Toughest Questions From Last Week

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  1. Who was the first US Secretary of the Treasury?
  2. What two Philadelphia sports stars, one a baseball player and one a football player, both attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School?
  3. What was the name of the dog on Our Gang?
  4. What team was Abe Saperstein associated with?
  5. Oberon, Titiania, and Ariel are all moons of this planet, the first one discovered by using a telescope.
  6. Lead vocals for this fictional band were sung by Buddy Miles. (Hint: This question was in the “California” round.)
  7. THis prolific songwriter from Pittsburgh gave us some of the most enduring songs of the 19th century, but he died at age 37 with 38 cents in his pocket.
  8. This female AMerican photographer from was noted for her portraits of transvestites, dwarfs, giants, and prostitutes.
  9. Urdu is the national language of this large nation, although you might be surprised to learn that English is also recognized as an official language.
  10. What former tv legend did Rupaul attempt to diss at the 1993 VMAs, only to have him respond, “Oh, we’re going to ad lib? I’ll check my brain and we’ll call it even.”?

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Gotta Love Those Mets Fans

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The Mets-Nationals game was on at O’Neals last night, and it was like tennis, all the heads swinging on a pivot between that game and the Phils game. At one point during the Mets game, there was a question Mets fans could vote on via text or on the internet. It was how will the Mets finish the season. Here were the results (keep in mind, this is Mets TV, so pretty much everyone answering was a Mets fan):

  • 32% Win the division
  • 12% Win the wild card
  • 56% miss the playoffs

Looks like they’re feeling another collapse. But good news for them: the Brewers are collapsing even harder, and actually lost with Sabathia on the hill yesterday. I still think the Mets will make the playoffs, unless the Astros just go wild. The Brewers are done.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

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I’ve started working on a new project called totalphilly.com, for which I will be a regular contributer (Newsier stuff is handled by someone else, the goofier stuff by me.) The site is kind of in beta right now, still tinkering with stuff, before the official release next week. Still a lot to be done in the next week to tighten it up, but I think it’ll be pretty cool once we get the stuff done. In the meantime, please give it a test drive and leave your thoughts below about what you like and don’t like, and what you think we should do to improve the site.

I will be doing a lot more on the streets stuff and Philly stuff on that site, which will mean a little bit more focus on this site. Instead of the smorgasboard of sports, politics, anger, etc. that this site currently is, it’ll be a bit more focused on quizzo, which is probably what it should be to begin with. I hope that my regular contributers here will become regular contributers on totalphilly.com. And of course, this will still be my personal site, so I will still let you know when I make an ass out of myself or get shot down by a female (or both). Yes, you will still find the scoreboard, pics of winners, etc. on this site, as well as what’s going on in the quizzo world.