Thursday, December 4, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
ANSWER: Sports
Rugby
The scrum is what makes rugby unique. Scrums often look like little piles of people created at the beginning of each play, where the two teams push against each other. A team who can scrummage well has a great advantage, both offensively and defensively.
A scrum consists of 8 players from each team. Each team supplies 3 rows in the scrum:
Front Row: 2 Props (Numbers 1 and 3) and Hooker (#2) Second Row: 2 Locks (Numbers 4 and 5) Back Row: 2 Flankers (Numbers 6 and 7) and Number 8
The hooker directs the action in the scrum, and all other members of the scrum (affectionately dubbed "scrummies") are attuned to listen for the hooker's calls.
Matt: CORRECT
Record: 61-38
The scrum is what makes rugby unique. Scrums often look like little piles of people created at the beginning of each play, where the two teams push against each other. A team who can scrummage well has a great advantage, both offensively and defensively.
A scrum consists of 8 players from each team. Each team supplies 3 rows in the scrum:
Front Row: 2 Props (Numbers 1 and 3) and Hooker (#2) Second Row: 2 Locks (Numbers 4 and 5) Back Row: 2 Flankers (Numbers 6 and 7) and Number 8
The hooker directs the action in the scrum, and all other members of the scrum (affectionately dubbed "scrummies") are attuned to listen for the hooker's calls.
Matt: CORRECT
Record: 61-38
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
ANSWER: History
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn was the Queen of England as the second wife of Henry VIII.
Anne was sent to the Netherlands for her education, and later to France; she returned to England in 1521. She was lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine. Around 1526, Henry started to pursue her. Anne parried the King's advances, refusing to give way until he received an annulment of his marriage to Catherine. When Pope Clement VII seemed unlikely to grant the annulment, the inexorable rift between King Henry and the Roman Catholic Church began.
In late 1532, Anne gave in to Henry and soon became pregnant. The two were secretly married on 25 January 1533. To make the imminent birth legitimate, Thomas Cranmer declared the marriage of Henry and Anne to be valid. In September 1533 she gave birth to a girl, the future Queen Elizabeth I of England. She failed to produce a surviving male heir. Despite unconvincing evidence against her, she was condemned and beheaded as guilty of adultery, incest, and high treason.
Matt: CORRECT
Record: 60-38
Anne Boleyn was the Queen of England as the second wife of Henry VIII.
Anne was sent to the Netherlands for her education, and later to France; she returned to England in 1521. She was lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine. Around 1526, Henry started to pursue her. Anne parried the King's advances, refusing to give way until he received an annulment of his marriage to Catherine. When Pope Clement VII seemed unlikely to grant the annulment, the inexorable rift between King Henry and the Roman Catholic Church began.
In late 1532, Anne gave in to Henry and soon became pregnant. The two were secretly married on 25 January 1533. To make the imminent birth legitimate, Thomas Cranmer declared the marriage of Henry and Anne to be valid. In September 1533 she gave birth to a girl, the future Queen Elizabeth I of England. She failed to produce a surviving male heir. Despite unconvincing evidence against her, she was condemned and beheaded as guilty of adultery, incest, and high treason.
Matt: CORRECT
Record: 60-38
Monday, December 1, 2008
ANSWER: Comic Book
Thomas and Martha Wayne
As a little boy, Bruce Wayne is horrified and traumatized to see his parents, the physician Dr. Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, being murdered by a mugger in front of his very eyes. This drives him to fight crime in Gotham City as Batman.
Matt: WRONG
Record: 59-38
As a little boy, Bruce Wayne is horrified and traumatized to see his parents, the physician Dr. Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, being murdered by a mugger in front of his very eyes. This drives him to fight crime in Gotham City as Batman.
Matt: WRONG
Record: 59-38
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