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steel
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Username: Steel
Post Number: 983
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - 4:23 pm: | 
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Dang, there are some really smart people in Maplewood. I was invited at the last minute to join a team in some "Quizbowl" charity thing at Maplewood Middle School last weekend, (kinda like Jeopardy), and most of the questions were really-really quite difficult. I mean like Jeopardy on steroids difficult, -yet in the final round the winning team knew 12 out of the 15 questions and quite a few other teams were very close.
During our round the only answers that I was able to supply my team were "Jimi Hendrix" and "Codpiece", (I'm not sure what that says about me but the whole thing was fun). |
ess
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Username: Ess
Post Number: 1336
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - 8:26 pm: |
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Codpiece -- wonder why that ever went out of fashion.
Sounds like fun, Steel. |
monster
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 2383
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - 10:10 pm: |
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Bring back the codpiece, click the pic for more info.
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kathy
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Username: Kathy
Post Number: 1268
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 1:36 pm: |
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I am embarrassed to say that I also got the "codpiece" answer for my team.
My favorite part of the codpiece question was when the moderator said "During the Hundred Years' War, the English made theirs bigger to scare the French."  |
LazyDog
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Username: Lazydog
Post Number: 180
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 5:51 pm: |
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The English DO have bigger ones than the French.... |
monster
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 2399
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 6:26 pm: |
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Everyone has bigger ones than the French |
LazyDog
Citizen
Username: Lazydog
Post Number: 181
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 6:37 pm: |
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maybe not the quarter horse... |
steel
Citizen
Username: Steel
Post Number: 985
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 10:40 am: |
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I guess I should have named this thread "The Codpiece of Maplewood",
(sounds like an interesting novel). |
Prescott Perez-Fox
Citizen
Username: Scottperezfox
Post Number: 6
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 8:46 pm: |
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I was a member of the Clinton School team and I agree that there is some serious academic muscle in our community. I fared pretty well considering I am only 24, and half those questions were about movies from the 1950s and books from the 1750s.
I actually got the Codpiece question wrong because I thought to myself "it couldn't be that simple". I always thought codpiece was a colloqual term, not an actual historical garment. But I did get the question right about who was Lincoln's Secretary of State.
It was Seward. Made famous by Seward's Blunder, the purchase of Alaska.
This has been your factoid of the day...
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yabbadabbadoo
Citizen
Username: Yabbadabbadoo
Post Number: 334
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 9:24 pm: |
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Actually it was Seward's Folly
FF |
steel
Citizen
Username: Steel
Post Number: 986
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 9:17 am: |
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The correct answer is:
"Colonel Seward, in the library, with a codpiece". |
Prescott Perez-Fox
Citizen
Username: Scottperezfox
Post Number: 8
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 11:55 am: |
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you're right, folly not blunder.
*smacks forehead* |
\2{Monster}
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 2454
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 11:57 pm: |
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Don't you mean
*smacks codpiece* |
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