07-15-2023, 06:03 PM
Outside Topic Sports trivia thread 2023
07-15-2023, 06:48 PM
Vanderbilt? The only Cy Young winner to come from Vanderbilt is Price so …. What Skip said.
In 1938 Neville Chamberlain declared "Peace in our time", Superman first appeared in Action Comics, Seabiscuit beat War Admiral ....... and C.a.l last won the Rose Bowl.
07-17-2023, 04:26 PM
You MLB trivia mavens might like the immaculate grid: https://www.immaculategrid.com
Basically, it is a 3x3 grid in which you have to find players that match the criteria for each row and column. For example, today's rows are Houston, LA, and Gold Glove winner and the columns are Texas, Washington, and 200 K in a season, so you would have to find a player to meet each of the nine squares:
* A player who played for both the Astros and Rangers
* A player who played for both the Astros and Nationals
* A pitcher for the Astros who struck out 200+ K in a season
* A player who played for both the Dodgers and Rangers
* A player who played for both the Dodgers and Nationals
* A pitcher for the Dodgers who struck out 200+ K in a season
* A gold glove winner for the Rangers
* A gold glove winner for the Nationals
* A gold glove pitcher who struck out 200+ K in a season
You can only use one player per square, so you can't use Nolan Ryan as the Astros/Rangers combo and the Astros/200+ K combo. You can use any player from a franchise's history, so you can use an Expo for the Nationals answers. The game gives you a "rarity score", so there is probably an element of pride in picking someone other than Greg Maddox as the gold glove winner with 200+ Ks.
BC
Basically, it is a 3x3 grid in which you have to find players that match the criteria for each row and column. For example, today's rows are Houston, LA, and Gold Glove winner and the columns are Texas, Washington, and 200 K in a season, so you would have to find a player to meet each of the nine squares:
* A player who played for both the Astros and Rangers
* A player who played for both the Astros and Nationals
* A pitcher for the Astros who struck out 200+ K in a season
* A player who played for both the Dodgers and Rangers
* A player who played for both the Dodgers and Nationals
* A pitcher for the Dodgers who struck out 200+ K in a season
* A gold glove winner for the Rangers
* A gold glove winner for the Nationals
* A gold glove pitcher who struck out 200+ K in a season
You can only use one player per square, so you can't use Nolan Ryan as the Astros/Rangers combo and the Astros/200+ K combo. You can use any player from a franchise's history, so you can use an Expo for the Nationals answers. The game gives you a "rarity score", so there is probably an element of pride in picking someone other than Greg Maddox as the gold glove winner with 200+ Ks.
BC
You MLB trivia mavens might like the immaculate grid: https://www.immaculategrid.com
Basically, it is a 3x3 grid in which you have to find players that match the criteria for each row and column. For example, today's rows are Houston, LA, and Gold Glove winner and the columns are Texas, Washington, and 200 K in a season, so you would have to find a player to meet each of the nine squares:
* A player who played for both the Astros and Rangers
* A player who played for both the Astros and Nationals
* A pitcher for the Astros who struck out 200+ K in a season
* A player who played for both the Dodgers and Rangers
* A player who played for both the Dodgers and Nationals
* A pitcher for the Dodgers who struck out 200+ K in a season
* A gold glove winner for the Rangers
* A gold glove winner for the Nationals
* A gold glove pitcher who struck out 200+ K in a season
You can only use one player per square, so you can't use Nolan Ryan as the Astros/Rangers combo and the Astros/200+ K combo. You can use any player from a franchise's history, so you can use an Expo for the Nationals answers. The game gives you a "rarity score", so there is probably an element of pride in picking someone other than Greg Maddox as the gold glove winner with 200+ Ks.
BC
Basically, it is a 3x3 grid in which you have to find players that match the criteria for each row and column. For example, today's rows are Houston, LA, and Gold Glove winner and the columns are Texas, Washington, and 200 K in a season, so you would have to find a player to meet each of the nine squares:
* A player who played for both the Astros and Rangers
* A player who played for both the Astros and Nationals
* A pitcher for the Astros who struck out 200+ K in a season
* A player who played for both the Dodgers and Rangers
* A player who played for both the Dodgers and Nationals
* A pitcher for the Dodgers who struck out 200+ K in a season
* A gold glove winner for the Rangers
* A gold glove winner for the Nationals
* A gold glove pitcher who struck out 200+ K in a season
You can only use one player per square, so you can't use Nolan Ryan as the Astros/Rangers combo and the Astros/200+ K combo. You can use any player from a franchise's history, so you can use an Expo for the Nationals answers. The game gives you a "rarity score", so there is probably an element of pride in picking someone other than Greg Maddox as the gold glove winner with 200+ Ks.
BC
07-18-2023, 09:50 AM
Thanks for posting about Immaculate Grid. It's fun, but I found it to be pretty difficult!
07-20-2023, 04:32 PM
This is a list of scientists affiliated with the Manhattan Project. All except one won Nobel prizes. Which one didn't win the Nobel Prize?
Hans Bethe
Niels Bohr
Arthur Compton
James Chadwick
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
Richard Feynman
James Franck
Ernest Lawrence
Robert Oppenheimer
Isidor Rabi
Glenn Seaborg
Emilio Segre
Leo Szilard
Eugene Wigner
Herbert York
Hans Bethe
Niels Bohr
Arthur Compton
James Chadwick
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
Richard Feynman
James Franck
Ernest Lawrence
Robert Oppenheimer
Isidor Rabi
Glenn Seaborg
Emilio Segre
Leo Szilard
Eugene Wigner
Herbert York
Audaces fortuna iuvat
This is a list of scientists affiliated with the Manhattan Project. All except one won Nobel prizes. Which one didn't win the Nobel Prize?
Hans Bethe
Niels Bohr
Arthur Compton
James Chadwick
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
Richard Feynman
James Franck
Ernest Lawrence
Robert Oppenheimer
Isidor Rabi
Glenn Seaborg
Emilio Segre
Leo Szilard
Eugene Wigner
Herbert York
Hans Bethe
Niels Bohr
Arthur Compton
James Chadwick
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
Richard Feynman
James Franck
Ernest Lawrence
Robert Oppenheimer
Isidor Rabi
Glenn Seaborg
Emilio Segre
Leo Szilard
Eugene Wigner
Herbert York
Audaces fortuna iuvat
07-20-2023, 04:54 PM
(07-20-2023, 04:32 PM)Mick Wrote: This is a list of scientists affiliated with the Manhattan Project. All except one won Nobel prizes. Which one didn't win the Nobel Prize?
Hans Bethe
Niels Bohr
Arthur Compton
James Chadwick
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
Richard Feynman
James Franck
Ernest Lawrence
Robert Oppenheimer
Isidor Rabi
Glenn Seaborg
Emilio Segre
Leo Szilard
Eugene Wigner
Herbert York
Oppenheimer
(07-20-2023, 04:32 PM)Mick Wrote: This is a list of scientists affiliated with the Manhattan Project. All except one won Nobel prizes. Which one didn't win the Nobel Prize?
Hans Bethe
Niels Bohr
Arthur Compton
James Chadwick
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
Richard Feynman
James Franck
Ernest Lawrence
Robert Oppenheimer
Isidor Rabi
Glenn Seaborg
Emilio Segre
Leo Szilard
Eugene Wigner
Herbert York
Oppenheimer
07-21-2023, 09:45 AM
(07-20-2023, 04:54 PM)La Jetee Wrote:(07-20-2023, 04:32 PM)Mick Wrote: This is a list of scientists affiliated with the Manhattan Project. All except one won Nobel prizes. Which one didn't win the Nobel Prize?
Hans Bethe
Niels Bohr
Arthur Compton
James Chadwick
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
Richard Feynman
James Franck
Ernest Lawrence
Robert Oppenheimer
Isidor Rabi
Glenn Seaborg
Emilio Segre
Leo Szilard
Eugene Wigner
Herbert York
Oppenheimer
Winner winner, chicken dinner. He was nominated in 1946, 1951, and 1967 but never won.
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(07-20-2023, 04:54 PM)La Jetee Wrote:(07-20-2023, 04:32 PM)Mick Wrote: This is a list of scientists affiliated with the Manhattan Project. All except one won Nobel prizes. Which one didn't win the Nobel Prize?
Hans Bethe
Niels Bohr
Arthur Compton
James Chadwick
Albert Einstein
Enrico Fermi
Richard Feynman
James Franck
Ernest Lawrence
Robert Oppenheimer
Isidor Rabi
Glenn Seaborg
Emilio Segre
Leo Szilard
Eugene Wigner
Herbert York
Oppenheimer
Winner winner, chicken dinner. He was nominated in 1946, 1951, and 1967 but never won.
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07-24-2023, 09:16 AM
Wilbert Robinson was a Hall of Famer who played with John McGraw on the old Baltimore Orioles, but was mainly known as the player and manager for the Brooklyn Robins (Dodgers).
He was a fireplug of a man at 5'8" and 215 pounds, very large for the 1886-1902 time frame in which played. He came by the nickname "Grapefruit."
How did he get that nickname?
He was a fireplug of a man at 5'8" and 215 pounds, very large for the 1886-1902 time frame in which played. He came by the nickname "Grapefruit."
How did he get that nickname?
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Wilbert Robinson was a Hall of Famer who played with John McGraw on the old Baltimore Orioles, but was mainly known as the player and manager for the Brooklyn Robins (Dodgers).
He was a fireplug of a man at 5'8" and 215 pounds, very large for the 1886-1902 time frame in which played. He came by the nickname "Grapefruit."
How did he get that nickname?
He was a fireplug of a man at 5'8" and 215 pounds, very large for the 1886-1902 time frame in which played. He came by the nickname "Grapefruit."
How did he get that nickname?
Audaces fortuna iuvat
07-24-2023, 02:31 PM
When he was a manager, the team was at a flying exhibition during spring training in Daytona Beach in 1915. The pilot of the plane was Ruth Law (pictured below), a woman and a daredevil pilot, which was unusual at that time. Casey Stengel and Robinson hatched the plan that she would drop a baseball from altitude so that Robinson could catch it. She realized that she'd forgotten a baseball, so she looked around the cockpit for a baseball-like object, saw a grapefruit and tossed it overboard from about 525 feet up. A grapefruit is much heavier than a baseball, and the pink grapefruit exploded when it hit Robinson's mitt. Robinson thought he was gravely injured, and yelled "Help! I'm dying! I'm bleeding to death!" -- covered, as he was, in pink fruit, which he mistook for parts of himself.
Hilarity ensued. All the players loved it, and "Grapefruit" was born. Supposedly, that's how the "Grapefruit" league got its name.
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Hilarity ensued. All the players loved it, and "Grapefruit" was born. Supposedly, that's how the "Grapefruit" league got its name.
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When he was a manager, the team was at a flying exhibition during spring training in Daytona Beach in 1915. The pilot of the plane was Ruth Law (pictured below), a woman and a daredevil pilot, which was unusual at that time. Casey Stengel and Robinson hatched the plan that she would drop a baseball from altitude so that Robinson could catch it. She realized that she'd forgotten a baseball, so she looked around the cockpit for a baseball-like object, saw a grapefruit and tossed it overboard from about 525 feet up. A grapefruit is much heavier than a baseball, and the pink grapefruit exploded when it hit Robinson's mitt. Robinson thought he was gravely injured, and yelled "Help! I'm dying! I'm bleeding to death!" -- covered, as he was, in pink fruit, which he mistook for parts of himself.
Hilarity ensued. All the players loved it, and "Grapefruit" was born. Supposedly, that's how the "Grapefruit" league got its name.
Hilarity ensued. All the players loved it, and "Grapefruit" was born. Supposedly, that's how the "Grapefruit" league got its name.
Audaces fortuna iuvat
07-30-2023, 08:54 AM
Who started the All Star game then played only one more game in his career? Post WW2
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