So it’s the 11th anniversary of the taping of YHC competing on “Jeopardy!” (In answer to the inevitable next question, no, YHC did not win, but YHC did finish in the top three that day). The Big Dance needed a Q and YHC was ready to celebrate the anniversary by testing the PAX’s grasp of useless knowledge.
Warmup:
Slow merkins x 11
Slow flutterkicks x 11
Mountain climbers x 11
Willie Mays Hayes x 11
Little baby arm circles x 11 (then reverse)
Run up to and around Hermitage Court circle, get a little lost on the way back to the park (rich people like to keep the streetlights dark).
Jeopardy!
PAX had to do exercise routines until they successfully answered trivia questions. The catch: any correct response NOT phrased in the form of a question drew an immediate penalty of five burpees for all PAX.
Answers to questions at bottom of BB.
- Suicides on the tennis court (These are the top five players in career assists in NBA history)
- Prisoner squats (These are the top five companies on the US Fortune 500)
- LBCs (These are the top five players in career rushing yards in NFL history) at this point mumblechatter suggests OJ Simpson as a possible answer, so YHC clarifies that we are talking career rushing yardage leaders and not career homicide leaders. Mumblechatter then asserts that those were merely allegations. Point taken.
- Balls to the wall (He won the AL Rookie of the Year Award for the Cleveland Indians in 1980) clearly hoping that Sweatervest and/or Riggs wouldn’t fartsack, but alas, we had to switch this one to This catcher was the last Cleveland Indian to win the Rookie of the Year award in 1990 so we could finally get down from the wall.
- Slow flutter kicks (This is the US state capital with the smallest population)
- Plank (Name a world capital city with six consonants in its name that are all in alphabetical order) we would still be planking right now if YHC hadn’t supplied hints that began with the continent and then proceeded to name the country and then the city
BEAR CRAWL / DAILY DOUBLE: The actual Daily Double that YHC lost $4,000 on: “This European language has dialects that include Silesian and Franconian.”
RUSSIAN HAMMER / FINAL JEOPARDY!: This one YHC got right for a change. Category was HOLIDAY STUFF. “In an 1850 essay Charles Dickens called it ‘that pretty German toy.'”
MARY
Freddie Mercurys, Superman
Welcome FNG Nutmeg (from Connecticut of course)!
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Stockton, Kidd, Nash, Mark Jackson, Magic
Walmart, Berkshire Hathaway, Apple, Exxon Mobil, McKesson (!!)
Emmitt Smith, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Curtis Martin, LaDainian Tomlinson
“Super Joe” Charboneau, then Sandy Alomar Jr. for the softball followup
Montpelier, VT (population 7,000)
Bucharest, Romania
DD: German (YHC said “French” but it is a known fact that YHC is a moron)
FJ: the Christmas Tree (YHC nailed this one to salvage a small shred of dignity from the shellacking)
Airdate: January 2, 2007