slang term for a baseball game where one team does not register a hit
Series of children’s books written by Mordecai Richler
1997 comedy starring Jim Carrey as a lawyer
Music genre related to dance/funk; originated in Washington DC
Hip hop record label owned by Jermaine Dupri
2. In honor of Buffalo Bill Cody: Name one of these other famous men whose name is some variation of William.
Scottish captain executed for piracy in 1701
Blue Collar Comedy tour member and country musician; “Here’s Your Sign”
American poet (from whom I am directly descended) best known for Thanatopsis
Winner of the 2013 Tony for Best Actor for Lola in Kinky Boots
Singer/rapper; frontman of the Black Eyed Peas
Modern day philosopher known for his public debates arguing for the existence of God
Unseen character in a recurring SNL skit, who is the subject of some rather tall tales
British politician (d. 1833) associated with the push to abolish slavery
Sixteen time winner of NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver Award
Namesake of the second US state
American actor who regularly appeared as himself on The Big Bang Theory
3. Bison meat is very tasty, though is not normally on the menu at fast food joints. Name a fast food chain with at least 50 North America locations that serves hamburgers. (By fast food, I mean restaurants where you generally order at the counter or drive thru as opposed to from a waiter, so something like Applebee's would not be an acceptable answer to this question.)
4. Identify one of these bands or musicians from upstate New York, given one of their notable songs.
Minnie the Moocher (1931)
Feels So Good (1977)
Just the Two of Us (1980, recorded with Bill Withers)
Super Freak (1981)
Rainbow in the Dark (1983)
Three Little Pigs (1992)
Iris (1998)
Kind and Generous (1998)
Back At One (1999)
You Don’t Get Me High Anymore (2016)
Psycho (2018)
5. The Buffalo Bills lost four straight Super Bowls. Identify one of these political candidates who repeatedly lost (unlike the Bills, some of these answers never even came in second).
- Consumer advocate most well known for his 2000 Green Party presidential run
- Perennial Missouri state-level candidate who legally changed his name to reflect his focus on marijuana legalization
- Populist orator who was nominated as a Democratic presidential candidate three times, but never won
- Former Minnesota governor who unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination nine times
- Conservative pundit who ran for president several times and challenged Barack Obama for a US Senate seat in 2004
- Paleoconservative pundit; 2000 Reform Party presidential candidate
- New York activist and founder of the Rent is Too Damn High Party
- Socialist presidential candidate who garnered 3.4% of the popular vote while in prison
- Republican politician from Washington State who has lost four elections since 2004, coming closest that year when he lost that state’s governor’s race by 129 votes
- Repeated presidential candidate (running under various party names) associated with the National Caucus of Labor Committees; died 2019
- Activist with a very unusual name; wears a boot as a hat and has campaigned on zombie apocalypse awareness
6. The Bills play at New Era Field in Orchard Park. Identify one of these pop culture concepts including the name of a fruit.
2008 stoner comedy starring Seth Rogen
Band best known for Play That Funky Music
One of the classic six Cluedo villains (with no known military experience)
Comic strip character originally designed by E.C. Segar as a flapper
1959 Broadway play that takes its name from a line in Langston Hughes’ Harlem
Jazz standard written by Herbie Hancock
Novel featuring an invented form of slang called Nadsat
A section of Central Park is named after this Beatles classic
40 foot tall title character of a Hanna Barbera show that ran for 16 episodes in 1975
Gap-owned clothing retailer with a somewhat politically themed name
Iconic three word line Val Kilmer utters in “Tombstone”
7. Buffalo, NY is represented by the NHL's Sabres. The sabermetrics revolution in sports has introduced a number of acronyms to sports parlance, particularly in baseball. Identify one of these baseball-related acronyms, most of which have nothing to do with sabermetrics.
MLB
WHIP
TOOTBLAN
WAR
RBI
GIDP
IBB
ITPHR
ERA
FIP
LOOGY (not quite an acronym)
8. One of the subplots of the 2001 box office bomb Osmosis Jones involved an unhealthy-eating Bill Murray planning on attending a buffalo wing festival in Buffalo. Name another movie in which Bill Murray appears as an actor.
9. I have never actually been to Buffalo, New York. As a child, I did head to Buffalo, Texas for a family reunion. Name one of these cities in Texas (letter preferred - 3 points will be added if no letter is provided). It may help to keep in mind that none of these answers are used more than once.
A. A popular slogan calls for this city to be kept “weird”
B. This city is nicknamed the Yellow Rose of Texas
C. This city was founded in 1839 and nearly wiped out by a hurricane 61 years later
D. The 1990 book Friday Night Lights examined the culture around high school football in this town
E. This city contains the name of the most populous city of another state, and is about 300 miles south of that city
F. Town known for Germanic heritage and the home of the original Schlitterbahn water park
G. The largest city in the state (population wise) to border a city larger than itself
H. This city in the northeast corner of Tarrant County appropriately has several wineries
I. This city is home to Texas Motor Speedway and Texas Christian University
J. This city’s tourist board boasts “the largest urban ecosystem in the nation”.
K. This seat of Anderson County is named after a similarly named city in Illinois and has no interest in geopolitical controversies on game shows
10. "Buffalo Soldier" is a well known Bob Marley song. Identify one of these other things with the initials BM.
Self-adopted nickname of the late Kobe Bryant
Yearly festival where the only commodities you can buy are coffee and ice
2008 comedy starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler
Old school rapper, born Marcel Theo Hall
Southern convenience store chain with a stock market inspired name - think positive
Extreme music subgenre, associated with bands like Dark Funeral and Bathory
Tissue where new blood cells are produced in mammals
Popular Belgian-style beer brand brewed by MillerCoors
1987 Beastie Boys hit
Sporting event where contestants must contend with Heartbreak Hill
Chicago street musician Wesley Willis famously described the high fat content of this food item
11. BONUS: Name one of the landmarks in the 1985 version of the Oregon Trail computer game, in which players could hunt buffalo to their hearts' content, but only carry 100 lbs back to their wagon.
(-2 points for a singleton, -1 point for a non singleton correct answer, 0 points for a sheep, no penalty for guessing)
Rules/Notes
1) Lowest point total wins; your score for each question is equal to the total number of players submitting that same answer
2) You may use one drop and take zero points for one question
3) You may elect to take the sheep answer for one question
4) Wrong responses are the "sheep" answer +3
5) There will be a 5 point bonus for answering questions 1-10 correctly and not using a sheep or drop.
6) Question 9 is "letter preferred" - there will be a 3 point deduction for not including a letter. Answers that include the wrong letter will be scored as incorrect.
7) Don't cheat.
8) Answers will be due on Tuesday, February 4 at 2:30 PM Eastern Time.
9) Submit at https://forms.gle/k3dPeBVU1Jw6MvQk7
1. "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is famous for being a grammatically correct sentence. Identify one of these other phrases or terms that has a repeated word.
Bus system at Honolulu’s airport that lent its name to a very popular website
A popular seafood appetizer at the Bonefish Grill chain
Neil Diamond song famously covered by UB40 in 1983
City of just over 30,000 in southeastern Washington
Vanilla Ice’s most well known song
News-related quiz segment on NPR
Slang term for a baseball game where one team does not register a hit
Series of children’s books written by Mordecai Richler
1997 comedy starring Jim Carrey as a lawyer
Music genre related to dance/funk; originated in Washington DC
Hip hop record label owned by Jermaine Dupri
2. In honor of Buffalo Bill Cody: Name one of these other famous men whose name is some variation of William.
Scottish captain executed for piracy in 1701
Blue Collar Comedy tour member and country musician; “Here’s Your Sign”
American poet (from whom I am directly descended) best known for Thanatopsis
Winner of the 2013 Tony for Best Actor for Lola in Kinky Boots
Singer/rapper; frontman of the Black Eyed Peas
Modern day philosopher known for his public debates arguing for the existence of God
Unseen character in a recurring SNL skit, who is the subject of some rather tall tales
British politician (d. 1833) associated with the push to abolish slavery
Sixteen time winner of NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver Award
Namesake of the second US state
American actor who regularly appeared as himself on The Big Bang Theory
3. Bison meat is very tasty, though is not normally on the menu at fast food joints. Name a fast food chain with at least 50 North America locations that serves hamburgers. (By fast food, I mean restaurants where you generally order at the counter or drive thru as opposed to from a waiter, so something like Applebee's would not be an acceptable answer to this question.)
4. Identify one of these bands or musicians from upstate New York, given one of their notable songs.
Minnie the Moocher (1931)
Feels So Good (1977)
Just the Two of Us (1980, recorded with Bill Withers)
Super Freak (1981)
Rainbow in the Dark (1983)
Three Little Pigs (1992)
Iris (1998)
Kind and Generous (1998)
Back At One (1999)
You Don’t Get Me High Anymore (2016)
Psycho (2018)
5. The Buffalo Bills lost four straight Super Bowls. Identify one of these political candidates who repeatedly lost (unlike the Bills, some of these answers never even came in second).
- Consumer advocate most well known for his 2000 Green Party presidential run
- Perennial Missouri state-level candidate who legally changed his name to reflect his focus on marijuana legalization
- Populist orator who was nominated as a Democratic presidential candidate three times, but never won
- Former Minnesota governor who unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination nine times
- Conservative pundit who ran for president several times and challenged Barack Obama for a US Senate seat in 2004
- Paleoconservative pundit; 2000 Reform Party presidential candidate
- New York activist and founder of the Rent is Too Damn High Party
- Socialist presidential candidate who garnered 3.4% of the popular vote while in prison
- Republican politician from Washington State who has lost four elections since 2004, coming closest that year when he lost that state’s governor’s race by 129 votes
- Repeated presidential candidate (running under various party names) associated with the National Caucus of Labor Committees; died 2019
- Activist with a very unusual name; wears a boot as a hat and has campaigned on zombie apocalypse awareness
6. The Bills play at New Era Field in Orchard Park. Identify one of these pop culture concepts including the name of a fruit.
2008 stoner comedy starring Seth Rogen
Band best known for Play That Funky Music
One of the classic six Cluedo villains (with no known military experience)
Comic strip character originally designed by E.C. Segar as a flapper
1959 Broadway play that takes its name from a line in Langston Hughes’ Harlem
Jazz standard written by Herbie Hancock
Novel featuring an invented form of slang called Nadsat
A section of Central Park is named after this Beatles classic
40 foot tall title character of a Hanna Barbera show that ran for 16 episodes in 1975
Gap-owned clothing retailer with a somewhat politically themed name
Iconic three word line Val Kilmer utters in “Tombstone”
7. Buffalo, NY is represented by the NHL's Sabres. The sabermetrics revolution in sports has introduced a number of acronyms to sports parlance, particularly in baseball. Identify one of these baseball-related acronyms, most of which have nothing to do with sabermetrics.
MLB
WHIP
TOOTBLAN
WAR
RBI
GIDP
IBB
ITPHR
ERA
FIP
LOOGY (not quite an acronym)
8. One of the subplots of the 2001 box office bomb Osmosis Jones involved an unhealthy-eating Bill Murray planning on attending a buffalo wing festival in Buffalo. Name another movie in which Bill Murray appears as an actor.
9. I have never actually been to Buffalo, New York. As a child, I did head to Buffalo, Texas for a family reunion. Name one of these cities in Texas (letter preferred - 3 points will be added if no letter is provided). It may help to keep in mind that none of these answers are used more than once.
A. A popular slogan calls for this city to be kept “weird”
B. This city is nicknamed the Yellow Rose of Texas
C. This city was founded in 1839 and nearly wiped out by a hurricane 61 years later
D. The 1990 book Friday Night Lights examined the culture around high school football in this town
E. This city contains the name of the most populous city of another state, and is about 300 miles south of that city
F. Town known for Germanic heritage and the home of the original Schlitterbahn water park
G. The largest city in the state (population wise) to border a city larger than itself
H. This city in the northeast corner of Tarrant County appropriately has several wineries
I. This city is home to Texas Motor Speedway and Texas Christian University
J. This city’s tourist board boasts “the largest urban ecosystem in the nation”.
K. This seat of Anderson County is named after a similarly named city in Illinois and has no interest in geopolitical controversies on game shows
10. "Buffalo Soldier" is a well known Bob Marley song. Identify one of these other things with the initials BM.
Self-adopted nickname of the late Kobe Bryant
Yearly festival where the only commodities you can buy are coffee and ice
2008 comedy starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler
Old school rapper, born Marcel Theo Hall
Southern convenience store chain with a stock market inspired name - think positive
Extreme music subgenre, associated with bands like Dark Funeral and Bathory
Tissue where new blood cells are produced in mammals
Popular Belgian-style beer brand brewed by MillerCoors
1987 Beastie Boys hit
Sporting event where contestants must contend with Heartbreak Hill
Chicago street musician Wesley Willis famously described the high fat content of this food item
11. BONUS: Name one of the landmarks in the 1985 version of the Oregon Trail computer game, in which players could hunt buffalo to their hearts' content, but only carry 100 lbs back to their wagon.
(-2 points for a singleton, -1 point for a non singleton correct answer, 0 points for a sheep, no penalty for guessing)