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by ToLiveIsToFly » Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:14 am
$200 - Newspaper horoscopes rely on dividing people up into astrological signs by this
Birthday. I accepted "birth month" reluctantly.
$400 - Perhaps few were surprised when it was learned that this First Lady consulted astrologer Joan Quigley before making key decisions
Nancy Reagan
$600 - "You'll wonder aloud this week if there's anything duct tape can't do, much to the horror of your fellow EMTs and the crowd that has gathered" is a horoscope lifted from this publication.
The Onion
$800 - Kris Kristofferson song about the sign of the Son of Man
Jesus Was a Capricorn. I also accepted "They Killed Him" though I'm not sure how it ties in with astrology/horoscopes.
$1000 - This magician/skeptic once gave the same "horoscope reading" to an entire roomful of people and asked those who thought it accurately reflected them to raise their hands. (Of course everyone raised a hand)
James "The Amazing" Randi
Double Jeopardy Round: "Fundamentalists"
$400 - This fundamentalist government was known for blowing up Buddhist icons in Afghanistan
The Taliban
$800 - The fundamentalist branch of this religion broke with LDS over, among other things, LDS' abandonment of plural marriage.
Mormonism. I gave people LDS, so clearly I was looking for something other than "Latter Day Saints". In general, if I just want people to tell me what an acronym stands for, I'll ask that specifically. My understanding is that Mormonism is the religion, while LDS is a specific organized, um, something bigger than denomination, but smaller than religion, within it. I think there's sets of renegades who consider themselves Mormons but not part of LDS. At least that's how I understand it. In the same way, I'd consider Christianity a religion, and Catholicism a similar subset - bigger than a denomination, smaller than a religion.
That said, I accepted Latter Day Saints as a correct answer.
$1200 - Greenville, SC Fundamentalist university, or its founder of the same name
Bob Jones
$1600 - Margaret Atwood's novel of life in a fundamentalist future American regime.
The Handmaid's Tale
$2000 - Conference that met in Ontario from 1883 to 1897 to establish principles of Christian Fundamentalism
Niagara Bible Conference
Day Scores:
Greyhound Dude 8400
Appa23 8200
andrewjackson 6600
VAdame 6400
plasticene 6200
mrkelley23 5600
fantine33 5600
JBillyGirl 5600
AnnieCamaro 5600
tlynn78 5400
TheConfessor 5400
PlacentiaSoccerMom 4600
Vails 4600
nitrah55 4600
wintergreen48 4400
Catfish 4200
tanstaafl2 4000
jsuchard 3800
mikehardware 3000
T_Bone0806 2600
littlebeast13 2400
starfish1113 2000
jarnon 1600
traininvain 1600
NellyLunatic1980 1200
trevor_macfee 1000
themanintheseersuckersuit 800
peacock2121 DNP
MarleysGh0st DNP
Bob78164 DNP
DadofTwins DNP
ulysses5019 DNP
etaoin22 DNP
a1mamacat DNP
takinover DNP
Game 2 Scores:
Greyhound Dude 35400
andrewjackson 30600
PlacentiaSoccerMom 28000
fantine33 27800
mrkelley23 27400
tlynn78 26800
TheConfessor 25800
Catfish 25600
Appa23 25200
jsuchard 23400
tanstaafl2 22800
JBillyGirl 22600
T_Bone0806 20800
wintergreen48 19800
plasticene 19600
nitrah55 18800
NellyLunatic1980 17800
trevor_macfee 17400
Vails 16800
VAdame 16000
traininvain 15600
starfish1113 14200
littlebeast13 13200
mikehardware 13000
AnnieCamaro 9600
jarnon 7800
themanintheseersuckersuit 4400
etaoin22 2000
Bob78164 1800
MarleysGh0st 400
ulysses5019 0
takinover 0
peacock2121 0
DadofTwins 0
a1mamacat 0
Total Scores:
Greyhound Dude 132200
mrkelley23 98600
tlynn78 95150
Appa23 92375
fantine33 90440
jsuchard 89800
Catfish 82800
andrewjackson 76000
wintergreen48 69720
PlacentiaSoccerMom 66200
trevor_macfee 63000
tanstaafl2 60600
NellyLunatic1980 60600
Vails 54000
JBillyGirl 51000
T_Bone0806 50200
TheConfessor 48400
nitrah55 46600
peacock2121 45200
MarleysGh0st 42800
plasticene 40400
jarnon 33400
traininvain 33200
Bob78164 30000
mikehardware 28200
themanintheseersuckersuit 25600
littlebeast13 24400
VAdame 22000
DadofTwins 16800
starfish1113 14200
AnnieCamaro 9600
ulysses5019 7400
etaoin22 4000
a1mamacat 3200
takinover 0