WWTBAM Bored

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:48 am**

If you didn't already read the post on how this works, here you go.

http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?t=1520

QUESTIONS

"Yeah, dumby, we know it's questions, you've been yammering about it for a week." No, wait, that's the category! I thought we should start off the questions with questions. Ha!

Who wrote or said the following? Please ignore whether they might be apocryphal or a word off somewhere. I tried for accuracy, but not as hard as someone else will. Please remember to spoiler your answers if possible.

1. How do I love thee?

2. Do you know the way to San Jose?

3. Can we all get along?

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that?

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5?

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:02 am**

fantine33 wrote:If you didn't already read the post on how this works, here you go.

http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?t=1520

QUESTIONS

"Yeah, dumby, we know it's questions, you've been yammering about it for a week." No, wait, that's the category! I thought we should start off the questions with questions. Ha!

Who wrote or said the following? Please ignore whether they might be apocryphal or a word off somewhere. I tried for accuracy, but not as hard as someone else will. Please remember to spoiler your answers if possible.

1. How do I love thee?

2. Do you know the way to San Jose?

3. Can we all get along?

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that?

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5?

Spoiler

1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2. Burt Bacharach wrote, Dionne Warwick sang it.

3. Rodney King, back in the news this week too.

4. Keats?

5. Jesus?

QOD: Vince Lombardi

Bonus: Who loves God.

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:31 am**

Spoiler

1. Miss Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who was named after my baby sister or versa vice.

2. Mr. Hal David

3. My mom, on a day when Lizbit was a brat and I was justifiably annoyed.

4. Mr. Percy B. Shelley

5. Mr. Ben Franklin

QOD: Mr. Coach Vince Lombardi

Bonus: Nobody. (That's what Mr. Ben said, but the real answer is "Dogs, most of the time." I feel sorry for Mr. Ben that he didn't know that. I guess he was too busy chasing gray cats.)

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:47 am**

Spoiler

1. How do I love thee? Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2. Do you know the way to San Jose? Dionne Warwick

3. Can we all get along? Rodney King

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Shakespeare

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Shakespeare

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score? Vince Lombardi

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5? so you know who won

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:48 am**

I will never learn.

I am sorry.

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:35 am**

Spoiler

1. How do I love thee? E B Browning

2. Do you know the way to San Jose? Dione Warwick (I'll bet she knew you were going to ask this.)

3. Can we all get along? Rodney King

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind? P B Shelley

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Bill Gates

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

Rogers Hornsby( after being told about Grantland Rice's poem that suggested that it matters not if you won or lost but how you played the game. Hornsby replied, "Then why the fuck do they keep score!!??")

Often mistakenly credited to Vince Lombardi. (Although I guess he could have stolen it--I mean borrowed.)

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5?

Bill Gates, of course.

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:16 am**

fantine33 wrote:If you didn't already read the post on how this works, here you go.

http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?t=1520

QUESTIONS

"Yeah, dumby, we know it's questions, you've been yammering about it for a week." No, wait, that's the category! I thought we should start off the questions with questions. Ha!

Who wrote or said the following? Please ignore whether they might be apocryphal or a word off somewhere. I tried for accuracy, but not as hard as someone else will. Please remember to spoiler your answers if possible.

1. How do I love thee?

2. Do you know the way to San Jose?

3. Can we all get along?

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that?

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5?

Spoiler

1. Count these ways, beeyotch: Lizzie B. Browning
2. Hal David and Burt Bachrach wrote it. Dionne Warick and Karen Carpenter (among others) are known for singing it.
3. Rodney King. I have no joke for this
4. P(eanut) B(utter) Shelley.
5. I can't remember if there's a penalty for guessing in the "Quiz" portion. If there is, I clam, but if not I'll wag Confusious.

QOD: Thanks to my buddy who does a "Who Said It?" category in his weekly pub quiz that I go to every week, I know this is Vince Lombardi (it was the quote about a month ago!).

Bonus: For me, it's about a 4 hour flight, direct to San Jose international. For Dionne, it was probably straight up the 101.

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:20 am**

KillerTomato wrote:
fantine33 wrote:If you didn't already read the post on how this works, here you go.

http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?t=1520

QUESTIONS

"Yeah, dumby, we know it's questions, you've been yammering about it for a week." No, wait, that's the category! I thought we should start off the questions with questions. Ha!

Who wrote or said the following? Please ignore whether they might be apocryphal or a word off somewhere. I tried for accuracy, but not as hard as someone else will. Please remember to spoiler your answers if possible.

1. How do I love thee?

2. Do you know the way to San Jose?

3. Can we all get along?

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that?

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5?

Spoiler

1. Count these ways, beeyotch: Lizzie B. Browning
2. Hal David and Burt Bachrach wrote it. Dionne Warick and Karen Carpenter (among others) are known for singing it.
3. Rodney King. I have no joke for this
4. P(eanut) B(utter) Shelley.
5. I can't remember if there's a penalty for guessing in the "Quiz" portion. If there is, I clam, but if not I'll wag Confusious.

QOD: Thanks to my buddy who does a "Who Said It?" category in his weekly pub quiz that I go to every week, I know this is Vince Lombardi (it was the quote about a month ago!).

Bonus: For me, it's about a 4 hour flight, direct to San Jose international. For Dionne, it was probably straight up the 101.

One day, God willing, I'll learn to read the WHOLE bonus question, and not stop after the word "second". *megasigh*...

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:55 am**

Spoiler

1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2. Dionne Warwick

3. Rodney King

4. Wordsworth?

5. Benjamin Franklin

QOD: Vince Lombardi

5 Point Bonus: No one

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:00 pm**

Spoiler

fantine33 wrote:1. How do I love thee?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

fantine33 wrote:2. Do you know the way to San Jose?

I think Burt Bacharach wrote it, and Dionne Warwick sang it. Not sure which you're going for here.

fantine33 wrote:3. Can we all get along?

Rodney King

fantine33 wrote:4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

I got nuthin'

fantine33 wrote:5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that?

Ben Franklin

fantine33 wrote:QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

Vince Lombardi?

fantine33 wrote:5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5?

Nobody

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:01 pm**

QUESTIONS

Spoiler

1. Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton-Burton Warner Fortensky or was it Mickey Rooney?

2. Written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David, a hit for Dionne Warwick and performed by every lounge singer on the planet.

3. Rodney King

4. Mother Nature

5. Well it wasn't Donald Trump

QOD: Vince Lombardi

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5? The Carnation Contented Cow

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:03 pm**

Spoiler

1. How do I love thee? The Portuguese, aka Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2. Do you know the way to San Jose? Probably lots of people. Burt Bacharach and that other guy wrote the song. Dionne Warwick or Warwicke or however she spells her name now made a lot of money singing it, probably some others said it as well.

3. Can we all get along? Rodney 'I Just Got Shot Again' King

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind? One of those Romantical types, Dead Young English Poet. Keats, Shelley, Byron, one of them.

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Somebody with a lot of money who could afford to pooh pooh money.

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score? Like King Arthur upon meeting the Black Knight, I shall pass.

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5? NAC

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:23 pm**

Spoiler

1. How do I love thee?
Browning?

2. Do you know the way to San Jose?
Dionne Warwick

3. Can we all get along?
Rodney King

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
No guess

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that?
No guess

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi?

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5?

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:25 pm**

Spoiler

1. How do I love thee? E. B. Bro3wning

2. Do you know the way to San Jose? Dione Warwick

3. Can we all get along? Rodney King

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Shakespeare

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Budda

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score? Leo Deroacher

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5? nope

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:51 pm**

Spoiler

1. How do I love thee?
Lord Byron?

2. Do you know the way to San Jose?
The Mamas & The Papas?

3. Can we all get along?
"Can we" or "Can't we"? It's that guy who got mugged during the LA riots...Whatshisname.

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
I don't know, but here in Ithaca, the answer is "Yes". Spring doesn't arrive until the season of Unlocking is done, first.

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that?
Buddha

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
I'll STAY CLAM, so as not to risk the multitudinous points I'm sure I've earned so far.

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5?
Warren Buffett. I mean, if he wasn't content with his riches, he wouldn't have given so much of it away to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, would he?

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 2:51 pm**

Spoiler

1. Robert Browning
2. Dionne Warwick
3. Rodney King
4. William Shakespeare
5. Jesus Christ

QoD: Warf (played by Michael Dorn)

Bonus: He who loves the Lord.

--Bob

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:10 pm**

fantine33 wrote:If you didn't already read the post on how this works, here you go.

http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?t=1520

QUESTIONS

"Yeah, dumby, we know it's questions, you've been yammering about it for a week." No, wait, that's the category! I thought we should start off the questions with questions. Ha!

Who wrote or said the following? Please ignore whether they might be apocryphal or a word off somewhere. I tried for accuracy, but not as hard as someone else will. Please remember to spoiler your answers if possible.

1. How do I love thee?

2. Do you know the way to San Jose?

3. Can we all get along?

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that?

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5?

Spoiler

1) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2) Anne Murray 3) John Lennon? 4) Shakespeare? 5) Nope, but I think its biblical.

QOD - Nope

Bonus - Nope

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:18 pm**

fantine33 wrote: QUESTIONS

Spoiler

Luuucy - Silently playing along after that fiasco in D/A. I <i>was</i> surprised that we both used the word DUMBY in our post. LOL YOU not dumby!

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:08 pm**

fantine33 wrote:Who wrote or said the following? Please ignore whether they might be apocryphal or a word off somewhere. I tried for accuracy, but not as hard as someone else will. Please remember to spoiler your answers if possible.

1. How do I love thee?
2. Do you know the way to San Jose?
3. Can we all get along?
4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that?

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5?

Spoiler

1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2. Bert Bacharach wrote it, Diahnn Warwick sang it.
3. Rodney King
4. Shelley
5. Benjamin Franklin

QOD: Vince Lombardi

5 Point Bonus: nobody

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:25 pm**

cindy.wellman wrote:Luuucy - Silently playing along after that fiasco in D/A. I <i>was</i> surprised that we both used the word DUMBY in our post. LOL YOU not dumby!

You will play out loud, Missy! Starting now! You could not have made a bigger hash out of Dead or Alive than I did. I only knew who like four of them were and I was only sure about the D/A status of my boyfriend Stephen Hawking.

But you don't see me wahing, now do you? Suck it up!

And ha! on you spoilering your comments, that whip crack really got your attention. You know that dumby is one of my favourite words.

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:37 pm**

fantine33 wrote:If you didn't already read the post on how this works, here you go.

http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?t=1520

QUESTIONS

"Yeah, dumby, we know it's questions, you've been yammering about it for a week." No, wait, that's the category! I thought we should start off the questions with questions. Ha!

Who wrote or said the following? Please ignore whether they might be apocryphal or a word off somewhere. I tried for accuracy, but not as hard as someone else will. Please remember to spoiler your answers if possible.

1. How do I love thee?

2. Do you know the way to San Jose?

3. Can we all get along?

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that?

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5?

Spoiler

1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2. Burt Bacharach
3. Rodney King
4. Thoreau
5. Not me

QOD: Dizzy Dean

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:51 pm**

Spoiler

1. How do I love thee?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2. Do you know the way to San Jose?
Dionne Warwick

3. Can we all get along?
Rodney King

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Carl Sandberg

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that?
pass

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
Yogi Berra

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5?
pass

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:56 pm**

I'm not using the spoiler feature since 1. I'm not playing seriously, and 2. I'm too ignorant to read the rules which is why I have to try to be funny rather than smart.

Who wrote or said the following? Please ignore whether they might be apocryphal or a word off somewhere. I tried for accuracy, but not as hard as someone else will. Please remember to spoiler your answers if possible.

1. How do I love thee?

Mike Tyson

2. Do you know the way to San Jose?

Billy Beane

3. Can we all get along?

Pacman Jones

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Al Gore

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that?

The very content Bill Gates

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

Cam Cameron

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5?

Because 50,000,000 fantasy sports fans would be up in arms if they didn't

LFHP

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:56 pm**

fantine33 wrote:If you didn't already read the post on how this works, here you go.

http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?t=1520

QUESTIONS

"Yeah, dumby, we know it's questions, you've been yammering about it for a week." No, wait, that's the category! I thought we should start off the questions with questions. Ha!

Who wrote or said the following? Please ignore whether they might be apocryphal or a word off somewhere. I tried for accuracy, but not as hard as someone else will. Please remember to spoiler your answers if possible.

1. How do I love thee?

2. Do you know the way to San Jose?

3. Can we all get along?

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that?

QOD: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5?

Spoiler

1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2. Burt Bacharach
3. Rodney King
4. Thoreau
5. Not me

QOD: Dizzy Dean

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:54 pm**

Spoiler

1. Shakespeare
2. Dionne Warwick
3. Rodney King

The rest are big, fat NOPE's!

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