From: pete.gayde@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2024-09-30,   
   > and should be interpreted accordingly.   
   >   
   > On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give   
   > both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.   
   > Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,   
   > based only on your own knowledge.  (In your answer posting, quote   
   > the questions and place your answer below each one.)  I will reveal   
   > the correct answers in about 3 days.   
   >   
   > All questions were written by members of What She Said, and are   
   > used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have   
   > been retyped and/or edited by me.  The posting and tabulation of   
   > current-events questions is independent of the concurrent posting   
   > of other rounds.  For further information please see my 2024-08-30   
   > companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition   
   > (QFTCI*)".   
   >   
   >   
   > ** Game 4, Round 9 - Sports - Baseball Worsts   
   >   
   > With the Chicago White Sox hitting a new low in baseball futility   
   > this week, it seemed like an ideal time to celebrate boneheaded   
   > plays, mistakes, goofs, and scandals in America's pastime.   
   >   
   > 1. Considered by many fans to be the "original" baseball blunder,   
   >     in 1908 Al Bridwell hit an RBI single to right field in the   
   >     bottom of the 9th in a season-clinching game for the New York   
   >     Giants with Fred Merkle on first and Moose McCormick on third.   
   >     However, the RBI was disallowed.  Why?   
      
   Merkle left the field before touching 2nd base. The opposing team then   
   tagged 2nd base, thus forcing Merkle out and disallowing the run.   
      
   >   
   > 2. In 1993, Jose Canseco, playing right field, allowed a home   
   >     run against the Oakland Athletics in an unconventional manner.   
   >     How did it happen?   
      
   The ball hit off his head and went over the fence.   
      
   >   
   > 3. Game 7 of the 1926 World Series was ended when a player was   
   >     caught stealing -- the only time in history a failed steal   
   >     has led to a World Series victory.  What legendary player got   
   >     picked off?   
      
   Babe Ruth; Lou Gehrig   
      
   >   
   > 4. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you have   
   >     finished with the previous one.  Fcrnxvat bs Onor Ehgu, va   
   >     1919 gur Obfgba Erq Fbk fbyq uvf pbagenpg gb gur Arj Lbex   
   >     Lnaxrrf sbe $100,000, naq Obfgba gura haqrejrag n yrtraqnel   
   >     Jbeyq Frevrf qebhtug bsgra pnyyrq "gur Phefr bs gur Onzovab".   
   >     Jvguva 1, ubj znal lrnef qvq gur Phefr bs gur Onzovab ynfg?   
      
   84   
      
   >   
   > 5. In 1993, Joe Carter won the World Series for the Blue Jays on   
   >     a bottom-of-the-9th, 2-out home run.  The reliever who gave   
   >     up the homer, until that point one of the best relief pitchers   
   >     in baseball, was shattered by the failure and his career only   
   >     lasted for fragments of the next 3 seasons.  Give us either   
   >     his name or his infamous nickname.   
      
   Wildman   
      
   >   
   > 6. The Chicago White Sox now have the record for the worst season   
   >     in the modern baseball era (i.e. from 1901 onward).  However,   
   >     another team has the record for worst season of all time,   
   >     with a record of 20 wins and 134 losses.  Which team is it?   
   >     City and team name required.   
      
   Philadelphia Athletics   
      
   >   
   > 7. The worst ERA of any pitcher to still have pitched enough innings   
   >     (at least 162 over a season) to qualify for the ERA title   
   >     belongs to Les Sweetland of the 1930 Philadelphia Phillies.   
   >     Within 0.3, what was his season ERA?   
      
   10.00; 9.00   
      
   >   
   > 8. In August of 1920, Carl Mays of the New York Yankees hit   
   >     Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians in the head with a pitch.   
   >     Why was this noteworthy?   
      
   Chapman died   
      
   >   
   > 9. Who is the all-time leader in baseball for getting caught   
   >     stealing, with 335 caught steals?   
      
   Rickey Henderson   
      
   >   
   > 10. In 2003, during the National League Championship Series,   
   >     the Chicago Cubs were on the brink of defeating the Florida   
   >     Marlins and advancing to the World Series when a fan attempted to   
   >     catch a fly ball that was above outfielder Moises Alou's head.   
   >     The fan's attempt was ruled to not be fan interference, turning   
   >     what might otherwise have been an out into a safe ball, and the   
   >     Cubs eventually lost the game.  What was the name of that fan,   
   >     who was subsequently harassed for years by angry Cubs fans?   
      
   Bartman   
      
   >   
   >   
   > ** Game 4, Round 10 - Challenge - Bears   
   >   
   > * A. Arty Bears   
   >   
   >     A1. Which Austrian composer's 82nd Symphony -- one of his six   
   >         Paris Symphonies -- is nicknamed the "Bear Symphony"?   
      
   Haydn   
      
   >   
   >     A2. "Head of a Bear" is a sketch that sold at auction in 2021   
   >         for 8,800,000 British pounds.  Which artist drew the sketch?   
   >   
   >   
   > * B. Hollywood Bears   
   >   
   >     B1. Walter Matthau played alcoholic coach Morris Buttermaker   
   >         in the original movie "The Bad News Bears".  Who played   
   >         Buttermaker in the 2005 remake?   
   >   
   >     B2. Name the lead actor in the current dramedic series "The   
   >         Bear", about a chef trying to remake his late brother's   
   >         Italian beef-sandwich shop.   
   >   
   >   
   > * C. Da Bears (and Da Other Bears)   
   >   
   >     C1. In what stadium do the NFL's Chicago Bears play?   
      
   Soldier Field   
      
   >   
   >     C2. In what year did the NBA's Vancouver Grizzlies move to   
   >         Memphis?   
      
   2005; 2010   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * D. Actual Bear Bears   
   >   
   >     D1. Variously cited as either the largest type of bear in the   
   >         world, or second-largest after the polar bear, is a certain   
   >         *subspecies* of brown bear.  What is it called?   
      
   Grizzly   
      
   >   
   >     D2. Only one species of bear is native to South America.   
   >         What is its name?   
   >   
   >   
   > * E. Bear Markets   
   >   
   >     E1. The Panic of 1901 was a stock market crash, and a response   
   >         to what tragic event that happened that year?   
      
   Assassination of President McKinley   
      
   >   
   >     E2. Two major American investment banks went bankrupt during   
   >         the 2008 financial crisis.  One of them was Bear Sterns.   
   >         Name the *other* one.   
      
   Lehman Brothers   
      
   >   
   >   
   > * F. Canadian Bears   
   >   
   >     F1. What bear is the official animal of British Columbia?   
   >   
   >     F2. What was the full name of the Canadian black bear cub who   
   >         was the mascot of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade during   
   >         World War I, and who retired to the London Zoo?   
   >   
      
   Pete Gayde   
      
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