QOD Saturday, 12/01 "QUESTIONS"

[littlebeast13]

Spoiler

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? - Shakespeare (I know that's not right)


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?


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


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


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

[tanstaafl2]

Spoiler

1. How do I love thee?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2. Do you know the way to San Jose?
Burt Bacharach and Hal David. I think Hal David was primarily the lyricist so if I gotta take one I take him.

3. Can we all get along?
Rodney King? Might be wrong 'cause I thought he said "can't" but since we aren't being picky...

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Tennyson? One of those dadblasted poets...

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

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?
Nobody?

[JBillyGirl]

Spoiler

I'm probably too late with this, but what the hey!

1. How do I love thee? -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning


2. Do you know the way to San Jose? --I think Dionne Warwick sang it; would that be good enough?


3. Can we all get along? -- I hope this is Rodney King, though I remember the wording a bit differently


4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind? -- William Shakespeare (guessed just cuz he wrote maybe half the quotes there are)

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? -- William Shakespeare (see #4)


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


5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5? Wouldn't I like to know.

[Catfish]

Spoiler

1. How do I love thee?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2. Do you know the way to San Jose?
Burt Bachrach

3. Can we all get along?
Rodney King


4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Don't know but I should

5. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that?
Don't know but I should

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?[/quote]

Glad for the spoilers so I don't look like such a doofus except to people who despoil my spoiler.

[kayrharris]

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. Shakespeare
2. Burt Bacharach
3. Rodney King
4. No clue, how about Robert Frost?
5. Nope
QOD - dunno

Bonus - nope

[nitrah55]

Spoiler

1. How do I love thee?
SHAKESPEARE

2. Do you know the way to San Jose?
BURT BACHARACH

3. Can we all get along?
THE GUY WHO GOT BEAT UP IN L.A.

4. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
THE GUY WHO CLEANS MY NEIGHBOR'S POOL.

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

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

5 Point Bonus: What is the answer to the second question posed in #5?
I DON'T KNOW, WE HAVEN'T BEEN INTRODUCED.

[Rexer25]

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. Billy Bob Shakespeare
2. Dionne Warwick
3. Rodney King
4. Jim Bob WeatherGuy
5. That ancient Greek philosopher Socrates

QOD: So individuals can get incentive bonuses that are written into their contracts.

Bonus: Jeannie's new boyfriend.

[trevor_macfee]

Spoiler

1.
2. Hal David
3. Rodney King
4.
5.

QOD: Nope

[tlynn78]

1. EB Browning
2. Dionne Warwick
3. Rodney King
4. nope
5. Ben Franklin

QoD
Vince Lombardi

BOnus
no one



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[fantine33]

QUESTIONS

1. How do I love thee?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning


2. Do you know the way to San Jose?

Hal David or Dionne Warwick

I hadn't planned this to be tricky, I figured anybody who wasn't familiar enough to know that Hal David wrote the lyrics would just say Dionne Warwick. So, as long as you put David or Warwick in your answer with Bacharach, you're okay. Just Bacharach or anybody else in your answer is a miss. (Caro, I don't think the Carpenters ever did this, maybe you're thinking of Close to You? But, YAY! for bringing you out of the woodwork and posting!)


3. Can we all get along?

Rodney King

This one is why I gave the caveat about maybe not being exact quotes. Like many of you I thought it was "Can't we all just get along" and was checking to see if "just" was in there. There are like 104850383 different versions of this, but I took the one that was in a King interview.

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

My second favourite poet of all time (behind Robert Herrick).


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

Benjamin Franklin


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?[/quote]

Nobody or No one.

I've seen it both ways and both of those answers are acceptable.

SCORES

Looking for Humour Points:

+10 for Pacman
-10 for Cameron (who has never shown that winning is anything)
+10 for Fantasy Football
-10 for Billy Beane (-5 making me look up to see who it was, -5 for him having no relationship with San Jose)

Quiz QOD Bonus Total

earendel 50 50 5 105
andrewjackson 40 40 5 85
AnnieCamaro 40 40 5 85
tanstaafl 40 40 5 85
tlynn 40 40 5 85
ToLiveIsToFly 40 40 5 85
KillerTomato 30 30 0 60
mikehardware 30 30 0 60
mrkelley 30 30 0 60
peacock 30 30 0 60
kittyfish 20 20 0 40
traininvain 20 20 0 40
jbillygirl 30 0 0 30
wintergreen 30 0 0 30
rexer 20 0 0 20
starfish 20 0 0 20
trevor macfee 20 0 0 20
saucy 10 0 0 10
kayrharris 10 0 0 10
ne1410s 40 -40 0 0
devilkitty 30 -30 0 0
nelly 30 -30 0 0
seersucker 30 -30 0 0
Bob78164 20 -20 0 0
littlebeast 20 -20 0 0
Marley 0 0 0 0
nitrah 0 0 0 0

[andrewjackson]

-10 for Billy Beane (-5 making me look up to see who it was, -5 for him having no relationship with San Jose)

Not really relevant but Billy Beane does now have a connection to San Jose. The owner of the new San Jose Earthquakes soccer team is Lewis Wolff who also owns the A's. Billy Beane is now acting as the general manager of the San Jose Earthquakes.

[earendel]

(Caro, I don't think the Carpenters ever did this, maybe you're thinking of Close to You? But, YAY! for bringing you out of the woodwork and posting!)

They did cover the song on one of their albums, but it was never released as a single AFAIK.

[LookingForHumorPoints]

-10 for Billy Beane (-5 making me look up to see who it was, -5 for him having no relationship with San Jose)

He'll be singing about the way to San Jose when the A's make their fourth move in franchise history any year now.

[fantine33]

(Caro, I don't think the Carpenters ever did this, maybe you're thinking of Close to You? But, YAY! for bringing you out of the woodwork and posting!)

They did cover the song on one of their albums, but it was never released as a single AFAIK.

Which one? I didn't go through the track listing of every one of their albums, but I checked the song listing of all who had recorded it and the Carpenters weren't on there.

Not really relevant but Billy Beane does now have a connection to San Jose. The owner of the new San Jose Earthquakes soccer team is Lewis Wolff who also owns the A's. Billy Beane is now acting as the general manager of the San Jose Earthquakes.

If there is a sport I know less about than baseball in the last 21 years, it would be soccer. I didn't even know that Charlie Finley wasn't still the A's owner. Ha!

[earendel]

Which one? I didn't go through the track listing of every one of their albums, but I checked the song listing of all who had recorded it and the Carpenters weren't on there.

It was part of a medley of Bacharach/David songs that they recorded on one of their early albums. The medley included "Always Something There to Remind Me", "Walk On By", "Make it Easy on Yourself" and a couple of others. Come to think of it I'm not sure it was the whole song that was recorded - it may only have been one verse or perhaps only a phrase or two.

[fantine33]

Which one? I didn't go through the track listing of every one of their albums, but I checked the song listing of all who had recorded it and the Carpenters weren't on there.

It was part of a medley of Bacharach/David songs that they recorded on one of their early albums. The medley included "Always Something There to Remind Me", "Walk On By", "Make it Easy on Yourself" and a couple of others. Come to think of it I'm not sure it was the whole song that was recorded - it may only have been one verse or perhaps only a phrase or two.

Thanks, the site I use has only the first two songs in the medley as the title, which is why it didn't come up on the song title. Amazon shows every song in the medley, of which "San Jose" is the last. I'm going to assume that they sing the title sentence and give Caro a 20 point adjustment in the standings. He can thank you later. Ha!

[andrewjackson]

-10 for Billy Beane (-5 making me look up to see who it was, -5 for him having no relationship with San Jose)

He'll be singing about the way to San Jose when the A's make their fourth move in franchise history any year now.

I think the A's are building their new stadium in Fremont,CA but I don't know if that will really count as a franchise move.

Is is a franchise move when the Dallas Cowboys move from Irving to Arlington?

[earendel]

Which one? I didn't go through the track listing of every one of their albums, but I checked the song listing of all who had recorded it and the Carpenters weren't on there.

It was part of a medley of Bacharach/David songs that they recorded on one of their early albums. The medley included "Always Something There to Remind Me", "Walk On By", "Make it Easy on Yourself" and a couple of others. Come to think of it I'm not sure it was the whole song that was recorded - it may only have been one verse or perhaps only a phrase or two.

Thanks, the site I use has only the first two songs in the medley as the title, which is why it didn't come up on the song title. Amazon shows every song in the medley, of which "San Jose" is the last. I'm going to assume that they sing the title sentence and give Caro a 20 point adjustment in the standings. He can thank you later. Ha!

Glad to help - I owned that album (and several others), and my first "official" date with elwing was to a Carpenters concert. So they're near and dear to my heart.