From: tool@panix.com
Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 1, Round 4 - Sports - And in Last Place
> 1. While exact information is not available, in its first 63 years
> of operation this professional team won maybe 3 games, and lost
> about 16,000 games.
Washington Generals
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Hawks
> 3. The worst record in major-league baseball since World War II
> belongs to this National League team in 1962, when they won
> 40 games and lost 120. Jimmy Breslin's book about that season
> was titled "Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?"
Mets
> 4. The worst baseball record in recent years was this American
> League Central Division team with 47 wins and 114 losses in 2019.
Royals; Astros
> 5. Considering only home games for each team, the all-time record
> home losing streak for *all* professional sports in North
> America was the 20 consecutive home losses suffered by the
> St. Louis Browns in June and July 1953 -- until *this* team
> exceeded it by losing 22 consecutive home games from October
> 2019 to August 2023. Obviously this isn't a baseball team --
> what team is it?
Browns; Lions
> 6. In the 1976 NFL season, this team lost all 14 games. Despite
> their location, they were then playing in the AFC West Division.
> Their head coach was John McKay and their primary quarterback
> was Steve Spurrier.
Lions; Bengals
> 7. In 1974-75 this NHL team in the Norris Division won 8 games,
> lost 67, and tied 5. Four of their losses were by 10 goals
> or more. Their primary goalie, Ron Low, had a goals-against
> average of 5.45.
Blues; Sabres
> 8. In 1992-93 this team in the NHL's Smythe Division won 11 games
> and tied 2, but their 71 losses are a record that still stands
> today. At one point they lost 17 games in a row; in one game
> they scored first and lost 13-1. Their leading scorer was
> Kelly Kisio with 26 goals on the whole season.
Sabres; Blues
> 9. This English soccer team was promoted into the Premier League
> in 2007, but had clinched relegation back to their previous
> league 6 weeks before the 2007-08 season was over! That season
> they won 1 game, drew 8, and lost 29. They scored 20 goals in
> the whole season to 89 for their opponents. Billy Davies was
> replaced as manager by Paul Jewell, who lasted only a little
> over a year.
Coventry City
> * Game 1, Round 6 - Literature - The Title Character
> 1. "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Bilbo Baggins
> 3. "Rabbit, Run" by John Updike.
Rabbit Angstrom
> 4. "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov.
Dolores Haze
> 5. "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Prince Myshkin
> 6. "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare.
Antonio
> 10. "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein.
Michael Valentine Smith
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