Sprang League w33k 2

Spring League Week 2 (1.25.17)

SPVORTS

1. In researching this round I perused some non-US sites and found out that there are more sports than just baseball basketball and football out there so I tried to diversify myself here. So let’s start with this. This book is about a horse by Laura Hillenbrand, tell me the name of novel: “ “In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named…”
   
   Seabiscuit
   Seaside - The Kooks
   
2. So the 2005 film Fever Pitch is a lie. It’s progenitor is a 1992 novel by Nick Hornby about English Football and one club in particular. If you’re currently following the league it might help for me to say that this team is currently in second behind league leaders Chelsea but not too far ahead of 3rd place Tottenham. What EPL team was Fever Pitch originally written about?
   
   Arsenal (The Gunners)
   Arsenal Efectivo - Arsenal Efectivo
   
3. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Everst in 2003 Robert Macfarlene imbued the essence of mountaineering into literary genius. Who was the first person to summit Mt. Everest in 1953? There were two who did it the song clue is for the Brit who did it with Tenzing Norgay of Nepal who  definitely doesn’t receive enough credit. As inspiration his first words to his lifelong friend after summiting were: “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off.”
   
   Sir Edmund Hillary
   Hillary - Taylor Girlz
   
4. The Fight by Normal Mailer captured the historic bout called The Rumble in the Jungle which took place in Zaire. Taking place in 1974 between “the Greatest” and “Big George” name me the two boxers who fought. I’ll give you an extra point if you tell me which one won the fought.
   
   Muhammad Ali & George Forman
   George Forman - Jeremy Martian
   

Bonus: Borrowing from Sports Illusrated’s Top 100 Sports Books of All time I want you to name me the first 5. 3 of them are about baseball, one about football that became an iconic television series, and the other a book about boxing.

1. The Sweet Science by AJ Liebling - Science by System of a Down  
2. The Boys of Summer  by Roger Kahn - The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
3. Ball Four by Jim Bouton - Imma Ball Forever - Young Scooter
4. You know me Al by Ringer Lardner - You know me - Akdong Musician
5. Friday Night Lights by HG Bissinger - Last Friday Night (TGIF) - KAty Perry

Books to Movies

I’ll admit I read the twilight books in High school and watched some of the movies. Gotta say the special effects in the movies is comical, Name me the last movie.

Breaking Dawn Breaking up in a small town by Sam Hunt

As a kid I enjoyed reading the series of unfortunate events, and can’t wait to start watching the Netflix tv show. The books were written by Lemony Snicket, a pen name. What is the authors real name?

Daniel Handler  Handlebars by flotbot

As I said last week I could never really get into reading GOT due to my inability to remember names. But I loved the show! Also side note each ep of season one cost around 6million. I want to know who the screen writer of the GOT tv series is.

David Benioff  && DB Weiss Under Pressure David Bowie

I recently started watching outlanders, great show. It’s a 9 book series and so far in season 4. The shows about a British nurse who travels back into 18th century Scotland. What is the name of the main character of Outlander.

Claire Randall all we know- chainsmokers

I want the top 5 grossing movies (not tv shows) that were first books, I didn’t add multiple if they are in a series.

Harry Potter pothole - Modern Baseball

LOTR Ring off - Beyonce

Alice in Wonderlands Wonderwall - oasis

The Original Jurassic Park -  Jurrasic park theme

The Hobbit misty mountains

Mind Leaks

So a big part of Novels is obviously the ideas behind them and is the theme for tonight. This rounds going to include some techniques that you may or may not have heard of and a bunch of random and hopefully cool questions!

1. So a crazy and usually unforeseen narrative technique is one where the characters lose all control and something greater takes over. Used a lot by sci-fi nerds mostly because of halo adaptations and youtube videos. Tell me the Latin phrase used for such actions.
   
   Deus ex Machina
   Deus ex Machina - Deadmau5
   
2. In Medias res refers to when a story begins at a point other than the beginning. It’s essentially a narrative hook because you’re always looking forward to that one big event. For example Homer’s Odyssey begins and ends with his return to his home. What city is Odysseus’s home?
   
   Ithaka
   Ithaca is Gorgeous by Dylan Owen
   
3. So Frames of narrative is a pretty crazy literary concept that I wrote about freshman year and thought I was making up but it’s actually a real thing. It’s basically who tells the story and how the plot progresses and what not. Anyways one of the simplest frames of reference is one through which the main character tells the story. What is this kind of perspective called?
   
   First-person Narration
   The First Person on Earth - Tracy Chapman
   
4. I love witty things. An example is something spelled the same forwards and backwards. Or sentences that are constructed to be the same. What are these things called?
   
   Palindromes
   Fake Palindromes - Andrew Bird

Bonus: My favorite thing ever though is stream of consciousness. I found a list of 10 writers who used them and I’m going to give you some of their famous works and you need to tell me their names.

1. Pointed Roofs - Dorothy Richardson - Wicked Ones by Dorothy
2. The Sound and the Fury; As I lay Dying - William Faulkner - Revolutionary by Faulkner
3. Finnegans Wake; Ulysses - James Joyce - Hold Back the River by James Bay
4. Mrs Dalloway; To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf - Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
5. On the Road - Jack Kerouac - Better Together by Jack Johnson

Famous modern novelists

Recently my parents bought some land on the coast of Maine near Rockport and will soon start building. They were talking to some neighbors and one of them mentioned how Stephen king might own one of the houses nearby. Anyway, I want to know how many novels Stephen king has written

55 555- phish

HP Will always have a spot in my heart, but I want to know which university JK, Rowling attended in England.

Exeter, England  exit wounds - the script

Alex Cross is a well-known fictional psychologist and FBI agent. Which author is known for writing multiple novels about this character.

James Paterson say you wont let go- james arthur

Which American author currently holds the record for the bestselling fiction author alive and fourth bestselling fiction author of all time?       Currently with 800 million copies sold and 120 books?

Danielle Steel  steal my girl- one direction

Technically the majority of these are not modern, but I want you to tell me the current record holders for best selling fiction authors, only one is alive and she's the one from question four.

Agatha Christie     Christie road- greenday

William Shakespeare shake it off- tswift

Barbara Cartland landslide- fleetwood mac

Danielle steel steal her man- taylor girlz

Harrols Robbins shed a light by robins schulz

SIDE NOTE! Thanks to all of you who filled out the anonymous trivia survey for the coming semester - as always we live to please and want to make this fun & enjoyable so stay tuned for more things coming - and if you put your name on it well you know who you are………………………………………...

Picture Question: Give us the Title Page and the basic plot of the David Angel: The Last

British President.

WINNER: L.O.T.U.S. (aka Tucci is Gucci)
3 separate pictures of the complete book!

The Air Nomads:

Dad Haus:

Brawndo:

The Unemployed Grads:

Welcome to the Flavortown Parade:

The Turd Burglars:

&& Finally…. HIGHTIDE (feat. Avery’s narrative that was skipped - sorry dude<3)

League Standings:

1. The Unemployed Grades: 6 + 8 = 14 points
2. Brawndo: 3 + 7 = 10
3. Andy Wins Most of the Time: 5 + 4 = 9
   HighTiiide!: 2 + 7 = 9
4. Michaela & the Tuccis: 4 + 3 = 7
   Welcome to the Flavortown Parade: 1 + 6 = 7
5. Dad Haus: 5
6. Turd Burglars: 2
7. I Guess I’m in Trivia: 1

SpRiNg LeAgUe 2017 Week 1

Spring League 2017 Week 1

Week 1 Trivia

BYBYE 2016

Lets talk about the good things that happened in 2016!

Q1:

Earlier this year a new type of glasses were put out by enchroma to reduce “color vision deficiency”  aka color blindness in those with a certain color vision deficiency type. These glasses cost around 40-80$ and work with a certain color deficiency I want to know which color deficiency this glasses work with

Red-Green UNder the bridge red hot chilli peppers

Q2:

I’m not a yuuuge baseball fan, but the cubs won this past year for the first time in a little bit. When was the last time the cubs won the world series? Other than 2016

1908 eight days a week beatles

Q3:

Matts loooooves hamiltion! That happened last year and I’m still waiting for ticket prices to come down in price. Anyway heres an easy one who shot and killed Alexander Hamilton

Aaron Burr  Burn by andra day

Q4:

I try to keep up with scientific discovery, this is usally done through r/science on reddit for me. But I thought it was pretty cool when gravitational waves were discovered even if I didn’t really understand them. Who wrote about grav. Waves in 1916

Albert Einstein  Einstein by Kelly Clarkson

1893 by Oliver Heaviside using the analogy between the inverse-square law in gravitation and electricity.[1] In 1905 Henri Poincaré

The 100 year anniversary of national parks was a year ago! Name me 5

Acadia Acadia by marianas trench

Zion otra vez by zion & lennox

Yosemite enter sandman by metallica

Yellowstone stone cold Demi Lovato

Redwood go robot red hot chilli peppers

2017 in politics

1. 2017 is a fairly big year for politics, worldwide and locally. First things first, come 11 months or so from now Bostonians will be voting for a new mayor or re-electing the current mayor. Who is the current mayor of Boston?

Marty Walsh

The One with my Friends - Marty

2. Moving globally – what country, which has its general elections in March of this new year, could be the next country exiting the EU? As a hint – this action was promised by the far right ‘Party for Freedom’ or (PVV) led by Geert Wilders.

The Netherlands

Never too Late - Three Days Grace  

3. Moving further south and west we turn to Iran. What is the name of the Iranian president who is up for re-election in 2017? He’s got a lot of work to do if he wants to restore Iran’s economy and might have his hands full with Trump as president.

Hassan Rouhani

Treat You Better - Shawn Mendes  

 

4. Speaking of Trump – he’s been nominating his cabinet positions and their senate hearings have been dominating much of this week providing some very fascinating instances to watch. Despite all the nominees I think I’m most curious to see how his Press Secretary not only handles his job but how his job changes with Trump wanting to dominate the creation of his own image outside of the dishonest and corrupt media. Who’s the guy that gets to deal with all this?

Sean Spicer

Bounce Back - Big Sean

Bonus:  In 2017 we also say goodbye to our good friend Chris Christie who has to step down because he is limited by terms of service as governor of New Jersey. Fun facts for you – Chris Christie has received degrees from 4 different universities – most of them fairly close to New Jersey. Name me those 4 schools.

1. University of Delaware (BA) - Where are you Now by Jack U, Skrill, Bieb

2. Seton Hall (JD) - All Night by the Vamps, Matoma

3. Rutgers University (Honorary Doctorate) - New Low by Middle Class Rut

4. Monmouth University (Honorary Doctorate) - Mouthful of Diamonds by Phantogram

Coming soon near you:

Hey it's a new year! How much longer can I say happy new year? Whether you’re into cars, technology, or space new cool things are happening this year!

Q1:

Near my house there was a classic cars seller. I remember as a kid one day a DeLorean showed up and I ALMOST convinced my mom to get it (not really). Anyway this year the old car is going to be produced again at about one per month. What year did the first DMC-12 get produced?

1981  (prototype 1976)  81 by Yo Gotti

Q2:

I tried reading them once but couldn’t remember everyone's names and shortly gave up. George RR. Martin’s sixth book is supposed to be released at some point in 2017. What's the name of the sixth book?

The Winds of Winter  Winter things ariana grande

Q3:

A friend of a friend of mine recently just got offered a job by Elon Musk, so therefore I’m helping send people to mars right? Anyway Spacex recently launched up 10 communication satellites successfully furthering their goals of sending people to mars, which I’m completely responsible for.

Anyway I want to know the name of the company which satellites SpaceX put up

Iridium  Iridium by dark tranqulity

Q4:

Googles continuing to develop drones and recently has been working towards regulations allowing for the free use of air space 500 feet and below to anyone opening up drone usage to everyone. This is combination with amazons project means drone delivered beer!

What is the name of the project by google to free up airspace for the use of drones?

Project Wing wings by macklemore

Bonus:

VRs been around for a little bit now, but 2017 should be an interesting year for future games and increasing development. I want you to name me at least 5 different VR systems.

Morphous   Morphine by The Nijas

HTC Vive  Viva la vida coldplay

Oculus Rift   Rift by phish

Gear   beer for my horses toby keith

Daydream  daydream by ciele

Trivia 2017

So you should all know that I do trivia for the love of trivia. So this round is going to be a serious of questions that I was asked while attending trivia nights in Milwaukee over break. There will be 5 questions total for this round so you’ll also be scoring them differently with either 9-7-5-3-1 so keep that in mind! There are also several questions that have multiple parts so your points will be divided accordingly.

1. John Williams and Steven Spielberg have been a formidable combination in terms of producer and music scorer. In fact Spielberg has only done 2 films without Williams. One from 1985 and the other more recent one from 2015.

The Color Purple & Bridge of Spies

Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix

2. So I’m a big fan of Planet Earth and the 2nd series is currently coming out. It features Locusts which is recorded as a plague from the infamous 10 plagues of Egypt. What number out of 10 was locusts?

8

Eight Second Ride - Jake Owen

3. Staying in the Middle Eastern scene – and going back a few years is Aladdin. Name me the 3 rules that your wishes must abide by when dealing with the Genie of the Lamp.

No Killing, No Making People fall in Love with You, No bringing back people from the dead

Kill the Poor - Dead Kennedys

4. So I had a lot of questions about South America while attempting to answer trivia questions – so here’s one for you. What are the two landlocked countries in South America?

Paraguay and Bolivia

Way Away - Yellowcard  

5. Here’s my favorite question from my trivia adventures over the break. What synonym for the word line sounds the same when you remove the last 4 letters?

Queue

Man of the year

Picture Question: New Year, New You. You could make it better orrrrr you could make it a lot worse. What is the worst resolution you could make for yourself this year? Get creative..

WINNER: hightiiIiiiIiiiiiIiiiiTide!!

The Unemployed Grads :

Welcome to the Flavortown Parade :

Tucci is Gucci:

Brawndo:

Andy always Wins:

League Standings:

1. The Unemployed Grades: 91.5 (6)
2. Andy Wins Most of the Time: 79 (5)
3. Michaela & the Tuccis 76.3 (4)
4. Brawndo: 73.1 (3)
5. HighTiiide!: 71 (2)
6. Welcome to the Flavortown Parade (1)